Section 8: Tempering
On the first day of refining, Ye Chao suffered a lot, Ye Chao sat cross-legged in the hidden point, and wore a gas mask, with the operation of the "Nine Evils" exercises, those harmful substances that were originally scattered in the air seemed to be like sharks smelling blood, and they all rushed towards Ye Chao's place, this is still in the area outside the volcano, these substances attracted by Ye Chao's exercises were slowly pulled by Ye Chao's exercises, and through Ye Chao's clothes, they drilled into Ye Chao's body.
Ye Chao felt that he was being placed next to the fire, it was no longer warm, but scorching, different from the sting pain of taking the corpse removal liquid that day, the corpse removal liquid was pain from the inside out, but now it was from the outside in. It's as if countless ants are spewing acid, trying to break through Ye Chao's skin and burrow into the body and devour Ye Chao.
Ye Chao clenched his teeth, and according to the records of the exercises, he guided these aircurrents that wanted to destroy his body, and slowly gathered them together, so that the airflow continued to compress into a round ball. The first acupuncture point Ye Chao chose was the palm position of his right hand. After all, even if there is damage to cultivation, destroying the function of one hand is more cost-effective than losing one's life.
Ye Chao could feel the air flow in his palm dripping and turning, and while turning, some things were thrown out of his palm, and when those things were thrown out, his palm felt painfully tortured from the inside out. What is left in the palm of his hand is the evil qi that Ye Chao needs, of course, just retaining it is only the first step, Ye Chao needs to constantly compress the evil qi and be able to stabilize the evil qi to form a pill to stay in the acupuncture points.
Pain is not the only injury that bothers Ye Chao, what makes Ye Chao feel the most frightened is that when the evil qi enters the body, the substance carried by the evil qi will make Ye Chao feel dizzy, Ye Chao also made preparations at the beginning, deliberately wearing a gas mask, who knows that it will not work at all, the evil qi enters the body and brings the poisonous gas into Ye Chao's body, and this kind of dizziness will make Ye Chao feel in a trance whenever Ye Chao compresses the evil qi in his palm with his heart, and the sudden distraction will make Ye Chao's previous efforts go to waste. Either the evil qi flows backwards and hurts again, or the evil qi overflows from the palm of the hand. In order to resist the dizziness that came from time to time, Ye Chao's lips were stained with blood from his own bite.
In the evening, Ye Chao staggered out of the hiding point, driving the fishing boat far away from the island, and did not stop until he could breathe the fresh sea breeze without a gas mask.
Ye Chao just drank a little water, the food really couldn't be swallowed, his chest was depressed and irritable, and he wanted to vomit from time to time, Ye Chao felt like a cancer patient reacting to radiotherapy.
After resting for a while, it wasn't until the starlight appeared above Ye Chao's head that Ye Chao felt that he was gradually recovering. Fortunately, the sea is not very windy.
"It seems that I am still reckless!" Ye Chao was a little afraid, after a day of cultivation, Ye Chao finally understood why the appendix of the "Nine Evils" specially gave the formula of "Cultivating the Evil Pill", it was obvious that he was going to use the illusion caused by the "Cultivating the Evil Pill" to resist the dizziness attached to the cultivation process, after all, the illusion he formed was much better than the pain caused by interrupting the cultivation, and in addition, it could help the cultivator not interrupt the cultivation process.
Ye Chao raised his right hand and felt the air flow in the acupuncture points in his palm, this is the result of a day of risking death to cultivate, although it is only in a gas state, and he doesn't know how far away it is from compressing into a pill, but at least Ye Chao knows that he hasn't worked in vain for a day, and he hasn't endured these sins in vain.
According to the original plan, Ye Chao originally wanted to cultivate a few acupuncture pills on a small island close to the volcano, and at the same time adapt to the exercises, and then board the volcanic island, step by step close to the volcano, continue to cultivate, and constantly improve, until the volcano can not wait to leave, and he can cultivate as many evil pills as he can, and he did not force it, but judging from today's situation, he still thinks simply, and he doesn't know how long it will take for the first evil pill to take shape, once the volcano really begins to erupt violently, With his current situation, he must be dead.
"Shall I retreat first, go back and replenish the pill and get it first, and then start cultivating?" Ye Chao hesitated a little, but he was very unwilling in his heart. After all, he didn't have any pills, and he had cultivated a little bit of success.
"No matter what, at least you have to cultivate a demon pill with acupoints, you can't come in vain!" Ye Chao made a decision in an instant, "If you can't stay at that time, you will leave again, it's a big deal not to go to the volcanic island to cultivate!" ”
There was nothing to do all night, Ye Chao faced the rising sun on the sea early in the morning, practiced Tuna Kung Fu, the warm feeling took effect again, and it was more obvious than usual, I don't know if it was because of the fact that at sea, the sun was not blocked, or because of the sensitivity caused by the exhaustion of Ye Chao's body tortured by evil qi, Ye Chao felt that after practicing the morning class, he felt that the warm current seemed to form a liquid to repair all the injuries in the body, especially the feeling of nausea in the chest was gone. Ye Chao couldn't help but look up to the sky on the sea alone and howl, and let out the depression in his chest.
Although the small sun that converged in the dantian at the end gradually disappeared, it still made Ye Chao feel refreshed and regain confidence, but unfortunately Ye Chao was not happy for too long, when he looked at the palm of his right hand again, the hard-earned evil qi that was originally the size of a pigeon's egg last night is now only the size of a grain of rice, if it weren't for Ye Chao's unwillingness, check inch by inch, I can't believe that this evil qi with the size of a grain of rice still exists.
"Could it be that the condensed evil qi will disappear automatically!" This made Ye Chao's originally happy mood, and he poured a basin of cold water on his head.
"Damn! No matter what, at least there are still large grains of rice, and they can only gather sand into a tower, so I don't believe that I can't even practice a single pill! This stimulated Ye Chao's stubbornness.
Ye Chao ate some food, and then washed his face with seawater.
"Set a goal for the evil pill now, and obviously breathe in kung fu to repair the body, this must be done every day!" Ye Chao calculated.
"Since the evil qi will automatically dissipate, then extend the time for cultivating the evil qi, replenish it with quantity, and as long as you can hold on, you will not leave the island!"
Ye Chao re-planned while driving the boat.
The pain of cultivation on the second day was still the same, especially the feeling of dizziness that interrupted Ye Chao's exercises every time, making Ye Chao miserable. However, it is obvious that Ye Chao has the experience of the first day, and he has the determination to hold on for a while longer, when Ye Chao left the island, Haoyue was already empty, Ye Chao looked at his battered clothes on the boat and felt that his body and this clothes were generally tattered, and at the same time, new troubles also came, that is, when these evil qi entered the body, they would actually destroy the clothes. Let Ye Chao be able to feel that his heart is wide is today's harvest, and there is already a cloud of evil qi the size of glass beads in the palm of his hand, and this evil qi has a tendency to condense from gaseous to solid.
Only when the Tuna Kung Fu is done in the morning, Ye Chao has a feeling of being a human again, and Ye Chao has found out in the past two days that this Tuna Kung Fu may really be the true legend of Longhu Mountain, no matter how seriously his body is damaged by the evil qi, as long as the Tuna Kung Fu is done, those injuries will be repaired, just like two people fighting each other, the more you destroy, the faster and better I will repair, and what makes Ye Chao feel is that this repair does repair his body better, fortunately, Ye Chao feels that the toughness of his body is stronger, Although it couldn't be detected, that feeling made Ye Chaoming clear.
The good news and bad news are a pair of twin brothers, here Ye Chao is glad that his body has strengthened, but at the same time, the palm evil qi that was still there yesterday has mostly disappeared again, leaving only about the size of a mung bean in the palm.
"Fortunately, there has been no wind or rain these days!" Ye Chao felt that his luck was not bad, and he also knew that his real test had not yet come, once he encountered the wind and rain at sea, he had to take refuge on the reef, which meant that he had to keep cultivating, otherwise he would not be able to survive the harsh environment on the reef at all. If you don't cultivate, you will suffocate yourself with poison gas alone. After cultivating in the past few days, Ye Chao found that he could hold his breath at the beginning of the "Nine Evils" exercise, and he changed from breathing from the outside to breathing through the skin of his whole body. In fact, there is no need to wear a gas mask on his head, and Ye Chao is just to avoid stuffing his mouth and nose with volcanic ash.
When people's good luck always runs out, Ye Chao's original plan according to the weather forecast was to prepare to use the sea without wind and rain as a buffer to complete the first stage of cultivation during this week. It's just that the ideal is very plump, the reality is too skinny, Ye Chao has not even formed a hole in the pill now, and according to the weather forecast, there will be a big storm coming the day after tomorrow, either drive back now, or go to the reef to practice to avoid the wind and rain.
Judging from the effect of this week's practice, if you go back now, the evil qi accumulated in the palm of your hand will definitely be exhausted, and this week's bitterness will be in vain.
Although the weather was gloomy and there was no morning sun this morning because of the wind and rain, Ye Chao was used to practicing Tuna's kung fu in the morning, so he still did it as usual. It still has an effect, although it feels much worse than when the sun is there, but it's better than nothing.
"Isn't that something you can practice at any time?" This made Ye Chao feel that he had one more means to survive on the reef.
Especially when Ye Chao found that the evil qi in his palm had solidified to the size of a peanut these days, Ye Chao decided to give it a go.
"It is estimated that Cheng Dan, that is, in these two days!" Although Ye Chao didn't know exactly what Cheng Dan would look like, according to his feelings, Ye Chao felt that if he persisted for two more days, the success of the first acupuncture pill was imminent.
Ye Chao drove the boat to the reef island, parked the fishing boat at a suitable position according to the wind direction prediction, and handled it properly. Bringing some water and food, Ye Chao came to the place where he practiced these days. Looking at the volcano in the distance, it has been relatively quiet these days, except for the billowing smoke.
"I hope it doesn't erupt in a big area before I condense into the Evil Pill!" Ye Chao meditated in his heart, and then held his breath and prepared for the final sprint.
That night, the torrential rain was like a pillar, the wind was roaring, and the huge waves were constantly beating the reef where Ye Chao was like a giant's palm, and the power of the sea was revealed, and even the volcano in the distance was about to be extinguished, and the waves mixed with the rain continued to impact Ye Chao's hidden point. At this time, it was more than the time that Ye Chao stayed on the reef in the past, but fortunately he encountered a storm, although the storm seemed to be dangerous, it helped Ye Chao, because the arrival of the storm diluted and blew away some evil gas and poisonous gas, so that Ye Chao had the opportunity to persist until now.
Ye Chao could sense that the pressure of the evil qi outside his body had suddenly decreased, and in his body, in the palm acupoint of his right palm, there was already a cherry-sized evil pill slowly forming, and the silky evil qi was slowly winding around the fast-forming evil pill, just like a spring silkworm forming a cocoon.
"You can catch the sun and the moon in the palm of your hand!" Although the storm outside his body was as heavy as before, and the sky was gloomy like ink, Ye Chao looked at the position of his right palm acupoint at this time, where a formed evil pill was constantly rotating.