On Perching Moon Island, the rear hall of the cave abode was off-limits to outsiders.
With Yan Mingyi's slender hands attending him, Lin Changheng slowly slipped out of his robe, revealing a muscular, well-proportioned body with smooth contours, then stepped into an enormous medicinal bath tub half a person's height.
The tub contained no ordinary hot water. Its contents were a deep amber, the medicinal liquid thick and viscous, with dense white spiritual mist hovering over its surface. It gave off a strange scent mingling the freshness of vegetation with the sharpness of metal.
This was the highest-level combination of body-tempering materials in the Evergreen Azurewood Body's Auxiliary Body Tempering Method.
None surpassed it.
Lin Changheng had long since obtained the rarest main ingredients. Through captured Storage Bags, purchases in the Immortal City, and other means, he had also gathered all the remaining supplementary materials.
Yan Mingyi had carefully blended them into this bath.
"Hiss-"
The instant he entered, Lin Changheng gave a muffled grunt, his brows drawing together slightly.
The seemingly placid medicinal liquid actually contained violent energy. Like countless fine needles, or scorching magma, it instantly penetrated his pores and burrowed madly into every limb and bone.
Scalding torrents carrying the stabbing pain of wooden needles rampaged through his meridians, muscles, and bones, as though intent on tearing him apart and reshaping him.
He dared not delay and immediately circulated the Evergreen Azurewood Body, turning the Medicinal Bath's power and stimulation into reserves of strength.
The skin exposed above the medicinal liquid, originally covered in blue-green whorls, instantly turned scarlet like red-hot branding irons. Wisps of white heat steamed from his head and gathered beneath the ceiling of the quiet room without dispersing.
His muscles trembled slightly, and faint cracks sounded from his bones as the medicinal power