After pouring in all kinds of medicinal herbs and vegetables and simmering it all night, how could it be an ordinary broth?
The fragrant, slightly bitter medicinal scent blended with the freshness of various vegetables, and while it boiled with rice, both master and disciple just swallowed their saliva.
Finally, when the boiling porridge was poured into a bowl and a raw egg was cracked and stirred in, the medicinal vegetable egg porridge was complete.
Smiles spread across the faces of master and disciple, and then, holding spoons that appeared from somewhere, they blew on it for a long time and finally put a spoonful in their mouths-
“Hmm.”
“Hmm.”
The expressions of master and disciple were subtle.
“…You haven’t tasted this before?”
“My master just told me to eat elixirs, he didn’t give me elixir baths. Ahem.”
Naturally, it was bland and tasteless, bitter with the fishy smell of various herbs and vegetables mixed together.
“Let’s try adding some salt first. Do you happen to have any salt?”
“Of course I do.”
The reason for having salt wasn’t clear, but if you don’t know, you can always learn.
Qing had a great realization.
I should always carry some rock salt and dried incense. And some dried meat too. There’s no meat in this at all…
It got a bit better with salt.
Originally, egg porridge is delicious just by stirring an egg into hot rice porridge and adding salt.
Rather, because the broth was fishy and bitter, discarding the taste resulted in the birth of a medicinal porridge that could be eaten while making all sorts of faces.
“Hmm. It tastes healthy.”
“The saying about eating elixirs like rice wasn’t a good one. Elixirs should be consumed as elixirs, not as meals.”
In fact, Qing eats anything well.
This “anything” includes rotten garbage and insects that would make ordinary people sick, so she swallowed the tasteless egg porridge easily.
However, Cheon Yuhak, a young master from a noble family who had become an old man, seemed to have a hard time swallowing it.
Still, because it was an elixir, he forced down one bowl, but true to his background, he had unnecessarily made too much, and there was still plenty left.
In the end, Cheon Yuhak, whose appetite was completely gone after one bowl, put away his spoon.
Then he watched in amazement as Qing ate everything as if she would eat anything.
It was enough for four adults to eat two bowls each, so by simple calculation, Qing alone ate seven bowls.
Even in Qing’s homeland, a world full of entertainment, look, a beauty eating voraciously and shoving food in without tasting it was a popular spectacle.
It was more than impressive, people even offered money and encouraged her to eat more.
So for the primitive, ancient, uncivilized people of the Central Plains, it was truly a new world, a spectacle they couldn’t help but watch in awe.
“You said you were from a beggar background, wow, how can all that fit in…”
“Oh, this is definitely an energy porridge, I can feel the energy spreading and rising!”
“It’s not an energy porridge, it’s an elixir porridge, and it’s not just feeling like the energy is spreading, it is spreading. Start circulating qi to absorb it now.”
“Ah.”
At this, Qing tried to sit cross-legged, but because her stomach was sticking out too much, she just sat with her legs stretched out and her hands supporting her back.
This was because Qing’s stomach wasn’t like a convenient infinite pocket, it just stretched out as she ate.
Although it was quite a sprawled-out posture, Qing closed her eyes and observed her qi and blood.
It was a good opportunity to see how the elixir worked in this monstrous body.
Remembering that she was different from others always brought unpleasant sadness.
But she needed to know how she was different to at least pretend to be human, to pretend to be the same kind of living being.
Hmm, living being should be okay, right?
I’m not human, and I’m not a monster or something similar to a person, but at least I’m alive so I’m not an inanimate object, right?
Or am I? Is a game character an inanimate object?
Suddenly, Qing’s head dropped.
Maybe because the elixir energy was too strong, her eyes felt stinging.
Instead of thinking dirty thoughts, let’s just look at the true qi…
The energy of the elixir digs into the dantian and adds to each true qi. It felt like it was being evenly distributed to all except the true qi that had already reached great completion and hit the maximum.
At this point, when Qing used the Awakening Divine Art, the remaining elixir energy suddenly changed direction and was absorbed intensively into the awakening true qi.
If you just eat it and leave it, it goes evenly to all the true qi that haven’t reached great completion, and if you eat it and circulate qi, it adds to the internal cultivation technique you’re using at that time, she thought.
Then what about other people…?
“Master? Is this how elixirs normally work?”
“Heng. You should tell me what you mean by ‘this’ first so I can tell you if it’s right or wrong.”
“Uh, I’m not sure how to explain it. What should happen normally?”
“The natural energy imbued in the elixir spreads towards the extremities of the body, about one out of ten remains in the meridians, and the rest escapes through the skin.”
So you have to capture the elixir energy through qi circulation before it all escapes and gather it in the dantian.
The difficulty of this absorption varies depending on the individual’s skill in handling true qi, what internal cultivation technique they’ve learned, and even differs greatly depending on the elixir.
“That’s why martial artists sing praises of divine arts and long for them. Even after eating the same elixir, the results are different. And the better the elixir, the easier it is to absorb and the less burden it puts on the meridians. There’s a reason why the Great Rejuvenation Pill is called the world’s greatest elixir.”
The energy that remains in the meridians, about one out of ten when eating an elixir, isn’t always beneficial, and if its nature is rough, it can actually destroy meridians and harm the body.
Because natural elixirs have this nature, that’s why they’re refined into pills again despite accepting the loss of energy.
“Now, it seems you’ve absorbed it all since you’re chattering? Well, there wasn’t much natural energy in that one bowl anyway. I’m going to catch up on some sleep outside, so soak your body and absorb it all.”
“Are there any special precautions?”
“According to the prescription, it’s supposed to be a bit stinging. But not to the point where you can’t bear it.”
Qing narrowed her eyes.
“Are you sure this time? It’s stinging, not painful, right?”
“I’m just telling you what’s written, I haven’t tried it myself so how would I know? From martial arts theory, it should be a bit stinging?”
Originally, the natural energy of elixirs is eaten through the mouth and spreads from the stomach, the center of the body, outwards and escapes through the skin.
However, the Awakening Divine Art is a unique cultivation technique that can absorb qi not only through breathing but also through the entire skin.
Of course, it was just unique and its efficiency was less than half of half of half of half of half of respiratory absorption, so it was really terrible.
Because the skin absorption efficiency was terrible, they came up with the idea of just soaking in the elixir.
The elixir bath was a training method to absorb the elixir energy through the skin using this Awakening Divine Art.
Of course it would sting as the energy digs into the skin.
“According to the records, they say you get used to it and it feels refreshing. Let’s hear your impressions after you try it. Hmm. Oh my, I’m so tired I could die. Besides, we have to continue the muscle splitting and bone crushing, what are you afraid of?”
“You’re calling it muscle splitting and bone crushing now?”
“When did I ever say muscle splitting and bone crushing? I said Flowing Willow Soft Refinement. Are your ears already going bad, you green girl?”
“That’s strange. I’m sure you said that…”
“Ha. Saying such scary things, afraid someone might hear? What master in the world would do muscle splitting and bone crushing to their disciple?”
“Hmm. I must have heard wrong. I’m sorry.”
Cheon Yuhak was so confident that Qing just thought she must have heard wrong.
“That tub is worth two hundred guan. Each drop is worth dozens of coins. Be careful not to waste even a single drop.”
Cheon Yuhak cautioned as he headed outside.
After hearing that each drop was worth dozens of coins, she suddenly realized, wow, this is really an insane amount of money.
So Qing very carefully lowered her body into the bath.
The medicinal bath came up exactly to her chin, and somehow a tingling, itchy sensation rushed over her all at once.
But that was only for a moment.
After starting to circulate the Awakening Divine Art, a stimulation like her whole body’s skin was burning hot, like a throat filled with carbonated drink, began.
But that was it.
It wasn’t unbearable, but it was hard to keep her mouth shut, it hurt and stung like drinking a large glass of carbonated drink in one go, but it also felt strangely refreshing and cool.
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After sucking up all the energy until no more could be absorbed, a lot of time had passed and it was already the dark of night.
Checking her achievement in the martial arts window, she had reached the Eight Star realm in one go.
Wow, what is this? So this is what they mean by elixirs being good.
Qing’s internal cultivation technique achievement was determined simply by the total amount of inner power gathered with that technique, so it was an unusually high achievement.
Cheon Yuhak, not knowing this situation, was shocked.
“Eight Stars? No way, how…”
So this was why they had emphasized for generations that you should take in disciples with good talent.
Cheon Yuhak understood it roughly like that.
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“Well. How do you feel? The feeling of your body awakening.”
“It’s still stinging…”
It felt like a layer of skin had been peeled off after scrubbing very hard.
Her whole body was tingling, burning, and stinging, but at the same time, it felt extremely refreshing.
“That’s probably because the fine meridians in your skin have become desensitized to stimulation. After a good night’s sleep, you’ll understand why the Awakening Divine Art is called a study that awakens the body.”
“Oh? Wasn’t it Awakening Divine (神) Art?”
“It’s Awakening Body (身) Art, isn’t it? I gave you the secret manual, didn’t I?”
“The title was ‘Twenty-One Days of Night Exercise’, wasn’t it? There was definitely nothing like that in the formula… Where in the content about feeling the flow of heaven and earth with your body is there a phrase about awakening the body?”
“Aren’t formulas usually just filled with grand words? That way, each person learning it can complete it with their own imagery.”
The reason martial arts formulas often grasp at clouds is also to avoid forcing a specific form that each individual completes.
“I thought it was a divine art…”
She thought it was Awakening Divine (神) Art, but it was Awakening Body (身) Art.
No wonder it was gold color.
Qing swallowed the rest of her words.
Somehow, she felt greatly deceived.
“It is a divine art. Does it have to be written as ‘divine art’ to be a divine art? Now go get a good sleep and wake up.”
“What does that mean?”
“For a Divine Thief, no, for all martial artists, isn’t what they dream of keen senses? Although the Awakening Divine Art is third-rate in building inner power, in terms of its effectiveness in awakening keen senses, it could be called an unparalleled divine art under heaven. You’ll be able to vividly feel even the slightest breeze. You’ll understand how marvelous it feels to sense the flow of heaven and earth.”
“Ooh.”
Qing’s eyes shone.
Such an ability even though it’s a gold-colored martial art?
At this, Cheon Yuhak smiled and then continued with a “hmm”:
“The Murim Conference starts from tomorrow, right? You’ll be busy too, so I should go around selling some tonics. Let’s meet again after eight days. We need to do the second round of Flowing Willow Soft Refinement. How do you want to do it, one shichen or three shichen?”
Then, the terrible pain that came to mind…
Qing’s eyes turned all but unfocused.
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