280: Hey! What, there's already a result?

“Blessing, huh…”

Chen Heng was just worrying about what to give his family for the New Year, and now he wasn't anymore.

Although that little monk was a bit stubborn, he wasn't a bad person, which was why Chen Heng spared his life.

Moreover, such stubborn people were especially easy to fool, and Chen Heng's mind began to churn with mischief again.

While thinking about how to manipulate the little monk, Chen Heng watched Bai Jun bury the basin of black Medicinal Pills under the tree.

As soon as the Medicinal Pills were buried, the jujube tree, which had lost its vitality due to the extreme cold, immediately sprouted branches and leaves.

Then came the blossoming and fruiting, and the tree was quickly covered with jujubes.

“Isn’t this effect pretty good? Why bury them?” Chen Heng walked forward, picked a jujube, and put it in his mouth.

Hmm, very sweet!

“Don’t eat it!” Bai Jun was about to stop Chen Heng when he saw Chen Heng had already spit out the jujube pit.

“What’s wrong?” Chen Heng was a little confused; the jujube didn't taste strange.

“It’s over…” Bai Jun looked at Chen Heng’s face, seemingly waiting for something.

A few seconds later, a tender twig emerged from Chen Heng’s nostril.

Then it blossomed and bore fruit, and a crystal-clear, blood-red fruit hung on Chen Heng’s skin.

“?” Chen Heng’s eyes crossed as he looked at the fruit on his nose, his brain somewhat overloaded.

What’s going on? Why am I bearing fruit?

“Big Brother Chen, the fruit produced by this thing has too many side effects; it will condense the Internal Energy within a person into a fruit and grow out.”

Bai Jun explained cautiously.

“Someone with strong Qi and vitality like you will be fine, but weaker ones could be sucked dry directly.”

“So that’s why you have those dark circles under your eyes.” Only then did Chen Heng understand why Bai Jun looked so haggard.

“Yes, after the Medicinal Pills are refined, I definitely have to try them myself, otherwise, how would I dare to give them to others?”

Bai Jun nodded. He intended to refine a peerless Divine Pill, not become a peerless poison king.

“Don’t test it on yourself anymore.” Picking off the blood-red fruit hanging from his nose, Chen Heng shouted into the courtyard.

“Doggo! Come here!”

Cao Jihan wagged his big tongue and trotted over, sitting in front of Chen Heng and looking at him.

“From now on, you’ll use him to test the medicine.” Chen Heng grabbed Cao Jihan by the scruff of his neck and handed him to Bai Jun.

“That won’t do, this is, after all, a…” Bai Jun took Cao Jihan, and just as he was about to refuse, he sensed the strong Evil Qi on Cao Jihan.

“A zombie dog?”

“Yes, this dog is an Unmelting Bone; it can’t be killed by torment.” Chen Heng nodded, signaling Bai Jun to rest assured.

“I knew it. I never see this dog eat anything all day, and it just lies in the moonlight every night.”

Bai Jun suddenly realized but didn’t feel surprised.

It was normal for anything strange to appear in Big Brother Chen’s house; Bai Jun wouldn't even be surprised if he brought some immortal home one day.

“Oh, by the way, eat this fruit; you look so weak.”

Handing the fruit, which was condensed from his own Qi and blood, to Bai Jun, Chen Heng walked out the door to go fool the little monk.

“Ah? For me?” Bai Jun looked at the blood-red fruit in his hand, hesitating whether to eat it.

Big Brother Chen didn’t seem to be greatly affected, so it probably didn’t condense too much Qi and blood, right?

If it was too much, it could easily make him burst.

Bai Jun knew nothing about Chen Heng’s Qi and blood volume, but he knew it wouldn’t be small.

With his small body… it wouldn't hurt to try!

Bai Jun carried Cao Jihan in his left hand and held the blood-red fruit in his right, happily returning to his room.

“Doggo, you stay there obediently and don’t move. I’ll call you when I need to test medicine.”

Putting Cao Jihan down, Bai Jun pulled out a large stack of death-substitution talismans from his pocket.

This fruit, in essence, was to condense a part of other people's power for the consumer.

“Big Brother Chen’s power…”

Bai Jun swallowed, he indeed yearned to be as powerful and unrivaled as Chen Heng.

But he also knew his own body; it would be hard to absorb the entire fruit.

“I’ll absorb as much as I can.”

Bai Jun gritted his teeth and shoved the blood-red fruit into his mouth.

An incredibly pungent bloody smell filled every nerve of Bai Jun, and the nearly solidified Evil Qi impacted his Dao Heart.

The originally cyan-blue spiritual power slowly turned blood-red, and the expression of the Nascent Soul in his Dantian also changed from peaceful to fierce.

“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!!!”

Bai Jun’s entire body was in pain; Chen Heng’s Qi and blood were rapidly transforming his body.

His originally somewhat thin body became sturdier, but it didn't look bloated.

Bang!

The first death-substitution talisman exploded, and Bai Jun’s body became a bit more robust.

As the second and third death-substitution talismans exploded in succession, Bai Jun’s body finally stopped changing.

The originally scrawny little chick disappeared, and a young man with firm, yet not bloated, muscle lines all over his body stood up from the ground.

“Such powerful strength…”

Ignoring the pain in his body, Bai Jun clenched his fists, feeling the earth-shattering changes in his body.

Cultivators were inherently fragile; if they weren't careful, they could even be killed by martial artists.

But now it was different. Although Bai Jun didn't know Martial Skills and had no martial Dao Realm, his physical strength and power were not much weaker than that of a Tongxuan martial artist.

To directly elevate a person from zero to Tongxuan, this was the power of the Qi and blood within Chen Heng’s body.

“No, why has my spiritual power become like this?”

Sensing the crimson Qi and blood flowing in the Meridians within his body, a cold sweat broke out on Bai Jun’s forehead.

Looking at his Nascent Soul again, Bai Jun then realized that his Dao seemed to have undergone some changes.

“It’s over, it’s over, it’s over. If my Master finds out, she’ll beat me to death.”

Bai Jun paced back and forth in the room, his mind filled with images of Qiu Yongling pinning him to the ground and beating him.

“I’m doomed now…”

Finally, Bai Jun completely gave up struggling.

“Let it be, she can’t really beat me to death…”

Muttering, Bai Jun continued to study his ‘peerless Divine Pill’… After being thrown out of Chen Heng’s house, the little monk looked for a place to stay.

As a monastic, he certainly couldn’t live in someone else’s home; it didn't conform to the precepts.

“Every large city should have a temple, right? Why doesn’t Qiyang City have one?”

After circling the city, Hui Che murmured in confusion.

“I should ask; blindly searching like this isn’t a solution.”

Shaking his head, Hui Che casually stopped a beautiful woman who was holding a child.

“Benefactor, may I ask where the temple in Qiyang City is?”

“I am a wandering monk who has arrived here and wishes to find a place to rest.”

“You mean Dacian Temple, right?” The woman smiled and returned a bow with clasped hands.

“I was also a Buddhist devotee, but Dacian Temple is no more. That ruin is where Dacian Temple used to be.”