Just Do It

But now, all the thirty-some venoms he got from the Tranquil Poison only brought him to the Peak Commander Stage, and this meant that he had failed since the Tranquil Poison contained all the strongest venoms within the continent.

Thus, using anything weaker to try and evolve into the Lord Stage would have no effect at all since the said poison couldn't be any stronger than the ones he had used so far; so he might have as well not started with poison.

But now a very audacious thought just sprung into his mind; if the treatment dissolved the Tranquil Poisoning into its component venoms, then if he tried to merge the venoms back to the Tranquil Poison wouldn't that be stronger venom than the ones he had used so far?

As for Sensei; on the one hand, was worried that if they failed, Ji Min might become afflicted with the same problem they had traveled all the way here to solve.

On the other hand, should they succeed, not only would Ji Min be able to wield the Tranquil Poison when attacking, but he would also be able to enter the Lord Stage; thus fulfilling the requirements of his Legacy Body Technique.

[Young Lord, you need to carefully think about the risks involved; even I can't guarantee a 50-50 success ratio.] Sensei pushed for the last time;

[Sensei, the worst that would happen is that I restart the treatment from the beginning-]]

[-or you might actually die, or have you forgotten that you now have no Qi within your body?] Sensei interrupted once again;

[Sensei, I've made up my mind; just do it!] Ji Min said in a resolute tone.

[Alright then; this would hurt much more than ever; after all, it is not a batch of few venoms, but all thirty-plus of them.] Sensei warned before taking control of Ji Min's body.

Since he would only connect to Ji Min's reflexes, it would look like Ji Min's body was working on its own accord, thus, Ji Min would be the one to bear the pain.

Boom!

All the traces of all the venoms within the Tranquil Poison vibrated as they came alive.

They then surged towards one another and began to gather within Ji Min's heart; this process wasn't painful at all; after all, he had just finished absorbing them all, but the moment they combined to form the Tranquil Poison, Ji Min trembled uncontrollably.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He rattled within the cauldron like a worm that had been dipped in a bowl of salt.

Blood spilled out of every seam in his body and even began to seep out of his pores.

"Ahk! Gargh!" He yelled as the Tranquil Poison began to begin a final training procedure on him; starting from inside out.

Bang! Dang!

He continued to rattle to the extent that the cauldron began to tilt in all directions, threatening to fall and spill out its contents.

Once Ji Min's cells noticed the return of an enemy they had just destroyed; they flared with every medicinal property they had absorbed during the treatment.

This made Ji Min feel the terror of being poisoned and treated all at once, as a death-evolve battle began to rage between the tranquil poison and the medicinal properties, grievously affecting every single cell within his body.

Old Lao began to pace to and fro, holding his chin whilst speculating what exactly was going on within the cauldron;

"But I thought he had gained a very high pain tolerance towards the procedure, so why is he in so much pain?" He soliloquized whilst glancing at the trembling cauldron every other second.

If one were to see Ji Min at this point, one would definitely be scared shitless; not only was his skin slugging off his body, but his bones were also visible and his muscles were present in some areas of his body and absent in other areas.

One could see one side of his dentition from one side of his face where his cheek muscles had slugged off whilst his tongue was dark purple, bordering on dim blue.

His throat was now parched that he was no longer screaming but howling as he began to hit his head on the walls of the massive cauldron.

Black veins were visible in every part of his body as he looked like a true undead if not for the glint of determination that kept burning within his eyes.

[Hold on a little longer, young lord; we are now at the muscle-reconstruction stage.]

Sensei tried to placate him, but his mind was long gone and he was focusing all his mind and willpower on staying awake as even Sensei had cowered away from helping him out.

Who in their right mind would want to experience the pain of having an extremely concentrated acid being poured on their body whilst witnessing the pain of having their skin, muscles, bones and even their cells corrode and slug off their body?

Ji Min tried to find anything in his memories that he could hang onto so as to survive his current ordeal.

Memories of his present life came to his mind, but they vanished the moment the battle entered his veins.

Then images of his past life with Ruby followed suit, but whilst they stayed for a while longer, they also vanished once the battle reached his pores.

By this time, JI Min's muscles and veins had already reconstructed themselves and seemed to have undergone an inhuman rebirth.

Then for the last battle which would be the rebirth of his lost flesh, Ji Min's memories fleeted to the time he had spent with the three demigods; Sun, Yama, and Valpak.

This time, the memories were enough to help him to pull through the final step of his suicidal actions; and the moment the venom tempering ended, the last shred of Ji Min's Qi suddenly erupted and nourished every single part of his body.

Immediately after that, Ji Min lost his ability to sense Qi and fainted causing the disturbance he had been creating to abruptly end.

To any cultivator of both the Body and Qi cultivation paths, the worst thing that could happen to them was to lose their ability to sense Qi since it meant the absolute end of their cultivation; after all, how can one cultivate when one couldn't even sense the Qi they were about to absorb?