Immortal Cage - Chapter 35 Blood Poison Cultivation
Upon returning to his stone house, Yu Lie didn't have much time to rest. He took out the fish meat from the bronze wine cup and placed it outside to prevent the fish meat from completely transforming into pure spiritual energy.
Although pure spiritual energy had its benefits, fish meat also had its own advantages. It could be taken with medicine to nourish the body.
Yu Lie then took out the black snake fish he had intentionally kept and began to carefully butcher it. After some improvement in his skills, Yu Lie finished butchering the black snake fish in about half an hour, categorizing and storing the fish gall, gills, and entrails separately.
After organizing everything, Yu Lie filled the wine cup with the items again, carrying the dissected fish, and hurried to the alchemy room. He had to hurry because just on the way back, the black catfish in the wine cup without spiritual energy had already melted completely, and the other fish were still undergoing continuous transformation.
Rushing to the alchemy room, Yu Lie quickly bought a few medicinal herbs with his last bit of money, then hurried back home. Since he bought only a few common and commonly used herbs, he didn't need to intentionally buy more. Even if someone saw these herbs, they wouldn't be able to connect them to the black snake fish.
After this series of events, when Yu Lie rushed back to his stone house, another fish in the wine cup had completely transformed, while the other fish meat remained pure, with their medicinal properties intact.
Quickly taking out the fish meat, Yu Lie couldn't help but think, "If only I had a storage magic tool, it would make things much easier."
With his considerable secret stash and the numerous thefts in town, Yu Lie couldn't afford to leave anything related to the bronze wine cup out of sight. Suppressing his mixed thoughts, Yu Lie sealed the door and covered the windows.
He took out a small stove, lit the charcoal, and started boiling the simplest medicinal soup. The red-hot charcoal burned, and the medicinal herbs and fish meat rolled in the pure white soup, more like a fish soup than a medicinal soup, with a fragrant aroma filling the air.
Sitting in front of the stove, Yu Lie's eyes were fiery, and his whole body trembled with the aroma of the medicinal soup, his body involuntarily craving the soup in the pot.
Waiting for the soup to form, Yu Lie wasted no time. He grabbed the pot from the stove with his bare hands and poured it into his mouth without hesitation.
Hiss!
The boiling medicinal soup entered Yu Lie's mouth and throat, scorching and stimulating.
If it were an ordinary person or a regular Taoist, they might have been severely injured. But Yu Lie's robust qi and blood allowed him to endure the scalding soup without spilling a drop.
After setting down the pot, Yu Lie sat cross-legged in the stone room, his muscles twitching, his bones protruding like a lean wolf, one by one.
With his head lowered, his chest heaving like a bellows, he tried to inhale the remaining aroma of the soup into his lungs as much as possible.
Absorbing every drop of medicinal power, Yu Lie felt the pure spiritual energy penetrate his organs, promoting the growth of his muscles and tendons.
Whether due to the potent effects of the medicine or his own negligence, his body expanded, his dark hair grew, and his appearance transformed back into that of a wolf-like creature.
Hiss!
He suddenly opened his eyes, exhaling a breath of white mist that lingered in the air like a dragon or snake.
With his mouth full of sharp teeth, Yu Lie, in a low voice in the stone room, exclaimed, "Medicinal soup!"
In the next moment, he leaped from the ground, moving swiftly in the stone room, assuming the guiding posture of the poison technique to assist his body in digesting the medicinal power.
Exhilarating and unrestrained!
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For the next period, Yu Lie secluded himself.
With the medicinal soup, he could refine his body for four hours each day, doubling the effects of his tempering. Even when not refining, just quietly taking medicine and detoxifying, he could feel his body growing stronger continuously.
Feeding on spiritual fish was truly unimaginable help for an ordinary Taoist. Over the course of three days, Yu Lie's qi and blood increased, reminding him of the sudden advancement he felt when he learned the poison technique.
As his qi and blood increased, Yu Lie's appearance became increasingly lean whenever he took medicine. This was not a bad thing but a good sign, indicating that the wolf demon power within him was being further subdued and utilized.
Unfortunately, after three days, Yu Lie had to interrupt his seclusion. Though he had found a way to make money, he still needed to learn alchemy in the alchemy room, buy cheap herbs, and couldn't give up his job, so he had to continue working.
When he met Radish Head and the others again, they didn't notice anything unusual about Yu Lie, and everything proceeded as usual.
Yu Lie continued to slaughter various creatures in the alchemy room, handle different herbs, go fishing at night, and refine medicine with the spiritual fish he caught during the day.
Days passed by.
After making a name for himself on the streets, Yu Lie cautiously began selling black snake fish in the market. Balancing between the roles of a fisherman, a fishmonger, and a seller, his strength grew, bringing him closer to his goal.
On this day, Yu Lie acquired a large vat again. The vat was filled with herbs, and several black snake fish gallbladders floated in it, giving the soup a pitch-black color that instilled fear in onlookers.
Yu Lie immersed himself in the vat, his muscles stirring the poisonous soup, making it seem as if fish were swimming inside.
After an unknown amount of time, the sound of splashing water echoed. Yu Lie abruptly stood up from the poisonous vat, his tall figure shining like a jade pillar emerging from the vat, contrasting sharply with the dark poisonous soup.
Black water droplets fell from his body, emitting a sizzling sound upon hitting the ground.
The poisonous soup contained not only the venom of black snake fish but also arsenic, cinnabar, viper venom, and other complex and potent toxins. If not for the special oil coating inside the vat, it wouldn't have been able to withstand the poison for long.
What shocked people even more was when Yu Lie stepped out of the vat, his fingers transformed into claws, lightly piercing the tip of his other hand. Blood dripped down, sizzling as it hit the ground, corroding the black stone bricks beneath his feet.
Taking a deep breath, Yu Lie bit his tongue, slightly opened his mouth, and exhaled a breath of force towards the wall.
Swoosh! The force pierced through the thick black stone wall, landing in the courtyard outside.
A beam of light shone into the stone room, causing Yu Lie to squint his eyes with joy. His eyes were filled with delight.
"The first layer of 'Five Poisons Refining Organs and Guiding Technique,' Blood Poison Cultivation achieved!"
With such power, it was evident that Yu Lie had indeed cultivated the blood poison in the poison technique, with his bodily fluids carrying poison, especially the blood mixed with the expelled breath, capable of piercing through metal and stone. Even if his enemies wore iron armor and helmets, Yu Lie could easily defeat them.
Moreover, by taking various non-lethal poisons, he could control the nature of toxins in his body, preventing targeted attacks.
In the stone room, Yu Lie carefully inspected himself again, confirming that he had completed the first layer of the 'Five Poisons Refining Organs and Guiding Technique' without any falsehood.
A content smile appeared on his face.
"Blood Poison mastered. So, it's not far from digesting the second transformation."
At this point, it had been less than half a month, not even a full month since Yu Lie learned the poison technique.