After her shock subsided, Bai Zhirou quickly reviewed the practical steps of the 《Azure Ox Body Tempering Art》 in her mind.
She walked over to the giant bath barrel in the corner of the room.
From her spatial ring, she carefully took out a bottle of Tier Two Blazing Tiger essence blood.
Uncorking the bottle, she poured all of the boiling, violently demonic essence blood into the bath barrel.
The originally clear hot water instantly turned into a boiling, blood-red liquid.
Bai Zhirou clapped her hands, took out her bottle of Tier Two Body Tempering Pills, swallowed one, and prepared to undress.
Suddenly!
She froze in place as if a binding spell had been cast on her.
According to the technique, body tempering required the person to be completely submerged in the demon beast's essence blood, and then run the technique to allow the skin to absorb the violent energy within the blood without any obstruction.
“Then... doesn't that mean I have to strip again...?”
The thought of “sharing a room” with a man's soul made Bai Zhirou's face instantly flush so red it looked ready to drip blood. A wisp of white steam even drifted from the top of her head.
In her mind:
Jiang Ye: O_O!
Bai Zhirou shook her small head in a panic, desperately trying to calm herself down as she recalled the details of the technique.
It only said skin contact and absorption... it didn't say she had to strip completely!
“Right! As long as a large area of my skin is in contact with the essence blood, I can still circulate the technique to absorb it even if I'm wearing clothes!”
Bai Zhirou's eyes lit up, and she wanted to give herself ten thousand thumbs-up for her genius idea!
She took a deep breath.
With a bright red face, she turned around, her back to the bath barrel.
A frantic, rustling sound of fabric rubbing against fabric echoed in the room.
With the fastest hand speed of her life, Bai Zhirou clumsily pulled off her outer robe, leaving only a thin, white inner shirt clinging to her body.
Then,
Like a rabbit whose tail had been stepped on, she jumped directly into the boiling, blood-red bath barrel with a loud splash!
She only kept her small head, with her hair tied in a bun, above the water.
Jiang Ye: “You're still on guard even though I've already seen everything?”
In the bath barrel, Bai Zhirou quickly suppressed the chaotic thoughts in her mind.
She closed her eyes tightly and began to silently circulate the 《Azure Ox Body Tempering Art》.
Inhale... Exhale...
The moment the technique began to run, the violent Blazing Tiger essence blood in the bath barrel seemed to find an outlet. It turned into streams of burning, boiling energy, wildly boring into Bai Zhirou's body through her pores, constantly tempering her meridians and flesh!
Fine beads of sweat covered Bai Zhirou's forehead.
However,
In that boiling, blood-red water, her already thin, white inner shirt was completely soaked by the hot water and essence blood.
Not only did it fail to cover anything, but instead... it clung tightly to the young girl's proud curves!
The fabric became semi-transparent, and as the water rippled, it exuded a faint, half-hidden allure.
Jiang Ye: “Oh no, my Supreme Bone is about to act up! A wet-clothes CG is even more tempting!”
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...
The few days of waiting for the outer sect tournament to begin actually became the most peaceful time Bai Zhirou had experienced since joining the sect.
She finally didn't have to be controlled by a certain devil to go around causing trouble, and she finally had time to familiarize herself with her own body.
Without her realizing it, her cultivation had already reached the Qi Condensation great perfection stage, just a single step away from Foundation Establishment.
At this moment, on the empty clearing in front of her courtyard, Bai Zhirou was holding a long sword, practicing her sword forms step-by-step.
Perhaps because Jiang Ye had taken over her body so many times, her body had developed a sort of muscle memory. She learned the sword technique at an astonishingly fast pace.
In the beginning, Jiang Ye had ruthlessly mocked her, saying she looked like an old lady practicing sword dances in a park for morning exercise. But now, every strike and stance actually carried a hint of sharp sword qi, looking quite impressive.
As for what Jiang Ye was doing?
He was, of course, lying back in her mind, enjoying his leisure.
In the words of this veteran player:
“If Bai Zhirou can't even play her own account properly, and I have to personally handle every random weakling in the future, wouldn't that be exhausting?”
Moreover, with Bai Zhirou diligently practicing the sword during the day and tempering her body with demon blood at night, the results were clearly much better.
Of course, every time Bai Zhirou took her medicinal bath, Jiang Ye would guide her seriously—yes, very seriously.
Under the tempering of the Tier Two demon beast's essence blood, Bai Zhirou's body tempering cultivation finally entered the initial stage, successfully reaching the first layer of body tempering—the Copper Skin Realm.
Copper Skin Realm: Skin as tough as copper. Ordinary swords and blades could only leave a white mark on the skin and could not break her defense.
The body tempering realms in the cultivation world were divided into seven layers: Copper Skin, Iron Bone, Golden Body, Glazed, Tyrant Body, Indestructible, and Sacred Body.
Jiang Ye's planned goal was simple: the higher the body tempering realm, the better!
The reason was simple.
This broken game currently had no pain adjustment setting, and getting hit hurt like hell!
Anyone who had died before knew that when Jiang Ye had slit his throat earlier, the action looked cool, but the moment before death was truly agonizing. It had almost made a veteran player like him shed a few tears.
Now, his daily routine consisted of coming out to drink some wine, watch the show, guide little Bai's body tempering cultivation, and then go to sleep.
Once he woke up, the account would have gotten stronger on its own!
This perfectly made up for the regret that this hardcore action game didn't have an "offline idle" feature.
...
While Bai Zhirou was quietly developing over these three days, the news of her glorious deeds spread throughout the entire Azure Mystic Sect as if it had grown wings.
Under the deliberate distortion of certain people from the Beast-Taming Peak, the story became incredibly absurd.
Bai Zhirou had publicly called the Peak Master of Sword Peak “Mama,” and Nangong Yue had not only saved her but had also shown no intention of refuting it.
In addition, she, a mere Qi Condensation disciple, had actually slain a Tier Two demon beast in public.
These two events were forcefully combined, directly spawning a perfectly logical gossip version:
Bai Zhirou was Peak Master Nangong's illegitimate daughter!
Relying on her secret identity as a privileged child, she had challenged the Beast-Taming Peak. In reality, she had used a heaven-defying magic treasure given by the Peak Master to launch a sneak attack, killing the Beast-Taming Peak disciple's Dao-protecting spirit bird! It was an unfair victory and morally corrupt!
Once this rumor came out, the disciples of Sword Peak were so angry their hair stood on end. They ran to the main peak every day to argue with others, furiously cursing the people of the Beast-Taming Peak for being shameless.
But as the old saying goes: rumors are easy to start, but hard to debunk.
Sword Peak had few people to begin with. Even if they sent people to the main peak's plaza every day to clear up the rumors, after just one night, the rumors would ferment into an even more ridiculous “Illegitimate Daughter Version 2.0.”
The explanations from Sword Peak instead became a cover-up.
Just as this wave of gossip was growing more and more intense,
Boom!
Above the main peak of the Azure Mystic Sect, the majestic voice of the Law Enforcement Hall's Grand Elder suddenly rang out:
“The strong must not be insulted!”
“Anyone who defames the Peak Master's name again will die!!”
The word “die,” carrying a biting killing intent, instantly silenced all those who were still secretly trying to stir up trouble, forcing them to shut their mouths.
However,
This official gag order had the opposite effect.
The eyes of the public were “discerning”: if they weren't guilty, why did the officials step in to forcefully ban the topic?
This instead made even more disciples believe in Bai Zhirou's illustrious identity as the “Peak Master's illegitimate daughter”!
The image of an arrogant, overbearing second-generation immortal instantly came to life.
After all, most of the time, people only chose to believe what they wanted to believe.
And this “resentment of the rich” existed in any era.
Of course, unless the “rich” person was themselves.
But under this wave of resentment, many arrogant male disciples also began to harbor sneaky thoughts.
After all, “clinging to a rich woman” was also something that existed in any era.
It was especially prominent in the cultivation world, because once successful, it meant saving at least three hundred years of detours!
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