Chapter 84: Chapter 83: Trouble!
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The three men entered the boiling red water inside the cauldron as they sat down cross-legged, the water level reaching onto their necks.
Swiftly driving their spiritual Qi within their body to protect themselves from being cooked alive, it didn't took them long before their pores started to opened up.
Altogether, there were three stages that a cultivator would have to undergo during the process of body tempering.
Firstly, was the rejection of the body towards the foreign substance that was trying to enter their body. Second, was the excretion of impurities from the whole body and third, was the bonding of the substance with the body cells and bones.
While a human would feel a lot more pain in each increasing stages, as compared to animals and other creatures during the body tempering phase, they would obtain significantly more benefits than the latter.
Humans could absorb 60 percent while animals and the others could only absorb about less than 10 percent at best!
Kuuh!
The three men grimaced in pain slightly as they underwent the first stage of the body tempering process.
It was like countless needles was poking through their skins right now!
With the potency of Duan Li's blood, the one who had to endured the most pain out of the three of them right now was Shen Lu. After all, his cultivation realm was the lowest of them all. He had to grit his teeth hard so that the pain could be suppressed.
Meanwhile, Shen Murong was just looking slightly paler and his breathing out of tune. Wang Xiolun on the other hand, was the most calmest of them all, as if he was just having a hot bath.
The physical body of someone at the Core formation realm was a lot tougher after all.
Due to being worried that some mishaps might occur during the body tempering phase, Duan Li had Xiahou Yu's cauldron be covered with wide planks on all four sides like a cube instead of relocating her to somewhere else. Only the top was being left open.
At first, she didn't like the idea at all, but after thinking it through, Duan Li's concern was right as well. Thus, she agreed to it in the end.
Ever so slightly, sounds of pained moans could be heard from within it. Had it not been for Duan Li's previous decision to add another bucket of water inside her cauldron to dilute the potency further, the one to experience the most cruciating pain right now would be her instead, rather than Shen Lu!
After all, she was just someone at the Qi condensation realm.
Shen Murong would look at Duan Li with wide grin everytime she heard Xiahou Yu moaned in pain, as if trying to encourage the other party to check out at the latter. Of course, Wang Xiolun by his side could not help but to lose focus as well when these 'pained moans' echoed out.
Duan Li could only shook his head at the sight of these fellas.
You guys are here to temper your physical body, what in the world are you guys thinking about right now instead?!
After a few more breaths, the first stage was phasing out slowly into the second stage, and at this moment, the pain they felt was gradually becoming more apparent.
"Arghhh!!"
The four of them cried out.
Crunch!
"D-Damn it! To think that it would hurt to this extent!" Shen Lu exclaimed out, his countenance becoming more ugly as he decided to crushed the pain reducing pill that he had readily put inside his mouth.
This pill was something that was among the treasure trove that Duan Li had looted out into his spatial ring, and gave them one each. Should the pain becomes more unbearable to them, they could crush it to temporarily alleviate the pain!
It's a fourth grade pill that had the wondrous effects as the name implies, usually used during a battle to suppress pain from grievous wounds and injuries in order to not impede one's battle momentum.
Woongg!!
His body jolted slightly as all the pain receptors on his body was dulled significantly. Only then did he managed to hold himself from passing out.
"Even the bone marrow paste from the Wingless dracord monster, famed for its potency that our clan specifically used to temper our physical body was not as bad as this!" Shen Murong spoke out.
"This thing just keeps on getting painful! Ouch!" he continued as he yelped.
His countenance right now was similar to how Shen Lu were previously. Even his tough appearance did not help him at all at this moment.
Meanwhile, Wang Xiolun's breathing had now started to become heavy with each passing second.
"Damn!" he cursed out, evidently feeling the pain encroaching at him as well.
This had thoroughly surprised him. If he could already feel such pain while at the Core formation realm, how did others who were much lower in their cultivation realm managed to not pass out?
It cannot be that their physical body was as tough as him right?
Unless... this blood had adjusted itself to one's realm!
"What kind of blood essences that could do this?!"
As these thoughts flashed on his mind, he could not help but to feel that there was more to this blood than what it seems!
"Xiahou Yu, how are you faring in there?" Duan Li asked out.
"N-Not good! B-But I can keep going!" she said one word at a time slowly.
The second stage could be said to either become more painful or less, depending on the rate of excretion of impurities from the body. However, by the looks of things right now, it appears that this rate was blazingly fast that their impurities flowed out off the cauldron like tiny leaks!
Crunch!
"H-Here comes the the f-final stage!" Shen Murong spoke out as he too crushed the pain reducing pill inside his mouth along with Wang Xiolun and Xiahou Yu.
Crunch!
Crunch!
They dared not to take any chances during the oncoming final phase. If they failed to persevere at that moment and came out from the cauldron, the resulting effects of prematurely ending a body tempering process would left one's body to be in a weak state for months as well as a drop in their cultivation level permanently!
"ARRRGHHHH!!" all of them howled out in agonized pain, as if they had not expected for the pain to be this intense!
"D-Damn! The pain reducing pill is not working!" Shen Murong cursed out.
It was at this moment that Duan Li suddenly realized. At the final stage of a body tempering phase, the bonding process occurred on both the body cells AND inside the bones!
While those pills that he gave out to them could tamper with their pain receptors, it does nothing to reduce the pain within one's bones at all!
"Wait for me! I'll return soon to get something that could help you guys out!" Duan Li spoke out as he quickly dashed towards the direction of the herb garden.
Swishh!
Since body tempering is the process whereby a cultivator uses external means to strengthen themselves inside a cauldron, a spark of idea strucked at him at this moment!
"The concept of body tempering should then be similar to the art of concoction when trying to create elixirs or pills! They extract the essences between numerous herbs and merged them together in a balance, to create a whole new effect when consumed!" said Duan Li as his eyes flashed with confidence.
Fortunately, he had already internalized some of the concepts regarding the art of concoction from the books that his disciple had borrowed for him in the afternoon previously!
In his mind, he had already memorized the whole different types of herbs and their respective effects the moment he used the identify ability on them when trying to 'show off' to his disciple before.
...
Pluck!
Pluck!
As soon as he arrived at the herb garden, he quickly plucked out four sets of two different types of herbs, the Chilling moon grass herb and the Calming Summer petal herb without the slightest bit of hesitation!
Swisshh!
Swiftly dashing through as fast as he could, his figure appeared like a phantom as it only took him around five breaths in the whole round-trip by making use of his movement skill art to the maximum, The One Step To Reach.
This was the movement skill art that was imparted to him by the Guardian of the first region during his adventure inside the Eternal maze before, by Old man Jing Zhianghu!
Swisshh!
He quickly added in the two herbs into each cauldrons. Next, he slapped the body of the cauldrons lightly, leaving a fine palm prints each, that contained his spiritual Qi onto them that connected to his palm like invisible ropes.
This was one of the famous advanced concoction skill arts named 'Chainlock Processing' that involves the use of multiple cauldrons during concoction simultaneously!
This was because some advanced and extremely hard to produce elixirs or pills, required their herbal materials to be processed at the same time while being separated during their initial stage in different cauldrons.
Using this concoction skill art, Duan Li could infuse instructions onto his spiritual Qi for the essences within the herbs to be extracted at the right time!
The Chilling Moon grass herb has the properties of being able to freeze anyone that consumed it down to their bones!
Whereas, the Calming Summer petal herb had the properties to negate frostbites. Cultivators would usually store some of them inside their spatial ring whenever they were about to venture in extremely cold regions!
Thus, by extracting the essences of the first herb, Duan Li could drive the freezing effect onto their bones so that their pain could be numbed down significantly!
And Duan Li's method immediately showed wonders, as their contorted and darkened expression from being assaulted with extreme pain were now gone as they slowly exhaled and tried to breath in normally once again.
Next, in order to prevent the coldness from their bones to seep out onto their internal bodies that could disrupt the optimum temperatures for the body tempering process to occur, Duan Li extracted the essences from the second herb almost immediately.
This time, Duan Li merged the essences directly onto their body cells. Not only would the cold effect that tried to permeate into their internal body be negated, in the future, they would also become more immune to extreme cold temperatures!
Slowly, the dire situations were now starting to reverse back, before finally being resolved entirely.
Right now, the body tempering process was almost done!
However, Duan Li could now feel that something weird was starting to form inside his mind the moment the bonding process was completed!
This feeling...
Why does it feels like I could control them?
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