Blood Burning Aids Enlightenment, Heaven-Burning Body Tempering Art!

Xiao Yan sealed the bottle and stored it in his storage ring as well, the corners of his lips curling upward slightly.

With this thing, he could finally create a body-tempering technique for himself.

After cultivating Dou Qi for many years, Xiao Yan had gained considerable insight into body tempering.

However, if one relied solely on the energy of heaven and earth to cultivate the body, the results were truly mediocre.

To hone one's physical qualities, one needed something like Blood Burning to achieve rapid progress.

Xiao Yan patted the dust from his body and jogged down the mountain.

When Yao Lao saw the smile on Xiao Yan's lips, his heart skipped a beat.

Could this little fellow have already guessed Blood Burning's effects and even thought of a way to neutralize them?

Immediately afterward, Yao Lao was shocked by his own wild notion and repeatedly shook his head inwardly.

Impossible, impossible!!

If merely smelling Blood Burning's medicinal liquid could let someone think of a solution and avoid its pain, cultivation would be far too easy.

At most, Xiao Yan had merely recognized that Blood Burning was extraordinary.

A faint glimmer flashed from the Bone Flame Ring as Yao Lao's voice emerged. "It's only a fourth-grade medicinal liquid. Once we have all the materials in the future, I can refine something even better for you."

Xiao Yan ignored him and instead worked through the final link in the body-tempering technique he was creating.

After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, Xiao Yan returned to his small courtyard.

The moment he entered, several pretty maidservants called cheerfully toward the room, "Young Master has returned."

Xiao Yan nodded at the maidservants and quickly entered his room. Four girls dressed in exquisite garments came forward to serve him tea and wipe his face, their movements exceptionally practiced.

The four girls were all fifteen or sixteen, at the height of their youthful beauty. They were around one meter sixty tall, slender and graceful, with waists that could be encircled in one hand.

They had delicate oval faces and eyes as black as lacquer, beautiful and refined beyond compare. Each wore a short skirt of a different color, making them look especially sweet and charming.

The four girls were personal maidservants Qin Yueyao had carefully selected for Xiao Yan. They were Chun Ying, Xiaying, Qiuying, and Dongying.

Although the Xiao Clan had temporarily remained in Wutan City for certain reasons, Qin Yueyao had not denied Xiao Yan any of the treatment a young master of a great clan ought to receive.

"Young Master, why have you returned so early today? You usually do not come home until nightfall. Did your cultivation make a breakthrough?" Chun Ying, the eldest, asked gently.

"I obtained something good today. You'll find out soon enough." Xiao Yan rolled his shoulders. Refining so much Blood Coagulation Powder at once had been rather tiring. "First, help me take off my clothes and prepare a bath for me."

"I remember Chun Ying and Sister Xiaying serving you in the bath. You bathed for a full two or three hours, and who knows what you did? The whole room was soaking wet. I have no idea how you bathed." The girl in orange let out a string of silver-bell laughter, her pretty face flushed crimson.

At Qiuying's words, Chun Ying and Xiaying could not help recalling their antics that day. Their cheeks immediately reddened, lovely as flowers.

Xiao Yan caught Qiuying by her fair wrist and scraped her pert nose with a finger. "There's proper business today. Not one of you can be absent. Whoever dares run away, I'll spank her."

"Yes," the four girls answered in unison, their lovely faces flushed.

Yao Lao thought, Little fellow, you may still be the young master now, but you'll be in for some suffering soon enough.

After a brief period of preparation, steam filled the bathroom, while the pool was steeped with flowers and fragrant spices in a riot of colors.

The four girls entered the bath chamber and briskly removed their outer skirts and inner garments, leaving only bellybands and underpants. Their skin was faintly visible beneath the small bellybands, their curves fully revealed, their youthful bodies incredibly alluring.

They stepped forward again to undress Xiao Yan. Seeing his increasingly solid muscles, all of their cheeks grew scorching hot.

Since he still needed to cultivate shortly, Xiao Yan did not toy with the four young girls. He closed his eyes and relaxed his body.

The four girls looked at Xiao Yan in confusion. What was wrong with him today? Could there really be proper business?

After exchanging glances for a while, the four girls finally picked up bath cloths and began washing Xiao Yan.

Half an hour later, Xiao Yan dried himself. Before the four girls could change into fresh dresses, he pulled them onto the bed while they wore only new bellybands.

"Young Master, Madam said you must focus on cultivation. Before holding your coming-of-age ceremony, you must not act recklessly," Chun Ying said, lightly biting her red lips.

"What are you thinking?" Xiao Yan raised a hand and tapped Chun Ying on the head, then took out four jade bottles and handed the four girls jade rulers.

"Dip the jade rulers into the medicinal liquid in these bottles and apply it to my body. Be careful not to get any on yourselves. This medicinal liquid is greatly harmful to women."

It really was proper business? Chun Ying lowered her head shyly, while the other three girls were also rather embarrassed.

After patting their racing hearts, the four girls picked up the jade bottles and carefully applied the medicinal liquid to Xiao Yan's body.

In an instant, Xiao Yan felt as though he were immersed in lava. Heat continuously radiated from it, and the burning sensation was like having his body roasted over molten rock.

Having personally experienced Blood Burning's medicinal effects, the final trace of imperfection was filled in, and Xiao Yan instantly understood.

[Drawing upon your years of experience using Dou Qi cultivation to temper your body, you attained enlightenment and comprehended the Heaven-Burning Body Tempering Art.]

[Heaven-Burning Body Tempering Art: A body-tempering technique suited for those with fire-element constitutions. As cultivation deepens, it grants extremely powerful resistance to fire-element objects, even Heavenly Flames.]

Having chosen to cultivate the Flame Mantra, Xiao Yan would inevitably need to devour Heavenly Flames in the future. Naturally, he would not cultivate only his body.

His body tempering had to strengthen his flesh while also paving the way for devouring Heavenly Flames in the future.

As the Heaven-Burning Body Tempering Art began to circulate, every pore on Xiao Yan's body greedily absorbed the medicinal power contained in the Blood Burning spread over his skin.

With a technique specifically designed for physical cultivation, the violent energy contained in Blood Burning immediately flowed like floodwaters from overflowing rivers into drainage channels, and everything became orderly.

Watching the blood-red medicinal liquid fade at a visible speed, the four maidservants hurriedly continued applying more to Xiao Yan with their exquisite jade rulers.

As his mastery of the technique grew, Blood Burning's medicinal power passed through his skin and seeped into his flesh, bones, and meridians.

As he continually absorbed this medicinal power, Xiao Yan felt his body growing increasingly vigorous. His bones and meridians faintly shone with a fiery red luster, and their toughness was visibly enhanced.

This improvement far surpassed that of his Dou Qi cultivation days. Even though Xiao Yan had repeatedly modified his Dou Qi cultivation methods in the past, it would have taken several days to achieve what he had now accomplished in mere moments.

After waiting a long while without hearing Xiao Yan scream, Yao Lao released a thread of soul power to examine Xiao Yan's physical condition.

When he sensed Blood Burning's energy turning into streaks of red light and being absorbed by Xiao Yan at a speed like a whale drinking from a river, Yao Lao was shocked beyond measure.

"How can Blood Burning's medicinal power be absorbed so quickly?!!!"