Chapter 168: Special Physique
Just as he was about to pinch off the branch, he saw something at the edge of his vision.
His eyes narrowed, and his consciousness let go of the branch.
’Can it work...’ He wondered.
However, he didn’t have time to dwell on it.
Without a second thought, he removed a wooden bathtub from his storage ring and placed it in front of Jiang Yue.
He then used his consciousness to scoop water from the river in the jade box and poured it into the bathtub.
When the tub was half full, Yu Nianzhen approached Jiang Yue and held him in his arms.
At this point, Jiang Yue was essentially on fire, and Yu Nianzhen began to burn as soon as he touched him.
However, he only gritted his teeth and didn’t care about the burns on his body and torso.
After making sure the movements didn’t startle Jiang Yue, he lowered the person into the tub of water.
Fortunately, the outcome was as he hoped.
’It seems to work.’ He thought and sighed in relief.
When Jiang Yue was lowered into the tub, the spiritual qi in the water rushed into his body.
He greedily absorbed the qi, and his body temperature immediately lowered. His burned meridians and internal organs also healed quickly, and his breathing became easier.
’I should have thought of this sooner.’ Yu Nianzhen admonished himself.
The jade box was an ancient treasure that could nurture the tree of life amongst other heaven and earth herbs.
Its soil was also a treasure, and if he had taken the time to think about it, Yu Nianzhen should have long realised that the river that surrounded the land could not be ordinary.
’Fortunately, I discovered it on time.’ He breathed out in relief but didn’t dare to be careless.
He would add more water into the bathtub whenever he saw that Jiang Yue was beginning to feel uncomfortable.
In this way, a day and night passed.
On the second day, Jiang Yue suddenly opened his eyes.
Yu Nianzhen immediately looked at him, wanting to ask about his condition, but he was struck speechless.
"What’s wrong?" Jiang Yue asked when he saw the other’s shock.
"XiaoYue...., your eyes." Yu Nianzhen said.
Although Jiang Yue’s hair had turned silver when he broke through to the origin forging realm, nothing else had changed.
However, his pupils now looked like a taiji symbol.
"The flame seed was that of the primordial yin-yang flame." Jiang Yue informed.
Without waiting for Yu Nianzhen’s reaction, he opened his right hand, and a flame appeared on his palm.
The flame didn’t look like a yin-yang symbol but had two layers. The first and innermost layer was pitch black, while the outermost was a brilliant silver.
"My body seems to have become the yin-yang physique." Jiang Yue continued, and Yu Nianzhen couldn’t help but smile.
In the Cangxing world, origin and aptitude were the most common measures of talent.
However, there were other things that influenced talent, including physique and bloodline.
Yu Nianzhen learned this from his master and had already met several people with special physiques and bloodlines.
One such person was his master.
From what Yu Nianzhen knew, his master had a heavenly yang physique which was a perfect compliment to his nine suns origin.
Other than his master, he had also met Lin Huang. Not only did she have the physique of a divine beast because of her phoenix origin, but she also had a chance to awaken the phoenix bloodline in the future.
If she was lucky enough, she would receive the true phoenix inheritance and abilities exclusive to the phoenix clan.
"Congratulations." Yu Nianzhen said.
When he heard that, Jiang Yue chuckled happily.
Refining the primordial flame seed and awakening the yin-yang fire had cost him nine lives, but it was worth it.
"Look at this." He said and stretched out his right hand for the other to see.
Yu Nianzhen looked at the wrist and saw that Jiang Yue’s blue star had changed to purple.
"This is good." Yu Nianzhen smiled from ear to ear.
Jiang Yue was the beloved person he wanted to spend an eternity with. Naturally, he wanted the other to be as strong as possible.
"I hoped my star would evolve when I contracted the blue monarch butterfly, and I didn’t expect happiness to come so soon."
Yu Nianzhen smiled and rubbed Jiang Yue’s hair.
"You deserve it." He said, and Jiang Yue smiled happily.
"You will become even more powerful after you contract the butterfly."
Since he found out that Jiang Yue needed to contract the blue monarch butterfly to stimulate his origin, Yu Nianzhen had done some research.
Initially, he didn’t find much since blue monarch butterflies are too short-lived, and cultivators generally stayed away from them.
However, his persistence paid off, and he found an entry in one of the books he borrowed from the sect library.
According to the book, monarch butterflies were descendants of the blue illusion butterfly that had gone extinct millions of years ago.
Although the book didn’t explain why common butterflies did not have the illusion abilities of their ancestor, it mentioned that the blue monarch butterfly had the potential to return to its ancestors.
If Jiang Yue found a way to purify the bloodline of his contracted blue monarch butterfly, his illusions would become unprecedently potent.
"It’s about time." Jiang Yue said and rolled his eyes.
He didn’t really care that Yu Nianzhen was stronger, but he minded that his potential was weaker.
Now that their potentials were matched, they would be able to walk the same distance in the future.
"Come out of the water first."
At this time, Jiang Yue finally realised he was in a bathtub.
"What happened?" He asked as he got out.
"How are you? Is your body okay?" Yu Nianzhen asked instead.
When he heard the question, Jiang Yue smiled.
Although he hadn’t begun to practice the flame body refining technique, contracting the yin-yang flame had already brought him a lot of benefits.
For one, all the pill sediment in his body had been burned to nothing, and his body felt incredibly light.
After saying this to Yu Nianzhen, the other was naturally happy for him.
Originally, the swordsman thought Jiang Yue would need to use a high-grade or peak-grade silver rank, body cleansing elixir to remove the sediment in his body.
After all, he had ingested too many pills during this period, and most were not top quality.
Fortunately, the yin-yang flame was even more thorough than a body-cleansing elixir.
"How about the fire injuries?" Yu Nianzhen asked again.
"All healed." Jiang Yue answered and then frowned.
Now that the disaster had passed, he remembered the many leaves he ingested, and his eyes turned dull.
"Don’t think too much." Yu Nianzhen soothed.
In the end, Jiang Yue’s life was more important than the leaves.
Although his promotion would be delayed because of this, Yu Nianzhen didn’t regret his actions.
"Azhen..."
"Don’t worry, I have already thought of a way."
"You have?" Jiang Yue was surprised.
"We just need to earn more spirit stones." Jiang Yue rolled his eyes when he heard that.
Spirit stones were the root of everything but earning them was not easy.
Even after selling surplus herbs and their loot from the secret realm, they only had a little more than thirty million spirit stones.
"From the beginning, thirty million spirit stones weren’t enough to maintain the consumption of the jade box." Yu Nianzhen said.
After breaking through to the qi transformation realm, he planned to go to the black wind abyss.
In the time he would be there, he would have no way to replenish his spirit stones supply.
In that case, all the spirit stones needed for the next few years had to be prepared before he went into seclusion.
After thinking about it, Yu Nianzhen could only come up with one way.
"What’s your plan?" Jiang Yue asked.
"We will use the treasure compass to find things in stone gambling stores. After that, we will take the things for auction. We should earn more than enough from this."
Jiang Yue frowned when he heard that.
He agreed that this was a viable plan, but it also carried a lot of risks.
At the moment, both were origin-forging realm cultivators. Even if they found a reputable auction house, they may be unable to protect themselves, let alone their treasures and spirit stones.
After thinking about it, he raised his concerns, but Yu Nianzhen had already considered this matter.
Although he didn’t have a solution yet, he had an idea. However, further plans had to wait until after he left the beast mountain and spoke to senior Niu.
"Let’s talk about it when we meet senior Niu." Yu Nianzhen said.
Jiang Yue looked at the other and then dropped the subject.
"Let’s cut our trip short." Jiang Yue stated, and Yu Nianzhen sighed in resignation.
Although they wanted to relax for a while longer, their circumstances had changed, and they could no longer afford to laze around.
Still, Yu Nianzhen didn’t want to leave right away.
After thinking about it, he said, "let’s rest here for three days. After that, we will look for the blue monarch butterfly and leave for a large city."
