Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 163: The Secret Tome Acknowledges Its Master - Picking Flowers and Flying Leaves (6)
After a whole day of busyness, cleaning the house, buying people, and giving instructions, only when I lay on the bed did I realize how exhausted I was.
"Sister, you haven’t practiced martial arts in the space for three days in a row," Xiaobai pouted, expressing his dissatisfaction.
"Oh, has it really been that long?" Feng Xuxu was embarrassed; her little butler was always keeping an eye on her.
"It has, Sister. If you keep going like this, fishing for three days and drying the nets for two, I reckon all the True Qi you’ve gathered will be gone," Xiaobai rolled his eyes helplessly. He really didn’t understand why his master was so lazy. It took others years to accumulate True Qi, while his mistress could do it within half a day in the space. It was something many dreamt of but could never achieve, and yet his sister didn’t cherish it.
"Alright then, I’ll start meditating tonight." Turning around to enter the space, she stripped off her clothes and sat in the hot spring, beginning to meditate intently. Soon her face turned red, and a sticky black substance started oozing out from all over her body. Feng Xuxu didn’t know how long she had been meditating until she felt a fiery heat rising from her lower abdomen, which made her open her eyes. She was shocked to see so much impurity excreted from her body. She moved deeper into the hot spring quickly to rinse off, only to find her skin was even more fair and delicate than before—as soon as she touched it, it turned red.
"Xiaobai, Xiaobai, what’s happening to my stomach? It feels like something is scurrying around inside."
"Sister, you need to eat this fruit quickly." Xiaobai grabbed a small red fruit from the basket and threw it to Feng Xuxu.
"What fruit is this? I’ve never seen it before." She looked at the fruit in her hand, about the size of a cherry tomato, with little droplets of water on its glossy surface. With one bite, it tasted sweet, but it oozed yellow juice.
"This is the Marrow Cleansing Fruit. Eating it can expand your meridians and help you absorb more Spiritual Energy. Only then can you properly learn your current martial arts called Picking Flowers and Falling Leaves."
"Picking Flowers and Falling Leaves? Can I practice that? But I don’t have any Inner Strength," she said, swallowing the last bite of the fruit and immediately feeling relief in her abdomen, no longer burning like fire.
"You don’t need to practice Inner Strength. You and the space are one; the space will continuously supply you with True Qi. As long as you master Picking Flowers and Falling Leaves to the highest level, not even the best martial artist can defeat you. Plus, you’ve also learned about formations, so you can protect yourself in critical moments," Xiaobai earnestly counseled.
"That’s fantastic; I thought I needed to practice Inner Strength for a long time," Feng Xuxu said excitedly, taking the martial arts manual handed to her by Xiaobai. When she opened the first page, a fragrance wafted out. She was ready to calm down and study martial arts when a sudden sharp pain erupted in her body, and her joints crackled as if they were dislocating.
"Xiaobai, what’s going on? It hurts so much," she said, sweating from the pain and curling up to the side, her clenched fingers turning pale.
"Sister, hold on for a moment; it will pass soon. This is the pain from the Marrow Cleansing Fruit clearing your meridians," Xiaobai said nervously, pacing back and forth near his sister.
"Ah... Xiaobai, it hurts a lot." She stretched out her fingers, gripping the tree trunk tightly, her face turning pale with pain as if a truck had rolled over her. As the final wave of pain struck, Feng Xuxu couldn’t hold on and fell unconscious to the ground.
It was only when the sunlight outside fell on Feng Xuxu’s face that she fluttered her long eyelashes and opened her dazed eyes, looking around to find she wasn’t in the space but in her own bed at home.
"Miss, you’re awake." Baihe had been guarding by her mistress’s side and could finally relax when she saw her mistress’s eyes open.
