Chapter 12 "Stalker, Two Sisters, Vicious bastard"
As Gu Shang was walking back to his house, he wondered what caused the increase in his potential. Was it the World Creating Lotus Art, Arcane Heart or Sacred Perfection Body Tempering?
While deducing what caused the growth in potential, Gu Shang felt like he was being watched, he looked around himself and saw nothing out of ordinary, so he continued on his way. Gu Shang knew that someone was being watched, he trusted his intuition, so he guessed that the person who was observing him had spiritual sense, meaning that the observer was at least in the soul forming realm.
Spiritual sense was an ability one can awaken after breaking through to soul forming realm, spiritual sense can allow someone to see everything sense everything in the radius their soul allows them to, if your enemy has a weaker soul than you, then you can even suppress their souls during the fight, giving you the upper hand.
But since he couldn't do anything about the person watching him, but he changed his course from his house to the Pill Pavilion, and continued deducing what made his potential increase.
From what he deduced, the World Creating Lotus Art was definitely not the reason why the potential increased, if the 160-Realm Qi was the reason for it, then the 160-Realm Lotus World would be an unreachable peak among all the worlds in existence.
So the two things that were left were Arcane Heart and Sacred Perfection Body Tempering. The deducing stops here since both of these could be the reason, but if the potential increased again, then the reason for increasing the potential would be the Sacred Perfection Body Tempering, since it constantly strengthens the body, it would surely increase the potential again.
Thinking about this, Gu Shang wanted to go home and temper immediately, but remembering how the person who was observing him had spiritual sense, they would be able to see through the walls of his house and see him cultivate, but if the observer is in the kingly spirit realm, then Gu Shang wouldn't even be able to hide how his body is producing internal energy and tempering his body with it.
If the observer was a kingly spirit cultivator, then Gu Shang couldn't cultivate the Lotus Art either, he would be killed for the technique if it was found.
After a couple of minutes of walk, he finally arrived in front of a building with a carving of a cauldron surrounded by herbs, a couple of pills were flying out of the cauldron.
He was here to get the approval of Elder Yin and Elder Yang, so he would be able to learn how to refine pills.
So Gu Shang entered the building, after entering he asked a disciple if the elders were here, the answer did kind of disappoint him and weird him out.
"Elder Yang is indeed in the pavilion, but Elder Yin is in closed-door cultivation."
The reason for his disappointment was that, Elder Yang and Elder Yin were sisters, they were practically inseparable, and they also held trust in each other more than anyone, if a disciple wants to learn how to refine pills, then if the two don't agree, then that disciple won't be able to learn.
But what weirded him out was that the two practiced a cultivation technique that was specifically made for twins, meaning that normally, if one was cultivating, then the other one was too. Why would only Elder Yin be in closed-door cultivation, but Elder Yang not?
It made him a little worried about Elder Yin, so he decided to ask what happened to her from Elder Yang later.
What worried him even more, was that even if he got Elder Yang's approval like how he got Elder Chu's approval, then he would wait until Elder Yin was out of the cultivation.
"Yo, what brings you here, Little Shang?"
In a room full of flowers and bamboo, there was a woman in the center of the garden-like room. The woman had short white hair and pitch black eyes that looked like the abyss, breasts that were twice the size of her head, and an ass that wasn't too big, but wasn't too small either. The woman looked like a forest nymph playing around with the plants inside it, this woman was, of course, Elder Yang.
"Hello Sister Yang, I came to find you to ask you something."
Elder Yang was obviously happy seeing her expression, she was currently hanging upside down like a bat, which made her massive breasts slightly block him from making eye contact with him.
She then jumped off the wooden gate she was hanging on, and stood in front of Gu Shang, she was casting a shadow over him, as her height was a whopping 2 meters, while his height was 1.85 meters.
"What, you missed your big sister, that's why you came, right?"
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If Elder Chu was the 3rd closest to him among the elders, then the two sisters claimed the 1st and 2nd spot. He was called to clean the Pill Pavilion a lot of times, since cauldron explosions were very common. In his 3rd year of working s a cleaner, his cleaning skills could be considered a cleaning master, and seeing his skills, Elder Yang requested his services many times. Because of Elder Yang's friendly attitude, after he was called 13nth time, she started initiating conversations, and over the next cleaning requests he did for her, the two were good friends already.
When he was 15, Elder Yang introduced him to Elder Yin, at first Elder Yin wasn't friendly towards him, but she trusted her sisters' judgement, and so she slowly opened up to Gu Shang, and he opened up to her.
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"I came to ask, is Sister Yin really in closed-door cultivation?"
But hearing his question, Elder Yang became gloomy, making her look uncanny, since she always had a happy and cheerful vibe.
"Sister Yang?"
"..."
"S-She was poisoned."
"Huh? Poisoned by whom?"
"She was poisoned by that bastard Su Dao from the Nether Tears Cave!"
"..."
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Nether Tears Cave was a unorthodox sect, but unlike Blood Lotus Sect, which was only considered one because of it's methods, Nether Tears Cave was an unorthodox sect down to its very bones.
They would refine living beings into various pills, poisons, artifacts and puppets. Nether Tears Cave was an only-male sect, the women there were only sex slaves and servants. They were also shameless and disgusting, their disciples would kidnap and rape even young girls and boys under 13 years of age.
They weren't doing it to improve their cultivation by nurturing them as cauldrons, they did it for nothing more than to sate their savage urges.
The two sects had neutral relationship with each other, but the only reason for that was, that the sect leader of Blood Lotus Sect was at fifth level of kingly spirit, meanwhile the sect leader of Nether Tears Cave was only at the third level.
Although basically every disciple of Blood Lotus Sect was of the opinion of destroying Nether Tears Cave, the sect leader refused that idea, not because she was scared of losing the fight, but because Nether Tears Cave mostly specializes in poisons, even if they won, most of the disciples that survived the war, would die from the poisons left from the war.
Su Dao was an elder of Nether Tears Cave specializing in pills, he was a disgusting man who had a whole 20-person harem filled with underage kids.
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Upon hearing that it was Su Dao that poisoned Elder Yin, Gu Shang was furious, but also surprised, Nether Tears disciples didn't even dare to lay a hand on Blood Lotus disciples in fear of giving a reason for a war, but that bastard dared to poison an elder.
"Why would he do that?! Isn't he scared of enraging our sect master?!"
"THAT OLD BASTARD WAS SO DUMB TO THINK THAT HE WAS WORTHY OF SISTER YIN! THAT BASTARD DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO TAKE HER AS A WIFE, BUT AS A CONCUBINE! THAT DISGUSTING TRASH WANTS MY SISTER AS A *CONCUBINE!"
Elder Yang's face was fuming with elder after recounting how it happened. But eventually tears started forming in her eyes.
"AFTER MY SISTER REJECTED HIM, THAT BASTARD WAS FURIOUS AND SNEAK ATTACKED HER WITH A POISON NEEDLE! HE POISONED HER WITH EXTREME VIGOR ESSENCE!"
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Extreme Love Powder was a potent aphrodisiac, it could make even a living statue of a woman turn into an animal in heat, for people above root nurturing realm it wasn't that useful. But Extreme Vigor Essence was a stronger version of it, this could make even a being without any sort of emotion turn into nothing more than a mindless thing with it's only purpose being sex, of course it was only for beings with no cultivation, but Extreme Vigor Essence was so potent that anyone under soul forming realm would immediately lose their mind from lust.
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"THEN THAT BASTARD STARTED RUNNING AWAY WHILE YELLING THAT SHE* WASN'T WORTH *HIM AND SHE SHOULD DIE FROM LUST WHILE REGRETING CROSSING HIM!"
Hearing this, Gu Shang didn't even know what to say, using Extreme Vigor Essence was such a vicious and shameless thing to do that even unorthodox sects didn't do it. But it just showed how shameless Nether Tears Cave was.
"Sister Yang, is there any way I can help Sister Yin?!"
"I don't know! Elder Yao is checking my sister's condition right now!"
At this point Elder Yang was crying while kneeling, Gu Shang didn't know what to do other than to join her in crying, although Elder Yin wasn't as close to him as Elder Yang, he really did consider her as his sister.
Clank
Suddenly, a rock opened up like a hatch, revealing a woman who looked to be in her 40s.