Chapter 243 - 243 240 Using Poison to Enter the Dao, Liu Wuxiang's Troubles
Chapter 243: Chapter 240: Using Poison to Enter the Dao, Liu Wuxiang’s Troubles Chapter 243: Chapter 240: Using Poison to Enter the Dao, Liu Wuxiang’s Troubles “Senior Brother Qin.”
On that day, just as Qin Feng was pondering what divine weapon to purchase, a call suddenly came from outside.
Qin Feng turned his head and saw his second senior brother, Hao Shicheng, gesturing to him from outside the bamboo hut with Liu Wuxiang in tow.
“Second Senior Brother, Junior Brother Liu.”
Qin Feng hurried to greet them.
“Hehe, Junior Brother has been diligent in his cultivation lately, haven’t you asked Junior Sister Liu for advice on cultivating?”
Hao Shicheng teased with a smile and then pointed to the gaunt young man beside him, “This Junior Brother Liu is a disciple of Martial Uncle Zhong from the Hundred Poisons Cave.
He said he was acquainted with you in the Outer Sect and has not long entered the Inner Sect, so he specifically came looking for you.
I brought him to find you.”
“Thank you, Second Senior Brother.
Junior Brother Liu and I became disciples together.
…
We were the best of friends during our time in the Outer Sect.”
Qin Feng said with a chuckle, explaining his relationship with Liu Wuxiang, which somewhat excited Liu Wuxiang.
After all, Qin Feng was now a True Disciple of the Sect, not only one of the highest-standing disciples, but also destined to become one of the Sect’s upper echelons after advancing in his cultivation realm.
That he still treated Liu as he did back in the Outer Sect, without any change due to his new status, made Liu Wuxiang very happy.
“Since that’s the case, you two chat.
I still have matters to attend to, so I’ll be leaving first.”
With a chuckle and a wave, Hao Shicheng motioned that they need not see him off and turned to leave through the bamboo forest.
Once Hao Shicheng had left, Qin Feng invited Liu Wuxiang into the bamboo hut and gestured for him to sit anywhere.
His place was extremely humble, the bamboo hut bare and with no furnishings, so they could only sit on the floor.
Liu Wuxiang, looking at the empty bamboo hut, was also surprised, “Isn’t Senior Brother a True Disciple of the Sect?
How come you don’t even have a proper Cave Mansion?”
This seemed inconceivable to him.
Even when they were in the Outer Sect, they each had their own yard.
How could it be that upon entering the Inner Sect and becoming a True Disciple, one lived so simply?
Knowing that since his master had taken him in and brought him back to the Hundred Poisons Cave, he himself had a luxurious Cave Mansion, it made no sense that Qin Feng, a disciple of the Spiritual Snake Lineage’s Great Elder and a True Disciple of the Sect, only had a self-built bamboo hut in the bamboo forest.
Qin Feng chuckled, “There’s no need for that.
It’s just a place for sitting in meditation and refining Qi.
Heavenly Snake Ridge has abundant spiritual energy, enough for a Foundation Establishment Realm disciple like me to cultivate anywhere.”
Of course, he knew that if he asked the Sect as a True Disciple, the disciples from the Internal Affairs Hall would immediately build him a lavish construction or carve out the most suitable Cave Mansion for him in the Spiritual Vein Land.
But Qin Feng didn’t have this in mind when he first started his apprenticeship, nor did he fully adapt to his new status as an Inner Sect Disciple before he went back home to bring an elixir pill for healing Divine Soul injuries to his father.
After returning to the Sect, and before he had stayed for long, he entered Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven, and spent several months cultivating in the Dragon Transformation Pond.
Upon emerging, his master tossed him to his senior brothers and sisters, and during this period, he first suffered irresistible temptations from his senior sister, injuring his meridians and acupoints every day.
Then he went into seclusion to cultivate, without any time to consider his living quarters.
Moreover, he was about to follow his master on an expedition and had no desire to deal with a Cave Mansion.
After returning from the Otherworld, there would be no rush to propose the construction of a Cave Mansion to the Sect.
“By the way, I haven’t congratulated Junior Brother Liu on entering the Inner Sect.”
Qin Feng smiled, “I was cultivating in a secret place of our Sect recently and just came out of seclusion, so I forgot about the Outer Sect’s grand competition.
From what Second Senior Brother just said, Junior Brother Liu, you’ve become a disciple under Martial Uncle Zhong of the Hundred Poisons Cave?”
“That’s correct.”
Liu Wuxiang nodded, “Thanks to my master for taking notice of me and accepting me as a disciple, I have now begun to cultivate one of our Spiritual Snake Lineage’s nine major Direct Inheritance Techniques, the ‘Bone-Eroding Soul-Destroying Heavenly Evil Technique.’”
Qin Feng said, “That’s good.
The ‘Bone-Eroding Soul-Destroying Heavenly Evil Technique’ is one of the most special Cultivation Techniques within our Beast Taming Sect.
If you cultivate it well, after reaching the Great Achievement Realm, perhaps you can showcase the might like that of our Grandmaster who created this technique, slaying a million-strong army of the Demon Clan.”
“Senior Brother, you’re joking.”
Liu Wuxiang smiled wryly, “Although I do have some pride, I don’t have the confidence to reach the Grandmaster’s level.
If I could just attain one-tenth or one-twentieth of the Grandmaster’s Dao Cultivation, I would be more than content.”
“Look at your ambition.”
Qin Feng curled his lip, “Back in the Outer Sect, weren’t you ambitious, dreaming of achieving the Immortal Dao?
How come you’re suddenly so timid upon entering the Inner Sect?”
“Senior Brother doesn’t know.”
Liu Wuxiang shook his head helplessly, “It was only after becoming my master’s disciple and starting to cultivate this Technique that I realized the difficulty of cultivating it.
Besides the special nurturing of the Lifebound Spiritual Beast, when cultivating one’s own body, one has to test poisons on oneself.
You have no idea how desperate I felt the first time my master forced a lethal and incurable poison down my throat.
I truly thought my master intended to kill me.
The reason I have only just come to see Senior Brother now is not that I didn’t want to come earlier, but because I was tortured by the extreme poison in my body to the brink of death.
If I hadn’t completely transformed the lethal poison in my body and merged it into my True Yuan in the past few days, I wouldn’t even have the strength to find you now.”
“Hahaha…”
Qin Feng laughed heartily upon hearing this.
He was a true disciple of the Spiritual Snake lineage and had the privilege to browse through all the cultivation technique inheritances of the Spiritual Snake lineage.
Therefore, he was well aware of what the cultivation process of the “Bone-Eroding Soul-Destroying Heavenly Evil Technique” entailed.
This technique embraced poison as the gateway to cultivation, poisoning not only others but even more so oneself.
In the beginning stages of cultivation, one must first test poison on oneself by swallowing an extremely toxic substance, concocted through special means.
Then, using the cultivation technique of the “Bone-Eroding Soul-Destroying Heavenly Evil Technique,” one would rotate their True Yuan to gradually dissolve and integrate the poison, fusing the toxin into their True Yuan and body.
Of course, this process was far from wonderful; rather, it was incredibly painful—ten to a hundred times more agonizing than the feverish illness of a common person.
Some disciples with weaker wills who cultivated this technique even felt the impulse to end their own lives to escape the pain.
Only after enduring the initial wave of intense toxicity could they begin to cultivate the virulent True Yuan required by this technique.
Afterward, one needed to constantly refine various poisons to enhance the toxicity of their True Yuan.
Of course, there was no need to continue ingesting deadly poisons thereafter; external refining sufficed.
After all, very few of these toxic substances were palatable.
However, once this path was chosen, one would no longer fear being poisoned by others, for they themselves would become someone immune to all poisons.
Such cultivation continued until advancing to the Purple Mansion, when the frequency of refining various poisons would gradually decrease, shifting focus to the contemplation of the Poison Dao Principle.
“To endure the bitterness among the bitterest is how one ascends above others.”
Qin Feng said with a smile, “Junior Brother Liu, if you wish to achieve Dao, you must of course endure more hardships.”
Junior Brother Liu, Liu Wuxiang, had a bitter smile on his face, “But the poison is just too bitter.”
“Hehe, don’t worry.
After a while, once you get used to it, you won’t find it bitter anymore.
In fact, you might even grow to like that sensation.
If you don’t have potent poisons to refine, you might even feel uncomfortable.
After all, the reason why the ‘Bone-Eroding Soul-Destroying Heavenly Evil Technique’ can be the fastest advancing technique among the nine true inheritances of the Spiritual Snake lineage relies on refining various potent poisons to boost the speed of cultivation.
For you, the more toxic the substance, the better.
The more toxic the substance, the faster your cultivation progress will be.”
Qin Feng sighed softly, “If I weren’t somewhat fearful of deadly poisons, just based on such a swift cultivation speed, I would want to cultivate this poison skill myself.”
“Really?”
Liu Wuxiang’s face showed some curiosity, “Master didn’t tell me so much, only instructing me to continuously transform the deadly poison into my True Yuan every day.
The refining process is still unbearably painful each time.”
“Endure it.
It’s always like this at the beginning.
Once you’re used to it, you’ll realize the subtleties of this technique.”
Qin Feng consoled him briefly, then steered the conversation away from the technique and onto other topics.
After a while, Liu Wuxiang said, “Senior Brother, as you probably know by now, the sect is about to embark on an expedition to another world.
I had just joined the Inner Sect and was not initially on the roster for conscription.
However, my master has been singled out by the sect, and since I am his only disciple, he wants to keep me by his side.
This way, he can continue to instruct me on my cultivation, so I must follow my master to battle in the otherworld.”
As he spoke, his face revealed some bitterness, “I thought joining the Inner Sect would mean I could cultivate in peace.
I never expected to have to leave the Mountain Gate for an expedition so soon after my admission.”
“How so?
Are you afraid?”
“That’s not it.
Although I am somewhat concerned, I’m not exactly afraid.”
Liu Wuxiang shook his head, “I’m just feeling a bit regretful that, having just entered the Inner Sect, I haven’t had the chance to be acquainted with a few Inner Sect disciples before having to go off to battle in another world.
I’m worried that without good fellows from the same sect to help each other, I might end up at a disadvantage.”
“And here I was wondering what it was.”
Qin Feng chuckled dismissively, “You need not worry about that.
When the time comes, we can look out for each other.”
“Are you also going, Senior Brother?”
Liu Wuxiang was taken aback, “Aren’t you a newly minted True Disciple?
Would the sect really let you go off to battle in another world?
What if something were to happen?”
“So what if I am a True Disciple?
I am still a disciple of the sect, after all.”
Qin Feng said with a smile, “Precisely because I am a True Disciple, the responsibility I carry on my shoulders is even heavier.
How can I be absent from the battles the sect faces?”
“Is that so!”
Liu Wuxiang looked somewhat surprised, “I came here intending to bid you farewell, Senior Brother.
I never expected that you too would be involved in this great battle.
With this, when I return, I will ask my master to arrange for me to be with you.
Having recently joined the Inner Sect, my cultivation is only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, so I would need your care during that time.”
“We are brothers; it’s strange to talk like an outsider.”
With that, Qin Feng readily agreed.
Although Liu Wuxiang had been an Inner Sect disciple for more than two months, he had been tormented by intense internal poisons every day, which left him no energy to befriend other Inner Sect disciples.
Learning that Qin Feng would also be joining the expedition to the otherworld, his spirits naturally soared.
He knew Qin Feng was much more advanced in cultivation than himself.
When Qin Feng had participated in the Outer Sect Grand Competition, he was already at the peak of the early stage of Foundation Establishment.
Having been in the Inner Sect for over a year and now being a True Disciple of the sect with ample cultivation resources, his cultivation was bound to progress even faster.
Besides, every True Disciple of the sect was a master whose war power far exceeded their realm of cultivation.
He believed that by staying by Senior Brother Qin’s side, he would be much safer.