From a refugee to a martial artist

Chapter 144: Fire Tempering the Body
Meng Yuan's dantian was already full of jade liquid. Now that jade liquid was flowing out, he immediately felt it swelling. The other party's jade liquid was like thousands of fine needles, slowly impacting his dantian.

For a moment, the two streams of jade liquids differed in strength, and yin and yang were immediately separated.

Not long after, Meng Yuan felt his whole body swelling, as if there was air in his internal organs, tendons and bones, which was about to break through his flesh and skin.

There was a tearing sensation in the Dantian, which was extremely painful, but slightly less than the previous feeling of tempering the body with essence and fire.

Although Meng Yuan could endure it, the tearing feeling became more and more intense and lasted for a long time.

The jade liquid in Dantian seemed to be boiling, and the whole body seemed to be trapped in a steamer.

An unknown amount of time had passed before Meng Yuan suddenly felt the jade liquid that had invaded his body slowly receding.

"How is it?" Mingyue's tone was still cold and a little tired.

Meng Yuan's discomfort had not subsided yet, and his dantian still felt like it was on fire.

When I opened my eyes, I saw that it was already early morning.

Mingyue's face was slightly pale, which showed that she had put in a lot of effort.

After feeling himself a little, he found that his jade liquid had dried up again, but the area of ​​his dantian was one third larger than before.

"It's done!" Meng Yuan said.

"If it were an ordinary person, the expansion of the Dantian would at least double. But your Dantian is three or four times larger than that of an ordinary person, and it is also very tough, so being able to expand it to this extent is already good enough."

Mingyue's tone was somewhat proud, and also somewhat lucky, "The dantian has expanded, the jade liquid has been refined, and the success has been achieved."

"Thank you, Miss Mingyue." Meng Yuan stood up and bowed, then poured her some tea and said, "I never thought that a whole night had passed."

Mingyue glanced at Meng Yuan and remembered that it took her seven days to open up her Dantian, while an ordinary person would need more than a month because it required careful, slow and precise processing.

This boy was really thick-skinned and didn't let me show any mercy to him. I really put in more and more strength without showing any mercy, but he still managed to hold on. It showed that he could endure the pain and had a very good character.

Seeing Mingyue looking at him, Meng Yuan quickly expressed his loyalty and said, "I am willing to go through fire and water for you!"

Mingyue waved her hand and was about to leave, but Meng Yuan hurriedly asked her to stay.

"Miss Mingyue, do you know how to open your Dantian again?" Meng Yuan knew that Mingyue didn't like to be long-winded, so he asked immediately.

"Go find your father-in-law." Mingyue's voice was cold, as if the friendship that had been stirring in Meng Yuan's body all night was no longer there.

"He doesn't quite know either." Meng Yuan said helplessly.

"What did he say?" Mingyue sighed and rubbed her eyebrows.

Meng Yuan immediately relayed Nie Yannian's words.

"It's almost the same." Mingyue held the sword in her hand and said, "Go ahead and carve and reflect. Just remember one thing, if you really achieve the second Dantian, it will absorb all your blood and energy in an instant, so you'd better prepare some elixirs by your side. This method is dangerous, don't try it casually."

"Thank you for your advice, young lady." Meng Yuan thanked her and asked, "How many Dantians can there be at most?"

"..." Mingyue looked at Meng Yuan and said, "If you destroy one, you can build another. But the Dantian is the reflection place of the upper, middle and lower three heavens, and there can be at most three places."

She finished her words and then opened the door.

It was already bright outside and there were many people in the yard. Old Man Jiang was sitting on a stool and Jiang Tang was holding Xiangling.

There were two young men guarding the door, and Hu Qian was standing quietly by the side.

Wu Changsheng and Tie Niu saluted. Tie Niu glanced into the room again, as if he had confirmed something, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Miss Mingyue, I'll take you there." Meng Yuan walked out.

"Little gelder!" Xiangling jumped onto Meng Yuan's shoulder, stretched her little head to look at Meng Yuan's face, then jumped onto Ming Yue's shoulder and lifted Ming Yue's hair obediently, "You're quite pretty!"

"It's no use saying nice things." Mingyue said lightly. Xiangling was so scared that she immediately protected her small schoolbag.

After sending Mingyue to the gate of Jingyuan, Meng Yuan grabbed Jiang Tang.

"Please ask for a leave and I'll take you out for a trip tomorrow." Meng Yuan said with a smile.

Jiang Tang immediately nodded happily.

Xiangling also hurriedly said, "I want to go too!"

"Of course." Meng Yuan agreed with a smile.

After Jiang Tang and Xiang Ling entered Jingyuan, Meng Yuan returned home.

"Tie Niu, help me get some well water so I can wash. Sister Qian, help me get some food, I'm very hungry."

After sitting back in the room and resting for a while, Tie Niu had already brought the well water into the room.

While washing himself, Meng Yuan asked, "Has Uncle Big Head been settled?"

"Xunmei asked my father to be the coachman. He can drive a donkey and is now learning to drive a horse-drawn carriage!" Tieniu was very satisfied. "Three taels of silver a month, and rewards are not included. Our princess is so nice!"

"It's good that you think so." Meng Yuan smiled, looked at Wu Changsheng again, and asked, "When did you come last night?"

"We arrived in the evening. My sister-in-law asked us to come!" said Wu Changsheng.

"Thank you for your hard work." Meng Yuan put on his clothes and said, "I'll invite you to Zuiyue Tower for a drink tomorrow night."

While they were chatting, Hu Qian knocked on the door outside, "Brother, I bought the food!"

When I opened the door, I saw her carrying a few lotus leaf bags and going out to buy some cooked food.

The four of them sat down, ate their fill, chatted for a while, and then went back home.

Meng Yuan continued to meditate in silence, and before noon, he was full of energy again, with his body filled with essence.

Looking closely at the changes before and after, the jade liquid has become more condensed, but the change is not significant. In the morning, there was still a sense of tearing in the Dantian, but now it is completely healed. Moreover, the Dantian is more expanded and the jade liquid is more abundant.

"Now my Dantian is vast and solid, and my jade liquid is condensed to extraordinary perfection. It is hard for me to be rivaled by anyone of the same level. If I were to go to the Floating Light Cave Heaven again at this moment, Xuan Zhen the Bald Donkey would not be able to handle it."

Meng Yuan thought so, closed his eyes and calmed his mind. According to the method taught by Master Nie, he projected and drew an acupoint of the thirty-three heavens below his original dantian.

But after a long time, seeing the sun setting in the west, all their efforts were in vain.

It is not easy to open the Dantian again. According to Master Nie and Mingyue, when the second Dantian is formed again, it needs to absorb a large amount of essence and blood, and even flesh and blood to replenish it. The person will be extremely weak, or even seriously injured.

Meng Yuan's essence and fire are now complete again. He had thought that he could make up for it a little when he opened his Dantian again. But now it seems that opening his Dantian again is not as easy as expanding his Dantian in one night.

"Three days! If you still can't do it in three days, then temper your body with the fire of essence, so that you can increase your strength a bit more."

"Then the fire will become like bean sprouts again. Although it can no longer nourish itself, I will go to the Taoist meeting with Mingyue next month. There will be many opportunities to nourish the fire in the midst of danger."

"I just don't know how long it will take to complete this time."

After thinking for a long time, Jiang Tang and Xiang Ling also made their move.

After dinner, the three of them got together, and Meng Yuan asked Xiangling how she persuaded Mingyue.

"That's easy, a poetry duel!" Xiangling stared with wide eyes, "If I win and she loses, she has to listen to me!"

"Really?" Meng Yuan didn't believe Xiangling could win.

"Don't look down on others!" Xiangling jumped up anxiously.

Meng Yuan looked at Jiang Tang, and Jiang Tang touched his purse. The meaning was self-evident: it was Xiangling who paid the money, not Xiangling who won the poetry competition.

Xiangling stared at Meng Yuan with big eyes and said, "Little gelder, you are the vice president of the Laobiekeng Poetry Society, you have to learn too!"

"I am of low moral character and I am unworthy of the position of vice president. Why don't you bring Mingyue into the club and let her be the vice president?" Meng Yuan said.

"You are a very virtuous person! No one can take away your position as vice president!" Xiangling made a lot of sense, but she still took out a thin book and said solemnly: "Little gelder, you should also spend more time on these serious books!"

Meng Yuan took the thin book and looked at it. There were big words on it: Lao Biekeng Poetry Collection.

After flipping through it twice, I found that they were all doggerel, with only three of them having some literary talent, and the signatures were the owner of Jingyuan and Mingyue.

"Miss Third doesn't correct you in writing poetry now?" Meng Yuan asked.

"Since Third Grandma taught me, she always complains of having a headache. I give her a massage, but she's not happy!" Xiangling sighed helplessly, "I didn't even charge her money."

The three of them talked for half the night and discussed several poems before they fell asleep.

The next day, when the weather was fine and the weather was nice, Meng Yuan led the horse, took Jiang Tang and Xiang Ling with him, and went out again.

Jiang Tang took off his Taoist robe and wore a girl's skirt. Xiangling wore a cloth flower on her head and carried a small floral bag on her back.

After discussing poetry by the river for a while, Xiangling saw Chongxu Temple and wanted to go there to burn paper for her godmother.

"Now I have made progress. I work every day to earn money. I have also learned to read, read books, and write poems. I have also set up a poetry club. I have to burn some paper for my godmother to let her know!" Xiangling said seriously.

"Your godmother might not be dead." Jiang Tang said.

"If he's not dead, let's burn him. Godmother said that if you have nothing to do anyway, you might as well do something." Xiangling made a point.

"..." Jiang Tang and Meng Yuan looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

When they arrived at Chongxu Temple, the receptionist Yuan Jingfeng saw that it was Meng Yuan and was too lazy to greet him. Then he saw that the woman beside him had changed. He didn't want to ask more questions, but Meng Yuan actually came up to introduce himself.

"Senior Brother Yuan, this is my fiancée Jiang Tang." Meng Yuan said with a smile.

The one two days ago was my wife, and today he brought his fiancée?
"..." Yuan Jingfeng is not a fool after all, "So it's my brother's wife! My apologies, I'm Yuan Jingfeng."

"I'm bowing to you!" Xiangling raised her paw and patted Jiang Tang's face in Jiang Tang's arms, "Don't look at the little gelder, and don't smile like a fool! You have to be polite!"

Jiang Tang immediately bowed, but it was actually a Taoist ritual.

Seeing this, Yuan Jingfeng stopped eating the melon and hurriedly returned the gift.

"Which immortal mountain or famous place do you practice in, fellow Taoist?" Yuan Jingfeng put away his laziness and asked seriously.

Seeing Meng Yuan nod with a smile, Jiang Tang said, "I will practice Taoism with the princess."

"It's my junior sister!" Yuan Jingfeng quickly led the way, "She's not an outsider! Come on, my senior brother is here too, let's discuss the Dao today!"

When they arrived at the kitchen, they saw that Zhao Jingsheng was drunk and sleeping soundly.

Yuan Jingfeng couldn't wake him up, so he could only sigh, "Except for the eldest brother, no one else has a promising future!"

The four of them went to the back mountain again. Xiangling burned some paper and muttered for a long time before they went down the mountain.

He returned to the city and came to Zuiyue Tower, and sent someone to call Hu Qian, Wu Changsheng and Tie Niu.

Jiang Tang had no intention of drinking with Meng Yuan and the others, and just chatted with Nie Qingqing from a distance.

"You can compare with Third Grandma!" Xiangling was held in Nie Qingqing's arms. She bumped her head against her twice and was amazed.

Nie Qingqing pushed Xiangling down and whispered, "I don't think that little girl Hu Qian is a good person."

"Don't worry. Tie Niu told me everything. It's nothing. Besides, my brother knows his limits." Jiang Tang said seriously.

The two girls chatted until midnight and were not tired at all. They went to Nie Qingqing's house together and slept together and talked at night.

Three days later, it was almost July and the Taoist meeting was just around the corner, but he still had no idea how to open his Dantian again.

Meng Yuan didn't want to wait any longer, so he prepared for the fourth time of tempering his body with fire.

(End of this chapter)