Do I want to live off others?
If I borrow from Sister Yaya, she will definitely lend it to me, and it would be the kind I don't have to repay.
But I just made that bet with Sister Yaya, wouldn't it be too unambitious to start living off her now?
Xu Lingjun glanced at his interface and saw he still had over 1,800 points of Origin Value, a vague thought forming in his mind.
The role of Origin Value shouldn't be limited to just this, maybe it could help me.
Even though I used it only once, Xu Lingjun understood the capability of his golden finger quite well.
After bestowing the true essence, appearance and reality will be consistent, meaning the description and reality will exactly match, and if that's the case, there's plenty of room for operation.
So, the next morning, Xu Lingjun took a sick leave from the homeroom teacher.
The new homeroom teacher, Wang Qingya, asked with concern, "You're not feeling well? Okay, I'll go home early after school this afternoon."
Xu Lingjun: "........."
So, the homeroom teacher is going back to her hometown to get married too? Is she going with the theory class teacher to get married?
But as long as Sister Yaya agrees, it's fine.
After taking leave, Xu Lingjun headed straight for the nearest pharmacy.
The medicine cabinet was filled with various dense bottles of medicine.
Xu Lingjun specifically searched for blood-replenishing ones.
He quickly found several kinds of medicine.
Donkey-hide gelatin blood-replenishing capsules… Qi and Blood Replenishing Oral Liquid…
The functionality page clearly stated it helps replenish blood and qi, nourish yin and replenish yang, sounding like it might be more effective than Spiritual Qi Liquid by just reading the introduction.
Sure enough, in Xu Lingjun's view, a prompt message appeared.
[Detected counterfeit item: donkey-hide gelatin blood-replenishing capsules. Do you want to bestow its true essence? Consumes 50 points of Origin Value!]
[Detected counterfeit item: Qi and Blood Replenishing Oral Liquid. Do you want to bestow its true essence? Consumes 80 points of Origin Value!]
As expected, the introductions did not match the actual products; they've all been identified as counterfeit items.
But since its original function is to replenish blood and qi, if I restore it to its essence...
Then undoubtedly, like the Infinite Divine Demon Body Refining Technique, what is said on the leaflet will become real.
Xu Lingjun didn't hesitate much and swept these two items clean.
Carrying bags big and small back home.
He didn't immediately start cultivating but instead went out again and did many good deeds...
He took stray dogs to the homes of dog lovers.
He helped a little girl retrieve her homework that was blown away by the wind, and while he was at it, helped her finish it, developing her into his underling, promising to help her with her homework at half the market price in the future, earning a lot of Origin Value.
He particularly liked children because their gratitude was pure, so the accrued Origin Value was also more plentiful.
A day passed.
The Origin Value finally surpassed the two-thousand mark again.
And one box of oral liquid contains ten bottles, requiring 80 points of Origin Value, which would be 8 points per bottle, and totaling up to... a hundred... um...
Xu Lingjun calculated with his fingers at home for a long time, then naturally put it down.
Well... it's a few hundred bottles...
That's enough.
After returning home, Xu Lingjun glanced at the clock. It was five in the afternoon, and since it was Saturday, the teachers' summary meeting tonight would end at six-thirty. Considering the half-hour journey back... um, Sister Yaya should be home by seven.
Two hours' time, even if something goes wrong, she can save me in time.
Xu Lingjun transformed a box of oral liquid using Origin Value.
With the disappearance of eighty points of essence, like magic, the originally clear liquid in the bottle began to turn thick, becoming crimson like blood, yet thicker than blood, swaying like jelly within the bottle.
Just by smelling it, one could detect a faint scent of blood, which wasn't unpleasant. Instead, it was rather sweet, making the mouth dry with a desire to drink it.
Xu Lingjun remembered when his parents were still around, his mother, severely hemorrhaging, was in critical condition after giving birth to him. At that time, his father and Father Wang almost emptied the household to barely buy a bottle of Blood Replenishing Spirit Liquid, saving his mother's life.
He was there when she drank it back then...
Even though that Blood Replenishing Spirit Liquid had a strong taste, Xu Lingjun felt this small bottle of Qi and Blood Replenishing Oral Liquid seemed to have a purer flavor.
Let's do this, then.
Xu Lingjun gritted his teeth and tilted his head back, gulping down the entire bottle of oral liquid.
As the liquid entered his stomach, it felt like a flame igniting in his internal organs, charging left and right, and Xu Lingjun's nose started to bleed immediately, his face turning red, feeling as if his body, akin to a narrow cave, suddenly hosting an overwhelmingly large object beyond its limits...
It tore apart.
Heat, pain, swelling.
The effect was very good, too good, overly good, the blood nourishment was too much!
Xu Lingjun, without hesitation, began running the Infinite Divine Demon Body Refining Technique!
Blood Qi surged like a wild wave... and with the cultivation technique operating, Xu Lingjun's body seemed to become a swamp.
The original vast sea of blood quickly absorbed, shriveling visibly, and the unbearable feeling of swelling swiftly disappeared, replaced by extreme emptiness and craving.
Could a Divine Demon Level Technique consume so astoundingly?
This one bottle of orally more potent than a blood-replenishing spirit liquid that could save a severely hemorrhaging patient, only sustained for just two breaths of time?
It must be replenished; otherwise, this cultivation technique will drain me dry.
Xu Lingjun drank without hesitation, again.
The brimming blood qi once again turned into nutrients, settling in his bones and flesh.
Inside his body, there was a series of crackling sounds.
Anemic again...
Drink!!!
Xu Lingjun, without hesitation, downed another bottle, spending 130 Origin Values in passing, and converted another box of oral liquid and a box of capsules.
Isn't it just about consuming medicine?
Then consume!!!
Xu Lingjun fell into a cycle where every two seconds of cultivation, he would consume a capsule or potion.
And during this process, his blood, flesh, bones, and veins...
were all being rapidly strengthened by the vast blood qi.
Maybe because it was a body refining cultivation technique, it was quite rigid in practice. If the blood qi was sufficient, one could cultivate; if not, one couldn't. There weren't many twists and turns, nor any requirements for comprehension.
Xu Lingjun didn't even know how much medicine he had consumed.
The medicine he consumed would be converted into blood qi in the next moment, then forcibly absorbed by his body, without any feeling of being overstuffed.
He just continued to drink and consume.
He felt as if his body was like a planet outside the cosmos.
After enduring countless ages, numerous meteors crashed onto him, tempered and battered for unknowable lengths of time.
The external impurities were gradually stripped away, replaced by a core as crystalline and resilient as glaze.
When his Origin Value was more than three hundred left.
The "Infinite Divine Demon Body Refining Technique" finally, with many halts and starts, completed the first circulation.
The most difficult circulation.
Completing this circulation laid the foundation within his body... henceforth continuing cultivation would no longer consume blood qi. Instead, it would generate blood qi naturally to nourish his body, of course, with additional blood qi nourishment, the progression would be even greater.
Just like now.
Xu Lingjun felt his spirits were unprecedentedly high.
He looked down at his hands, which were originally rough from work but now as delicate as those of a meticulously cared-for maiden, even whiter and more tender. One could imagine his body was the same.
Inner Vajra, Outer Appearance of Glaze.
This was a sign of the first stage of the "Infinite Divine Demon Body Refining Technique" reaching a Small Success.
He casually picked up a small dagger from the side and lightly slashed it on his arm... it was as if it cut into a layer of rubber, easily bouncing back.
The dagger was extremely sharp; failing to break the defense would probably require at least...
Xu Lingjun wasn't sure how to compare it, but he had once seen, with his own eyes, Li Lei, who was at Body Tempering Ninth Rank and about to enter Qi Gathering, being struck by an opponent's Tang Blade during a spar. Even with armor defense, he was still heavily injured...
By comparison, although the dagger's lethality could hardly match, its blade was finer and evidently sharper.
This defense was definitely far beyond the Body Tempering Realm.
He stood up.
Focused his mind, gathered his strength, and punched forward.
A wind-breaking sound was heard, and although it didn't hit anything directly, the force was like a wind, causing the door in the distance to slam shut.
Xu Lingjun mused internally, the force had significantly increased compared to before, seemingly at... Body Tempering Grade 8.
It indeed appeared that the Body Refining Technique's main effect was in enhancing the body.
The augmentation on strength was slightly weaker, but just having begun cultivation and breaking through a realm was already quite astonishing.
And as for the blood qi...
Xu Lingjun glanced down at his second brother.
Then sighed softly, if it's just blood-replenishing, then blood-replenishing it shall be. Why does it have to be associated with yin and yang balance replenishment?
Consuming so much in one go, and with effects enhanced by Origin, I might not get good sleep tonight.
It's fortunate it was Yang replenishing instead of Yang enhancing, otherwise, I might have already exploded and died.
At this moment, Wang Qingya's voice with a hint of concern came from outside the door, "Lingjun, you said you were feeling unwell. Where exactly are you uncomfortable? Should we go to the hospital for a checkup?"
As she spoke.
The door, which had just been blown shut by the wind of his punch, was pushed open.
Wang Qingya rushed in, seemingly having just finished a long run, her breathing was still slightly fast...
Then, she saw Xu Lingjun in his current cross-legged head-down posture.
Following his line of sight.
Wang Qingya: ".............."
Xu Lingjun: ".............."
"I can explain, really..."
Xu Lingjun sincerely said to Wang Qingya.