Jade Emperor Art Body Refining Chapter

"Was it really that exaggerated? I just saw that the medicine you compounded should have been a powerful laxative, so I wanted you to change it." Seeing Gao Ren's exaggerated yet heartfelt excitement, Ren Jie found it strange instead. Was it really that dramatic?

"Just... just one look..." Gao Ren was even stammering. One look, and Ren Jie had known what his compounded medicine did? This was not some commonly used formula! Fine, even if one could understand it at a glance, once those five medicinal materials were added, it would become completely different.

"Meal Ticket Boss, do you know that after changing it like this, it won't be a powerful laxative anymore? This is something that can kill people. No, even someone at the peak of the True Qi Realm couldn't withstand this stuff unless they reached the Divine Power Realm."

"I know." Ren Jie nodded. "What's the point of making a laxative? Giving that kind of woman a laxative would only let her cause more trouble. If we're doing it, we do it ruthlessly—make poison, and deadly poison at that."

"Ah..." Gao Ren stood dumbstruck, his mouth taking a long while to close. "Meal Ticket Boss, you really... really can bear to do that to Fang Qi? And even poison... poison her to death?"

"Whether she dies or not will depend on her luck. If she really dies, it'll save us the trouble. If her Lineage rescues her in time, then we'll make sure they can't cure the poison anyway. When the time comes, they'll have no choice but to beg us, and we'll recover everything, principal and interest together." Ren Jie had already seen through it—one could not be polite to a woman like Fang Qi. Seeing Gao Ren's expression, Ren Jie smiled. "Just compound it. That woman's heart is a hundred times more poisonous than this."

Gao Ren finally confirmed one thing: Ren Jie was not joking. He was getting serious.

Could it be... could it be that getting hit by a stool had knocked him awake? That was a good thing.

"That's true enough. Just seeing that woman makes people uncomfortable all over." Gao Ren deeply agreed with Ren Jie's last remark.

"No... no..." Suddenly, Gao Ren violently shook his fair, plump head, the fat all over his body trembling along with it. Then he looked at Ren Jie again. "Let's not discuss that for now. Meal Ticket Boss, quickly tell me—how did you know to add Centipede Fluid, Hemp Tree Bark, Blood Activating Grass, then some Fire Lizard Blood and Love Root Grass? I compounded this medicine on the spot. There couldn't possibly be an existing formula for it, unless... unless you're a Spirit Alchemist. No, even an ordinary Spirit Alchemist couldn't possibly do this!"

Although Miraculous Apothecaries were the most basic level, the word "miraculous" in their title showed that even the most basic was also the most difficult. One's achievements in the realm of a Miraculous Apothecary could very likely reveal how far one would go along the path of alchemy.

The word "miraculous" in Miraculous Apothecary held inexhaustible mysteries, and it also matched the "miraculous" in the miraculous elixirs of Spirit Alchemists. In any case, that single word contained countless meanings. Whether it was the blending of medicines or later pill refinement, controlling the changes in medicinal properties could not be separated from that word. Gao Ren was only an Advanced Miraculous Apothecary, yet he was stronger than ordinary Top Tier Miraculous Apothecaries, and only one step away from becoming one himself. If not for...

"I really haven't dealt with medicinal mixtures before, and I'm even less of a Spirit Alchemist. But I did read a few books on medicinal material knowledge before. I know the names, properties, and general conditions of ordinary medicinal materials. I took one look at yours, thought of what I wanted to achieve, and came up with those five medicinal materials—Centipede Fluid and Hemp Tree Bark among them. Was I wrong?" Ren Jie himself could only say that he was relying entirely on instinct right now. He simply felt it ought to be that way and had not thought much else about it.

"Wrong. Every single one was wrong—ridiculously wrong. But..." Gao Ren said excitedly, "when those mistakes come together, they really can achieve what you described, Meal Ticket Boss. If Fang Qi is unlucky, she may not even keep her life. Even if she does, unless her people can find a top-tier Spirit Alchemist to refine an antidote, they absolutely won't be able to cure her. Though her Lineage is one of the Five Great Families, it would still be impossible for them to immediately find a top-tier Spirit Alchemist for a junior like her."

"Then that settles it. What are you getting so excited about? All right, keep refining your medicine. I'm heading back to rest for a while—my head still hurts." Seeing the fatty far too excited, Ren Jie hurriedly broke free from his plump hands and slipped away.

Once Ren Jie mentioned his headache, Gao Ren had no way to keep pressing him. Yet Gao Ren himself still could not pull free from his intoxication with those medicinal changes. For a Miraculous Apothecary, encountering such wondrous changes in a medicine mixture meant there was simply too much, far too much, to learn from. Moreover, this was not some established formula, but an entirely new one.

The more Gao Ren thought about it, the more he felt the mysteries within were boundless. It even led him to think of many other things. He stood there with his hands still held in the posture of gripping Ren Jie's arm, a delighted smile appearing on his face from time to time.

That guy. Ren Jie had walked far away before turning back for a glance. Seeing Gao Ren still maintaining the same posture with a smile on his face, he could not help shaking his head with a faint sigh.

After entering the inner courtyard, Ren Jie went upstairs. His quarters were on the second floor, while below were simple spaces for resting and receiving guests. The place was enormous and lavishly decorated. But after returning from the Ren Family Mansion, Ren Jie no longer felt much about this place.

He first sat down and slowly extended his divine sense. Twenty meters was not particularly far, but it was enough to confirm that there was nothing wrong around him.

Then Ren Jie sat on the bed. Back at the Library Pavilion, he had already thoroughly adjusted his mindset. Whether it was in the Great Council Hall or when he had directly ordered the Spirit Beast Carriage to ram someone upon returning, both were ways for Ren Jie to gradually understand and integrate into this world.

Ren Jie calmed his emotions slightly. With a movement of his divine sense, he entered his Sea of Consciousness, where the laptop that had become fully brain-computer-like rested within it. This time, Ren Jie had the time to study it carefully and went through everything again. The simplest system he had just activated contained nothing else. Other than that video he could not open without enough spirit jade, there were only those adult films.

Looking at that video again, Ren Jie focused all his thoughts on it. Spirit jade—he needed a great deal of spirit jade. The reason he had been able to remain inside for as long as a quarter of an hour before was likely due to changes and energy brought by his transmigration. Later on, he would need vast quantities of spirit jade to support it.

Ren Jie knew that whether it was reading in the Library Pavilion or changing a laxative into a deadly poison that even a Top Tier Miraculous Apothecary could not compound, it was all because his realm had changed.

And the reason his realm surpassed the people he had encountered so far was entirely due to the gains from that quarter of an hour. It could be seen just from his divine sense. Yet he had only comprehended it from afar and had not even heard a sound. If he could immerse himself in it a little longer, or hear the sounds within, what kind of gains would he receive then?

As he thought, Ren Jie made gathering a large quantity of spirit jade his most urgent priority. Unfortunately, he could not let anyone know about this. Although he was the Family Head of the Ren Family, that position was clearly only nominal; he held no real power.

Though he could make a show of force on Elder Council Day and fight for a few minor rights, asking the Lineage to produce a large amount of spirit jade was simply impossible. It might even stir up real trouble.

It seemed this matter could only be handled quietly.

After pondering this matter for a while, Ren Jie emerged from his Sea of Consciousness and took out that special Memory Jade Tablet. Whether it was Jade Emperor Academy, Jade Capital City, or even the Ren Family, none of them was a warm nest—Ren Jie knew that. Even if one became an emperor outright, if one was not strong enough or tough enough, one would still be bullied. He was now the Family Head of the Ren Family, but if he was not strong enough or tough enough, such things would remain unavoidable in the future.

Ren Tianxing had deliberately left this behind and given so many special instructions. There was even spirit jade inside the jade box. It seemed this had to be extremely precious.

With that thought, Ren Jie moved his divine sense and wanted to read what was inside. Ordinary Memory Jade Tablets could be used even by those in the Body Refining Realm, because as long as one had developed divine sense, there was no need to project it outward. One only needed to make slight contact with the divine jade to sense what was stored inside.

But as soon as Ren Jie made contact, he felt layers upon layers of barriers. Someone had clearly placed restrictions and formations on it, and the methods were obviously extremely sophisticated.

"Remember, only the blood of you and me, father and son, can open this. Anyone else who tries to open this jade tablet will destroy it." Ren Jie recalled something like that, though it was already very vague. Evidently, the original Ren Jie had paid little attention at the time, having just learned that he was to replace his father as the Family Head of the Ren Family.

Fortunately, it was not some blood-binding ritual. Otherwise, it would have reminded Ren Jie of certain tacky tropes from his previous life, especially the particularly ancient ones.

Could this thing analyze DNA? Ren Jie guessed inwardly as he lightly cut his finger and let a little blood drip onto it.

Swish! Ren Jie's blood landed on it, instantly merging into the jade tablet. Then all kinds of lights gradually began flashing across its surface. The lights flickered continuously, giving him the feeling that great doors were opening one after another. At last, the radiance gradually weakened.

Ren Jie moved his divine sense again. Boom! A vast amount of information suddenly appeared in his mind.

Crack... Almost at the same time, that Memory Jade Tablet shattered completely.

"Jade Emperor Art, Body Refining Chapter." The information that had just flooded into Ren Jie's mind immediately surfaced. The Body Refining Chapter—it was only the Body Refining Chapter? Then what about the rest? Ren Jie could not help lowering his head to look at the ring on his finger. It could only be opened at the True Qi Realm, which meant the rest was very likely inside this ring.

Back then, Ren Tianxing had not said what kind of cultivation art it was. He had only said that it was an art left behind by the force from ten thousand years ago that had unified heaven and earth and could even contend against immortals of legend. But Ren Tianxing himself could no longer cultivate it. So this cultivation art was called the Jade Emperor Art.

Ren Jie had also read some other books on cultivation in the Library Pavilion earlier and knew that the Ren Family possessed countless cultivation methods. He wanted to see what was different about this Jade Emperor Art.

"Tempering the body with external force is like a person without drive needing external force to urge them on—a slave. A body tempered by external force is merely supplementary. Man relies on perseverance and resolve to contend against heaven and earth. Body refinement is not a foundation for a single moment, but an affair for all eternity. First temper the heart, understand..."

The instant Ren Jie made contact with it, he was greatly surprised. He now had some understanding of this world. The Body Refining Realm was about tempering the body, and naturally, tempering the body could not be separated from all sorts of external training. Just like the academy had all kinds of physical fitness training, bodily training, equipment, and people who underwent grueling tempering, even tempering through life-and-death trials.

Everyone knew that body refinement meant suffering hardship. Some also said that the firmer one's foundation was at this stage, the greater the benefits would be later. Others believed that one's later achievements had nothing to do with the Body Refining Realm—that it was merely a transition, meant only to bring the body to basic requirements and condense True Qi.

Yet within this Jade Emperor Art, all methods of body refinement practiced throughout heaven and earth were directly rejected. In the end, it actually proposed a method of refining the body with qi. The Body Refining Realm was not without qi; it was simply ordinary qi within the body, not the True Qi condensed in the True Qi Realm. True Qi was condensed and powerful, while the qi of the Body Refining Realm was scattered and fragile. But the Body Refining Chapter of the Jade Emperor Art proposed an internal method of tempering the body from the very beginning.

It even specifically stated that this was a method of body tempering only those with true perseverance and resolve could accomplish, a hundred times more painful than any other foundational tempering with external force.

I'll have to see what is different about this one-of-a-kind Jade Emperor Art Body Refining Chapter, which refines the body with qi. Everything had to start from the beginning. This body was currently at the Body Refining Realm Fifth Layer as well. Starting cultivation over from the First Layer should not be too difficult, right? With that thought, Ren Jie began following the Jade Emperor Art Body Refining Chapter and attempting its internal body refinement method—refining the body with qi.