Chapter 39: The First Quenching
Pan Long never dreamed that the Earth Demon Quenching Body would be so painful.
In fact, he was already mentally prepared, because it was said in the introduction of the exercises that he had to endure the pain of quenching his body. And the Taishang Patriarch also emphasized that this is a very painful kung fu.
But he really didn't expect it to be so painful!
People often describe the degree of pain as "like a thousand arrows piercing the heart" and "like being pricked by a needle and burning", but that is only an exaggeration after all, and the pain he is suffering now is real.
To put it bluntly, it is to use the true qi to carry the earth demon to erode the whole body, from the skin and flesh to the muscles and bones to the internal organs, there is no place to avoid it - of course, you can also try to save trouble, leaving some places not to be refined, and then those places will become your cover door, even if you are successful in the future, as long as you are hit by the cover door, your power will temporarily disappear, and you will become a mortal with no power to restrain the chicken.
Of course, Pan Long couldn't leave a cover door for himself, so he gritted his teeth and didn't miss a single place inside and out of his body.
The human body is not big, and the human body is also very large.
A martial arts master like him, his skin, muscles and even bones are actually quite strong. Especially his hands, because of the cultivation of family martial arts, they have already been tempered repeatedly, even if he does not use his true qi, ordinary strong men holding sharp blades cannot cut the flesh on his hands.
The ground demon tempering will cause very little damage to his hands, and for some parts that have also been exercised, the damage is not too big, within the tolerable range.
However, there are more parts that he hasn't exercised!
Let's say, the internal organs.
Let's say, nerves and bone marrow.
Let's say, the brain.
These are the parts that almost no one will work out specifically, let alone him, even if he is a master like Dad, or even ...... Even for a figure like the Old Ancestor Ren Changsheng who had almost reached the peak of mortals, Pan Long felt that most of their parts should not be much stronger than ordinary people.
It's just that they are really strong and can protect any part without leaving the slightest flaw.
But what Pan Long has to do at this moment is to let the highly toxic and corrosive earth demons erode these vital parts that everyone has tried their best to protect, so as to achieve the purpose of quenching the body.
This is an extremely crazy move, and if a normal person does this, he is obviously looking for death.
And it may be the most painful way to find death in the world.
After all, even if some monks who have entered the demon path and light a bonfire and jump into it in order to "cross the sea of suffering by riding the red lotus", it is nothing more than suffering from the flesh and skin, even if they inhale the flames, they will only burn the mouth, throat, trachea and lungs, and endure it for a few minutes.
But he's different.
At this moment, there is nothing in him that has not been eroded by the earth's evil, as if the whole person has been chopped up in pieces, skewered on bamboo skewers one by one, and roasted on the fire.
For some reason, Pan Long suddenly came up with a very funny and ridiculous metaphor.
It made him feel a little better.
After all...... In addition to the stubborn stone patriarch Shi Dare in the past, who else has suffered this kind of hardship?
It's a one-of-a-kind piece!
(It's a blessing, well, a blessing!)
He comforted himself so.
Being able to learn the Nine Turns Xuangong may really be considered a blessing, but he thinks that few people in the world will like such a "blessing".
Even if you don't know it at first, you will know it once you practice it.
But he didn't have a choice.
There is no turning back when you open the bow, and you have to go down the path you have chosen, gritting your teeth.
Perhaps, the cultivation mutant version of "Taishang Forgetfulness Chapter" would be better?
This thought quietly rose, but was violently extinguished by him.
(Pan Long, you have to be ashamed!)
(You chose to learn the Nine Turns of Xuangong yourself!)
(Do you remember when you were overjoyed when you learned the magic skills?)
(Remember when you practiced hard every day and couldn't wait to cultivate the Nine Turns Xuangong?)
(Remember that you are in danger of being an enemy of the Great Xia Dynasty and either becoming a king or an ancestor, or dying and annihilating?)
(Shame on the pain, shame on you!)
(You're so weak, so cowardly, so unbearable, so tired, why are you still alive? It's better to die!)
(From birth, people are meant to endure pain, and babies know how to cry.) But if you want to grow up, if you want to become stronger, if you want to succeed, you have to endure suffering!)
(Pan Long, hold on!)
(Being a human being in two lives, and getting a great opportunity like the Classic of Mountains and Seas, you have no reason to give up!)
(What Dijiazi can do, you can do too!)
(He started in the end of the year, raised troops in troubled times, experienced a hundred battles, and didn't know how many times he narrowly escaped his life.) No matter how painful you are now, at least your life is not in danger!)
(Hang it out!)
(You're a man, not an eggless bastard!)
He encouraged himself one moment, scolded himself the other, and tried his best to keep himself going.
But, it's really hard.
Once the thought of giving up arises, it will continue to come and go like whack-a-mole, and no matter how many are extinguished, a new one will be born.
And the pain of quenching the body has not diminished in the slightest.
There is no such thing as "adaptation", and there is no way to adapt to this pain of direct erosion inside and outside the body.
Pan Long felt that if he continued to quench his body like this, even if he could survive the pain, he might be driven crazy by this kind of practice that required him to endure hardships.
He even doubted that Shi Dang, who created this exercise, would be the ancestor...... Could there be a special disease that is born pain-free?
He had already prepared and searched according to the plan, and the pain was almost unbearable, Shi Dare was all about groping as an ancestor, and the pain must be above him.
How on earth did he endure it, neither going crazy nor giving up?
I have only quenched my body once, to be precise, even the first quenching is still in progress, and it is already painful to doubt life, how did Shi Dare to be the patriarch persever?
It's a pity that the Taiqing Jade Book has been returned, otherwise he really wants to go to the Taishang Patriarch for advice and ask Shi Dare to be the ancestor...... Does he have a bit of a problem with his brain and often go crazy?
Pan Long felt that the stone who was known as the stubborn stone was probably a little crazy.
If you can create this kind of exercise and practice it persistently, you have to say that he is not crazy?
Anyway, Pan Long felt that he was still insisting on quenching his body, and he was probably a little crazy.
The Nine Turns Xuangong can carry the earth evil in the body, and it can also repair the body that has been eroded by the earth evil, and of course, it can also expel the earth evil in the body.
He had swallowed a stomach full of earth shatters before, but now he only consumed about half of it, and half of it was still there.
If he wanted to, he could have expelled the remaining half of the earth evil and spewed it out in one gulp.
In this way, he can quickly end this quenching and reduce the pain he suffers.
Actually, of course, this can be, even ...... He could pick up a little bit of the earth every time, enough to temper his whole body a little, and the total amount was about one-fifth of the maximum this time.
But Pan Long didn't.
He stared at his eyes, which were already bright red as blood, and bit the branch in his mouth fiercely, letting out a crazy roar.
"Hold on!"
His hands had already scratched the leather cushion that was the bed under him, and his fingernails were cracked one by one because of the force he clenched into fists, and the blood stained the mat red, and flowed onto the dirt beneath the mat, turning a large patch of dirt into sludge.
But he's still holding on.
The chaotic thoughts in my heart gradually dissipated, and only the thought of "persistence" lingered.
Suddenly, he bit off the branch, and then the upper and lower teeth bit together so hard that more than one tooth was shattered at that time.
Pan Long let out a frantic roar in his throat, stretched his right hand into his mouth, and bit it.
His hands were much stronger than tree branches, and he didn't hurt his hands in the slightest when he bit down on them, but his upper and lower teeth were cracked, and blood flowed.
He couldn't feel this level of pain at all.
Inside the tent, it was as if a badly wounded and dying beast was roaring.
In fact, his appearance at the moment was no stronger than the injured and dying beast, his eyes, nostrils, ears, and mouth, blood continued to overflow, turning his entire face into a messy bright red.
On his body, a large black markings appeared from time to time, and the skin at the markings was loose and soft like festering, and after a while, it would break directly, bleeding out a lot of purple-black dead blood.
These are all blood that has been eroded by the earth and lost its vitality, it has lost its usefulness, and it naturally has to be expelled from the body.
After a while, the entire linen robe on Pan Long's body turned purple and black, and even the leather cushions under his body were dyed purple and black.
After shedding so much blood, I am afraid that another person would have been seriously injured and dying, but his roar was still full of anger, and he didn't even mean to be hoarse.
The Nine Turns Xuangong is infinitely useful, and it is quite unique in protecting oneself - if it weren't for this, how could the flesh and blood body be able to withstand the erosion of the earth's evil heavens, not only would it not die miserably, but it could also temper the body with the help of the power of erosion?
Time passed, and finally the roaring inside the tent finally stopped, and only the sound of heavy breathing remained.
Pan Long lay on the ground exhausted, and he didn't even have the strength to lift a finger except for gasping for air.
The earth shatter has been exhausted, and the first quenching is finally over.
The Nine Turns Xuangong and his own self-healing ability were still uniting to repair his body, and at this moment, there was an indescribable tingling sensation all over his body, inside and out.
If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't move, he felt that he might be able to scratch his body like the description in some horrors, and even scratch out his internal organs.
Fortunately, the repair process was quite fast, and before his strength recovered, the itching on his body had all dissipated, which meant that his body had been completely repaired and returned to a normal state.
It's exhaustion.
I'm so tired that I'm going to die, I'm more tired than I haven't slept for a few days, and I'm going to be paralyzed.
He smiled faintly and weakly, lay in a pool of his own blood, and closed his eyes.
A dreamless night.
When he awoke again, he found that the sun was shining through the door of the tent facing east, and he saw the light and shadows on the ground, but it was not long after dawn.
"That's not right...... When I started to temper my body, it was almost in the afternoon and evening, how did I sleep until dawn? Could it be that the time for me to temper my body is actually not long?"
He sat up with a muttering to himself, tearing at once the large scabs of blood around him.
"Huh, the blood dried so fast?"
He was a little puzzled, and then he guessed the reason.
Because of the pain and exhaustion of the quenching, I am afraid that he slept not all night, but at least one day and two nights!8)