Chapter 54: Seeing the Light of Day Again

Success!

I can actually practice the "Poison Curse" this way!

Seeing the poison being cut into small pieces by the gold spiritual energy, Xiao Mian was extremely happy in his heart - it turned out that just now, Xiao Mian thought of a way to use the excess gold spiritual energy in his body. Since there are two harmful substances, gold spiritual energy and poison, in his body, can he implement the strategy of driving the tiger to swallow the wolf, and let the gold spiritual energy cut the poison, so that not only the gold spiritual energy will be continuously consumed, but the poison will also be less painful when it is running because of the smaller size.

After a try, it actually succeeded!

It not only solved the urgent problem, but also alleviated the pain, it was killing two birds with one stone.

The only depressed person was probably the ghost head who came to Xiao Mian with a begging look.

"This kid! Can the "Ten Thousand Poisons Curse" be practiced this way? How come I didn't know! Tsk! A little cleverness is not worthy of being accepted by the upper class."

Ghost Head muttered indignantly.

At this time, Xiao Mian felt quite at ease. He used the gold attribute spiritual energy to cut the poison, while using the wood attribute spiritual energy to nourish the meridians, and at the same time, he had to push the poison to circulate the meridians. He unexpectedly achieved the point of doing three things at once.

The poison was cut into small pieces like rice grains by Xiao Mian. When passing through the meridians, it no longer produced the pain of scraping bones, but the continuous toxicity evaporated from the poison, always infiltrating Xiao Mian's meridians, and penetrating the meridians to spread to Xiao Mian's bones, flesh, tendons and blood.

When he was hungry and thirsty, he swallowed the wood gold essence. When he was tired and sleepy, he sat in meditation to rest. Xiao Mian spent all the remaining time practicing the "Ten Thousand Poisons Curse". After a month, there was no poison left in the meridians of his left arm. The poison that was originally stagnant was completely dispersed by Xiao Mian and discharged from the meridians. Although the poison still remained in the flesh and blood outside Xiao Mian's meridians, it could no longer hinder the flow of true energy in Xiao Mian's meridians. In other words, Xiao Mian's bottleneck in cultivation had been broken - of course, it was only his left arm!

But this was enough. As long as there was an accurate goal, it was enough to persist.

After another nine months, Xiao Mian's cultivation came to an end.

In Xiao Mian's body, the poison in the eight meridians that had been opened was completely discharged, and after being dispersed, it filled Xiao Mian's flesh and blood.

Xiao Mian carefully sensed that each meridian tempered by the poison was much tougher, stronger, and thicker than before, and the amount of true qi that could be contained inside was almost doubled.

Until this time, Xiao Mian's so-called bottleneck of cultivation was finally completely broken. Xiao Mian even had the confidence that as long as he practiced diligently, he could open up the ninth meridian in a month and advance to the ninth level of Qi training.

But now Xiao Mian did not plan to continue practicing Qi. He planned to practice the "Ten Thousand Poisons Curse" to a small success in one go.

However, after consulting Guitou, he was told that in order to continue practicing the "Ten Thousand Poisons Curse", Xiao Mian must prepare some specific medicinal materials, otherwise he could not continue to practice.

In desperation, Xiao Mian decided to temporarily leave this abyss and go to Lingchuan Market. At that moment, he looked at the motionless fire beast for ten months, and then looked at the calm cold pond. Xiao Mian turned and rushed out of the secret cave and ascended to the exit of the illusion array.

More than an hour later, Xiao Mian, dressed in a slovenly outfit, appeared at the junction of the prairie and the red maple forest.

It had been ten months since the spiritual grass riot, and the area around Huoyun Ridge had long since returned to peace. Xiao Mian casually walked in the red maple forest, followed the sound of water to find a mountain spring, took off his clothes and jumped in to rub himself. After nearly a year in the nameless abyss, Xiao Mian had no worries about food and drink, but the stench on his body was unbearable. The ghost head warned him that the cold pool was the Yellow Spring Pond, so he didn't even dare to take water to wash.

Fortunately, Xiao Mian took high-level spiritual materials such as Mu Zhongjin during the day, and his body didn't produce much excrement, so he could hold on.

Now that he has seen the light of day again, the first thing Xiao Mian did was to wash himself.

After washing for half an hour, Xiao Mian jumped out of the cold pond, and then put on the clothes he found in Nie Sheng's storage bag, and then put on the human skin mask that Li Mudao used before. After everything was ready, Xiao Mian identified the direction and headed south.

Two days later, after changing his appearance, Xiao Mian walked into Lingchuan Market, which he had not seen for nearly a year.

As time passed, Lingchuan Market was still crowded with people, but there were armed monks patrolling back and forth on the street from time to time, which brought a sense of disharmony to Lingchuan Market, which was known to strictly prohibit all fighting.

Xiao Mian glanced at the patrols and saw that they didn't even look at him, so he didn't want to cause trouble, and went to the stall area where he had been once before - it would be best if the things that Guitou said could be bought there, Xiao Mian really didn't want to go to those high-sounding shops to buy things.

"Ah - I really miss it! This is Fangshi! The air in Fangshi is so friendly. I think back then, what did I do in Fangshi?" Guitou's sigh was soon replaced by confusion. It was obvious that he had lost his memory again. After nearly a year of getting along, Xiao Mian had gotten used to Guitou's habit of getting stuck while talking. It was obvious that Guitou was not lying when he said that he was not as strong as before. After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't remember his feat back then. Guitou decided to give up and ordered Xiao Mian to walk around: "Go over there and have a look! There! There!"

"..., are you kidding me!"

As a soul, Guitou's voice was directly transmitted to Xiao Mian's mind through soul thoughts, so he didn't expect anyone to find it strange. However, Xiao Mian couldn't help but suspect that this old guy was playing tricks on him again because Guitou pointed at him randomly.

This is certainly not the first time. It is unknown whether this is Guitou's nature or because of his incomplete soul. In short, what he likes to do most on weekdays is to argue with Xiao Mian and play tricks on Xiao Mian.

After suffering a few losses, Xiao Mian has learned his lesson and will not be fooled easily.

"Oh! I'm caught..."

"Can you behave yourself? After all, you are a senior master from countless years ago. Can I keep the little respect I have for you?"

"That's your business!" Although he said so, it was obvious that Xiao Mian's words greatly satisfied Guitou's vanity. He immediately pointed out seriously: "You have now reached the second stage of the "Ten Thousand Poisons Curse" to transport poison and quench the meridians. It can be regarded as the level of "Yijin". The next step is to transform poison and refine marrow, which is the work of "washing marrow". The purpose of this trip is to buy a large number of fresh monster bones!"

Because of Guitou's confidentiality before, Xiao Mian didn't know until this time that what Guitou wanted to buy was actually monster bones.

"This... can this kind of thing be bought here?"

"Don't worry! Since this is a stall area, it is obviously prepared for casual cultivators. You underestimate casual cultivators!" At this point, Guitou showed a nostalgic look and muttered to himself: "Casual cultivators are the most difficult cultivators! They have no sect support, no complete exercises, no cultivation resources, no logistical support, and only a heart for the Tao. Therefore, a true casual cultivator must be a versatile one, refining pills, refining equipment, setting up formations, drawing talismans... They will also use all the resources they can get, and will never think that monster bones are useless and ignore them..."

Feeling Xiao Mian's absent-mindedness, Guitou couldn't help but feel a little unhappy.

But before Guitou could get angry, Xiao Mian had already started talking to himself.

"Is it him? Why is he still here?"