Heavenly Rings

After being sure that every last bit of old skin have been clearly washed of, Hai Yang exit the water and wear dry clothes, extending the wet one he just clean.

Once ready, he rapidly return on the little mound, cross is legs an wait for his mind to calm down before attempt to enter in a meditation state.

Within few minutes, his breath start to became longer as is facial expression return gradually to a inexpressive state. Like the very morning, his mind gradually emptied and a clear silhouette appear in his mind, this time, not only the shape became visible but the inside of it have also greatly changed.

If it was still as dark as before, he gave him a sensation of clean emptiness and contrary to the feeling of falling inside a quagmire.

In this emptiness, a faint pulse finally get is attention, focusing his mind on the feeling, he was lead at the space behind the circle draw by the two hand.

In fact, here lay a speck of white light. The speck was so dim that he nearly pass it at he seem to be concealed by a thick curtain, isolating it of the rest of the shadow.

'It should be the location of my core, but it still inaccessible thus i can't start gather mana to strength it now. their still a berry left, surly it would unveil the last barrier and allow me to cultivate.'

Seeing that he's again need a further step, he didn't try further and climb down the mound, returning to the house after having wash the previous jade bottle and put them on the desk in the old man chamber.

Once the tools were take care of, he look at the open book. As far as he could remember, he have never see this one in the small collection. Contrary to the other books, this one have a thick pale brown leather cover of a good one third inch, the pages were also thinner that other books but seem of better quality. The hand made writing was of superior quality too and was easy to read. In clear, the value of this book was certainly higher than the ten reunite.

Curious of is content, he couldn't help but take a glance inside it. Turning the previous pages, a arge quantity of spiritual fruit and herbs. Engrossed in his lecture, the time rapidly flow as he soon return to the page where the handling method of the blue berries where.

In fact, the manufacture of the medicinal liquid have start on the previous page with the green berries. As he carefully read any information, he learn that the complete solution was called three cleansing solution and were a basic medicinal liquid used to wash a cultivator body of impurities and help him prepare to face the first tribulation.

Other that this, the name of the berries was also given with various data. The name was effectively called Nine-three colored berries, a grade 10 spiritual herb that was only slightly better than common herb has he contain trace of mana inside.

The complete grow of a nine-three colored berries start with the last one. With a complete year after the apparition of the stalk, the first end berries will start to grow and appear green. This berry need a complete year to turn ripe and thus became to change for a blue colored one. On the same time, three other green berries will start to appear under this blue berry. Once again, after a complete year of maturation, the first berry will gradually turn red as the three will became blue and the five last green berries appear.

After the apparition of the complete nine berries, they will need a complete year to mature, turning in a four herb common herb. It only after an additional year that the nine-three berries will absorb mana and turn in a five year grade 10 spiritual herbs.

Is to say that the stalk they have left behind will need four complete years before being able to bear complete mature spiritual herbs.

For the first time, Hai Yang learn that spiritual herbs need a least a complete five years and absorb mana before being able to qualify as spiritual herbs and only to be of the lowest classification.

On the same page where the process of the green berries. Along side the use of three common one year herbs and the juice of the berries, one need to prepare a tub of steaming water to loosen the pores and allow the medical liquid to enter the body.

The effect of the liquid will appear as a large quantities of impurities contain on the flesh to be forced out of the body. After this, one would found is body lighter and allow it to became more sturdy.

The second liquid will need to use of six common three years old herbs and the same juice but of blues ones. His effect was harsher as he was here to clench the blood, allowing the flesh and the skin to be greatly enhanced with a continue flux of pure blood.

The last liquid was the heaviest of the three, because of his high content of mana inside the red berry, the energy with enter deeper in the body and wash the meridian, unlocking them before the coming of the tribulation.

This very liquid was very potent due the nine five year common herbs use to create it. out of the three, this one was at the apex of any grade 10 medicinal liquid, only a step behind real spiritual medicine.

Because of the high level of mana inside the nine fruit, no commoner that haven't reach the door of the first layer of body refinement are allowed to use it. If it was take by people who have never touch cultivation, not only it will cause great pain but also treat on life!

Even if one were to take this treatment, one need a periode of three day between each bath to allow the body to completly absorb the medical effect if not, one expose is own body to poisonnement that will strike down the day of the tribulation.

Hai Yang gaze harden when he learn of the danger bring by this method. Because he have past the previous three hour to read the book, he know that other medical liquid exist for those who have never cultivate, further that that, he have see contless of those common herbs during is travel in the forest with old Dong.

The old man was a certified alchimist, they no way that he don't know of those solution but he have never bother to try them before. More than that, this three cleansing solution was for cultivator and only cleanch the body, not cure poison!

It was also say in the book that one need three days between each bath to let the body recuperate and digest all of the solution, but him was forced to take one every days.

The herbs used in the book where clearly describe and he clearly have seen them in the forest, even those five year one, even if they have been scarce, he have see enough to make at least five of those needed liquid in a perimeter of less than five hundred meter around the house. It will even be possible that they are enough in the near kilometer to found all of them. But once again Old Dong have been on the town, risking to stand out among other people to have them wile he was himself a alchemist and could have found them in the forest.

The story was too fishy for him to not suspect something. While pondering on the previous action of the man, the response was clearly give on the previous page. as he was keppeing the two pages in one hand, ray of light have pass throught them. Being on a different page, nothing out of the norm seem to came from the third liquid page, but as he was holding the one with the first potion, the line of text became dark and blurry.

As he take a good look, he sense that the page was thicker than the other. Is face became cold as he torn a layer of page from the book, reaveling another double page.

On it the location of possible nine-thre colored berries along with condition of growth where dispatched. Even if this gave a good deal of information, it was the other page that have accapared his attention.

Here where another medicine available with the spritual herbs nammed nine-three berries tonic. Compossed of the pulp of the green, blue and red berries, this tonic where use for a single thing, promote the body constitution!

With the mix of the three pulp and the help of eighteen common medical liquid use on the next page, one will be able to form a paste that have to be apply on the body. Once done, the paste will slowly transmit the medicinal effect to the body before dring up and fall like a shedding skin, indicating that one have fully absorb it. With it one could smooth the absorption of the three baths that will trigger after the full effect of the medicine and allow one to bring force the tribulation and allow to step on the path of cultivation.

On the last line, a advice was righten in red ink, attracting the attention of every reader.

"As the effect of the three following solution is extremely potent, one need to scrictfully take this first step or only death will befall along side the tribulation!"