The Journey of Immortal Cultivation
Chapter 65 - 62 Strive on, for Cultivation

Chapter 65: Chapter 62 Strive on, for Cultivation

And the reason Ning Xiaoxian knew for certain there was a woman in the carriage was that, on the first day, when Zhang Sheng was serving the meal, she heard the crisp sound of dishes being smashed and a woman’s shrill scolding: "You dare to serve this trash to me?"

And then what? She was most interested in the couple’s argument. She wanted to hear the details, so she summoned her special Sharp-Hearing Ear. However, Lord Changtian only opened his mouth to say: "That man is apologizing profusely," and then tightly shut his mouth, refusing to say more. But according to the curious observations of Bai Jing and Bai Hong, that carriage shook rhythmically for quite a while afterward...

Alas, for the sake of the burning soul of Bagua, she must hurry up and cultivate Divine Skills! The Miss Ning who could neither hear clearly nor see properly let out a long sigh towards the sky.

To avoid drawing attention, she typically took the meals she had prepared with the little bat demons back to her carriage. It was just as well since women usually did not like to eat in front of a public audience, let alone surrounded by uncouth men, so her behavior did not seem odd.

After returning to the carriage, she handed the meals to the twins to clean up, and then she herself entered the God Demon Prison to cook the Cloud Fragrant Rice.

It’s not that she was being haughty, unwilling to share the joys and sorrows with the rest of the merchant team, but rather, she was in a critical period of Body Refining and needed to eat Cloud Fragrant Rice for every meal. For someone like her with not even an ounce of Immortal Spirit Root, trying to change her physique was truly a painstaking task that had to start with the smallest details.

Ning Xiaoxian admitted that she was suffering from severe lack of sleep every day, she was so tired!

Not only because the carriage was extremely bumpy when the mule carts were moving, but also because these past ten and more days, she had hardly any idle time. While other passengers with the merchant team were fortunate to complain about having nothing to do on their journey, she was so busy that she was about to collapse.

At the transition of Mao Chen every day (5 a.m.), after Liu Yimian finished distributing breakfast, she would slip into the God Demon Prison to earnestly undergo strenuous physical training. The purpose was not the rise of China, but to increase her chances of survival should she encounter danger in the future.

From the first day she boarded the vehicle, Changtian took away the Golden Core Pill. He divided the elixir into several portions, diluted each portion with plain water, added a variety of medicinal herbs including the essence of three-hundred-year-old ginseng for concoction, and then required her to drink one portion every day.

Changtian told her that the Golden Core Pill was originally used by cultivators at the peak of Foundation Establishment Perfection to break through the barrier of their cultivation. Since it was for "breaking through," the pill itself was an extremely potent medicine, fierce and domineering, capable of helping the user break free from constraints and step into the Golden Core Realm.

However, the internal organs of cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage were already quite sturdy, not afraid of the medicine’s forceful impact. And what about her, Ning Xiaoxian? She was merely a mortal who hadn’t even entered the Qi Refinement Realm; recklessly consuming the Golden Core Pill was not too different from swallowing a bomb.

Therefore, Changtian used a Secret Technique to reduce the potency of the Golden Core Pill, neutralized its domineering nature, and divided it into tiny portions, letting Ning Xiaoxian take them little by little, gradually adjusting her body’s functions. The difficulty lay in the fact that he could use ordinary herbs to neutralize the potency of the Golden Core Pill. This was a technique possessed only by a monster who had lived for tens of thousands of years like him. Other cultivators, even if they possessed a Golden Core Pill, would be unable to achieve this.

Therefore, the first thing she had to do every day when entering the God Demon Prison was to swallow a cup of the Golden Core Pill medicine. She thought that Changtian must have been very indifferent to cuisine in the past, because that medicine was truly difficult to swallow. The taste, carrying a sour and rotten flavor, was like the rotting mud in a swamp they had passed by a few days before! Of course, she had not actually tasted the swamp mud water, but she imagined it would be quite similar.

This kind of complaint, of course, she dared not express in front of Changtian, so she could only ask: "How much longer do I have to drink this medicine?"

"A total of eighty-one days." His answer was brutally straightforward, "I have calculated that dividing one Golden Core Pill into eighty-one parts for you to consume is the maximum limit your body can withstand. And you must operate a specific Cultivation Technique every day to alleviate the effects of the medicine and promote its efficacy." Seeing the girl before him with a worried and bitter face, he found it both irritating and amusing. Such an immense opportunity would make any mortal green with envy to the point of madness. Yet here she was, getting a bargain and still playing cute.

"After you finish taking it, you should be able to start trying to enter the Demon Transformation Spring." He couldn’t help but share this good news with her. Ah, it was like giving her a reward.