Reliable Marrow-Cleansing Method

Xue Lingyun jogged all the way back to the Dormitory Area, went straight to the door of Room 108, and raised a hand to knock.

"Knock, knock, knock."

The door opened quickly.

Huo Yuhao was wearing pajamas, his hair still damp. He had clearly just finished bathing.

Inside the room, Wang Dong, another exceptionally handsome youth with short pinkish-blue hair, sat at the bedside organizing belongings. Hearing the knock, Wang Dong also looked up.

Both were somewhat surprised to see Xue Lingyun.

"Bro Lingyun? This late..." Huo Yuhao did not finish speaking.

"Open your mouth." Xue Lingyun was concise.

"Huh?" Huo Yuhao obeyed instinctively.

Quick as lightning, Xue Lingyun shoved the slightly sticky Mystic Water Pill into his mouth, then flicked his chin—

"Gulp."

The pill slid down his throat.

Huo Yuhao: "???"

Wang Dong was completely stunned as well, even forgetting to put down what was in hand, utterly unable to understand what had just happened.

Before Huo Yuhao could react, Xue Lingyun had already grabbed the back of his collar. With a flex of his arm, he directly lifted the slender Huo Yuhao entirely off the ground, turned, and left as though carrying a parcel.

"Hey?! Bro Lingyun! You—"

Huo Yuhao's feet dangled in the air as he kicked futilely a few times. Suspended in midair, he could barely even speak clearly.

Wang Dong rose from the bedside, opened their mouth as if to say something, yet had no idea what was going on. All they could do was watch helplessly as Xue Lingyun carried the flailing Huo Yuhao out the door.

Carrying him, Xue Lingyun walked steadily down the corridor and out through the Dormitory Building's entrance.

Old Man Mu En, lying in the lounge chair by the door, cracked his eyelids open. His cloudy gaze swept over the strange pair—a youth carrying another youth, while the one being carried flailed his limbs in midair.

His lips twitched as he muttered under his breath, "Kids... they sure are energetic."

Xue Lingyun ignored him and carried Huo Yuhao straight to a secluded, deserted lakeside near the Dormitory Area before finally letting go.

Huo Yuhao's legs went weak beneath him, and he staggered upright. Before he could recover from this sudden string of events, he heard Xue Lingyun say:

"Stand still. Don't resist."

Before the words had faded, his First Soul Ring rose.

"Evil Tiger Crushing Pulse Fist!"

"Bang!!"

A solid punch landed squarely on Huo Yuhao's lower abdomen.

"Pfft—!" Huo Yuhao spat out a mouthful of blood, instantly doubling over from the agonizing pain.

Immediately afterward, the Second Soul Ring lit up, and emerald radiance enveloped him.

"Life Reconstruction!"

Gentle vitality swiftly repaired the damage.

Only seconds had passed before the pain vanished, but Huo Yuhao could feel a cool medicinal force erupting through the meridians that had just been "scattered" and repaired, flushing through them wildly!

Then, vast quantities of greasy gray-black impurities reeking of sour stench gushed from every pore of his body!

Huo Yuhao was dumbfounded by the drastic changes in his body. He stared wide-eyed at the greasy gray-black filth continuously seeping from his skin, unable to form a complete sentence for a while.

"Don't worry about anything else yet. Try circulating your Soul Power." Xue Lingyun's calm, unruffled voice sounded beside him.

Suppressing his shock and nausea, Huo Yuhao followed the instruction and tried to guide his Soul Power.

At the very start of a circulation cycle, his eyes widened in disbelief—fast! Incomparably faster than before!

Whenever his Soul Power had flowed through certain meridian nodes in the past, it had always felt as though it were sinking into a swamp, requiring strenuous effort to force it slowly through. Yet now, those formerly sluggish areas felt smoother than ever before!

"This...?" He abruptly looked up at Xue Lingyun.

"The Mystic Water Pill is a medicinal pill that cleanses the tendons and transforms the marrow," Xue Lingyun finally explained. At the same time, he inconspicuously stepped another half-step away, distancing himself from the increasingly pungent odor.

"However, your meridians were severely congested before, like water pipes clogged shut with silt. If the pill's medicinal power had to dissolve and clear them on its own, it would have been too slow and wasteful."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over the filth still being expelled from Huo Yuhao's body. "So I first used the force of my Soul Skill to shake apart and loosen those hardened 'large impurities' from the outside, allowing the medicinal power to flush through faster and more thoroughly."

"Of course, that was also because too many impurities had accumulated in your body. Someone with a better foundation would not have needed this."

Huo Yuhao understood only part of it, but the surging cool medicinal power within him, along with his endlessly rushing and increasingly smooth Soul Power, could not be faked.

He no longer hesitated. Immediately sitting cross-legged, he guided the immense medicinal power through circulation cycles in his body with all his strength.

Time slowly passed. Moonlight quietly spilled over the lakeside.

As the medicinal power fully dissolved and permeated his limbs and bones, even finer and deeper impurities continued to be expelled. Another layer of grime accumulated on Huo Yuhao's body, while the speed of his Soul Power circulation increased dramatically again from its previous level, reaching a degree he had never dared imagine before.

At last, the medicinal power was completely absorbed.

Huo Yuhao let out a long breath of turbid breath tinged with faint gray vapor and slowly opened his eyes.

Before wild joy could surge into his heart, it was dulled by the thick, sticky filth covering his body and giving off a piercing sour stench.

He raised his pitch-black palm, his voice even changing slightly. "L-Bro Lingyun... this... this method... directly beating the impurities out... damn, is it reliable?"

"It isn't reliable." Xue Lingyun answered without the slightest hesitation. Seeing Huo Yuhao's instantly frozen expression, he added,

"But my Second Soul Skill is healing. So even if I had accidentally shattered every bone in your body just now, I could have put them all back together. The risk is controllable, so don't worry."

Huo Yuhao was completely speechless.

Looking at Xue Lingyun's face, which appeared especially calm in the moonlight—perhaps even a little matter-of-fact—he once again deeply realized just how... unconventional this Bro Lingyun's way of thinking and methods truly were.

"Wash yourself clean here before going back." Xue Lingyun pointed at the tranquil lake before them, his tone brooking no argument. "Wash thoroughly. If you bring that smell back to the dormitory, you won't be seeing anyone for the next few days."

After giving those instructions, he did not linger. He turned and left with light steps.

Huo Yuhao was left alone by the rippling lakeside, facing his "utterly filthy" new body beneath the moonlight, sinking into a chaotic mess of wild joy, bewilderment, and deep self-doubt.