Zhao Er entered the Cultivation Chamber, but this time, before cultivating, he first filled the room with metal. Only then did he take out the Yuchan Toad Venom, scoop up a little, and swallow it before formally beginning to circulate his cultivation method.
As the cultivation method circulated within him, his blood absorbed the Yuchan Toad Toxin, while the surrounding yin qi and metallic substances began pouring into his body under his Guiding Technique.
For a moment, Yuchan Toad Toxin, yin qi, and Golden Essence Energy converged within him.
Golden Essence Energy began circulating. Wherever it passed, every muscle fiber seemed to be sliced apart by invisible blades of energy, then repaired and restructured by blood-energy force. Accompanying it was pain like death by a thousand cuts.
Adding the yin toxin contained in the yin qi allowed Zhao Er to perceive his body's destruction and reconstruction with utter clarity as he cultivated, while also deepening the pain.
As Zhao Er saw it, when he absorbed Yuchan Toad Toxin into his body, it caused none of the pain he had experienced when absorbing Blackwater Strange Serpent Toxin or Golden-Backed Heavenly Dragon toxin.
Perhaps the Yuchan Toad Toxin had a numbing or sedative effect, so he had thought to use it to ease the pain of cultivating the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art, much as those poisonous herbs did.
However...
"Aooow!"
As his cultivation began, a scream of agony escaped Zhao Er's mouth. It was so wretched that the sleeping White Marten began flailing all four little paws in the air, as though instinctively trying to flee.
Only after opening its eyes and seeing that the screams came from Zhao Er did the White Marten cover its ears with its little paws, roll over, and go back to sleeping soundly.
Zhao Er could