The room was quiet.
Xu Lin stood before Jiang Luo without a word, making the atmosphere increasingly subtle and awkward.
For a moment, Jiang Luo couldn’t calm her mind to maintain a meditative state.
The strangeness in her abdomen grew stronger and more uncontrollable.
The crystalline particles on the surface of the green-brown medicinal bath increased.
Just like before, the restless, uncontrollable spiritual energy inside her was dispersing.
Even with her eyes closed, Jiang Luo couldn’t retrieve her thoughts.
Her mind involuntarily sketched Xu Lin’s figure.
The thought that he was now standing before her, possibly seeing her completely unclothed, made Jiang Luo feel extremely shy.
Her hands in the medicinal bath had no place to rest.
Finally, as if afraid of being noticed, her fingertips curled quietly, pressing into her palm as she tried to suppress those uncontrollable subtle movements.
After a long while, Xu Lin finally spoke slowly.
“Without the Spirit Water Heart Sutra’s support, the conflict between your cultivation technique and physique will reappear. But under the medicinal bath, the exposed problems also allow the medicine’s power to enter your body better.”
It’s like only by lifting the bandage from a wound can you better apply medicine.
Jiang Luo maintained her posture.
The tips of her ears trembled involuntarily as she listened carefully to Xu Lin’s words.
‘So that’s how it is.’
Jiang Luo said to herself.
Xu Lin looked at Jiang Luo.
The green-brown medicinal bath made it hard to see her small movements underwater, but instead, her act of forcibly keeping her eyes closed and pretending to be calm was completely visible.
‘She can’t even pretend.’
Xu Lin shook his head silently.
Xu Lin took out a pill from his storage pouch and brought it to Jiang Luo’s lips.
As soon as her lips touched the pill, Jiang Luo’s whole body trembled.
She almost opened her eyes, but then immediately suppressed the urge, afraid that Xu Lin would notice her distraction and scold her.
After all, this medicinal bath was no ordinary thing.
Xu Lin ignored her little thoughts and calmly ordered,
“Open your mouth.”
After a pause, Jiang Luo carefully opened her mouth, and Xu Lin placed the pill into it.
As the pill entered her mouth, Jiang Luo was about to close her lips again, but before they were fully shut, her lips and teeth touched Xu Lin’s finger, startling her into opening her mouth again.
“Hold it in your mouth. Don’t swallow it immediately. Let the medicine’s power slowly spread,” Xu Lin continued.
“…Mm.”
Jiang Luo made a faint sound of acknowledgment from her throat.
Seeing this, Xu Lin let go, allowing Jiang Luo to hold the pill in her mouth.
Once the pill entered her mouth, there was no bitterness.
Instead, as the medicinal power slowly spread, a calming clarity rushed straight to her internal organs, and the restless feeling in her abdomen began to be suppressed.
With her eyes closed, Jiang Luo couldn’t help raising her eyebrows, unable to hide her surprise.
“This is a Calming Clarity Pill. I got it from the Elixir Workshop,” Xu Lin said.
“I told you to come in with me, but you were scared to death. Otherwise, you could have taken the opportunity to get some pills suitable for yourself.”
‘How can there be someone as foolish as Jiang Luo, refusing a free opportunity?’
Having seen that, Xu Lin thought that the Pure Spirit Jade Body would likely need the Calming Clarity Pill, so he simply took one.
He had originally planned to use it later to have leverage over Jiang Luo, but he didn’t expect to use it now.
“The medicinal bath and pill are effective, but they are ultimately external things. The situation with your physique also requires your own will to adapt. This Calming Clarity Pill now only serves as an aid. Hold it in your mouth and let the medicinal power slowly spread, so you can adapt to the discomfort, rather than forcefully suppress it.”
Unless Jiang Luo cultivates a new set of techniques suitable for the Pure Spirit Jade Body, this method is the most effective.
Xu Lin’s words kept reaching her ears.
Jiang Luo restrained her expression on the surface, but inside she was extremely surprised.
Calming Clarity Pill?
This was the mid-grade pill that senior brothers and sisters had mentioned aids cultivation.
It’s not easy to get ordinarily.
Now, not only was she soaking in a medicinal bath she previously wouldn’t have dared to imagine, but she was also holding a Calming Clarity Pill in her mouth.
Even she found it dreamlike.
Inner sect disciples probably didn’t even get such treatment when training.
“Don’t accidentally swallow it. I only got one of these pills.”
Xu Lin stepped back, watching the faint demonic aura emanating from Jiang Luo as she operated her cultivation technique.
Then he went to the bed right next to the bath tub and sat cross-legged.
“I’m a bit tired too. I need to rest.”
Xu Lin closed his eyes.
“If anything happens, just call for me. I’ll be right next to you.”
While Jiang Luo was training, he should also train himself.
Both Jiang Luo and Yang Yao cultivated techniques from the Sunset Sect, so when they operated their techniques, demonic aura leaked out.
What Xu Lin needed now was this wisp of demonic aura.
Compared to Yang Yao’s denser aura, the demonic aura on Jiang Luo was softer.
Most importantly, with her cultivating beside him, he didn’t need to first absorb, store, and then refine it.
It was a smoother process.
In a way, Xu Lin was helping Jiang Luo, and also helping himself.
The room returned to silence.
Jiang Luo could only hear Xu Lin’s gradually calming breathing beside her, as if he had entered a meditative state.
After the series of events just now, Jiang Luo felt as if a deer was ramming in her chest.
If there really had been a deer, it would certainly have died from the impact.
The restlessness caused by the spiritual energy in her body had settled, but Jiang Luo still felt her body continuously flushing with heat.
This was not from the soaking of the medicinal bath water, but from her chaotic emotions.
Not daring to let Xu Lin’s kindness go to waste, Jiang Luo quickly gathered her mind and intensified her training.
With external bathing and internal ingestion, Jiang Luo’s cultivation had never been so smooth and efficient.
Her root bone became clearer and purer, and the Pure Spirit Jade Body truly began to manifest.
A faint luster appeared on her skin, like moonlight spilling over her body, radiant and pure.
She didn’t know how long had passed, but Jiang Luo heard a sound like a shackle being broken inside her body.
The residual spiritual essence of the medicinal plants in the bath was frantically absorbed into her body.
Moments later, a wave of spiritual energy emanated from her, causing the entire tub of medicinal bath to ripple continuously.
Jiang Luo’s eyes flew open, surprise surging in them.
“I broke through? True Mystery Realm, first level?”
This was something she had never dared to imagine before.
After all, previously it was difficult enough for her to stabilize at the Spirit Returning Realm, and she often worried about whether she would fall in realm.
Now she had stepped over the Spirit Returning Realm and entered the True Mystery Realm.
Eager to share her joy with Xu Lin, Jiang Luo looked up and saw that Xu Lin was still meditating with closed eyes, but his brows were slightly furrowed.
The aura of the cultivation technique he previously practiced was completely opposite to demonic aura.
Relying on demonic aura to cultivate now was no easy task, to the extent that he hadn’t even noticed Jiang Luo’s breakthrough.
“Senior Brother… Xu Lin…”
Jiang Luo called softly, but still got no response.
She looked out the window.
The starry night and the pale dawn at the horizon alternated—it was the moment day and night switched.
Jiang Luo did not immediately rise from the bath tub.
Instead, she remained soaking in the medicinal bath and studied Xu Lin.
The tub was right next to the bed, the two of them close at hand.
But when she lowered her head to look at the surface of the medicinal bath, the green-brown water had a few rings of crystalline ripples.
Jiang Luo’s face reddened again.
These were exactly what had dispersed from her body, just like when she had cultivated before.
That was why she had to change her undergarments frequently.
Now, they were clearly present before her eyes.