Divine Tang Era

Chapter 173 The Second Transformation of the Primordial Embryo

"Lord Xue".

Kui Mu Xingjun walked steadily to the table and bowed to Xue An, who was seated at the head of the table. His dark robes swayed slightly with his movements, and the star patterns embroidered on the hem were faintly visible in the lamplight, making his demeanor appear as calm and composed as the sea.

"No need for formalities, please sit down," Xue An said gently, raising his hand in a gesture of support.

Kui Mu Xingjun then took his seat.

Xu Dan couldn't help but glance at him again. He knew that Master Xue had a powerful background, but he didn't expect that even the Star Lord of Fengzhen Temple would be so respectful to him. You must know that Fengzhen Temple was directly under the emperor's jurisdiction and had great power. The people inside all thought highly of themselves and wouldn't even give ordinary people a second glance. He never expected that they would be so humble and polite to Master Xue at this moment.

It seems he underestimated his master.

Xu Dan removed the hairy beef from the tray. The waiter, noticing the new customer at the table, immediately brought over bowls, chopsticks, and cups to set them out, and also took the empty tray back.

"Come on, eat, don't be shy."

Xu Dan, straightforward and generous, said something and then picked up a piece of long-haired beef sliced ​​as thin as a cicada's wing and dipped it into the boiling hot pot. Xue Diao and Xue Bao'er couldn't wait any longer and followed suit, picking up slices of meat and stirring them into the broth. Kui Mu Xingjun and Xue An politely declined for a moment, but also picked up some long-haired beef and started dipping it in the broth.

After burying himself in his food for a while, Lord Kui Mu finally looked up and sighed, saying comfortably, "What delicious meat! It's just a pity that it's not accompanied by good wine, which is a bit of a shame."

"Isn't wine easy to find? There's plenty." Xu Dan raised his eyebrows proudly.

Kui Mu Xingjun's eyes lit up immediately, and he leaned forward, asking, "Do you have the Crimson Blood Pearl from last time?"

"It's fine if you don't mention Crimson Blood Pearl, but I get angry as soon as you do."

Xu Dan slammed his fist on the table and said, "You people from Fengzhen Temple are so unethical! I kindly offered you some wine, but you turned around and bought it all, leaving me not a single drop. This is a big taboo in the martial arts world. If you encounter someone with a bad temper, they might just stab you in the back."

"This...this has nothing to do with me. It was all done by other people. I only shared a little bit of the wine."

Embarrassed by having his shortcomings exposed to his face, Kui Mu Xingjun quickly changed the subject, saying, "Do you have any good wine in your shop right now? I'd like to buy some to try."

Xu Dan's eyes darted around, and a sly smile appeared on his lips. "We have plenty of wine, but it's a little pricey." This guy was clearly a sucker; if he wasn't ripped off, even God wouldn't stand for it.

"As long as the wine is good, money is no problem!" said Kui Mu Xingjun, a man of great wealth and power.

Without wasting any words, Xu Dan took out a jar of Everlasting Wine with condensed white frost from his storage ring.

Even before the seal was removed, Lord Kui Mu could smell a clear, refreshing fragrance emanating from the jar. The aroma wasn't pungent like ordinary strong liquor; instead, it possessed a mellow, invigorating sweetness that seemed to cleanse the body of all impurities. His eyes widened instantly. He snatched the jar, clutched it to his chest, brought his nose to the seal, and took a deep breath, exclaiming with rapt attention, "Fine wine! Truly fine wine!"

As he was about to break the seal, Xu Dan stopped him.

"This wine is old and has a strong aroma, so don't open it in the shop to avoid everyone smelling it."

"How can you drink it if you don't open it?" Kui Mu Xingjun frowned.

"Don't worry, I have some. This meal is on me, consider it making friends. I'll charge you next time, but you still have to pay for this jar of wine."

Upon hearing this, Lord Kui Mu casually tossed over a piece of spirit jade, saying, "Give me a few more jars, and this piece of spirit jade is yours."

Xu Dan reached out and took it, feeling a warmth in his palm, as if he had scooped up a pool of solidified moonlight.

Upon closer inspection, the jade is warm and flawless, its milky white tinged with a faint, ethereal blue hue, like a distant mountain silhouette on the horizon. As the light shifts, the blue hue vanishes, transforming into a shimmering, ice-crack-like brilliance within the jade, seemingly breathing and flickering with life. Gazing at it for a long time, one can almost feel a gentle, flowing spiritual energy deep within, perpetually swirling and emanating.

This is no ordinary thing; it is the essence of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth condensed in the jade mine.

Xu Dan touched the jade, his eyes lit up, feeling that this business was worth doing, and quickly took out four more jars of Changchun Immortal Wine for him.

He then took out the jade gourd and filled the empty wine cup in front of Kui Mu Xingjun. Of course, he didn't forget Xue An, Xue Diao, and Xue Bao'er either.

"Master Xue, try this wine, it tastes good." After pouring the wine, Xu Dan said to Xue Diao and Xue Bao'er, "My two senior brothers, you should also try it. This wine can not only greatly replenish qi and blood, but also strengthen muscles and bones, which is good for your health. However, you can't drink too much, as it has a strong aftereffect."

Kui Mu Xingjun raised his cup to Xue An, then tilted his head back and drank it all in one gulp.

The wine flowed smoothly down my throat and into my lower abdomen, transforming into a surge of powerful energy that warmed my entire body.

"Excellent wine!" Kui Mu Xingjun exclaimed, then beckoned to Xu Dan, "Come on, fill it up again."

Xu Dan, seeing that he was a drunkard, didn't bother with him and placed the jade gourd on the table, letting him pour himself. Kui Mu Xingjun was happy to do so, pouring himself cup after cup. Xue An, however, was different; he only took a small sip, savoring it carefully.

Xue Diao and Xue Bao'er exchanged a glance, then cautiously raised their cups and took a sip.

The effects of the alcohol erupted instantly, and a surge of powerful energy rose from their dantian. Their cheeks flushed red, and they were so dizzy that they could barely sit up. They quickly put down their wine cups, closed their eyes, and tried to process the effects of the alcohol, otherwise they would have to pay for their food.

Xu Dan had anticipated this, so he picked up his glass and took a small sip, but dared not drink too much, lest he follow in the footsteps of the other two.

Suddenly, he remembered something: his body seemed to still be that of a minor. What if drinking alcohol as a minor damaged his brain and turned him into an idiot? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder.

I have decided to stop drinking now.

As for the wine I bought, I'll keep it safe and drink it when I'm an adult; it won't spoil.

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, they dispersed, satisfied.

Xu Dan also returned to the backyard, applied the Longevity Divine Cauldron Jade Liquid Ointment, took the Saintly Ten-Complete Pill, and began cultivating the Nine Revolutions of the Primordial Embryo.

"Hmm..."

The moment he began to circulate his energy, a strange pain surged from deep within his muscles. It was neither the itch of ants biting nor the burning pain of flames, but a primal, direct tearing and reshaping. Beneath his skin, it felt as if countless mice were scurrying about, and his muscles writhed, undulated, and deformed uncontrollably.

Xu Dan felt as if his muscles were being forcibly torn apart from the inside out by an invisible force.

The muscle fibers snapped one by one, like a bowstring that could not bear the weight, making a faint but teeth-grinding "snap" sound.

Intense aching and tearing pain instantly overwhelmed his nerves, a pain even deeper and more thorough than the pain he experienced during the blood transfusion.

Then, as if countless skillful yet ferocious craftsmen were frantically hammering and tempering the torn soft tissues. In this process, the broken muscle fibers were slowly melted down, refined, and the weak and redundant parts were removed.

His body was constantly expanding and contracting during this tempering process, making him look extremely strange.

Xu Dan could clearly sense that the loose, cotton-like deposits that had accumulated in his muscles over the years, as well as the hidden injuries left from his past training and battles, were slowly disappearing under this tempering.

This process repeats itself endlessly: tearing, tempering, reshaping, and rebirth, consuming enormous amounts of energy within him, leaving him feeling unprecedentedly hungry and weak, as if all his strength had been drained and poured into this earth-shattering self-reconstruction.

Fortunately, the Longevity Cauldron Jade Liquid Ointment and the Sacred Ten-Complete Pill, one internal and one external, can always provide pure energy at crucial moments.

This will prevent him from losing energy during cultivation and starting to deplete his own essence and blood.

However, this amount of energy was far from enough. The condensed spiritual energy that filled the meridians began to decompose under the refinement of the Nine Revolutions of the Primordial Embryo Technique, turning into surging energy that flowed into the body.

Xu Dan's hungry and weak body, like a parched desert receiving sweet rain, quickly recovered and prepared for the next round of tempering.

As the energy burned wildly, drops of faint gray grease and extremely fine muscle fragments were continuously expelled from the rapidly changing physique, quickly soaking the clothes and emitting a fishy odor that was different from dirt, but carried a strong masculine aura.

Xu Dan clenched his teeth, his mouth filled with the taste of rust.

He trembled violently, yet amidst the extreme pain and weakness, he clearly sensed a new, purer kind of...

A stronger and more resilient force is born from the broken old body.

The realm of flesh transformation involves tempering and refining the mortal body through countless trials, transforming it into a pure and immaculate body capable of bearing greater energy.

Every twitch, every tear, signifies a leap towards a stronger state.

At this moment, he was like a piece of divine iron thrown into a raging furnace, undergoing the most crucial stage of slag removal and steelmaking.

Rui Wuni had already noticed his movements. After observing for a moment, she saw that although he was in pain, his aura was steadily rising and there was no sign of him going astray. She was slightly relieved, but she still kept a sliver of her mind on him at all times, just in case.

After an unknown amount of time, Xu Dan awoke from his cultivation.

I felt better than ever before, with boundless power flowing through my blood and energy. My hands clenched lightly, my joints cracking, and my strength flowing as one.

Suddenly I felt something strange on my face. I reached out and touched it, and it felt like there was a layer of skin covering it. I gently tore it off.

Suddenly, he remembered that with each successful completion of the Nine Revolutions of the Primordial Embryo, the physical body would shed its skin. Now that the second revolution of the Primordial Embryo was beginning to take shape, another layer of skin would inevitably peel off.

"Damn it, can't they just grow taller normally?"

Xu Dan muttered a curse to himself before entering the Hidden Profound Cauldron. He tore off the old skin that had shed from his body and found that, as he had expected, he had become even shorter and more youthful and attractive, with not a single hair left on his body.

It's completely bald, whether it's big hair, small hair, head hair, eyebrows, face hair, or leg hair.

No wonder the demons in Journey to the West all liked to eat Tang Sanzang's flesh. If they could transform into someone with such delicate skin and flesh, which demon wouldn't want to eat him?

Even he himself wanted to take a couple of bites!

However, it's not a good time to go out now. Xu Dan thought to himself with a touch of melancholy.