Chapter 862 - Improving Cultivation (2/2)

Zhang Xinyue had a very complicated mood at this time. She felt rather reluctant to be separated from Tang Xiu, yet she also didn’t want to stay much longer in such a remote and isolated place like the Qingcheng Mountain either. She didn’t even realize that after spending many days getting along together, including an incident of them becoming husband and wife, Tang Xiu had taken a place deep inside her heart.

“I still need to stay here for some time; at least a week or so.” Tang Xiu shook his head. “But I can send someone to send you back to Shanghai if you don’t want to stay here. It’s been many days, and I’m sure your older sister must be worried sick about your safety too.”

Zhang Xinyue hesitated and then made up her mind, “Then I won’t go back now since you still need a week to tend to your things. Besides, I’m kinda in a need of rest since I’ve been living in the big city all year round while constantly working hard for my studies and developing my career. I think I’ll spend this week staying in Qingcheng Mountain to enjoy the beauty of nature here and to relax.”

“Since you decided so, then I’ll assign Awu to protect you.” Tang Xiu nodded. “He’ll guard you whenever you want to go anywhere to enjoy the scenery here.”

“Why are you so kind to me?” asked Zhang Xinyue all of a sudden. “Are you trying to make up for the debt you owe in your heart?”

“I, uh…”

Tang Xiu’s mouth was opened, but he didn’t know what kind of reply he should come up with. Truth be told, he did have the idea to make it up for Zhang Xinyue, though it might not be fair to her as a woman if he were to express it.

Zhang Xinyue’s expression was a bit dark. But then she smiled and said, “Alright. Let’s forget it, shall we? Don’t reply to me if you don’t want to, regardless of whether you want to make it up to me or are falling in love with this Missy. In any case, we’ll forget all the things that have happened here and return to our own lives in seven days.”

Tang Xiu fell into silence. Zhang Xinyue said it in such an easy way, but could she really forget everything that had happened between them?

The threads of sentiment and feelings between two people would lead to a confused state of mind if they were to keep cutting it.

Tang Xiu was a free and easy person to begin with. He couldn’t clear up such a situation between them, but he didn’t want to be kept entangled with it either. He firmly believed that there must be a way out of every problem, so what he needed to do was to tread carefully with each step taken in the future.

He no longer bothered himself with this relationship issue and finally immersed his mind and heart to begin refining the Blood Snatching Pill. He had definitely earned a huge harvest by coming to Qingcheng Mountain. Needless to say about the Red Silk Flower, the large number of herbs he obtained from the Qingcheng Monastery’s underground vault were significant cultivation resources for him.

There was also—that Soul Slaying Spike.

As he recalled this object, Tang Xiu suppressed his mind immediately and used the Demon God Soul Devourer Cauldron to start concocting the pill. Though the rest of the herbs had been prepped properly, Tang Xiu’s pace while concocting the pill was rather slow, though he kept it very smooth. An explosion sound was heard from the cauldron on the fourth day as Tang Xiu threw in the last precious herb, the Red Silk Flower, into the Demon God Soul Devourer Cauldron.

He cast the pill concocting technique and started to form the medicinal pill.

When he opened the lid of the cauldron, a strong medicinal scent filled the whole cave. Everyone stayed inside in the cave for the last four days, and Zhang Xinyue, who hadn’t left to enjoy the scenery outside, felt her spirit dim while all the pores over her body stretched out as she was intoxicated in the rich medicinal scent.

It was comfortable!

It made her look at the Demon God Soul Devourer Cauldron while her throat unknowingly gulped a few times, swallowing her saliva.

“Absorb!”

Tang Xiu cast a secret art rune and took a peanut-sized, red-blooded Blood Seizing Pill immediately to ingest it.

“Awu, none shall stay in the cave without my order!”

Tang Xiu shouted and quickly retrieved back the Demon God Soul Devourer Cauldron into his interspatial ring. Then, he sat cross-legged in the same spot and crazily began to digest the efficacy and energy contained in the Blood Seizing Pill.

After the Blood Seizing Pill entered Tang Xiu’s stomach, a torrent of blood burst out and flooded every corner of Tang Xiu’s body. The tide of blood flushed on and on, washing his muscles and tempering his bones, including his internal organs over and over again while increasing the flexibility and firmness all the way through.

The surging blood was gradually encapsulated by the red-blooded energy of the medicinal force inside Tang Xiu’s blood vessels, which underwent a qualitative change. With the passage of time, the amount of blood in his blood vessels was getting less and less. On the third day after he took the pill, the amount of blood in his blood vessels only remained at a quarter of what it had been before.

However, even though it was just only a quarter of the previous amount, Tang Xiu was not affected by it whatsoever. His blood that was originally red seemed to have been covered by a layer of golden light like it was being coated with a glossy red and golden color.

“I’m so starving!”

The moment Tang Xiu opened his eyes, strong hunger made him particularly uncomfortable. He quickly took out a lot of food and wolfed them down under the curious gaze of Zhang Xinyue.

Two hours passed by, yet Tang Xiu didn’t stop munching. While crazily eating and drinking, his body extracted the energy to nourish his blood and qi and added it into his blood vessels.