Chapter 27: Ninth Turn Refining the Body

  Yi Qingcheng led Ma Tong to a quiet room inside the villa, and after ordering the other bodyguards not to approach, he let Ma Tong sit down with his legs crossed, holding Yuangu Shouyi. After Ma Tong followed his instructions, Yi Qingcheng raised his jade hand, and eight crystal-clear jade plaques flew out of his hand, floating in mid-air above Ma Tong's head according to their respective positions. As Yi Qingcheng's hands changed rapidly, the eight jade plaques quickly rotated counterclockwise, and as his hands moved faster and faster, the rotation speed of the jade plaques also increased, finally forming a dazzling Bagua diagram. Then, visible spiritual energy of various colors gathered from all directions towards the Bagua array diagram, finally forming a beam of cyan light about the size of a bowl mouth shooting towards Ma Tong's Tianling point!

  The Eight Trigrams Gather Spirit Formation!

  "Thanks to my villa being located in this deep mountain, I can gather so much spiritual energy. Can you feel the spiritual energy entering your body?"

  Ma Tong only felt a cold air flow entering from his own Baihui acupoint, passing through the Fengfu acupoint at the back of his brain, and rushing down along the Du meridian on his back, and hastily said: "Very strong!"

  "Concentrate your mind and calm your energy, operate the Nine Turns of Hunyuan Technique, remember not to let the spiritual energy pass through quickly, you must consciously guide the spiritual energy to revolve around each acupoint in a counterclockwise direction nine times!" Yi Qingcheng shouted: "The Nine Turns of Hunyuan Technique is divided into three layers and nine realms, corresponding to the eight stages of Cultivating Truth, Building Foundation, Golden Elixir, Yuan Ying, Exiting the Cave, Merging Bodies, Crossing the Tribulation, and Mahayana, as well as the final stage of Ascending in Broad Daylight. What you are currently cultivating is the first layer's Nine Turns Refining Body!"

  Ma Tong stopped speaking, and as the spiritual energy returned to the Ren channel at the Baihui point, he consciously began to direct the flow of spiritual energy. However, just as he started to circulate the Nine-Turned Mixed Yuan Technique, he felt a sudden intense throbbing in his lower abdomen, followed by a loud buzzing sound in his head. A massive amount of violent energy surged out from his lower abdomen and merged with the previous spiritual energy, propelling it to rotate at an unimaginable speed. Ma Tong couldn't bear the excruciating pain that was gnawing at his bones, let out a loud cry, and fell unconscious.

  Yi Jing Cheng, who had been paying attention to Ma Tong's reaction, was shocked by the sudden change in Ma Tong. Just as she was about to lend a hand, she found that the pain on Ma Tong's face disappeared quickly, replaced by an extremely comfortable and peaceful expression. She was greatly surprised and stopped in her tracks, watching quietly.

  As time slowly passed, when the first ray of sunlight appeared on the horizon, Yi Qingcheng discovered that Ma Tong's dantian position had a faint golden and blue light, and he couldn't help but feel greatly astonished: "This Ma Tong has only cultivated for one night, yet he can smoothly reach the second realm of the ninth turn of the Hunyuan Jue's first layer, directly breaking into the later stage of foundation building, reaching the state of opening up the spiritual energy? And it's an unprecedented golden and blue color?"

  This unremarkable-looking human being, could he really be the one-in-ten-thousand heaven-defying freak of the Cultivation Realm?

  Could it be? Yi Qingcheng only felt a tremble in her heart: It really is as Mother said before she passed away, that thirty years later I would become entangled in an unresolvable feud with a human, and the future of the Tian Yao Sect would also depend on this person's body?

  As she thought so, Yi Qingcheng's gaze towards Ma Tong became increasingly complex...

  When Matong woke up from the deepest meditation, it was already late in the evening of the second day. He felt refreshed and full of energy all over his body. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a pair of beautiful eyes like the deep sea staring at him tightly. Matong hurriedly asked: "Sister Yi, have I succeeded? What time is it now?"

  Yi Qingcheng gently tucked the stray hairs behind her ear and said leisurely, "Can't you feel it yourself? You've been in a meditative state for nine hours. I was worried that you wouldn't make it to Wanqing's birthday banquet on time. Luckily, you woke up just in time!"

  Ma Tong was startled: Nine hours, isn't that eighteen hours? If he missed Wan Qing's birthday banquet, he would probably be so depressed that he'd hit his head against the ground! At this point, he didn't even have time to ask if yesterday's practice was good or bad, and hastily said: "Then let's hurry up and go!"

  Yi Qiancheng looked at Ma Tong from head to toe and smiled lightly: "It seems that you have a crush on my sister Wanqing, but do you plan to attend her birthday party in this outfit?"

  Ma Tong's face turned red and he said: "What's wrong with it? I think this outfit is quite good, now that I'm your bodyguard, what else should I wear?"

  Yi Qingshan helplessly said: "If I were my sister Qing that night, I would never have taken a liking to you this clumsy oaf. Who says bodyguards can't dress up properly? Besides, you're going to celebrate Qing's birthday, aren't you even preparing a gift?"

  "Oh no, I almost forgot!" Ma Tong slapped his forehead and said anxiously: "Then we must hurry up and go, I need to find a place to buy gifts!"

  Yi Qingcheng handed a white jade porcelain bottle to Ma Tong with a delicate and charming glance, saying: "Take it, I've long prepared it for you!"

  Ma Tong stared at the crystal clear white jade porcelain bottle in his hand and said, "Thanks a lot, but this jade bottle is worth a lot of money, right? How much do I owe you? I just got a 100,000 yuan bonus, I'm not short on cash!"

  Yi Qingcheng patted the clean forehead, somewhat exasperated: "You're now a genuine cultivator, can't you be less short-sighted? Take a look at what's inside the bottle."

  Ma Tong was scolded by Yi Qingcheng, leaving him stunned and speechless. He could only pull out the purple sandalwood stopper from the white jade porcelain bottle, pouring out a fire-red, warm-to-the-touch dan pill: "Dan medicine?"

  Yi Qingshan nodded and said, "Chi Yang Dan, I just found the materials recently, specifically to cure Wan Qing's brother. Ling Tianyou was invaded by the extremely yin energy when he was young, which led to his yuan yang gradually drying up. This dan is specially used to supplement human yuan yang, it is most suitable for the symptoms, and this time it will be cheap for you!"

  Ma Tong was stunned, imagining Ling Wanqing's joyful appearance when receiving this precious gift, but his mouth said: "Such a precious gift, why didn't you bring it yourself to give to Wanqing?"

  Yi Qiancheng said in a very serious tone, "Because I want to witness a love story between a swan and a toad with my own eyes. Before, I've only seen it on TV, but unfortunately, they're all acted out too fake!"

  Ma Tong, who had always been particular about his image, was not angry at all this time. On the contrary, he spoke in a more serious tone than Yi Jing Cheng: "Thank you! Eldest sister Yi, you are not only my guide on the path of cultivating the truth, but also the guiding light of Ma Tong's love! If there is an afterlife, I will definitely be your cow and horse to repay your great kindness!"

  "Why is it reincarnation?"

  "This life I must be an immortal!"

  Yi Qingcheng: ……

  When the fleet of cars emerged from the villa at the top of the mountain, Ma Tong was wearing a tailored silver-gray Armani suit, sitting in the specially-made silver Rolls-Royce Phantom with five or six people, and beside him sat Yi Qingcheng, with her hair styled high, elegant makeup, and wearing a sapphire blue backless V-neck Dior evening gown.

  Ma Tong couldn't help but glance at Yi Qingcheng's snow-white and dazzling chest, where her high-pitched breasts were faintly visible, and muttered to himself: "Big, really big, at least a D cup... wearing such revealing clothes, isn't she afraid of exposing herself..."

  Ma Tong's voice was small, but how could he deceive the extremely keen-eyed and sharp-eared Yi Qingcheng? However, she seemed to not mind Ma Tong's peeking and only said lightly: "It seems that a rustic leopard is still a rustic leopard. Even if you wear an Armani worth thousands of dollars, it can't change the petty air in your bones. If you continue with your current state, I guarantee that at Wan Qing's birthday party, you will definitely make a fool of yourself. Wanting to show off your masculine charm and win over my younger sister Wan Qing is simply a pipe dream!"

  Ma Tong said straightforwardly, "I think showing the real self to Wan Qing is the most sincere and best way of pursuit. I was like that before, and didn't intentionally pretend to be someone else!"

  Yi Qiancheng shook his head and said, "Your method may have given Wanqing a fresh feeling at the beginning, or it was very attractive, after all, there are few people like you in her social circle. However, if you can't show your unique masculine charm, you can only be a good friend with Wanqing at most. If you want to go further, relying on your former virtues is simply impossible!"

  Ma Tong's face was somewhat discomfited by Yi Qiancheng's sarcastic remarks, and he stiffened his neck and said: "Don't always bring up the past! What about my former virtues? I, Ma Tong, have never dug up an orphaned grave or kicked a widow's door. I am innocent and honest, treating everyone equally! What's wrong with me?"

  Yi Qian Cheng was teased by Ma Tong and smiled slightly: "Nothing, very suitable for being given a good person card by others!"

  Yi Qian Cheng's words reminded Ma Tong of the sentence Fang Xin Yu left him before they broke up, and he was suddenly speechless. "Ma Tong, you're a good person, but we have no fate, forget about me!"

  "Okay, I admit you're right, so what should I do?"