The Northern River Loose Cultivator's Heart Aches

Chapter 31: Northern River Loose Cultivator's Heartache

Even if the path of cultivation would encounter terrifying lightning tribulations like Su Clan's A-Sixteen, so what? Even if there were greater calamities, so what?

Did the answer need to be stated?

Even with countless dangers, even with all sorts of tribulations, even with the risk of perishing at any moment.

However, how could a magnificent and grand life be compared to an ordinary, mundane one?

"To hear the Dao in the morning and die in the evening, is that acceptable?"

"Acceptable!"

He would not let go of this opportunity. Unless one was a living, waiting-to-die husk or a timid coward, who would abandon such a chance?

Someone in the Nine Provinces Group No. 1 was chatting.

It was Yurouzi telling Northern River Loose Cultivator about her trip to J City, how she met Senior Song, how she found the Ghost Lantern Temple, and how she captured the Spirit Ghost.

Seeing Yurouzi online, Song Shuhang's heart suddenly calmed considerably.

His fingers heavily pressed the Enter key on his keyboard, and he sent his first message in the Nine Provinces Group No. 1.

Great Pressure of Book Mountain: "Greetings, seniors."

A very ordinary greeting, but as a newcomer, this opening should be appropriate, right?

Feathery: "Which senior is online? Greetings to you too, senior."

Yurouzi happened to be online. To her, everyone in the group, except for 'Su Clan's A-Sixteen', was a senior.

"Huh? Great Pressure of Book Mountain?" Northern River Loose Cultivator was a little surprised.

He remembered that about ten days ago, the group owner True Monarch Yellow Mountain had accidentally added a mortal. But the person hadn't spoken up, and Northern River Loose Cultivator had almost forgotten about this person in the group.

He had thought the person would quickly leave the group—after all, if one didn't know the members were cultivators, seeing the chat content would definitely make them think they'd entered a group of lunatics and they'd decisively leave.

He hadn't expected Great Pressure of Book Mountain to still be in the group after so long. And he addressed them as seniors right from the start. Had this guy discovered something special about the group?

Great Pressure of Book Mountain: "Senior North River, hello. Yurouzi, thank you for the two boxes of medicinal ingredients!"

"Huh? It's Senior Song!!" Yurouzi immediately reacted and said happily. She had been looking for which senior in the group had the secular name 'Song Shuhang' but hadn't found them. She hadn't expected Senior Song to come online today.

Great Pressure of Book Mountain: "Yurouzi, you can just call me Shuhang. I'm just an ordinary person accidentally added to the group by True Monarch Yellow Mountain. Speaking of which, the reason I was added by mistake is that my chat account number is only one digit different from yours. True Monarch Yellow Mountain intended to add you, but mistakenly added me."

"Huh? Now that Senior Song mentions it, I realize our numbers are only one digit apart. We really are fated!" Yurouzi said happily—this girl, it seemed she wouldn't change her address of 'Senior Song' anytime soon.

Seeing this, Northern River Loose Cultivator understood. The 'kind Senior Song Shuhang from the group' that Yurouzi mentioned meeting in J City was this Great Pressure of Book Mountain.

And it made sense that he addressed everyone as seniors as soon as he joined the group.

"Little friend Shuhang, since you've started sending messages in the group, it means you've seen something from Yurouzi, right?" Northern River Loose Cultivator added a smiling emoji.

True Monarch Yellow Mountain's divination seemed truly formidable, a million times more powerful than that scoundrel Copper Gua Master. This little friend indeed has a connection with the people in the group. But why didn't True Monarch Yellow Mountain reveal the divination results back then?

Feathery: "What can Senior Song see from me?"

Great Pressure of Book Mountain: "To be precise, it is indeed greatly related to Yurouzi. When helping her find the Ghost Lantern Temple, I did feel that she was very different from ordinary people. But the most important thing is the two boxes of 'simplified Body Tempering Liquid' medicinal ingredients she sent today. I just tried to follow the Pharmacist's Elixir Recipe... I just took another sip of the elixir."

"Oh? Did you succeed in refining the Body Tempering Liquid?" Northern River Loose Cultivator was surprised. An ordinary mortal, receiving medicinal ingredients from Yurouzi, and then following the Body Tempering Liquid's Elixir Recipe, without any guidance, successfully refined the elixir?

When did refining elixirs become so easy?

Or perhaps, this Song Shuhang possessed incredibly terrifying luck, heaven-defying fortune?

The concept of fortune is mysterious, but you cannot deny its existence. Northern River Loose Cultivator knew of someone with heaven-defying fortune. That guy didn't need to do anything; if he ran out of money, he could just go out for a stroll and pick up money until his hands were sore. One outing would be enough to cover his expenses for several days.

It was a pity that despite possessing such formidable fortune, he had no cultivation talent whatsoever. Otherwise, Northern River Loose Cultivator would have taken him as a disciple no matter what.

Yurouzi was equally surprised: "Senior Song, my medicinal ingredients should have arrived around noon today, right? Considering that, it's only enough time to refine at most one batch of elixir? Senior, did you succeed on your first try?"

"I don't know if I succeeded or failed... Although I followed the steps on the Elixir Recipe one by one, there was a slight accident with the forty-first medicinal ingredient." Song Shuhang continued, "In the end, I only obtained about five spoonfuls of Body Tempering Liquid. I tried taking a little, and my body was greatly strengthened. Whether it was eyesight, physical strength, endurance, or power, it was all-around strengthened."

"With these characteristics, you undoubtedly succeeded in refining it. Even if there was an accident, at most, the quality of the Body Tempering Liquid you refined was just a bit lower," Northern River Loose Cultivator confirmed.

As the most basic medicinal liquid, Liquid Quenching had very low medicinal resistance.

Therefore, unlike higher-level elixirs, it did not have high requirements for quality. Even if the refined quality was lower, taking more could produce the same effect—this was also why the simplified Body Tempering Liquid's efficacy was only half of the old version, yet it was still affirmed by everyone in the group.

If it were a higher-level elixir, a slight difference in quality would result in a world of difference in effect, and it would be difficult to accumulate medicinal power through quantity. The higher the level of the elixir, the stronger the medicinal resistance. For higher-level elixirs, a slight drop in quality would require hundreds of low-quality elixirs to compensate. The more consumed, the stronger the medicinal resistance, and over time, those higher-level elixirs would have no effect on cultivators.

"Relatively speaking, I'm more curious, little friend Shuhang, how many batches of Body Tempering Liquid did you refine? How many times did you succeed?" Northern River Loose Cultivator asked curiously.

"Batches? It should only be one batch. Because I only have an induction cooker," Song Shuhang replied honestly.

Before he could finish speaking, Yurouzi chimed in: "As for the number of times, Senior Song should have only tried once. Because it's only been about five or six hours since my medicinal ingredients were delivered."

"One batch, and you succeeded on the first try?!" Northern River Loose Cultivator suddenly felt his knees go weak, wanting to kneel and cry—he was a rogue cultivator, and in the early days of cultivation, everything depended on himself.

How many times did he fail when refining Body Tempering Liquid back then? He couldn't remember anymore! In short, he failed many, many times, failing until he was bankrupt before he grasped the refining method for Body Tempering Liquid! Although he was refining the old, complex version of Body Tempering Liquid at the time, comparing oneself to others could be deadly!

Speaking of which, what was that induction cooker? Was it a new type of alchemy furnace?

Could it be that Yurouzi had also given little friend Shuhang an alchemy furnace? Could this new model of stove enhance the success rate?

Thinking of this, Northern River Loose Cultivator tentatively asked: "Little friend Shuhang, that induction cooker you mentioned, is it a new model of alchemy furnace?"

"Huh? Is there such a model of alchemy furnace?" Yurouzi asked doubtfully.

Seeing Yurouzi's reply, Northern River Loose Cultivator felt a dull ache in his heart—he had a premonition that Song Shuhang's next reply would make him cry tears of blood!

"..." Song Shuhang looked at the induction cooker in the kitchen and typed on his keyboard: "No, it's just a household model No. 12 induction cooker produced by the Weizhen Company."