Poison God's Heritage

Chapter 13: Benefits.

Okay, that worked out perfectly," I thought to myself as I flipped the token that the kid Zaifeng gave me like a coin.

"This should come in handy later, but for now, it's best I don't use it unless I need to."

I moved to the boar king's carca.s.s and placed my hand on it. Once again there was that green energy coursing around the carca.s.s of the boar. It came rus.h.i.+ng through my arm, climbing and penetrating deep within the skin. It bore through and made its way to my meridians, then the energy began spiraling in controlled spins, aiding my cultivation.

Some of the soreness of my body disappeared. The pain on my leg had completely dispersed. And now I was able to walk with utter ease. My back no longer pained me, and for the first time in eighty years, I was able to walk in a straight manner.

Old age gave me a slightly hunched back, but now it was gone. Still, the disgusting tumors and pustules on my body were still on, and to get rid of them I'll need to harvest more of this green energy.

I continued walking randomly, as I thought about my next course of action.

I can't join a sect right now even if I miraculously find a way to do so. Simply because I am not strong enough nor weak enough.

An old man such as myself would be a strange presence in a sect, especially with my low cultivation level. Yet, if I don't join one, I will be unable to understand how this world of cultivation fully works. I'll need a method to join a sect and not draw great attention to myself.

Secondly, I needed to open those bags, desperately. There could be great treasures there that could help boost my cultivation level or martial currency that could be exchanged for items and pills. Poison pills that is.

Coupled with the aid of the book's internal knowledge of materials and flora, I could understand and know the value of such plants and even if I had no prior knowledge of them.

I continued traveling, the need for sleep and food was a great bonus, as I didn't have to think about sustaining myself, the poison energy within me was enough to satiate me for an extremely long period.

Days of travel went by, and in them, I gained a good harvest.

I encountered a couple more leopards and another boar king. They were easy to deal with, as long as they underestimated me, thinking of me as weak prey, I could easily spew out a poison breath on them and they would die.

I harvested the cores and the green energy which reduced a bit of the swelling on my body, but not completely. If I had a hundred pustules, I had currently lost a couple. I still had a long way to get rid of all of these disgusting things off my skin.

One day, as I randomly walked without any goal or objective in mind but to gain better strength, I managed to exit the forest, or so I thought.

Right in front of me was a mountain so high that its peak was covered in clouds. And around its base was a clearing, that appeared to be separating the forest from the mountain.

My whole body was urging me to leave this area, but a light soothing feeling came from the book inside my chest, comforting me and encouraging me to keep moving.

The Poison G.o.d's Manual was telling me that it needed me to go forward.

I stood up and took several more steps. The cold was still painful, but it was much more tolerable. but the further I went, the harder it became. Even breathing turned suffocating, as I coughed up blood. Ice had definitely materialized in my lungs and caused some internal damage.

I walked back and sat down, rotating the energy a few times more until my condition stabilized.

Spiraling the poison Qi helped me in gaining heat, but once I stood up and stopped cultivating, that heat soon dissipated against the cold. The only way for me to move forward was obvious. I needed to maintain a cultivation status while moving. A feat quite difficult, but it was the only option I had if I wanted to investigate the source of this cave's coldness and the beckoning of the book.

I stood up, and entered a cultivation state, slowly my body heated up, and then I took the first step. I immediately lost focus and my cultivation stopped.

I desperately tried again, and again, and again.

Several hours went by with minimal progress. Rotating the poison qi within me while walking took a great deal of concentration, but with hard work and dumb stubbornness, I was able to move ten steps while I still rotated my energy.

If I continued like this, I was bound to achieve a breakthrough as my energy seemed on the verge of reaching the Medium Lower level of Qi condensation.

And only five steps more I did it, and the energy that my body released was enough to cause steam to burst out of my body.

Reaching the medium lower level of Qi condensation caused my body to shudder and a new page of the Poison G.o.d's heritage book was unlocked.

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