"Heavenly Bath" did, in the end, turn out to be a bath.
Emperor Qi had promised it as a reward, after all. He wasn't about to change his mind at the last minute and recruit someone for the palace.
That Old Imperial Physician Wen really had the heart of a mischievous child. Jiang Wang felt nothing but... a little sympathy for Yan Fu.
He didn't know what kind of person Court Consultant Wen Yanyu was, but Wen Tinglan's third grandfather was certainly not someone to trifle with.
Fortunately, it had been Wen Tinglan herself who had come to call on him last time.
If it had been Imperial Physician Wen...
Just thinking about it made his skin crawl.
The effects of the "Heavenly Bath" were excellent. Specifically, it had further strengthened his body by more than twenty percent after it had been tempered by the Four Spirits Body Refining Technique and Stone Gate Grass.
His talent for the five elemental forces seemed to have improved a little, too, though not by much. Only because of his fine control over the fire element could Jiang Wang detect the change.
These were the best results his current cultivation and physique could achieve. After all, the bath used the finest medicines in the national treasury, custom-prepared by the Imperial Hospital's experts. That was, of course, apart from the rare natural treasures one could only chance upon.
Qi State had given its prodigies ample support for the Yellow River Assembly.
Jiang Wang reckoned that the imperial family's children all took a Heavenly Bath to lay a solid foundation before attaining Divine Presence and seeking a Golden Body and Jade Marrow.
In that sense, the saying that Divine Presence was within reach after the Heavenly Bath did at least have some truth to it.
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