Research-Style Cultivation, Starting by Refusing to Be a Furnace – Chapter 21

Ch 21: Shock

“Did you want to kill us? Ninth Junior Brother!” After finishing, Dan Wu angrily flared up at Wei Xing.

Wei Xing looked guilty and could only apologize frantically, “Fifth Senior Brother, please calm your anger, please calm your anger. This Junior Brother doesn’t know what happened. Seeing the ‘flesh pill’ tumbling in the furnace, it was as if there was something, as if something was murmuring in my ear, and I was fascinated.”

Dan Wu, after hearing this, was already used to it and sneered, “Want to know what that is?”

“Fifth Senior Brother knows? Please tell this Junior Brother,” Wei Xing quickly asked.

Dan Wu looked at this naive Junior Brother beside him, closed his eyes, and recalled that naive self from back then.

After a long time, he opened them and slowly said, “This is not the place to talk. You wait for me here. I’ll go to Central Peak and hand in this seed.” Then, Dan Wu’s figure floated towards Central Peak.

“How can a bottle of red mist be refined? Can this thing be called a seed?” Wei Xing muttered, watching Dan Wu’s departing figure.

At night, Dan Peak, inside the cave abode.

“Fifth Senior Brother, what exactly is this seed? Why is it so captivating today?” Wei Xing was very puzzled, so he asked.

“Hehe,” Dan Wu’s cold voice had no warmth.

“Weren’t you curious about the Immortal Child before?” Dan Wu didn’t directly answer Wei Xing, but instead used a rhetorical tone.

Wei Xing was a little incredulous and said in shock, “Are you saying that this… this seed was refined by those ‘Immortal Children’? But I haven’t seen those Immortal Children yet.”

“Who said you haven’t? Haven’t you already touched them?” Dan Wu responded sarcastically.

After hearing this, Wei Xing stood there, stunned. He looked at his hands, and a feeling of nausea immediately attacked him. He couldn’t help but run to the distance and vomit.

“Ninth Junior Brother, is it necessary? You’ll be in contact with them a lot in the future,” Dan Wu said teasingly, looking at the vomiting Wei Xing.

How could Wei Xing listen to him say these things? His stomach was even more nauseous, as if the rivers and seas were churning.

After Wei Xing cleaned himself up, he originally wanted to leave directly, but it was rare to inquire about news from Senior Brother Dan Wu, this oldest Senior Brother, so Wei Xing naturally couldn’t miss it.

“Oh, you’re not leaving yet? Interesting,” Dan Wu looked at Wei Xing and smiled with wicked interest.

“Fifth Senior Brother, what exactly is the use of this seed? Is it necessary… is it necessary to use so many…” Wei Xing couldn’t bear to continue speaking.

“Do you know what an ‘Immortal Child’ is?” Dan Wu asked Wei Xing.

“Aren’t they the disciples that our monastery selects in the mortal world?” Wei Xing asked back.

Dan Wu shook his head upon hearing this and slowly said, “Ninth Junior Brother, you’re only half right. It’s true that the monastery selects them, but the subsequent process is to have them eat pills and practice cultivation methods. Their cultivation progresses quite quickly. Those with good aptitude can reach the Mid-Stage Qi Refining in about three to five years, and around seven years they can reach the Great Perfection of Dao Breath.”

“The progress is so rapid, which is abnormal. There must be drawbacks,” Wei Xing said, thinking.

“Haha, Ninth Junior Brother, you really are smart, unlike the other idiots! I’m starting to admire you a little,” Dan Wu praised Wei Xing, while also belittling the other fellow disciples.

“Fifth Senior Brother is too kind,” Wei Xing gave a perfunctory reply, wanting to hear him continue.

“Just as you said, Junior Brother, there must be drawbacks to their progress being so fast. These so-called ‘Immortal Children’ are actually cauldrons that are quickly filled. Their cultivation can only increase Spiritual Energy and has no other means. When the time is ripe, they will be taken away by the various Fairies in the sect. These idiots really think that they have entered the Immortal Fate and can live a life of immortals and couples, but they don’t know that in the end, even turning into withered bones is just wishful thinking.” At this point, Dan Wu looked up at the sky, feeling somewhat sentimental. These words were said to Wei Xing, but they also seemed to be said to himself.

After hearing this, Wei Xing’s worldview was completely shattered by this world! Looking at the silent Dan Wu, Wei Xing also began to retreat in his heart, “Is it still necessary to seek this Immortal Fate? But if I don’t seek it, how can I go home? I just want to return to Earth as soon as possible, to go home!”

“Senior Brother, may I ask what exactly those red mists are for? That crimson Fairy seemed to say that they were very important,” Wei Xing quickly calmed the turbulent waves in his heart and continued to ask.

Dan Wu didn’t know if he had heard Wei Xing’s question, but just stared blankly at the sky. Wei Xing didn’t want to continue asking, “Looking at this appearance, it’s impossible to get an answer for a while.” Wei Xing was about to leave.

“I heard that you came in through the monastery’s mountain gate opening blessing ceremony? Was the person who brought you here Qi Ba?” Dan Wu suddenly threw out a strange question.

Upon hearing Dan Wu’s words, Wei Xing’s heart was alarmed, “I didn’t tell him how I entered the mountain gate. That day, that young man was called Qi Ba, and I only knew it from Senior Bai. I have never told the fellow disciples. It seems that he still suspects me about what happened that day and has investigated me in great detail.”

“Replying to Fifth Senior Brother, that’s right,” Wei Xing’s words became respectful.

“Presumably, you should have also seen the scene of ten thousand people making wishes and that Qi Ba spreading the red mist that day. This is the effect of this red mist,” Dan Wu said.

“Fifth Senior Brother, do you mean… do you mean that these red mists were all absorbed by those mortal women and girls?” Wei Xing vaguely guessed the answer, but still asked with some uncertainty.

“That’s why I said you’re smart,” Dan Wu cast an admiring look at Wei Xing.

Recalling the scene of ten thousand people kneeling and worshiping that day, absorbing the so-called ‘seed’, Wei Xing’s heart was even more unacceptable and disgusted. He could only comfort himself, “Fortunately, I didn’t absorb or touch the red mist that day.”

“But this Junior Brother is still very puzzled, why do you have to do this?” Wei Xing still couldn’t understand the key and continued to ask.

Dan Wu looked at the frowning Wei Xing and said smugly, “Junior Brother, you don’t understand this, do you? What do cultivators value most?”

“Cultivation realm?” Wei Xing tentatively replied.

Dan Wu shook his head and said, “This is just the appearance. What we value most is of course time. Entering the path of cultivation and having Spiritual Power, it is true that we have shed our mortal bodies, but if we can’t take it a step further in a limited time to increase our lifespan, everything is still illusory. In the end, we will still end up returning to the earth.”

Wei Xing nodded unconsciously, expressing his approval.

“Since time is so precious, how could the sect spend a lot of time and manpower to cross the entire Wei Kingdom to select ‘Immortal Children’? Most of them are already sown, just like mortals planting crops. With sowing, there will naturally be a harvest, year after year, round after round, cycling back and forth, endlessly,” Dan Wu enlightened Wei Xing.

Hearing these words, Wei Xing only felt that he couldn’t stand still. His mind was dazed, and his breathing rate increased. He originally thought that the ‘flesh pill’ was already barbaric and bloody enough, but he didn’t expect the world of cultivation to be so ruthless, far exceeding Wei Xing’s current ability to accept it!

Wei Xing’s legs softened in the end, and he fell directly to the ground!

Dan Wu looked at Wei Xing’s embarrassed appearance and laughed loudly, “Ninth Junior Brother, look at your embarrassed appearance, haha, haha, you’re scared by this? You’re too timid.”

Wei Xing got up from Dan Wu’s ridicule and could only pretend to be stupid, “Fifth Senior Brother, this Junior Brother didn’t stand firm, just didn’t stand firm.”

“Fifth Senior Brother, that is to say, once these ‘Immortal Children’ are selected, they will be ‘Immortal Children’ for life! They can never get rid of the fate of being refined?” Wei Xing said helplessly.

“It’s not impossible. With heaven-defying opportunities, it is also possible to reverse the situation, such as our beloved Abbot, hahaha,” Dan Wu smiled somewhat evilly.

“What!” Wei Xing’s worldview was refreshed once again. This news was even more explosive than before!

“Junior Brother, be sure not to leak the news, otherwise, the two of us will have no life to live. Anyway, Senior Brother…” Dan Wu subconsciously closed his mouth, looked at the simple little Junior Brother in front of him, and thought to himself, “Anyway, Senior Brother, Senior Brother may not live long either…”

“Fifth Senior Brother, don’t worry, I haven’t seen Senior Brother today. This Junior Brother will take his leave.” After saying that, Wei Xing walked away without looking back, heading towards his cave abode on the mountainside.

“Ninth Junior Brother, after you enter the Dao Breath, you still have to tell Senior Brother what Innate Pill Fire attribute you get!” Dan Wu shouted at Wei Xing.

Wei Xing paused upon hearing this and continued to walk forward.