8: Chapter 8 Cultivating the Pure Yang Undying Scripture

Early the next morning, the morning sun rose.

Beside the ruins of the Waste Pill Room, a simple yet sturdy new wooden cabin stood once more.

Baili Yunche spent the entire night gathering timber from the back mountain of the Miscellaneous Chores Peak, personally building his wooden cabin back up with his own hands.

Looking at his newly rebuilt house, he patted his hands in satisfaction:

"Although it's a bit crude, it's a one-to-one restoration of the previous room. That way, whenever I sleep or Cultivate in the future, I can endlessly savor yesterday's experience!"

Baili Yunche tried hard to tell himself that this was a profound memory and could not be casually discarded.

Inside the room, on the stone bed stained with a bit of blood, Baili Yunche sat cross-legged.

"It is time."

He took a deep breath, his gaze resolute.

Although his cultivation had skyrocketed to the ninth layer of Qi Refining yesterday due to the Awakening of the Pure Yang Holy Body, that had been a passive Breakthrough in an unconscious state, making his Foundation inevitably unstable.

Now he needed to disperse his cultivation and retrain to firmly stabilize his Foundation once again.

Before this, the Cultivation Technique he practiced was the dime-a-dozen Five Elements Technique, which, compared to the Pure Yang Indestructible Scripture, was simply a world of difference.

"Disperse!"

Baili Yunche let out a low cry and circulated a secret technique.

Within his Dantian, the originally thick spiritual power began to rotate in reverse, retreating from his Meridians like a tidal wave.

This process was not pleasant at all.

As the spiritual power was forcibly dispersed out of his body, his Meridians felt as if they were being scraped by a blunt knife, sending waves of sharp pain.

But Baili Yunche gritted his teeth and persisted, fine beads of sweat seeping from his forehead.

An hour later, the aura around him plummeted, dropping all the way from the ninth layer of Qi Refining and finally stopping at the first layer of Qi Refining.

"Hoo..."

Baili Yunche let out a long breath, his face somewhat pale.

Dispersing one's cultivation to retrain meant giving up hard-earned cultivation levels, which was a difficult choice for any Cultivator.

But he knew this was a necessary step.

Only the most solid Foundation could bear the boundless mighty power of the Pure Yang Holy Body and the Pure Yang Indestructible Scripture.

"Now, begin switching Cultivation Techniques!"

He closed his eyes and, according to the golden scripture in his mind, began to circulate the first layer of the Cultivation Technique.

"The Pure Yang is the essence of the utmost yang of Heaven and Earth. Take the sun's essence as fire, refine the stars as a Foundation, and forge an indestructible Dao body..."

As soon as the Cultivation Technique was circulated, the surrounding Spiritual Qi began to become active.

"Boom—"

The pores all over Baili Yunche's body suddenly opened, as if turning into a bottomless black hole!

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a radius of ten zhang surged madly, forming a milky-white airflow visible to the naked eye, pouring into his body through the acupoints all over his body!

If this weren't the most remote place of the Miscellaneous Chores Peak, where the Spiritual Qi was inherently thin, such a commotion would have been enough to attract the attention of the entire peak.

Once the Spiritual Qi entered his body, under the transformation of the Pure Yang Indestructible Scripture, it turned into wisps of crimson spiritual power.

This spiritual power was extremely yang and rigid, scorching like the true fire of a blazing sun, yet as docile as a lamb, surging and flowing through his Meridians. Wherever it nourished, his Meridians were widened and reinforced, becoming exceptionally tough.

Even more miraculously, wherever the spiritual power flowed, specks of golden light seeped into his flesh, blood, and bones, subtly transforming his body.

This was precisely the mutually reinforcing effect of the Pure Yang Holy Body and the Pure Yang Indestructible Scripture.

First layer of Qi Refining, broken!

Second layer of Qi Refining, broken!

Third layer of Qi Refining, broken!

...

His cultivation skyrocketed at an astonishing speed.

Every Breakthrough came naturally without any sense of instability.

Those Bottlenecks that originally required months or even years of bitter cultivation to break through were as thin as cicada wings in front of the Pure Yang spiritual power.

When the setting sun slanted westward, the aura around Baili Yunche suddenly shook, and a crimson-gold light burst out from his body, illuminating the entire stone house in splendid gold.

The ninth layer of Qi Refining, successfully achieved once again!

"This speed..." Baili Yunche opened his eyes, a golden light flashing past his pupils, and his face was full of disbelief,

"In just two days, I've retrained from the first layer of Qi Refining to the ninth layer of Qi Refining!"

Feeling the boundless Pure Yang spiritual power in his body, it was more than ten times purer than the spiritual power cultivated by the Five Elements Technique previously!

If the previous spiritual power was a turbid stream, then now it was a surging river, and neither its quality nor quantity could be mentioned in the same breath.

"As expected of an immortal-grade Cultivation Technique!" Baili Yunche muttered to himself, "This Cultivation speed is more than several hundred times faster than the Five Elements Technique!"

He roughly estimated that with his current Cultivation speed, coupled with the Pure Yang Holy Body, he was comparable to a Cultivator with a Grade-Four Spiritual Root.

A Grade-Four Spiritual Root was already a proud son of heaven in the Xuanyang Sect, and with good luck, almost anyone could become a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

And if he were to also match it with Dual Cultivation...

The figures of Xu Yuehuan and Liu Ruyan flashed across Baili Yunche's mind, and his old face blushed as he hurriedly shook his head to shake off the distracting thoughts.

"However, if I can really perform Dual Cultivation with a suitable Dao Companion, my Cultivation speed might even double, or even surpass a Grade-Three Spiritual Root!"

[Spiritual Root talents are divided into nine grades, from the first grade to the ninth grade, decreasing in order.]

He felt a faint anticipation in his heart, but immediately became alert. "Revered Master is right, the Pure Yang Holy Body must be hidden when it is weak. The matter of Dual Cultivation can only be met by chance, not sought, and even less can it be forced."

Just at this moment, a pungent stench drilled into his nostrils.

"What is that smell?" Baili Yunche frowned, looked down, and instantly exclaimed, "Holy crap!"

He saw that the surface of his exposed skin was covered with a thick layer of black filth, greasy and sticky, emitting a nauseating stench.

That was the pill poison, Impurities accumulated in his body over ten years of Cultivation, as well as turbid qi from the cultivation process, which were now all forced out of his body by the Pure Yang spiritual power.

"Cleansing the marrow and washing the tendons! A true rebirth!" Baili Yunche was not angry but rejoiced instead.

Enduring the stench, he leaped up, rushed out of the stone house like an arrow leaving the bow, and headed straight for the back mountain pond.

"Splash!"

Water splashes scattered everywhere.

Baili Yunche tossed and turned in the water, scrubbing himself for a full incense stick's time until his skin returned to its original luster before climbing onto the bank.

At this moment, his skin was as white and lustrous as jade, his eyes were clear and energetic, and although his figure was not robust, his lines were smooth and full of a sense of power.

What was most peculiar was that he exuded a faint warm aura all over his body, like the winter sun, making people instinctively want to get close to him.

"This is what the Pure Yang Holy Body should look like!" Baili Yunche glanced at his reflection in the water and nodded in satisfaction.

"I have the Realm now, and now it's time to test my strength."

Having only the Realm without strength meant everything was an illusion.

Baili Yunche changed into a clean chore-runner uniform and hung his only Magical Artifact at his waist—the green bamboo sword.

This sword was just the most ordinary Low Grade Magical Artifact, its blade refined from ten-year-old green bamboo and engraved with three simple runes, with limited power, but it was all his belongings.

He pushed the door open and walked toward the dense forest in the back mountain.

The back mountain of the Miscellaneous Chores Peak connected to the outer periphery of the Xuanyang Mountain Range, where Low Grade Yao Beasts frequently haunted.

In the past, Baili Yunche never dared to go deep, but now that his cultivation had greatly increased and he was blessed by the Pure Yang Holy Body, he naturally wanted to try out his skills.

Not long after entering the dense forest, rustling sounds came from the bushes ahead.

"Humph humph!"

A wild boar with an entirely pitch-black body and exposed tusks darted out.

This pig was the size of a calf, its eyes were blood-red, and saliva dripped from its mouth, corroding small wisps of white smoke on the ground.

"A Blood-Fang Boar at the Middle Stage of Qi Refining!" Baili Yunche's eyes lit up, "You've come at just the right time!"

The Blood-Fang Boar was one of the most common Yao Beasts near the Miscellaneous Chores Peak, with thick skin and flesh, sharp tusks, and the ability to spit poisonous saliva.

In the past, Baili Yunche only had a share of running for his life when he saw such a Yao Beast, but now...

"Roar!"

The Blood-Fang Boar kicked the ground with its hind hooves and rushed forward like a black cannonball!

Baili Yunche did not dodge or avoid it, grasping the hilt of the green bamboo sword with his right hand.

"Zheng—"

The sword hummed crisply.

A cyan sword beam shot out like lightning, precisely piercing into the center of the Blood-Fang Boar's brows!

"Puff!"

The sword entered three inches, and spiritual power erupted.

The forward momentum of the Blood-Fang Boar came to an abrupt halt, the ferocious light in its eyes rapidly dimming, and its massive body crashed heavily to the ground, twitching twice before losing all breath.

"This..." Baili Yunche stared blankly at the green bamboo sword in his hand, then looked at the thoroughly dead Blood-Fang Boar on the ground, his face full of disbelief, "Killed in a single sword strike?"

He knew he had become stronger, but he didn't expect to be strong to this extent.

If it were in the past, he would have had to maneuver for dozens of rounds and rely on the terrain to have a chance to kill the Blood-Fang Boar.

And now, it only took a single sword strike!

"The Pure Yang spiritual power is indeed overbearing!" Baili Yunche felt the scorching aura remaining on the sword body, his heart thrilled.

He stepped forward, skillfully skinning and deboning with the green bamboo sword, cutting off the most tender tenderloin and two round pig testicles, and then took out a simple grill from the Storage Pouch.

Having transmigrated to this world for a decade, Baili Yunche still hadn't changed his habit of eating barbecue, and every few days, he would come here to treat himself to a good meal.

The campfire ignited, and the Yao Beast meat was placed on the grill.

Baili Yunche sprinkled his homemade pepper and chili powder. Soon, grease dripped into the fire, making a sizzling sound, and a rich meaty aroma filled the air.

"Mmm, not bad!" He tore off a piece of tenderloin, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, spicy, numb, fresh, and fragrant, "These pig testicles are even more nourishing; you eat what you lack!"