Chapter 54: Body Blocking a Blade
That day, True Lord Xuan Yue had personally sealed off Wei Yuan’s otherworldly fortune. It was because the fortune did not, strictly speaking, belong to him. Its true form lay somewhere in the Beyond, and Wei Yuan’s absorption of otherworldly fortune to cultivate the Jade Toad Full Moon Painting was akin to theft. After siphoning from it for three hundred and sixty five days, True Lord Xuan Yue worried that the otherworldly fortune would undergo some sort of transformation or worse, fly into a rage. That was why he had personally sealed it off and told Wei Yuan to start tempering his body.
Zhang Sheng had already explained the ins and outs of the situation to him. Not two years had passed since that day, so why had the otherworldly fortune reappeared?
Still, he had already begun tempering his body. He was no longer converting the fortune into his foundation. Thus, the reappearance of the otherworldly fortune shouldn’t constitute a big problem… right?
Heart beating with trepidation, Wei Yuan opened his mouth and took a big gulp of lunar essence. While doing so, he saw a wisp of black qi entering his stomach together with the lunar essence.
This time, he felt even clearer than usual. Be it the lunar essence or the spirit qi of the Vigor Nurturing Pill, over ninety percent of it had vanished to somewhere… or consumed by something.
The black qi didn’t disappear, however. He could feel it floating inside his sea of consciousness. Not only was he intimately familiar with it, he knew that he could manipulate it as he pleased. It was his otherworldly fortune after all. In his experience, this sliver of fortune was more or less enough to activate Outlawed by Heaven and Earth one time.
And so Wei Yuan began to swallow lunar essence day after day. Every day, a wisp of black qi would enter his body and float in the middle of his sea of consciousness.
The minor exam wasn’t far off now. As expected, Bao Yun was planning to scout out the Traditional Party again. Of course, by “scouting”, she really meant another showdown. It was going to be a big one too as the exam was very, very near. Both sides had mobilized almost all of their numbers for it.
The Reform Party had far fewer numbers than the Traditional Party to begin with, so everyone was a part of the main force. As much as Wei Yuan wished to focus on his cultivation, he ultimately could not resist Bao Yun’s cajoling. She forced him to borrow another ten thousand taels before dragging him off to the battlefield.