The Great Wild God - Chapter 28
Chapter 28 Cultivation Requires Medication
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Chen Xun carefully lay in the snow and used a bone shovel to dig open the ice and snow. He dug out the two stalks of Earth Sunflower that had been frozen solid and connected with the ice cubes. This way, the sixteen medicinal herbs needed to refine the Black Python Pill would be complete.
Chen Xun followed Grandpa Sect’s plan to refine voodoo medicines. He had long been familiar with the refining method of the Black Python Pill, but the Barbarian Soul needed to cultivate to the point where its divine essence was released. Only then could he use the divine essence of the Barbarian Soul to fuse with the medicinal power to refine the Black Python Pill.
These two Earthly Sunflower plants had thirteen leaves and four or five stems and leaves at their roots were already dark purple. It seemed that they had grown for more than forty to fifty years in the depths of the lake.
Chen Xun was only two hundred kilometers deep into the wasteland of the lake. All he was looking for were medicinal herbs that had grown for many years. He thought to himself that the medicinal pills he could refine this time were more than a few notches better than ordinary Black Python Pills.
Chen Xun went to another place and dug a snowhole. He put down the medicine basket and took out a knife, a stone grinding stick, and a stone bowl. He crushed the sixteen herbs into juices in order and used a double linen cloth to filter out the residue. He took out the green liquid and the black python saliva in a bronze bottle and stirred it in the bronze medicine furnace.
The bronze medicine furnace was only six inches tall and three feet tall, with python-headed beast ears on both sides. It was beautifully forged, and its abdominal wall was carved with bird and beast patterns as well as many characters that were even older than the Barbarian language. It revealed a mysterious aura and was an ancestral item of the Black Python Clan.
Within the Black Python Stone Hall, there were only one large and one small bottle of bronze medicine furnaces for refining medicinal pills.
After Chen Xun had given the extra armor to the stronghold, Duke Wu Zong Tu gave Chen Xun a small pill refining furnace.
Nan Liao, Zong Sang, and the others had no objections. Although the bronze medicine furnace was the ancestral treasure of the Black Python, those heavy-edged spears, black sheaths, iron fetus bows, and scales were even more precious, and it was something the Black Python urgently lacked at this moment. They couldn’t ask Chen Xun for so many things in vain, so they could only take out the small bronze medicine furnace and exchange it.
Chen Xun drilled out of the snowhole and saw that there was no strange phenomenon around him. He drilled back into the snowhole and used the snow to seal the entrance of the cave. He placed the bronze medicine furnace on charcoal and boiled it with fire.
When the medicinal juice was cooked until it was viscous, Chen Xun’s mouth contained an Origin Gathering Pill. He sat cross-legged and thought about the Nine Nether Barbarian Soul. The black Nether Divine Splendor leaked out from his hands and formed a black lotus petal between his hands.
The stationary medicinal liquid in the bronze furnace was being pulled by Qi and suddenly boiled. Countless liquids seemed to be boiling out of the furnace.
Chen Xun carefully inserted both his hands into the medicinal furnace and endured the burning of the medicinal liquid. He watched as the dark divine light leaking out of his hands slowly fused into the viscous medicinal liquid.
Chen Xun closed the bronze lid and boiled it slowly once the viscous medicinal liquid could no longer merge with the brutal soul divine essence.
The odd medicinal fragrance rushed towards Chen Xun’s nose and surged in the snow cave where he was hiding, causing this ordinary snow cave to look like it contained some sort of treasure, like a Spirit Heaven Cave. There was also a bit of spiritual herbal energy spilling out from the ice and snow, causing Chen Xun to worry about attracting some ferocious bird or beast.
However, he only had three Origin Gathering Pills left on him. He still wanted to stay in the Lake Snow Plains for more than half a month before returning to the stronghold. He could only concoct pills in the ice and snow to support the consumption of the next half a month.
After the medicinal liquid was cooked into an ointment, the Spiritual Energy completely withdrew into the ointment and no longer leaked out. Only then did Chen Xun let out a sigh of relief, knowing that this batch of medicine had been successfully refined.
Seeing that the ointment was dark green, strange and mysterious patterns naturally appeared on its surface. The quality of the ointment was indeed far superior to that of an ordinary Black Python Pill.
This wasn’t because Grandpa Zong wanted to refine the Black Python Pill, but because the Black Python Clansmen had been gathering herbs in the mountains around the stronghold for 30 years, how many herbs with sufficient Spiritual Qi could be gathered to refine herbs?
Both the Black Python Pill and the Origin Gathering Pill made by the Su Clan were considered to be the lowest grade spirit herbs. After all, the spirit energy contained in the pill was limited. Even if it was boiled into a paste, it would not disperse into a pill on its own.
Chen Xun extinguished the charcoal, carefully lifted the ointment, and put it into a small bronze bottle. He only left a small amount of his fingers to wipe it in his mouth. He felt the medicinal power turn into a surging stream of warmth and scatter it into the bones, causing his blood and qi to almost boil.
As expected, it was more than twice as powerful as an ordinary Black Python Pill. However, this small bottle of ointment was neither a pill nor a dark green color. In terms of color, it was more like the Origin Gathering Pill refined by the Azure Water Su Clan.
Perhaps it was better to call it the Origin Gathering Paste, Chen Xun thought to himself.
This small bottle of Essence Gathering Paste didn’t look much, but it was enough to last him another half a month in the lake’s snowy plains.
Visualizing the Barbarian Soul fighting against the enemy was extremely intense. In fact, once he used the reverse scale, he would drain Chen Xun’s blood vitality. However, the process of cultivating the Barbarian Soul and using the Barbarian Soul Divine Essence to temper his body was extremely slow. He wanted to merge the Barbarian Soul Divine Essence into his muscles, bones, skin, and flesh, and remove impurities.
Without the assistance of the Black Python Barbarian Statue that could devour the beast soul, it would take Chen Xun almost a day to fully refine an Origin Gathering Pill through his own visualization of the Barbarian Soul.
In this way, for the next half a month, Chen Xun would hunt and pick herbs during the day and dig a snowhole at night. His mouth contained a dose of spirit ointment equivalent to an Origin Gathering Pill, and he would visualize the Barbarian Soul cultivating.
Although he was not affected by the cold wind in the snow cave, it was extremely cold in the middle of the night. The cold energy drilled straight into Chen Xun’s muscles and bones, and his cultivation was much slower than usual in the stronghold.
The Barbarian Soul Divine Splendor and the Profound Cold Qi clashed in the depths of the muscles and bones in his body, causing the tempering of the muscles and bones to be even deeper and denser, as if a trace of the Profound Cold Qi was slowly fusing into the muscles and bones.
Ordinary people would not be able to withstand the profound cold energy that penetrated into their textures. Ordinary barbarian martial artists would not dare to let the cold energy enter their bodies so easily. However, Daoist Greenwood believed that the profound cold energy was actually a type of Heaven and Earth Profound Breath Spirit Qi in the [Remnant Dao Accumulation Solution].
Before entering the Heavenly Barbarian realm, ordinary barbarian martial artists could not directly absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to temper their own bodies. However, in an extremely cold place, people would naturally be attacked by the profound aura of extreme cold. As long as they controlled it properly, they could also temper their muscles, bones, skin, and flesh using the profound aura.
Of course, if he couldn’t control it properly, allowing the Qi of Profound Frost to penetrate through the bones and invade his internal organs, it would cause extremely serious internal injuries.
This was the reason why the Black Python Barbarian Martial Arts cultivated harder and harder in extreme heat or cold weather.
Chen Xun also knew this reason, so he did not say that he was in a hurry to return to the stronghold after picking the herbs. Instead, he treated the journey of picking herbs as a bitter practice.
Above his spiritual sea of consciousness, The Qi of Profound Frost wasn’t invisible either. It was a faint azure divine light. However, it wasn’t as dense as the Six-Armed Giant Demon that had gathered in the valley to draw the Moon Radiance. It was within his bones that he fought against the Savage Soul Divine Radiance that flowed out of his blood and qi. Chen Xun could clearly feel that his bones had been tempered by double tempering and gradually became even more dense.
Perhaps this process would continue, and one day, the bones would truly be as hard as diamond bones.
Half a month later, Chen Xun hid in the snow cave to cultivate his savage soul, and he discovered that his bones were no longer refined.
Before he entered the Heavenly Barbarian realm, the Barbarian Martial Cultivator had used the Barbarian Soul Divine Splendor to temper his muscles, bones, skin, and flesh. This meant that after half a month of bitter cultivation, he had already reached the peak of the fifth level of the Barbarian Martial Cultivator realm.
Chen Xun thought again. Different brute martial artists, even if they were both at the peak of the fifth layer, would have extremely different levels of strength after body tempering. Was this just because of their individual talent?
Chen Xun tried to use his mind to guide the Barbarian Soul Divine Splendor and force the profound cold energy that penetrated his body towards the surface of his body. In the area of his flesh that he thought had already been tempered to the extreme, the Barbarian Soul Divine Splendor slowly penetrated into the flesh and skin of his bones under the pressure of the profound cold energy and was absorbed by the flesh and skin …
As expected.
Chen Xun remembered that he had used the Savage Soul Divine Essence to temper his muscles, bones, skin, and flesh in the past. He probably needed to constantly try his best to temper his body so that it would become purer and purer.
Originally, Chen Xun wanted to cultivate to the peak of the fifth level of the Barbarian Martial Arts, so he returned to the stronghold. Now, he discovered that his tempering of the flesh and skin texture had not reached its peak. As the temperature decreased further, the profound cold energy between heaven and earth became denser, and there was still room for further tempering of the bones around him.
Chen Xun wasn’t in a hurry to return to the stronghold. He immediately used this half a month to gather medicinal herbs and refine another batch of Essence Gathering Paste.
Yao Cheng was also exhausted and numb in Chen Xun’s snow cave. Seeing the slightest bit of light pierce through the snow layer and shine into the cave, Chen Xun thought to himself that another night had passed.
Just as Chen Xun was about to push away the snow that was covering his head, his heart suddenly palpitated, causing him to feel numb. He immediately understood that an extremely powerful beast was lingering outside the snow cave.
Chen Xun didn’t dare to open the small bronze bottle. He just visualized the power of the Roc Fist, restrained his aura, and released his Spiritual Sense. He saw several large wolf-shaped ferocious beasts sniffing vigilantly around the snow cave …
Green Wolf!
Moreover, the aura emitted by every green wolf was so vigorous that it was like a ball of burning wolf-shaped green flames.
As his cultivation progressed, Chen Xun’s Spiritual Sense became more and more sensitive. Within twenty meters, even the aura of ants could be sensed sharply, let alone the ferocious flames emitted by these green wolves, which were so strong that they were as bright as lamps in the night.
It must have been the Spiritual Qi from the medicine refinement that had lured these wolves over.
The two green wolves Chen Xun had encountered in the depths of Python Fang Ridge were the size of a calf. With his current cultivation, it wouldn’t be a problem for him to defeat one or two green wolves like that. However, the five green wolves outside the snow cave were as big as cattle, and their backs that were bent like iron fetal bows could have one person tall and short. How the fuck would he be able to defeat them?
Fortunately, he was alert earlier. Otherwise, if he walked out of the snow cave and stared at the five green wolves, he wouldn’t even have the chance to wipe his nose and cry.
Once the medicine was complete, the spiritual medicinal energy rarely leaked out. Chen Xun restrained his aura. The snow cave was covered with a thick layer of snow. Although it couldn’t completely conceal the smell, the five green wolves might have thought that it was an ice-dead bird and beast in the snow. After sniffing for a while, they saw no other abnormalities and howled towards the north …
The wolf roar seeped through his bones. Chen Xun didn’t turn around and head south before relaxing.
Not long after, countless soldiers and horses galloped past, shaking the ice and snow, coming from the north to the south.
Wolves!
Just now, the five green wolves were just the outposts of the pack of wolves.
The ice and snow collapsed, and Chen Xun was buried in the snow cave. He felt as if tens of thousands of green wolves had stepped on his body.
Chen Xun was shocked. This side was only three to four hundred miles away from Python Fang Ridge.
Such a large pack of wolves would arrive at the outer hills of Python Fang Ridge in less than a day. What would happen if the Black Python Stone Village had the pack of wolves crash into them?
