Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 46: Battle Sense

He sat at his usual place and took out all the Foundation Establishment fire spirit herbs he had stolen, leaving the higher level one’s for later. The impact a Foundation Establishment herb had on his cultivation was minimal, but if he had hundreds of them, then it would be effective. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

He was about to break through, and this much spirit herbs would be enough for him to break through, in fact, in less than half the amount he had, he would be able to break through. What he really wanted was to improve his fire affinity to another level.

He didn’t know how much these herbs would improve his affinity as they were only Foundation Establishment level. He would have to see that after eating all of them.

He took a long breath and began eating the herbs. He ate 2 or 3 at a single time and with constant speed.

When he had devoured about 150 of them, he felt he was about to break through. He didn’t stop eating because he didn’t need to do anything to break through, in fact, he couldn’t do anything even if he wanted to. His cultivation process was all handled by his physique, his only job was to consume resources.

As expected, he broke through quite easily. His fourth meridian opened, and he felt the qi moving in his body become faster and smoother. He reached Mid Stage of Foundation Establishment realm in his Qi cultivation and mid stage of Grade 2 in his body cultivation.

As he kept consuming the herbs, his cultivation realm in mid stage became stable and gradually began to increase.

When he consumed about 600 spirit herbs, he felt that he was about to open his 5th meridian. He hesitated a little if he should stop or not.

Although Huan Caiyi, Zhi Hui, and Ming Yue never asked anything about his physique as this was a sensitive topic and they respected his choice of hiding it, if he opened 2 meridians in one night, then it would reveal many things about his real capabilities.

They would be able to deduce many important details from this. Although it wouldn’t change the dynamics of their relationship as he had good judgement of someone and knew that he could definitely trust them, it would still be better to hide it for the time being.

Also, he had felt that his fire affinity wasn’t increasing anymore. When he started eating the herbs, he felt a small increase, but gradually it declined exponentially as if Foundation Establishment herbs wouldn’t affect his affinity anymore.

He didn’t know how good his fire affinity was now, as he didn’t have any way to measure it. It would be quite amazing if he reached even pseudo spiritual roots level.

He sighed and decided to test it later. He hadn’t slept in a long time, so he chose to take a nap as it was still quite some time before sunrise.

...

Jiang Hao woke up after 5 hours of sleep and came out of his cave abode. There was still some time before sunrise, so he still had time before going to the training grounds.

He decided to take a walk around the peak. There were a lot of trees and herbs on the peak, so it was quite beautiful.

When he was small, his dad always took him on morning walks. It always brought him inner peace. This kind of inner peace had always helped him to analyse his situations in the past. His calmness had also developed from this inner peace.

A person can mature faster if they can understand themselves better. It was quite fitting for him.

As he was walking, he came to the edge of a cliff. He could see other peaks from here quite clearly. Mountain Sword Sect was really quite a big sect. It might not be a match for Azure Sky Sect in strength, but it was still one of the top three sects in the eastern region.

He enjoyed the view and the strong winds on the cliff for some time. He went back when the sun was about to rise.

When he arrived at the training field, he saw that senior sister was already there.

"Good morning, senior sister."

"Good morning, junior brother."

Jiang Hao nodded and both of them waited for Huan Caiyi to come.

She finally arrived when the first ray of sun fell on the mountain peak.

Both of them greeted her, which she responded to calmly. She didn’t seem angry.

"Hope you guys are ready to train, but before that, let me ask you guys something."

She smiled a little.

"Why are you guys so tensed up? Did you guys do something which was considered morally wrong?"

Jiang Hao didn’t respond, but he was definitely not tensed up. Elder Huan just made that up to corner them.

"Fine, so you guys are not going to accept that you stole from the treasury. You do know that it’s a sect rule to ask the peak master’s permission to access the treasury even if you are a legacy disciple, right?"

She said that while looking at them. There was still a smile on her face.

"Alright.. Alright, I don’t blame you guys for what you have done... so, I hope you guys don’t blame me for what I am going to do.

Before this, I wanted to beat you— I mean train you guys without restraining your physique, but now I have changed my mind."

Her smile became bigger. She took out two black robes and threw them to Jiang Hao and Ming Yue. "Go and change."

Ming Yue sighed when she heard that. Her aunt was really ruthless.

Jiang Hao didn’t know how this robe would restrict his physique, but he was definitely curious. Also, since she wouldn’t be asking for the herbs back, he was happy.

He had even thought of clearing all the herbs from the treasury, but he dropped it instantly. He really was corrupted by senior sister Ming Yue.

He went back to his cave abode and wore the robe. It fit him perfectly. When he was done, he immediately felt something wrong. He took out a spirit stone and tried to absorb it, but he failed. His physique really was restricted.

He wasn’t able to figure out how it was possible, but there were many restrictive arrays in the cultivation world so it wasn’t impossible either.

As he came out of his cave abode, Ming Yue too came out at the same time.

"How does it feel, junior brother?"

"Not so bad. It feels like I lost 90% of strength in every way possible."

"That’s true. These robes are even more restrictive than the one I had before."

When Jiang Hao heard that, he remembered something which made him feel awkward. Last time he had told her to remove her restrictions, wasn’t he indirectly asking her to remove her robes? No wonder she was flustered that time.

He avoided looking at her as he was feeling a little ashamed about it. They arrived at the training field.

"Let’s begin. As I said yesterday, I didn’t quite like how you guys are so slow in dodging. Especially you, Jiang Hao, so from today onwards, I will make sure you guys learn how to dodge."

She had a wooden sword in her hand.

"Your training is simple, just dodge."

After saying that, she moved. Jiang Hao became focused but before he could even think of taking a proper stance, he felt a tingling pain in his left leg.

When he looked down, he saw a wooden sword which was being withdrawn after hitting him. He gritted his teeth because the pain was far more than he expected.

"Oh.. sorry, did I mention that these robes enhance the sense of pain of its wearer to 10 times?"

Jiang Hao gritted his teeth and moved away.

How was this training? With that speed, it was practically just beating.

"Actually, I was planning to use the speed of a Core Formation realm cultivator, but yesterday a lot of my precious herbs went missing. I was heartbroken to see that and decided to pass some of the pain in my heart to you guys..."

Before her sentence could be finished, she already vanished. Jiang Hao became tensed and prepared himself for another bout of pain, but it didn’t come. Instead, he heard the scream of Ming Yue who was hit in the leg just like him.

It really was impossible to dodge that. Jiang Hao might have peerless instincts, but they only worked if he didn’t know about the opponents or unknown danger. But what Huan Caiyi was doing was frontal attacks which he knew about.

He could definitely sense the attacks of Huan Caiyi if they were meant to kill him, but since none of the attacks were meant to kill him, it wouldn’t be possible to sense them.

Even if he was able to sense them somehow, it would still be pointless as the speed of Huan Caiyi was so high that it was impossible to react.

"Looks like you guys still can’t dodge it. I will give you guys a hint. First hint is that today you won’t be able to dodge any of my attacks, as I thoroughly want to beat you guys for stealing.

Second hint is to develop your battle sense, but do you know what’s the condition of developing battle sense is? It is to go through multiple dangerous battles, in which you receive multiple deadly injuries.

But it is impossible for me to inflict deadly injuries on you, as the name suggests they are deadly and no matter how much of a devil I might be, even I can’t see you guys in those injuries.

So, I developed a new method to achieve battle sense in the shortest time possible.

It is to give your bodies the same pain as deadly injuries will have without inflicting much of damage."