558: Improve your strength first

After Shen Bei finished arranging the tasks for Fu Jian, he returned to the Night Watcher Courtyard alone.

Shen Bei didn't need to worry about whether Fu Jian could complete the mission.

After all, Fu Jian was a legitimate Military man, not some guy who only knew a few superficial martial arts.

For a Military man, intelligence gathering was a mandatory course.

Moreover, he was an outstanding individual systematically trained by the earth's surface's Military Department System; otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to be selected by the Military Department to go into the catacombs and infiltrate by impersonating a heterodox.

Shen Bei naturally didn't have to worry.

His only thought was that King Wei seemed to value Zhen Li very much.

If the outcome matched his guess, then the question was how he would get in.

This was what gave Shen Bei a considerable headache.

According to Shen Bei's prediction, if One-Blade Gorge truly had some anomaly that required King Wei to organize a team to go down...

It was unlikely that personnel would be selected from among the Night Watchers.

While the Night Watchers held a high position, their duty was to guard the security of the Imperial City.

Matters like punitive expeditions and combat were handled by the Military.

This made it difficult for Shen Bei to integrate and thus lose this excellent opportunity.

"If the intelligence is confirmed, I need to find a way to get in," Shen Bei thought as he entered the Night Watcher Courtyard.

After thinking for a long time, he still had no solution.

He decided to stop thinking about it for now, put it aside, and await Fu Jian's news.

Then, Shen Bei found a spot and sat down cross-legged.

The Seven-Colored Divine Radiance operated fully, refining and absorbing the essence to fuse with his body.

Shen Bei's strength Realm at the ninth-grade was improving at a visible speed. Soon, he truly entered the stage of the Little Five Decays of the mouth.

Shen Bei only felt as if the taste buds in his mouth had exploded; even without eating anything, he felt millions of flavors erupting simultaneously in his mouth. This sensation was like that of dark cuisine, where dozens or hundreds of ingredients are cooked together, countless flavors intertwined, and then all thrown into your mouth at once.

A wave of nausea and revulsion directly washed over him, and his stomach acid uncontrollably rushed into his mouth. If the taste in his mouth just now was the disgust of dark cuisine, then when the stomach acid refluxed into his mouth, it truly felt like countless disgusting things assailed him all at once.

The feeling of nausea instantly intensified countless times; he only felt that his mouth was filled with a perverted disgust.

This was the Little Five Decays of the mouth!

Like the Little Five Decays of the ear, the sense of taste suddenly becomes incredibly sensitive, so sensitive that even in water, one can perceive the earthy taste of countless minerals.

The Little Five Decays of the mouth makes you feel nauseous at all times, a tormenting nausea that makes you want to vomit to death!

"I wonder how Bai Wei and the others got through it..."

Shen Bei sniffed, indicating his annoyance.

The next moment, Shen Bei took a Medicinal Pill to counter the Little Five Decays of the mouth.

As the medicinal effect spread, the intense nausea that made Shen Bei want to vomit instantly diminished significantly, and his mouth felt as if it were sealed with wax.

The original nausea greatly weakened instantly.

Shen Bei had read King Wei's cultivation notes on the Little Five Decays, and he knew that this Medicinal Pill was specifically designed to wax-seal the flavors within the mouth, eliminating the tastes produced by his own oral cavity. This prevented him from constantly feeling nauseated and overwhelmed by countless flavors to the point of collapse.

However, after this Medicinal Pill was used, the nausea disappeared. But another sensation arose, that of a dry mouth and tongue.

Shen Bei knew this was caused by the Medicinal Pill's effects. It was unavoidable; a wax-sealed mouth would naturally lead to dryness.

This feeling grew stronger and stronger, causing his emotions to become irritable.

Shen Bei did not stubbornly resist; overcoming the Little Five Decays of the mouth did not mean completely cutting off external things.

Of course, most foods were completely unusable, so many people naturally chose clear water. Besides solving the Medicinal Pill's side effects, water also had fewer flavors.

The feeling of thirst made Shen Bei get water and drink it. But with the first sip, Shen Bei felt as if his whole body was about to explode. Various smells of earth's surface and other things rushed in, and the previously suppressed nausea surged back.

The Medicinal Pill could only solve the nausea from the oral cavity, but the various mineral elements and other odors in the water could not be wax-sealed. Therefore, Shen Bei only felt as if he had eaten millions of types of dirt, with putrid smells, rusty smells...

This was the Little Five Decays of the mouth, sensitive to an unimaginable degree.

He hadn't even swallowed this mouthful of water before he vomited it all out. The nausea surged again, making Shen Bei cough uncontrollably. After coughing for a long time, this nausea was only slightly suppressed.

Most importantly, the dry mouth caused by the Medicinal Pill's effects made him restless. He sat cross-legged, unable to calm his mind and fully cultivate to overcome the Little Five Decays of the mouth.

Shen Bei knew this was a necessary process for everyone who passed through the Little Five Decays of the ninth-grade to become a Martial God. But Shen Bei didn't want to try it; damn it, he wasn't pregnant, why did he have to endure this feeling of constant vomiting, and a hundred times more intensely?

The feeling of thirst constantly assailed him. Although the feeling of nausea had weakened, the physical discomfort also made him extremely uncomfortable.

However, Shen Bei was prepared and took out a set of distillation equipment.

This set of distillation equipment was an item traded between humans on the earth's surface and the heterodox.

Shen Bei bought it from a shop in the Imperial City.

According to the heterodox owner, he had no idea what this set of glass products was for; he just thought it looked transparent and beautiful, wanting to sell it as a decorative item.

Shen Bei was speechless for a moment.

However, it was understandable; the technology on the earth's surface was clearly much stronger than in the catacombs, dozens, or even hundreds of times more so.

It was only due to the rules and restrictions of the catacombs that gunpowder could not be used.

Otherwise, tanks and planes would have long since plowed the earth's surface with cannon fire.

Subsequently, Shen Bei quickly installed the distillation equipment.

Water was filled with various Impurities, hence full of various flavors, but what about distilled water? Would it be free of these flavors?

Solving the dry mouth problem caused by the Medicinal Pill, and allowing the body to replenish water, would temporarily suppress the body's discomfort. In this way, he could calmly solve the problem of the Little Five Decays of the mouth.

Without external interference, the problem of the Little Five Decays of the mouth would be much easier.

The distillation System quickly began to operate, and at the glass cup, drops of water dripped out one by one.

After collecting a cup, Shen Bei quickly took it. At this time, the thirst in his body made him feel very hot and irritable. He took a sip, and sure enough, all the various flavors were gone.

The dry mouth sensation greatly diminished, and there was no nausea. He felt as if he had drunk ice water on a summer day, extremely comfortable.

Shen Bei immersed his mind in his own cultivation, comprehending the Great Dao of Heaven and earth's surface and sensing the changes within himself. At the same time, the Seven-Colored Divine Radiance furiously circulated, refining and absorbing the essence. He wanted to tackle it with a two-pronged approach: first, to familiarize himself with and resolve the Little Five Decays of the mouth, and second, to forcefully raise his strength, using the increase in strength to overcome the Little Five Decays of the mouth.

Under the operation of the Seven-Colored Divine Radiance, Shen Bei's Qi Sea again formed a misty cloud. These were all transformed from Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, and this misty cloud again condensed into water droplets.

Shen Bei was immersed in cultivation, occasionally taking a sip of distilled water to solve the problems caused by the Medicinal Pill. He was also slowly getting used to the chaotic sensitivity brought by the Little Five Decays of the mouth. His originally collapsed and disordered sense of taste, under Shen Bei's immersion, gradually began to be perceived, and he slowly found ways to resolve it.

Shen Bei's secluded cultivation naturally attracted some attention.

They all knew that Shen Bei was going through the Little Five Decays of the mouth. Some couldn't help but sympathize with Shen Bei; among the Little Five Decays, the Little Five Decays of the mouth was the most unbearable, practically making one vomit to death, with some even vomiting until their stomachs were ruined.

Especially seeing Shen Bei cultivating behind closed doors, they thought, wouldn't all that foul smell of vomit be trapped inside? At this time, he should find a few people to help clean up those things!

"He's still too young; he has no reverence for cultivation," someone muttered, thinking that Shen Bei wouldn't last long before running out.

However, everyone noticed that after hearing a few dry retches from inside at the beginning, they didn't hear anything more. Instead, they heard some sounds of bottles and jars, and later even saw a fire being lit inside.

This made everyone look at each other, wondering what Shen Bei was doing. What did the Little Five Decays of the mouth have to do with making a fire?

Someone, curious, secretly peeked into the room.

Shen Bei hadn't completely closed the window, so they could see the scene inside.

Looking at the long row of glass apparatus, and then at the drops of water dripping from the very end, they looked at each other, puzzled. What was this for?

They couldn't understand!

But watching Shen Bei occasionally take a sip of water, without the vomiting they used to experience, they couldn't help but exchange glances. What was going on?

Back then, when they drank water to quench their thirst, it was terribly nauseating, and they had to endure it. In that discomfort, they forcefully stabilized their minds to overcome the Little Five Decays of the mouth.

But now... why was he so calm?

No one could figure it out, but feeling Shen Bei's aura rising, they grew even more confused.

"Is the Little Five Decays of the mouth that easy to get through?" Everyone looked at each other, truly unable to comprehend.

But no matter what they thought, Shen Bei was slowly getting into the swing of things.

Under Shen Bei's full cultivation, the misty Qi in his Qi Sea grew thicker and thicker, and the water droplets within it became more and more numerous. Shen Bei knew that he was only one step away from overcoming the Little Five Decays of the mouth.

He just needed this rain to fall, to make the True Qi in his Qi Sea surge again.

Shen Bei was not in a hurry; he had been building momentum. Finally, on the second day of his secluded cultivation, the raindrops in the mist poured down, and the pond in Shen Bei's Qi Sea began to rise, continuously spreading out. True Qi beyond imagination gathered into a vast expanse of water in his Qi Sea.