Mortal Bones

"Sister Lingyue, all the medicinal materials have been put into the medicine furnace."

Xu Taiping turned to look at Fairy Lingyue with a hint of excitement in his eyes.

"Well done. Now you just need to keep the fire warm. After half an hour, the elixir will be ready."

Fairy Lingyue immediately regained her composure and nodded to Xu Taiping with a smile.

"If you can't recognize your apprentice, it's not bad if you can recognize a well-behaved younger brother."

Looking at Xu Taiping who was meticulously guarding the fire according to her own requirements, Fairy Lingyue raised the corners of her mouth slightly, revealing a warm smile.

…

Half an hour later.

"boom……"

Xu Taiping stood on tiptoes and opened the lid of the alchemy furnace with both hands. Heat waves rose up in the furnace and turned into a white mist that filled the backyard.

"Sister Lingyue, two Cheng Dan!"

Under the moonlight, Xu Taiping was pleasantly surprised to find two vermilion pills with a warm and jade-like color lying there quietly among several black pill residues.

"It actually turned into two pills?"

Fairy Lingyue also had a look of surprise on her face.

Although she rarely refines such low-level elixirs, according to her experience, given the quality of the medicinal materials Xu Taiping bought, it would be good to be able to turn one elixir into one.

"It seems that the little guy is really talented in alchemy. The secret techniques within the sect cannot be taught to him for the time being, but some of the alchemy recipes are still fine. What's more, if I want to restore my cultivation, I will also need the help of an alchemist."

She secretly made up her mind to train Xu Taiping to become an alchemist in the future.

"Sister Lingyue, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing that Fairy Lingyue was distracted, Xu Taiping immediately called her softly.

"Oh, I think you can keep the remaining Qi Gathering Pill to deal with the tiger demon."

Fairy Lingyue lowered her head and glanced at the two Qi Gathering Pills in Xu Taiping's hand.

"Can the Qi Gathering Pill be used to deal with the tiger demon?"

Xu Taiping was a little surprised.

"The Qi Gathering Pill can provide you with huge spiritual power in a short period of time. When it is converted into true energy, it is equivalent to having an extra Dantian, allowing you to perform some spells beyond your current realm, such as …”

After explaining this, Fairy Lingyue looked up at the moon and tried to think about it, then looked down at Xu Taiping and said: "For example, it can be used in conjunction with your Canxia Technique to use the Ice Breath Technique that can only be used in the Great Stage of Open Door Realm. This The Ice Breath Technique can turn your breath into ice. Even with your current level of cultivation, as long as you use the Qi Gathering Pill, you can freeze everything in an area of ​​more than ten feet in one breath. "

"Including the tiger demon?"

Xu Taiping asked excitedly.

"Although this Ice Breath Technique is not a secret technique, in your practice world, as long as you don't take precautions in advance, even opponents who are one level above you will still fall prey to it."

Fairy Lingyue nodded with certainty.

"Sister Lingyue, when I break through the door-opening realm, please teach me the Ice Breath Technique!"

Xu Taiping asked Fairy Lingyue with shining eyes.

"Of course I'm willing to teach you if you're willing to learn. Don't forget, you and I are partners now."

Fairy Lingyue touched Xu Taiping's little head and smiled lightly at him.

In her original practice world, this Ice Breath Technique is barely considered a Xuan-level magic. She likes to use some casual cultivators. Most of the sect disciples have better choices, not to mention the sect she is in, so there is no need to worry. This would reveal her identity.

…

After another moment.

Xu Taiping returned to the bedroom, preparing to break through the door-opening realm.

The remnant soul of Fairy Lingyue was also in the room at the moment.

"Xiao Taiping, relax a little. You have two Qi Gathering Pills in your hand now. It's impossible to break through the Open Door Realm."

Fairy Lingyue saw that Xu Taiping looked tense, so she smiled and told him to relax and not be so nervous.

"Um."

Xu Taiping nodded heavily, then closed his eyes and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Sister Lingyue, I'm ready."

Xu Taiping opened his eyes and looked at Fairy Lingyue.

"Then take the Qi Gathering Pill to break through."

Fairy Lingyue nodded.

She saw that Xu Taiping's expression was obviously much more relaxed at this time, and she felt greatly relieved.

"Gulong..."

Xu Taiping didn't hesitate anymore, stuffed the Qi Gathering Pill into his mouth and swallowed it directly.

The elixir melted in his mouth, and Xu Taiping didn't even have time to feel what it felt like. He only felt a light and elegant fragrance spreading in his body and then coming out along his nostrils.

"Buzz buzz..."

And when Xu Taiping started to use the Canxia Gong, there was a buzzing in his ears, and the power of the Qi Gathering Pill suddenly took effect. The surging spiritual power was guided by the Canxia Gong, and was extremely quickly transformed into the Canxia Gong. Xia Zhenqi surged into the meridians throughout his body like a rushing river, violently impacting various acupoints.

Several acupuncture points that originally required him to expend a lot of energy to be opened were opened by him in just a few breaths this time.

"The first step to break through the door-opening realm is to push all the acupoints all over the body. The second step is to use the Canxia Gong to guide the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body through the acupoints all over the body. Finally, it gathers in the Dantian, pushing the wall of the Dantian away, allowing Dantian turns into a sea of ​​qi.”

While Xu Taiping was running the Canxia Gong with all his strength, he silently meditated on the key points of breaking through the Open Door Realm taught by True Lord Ziyang that day, how to turn a small Dantian like a fish pond into a sea of ​​Qi.

If you cannot do this, your greatest achievement throughout your life will be to be a warrior who only knows how to fight with fists and feet.

"boom!"

With this in mind, Xu Taiping did not hesitate to mobilize the Qi from the acupoints all over his body and began to attack the small Dantian for the first time. The Qi of the residual glow spread from his body without any warning.

"Ugh!..."

But what followed was a piercing pain. Xu Taiping felt that his scalp was being torn off piece by piece, which was several times more painful than when he was soaked in the marrow-destroying soup that day.

Even if he was as determined as he was, he was eventually defeated by this pain. The huge Qi that he had finally gathered turned into a cloud of smoke and dissipated.

"Xu Taiping, this is the price of practicing as a mortal bone. If you can't bear this little bit of suffering, I think you should give up as soon as possible!"

Fairy Lingyue deliberately provoked Xu Taiping.

How could she not know the pain Xu Taiping was facing at this moment?

But she understood even more how cruel the way of heaven was to mortal bones. Even if you embarked on the path of practice, as long as you are a little lax and timid in the future, you will face a hundred times more pain than today.

So in her opinion, even if Xu Taiping failed to break through, he must not give in to the pain.

But her worry was obviously unnecessary.

After Xu Taiping failed in his first attempt to break through, he immediately started his second attempt.

He endured the pain that had not yet completely dissipated, and continued to mobilize the true energy from various acupoints, calmly and skillfully. In the eyes of Fairy Lingyue beside him, Xu Taiping at this moment did not look like a teenager at all.