Cultivating in Progress...

Shen Ying woke up to the sound of birds chirping, along with the fragrance of the spirit beast blood permeating the air that she breathed in. The morning air mixed with the fragrance, turning it into an elegant scent.

She continued to sniff at the fragrance as she sat up slowly on the couch. She rubbed her eyes with her hands gently. Suddenly, the fragrance in the air was interrupted by an abnormal smell.

It was an extremely foul smell, as if someone had not showered in weeks. The smell had emanated from... Shen Ying herself! As Shen Ying lowered her head, there was also a audible "Crack!" coming from her neck.

There were sweat stains all over Shen Ying's clothing that was giving off a horrible odour. She also felt quite hungry and dehydrated, even though she had rested very well.

"Liu Ying..." she thought of her maid, before shaking her head. It was too bad that in such a new environment, there was no place for her to bath. There was no rose-scented water prepared for her either.

As Shen Ying thought about this issue, a tantalising scent came from the kitchen. Her mouth started salivating as she unconsciously moved to the kitchen.

"Oh, you are awake now! I was just cooking breakfast for you. Come, sit over there first." Si Xiu was cooking three stripes of meat on a pan, which was sizzling and glowing red.

She was also wearing loose blue robes, which was covered in runes. The runes were pulsing repeatedly as Si Xiu continued to turn the fire up.

Shen Ying sat down onto the elegant chair. As the smell continued to surround her, she felt like that she was being tortured by Si Xiu.

"Ta Ta! Here is your Blackened Hellhound meat with some mushroom sauce!" Si Xiu cut out a portion of the contents of the pan, before laying down it down onto a porcelain plate.

Shen Ying grabbed the plate when it was done, using a nearby fork and knife to tear into the tenderised meat. She stabbed into the meat violently, before putting it into her mouth.

When her teeth bit into the meat, her mind almost exploded. Layers and layers of flavour was drawn from the meat, bursting into her mouth like an unrelenting wave. It was even better than the one-of-a-kind abalone soup that she had tasted before!

She found herself unable to resist the draw of the meat on her plate, eating it like a beast that had been starved for months. The utensils in her hands worked quickly to dismantle the meat into bite sized portions.

After she was done with the food, not even a morsel was left for bacteria to decompose. She even licked the sauce off the plate to make sure nothing was wasted.

"What was that meat? That was simply too delicious! Even the best chefs in the world cannot compare to this dish!" Shen Ying proclaimed as she rubbed her stomach. Her stomach had a warm, bubbly feeling, and she could sense Qi slowly being released into her body.

"That was the spirit beast that tried to invade here. I kept the meat and fed it to my niece before to advance her cultivation. Along with the Qi inheritance, it helped her grow so fast in one month." Si Xiu's voice started to lower when she talked about this topic, until she just stopped talking.

Shen Ying did not raise this issue any longer, and just laid back on her chair, giving an unsatisfied expression on her face. Even though she was full, she still wanted to eat more. Alas, she had to control herself, to achieve her dream of being a slim and cool cultivator!

As Shen Ying rested and gave out burps occasionally, Si Xiu retreated to her chambers to cultivate. She pressed on the door knob and inserted her unique Qi into the engraved titanium door. It had been made specially for her by her master, Li Ying, who favoured her a lot.

As she opened the door, extreme temperatures that reached below 0 Celsius hit Si Xiu like a truck, with wind speeds that could pluck trees from the ground. Si Xiu was unfazed by this, walking to the center of the enclosed 5x5x5 meters room.

Her eyes started rotating as she sat down on the frozen stone floor. Her Cultivation Path was "Frozen Solitude". It was trained by circulating Qi of the water attribute through one's body repeatedly, until the Qi turned into Qi of the ice attribute. This process could be hastened by staying inside a room with dangerously low temperatures.

Si Xiu has used this high tier artifact for training since she reached Spiritual Foundation. At first, she had to take a Lesser Sun Pill to adjust her temperature to avoid being frozen to death, but now she had no use of an aid to cultivate inside here.

As Si Xiu's eyes continued to rotate and draw in Qi of the water attribute, cold nitrogen was drawn out from the artifact, circling around Si Xiu and lowering her body temperature. Within a few more minutes, the water attribute was successfully converted to ice attribute.

She then channeled it into the foundation in her heart. Normally, cultivators would set their foundations in their lower stomach, but her circumstances were different. She was born with the Pure Yin attribute, which manifested directly in her heart. By establishing her foundation in her heart, she had become one of Holy Heart Sect's most prominent prodigies.

Si Xiu finished her daily cultivation and opened the door to check on Shen Ying. As expected, Shen Ying was reading the Unshaking Cultivation Manual that she had left on the table.

Shen Ying kept nodding her head as she continued to read deeper into the book. She had been cultivating wrongly when she was in the taxi. To cultivate the Unshaking Cultivation, first of all, the user must be standing, not sitting down. They had to draw the Qi to the ground beneath their feet, to dilute the Qi into a less potent version.

Shen Ying quickly performed hand sigils that she had learned from the book and let the Qi flow through them. In addition to this, some brown strands of Qi came into her body from the book. As she continued to execute the actions, a system notification popped up.

[Cultivation Path: Unshaking Cultivation has increased by 1xp]

At that moment, Shen Ying could feel one of the meridians in her body open. Black liquid poured out from her body, which started to emit a nauseating smell. Si Xiu quickly used some of her Qi to clean up the sticky liquid.

Shen Ying's body was suddenly filled with a bit more Qi. Si Xiu nodded her head in approval as Shen Ying's body underwent some refinement after expelling the gunk-like liquid.

"Not bad. You have advanced to Body Building Tier 2 already. You should be able to reach Body Building Tier 3 soon." Si Xiu explained to Shen Ying what had happened.