Immortal Spirit Elixir, How Is This Love!

Seeing Huang Tian reach out again and pick up the Peacock Bottle, the Bottle God's anger stopped short. He gave a scornful laugh. "After all that talk, you still can't bear to part with it, can you? Go on. What do you actually want? Say it, and I'll make your wish come true—" Huang Tian did not answer. He only held the bottle in his hand. One, two, three— Time slipped by. The Bottle God felt the air turn wrong, and an inexplicable thread of dread rose in his heart. He knit his brows. "What are you trying to do? If you don't mean to make a wish, put the Peacock Bottle down. I'll go on waiting for the next person with the right fate." "You won't get the chance." Huang Tian said it calmly. Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen— The unease in the Bottle God's heart grew sharper. Anxious and angry, he snapped, "What do you mean by that? Put the bottle down!" Twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty! Whoosh— The magnificent Peacock Bottle shuddered. The Bottle God's eyes bulged round. He felt the strength drain from his whole body in an instant, and the foundation of his existence collapsed all at once. "You!" He got out only that one word, shocked and furious, before he and the entire Peacock Bottle burst apart with a bang, dissolved into a point of light, and drifted into Huang Tian's body. "I didn't get any secret out of the Bottle God, but at least it became part of me. Not bad." He nodded, quite satisfied, rose into the sky in a single step, and went on flying toward Changnan City, sweeping every direction with his divine sense as he flew. But when he entered Changnan City and reached Changnan University, he found no second oddity. He paid it no mind. Quite a few oddities had appeared on Canxing over the past year, yet they could hardly be found so easily. Most were already in the hands of lucky souls, or of official and civilian organizations. Oddities still "in the wild" were far too few, and it was even less likely that all of them would gather near Changnan City. Finding none was only to be expected. Dorm 208. He pushed the door open and saw Murong Hao reclining in his chair, gleefully playing a game, trash-talking as he played, thoroughly pleased with himself. At the sound of the door he turned, saw it was Huang Tian, and said offhand, "Old Huang, summer break's almost here. I saw the school scheduled a bit over a month off. What are you planning to do? Go traveling?" Huang Tian walked to his own seat and poured a cup of warm water. "Maybe. Wandering around wouldn't be bad. What about you?" Murong Hao laughed. "Nothing I especially want to do. As for travel, I went abroad for a dozen days or so last year. Not much to it. Hard to communicate, and the scenery was ordinary. A summer job to 'experience life'? Too tiring. We finally get a break, and I'm supposed to work a summer job? After graduation there'll be all the time in the world to work. I'm afraid I won't want to then, so while I'm in college I don't plan to suffer through a job. Yeah. Over the break I'll probably just game at home. Eat till I'm full and sleep, sleep till I'm full and eat, and contentedly be a freeloader." "You're pretty open-minded." Huang Tian smiled and took a sip of warm water. "It's not entirely open-mindedness." Murong Hao grinned. "When A-Zhou left before, didn't he give me a gold bar? Worth a lot. With that and my parents' savings, I won't have to work for the rest of my life. If the gold bar keeps rising in price, there might even be some to spare." At that he slapped his head. "Speaking of A-Zhou, he finally answered my message today. I asked what he'd been doing all this time, and he told me he's saving the world. Hahaha—cough, cough—" He laughed until he coughed. "A-Zhou. Still such a joker." "What if he really has gone to save the world?" "Then I'm a magical girl who keeps world peace!" Murong Hao stood up, spun in place in a "transformation," and said in a thin voice, "I purify the world with magic! Bleh—I gross myself out—" He stopped, shivered all over, and shook his head again and again. "Way too chuunibyou." Huang Tian smiled and did not pick the thread back up. Seated in his chair, he felt his phone buzz once. It was not the Brain of Light. Someone else had sent a Feixin message. Bai Yuanzhao: "Huang Tian, you've got less than half a month until break. I'll come to school and pick you up then, and show you properly around Yuzhou. I know every scenic spot in the whole prefecture, and some hidden little gems too." Bai Yin, mother of the original body, "Huang Tian," came from the Bai family of Yuzhou. She was the daughter of the family head, Bai Zhenxiong, and Bai Yuanzhao was Bai Zhenxiong's second grandson. Open and generous by nature, he was well liked by Bai Zhenxiong. Perhaps because he and the original body had been born in the same year and the same month, the two were on good terms. Of everyone in the Bai family, he could be said to have been closest to the original body, and the two kept in frequent contact. Before Huang Tian could reply, Bai Yuanzhao sent another message. "I know you like keeping to yourself and staying quiet, but this time is different. I've found the love of my life. Don't you have to celebrate with me? When break starts I'll drive over, and she'll come too. You two can get to know each other then." "All right. Congratulations." Huang Tian replied. Bai Yuanzhao: "Hahaha, thanks, thanks—ah, I won't say more. You do what you're doing. I'm off to take her for a drive." "All right." "This place really is big, and right up against Changnan University. Worth a fortune." Standing in a bright living room, Yang Chen's eyes shone. "Mr. Huang Tian really is generous. He gave away a whole apartment just like that. It's worth decades of my wages!" He looked left and right, then flopped onto the soft off-white sofa. "Too comfortable—awesome! This is awesome!" He lay there contentedly for a while. Suddenly a figure appeared in the living room. "Mr. Huang!" Yang Chen scrambled to his feet. "No need to be so formal. Come to think of it, this is your home. I'm the guest." Huang Tian smiled. At those words Yang Chen scratched his head, a little embarrassed. Seeing that he was rather reserved, Huang Tian did not tease him any further, and said instead, "Bring out the One-Tenth Exchange Box. Let's start exchanging." At the mention of business, Yang Chen turned serious at once. "All right!" He walked to the wall of the living room, opened a large cardboard box, lifted out a small blue box, and opened that as well. "Whatever you want to exchange for, you can put things in now." Huang Tian stepped up beside him and took out a jade slip flowing with a soft glow. "Same as last time. Exchange it for an elixir that advances dharma power." Yang Chen took the jade slip. A wave of coolness passed through him, and his spirits lifted a little. He looked at it curiously a couple of times before setting it into the blue box. "I want to exchange for an elixir that advances dharma power," he said. A few seconds later the box bloomed with a faint radiance. Yang Chen opened it and saw the jade slip gone, replaced by a jade bottle. He took it out and handed it to Huang Tian. "Have a look. Is it any use?" Huang Tian took it and opened it. A stream of immortal spiritual qi spread out. A single sniff made the dharma power circulating through a full cycle in his body a touch faster. "A seventh-rank True Immortal elixir!" A thread of delight rose in his heart. "Not a waste, putting in a divine-ability jade slip." That jade slip had recorded a divine ability called Draw the Ground as a Prison. It could trap a person inside a "prison," and it could also shelter a person within a "prison." It could not compare with great divine abilities such as the Five-Colored Divine Light, but if cultivated to perfection, it would be enough to move unopposed at the True Immortal and Heavenly Immortal realms. "I'm only a fifth-rank Yang Spirit now. Taking a seventh-rank immortal elixir, the medicinal force hits too hard, but it won't damage my foundation. I can fully refine and absorb it. At that rate, my progress is bound to be astonishingly fast!" In his pleasure he turned his hand and produced another jade slip inscribed with Draw the Ground as a Prison, and said to Yang Chen, "This jade slip is the same as the one just now. Try it. Can it still be exchanged?" Yang Chen took it and put it into the small blue box. This time a full two minutes passed, and the box gave off no radiance at all. He opened the box. The jade slip lay quietly inside, unchanged in the slightest. "Looks like it won't work. No loophole to slip through." Huang Tian had expected this, so though he felt some regret, he was not especially disappointed. He simply took out twenty different jade slips. Of the twenty, some recorded divine abilities, some recorded cultivation methods, and others recorded pill, artifact, talisman, and array arts. About five minutes later, looking at a full twenty-one bottles of elixirs of at least the seventh rank, he was satisfied to the core. He handed over another jade slip. "This time, exchange specifically for the Marrow-Cleansing Innate Elixir." "All right." Yang Chen put the jade slip into the box and said, "I want to exchange for the Marrow-Cleansing Innate Elixir." A few seconds later the familiar radiance bloomed. Inside the box, two jade bottles appeared. Yang Chen took them out and was about to hand them to Huang Tian, but the latter shook his head. "These are for you. This elixir nourishes the heart and the spirit, and it remakes flesh and bone. It's one of the sacred elixirs for laying a foundation in cultivation. Once you refine it, your early cultivation is bound to advance by leaps and bounds." Yang Chen froze, deeply moved. "I—I—thank you, Mr. Huang!" Huang Tian said, unconcerned, "I never treat my own people poorly." With that his figure moved, and he drifted away with the many immortal elixirs. Yang Chen, shocked and delighted at once, clutched the two bottles of Marrow-Cleansing Innate Elixir. His eyes shone. He nearly drooled, and a dazed laugh slipped out of him. "Wuh-heheh~ heheh~" Dorm 208. Huang Tian, just returned, put the elixirs away, took out one bottle, and opened it. Breathing in the fresh immortal spiritual qi, he felt clear and at ease. Then he poured out a round, crystalline immortal elixir and swallowed it. It melted the moment it entered his mouth. A boundless surge of spiritual power exploded within him, rushed through every limb and bone, circulated through a full cycle, and converged toward his Huangting. "A rough estimate. A little over ten days, and I can go straight to Yang Spirit Consummation—" Huang Tian thought. For him there were no realm bottlenecks. Reaching Yang Spirit Consummation was the same as stepping into the Great Ascension realm! "Looks like I can break through around the time break starts. This speed will do—" Thinking so, he closed his eyes, gathered his focus, and guided the spiritual qi as it moved. In the blink of an eye, thirteen days passed. That morning the first light was faint. At the horizon a gauze of blue and white rose, drifting light as air. The campus of Changnan University lay quiet. Only a little birdsong could be heard. Huang Tian's expression was calm, his breathing even. The spiritual qi within him surged vast and mighty, gathering into rivers and seas, pouring toward his Huangting in a haze of light. At a certain moment. "Pu—" With an extremely faint sound, a pulse of spiritual pressure was released and drawn back in an instant. He opened his eyes and exhaled a clear breath. The breath flew out the window and became a wisp of pale mist. The mist settled over the grass and trees on the path behind the dormitory building, leaving them renewed, all the more lush. "After so many days, I've finally entered the Great Ascension realm. Acceptable." A thread of delight rose in his heart. He stood, walked to the window, and looked at the bright, crystal-clear sky outside, in excellent spirits. "Old Huang, you're up this early?" Murong Hao sat up in bed, still groggy. Huang Tian turned and smiled. "Early to bed and early to rise keeps you full of spirit." Murong Hao patted his face to wake himself, looked at Huang Tian, and suddenly noticed something. Surprised, he said, "Huh. Your skin really does keep getting better. Ridiculous. I remember not long ago you still had dark circles, and acne marks and such on your face. Now they're all gone. Is it really thanks to sleeping early and getting up early? Feels like you had work done." He scratched his head. "Official break starts tomorrow. When I get home I'll try sleeping early and getting up early too, or this pitted face is going to ruin my looks. I was a 9.9, and dark circles and acne marks dragged me down. Now I'm only an 8.9. Sigh, what a shame!" At those words Huang Tian only smiled. "Ah, forget sleep. Up now. Time to party! Only one class this afternoon. I can game all day." Murong Hao sprang off the bed and hurried off to wash up. Huang Tian stayed by the window a while longer, then went on cultivating. In a flash, another day passed. A little past eight in the morning, the sound of suitcases being dragged rose now and then in the dormitory building. Murong Hao was still asleep in bed. However loud it was outside, it could not disturb him. Huang Tian packed in no particular hurry, slung on a bag, left the dorm, and went downstairs toward the south gate. After a while he passed through it. Quite a few cars were parked at the school entrance, and it was somewhat crowded. "Huang Tian, over here!" A call rang out. Huang Tian looked toward the sound and saw, beside a long, elegant car, a man of medium height with a fair, clean face waving at him. It was Bai Yuanzhao. Huang Tian walked over. Once he drew near, Bai Yuanzhao said in amazement, "No way. How long has it even been? How did you get this handsome? I must be seeing things. I really must be seeing things!" With that he stepped back, revealing a woman seated in the passenger seat, and said with a face full of sweetness, "Here. My girlfriend, Sun Jiajia." Huang Tian lifted his eyes, and his brows rose slightly. This woman truly could not be called pretty. No. It was not a question of pretty or not. She was ugly. Ugly, and fat. A bit over one meter sixty, and at least one hundred seventy jin. On top of that, the perfume was extraordinarily strong, enough to draw a frown. Huang Tian glanced at Bai Yuanzhao, saw his face still full of sweetness, then looked at Sun Jiajia and nodded slightly. "Hello. Huang Tian." "Hello." The moment Sun Jiajia saw him, a strange light bloomed in her eyes, and she stared straight at him without looking away. "Enough talk. Get in!" Bai Yuanzhao waved a hand and got into the car. Huang Tian opened the door and sat in the back. Beep— The car pulled away. Bai Yuanzhao said, "We'll get breakfast first, then take you to where you're staying and drop off the luggage. After that I'll show you around." "All right." The car drove steadily on. Bai Yuanzhao sweet-talked Sun Jiajia as he drove, but she only chimed in now and then. Through the rearview mirror, her eyes stayed fixed on Huang Tian. Her gaze burned, as if she meant to "swallow" him!