Chapter 114, Infant Transformation
Chapter 114, Infant Transformation
Knowing that most of the Hua family members had returned to their ancestral bloodline, Hua Changxi gave Hua Minghe the skin refining chapter of "Nine Revolutions Profound Art", the "Skin Refining Technique" copied from the stone wall of the Qihuang Hall, and the corresponding medicinal bath recipes.
"To activate the totem magic in the blood, a strong body is needed to support it. Therefore, anyone who wants to obtain the totem magic of atavism must first refine the body."
Hua Changxi also told the Hua family that the skin refining chapter of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art" was more demanding on the body than the "Skin Refining Technique" and the process was more painful, so he let them choose which one to practice.
In the Hua family's courtyard, although the Hua family members still don't quite understand things like reversion to ancestral blood and totem magical powers, it doesn't stop them from being happy that they can practice.
Especially people like Grandpa Hua who have no spiritual veins. However, there are also those who are unhappy. Old Lady Hua and Second Aunt Hua are in a very low mood at the moment.
Hua Changxi noticed the emotions of the two and walked over: "Grandma, Second Aunt, anyone can practice body training, as long as you can endure the hardship."
Hearing this, Old Madam Hua and Second Aunt Hua were delighted: "Really?"
Hua Changxi nodded: "You will know if you try it."
Hua Changxi, who still had a lot of things to do, did not stay in the Hua family for long. The Hua family's bloodline returned to their ancestral home. She pondered for a moment, then took out the corresponding skin-refining medicinal bath ingredients and gave them to Hua Sanlang, and told him how to boil them.
She didn't expect the Hua family to be able to help her with anything, but she still hoped that the Hua family would be well and be able to protect themselves in this period of spiritual energy revival.
Hua Changxi returned to the Medical Department. On the way back, he frowned and looked up at the sky.
She didn't know what was going on, but these past two days, she always felt like she was being targeted, as if a storm was about to come.
But she checked again and again countless times and did not find anyone staring at her in the dark.
Hua Changxi suppressed his irritability and returned to the Medical Department. As soon as he returned, he found Zhou Qiuyu and asked her to go to the Marquis' Mansion to take care of Hua Wuniang for a while.
Zhou Qiuyu, Wang Yunchu and Guo Cheng all have spiritual veins in their bodies. The skills they practice were provided by her, and it can be said that all three of them are hers now.
Zhou Qiuyu is calm and thorough, and she is the fastest learner of pharmacology and medical science among all the people who take her classes. She can fully take charge of helping to regulate Hua Wuniang's body.
Hua Changxi gave Zhou Qiuyu several conditioning prescriptions and the corresponding medicinal materials. At the same time, he also gave her ten top-grade wood spirit stones as a reward for her taking care of Hua Wuniang.
Zhou Qiuyu was a cultivator with a single wood spiritual root. He knew the function of the spiritual stone and did not refuse. After taking it, he promised Hua Changxi that he would definitely take care of Hua Wuniang's health. Then he packed up some things and went directly to Wuyi Marquis' Mansion.
When Hua Changxi left Wuyi Marquis' Mansion, she said that she would send a female doctor to take care of Hua Wuniang. Mr. He San did not expect her to act so quickly and sent the person that same day.
Seeing Zhou Qiuyu, Mr. He San's expression became somewhat solemn.
He really didn't expect that Hua Changxi would actually send a monk to take care of Aunt Hua.
Zhou Qiuyu has already drawn Qi into her body, and the Medical Department is filled with rich spiritual energy. She is now a cultivator in the early stage of Qi training. Although her cultivation level is not high, it is enough to make Mr. He San pay more attention to the Hua family.
Master He San went to the main courtyard and told Marquis Wu Yi about this.
Wu Yihou was also very surprised after hearing this: "Isn't Hua Changxi just a clerk in the Medical Department? How could she appoint someone else, and a cultivator at that?"
Having said that, he immediately called He Sirong and He Siqi to ask about Hua Changxi.
He Sirong: "Grandfather, Hua Changxi is the chief steward under Eunuch Jia, and she is in charge of hundreds of people. Moreover, she has close contacts with Eunuch Zhou and Eunuch Zhao of the First and Second Offices, as well as Eunuch Yu of the warehouse."
He Siqi added: "Hua Changxi gave lectures in the Miscellaneous Hall, and several eunuchs acquiesced. Now most of the servants in the Miscellaneous Hall are convinced by her."
Wu Yihou looked at He Siqi and said, "Wait, what do you think Hua Changxi is doing in the Servants' Hall?"
He Siqi: "Giving lectures to the servants in the servants' hall."
Wu Yihou frowned: "What class is she teaching?"
He Siqi: "It is said to be about pharmacology, how to clean and prepare medicinal materials, etc."
Wu Yihou pondered for a moment, "There must be something going on here. A person cannot do something for no reason. Hua Changxi must have another purpose for giving lectures in the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall."
Then, he looked at He Sirong and the other two and said, "Sirong, Siqi, if Hua Changxi is giving a lecture, you should try to go and listen and see if you can find out what she is doing."
He Sirong hesitated and said, "Grandfather, maybe Hua Changxi just wants to help the servants?"
Wu Yihou thought his granddaughter was too naive: "If a person does something without any benefit, she won't be able to stick to it for long."
"The Medical Department was a holy place for alchemy in ancient times. There are great opportunities hidden here. You in the Disciple Hall must not ignore any small things."
After hearing this, He Sirong and He Siqi both agreed solemnly.
At the same time, in the Medical Bureau building, Gu Qiming also obtained the information of Hua Changxi, Zhu Qinghuan, and Shen Qianfan.
Shen Qianfan is a relative of the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice Shen Zhixing. He came to the capital from Jiaozhou two years ago. His ancestors had been doctors for three generations. As soon as he arrived in Beijing, he was arranged by Shen Zhixing to work in the Medical Department.
He is a bit stubborn and doesn't have many friends in the Disciple Hall. He spends most of his time studying medicine.
Zhu Qinghuan was born in an ordinary family. His parents were herbal farmers in a village near the capital. He joined the Medical Bureau as an apprentice just to learn more about pharmacology and medical knowledge so that he could better help his family manage the herbal fields in the future.
In the apprentice hall, Zhu Qinghuan did not take part in any fights and focused on studying.
The information on Shen Qianfan and Zhu Qinghuan was only one page long, and Gu Qiming finished reading it quickly, but Hua Changxi's information was obviously much thicker.
He was hired by Eunuch Jia as an exception to the rules. After he entered the errand hall, he had contact with people in the warehouse, beat people, cooperated with Eunuch Yu to make medicine, and was punished to go to the medicine store.
It can be said that compared with Shen Qianfan and Zhu Qinghuan, Hua Changxi is really too restless.
After reading Hua Changxi's information, Gu Qiming frowned.
As soon as Hua Changxi entered the menial service hall, she demonstrated medical skills far beyond that of ordinary people. Not only could she clean medicinal materials quickly, she could also refine medicine. With such abilities, she was actually willing to be a menial service.
This person must have other purposes in entering the Mentoring Hall!
Gu Qiming picked up the upper and middle volumes of "Common Medicinal Herbs" on the table and started flipping through them. The medicinal herbs recorded in them were all what Hua Changxi had talked about with the servants on a daily basis.
Many of the medicinal materials recorded here are new drugs that have just appeared. Even the pharmacists in Jiujie are not very familiar with their medicinal properties, but Hua Changxi explained the medicinal properties of the herbs in detail.
Does she know too much?
Gu Qiming thought of a possibility that Hua Changxi might have inherited the pharmacopoeia or medical classics.
If that was the case, he actually overestimated her since she was able to share her inheritance.
Gu Qiming called Mu Qingying in and handed her the book "Common Plant Medicinal Materials" compiled by Hua Changxi: "Qingying, aren't you interested in the various new medicinal materials? Hua Changxi seems to have quite a lot of attainments in this area. You can go and listen to her lectures in the future."
Mu Qingying was puzzled that her master asked her to listen to a servant's lecture, but she nodded in agreement anyway.
On the other side, at Pharmacy No. 1 on Second Street, Gu Jinfan was also looking at the information about Hua Changxi collected by his men.
Although this information is not as detailed as the one collected by Director Gu Qiming, it almost records everything Hua Changxi did after joining the Medical Bureau.
When Gu Jinfan saw that Hua Changxi was punished to go to Sancha Medicine Valley and stayed there for nearly a year, he immediately thought of the time when she went to Sancha Medicine Valley to ask You Lao and others for the Fortune Fruit and was seriously injured by a mysterious monk.
"Could that mysterious monk be Hua Changxi?"
Gu Jinfan actually didn't want to believe that the mysterious monk was Hua Changxi's, because the fire lotus that man sacrificed almost prevented her from escaping.
What does this mean?
This means that the man’s cultivation is higher than hers.
She found it hard to accept that her cultivation was not as good as Hua Changxi's.
She also thought of the Fire Lotus Fairy who suddenly appeared in the Five Finger Mountain. Although she was not present at the shocking battle in the Five Finger Mountain in person, she learned about the situation from many sources afterwards.
The Vermillion Bird flew out from the Fire Lotus
The mysterious monk used the Fire Lotus to attack her, while Hua Changxi was practicing the "Suzaku Divine Art".
All signs prove that the mysterious monk is Hua Changxi!
Gu Jinfan's chest heaved a little. If the mysterious monk was Hua Changxi, and if the Fire Lotus Fairy of the Five Finger Mountain was Hua Changxi, then many things that deviated from his previous life were all driven by her.
Hua Changxi, a person who died early in her previous life, does she have such great abilities?
Gu Jinfan was in a complicated mood. If she hadn't saved Hua Changxi, there wouldn't have been so many changes in this life. However, she also felt somewhat contented.
No matter what, it was she who saved Hua Changxi, which means that the various changes in the Four Spirit Realms in this life originated from her.
Gu Jinfan's eyes flashed, he stood up and quickly wrote a note, called Zeng Hong, and asked him to secretly deliver the note to the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture.
The red-robed demon Taoist is the father of Cao Jun, the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture. How would Cao Jun react if he knew that Hua Changxi had obtained the martial arts that his father wanted to obtain even at the cost of his life?
She knew that Cao Jun had been doing some shameful things for certain people in the royal family and had already been a monk.
In his previous life, Cao Jun was a prominent figure in the early stage of the revival of spiritual energy. She speculated that Cao Jun's cultivation had reached at least the Jindan stage at this stage.
She wanted to see how advanced Hua Changxi's cultivation had become.
After Hua Changxi sent Zhou Qiuyu to take care of Hua Wuniang, he went to the No. 6 Qihuang Clinic and hurried to refine the elixir.
This fight with the He family at Wuyi Marquis' Mansion made her realize the importance of elixirs. The quality of the elixir must be upgraded quickly, otherwise if she ran out of spiritual energy or got injured in the future, she would have no elixir to replenish her spiritual energy and repair her body.
That night, when Hua Changxi was immersed in cultivation, he found that his inner elixir was vibrating, the amplitude of the vibration was still increasing, and cracks appeared on the surface of the inner elixir at some point.
At the same time, the feeling of being targeted became stronger and stronger.
[Realm: Jindan Realm 9800 million/1000 million]
Hua Changxi looked at her realm data and a flash of inspiration came to her mind. She seemed to have guessed what was targeting her.
Thunder!
To advance from the inner elixir to the infant stage, one needs to go through tribulations!
Hua Changxi would definitely not undergo the tribulation in the Medical Department. Guessing that he might have to undergo the tribulation, he immediately decided to go to Wuzhi Mountain. Taking advantage of the night, he quietly rode on the somersault cloud to leave the capital and headed straight for Wuzhi Mountain.
On the way, Hua Changxi felt that a storm was brewing rapidly in the dark sky and was following her all the way.
"Click~"
The sudden appearance of lightning cut through the night sky.
When Hua Changxi saw the lightning and heard the thunder from time to time above his head, his heart would tremble.
It was my first time to go through a tribulation, and it would be a lie to say that I wasn’t afraid.
Soon, we arrived at Wuzhi Mountain.
After arriving at the Five Finger Mountain, Hua Changxi went straight to the top of the Middle Finger Peak, where the spiritual energy was the most concentrated, set up a spirit gathering formation, then sat cross-legged, immersed himself in cultivation, and began to break through.
That night, the people living near Wuzhi Mountain spent the night in the midst of strong winds, lightning and thunder.
After a night of worry and fear, at dawn, the people discovered that colorful clouds appeared in the sky and five-colored magical rain began to fall.
The Five Finger Mountain, shrouded in glow and mist, looks like a fairyland.
Everyone was amazed when they saw the Five Finger Mountain.
"Wow, the master has advanced to the Infant Realm."
Bathed in the sweet rain, the Welcoming Pine is even happier than its own advancement.
The mountain spirit also smiled. He felt that the Five Finger Mountain had expanded again, and the creatures around the Middle Finger Peak were growing rapidly due to the falling of the sweet rain.
[Realm: Infant Realm 10000 million/100000 million]
At the top of the Middle Finger Peak, Hua Changxi, who had endured nine heavenly thunders for the first time, looked somewhat disheveled. Looking at his body torn apart by the thunders, he reaffirmed his determination to refine his body.
In the Dantian Qi Sea, the original inner elixir has transformed into a delicate and jade-like baby who is sitting cross-legged and looks exactly like Hua Changxi.
This is her Nascent Soul!
The Nascent Soul was suspended above the Qi Sea, with its eyes closed, as if it was sleeping.
Hua Changxi didn't understand why the Nascent Soul didn't open its eyes. She didn't see any relevant records in the books she had confiscated.
"Does it mean that the Nascent Soul will open its eyes only after the cultivation reaches the middle to late stage of the Nascent Soul Realm?"
Hua Changxi has been practicing by trial and error. Although she cares about her Nascent Soul not opening its eyes, she is not too worried. She believes that she will figure it out one day.
At this moment, what worried her more was the black flame.
The black flame actually resides in the heart of the Nascent Soul!
This made her very worried. She was thinking, if the black flames got bigger, wouldn't the Nascent Soul be directly swallowed up by the black flames?
"The black flame is the flame of the seven emotions and six desires"
"Seven emotions and six desires."
Hua Changxi felt that she was not a person with excessive desires. However, the black flame living in the heart of her Nascent Soul made her decide to control her desires in the days to come!
"Fairy~"
"Master~"
Shan Ling and the Welcoming Pine arrived. Hua Changxi collected his thoughts, talked to them for a while, and then hurried back to the capital.
When Hua Changxi returned to the Medical Department, it was time for the lecture.
Well, the night passed and no one knew she was gone.
When Hua Changxi entered the No. 1 Qihuang Clinic and started teaching, he found that the director's apprentice and the He sisters were there, and his expression paused.
Mu Qingying liked Hua Changxi's personality very much, but she came to the class more just to complete the tasks assigned by her master. She knew that Hua Changxi understood pharmacology and medical theory, but she didn't feel that she needed to learn from her.
After entering the Medical Department as the director's apprentice, she has read countless medical books and has come into contact with and seen more medicinal materials than ordinary people can compare to.
To be frank, there are only a few people in the entire Medical Department who can guide her.
However, as Hua Changxi's lecture progressed, Mu Qingying's expression became more and more serious, and she even picked up paper and pen to take notes.
After the class, she still felt unsatisfied, so she went to listen to lectures at the No. 2 and No. 3 Qihuang Halls.
After listening to it, Mu Qingying finally understood what it meant that there are always people better than you.
I have to admit that Hua Changxi's attainments in medicine and pharmacology are really high, and she is really teaching the servants real skills.
He Sirong and He Siqi also attended the three classes and felt that they gained a lot.
"Hua Changxi."
Mu Qingying called Hua Changxi, walked up to her, and introduced herself: "I am Director Gu's apprentice, Mu Qingying. I learned a lot from your lecture today. Can I continue to listen in the future?"
Hua Changxi smiled and said, "Anyone can come and attend the classes at Qihuang Hall."
Mu Qingying didn't take the opportunity to get closer to her. She just said, "I'll be back tomorrow" and left.
After she left, Hua Changxi looked at the He sisters who were waiting on the side and walked over to them: "Second Madam He, Fourth Madam He, thank you for telling me about my fifth sister's difficult labor. I owe you a favor. If you need me in the future, please let me know."
He Sirong knew that Hua Changxi had a grudge against the He family, and it would be difficult to get closer to her, so she simply made a request: "Changxi, we heard that you are still teaching some menial workers to make alchemy, can we learn with you?"
Hua Changxi looked at the two of them and said, "Okay, but if you learn alchemy from me, I won't owe you anything."
He Sirong smiled and said, "You didn't owe us anything in the first place."
Hua Changxi smiled and said, "I have something else to do. I'll leave first."
Watching her leave, He Siqi looked at He Sirong and said, "Second sister, aren't we being too direct?"
He Sirong looked helpless: "If not this way, how can I get close to Hua Changxi?"