nownovels Chapter 16 Cleansing Porcelain Powder, Broken Porcelain Strengthens the Spirit
Chapter 16 Cleansing Porcelain Powder, Broken Porcelain Strengthens the Spirit
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—"
Bu Che felt as if his head was about to explode, he was dizzy and saw countless butterflies fluttering in front of him.
However, as he stared at the prompt formed by the intertwining sword energy before him, his mood became incredibly beautiful, and his hazy mind became clear and bright.
"One wave, and it boosted by two points!"
"Two years of diligent effort have finally paid off!"
Bu Che's lips curved into a smile.
The effects of the Boiling Blood Porcelain Powder allowed Bu Che to complete a normal Qi and Blood Exercise in just one-third of the time.
Then, Bu Che did not stop. He gritted his teeth and continued to circulate his Qi and Blood Technique, squeezing himself to the limit, just like the first time, draining his spirit.
Finally, after two arduous years of diligent effort...
"Therefore, with just another year of diligent practice, one can complete the Xue Family Qi and Blood Technique and officially break through to the minor completion stage!"
Bu Che clenched his fist and excitedly swung it forward.
Then, he felt an eerie purple gaze staring straight at him.
He looked up and saw Old Zhou smiling, looking at him with a hint of surprise.
"Old Zhou... Old Zhou!"
Bu Che hurriedly stood up, but in his haste, he felt dizzy and lost consciousness. He fell headfirst onto the snow-covered ground like a scallion.
However, just as it was about to fall, it was grabbed by the tall and strong Kong Ci.
"Teacher," Kong Ci said respectfully to Old Master Zhou.
"That reckless brat, using the potency of the Boiling Blood Porcelain Powder, is desperately squeezing out his own spirit. Without a spirit-refining method, daring to refine like this, he's truly fearless..."
Old Zhou's hoarse voice sounded like a dagger rubbing against a hard stone.
"However, given his evil intentions, it's understandable that he wanted to live."
Old Zhou chuckled softly.
Xue Qing, who was supporting Old Zhou's arm, had a strange look in his eyes. Old Zhou seemed to quite admire this young man, and he couldn't help but think to himself.
"Xiao Kong, when he wakes up, give him a dose of 'Bath God Porcelain Powder,' it's on me. This boy has a good character, let's see if he can survive the ordeal of being plagued by evil thoughts."
"His progress in Qi and Blood Cultivation seems quite good. I'll bring him to see me again when he has formally entered the realm of Qi and Blood Cultivation."
Old Zhou said calmly.
Kong Ci was taken aback, then clasped his hands in a fist and said, "Yes, Master."
……
……
Bu Che didn't know how long he had slept. He felt so good, as if he were next to a heater with flickering flames that radiated warmth, slowing his blood flow and making him feel sleepy.
However, Bu Che remembered that he was practicing Qi and Blood Cultivation, so he couldn't fall into a deep sleep.
Forcing himself to slowly open his eyes, Bu Che found himself lying under the eaves, with a cold wind blowing in.
The so-called warm stove was nothing more than the burly, bear-like figure beside me.
"Brother Kong!"
Bu Che hurriedly struggled to get up.
"You're awake, A-Che. You're pushing yourself too hard. Cultivating your Qi and Blood Technique like this, and the same thing when you shattered the porcelain statue of the ghost god, without the Spirit Refining Method, you'll eventually kill yourself by cultivating like this."
Kong Ci's gaze was gentle as she patted Bu Che's shoulder.
Then, he took out a packet of yellow porcelain medicine from his pocket.
"Your teacher saw you and appreciates you. He gave you a dose of 'Qishen Powder' to help relieve your mental stress and boost your spirits."
Upon hearing this, Bu Che was overjoyed and quickly took the medicine packet.
"Thank you so much, senior brother! Thank you so much, Professor Zhou!"
"It's good to be hardworking and diligent, but there has to be a limit. You have to grasp that limit. After all, martial arts training can easily injure your body. Overloading yourself can easily damage your foundation, and then it's all over."
Kong Ci stood up, his imposing and imposing body surging with energy.
"The Cleansing God Powder is different from the Boiling Blood Powder. It doesn't need to be taken with boiling water; you can just swallow it directly."
"However, the Cleansing Spirit Powder is not a cultivation item and cannot enhance your spirit. It can only soothe your spirit and heal any hidden spiritual injuries."
Kong Ci said.
"The porcelain medicine that can truly enhance one's spirit is extremely expensive."
Upon hearing this, Bu Che nodded earnestly and bowed with his hands clasped in greeting.
"What you do next is up to you. Whether you stay in the courtyard to cultivate or go back to rest is up to you."
Kong Ci said.
Upon hearing this, Bu Che hesitated for a moment: "Senior Brother Kong, I want to go to the Broken Porcelain Courtyard... to try my hand at breaking porcelain."
"Broken porcelain?" Kong Ci frowned.
"Really? Can you handle it mentally?"
"Fine, whatever. But you can only try to break one porcelain piece each day!"
Kong Ci waved his hand, too lazy to care anymore, and turned to head towards the Broken Porcelain Courtyard.
"Okay, okay, thank you so much, Senior Brother Kong, you're such a kind person!"
Bu Che laughed happily behind him.
Kong Ci walked with his back to Bu Che, his hands behind his back, his rugged face showing a twitching at the corner of his mouth.
That silly boy.
After putting away the Cleansing Porcelain Powder, Bu Che went to the Broken Porcelain Courtyard, where Kong Ci had already chosen a ghost and god porcelain statue for him.
The porcelain statue was covered in cracks, and only three ghostly thoughts remained inside, just like the ghostly porcelain statue that Bu Che had smashed yesterday.
Taking out the claw hammer hanging from his waist, Bu Che began to try breaking porcelain.
Bu Che would never let a broken piece of porcelain go to waste. Coming to the broken porcelain workshop... to Bu Che, what difference was there between that and a mouse falling into a rice jar?
Moreover, breaking one porcelain statue of a ghost or deity each day is only enough to capture 1% of the ghost's or deity's thoughts.
Holding the ram's horn hammer, Bu Che took a deep breath, his blood and qi surging. The introductory blood and qi cultivation he had diligently practiced for three years made him feel a surge of immense power at this moment!
With a single step, he combined his fist and hammer into a ram's horn hammer, swung it in an arc, and smashed it straight onto the porcelain statue of the ghost god.
The familiar shock came crashing down again, as if my brain had been hammered.
His previously muddled mind seemed to have become much clearer and more resilient.
The mental burden from the excessive Qi and Blood Exercise just now vanished instantly.
Cool!
Didn't Brother Kong Ci say that smashing porcelain with a hammer would attract the attention of ghosts and spirits and damage one's spirit?
Why did Bu Che feel that... when he was smashing the porcelain statues of ghosts and gods, he was actually nourishing and strengthening his spirit?
When others break porcelain, they suffer from the impact of ghosts and gods; it is like walking a tightrope, teetering on the edge of life and death.
And he shattered the porcelain...
Is he undergoing spiritual refinement?
In his mind, the silent Baque Sword trembled slightly, listlessly scattering two or three strands of sword energy.
[Obtained Divine Soul Fragment: Ninth-Rank Earth Deity (1%)]
[A fragment of divine soul has been collected. It can be refined to eliminate the sword master's laziness. Refine it?]
……
The prompt reappeared, indicating that Bu Che had successfully shattered the porcelain and extracted the ghostly thoughts from within the ghostly porcelain statue.
"Refine it instantly! Refine it for me!"
[Refining complete. The sword energy has been used to sever the flaws. The cooldown time for the Dao Seed "Multi-Seed" has been reduced to six days.]
Bu Che's face was full of surprise. Another day had been reduced, and the cooldown period was only six days left.
……
[Sword Master: Bu Che]
【Sword Qi of the Broken Blade: Laziness (-12%)】
【Cultivating the Path to Enlightenment: Seeds of the Dao - Diligent Cultivation (Ninth Rank, 12%)】
[Taoist Seed Cooldown: Six Days]
[Remaining commitment: 4 years]
……
He glanced at the notification formed by the vibrations and cascading sword energy of the ancient sword, Baque.
Bu Che slowly exhaled.
We still have to break the porcelain!
Bu Che's thoughts even wandered, and he thought of the living porcelain ghost that was smashed back into the shrine by Old Zhou yesterday!
"I really want to smash the living porcelain of the ghost god... I wonder if the lazy and deadbeat appearance of the Baque Ancient Sword will change?"
Could there be any additional surprises?
"A living porcelain of ghosts and gods..."
Bu Che breathed a sigh of relief, quickly got up, and amidst the complex, astonished, and envious gazes of the many apprentices in the Broken Porcelain Courtyard, picked up his claw hammer and returned to the training ground.
The apprentices were indeed envious, even jealous, because Bu Che had received the "Brightening Porcelain Powder" as a reward from Master Zhou. The fact that Master Zhou would reward him meant that he had caught Master Zhou's eye.
There is a high probability that I will be able to enter the inner academy in the future, and even become Master Zhou's disciple!
This is something that these apprentices in the Foreign Languages Department have always dreamed of.
The wind and snow howled, and the heavy snowflakes slapped against our faces like palms!
Bu Che exhaled a breath of hot air and leaped onto the plum blossom stakes. His feet were like suction cups as he rapidly stomped on the stakes, practicing the stance training of Zhan Shen Quan Hammer.
With a surge of diligence, Bu Che felt as if he had divine assistance. Every movement he practiced seemed to be imbued with a year's worth of diligence, blessing him.
Because the Xue family's Qi and Blood Technique is now only one year away from achieving minor success.
Although Bu Che's main focus was on Qi and Blood Cultivation, once he achieved a minor level of mastery in Qi and Blood Cultivation, the remaining three years of diligent practice would not be enough to significantly improve it.
Therefore, there is no need to restrict it; one can directly apply this diligence to the fighting body and fists.
Old Zhou said that fist and foot skills must also be improved, and martial arts skills are indispensable; otherwise, no matter how high one's qi and blood cultivation level is, it will be useless.
It's nothing more than a spectacle where the blood spurts out even higher after someone's head has been chopped off.
The gong signaled the end of the workday.
Bu Che finished his training of Battle Body Fist and Hammer, drenched in sweat and exhausted. He successfully enhanced his Battle Body Fist and Hammer with a year's worth of diligent intention.
The apprentices in the Broken Porcelain Courtyard dispersed one after another. Many of them were pale, clearly due to the influence of ghostly thoughts within the Broken Porcelain Workshop.
The air and the concentration of ghostly thoughts inside the Broken Porcelain Workshop are much higher than outside, which is why many people are unwilling to set foot inside.
Kong Ci distributed wages to his apprentices.
Looking at Bu Che, who was covered in sweat and had just finished his training, a hint of admiration flashed in his eyes.
"Here you go, your wages for today, twenty peace coins."
"Go get a good meal; you can't neglect your food and body while practicing martial arts."
Kong Ci said.
Bu Che wiped the sweat from his hands, his eyes shining as he accepted the twenty coins. Receiving his wages was the only time he felt truly happy each day.
Having received his wages, he left the broken porcelain workshop amidst the wind and snow.
After leaving the Xue family mansion, Bu Che strolled along Saili Street and arrived at the bustling restaurant.
As soon as he stepped into the restaurant, the waiter from yesterday spotted Bu Che with sharp eyes and quickly ran over.
She moved closer to Bu Che, lowered her voice, looked him up and down, and then cautiously spoke.
"Sir, Zhao Laizi and his group just left after drinking heavily!"
"I secretly found out some things for you, sir."