Medicine Master Disciple’s Cultivation Notes

Chapter 40: The Medicine Master's Blessing and Longevity Palace

Ownerless heaven and earth spiritual qi would stimulate the plant life energy in the body to grow wildly, but the life energy within Mohe the Perfected Being's body was very easy to tame.

Put simply, it was rounded out, warmed up, and domesticated.

Already processed from "fresh produce" into "cooked food."

Additionally, there was another more important reason. At the moment Mohe the Perfected Being died, the Medicine Master's blessing on him also transferred to Li Qiuchen, allowing his blessing level to be strengthened and enhanced once again.

If there were a system, at this moment it might have jumped out with a prompt—Your Medicine Master's Blessing level has increased from lv3 to lv4...

Unfortunately, there wasn't one but the benefits it brought to Li Qiuchen were immediate.

The strengthened Medicine Master's blessing greatly improved his control over life energy.

In the past, this life energy accumulated in his body like rogue tenants. Only after cultivating the Qi Drawing Formula did Li Qiuchen become the true landlord and begin collecting rent from these tenants.

Now his blessing had strengthened again. While the rent increased, he could also clearly divide it, making rent collection more efficient and more justified.

This was utilities, this was heating fees, this was appliance depreciation...In the past, Li Qiuchen could only absorb the residual life energy from those in near-death states or unconscious and severely injured, unable to resist. Now he could directly rob and kill—absorbing life from beasts and healthy living people.

Just now, his entanglement with Mohe the Perfected Being borrowed the medicinal properties of the Spirit Gathering Pill. Now with the blessing enhanced, even without taking pills, he could achieve the same effect.

Li Qiuchen sighed in his heart. This was striding forward in the direction of evil demons with no return.

Ancestor Li Jingyun repeatedly emphasized that the Medicine Master's blessing had no distinction between good and evil, that thoughts of good and evil only existed in the human heart. But look at the effect after this Medicine Master's blessing was strengthened. Was this right?

Now he could already eat people. What he'd eat in the future, Li Qiuchen didn't dare think carefully about.

Last time he took the Spirit Gathering Pill, the pill's efficacy lasted a full twelve hours. That meant during this day and night, not only did he have to digest the absorbed life energy, he also couldn't leave his original position.

Once those soldiers caught up, the consequences would be unimaginable.

If there had been any choice, Li Qiuchen wouldn't have fought desperately with Mohe the Perfected Being.

Who would have thought the stupid bird wouldn't follow commands and act willfully on its own?

Li Qiuchen secretly resolved that once this matter concluded and he returned to the mountains, he must give this stupid bird some good fruit juice to eat and teach it a lesson.

If it remained unrepentant, he'd pluck all its feathers bare and dry them into emergency rations...

One night passed. The morning sunlight once again illuminated the hilltop.

Mohe the Perfected Being's corpse, or rather that ancient pine, had already withered and decayed, without half a trace of life.

Li Qiuchen sat cross-legged meditating under the tree, having initially recovered human form. Above his head, spiritual qi gathered into a colorful vortex. Accompanying each of his inhalations and exhalations, within a zhang radius centered on him, countless flowers and grass took root and sprouted from the soil, growing vigorously.

After just one night's effort, these flowers and grass had actually grown over two feet tall, submerging his instep.

The white crane carried the last prayer bead to Li Qiuchen's presence. It guiltily glanced at him, then tiptoed to the side and lowered its head to groom its feathers.

Li Qiuchen had a long dream.

Heavy snow fell across the sky. The entire world was wrapped in silver.

Among those layers of snow-covered mountains hid a temple filled with an ancient aura.

He followed those monks whose faces couldn't be seen clearly, slowly ascending the cold stone steps and entering the temple.

In the center of the temple was enshrined a deity statue three zhang and three feet tall, sitting cross-legged barefoot on a lotus platform. Its features were neither male nor female, six arms each holding ritual implements, its gaze compassionate.

"Thus have I heard."

"I vow to illuminate countless boundless worlds with infinite radiance, saving all sentient beings from suffering..."

"Gaga!"

Li Qiuchen: "???"

He awoke from the dream. Looking up, he saw the white crane's claws pressed on his face, shaking desperately.

When people just wake up, their consciousness has difficulty remaining clear, unable even to distinguish dreams from reality.

Li Qiuchen took several seconds to fully awaken, realizing the stupid bird was trying to wake him up.

"Government cavalry caught up?"

"Ga!"

Humans were double-standard creatures.

Before coming to Blue Stone Platform, Li Qiuchen had complained endlessly about the government's low action efficiency, dawdling and refusing to dispatch troops.

Now, having left Blue Stone Platform and seeing the government troops so conscientious and responsible, his heart was equally displeased.

You really did catch up?

How much silver stipend per month is it worth being so devoted?

How difficult mountain paths were to walk, Li Qiuchen knew very clearly. Moreover, he'd specially chosen trails rarely traveled by humans, precisely to conceal his tracks.

Unexpectedly, those government cavalrymen had still pursued relentlessly.

"If I explain to them now, saying I'm not a bad person, do you think they'd believe me?"

The white crane looked at Li Qiuchen like looking at an idiot.

Alright... I asked unnecessarily.

Li Qiuchen lowered his head to look at his current appearance.

The clothes he'd just changed into had become beggar's rags again. This made him couldn't help but wonder—in the future when taking Spirit Gathering Pills, would he have to go naked?

Otherwise, whose decent person's clothes could withstand such torment?

The most critical problem was that the medicinal power in his body hadn't completely dissipated yet. All over his body were countless sprouts and roots. He looked like an oversized ginseng but he couldn't not run.

Li Qiuchen wouldn't naively think those government cavalrymen would be reasonable, especially given his current appearance, which had almost no difference from those Medicine Master followers.

He did still have a jade pendant gifted by Jiang Tingyue, but unless it was the final moment, Li Qiuchen didn't plan to use it because it might not be useful.

These were soldiers, not customer service. You randomly pull out a token and they can recognize it at a glance and verify your identity information? What, servers installed in their heads?

If he really had such impressive skills, what wouldn't be better than running to the countryside to suppress bandits?

The best method, of course, was to have Jiang Tingyue himself appear and prove his identity and the hilltop where he was currently located, roughly estimating, shouldn't be too far from Crotch Mountain.

Li Qiuchen struggled to stand up, pulled off the roots and sprouts on his body, and turned to look down the mountain.

The sea of trees was lush and verdant. He could see nothing but the stupid bird wouldn't deceive him. Since it gave warning, that meant the other party was already not far away.

After taking the Spirit Gathering Pill, heaven and earth spiritual qi within a hundred zhang radius would be drawn in. Falling into the eyes of someone with a purpose, this was the most obvious target.

Regardless of whether those soldiers had noticed, he should leave first as a precaution.

Slightly moving his stiff body, Li Qiuchen once again embarked on the road of escape.

People must have self-awareness.

Only by staying alive was there hope. Dead, there was nothing.

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