Matchless Pill God

3. The Withered Meridian

Translator: Flying Lines

“Get out of here, you stinky bastard!” Han Tailong kicked Zhao Qiongcang away and made him slammed into a hard rock, “Why didn’t you mention that we were all classmates when you framed Qin Sheng?”

Zhao Qiongcang was seeing stars and struggled to climb back.

Qin Sheng stood up with his hands behind his back. He glanced at Zhao Qiongcang indifferently, and reached out his hand and said, “You have two bottles of Body-enhancing

Ointment. Give it to me!”

The dying Zhao Qiongcang was in shock. He stared at Qin Sheng in surprise, and blurted, “How do you know I have two bottles of body enhancing cream?”

Body-enhancing cream was a inferior pill. Although it was far from comparable to a first-level pill, for the warriors in the meridian-through level, especially for the primary warriors who only had three meridians opened, it was already a very precious treasure.

The market price of a bottle of ordinary body enhancing cream was as high as 100 crystals. Some of the ordinary meridian-through warriors’ yearly income was just around 100 crystals.

It was conceivable that this body enhancing cream was a very expensive luxury for the warriors in meridian-through level.

Although it was very expensive, it was also very helpful to strengthen the body, even to open the meridians. It was said that a bottle of ordinary body enhancing cream could increase 30 percent of the probability of opening nine meridians.

This number was already very scary, because for most of the warriors, they couldn’t get through the nine meridians, so they didn’t manage to do anything for most of their lives, and finally they became a pile of loess.

Qin Sheng smiled coldly. He had the memory of Pill Emperor Wanjie, who was extremely sensitive to medicinal materials. He could just twitch his nose and tell what kind of medicinal materials were in a square hundred meters around him. Therefore, the fact that Zhao Qiongcang has body enhancing cream was impossible to hide from Qin Sheng at all.

Zhao Qiongcang was half-suspicious about the detoxification ability of Qin Sheng, but now he believed it. Although the body enhancing cream was valuable, his life was more precious.

Zhao Qiongcang spent his last strength to give out the two bottles of body refining cream before lying down on the cold rock.

Qin Sheng took the two bottles of body enhancing cream, then approached and stepped on Zhao Qiongcang with all his strength.

“Ouch, are you trying to trample me to death?”

Zhao Qiongcang howled because of great pain, and rolled on the ground with his head bleeding.

Qin Sheng caught up with Zhao Qiongcang, and started another punch and kick. He was punching at his flesh and kicking at his heart.

“Son of a bitch, Qin Sheng, do you really know how to detoxify me or not? Are you trying to kill me?”

The wail of Zhao Qiongcang echoed in the cold and empty mine cave.

Qin Sheng was chasing Zhao Qiongcang with a cold face. And his punch and kick became heavier each time!

“Don’t move. I’m helping you resolving the poison.” Qin Sheng said in a deep voice.

The students in the mine cave were dumbfounded. They couldn’t believe that Qin Sheng was detoxifing Zhao. It was clearly a revenge.

Looking at the ruthless Qin Sheng, the student who wanted to step forward just now had a chill in his heart. Fortunately, he didn’t do it just now, otherwise…

“Stop it. You will kill him if you keep doing this.” Han Tailong was also confused. He saw that the situation was not right, so he hurried to stop Qin Sheng.

After all, Zhao Qiongcang was a student from the Zhao family, and his status in the Zhao family was definitely not low because he had two bottles of body enhancing cream even though he hadn’t got into Floating Cloud Academy.

Han Tailong was also a student of the Zhao family. He was even the ninth heir, but he still had to wait until he entered Floating Cloud Academy to get a bottle of body enhancing cream.

If Zhao Qiongcang got killed, the angry Zhao family would take this excuse to destroy the Qin family.

“The last beat.”

Qin Sheng actually broke free of Han Tailong who had already opened two meridians, and somehow picked up a wooden stick as thick as arm, hit on Zhao Qiongcang’s temple hardly.

“Crack!”

The stick broke into a few pieces, and Zhao Qiongcang fell heavily on the rock, unconscious.

“Qin Sheng, what are you doing?”

Han Tailong pointed at Zhao Qiongcang, who could be dead or alive, and shouted, “If you killed Zhao Qiongcang, you Qin family would all suffer.”

Qin Sheng smiled faintly, “Detoxification!”

“How could you call that a detoxification?”

Han Tailong’s neck turned red because of anger.

“Just watch.” Qin Sheng walked up to the unconscious Zhao Qiongcang and pressed on a few acupoints with his fingers. Suddenly Zhao Qiongcang spat out three mouthfuls of black blood.

Zhao Qiongcang, who had been beaten up, looked at the crowd blankly, and was somewhat unconscious, “I’m still alive?”

Qin Sheng said indifferently, “Go back and take a middle-level detoxification pill, thoroughly eliminate the toxin, and then rest for a few more days to heal.”

In fact, it seemed like a revenge while Qin Sheng was punching and kicking Zhao Qiongcang just now, but actually Qin Sheng was opening his meridians and forcing out the toxin in his body. This method of beating was called ‘

Thousand

Hammer Meridian-opening Technique’ and was very common up on the nine heavens, but it was certainly unheard of in Beichen, one of the ten regions.

“Zhao Qiongcang actually woke up.”

“Qin Sheng really knows detoxification?”

“Bullshit. If such random punches and kicks could help to detoxify him, then I’m already a detoxification expert.”

The students in the mine whispered, but they didn’t dare to think about the two bottles of body enhancing cream.

“Here.”

Qin Sheng took a bottle of body enhancing cream and threw it to Han Tailong. Han Tailong smiled, and of course kept it without trying to be polite.

Qin Sheng found a dry rock in the mine cave, and opened the body enhancing cream. He took a smell with the tip of his nose and frowned, sounded not so satisfied: “This alchemist’s level is too low. Neither the smell nor the color is up to standard.”

Zhao Qiongcang in the distance watched Qin Sheng taking the body enhancing cream, and it almost made him cough blood. That body enhancing cream was the product of Cloud-transcending Hall!

Cloud-transcending Hall’s pills were limited supply, you couldn’t just buy it even if you got a lot of crystals. Even Zhao Qiongcang’s father pulled some strings to get only two bottles. But it was still criticized by Qin Sheng who just got it without spending a cent.

Did he think he was more awesome than Cloud-transcending Hall’s alchemists?

Qin Sheng applied the cream to his whole body, and sat cross-legged. Soon he felt his whole body was getting warmer, and the pores were all opened. The body enhancing cream was starting to take effect, and a large amount of meta force was poured into his body through the pores.

Pop, pop…

Soon, a lot of black impurities oozed from the pores.

And meta force was also converged into a mass, pouring into Qin Sheng’s one and only opened meridian.

“Hmm?”

Qin Sheng frowned and secretly thought, “Why is my meridian so small?”

It was like… It was as if it had shriveled and dried up.

“It’s just a human level meridian, but it’s still shriveled? This is very abnormal!”

Qin Sheng looked a little pale.

There were nine premodial meridians hidden in human body. However, the level of the meridians were divided into ‘human’, ‘earth’ and ‘heaven’ levels.

The human level meridian was the lowest, and the most common, while the heaven level was extremely rare, even throughout the whole Dayan city, the number of the people that had heaven level meridians opened was no more than five.

From this, it could be seen how rare a heaven level genius was!

Qin Sheng only opened one meridian. His talent was mediocre enough, and now even the only one meridian shrank a bit, and almost reached the point where it was about to wither. Once the meridian got withered, the road of Qin Sheng in cultivation would be almost over.

Meta force was integrated into Qin Sheng’s only meridian. Just like a rain after a long drought, Qin Sheng’s meridian had recovered a bit.

But before Qin Sheng could get excited, his meridian quickly dried up again.

It was just like the water and nutrients got drained away.

“There’s definitely a big problem. Am I injured?”

Qin Sheng’s face suddenly sank, because an injury in meridian was not a small matter.

After changing into dry clothes, although his expression was a little solemn, but after taking the body enhancing cream, Qin Sheng still felt like he was totally refreshed, especially his strength and spirit were enhanced a lot.

At that time, Han Tailong shouted loudly. A strong wind suddenly rolled up, with meta force entwining, and the power was even able to match Zhao Qiongcang’s best state!

“Haha, brother, thank you for the body enhancing cream, or else I couldn’t open the third meridian so quickly.” Han Tailong came over and pushed Qin Sheng’s shoulder.

Qin Sheng nodded and congratulated him. But his current thoughts were still focused on his shrinking meta force. Because a meta force that was about to be withered was definitely not a small thing, he could not ignore.

Right at this moment.

“So everyone is here.”

A pleasant sound came from outside of the mine, and then a few figures showed up. The leaders were a man and a woman. The man was very tall, carrying a green sword, with his eyes like stars and brows like swords. Although he was holding back the momentum, everyone could still feel his fierce meta force.

The woman’s face was very beautiful. Her skin was like jade, with her long hair spreading in the wind. Her coat was like snow, outlined an extremely attractive curve of her body. But this beautiful woman’s temperament was cold like ice, and her eyes were extremely calm, just like she was rejecting everybody from herself.

It should have been this ice beauty who were speaking just now.

“That’s senior Xia Bingning and senior Zhao Qingcang.”

“Now we are saved.”

The students in the mine cave cheered with the excitement to be saved after a disaster.

“Everyone get ready. The assessment is over now. We’ll get back to the academy right away.” Xia Bingning glanced at everyone. Except for the more seriously injured Zhao Qiongcang, everyone else was not hurt, which was a great blessing.

Scorpion-tailed tiger was such a large beast, even if the warrior who opened seven meridians would not dare to face it directly without arranging a formation to deal with it. The most powerful of these participators in the presence was only a low-level warrior who opened three meridians. A casual scorpion-tailed tiger’s claw might just kill them!

The students all cheered and agreed. Because in their eyes, with the protection from Xia Bingning and Zhao Qingcang who came from the Inner court, they would definitely be able to return safely to the academy.

Just when everyone thought they could leave this dangerous Devil Dragon Mining Area, Qin Sheng sneered, “If you have a death wish, you could just leave with this senior.”

What?

Inside the mine, everyone’s eyes were focused on Qin Sheng.

“Who is he?”

“His name is Qin Sheng. He didn’t die after being hit by the scorpion-tailed tiger.”

“Yeah, and he taught a hard lesson to Zhao Qiongcang.”

Han Tailong smiled awkwardly at the crowd, and stepped to Qin Sheng’s side, said in a low voice, “Qin Sheng, what the hell are you doing? Xia Bingning is not only a senior from the inner academy, she is also the acting instructor of the outer academy. She’s not someone like Zhao Qiongcang who hasn’t even got into the outer academy. Don’t offend her.”

“Xia Bingning and Zhao Qingcang not only killed that scorpion-tailed tiger, but also wiped up its entire nest.”

“The safest way is to follow Xia Bingning.”

The freshmen who followed Xia Bingning scoffed.

Xia Bingning looked cold, and moved her steps lightly to approach Qin Sheng. Except that a wave of ice cold meta force which made Qin Sheng feel slightly surprised, her refinedly beautiful face was more clearly presented in front of the eyes of Qin Sheng.

Even though Qin Sheng had seen countless beautiful women in nine heavens, Xia Bingning’s beauty could still be counted as one of the top in the world.

“Classmate, do you think that my strength is not enough to bring everybody back to the academy safely?” Xia Bingning frowned slightly, with her cold face like an ancient well, with no trace of fluctuation.

“It’s not about your strength.”

Qin Sheng said softly, “It’s… because you are deeply poisoned by the corpse poison, and you are about to turn into a rotten corpse!”