The sarcastic way of speaking of our ancestor Zhang Tianshi really makes me feel uncomfortable.
Helplessly, I could only walk towards the boulder that was half a person's height.
I went to the rock and tried to push it with my hands. Unexpectedly, the strength in my arms increased a lot, and I pushed the rock a little bit easily. This surprised me.
I looked at my hands, then said "Pooh", and used my fists to cover my hands. I pressed my hands on the boulder, half-knelt with my feet, and exerted force downwards.
"Get up for me!"
I let out a soft cry.
Unexpectedly, I was able to lift the huge rock weighing thousands of pounds with just my bare hands.
The ancestor Zhang Tianshi urged: "Little kid, move the stone down the mountain."
"oh!"
After answering in a muffled voice, I suddenly lifted the boulder with both hands, then thrust my shoulders forward and the boulder fell on my back.
However, my skin and flesh had been transformed by spiritual energy and had become quite strong, so even with thousands of pounds of stone pressing on my body, I was only breathing a little harder and did not feel too tired.
Because of the weight, I had to keep moving my muscles to lift the boulder.
In the Dantian of my lower abdomen, the white bead was constantly rotating, and spiritual energy was spreading into my body. Although the weight on my body made my face flush, but with the influx of spiritual energy, my body felt quite comfortable.
As I walked down the Blood Cloud Mountain step by step, my breathing became heavier and heavier, and hot sweat kept rolling down my forehead.
My windbreaker and pants were already wet, and my hair was sticky and stuck to my face with sweat.
I couldn't think about anything else now, I could only concentrate on moving the big stone. What I didn't notice was that as the spiritual energy in my body was consumed, the "spirits" from the flowers, plants, trees, air and soil outside were entering my body through my pores.
Then, those “spirits” gathered in my dantian in my lower abdomen and transformed into spiritual energy.
With this in and out consumption, the meridians in my body seemed to become much smoother. I also seemed to feel a little more relaxed.
However, even though I felt this way in my heart, the boulder was still pressing on my back.
Every time I take a step forward, my feet leave a pair of deep footprints on the ground.
There is a long path from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain. Fortunately, it is a gentle slope.
On the way, I met many ghosts from the Blood Cloud Mountain. For some reason, when those ghosts saw me, they seemed to be afraid of something and ran away with their tails between their legs.
I looked back and saw that my ancestor Zhang Tianshi had appeared on the stone behind me at some point. He was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, giving me a vague feeling.
Damn, he is enjoying himself!
I don’t know how long it took, but I finally arrived at the foot of Blood Cloud Mountain.
I ignored my ancestor Zhang Tianshi on the boulder and directly threw the boulder to the foot of the Blood Cloud Mountain.
After throwing the stone, the first feeling that came into my body was exhaustion, as if I had used up all the strength in my life.
My body was as soft as a boneless snake, and I fell backwards and fell directly into the grass.
Lying in the soft grey grass, I felt relaxed all over.
At this time, those "spirits" were still rushing into my body frantically. The white bead in my dantian seemed to become a little smaller, but it actually emitted a little bit of
of white light.
The white light was soft and not dazzling, but it surprised me.
Because I know that my strength has improved.
Just as I was immersed in the joy of increasing my strength, my ancestor Zhang Tianshi appeared again on the boulder.
"Little doll, come here!"
The Grandmaster spoke to me in a deep and serious voice.
I rolled over, supported myself on the ground with my hands, and slowly stood up.
I grinned and asked Zhang Tianshi: "Grandmaster, what else do you want to do? I beg you, please let me go. Look, I am so tired and smelly. I was already very dirty before."
Who knew, before I could finish, the ancestor Zhang Tianshi controlled the ghost energy and swept towards me.
The ghostly aura was filled with a chilling wind that made my skin hurt.
I didn't know what the Grandmaster meant, but I knew he wouldn't harm me, so I didn't resist.
The ghostly aura and cold wind surrounded me, and the air became cold.
Soon, the hot sweat on my body quickly solidified and disappeared. The black dirt was the impurities in my body, all sticking to my body surface.
Under the influence of the cold wind and ghost energy, the dirt on my body was instantly sucked away.
The ghostly aura disappeared, the gloomy wind was gone, and I found that my windbreaker became as clean as new again.
"Is this all right?"
The founder, Zhang Tianshi, looked at me with a smile, and there was a cunning look on his face.
I smiled wryly and nodded.
The Grand Master said without hesitation, "Little kid, Grand Master, I suddenly remembered that I still have a use for this huge rock. Please, move it to the top of the mountain."
"What? We have to carry the boulder back again!?"
I asked in surprise, my eyes wide open like light bulbs.
The Grand Master stroked his beard and said solemnly, "Yes, that's right."
Damn it, I was unwilling in my heart. But the ghost eyes of the ancestor kept staring at me, which made me feel helpless.
After thinking about it, I had no choice but to go to the boulder again obediently.
Just like before, I carried the huge rock on my back. At this moment, I finally felt the feeling of the Yellow Turban Warrior moving the mountain. But he is an immortal, and I am now, at most, a cultivator.
Moving towards the top of the mountain step by step, spiritual energy continued to emanate from the white beads.
What made me curse was that the Grandmaster must have used some tricks again, and the huge rock on my back became even heavier. The weight almost broke my waist.
"Grandmaster, are you playing tricks on me?"
I turned my head in dissatisfaction and asked Zhang Tianshi, the ancestor on the stone.
Zhang Tianshi looked into the distance with his ghostly eyes, as if he didn't hear my voice.
In this way, I continued to walk up the mountain with the huge rock on my back.
This walk really feels like a journey of ten thousand miles.
But this is not the end yet. I don’t know if the master wanted to make fun of me. I moved this piece of broken stone up and down, back and forth seven or eight times.
When I was really exhausted and mentally exhausted, the ancestor Zhang Tianshi finally spoke. But what he said made me want to die.
"Okay, little kid, I see you're tired! How about this - let's rest for two hours first."
I see clearly that it’s not that we won’t move the stones anymore, but we’ll just take a two-hour break first.
Lying on the ground, I really felt like no one was responding to my cries out to the heavens or the earth.
I was breathing heavily.
I don’t know when the ancestor came down from the boulder, and his soul appeared next to me.
"Little baby, I am a ghost now.
It can't bear too much "spirit", let alone condense spiritual energy. Your master, Jiang Jiuzhen, is also a half-baked one. Although he is good at catching ghosts, his talent is much worse than yours."
"So, Grandmaster, I can only use some tricks on you."
"However, your hard work is not in vain. I believe you have felt it after such a long time. The spiritual energy stored in your body has increased a lot. And after being continuously washed by the spiritual energy, the bones, meridians, and flesh in your body have become much stronger than before. This is the benefit you have gained."
I am too lazy to listen to these words from my ancestor Zhang Tianshi.
But just as I closed my eyes and adjusted my breathing, a fragrant smell quickly entered my mouth and nose.
That smell makes me feel comfortable all over.
I suddenly opened my eyes and saw the soul of my ancestor floating in front of me.
The ancestor’s ghost hand was holding a small wooden box made of sandalwood.
And that fragrant smell is not the smell of the wooden box, but the smell of the things inside the wooden box.
"Little kid, the Grandmaster will not treat you unfairly. Take it. This is a 'Millennium Dragon Ginseng' I got. It has a strong effect on replenishing qi and blood and condensing 'spiritual' power."
When I heard this, I suddenly became energetic.
I sat up from the ground and snatched the wooden box from the ghost hand of the ancestor.
After taking the wooden box, I couldn't wait to open it.
Inside the wooden box was a small ginseng, which was about the same size as the ginseng I saw in the world of the living. However, the surface of the ginseng was golden, which surprised me.
Moreover, I also sensed great vitality from this thousand-year-old dragon ginseng. It was as if, after I planted it in the soil, it would immediately grow from a seed into a towering tree.
This feeling is very mysterious.
I also discovered that the roots of this thousand-year-old dragon ginseng seemed to be alive, gently swaying in the wooden box.
Seeing me staring at the thousand-year-old dragon ginseng in the wooden box with burning eyes, the ancestor Zhang Tianshi smiled and said, "Hey, little kid, this thousand-year-old dragon ginseng is a good thing. During this month, once your spiritual energy is exhausted during cultivation, you can take a small root of it, so that you can quickly replenish your spiritual energy."
Oh, now I understand that this thousand-year-old dragon ginseng contains spiritual energy.
"Haha, Grandmaster, you really love me so much. I won't be polite to you, kid."
As I said that, I reached into the wooden box and broke off a small root directly from the thousand-year-old dragon ginseng.
You're welcome. I stuffed the roots of the thousand-year-old dragon ginseng into my mouth.
“Baji, baji!”
I chewed slowly.
As the roots of the thousand-year-old dragon ginseng continued to dissolve in my mouth, pure spiritual energy poured into my body. What surprised me was that after the spiritual energy entered my body, it began to rush around in it.
My body seemed to expand, expanding and contracting.
A feeling of hotness continued to spread throughout my body.
All of a sudden, my face turned as red as a fruit, my nose felt hot, and a stream of blood started flowing out.
I touched it and my hands were covered in blood.
"Grandmaster, this..." I said in astonishment.
The Grand Master looked at me, with a funny expression on his face, and said with a smile: "This thousand-year-old dragon ginseng is extremely effective. You have strong blood and energy, so your nose is bleeding. But don't worry, as long as you circulate the spiritual energy beads in your body, the spiritual energy and blood in this dragon ginseng will be absorbed by the beads."
I didn't dare to delay and hurriedly circulated the white beads in my dantian.
(to be continued)
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