Chapter 7: Complete Cleansing
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
After Qingcheng was done eating, she got up and said to Tealwood, "You guys go ahead. I'll go in first."
She paused for a while before continuing, saying, "Tealwood, I'll need to trouble you to stand guard outside the cave entrance. I need to purge the poison from my body, so no matter what happens, don't let anyone in. Is that alright?"
Tealwood stopped tearing at the meat in front of him and looked at Qingcheng as he said very confidently, "Don't worry! I will guard the cave entrance well, and the rest of them will guard the surroundings."
The other twenty Windblast Wolves responded with howls saying, "We will guard this place well."
Qingcheng couldn't help but feel touched by this pack of wolves. After all, she wasn't related to them in any way, and this was the first time she had seen them. She didn't say too much, just saying very seriously, "Thank you." Then she walked into the cave.
Since she was going to use the water from the Sacred Spirit Spring later and she didn't want the Spirit Qi in the air to attract other Magical Beasts in the forest, Qingcheng used some stones to put up a simple formation within the cave.
After she was done with this, Qingcheng took the large bathtub out of the interspace, then filled half of it with the spring water.
Her constitution was worthless and couldn't cultivate, so she couldn't bring her physical body into the interspace, but she could still take things out.
This wasn't just any water, but the water from the Sacred Spirit Spring. In just a few moments, the entire cave was filled with a thick layer of Spirit Qi, and it was ten times the concentration compared to the air outside.
If someone found out that Qingcheng was using such valuable Sacred Spirit Spring water to take a bath, they would probably fly into a rage and beat their chest as they roared, "AHH! AHH! What a wastrel!"
She quickly removed all her clothes, and, with the flick of her wrist, a small bottle appeared in her palm. It was clear from the surging amount of Spirit Qi wafting from the inside that this bottle also contained Sacred Spirit Spring water.
She lifted her head and poured all of it into her mouth, then flipped herself into the bathtub to sit down cross-legged inside. Even though the tub was only half full, the water level was high enough to reach Qingcheng's skinny shoulders.
After she sat inside the water, she started to feel her dantian heat up. This warm feeling kept getting stronger, and her body, immersed in the water, also began to react. The prickly feeling on her skin started to get more intense as well.
When she felt that the inside of her body was beginning to change, she took a deep breath and laid down so that she was entirely submerged in the water.
At the same time, the heat in her dantian continued to rise, and the prickly feeling on her skin kept getting more intense. Her face started to feel painful and itchy, but she clenched her teeth and resisted the urge to scratch her face.
After a long time, she finally stuck her head out again. She sat cross-legged again and kept her hands on her knees.
The burning sensation in her dantian reached its peak at this moment, and it felt as though a ball of fire had turned into a ferocious beast and had surged into every meridian channel in her body. Every meridian channel that had been impacted felt like a typhoon had just gone through it.
Nothing that this fiery beast had gone through had anything left behind. This blazing energy had burnt everything to cinders and made everything evaporate.
Qingcheng was watching her own meridian channels transform, and the pain from the energy searing through them was indescribable. She continued to grit her teeth to endure the pain.
There was only one thought in her mind: She had to endure it! She had to persevere! She was doing this to become strong! There was nothing she couldn't do!
Her meridian channels continued to feel the impact of that fiery energy, and the parts that had been affected had gone through a change. The meridian channels that had been cleansed became wider and were now three times as wide as those of a normal person. They were completely clear as well, unlike how messy and narrow they used to be. They also no longer looked blackish from the poisons piling up inside.
Qingcheng continued to endure this terrible pain inside the cave, but Tealwood and the other wolves were not doing much better outside.
Shortly after Qingcheng went in, they had eaten their fill and started to guard the cave entrance warily.
But just a while later, an unexpected thing began to occur. Tealwood felt as though there was something wrong with his body, and the other Windblast Wolves felt the same. After that, Tealwood felt as if his meridian channels were beginning to tear apart, causing him to lie down and curl his body up.
SHAAAAA…
His body went back to its original size, and then he started to feel an even stronger heat searing his body. He couldn't help but open his mouth to vomit a large amount of black, filthy substances. It wasn't the food he had eaten earlier, but a foul-smelling substance.
In no time, the air outside the cave turned into a whirlwind of Spirit Qi, and all the Spirit Qi within Langya Forest began to waft towards this place.
Of course, all of this had attracted the attention of the other Magical Beasts, but it had also attracted two other humans. They had come along with the crowd earlier just for fun, but even after everyone else had left, they hadn't.
As a result, they ended up discovering this strange thing happening. They were curious as to what would cause such a big commotion.
After that, there were several Magical Beasts that wanted to check out what was going on, and of course, those two humans were running in the same direction. But Tealwood and the other wolves had no idea that this was happening.
They were in no mood to think about anything else right now because…
ZZZZING…
Tealwood was the first one to level up. His cultivation level went from Level Six Advanced Phase to Level Six Peak Phase, but it didn't stop there. The amount of Spirit Qi in his body continued to increase and fill up.
ZZZING… ZZZING… ZZZING…
All the other Windblast Wolves started to level up one after another. Half an hour later, some of the wolves started to calm down, and the rest also finished their leveling up process.
They all looked towards Tealwood, who was still leveling up. At the same time, they were so happy that they wanted to howl loudly, but they didn't do that. Their leader was still in the midst of leveling up, and they knew that Tealwood was now undergoing a very important part of the process.
HUUU… HUUU…
A strong wind started to blow, and a large patch of dark clouds began to gather in the sky above Tealwood. The other Windblast Wolves felt extremely excited as they watched with great anticipation and worry at the same time.
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