Once the first batch of cultivation pills was complete, Lin Ke, Nan Shang, and Zong Ya each took one together.
Then they sat cross-legged.
Lin Ke felt a bone-piercing chill spread from his mouth down his throat and into his internal organs.
It was like swallowing an ice cube.
He quietly mobilized his five-colored glazed body and power of thunder to neutralize the cold, while also directing his nascent soul to absorb the extremely cold currents slowly released by the pill.
The instant his own spiritual qi touched those freezing currents, Lin Ke shuddered.
Every hair on his body stood on end, and the bone-piercing cold made him involuntarily curl inward.
The freezing currents showed no sign of easing and soon encased his internal organs in ice.
Intense pain and discomfort spread throughout his body, and he felt his abdomen rapidly lose sensation from the cold.
His palms also grew numb with cold.
Lin Ke hurriedly circulated his spiritual qi, conjuring tiny clusters of lightning that coursed through his meridians.
He used the mild electric shocks to warm his body and maintain enough pain to keep himself from passing out.
Yet those flashes of lightning were merely a cup of water against a blazing cartload of firewood.
As the pill rapidly dissolved, its strands of cold energy were fully released.
A layer of frost even formed on his eyebrows.
Lin Ke had no choice but to conjure more lightning, strengthening his meridians while warming his body.
He also roused the heartflame of his five-colored glazed body, sending it roaming through his meridians, and only then barely managed to protect them.
But doing this was extremely risky; a single mishap could cause his meridians to burst and kill him.
*It looks like I need to find time to raise the level