Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Because Gong Ziyu had to prepare for the Three Realms Trial, the people in the back mountain also paid a little attention to this matter.

Mr. Xue secretly brought Jiang Xinxin to the trial cave and showed her a very special pool in the cave.

"This water is very strange. When everything around it is frozen, this water will not freeze no matter what. But if you stretch out your hand to feel it, it is really freezing cold."

Jiang Xinxin didn't think this was strange. Besides, the system gave her the answer as soon as she entered the cave: "So this is a hot spring. The water below is originally very hot, but because the surrounding environment is very cold, it creates a clear layering of hot and cold."

Jiang Xinxin didn't say it directly, but was more interested in the content of the trial: "So, the content of this trial is--"

Mr. Xue happily replied, "I put a box under the pool. The test is to dive down and take the box out."

"When Master Jiao passed this level, it took him the shortest time. He brought the box from the bottom of the pool up in just twelve days, and then learned some martial arts from us. Master Jiao is truly the most outstanding descendant in terms of martial arts, intelligence, and ability. If he hadn't always been a little bit unlucky, he might have become the young master long ago, and he is the one holding the blade now."

Jiang Xinxin casually reached out her hand to test the water temperature. The water was indeed icy cold, but not enough to hurt her. However, her sudden movement scared Mr. Xue. He pulled her hand over and made sure that her hand was not frostbitten before letting her go with a flushed face.

Jiang Xinxin couldn't help but smile when she saw his overly shy look, but she didn't know that Master Xue couldn't help but clench his hands tightly behind his back and rubbed them unconsciously a few times, as if he was still savoring the soft and warm touch just now.

However, when Jiang Xinxin put her hand into the water just now, she didn't just feel the temperature. She also noticed that the concentration of spiritual energy in this pool of water was not low. Especially compared with the mountain in front, the concentration of spiritual energy seemed to have doubled.

After returning, Jiang Xinxin decided to talk about the matter of spiritual energy with Xue Chongzi and Xue Gongzi.

"You all know that I have a very good cultivation base. The reason why I have never used the word 'martial arts' or similar to explain it is because of the spiritual energy I have cultivated."

"Aura?"

Xue Chongzi and Xue Gongzi looked at each other in bewilderment. It was not that they did not know what spiritual energy was. After all, although they were in the back mountain, they had read many storybooks. Although it was the first time they heard of spiritual energy, they knew as soon as they heard it that it was related to the ghosts, gods, demons and monsters in the storybooks.

Jiang Xinxin nodded, "Yes, it's spiritual energy."

"We went to the town at the foot of the mountain before. I found that the closer we were to the miasma-filled valley in the back mountain, the denser the spiritual energy became. To put it simply, the concentration of spiritual energy here is almost twice that of the front mountain, and the concentration of spiritual energy in the pool in the cave that Master Xue took me to just now is more than twice that of the front mountain."

Xue Chongzi thought a lot, especially about the martial arts technique "Su Xue Heart Sutra" that he had been practicing. He suddenly had a hunch that perhaps what he had been practicing through "Su Xue Heart Sutra" was not the common internal force, but spiritual power.

Jiang Xinxin nodded to Xue Zhongzi, "You are indeed cultivating spiritual energy, but when the miasma is pervasive, the spiritual energy that escapes from the seal becomes more toxic. So even if the concentration of spiritual energy is high enough, you will absorb the impurities and toxicity into your meridians, so your cultivation will regress instead of improve."

"What you need most right now is to cleanse your marrow and meridians, expel the impurities and spiritual poison from your body, and nourish your meridians again. This way, your sequelae will naturally heal."

A person who looks like a child but has a head full of white hair. Who wouldn't think that there is something wrong with his body? Only Jiang Xinxin is knowledgeable, so she didn't think there was anything strange about Xue Chongzi's behavior.

Master Xue listened for a while. He looked at Xue Chongzi and then at Jiang Xinxin, and suddenly understood: "So, the flying and hiding skills in the storybook are very likely to be true!"

"Miss Jiang, you mean Xue Chongzi can learn it, right?!"

Master Xue pushed Xue Zhongzi aside and approached Jiang Xinxin, saying with eager anticipation, "Then look at me and see if I can also learn to cultivate that spiritual power?"

Jiang Xinxin stepped back a little, and carefully covered her eyes with spiritual power to look at the spiritual veins in Master Xue's body - cultivating spiritual power and cultivating internal strength are two completely different concepts. Internal strength can be cultivated as long as there is an open meridian, but spiritual power is on a completely different level from internal strength. Therefore, if there is a spiritual vein, one can feel the spiritual energy, which is also the premise for taking the spiritual energy into the body.

It is the same concept as the spiritual roots in the world of cultivation, but in Jiang Xinxin's eyes, this thing is just a filament growing on the limbs, torso or even in the brain, so she is used to calling it a spiritual vein.

Young Master Xue also has a spiritual vein, and its length is almost the same as the one in Xue Chongzi's body, but the spiritual light is probably dimmer than that in Xue Chongzi's body.

Jiang Xinxin happily announced: "You can also cultivate spiritual power, but if you can't solve the impurities and toxicity contained in the spiritual energy, I'm afraid you will be like Xue Chongzi in the future, and your situation may even be worse than Xue Chongzi's. After all, although the concentration of spiritual energy is stronger than when Xue Chongzi just started practicing, the impurities and toxicity in it are heavier."

Master Xue was even happier, and he pulled Xue Chongzi over again, blinking his big eyes and asked, "Miss Jiang, do you have any way to help Xue Chongzi with the marrow cleansing and meridian strengthening? Or do you need any medicinal herbs? We at the Snow Palace can find them, just tell me!"

Jiang Xinxin looked away with difficulty after being pleaded with by the two little cute creatures without blinking. She calmed down and said under the reminder of the system: "I do have a main medicine that can cleanse the marrow and strengthen the meridians, but it is only suitable for Xue Chongzi if taken directly. If you, Mr. Xue, also want to cleanse the marrow and strengthen the meridians, you will need some herbs containing spiritual energy to assist. It will be best to take it in the form of pills."

Jiang Xinxin was talking about the Zhu fruit, which was the kind that first appeared in martial arts novels and was said to increase one's internal strength by fifty years after eating it. Later, with the rise of cultivation novels, it was also cited as a low-level spiritual fruit with the effect of cleansing the marrow and strengthening the meridians.

The red fruit in Jiang Xinxin's hand was obtained in the previous world. She broke off a small branch and successfully implanted it in the space. She originally wanted to give Xiao Se one pill to help him heal the injury to his hidden meridians. Unexpectedly, they would have no chance to meet after they separated. Even the rumors at the last moment could only be passed on with the help of the amulet she gave out.

But for now it would be good to give it to Xue Zhongzi to cure the sequelae of his body.

Jiang Xinxin turned her wrist, and a red glass-like fruit appeared in her palm. Xue Chongzi and Xue Gongzi knew that this thing had an extraordinary origin just by smelling it. Xue Chongzi and Xue Gongzi were about to refuse, but Jiang Xinxin raised her hand and stuffed the red fruit directly into Xue Chongzi's mouth.

Xue Chongzi had his mouth covered by Jiang Xinxin's. He felt something enter his mouth and instantly turned into a stream of warm air with a very special and pleasant fruity aroma. Before he could react, the air flowed directly down his throat and reached his stomach in the blink of an eye.

Then he felt his whole body was burning as if it were on fire, and something was stirring under his skin, wanting to break out.

Jiang Xinxin took back her hand and reminded Xue Chongzi, "Quickly practice your Suxue Heart Sutra. Master Xue and I will protect you. Don't waste the power of the red fruit."

As she spoke, Jiang Xinxin also took away the thick white bear fur cloak from Xue Chongzi, then turned around and whispered to Master Xue, "Prepare a large bucket of hot water for him, as he will need a bath later. Also, ask Elder Xue for a few sets of inner and outer clothes, as his body will return to adult size in a while, and these clothes will get stretched out."

Xue Chongzi originally wanted to see what this marrow cleansing and meridian cutting was all about, but Jiang Xinxin gave him instructions on a lot of things, so he quickly used his Qi Gong to run to the Snow Palace, fearing that he would be late for something.