Body Cleansing, Three Days Of Seclusion

[Ding! Host's assumption is incorrect. Comprehension comes from the mind and soul. According to a saying from Host's old world, 'a healthy mind thrives in a healthy body'. Host's Special Constitution merely nurtures and improves Host's natural abilities.]

'D*mn it, do I need you to console me? And with that 'Mens sono copore' or whatever – isn't that an old Latin saying?', Zhang Baichi grumbled.

"Ah, whatever. I have three days to prepare…", he shook his head and sat down on the bed with his legs crossed and eyes closed.

'The Black Heaven Scripture's Void Forge works best when it's night, right', Zhang Baichi mused. 'Then, I can just use the remaining Blood Pills during the day and absorb the Qi from beyond the Heavens during the night.'

He took a deep breath and concentrated, only for his eyes to flash open. "Right! I need to tell that servant guy to bring me more food… I don't want to feel like starving the next time I cultivate using the Void Forge…"

The servants would only come once a day, so there was no way for Zhang Baichi to inform them before the next morning. He gave a mental command to the system and inspected his inventory.

Aside from the Sturdy Iron Sword, there were only the three Body Cleansing Pills, 10 Poisoned Inferior Blood Pills and seven vials of Blood Pills from the system remaining.

One of those vials was already opened, so Zhang Baichi had a total of 68 regular Blood Pills remaining. His inspection was brief, but critical. 'Three Body Cleansing Pills… They're only useful in the Body Forging Realm.'

'I need one for when I prepare to break through to the Qi Gathering Realm, just to smooth things out.', he mused. 'The other two I can use whenever I want… I have three days and need to be in tip-top condition for the Sect Master's test.'

A thoughtful expression grazed his face. 'Let's take one now, cultivate like mad for three days, and keep the last for when I need it. They're also very effective as antidots, so keeping one isn't a bad idea considering how nasty that Lu Hao is.'

With but a thought, he pulled one of the Body Cleansing Pills and the opened vial of Blood Pills out of his Inventory, adjusted his position and swallowed the Body Cleansing Pill immediately.

For a few seconds, nothing happened. Just as Zhang Baichi began to grow impatient, he felt a nauseating sensation course through his body. He body started violently sweating and he soon felt sticky residue on his skin; Not just sweat, but also the impurities inside his body were being sweated out.

A vile stench filled Zhang Baichi's nose, causing him to gag once, but he managed to hold himself back. After the initial wave of stench, a tearing pain came from the depths of his body, like worms burrowing through his body and ants biting all over his skin.

It was a truly nasty feeling, that only got more and more painful, while the vile stench became more and more nauseating. 'What the f*ck kind of stuff has this Zhang Baichi been eaten his whole life to cause such a violent reaction?!'

Zhang Baichi once again cursed this world's Zhang Baichi, though it couldn't be helped. Compared to the legendary spiritual fruits and wines of Immortals, the foods and drinks the mortal Zhang Baichi ate contained far too many impurities.

This was the reason the current Zhang Baichi experienced such a horrific reaction from the Body Cleansing Pill. After all, the system judged everything from the exceedingly high standpoint of the Black Heaven Sage, a mighty Empyrean.

Even the most ordinary Body Cleansing Pill would have the most wondrous effects on beings from lesser worlds like now.

Hundreds of Body Cleansing Pills from this place couldn't compare to a single pill bestowed by the system!

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Two hours passed in an agonizingly slow fashion for Zhang Baichi before the Body Cleansing Pill finally exerted the last of its effects. He opened his eyes, which immediately teared up from the vile stench, and coughed violently.

"Ugh, f*ck. To hell with this! Burn it all down, there's no saving this place.", Zhang Baichi once again cursed.

The stench had drenched the whole bed and permeated into the air, filling up the whole cottage.

He jumped off the bed, nearly slipping up on the residue sticking to his body and grimaced. "Okay, maybe only burn it down once I've cleaned myself…"

Not caring about what happens afterwards, Zhang Baichi threw open the door and went back to the well behind a few cottages.

'It's only been a day or two, and now I'm wiping away this god-awful stench after wiping away all that dried blood… If this wasn't a cultivation world, I'd be called a psychopath…', he thought to himself while pulling up a bucket of fresh water.

He needed another hour before finally being able to wash himself clean, though he could clearly hear people retching from time to time and giving him weird looks.

He went back to his cottage, which had its door wide open this whole time, causing the stench to slowly dissipate into the surroundings.

People stared at him with complicated expressions of hostility and open disgust, though Zhang Baichi didn't let it bother him. 'What can they do? Sue me? Paper tigers and clay soldiers, the whole lot of them.'

He had an arrogant expression on his face as he threw out the bedding drenched in mucus, not clearly conveying who he was looking down upon. Still, him glancing from side to side was enough for people to rain curses down upon him from the sides.

Without a care in the world, Zhang Baichi piled the gross beddings up a little way away from the cottage, started making a fire and ignited the beddings.

The people in the surroundings looked at him in dumbfounded silence, while he just stared at the fire.

In reality, Zhang Baichi was taking a look at the system.

After he opened his eyes before, the system had shown him a notification, but he ignored it for the time being in order to wash up first.

[Ding! Congratulations Host, you body has been thoroughly cleansed. Your aptitude for Cultivation has increased greatly.]

He cackled to himself when he saw that, 'My aptitude has increased? Does that mean I cultivate faster now? Wasn't it already insanely fast before? I broke through from being a regular mortal to the 5th Layer of the Body Forging Realm in two days thanks to the Blood Pills and Black Heaven Scripture.'

Unknowingly, the people around him began to whisper. He was standing in front of a burning pile of filthy beddings and cackling like a lunatic, causing people to believe he had lost his mind.

'Good, good, good!', Zhang Baichi was excited, repeating the same word again and again, 'That's how cultivation should go! Smooth sailing to get as strong as possible as fast as possible!'

His eyes twinkled with a zealous glint, causing many people to tense up and leave before they get in this maniac's way. 'F*ck sleeping and f*ck self-preservation. I'll cultivate for three days strait!'

He went back into his cottage and closed the door with a bang, leaving the burning bedding to care for itself. His bed now consisted only of a wooden frame and slates, but he didn't care.

With his legs crossed and seated on the slates of the bed, Zhang Baichi pulled the open vial of Blood Pills out of his Inventory and popped one of the pills into his mouth.

'I have 68 pills remaining. I'll chomp down 23 a day and then cultivate with the Qi from beyond the Heavens at night. I'll charge right to the peak of the body Forging Realm!', Zhang Baichi stated with ironclad determination for no one but the system to hear.

He swallowed the Blood Pill and began to operate the Void Forge according to the Black Heaven Scripture's instructions.

After forming the Void Forge last time, he was sure that his cultivation speed would already by abnormally fast. It was already a breakneck pace before, but now the circulation method had fully formed inside him, and his body was cleansed of all impurities.

The pill's effects blazed in his body like a roaring flame but were quickly suppressed and concentrated by the Void Forge, then purified and distributed into Zhang Baichi's body.

Within 15 minutes, the first Blood Pill was fully absorbed and Zhang Baichi breathed out a mouthful of stale air. Just like before, he could feel his own strength increasing with each pill.

He knew that he was inching closer to the 6th Layer of the Body Forging Realm and continued with the second pill, then the third, fourth, fifth and so forth.

And night, he changed to absorbing the Qi from beyond the Heavens directly and continued this mad schedule for three days straight.

Every night left him staved for food, but luckily he remembered to tell the servant about his 'secluded cultivation' and that he needs more nutritious food.

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Three days later, Jian Fu indeed came to pick Zhang Baichi up and looked at the boy in absolute shock.

His hair was lustreless and dishevelled, his eyes sunken with big black circles around them, while his skin looked dry.

Staying awake for three days for high concentration activity like cultivation, which also put his body under a lot of stress, turned out to be a not-so-great idea after all….