Mountain and River Festival

Chapter 64 Reborn
There is no sun or moon in the secret realm, and it is unknown how long this ritual lasted.

Lu Xingzhou's cultivation of Taoism was only at the seventh level. Although he did not need to generate his own Dan Fire, the mental drain was still extremely difficult to endure.

But he didn't dare ask anyone for help. Shen Tang could only wipe his sweat, unable to offer any other help. Lu Xingzhou had a ring of restorative drugs ready, which he ate like candy.

After a lot of effort, the furnace lid opened by itself, and the red leg bones floated out of the furnace. Even the fibula, kneecap, ankle and sole of the foot were intact, and they were treated completely as prosthetic limbs after amputation.

Shen Tang heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that Lu Xingzhou had said before that he had never thought about the issue of "changing for a prosthetic limb", but in fact it must have lingered in his dreams countless midnights. The shape of this leg bone was like engraved in his mind.

"I'm out of strength. I need to rest for a while before refining the second one." Lu Xingzhou stretched out his hand and gestured towards his leg bone, looking a little expectant. "Or I can change to this one first, and you can help me."

Seeing his eyes sparkling with anticipation, Shen Tang couldn't help but smile: "You... now you look like a teenager."

They both remembered the day they first met and she said, "You don't look like a teenager," and smiled at the same time.

"You're obviously only nineteen, but you usually pretend. People who don't know you would think you're ninety-nine." Shen Tang scolded with a smile, "Okay, tell me how you can help me?"

When the word "sister" came out, Lu Xingzhou was stunned for a moment, staring at her smile in a daze.

"What's wrong?" Shen Tang waved her slender hand in front of his eyes: "Why are you suddenly in a daze?"

"Nothing." Lu Xingzhou lowered his eyes slightly: "My sister...is not easy to do."

Shen Tang was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "You want your legs touched, right?" Her eyes moved, and her gaze fell on Lu Xingzhou's legs: "Now aren't you begging me to touch yours?"

Lu Xingzhou: “…”

"Okay." Shen Tang didn't tease him any further as he had business to do. "How do we do it?"

Lu Xingzhou looked down at his left leg. It had been smashed by vines when he'd been protecting Dugu Qingli. Since he was planning to replace the bone, the shattered part didn't matter. The tendons were still connected, though. The tendon-repairing medicine he'd made with that "fruit" had been quite effective; the bone was broken, but the tendons were intact.

In this case, amputation is not necessary. After all, it is extremely troublesome to let flesh, blood and meridians grow out of the bones. Although the flesh and blood of the body are atrophied, they are still there. Keeping them is called revival of flesh and blood, and amputating them is called regeneration of flesh and blood. It is better to keep them.

"I need to pick out all the broken bones in my calf. It's not very convenient to look for them by myself, and I'm afraid I might miss some..."

Shen Tang didn't say much. He sat on the dragon bone next to him, lifted his left leg and placed it on his knee. After thinking for a while, he took out a night pearl and hung it in front of him. Then he took out the sword and cut his leg straight open. He lowered his head and picked the bone in the light.

Theoretically, he should have regained consciousness after the tendons were reconnected, but Lu Xingzhou's condition was still dull, and even when his bones were shattered, he didn't feel much pain. It was the same now, with very little blood. Shen Tang didn't feel much pain as he pinched the bones out piece by piece.

He just stared blankly at Shen Tang's serious profile, lips tightly pursed. The light of the night pearl cast a soft halo on her body, which looked particularly beautiful at this moment.

I didn't dare to be distracted by the soft light in his eyes when he wiped the sweat just now, and I deliberately didn't think about it. Now looking at it again, it feels like my heart has melted.

She treated her leg herself, and now she is also treating mine... So gentle, so focused.

Sister?
This used to be a word that belonged exclusively to Yuan Muyu, but now...

Looking back on their interactions, Lu Xingzhou would rather call it mutual redemption.

Whether it was the legs of both parties, or the ones born from the past, her retreat and his darkness, they gradually melted away in the mutual contact during these days.

Ah Nuo said that when Master arrived in Xiazhou, he had a strong sense of resentment in his heart. Although the resentment was still there, it was visibly reduced.

At least not in front of her.

"Does it look good?" Shen Tang suddenly asked.

"nice."

"Is your little white hair more beautiful?"

"..." Lu Xingzhou hesitated for a moment, then said, "I've said before, my love for Qingli is not what you think..."

"Maybe not before, but now you are all stacked together."

"That was an accident."

Shen Tang finally looked up at him and asked, "Why are you willing to explain?"

Lu Xingzhou said nothing.

Shen Tang paused and whispered, "Will you leave after your leg heals?"

Lu Xingzhou said, "If you need me to stay, I will stay. When the day comes that Her Royal Highness the Princess feels that Lu Xingzhou is no longer useful, then I will leave."

Shen Tang picked up the last piece of broken bone: "Then it will be difficult for you to wait until this day."

Lu Xingzhou did not answer.

After repeated inspections, Lu Xingzhou confirmed that there were no broken bones left. He carefully took the kneecap and thighbone and reattached them. He then took the shinbone and connected it to the knee, and then the ankle...

Shen Tang found it quite amusing. It looked like playing house, like piecing together a puppet, but as each bone joined, a soft light flashed where it met, and then the bones really "grew" together, tendons and veins flowing through, flesh and blood fitting together.

It's amazing.

This is not splicing, it is bone refining.

Others have extracted their spines and replaced them with immortal bones, and some have dug out human supreme bones and replaced them... Shen Tang didn't know how they did it at first, but now it seems that it is not that rare, because immortal things themselves have such immortal significance. After being given the properties of "bone" with various auxiliary materials during the sacrifice, it can grow on its own and act as a skeleton.

Otherwise, why would they be called “immortals”?
Lu Xingzhou found his legs quite amusing. His calves had been deformed and their muscles atrophied, but now, with the support of the now normal bones, the little flesh and blood that had covered them was incomplete, with air leaking out here and there, revealing the fiery red inside. He looked exactly like a Terminator.

He preparedly took out the ointment and bandages and wrapped them tightly. "This is the most appropriate way to use the fruit you gave me. It's not very effective for tendon repair. Its main value is the recovery of flesh and blood. Wrap it like this for a period of time, and the flesh and blood will be fully restored. When the new flesh and blood grows, it will be tender. I will be the real jade foot." Shen Tang couldn't help laughing. "As for you, I think you are more like ham."

Lu Xingzhou was stunned for a moment. He was really a ham...

"Hiss..." He suddenly hugged his feet and looked painful.

Shen Tang was startled: "What's wrong?"

"This flesh and blood is rapidly recovering, and the tingling and numbness are unbearable... And the surging fire energy in this dead ham is surging, I'm hot..."

After saying this, he was suddenly stunned.

Shen Tang blinked and looked at him, then suddenly smiled.

"I'm conscious... I'm conscious! Ha, hahahaha..." Lu Xingzhou excitedly grabbed his calf, bent his knees and straightened them, laughing: "I can move!"

It was the first time that Shen Tang saw Lu Xingzhou smile like a child. He felt a little soft in his heart and felt the same way.

Wouldn't I feel the same way the day I was cured? And Lu Xingzhou had been holding it in for a full ten years!

She slowly took the Spirit Water Crystal and tapped Lu Xingzhou's shoulder: "Don't be too happy too soon, rest enough and continue, you still have one."

Lu Xingzhou took the crystal and grinned, "As you command, my princess."

The refining of water bones is different from that of fire bones. It is easy to melt them, but there is a risk that water and fire will repel each other and cause the furnace to explode.

But after practicing the Yin-Yang Extreme, he had already gained some experience in controlling and harmonizing this aspect. Lu Xingzhou performed the rituals carefully and finally found that it was faster and simpler than refining the Fire Bone.

Looking at the water bones floating out of the alchemy furnace, Lu Xingzhou touched his chin thoughtfully.

The process of sacrifice and refining is actually a rehearsal for the harmony of water and fire. From the experience just now, when the Yin-Yang Extreme Intention is practiced, the water bone can indeed coexist with the fire bone. There will be no conflict as long as the skill is in place.

This means that the future path is fixed and can never be changed.

Then the direction of Taoist practice is determined. It is necessary to find the Taoist practice part of Yin Yang Ji Yi Gong. This is the next main goal.

Shen Tang was helping to shave off his right calf bone. It was not broken here, so it was easier to remove.

Lu Xingzhou carefully brought the water bone to his leg.

At the moment of bonding, the power of water and fire is transmitted from the calf to the thigh, then to the lower abdomen, meets the dantian, and begins to run wild.

On one hand, it is blazingly fierce and violent, burning everything; on the other hand, it is gentle and tolerant, yet harbors murderous intent.

Lu Xingzhou endured the numbness and itchiness in his legs and the strange feeling of water and fire in his lower abdomen, and fully activated the Yin-Yang Extreme Intentions.

The true qi that was originally like a DNA chain expanded rapidly and spun wildly. After a while, it turned into a red and a blue yin and yang fish, floating gently in the dantian.

The empty energy is visible - it lays the foundation for the form.

This is not the ninth to eighth grade.

It is to directly break through the middle three grades from the lower three grades.

Under the coordination of the terrifying energy of the two heavenly treasures and the corresponding skills, Lu Xingzhou was shocked to find that... he had reached the sixth level...

A true...rebirth!
It can be seen that in front of the real spiritual objects of heaven and earth, the lower three grades are not worth dividing into three levels at all. They are just a small level that is not worth mentioning... But the hurdle of the middle three grades is still worth a look.

There was also a black aura in the corner, which was the foundation of his own evil cultivation method. It was trembling under the extreme power of yin and yang and was completely suppressed.

Lu Xingzhou blinked and stood up carefully with the help of his wheelchair.

As his feet touched the ground, the power of the earth veins went straight into the spring, and the spiritual energy above went straight to the sky.

If martial arts cultivation is to cultivate oneself, then Taoist cultivation is to cultivate the connection between heaven and earth and control external objects.

Previously, Lu Xingzhou's Taoist cultivation level had been stuck at the seventh level and could not go any higher because of a broken leg, which prevented him from reaching the Yongquan point and the intersection of heaven and earth, making it impossible for him to break through the third level.

And now that it has taken shape, it can be easily broken with the influx of spiritual energy from this secret realm.

The trembling black energy suddenly became majestic, like a little devil standing with his hands on his hips in front of the red and blue yin and yang fish, wanting to provoke.

Then we found that although the grade had improved, the quality could not keep up.

This evil cultivation technique that had been practiced for ten years was completely no match for the Yin-Yang Ultimate that had only been practiced for one day. The black energy was beaten by the red and blue Yin-Yang fish and kicked into the corner without a sound.

Lu Xingzhou opened his eyes and exited introspection.

He himself couldn't see, but a red light flashed in the left side of his eyes and a blue light flashed in the right side. In this dark secret place, there was electricity in the empty room.

Lu Xingzhou practiced both Taoism and martial arts, and both of them broke through to the sixth level.

The next moment, his legs went limp, and the leg bones that had just been glued together could not withstand standing for such a long time. He staggered and almost fell.

Soft jade leaned against each other, and the warm fragrance came over him. Shen Tang gently reached out and held him in his arms.

(End of this chapter)