14 Concoction of Herbs (1/2)

The Solar Flower was a mixture of a sunflower and a lily. It shone with a golden light and was incredibly beautiful.

The plant was extremely common in the southern region of the Kingdom of Heping where the sun shone almost every day of the year.

Getting his hand on three Solar Flowers about thirty years of age was as simple as getting his hands on the forty-year-old Corpse Grass.

Then Xue Wei took the Beast Core he had purchased and used the Azure Light Finger to strike it. He aimed to break it up into smaller pieces, and he managed to succeed.

A resounding boom could be heard as the beam reached the core and shattered it into thousands of pieces.

Beast Cores looked like glass-faceted diamonds. They were stored in the heads of beasts, just behind the forehead, and they gathered all of the beasts internal energy within.

Shattering the core made it look as if it was made from glass, and small shards appeared all over his room. Xue Wei dropped one of the shards into the water basin before he started gathering all the others.

From time to time, he would stir the bath water, which strangely enough did not seem to cool off at all in the time it took him to gather the shards and place them on his table.

Once he was done picking the floor clean of the shards, he took off his clothes and took a deep breath. ”This is going to hurt,” Xue Wei muttered to himself as he climbed into the bath.

The moment his feet touched the water, Xue Wei gritted his teeth and fought back the urge to scream.

The Corpse Grass was no longer poisonous, but it was still very violent in nature, and it was also a plant that had lived for forty years. This was just about the limit for how much energy they could contain before Xue Wei would receive injuries to his meridians.

The energy entered his body from the foot that had touched the water, and it felt like thousands of needles were traveling through his body.

The temperature of the water made Xue Wei feel as though he was being boiled alive, but the worst was the feeling of constantly having his body being cut by thousands of knives at the same time.

The moment Xue Wei lowered his entire body under the water, his vision turned dark and he almost lost consciousness due to the intense pain; yet by relying on his determination of wanting to become a respected cultivator, Xue Wei forced himself to stay awake.

He sat in the water, his head just above the surface, and was cultivating. The wisps of Qi that entered his body were numerous, traveling through the meridians in his body to be purified before being absorbed into the shining pearl in his dantian.

Xue Wei could feel how his flesh was being strengthened by the Blood Ginseng he had added to the water, and he could not help but feel excited.

”Earlier, when I was fighting Li Jian, it felt as if my strength was superior to the four hundred kilos I should be capable of lifting. Was my imagination playing tricks on me?” Pondering on it for a bit, Xue Wei decided that when he finishes this session of secluded cultivation and fully grasps the Forbidden Rush and the Shattering Mountain Palm, he would find some remote place to test it.

It was not only Xue Wei's physical body that was improving, but Xue Wei could also feel how the energy from the water entered his body and pushed out impurities, making it possible for him to absorb more energy and faster than before.

The water also contained a shard of the beast core of an Earth Ranked Fierce Beast. This was not only some layers above him but a whole realm above him, and the energy contained in that little shard already held as much energy as Xue Wei had with his fourth layer Ordinary Warrior rank.

The energy from the core entered Xue Wei's body together with the whisps of energy, slowly getting refined.

The concoction that Xue Wei had made felt so familiar. It was as if he knew it by heart, but he had never before experienced it on his own body.

He did not know that, previously, he had often helped his late father prepare these baths for the wealthiest families in Lingyun Town.

But now that he felt it on his own body, Xue Wei understood that although this method was an excellent way to cultivate, it was not suitable for everyone.

If one were not able to calm their mind and keep relaxed while feeling such intense pain, it would be a wasted opportunity as they would not gain more than what they could with regular, unassisted cultivation.

Xue Wei sat in the bath all night, and the water turned more and more transparent. His flesh and blood absorbed all the blood essence of the Blood Ginseng, and the Corpse Grass cleared out his meridians. The beast core shard had been depleted, transformed into energy that had become part of his own cultivation system.

Before entering this concoction of plants and a beast core, Xue Wei had been a peak fourth layer Ordinary Warrior. Now, after one night of training, he had broken through to the fifth layer. It made him clench his hands excitedly.

This was not something he could do more than once every third day, or his meridians would not be capable of handling all the energy that went through them. But doing this once every third day also provided a significant effect.