I Am This Murim’s Crazy Bitch - Chapter 215: Let Us Have A Martial Arts Match (13)
Qing climbed the steps leading into the medicinal bath.
Looking down, it was dizzying, making her wonder if this is what lava looks like.
Qing cautiously touched it with her foot and recoiled in disgust.
What’s this? Why is it solid?
“What’s going on with this!? It’s solid!”
-You can even jump on it. Amazing, right? Jump a few times and then stand still, you’ll slowly sink in.
Qing tried jumping up and down on the medicinal bath as instructed. The sticky feeling on her soles was very unpleasant, and she personally found jumping in place extremely uncomfortable, so she stopped after a few jumps.
Then, standing on the medicinal bath, she slowly sank in.
Qing raised her right arm with a thumbs up.
Unfortunately, the water level stopped right around her navel, so she didn’t get the picture she wanted.Then, after barely lowering her upper body into the resistant liquid and sitting down, the liquid level reached just below her Adam’s apple.
And her feelings about being immersed in it:
“Ugh. This feels disgusting…”
-Keke, right?
It wasn’t sloshy like water, but a viscous liquid almost like a solid, to the extent that you could jump up and down on it.
It clung to her body, feeling sticky and slimy like glue smeared all over, making her skin crawl with an instinctive revulsion.
Moreover, with the surface right below her nose, the acrid, rotten smell dug into her head with pain like that of over-fermented skate.
“Ugh, what, what did you put in this! Ugh.”
-It’s better not to know. Once you know, you’ll never be able to get in again. Just know this much.
It was a terrible sound worse than not hearing.
What on earth did he put in that he threatens she’ll never be able to get in again if she knows?
Hearing this made it newly terrifying and filthy, to the point where she felt like thousands of bugs were crawling all over her submerged body.
-Pretty horrible, right? There seems to be a rumor that you get used to it and it’s okay, or something like that.
“Didn’t you go in too, Master? Why do you say ‘they say’?”
-Well, because you absolutely never get used to it?
“Why do you keep saying things like that…”
-The name of the medicinal bath is Stinking Sewer Medicine. Ahem. Now you just need to circulate qi. It’s best to circulate the Awakening Divine Art, and later if your successor has an internal cultivation technique they originally learned, you can just have them circulate what they have. However, if they haven’t learned the Awakening Divine Art, you should double the time, hmm. I’ll explain this part later.
“So I should use the Awakening Divine Art now?”
-Yes. You’ll feel a bit itchy, but it’s a natural phenomenon as the medicinal effects are absorbed, so there’s no need to worry much.
“Ah. So it wasn’t just my imagination…”
Indeed, her whole body’s skin was itchy, feeling like it was being poked and prodded, or like it was being gently rubbed with feather tips. At times it also felt like it was burning as if smeared with hot peppers.
With her entire body feeling like this simultaneously, it was hard to sit still.
But her body wouldn’t move.
Like someone sunk in quicksand, she couldn’t budge at all, so even Qing with her superhuman strength could only move very, very slowly.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t get out if she used force, so Qing forcefully endured and vigorously pushed the true qi of the Awakening Divine Art into her meridians.
Then the itching subsided somewhat.
As the medicinal energy permeated her whole body following the circulation of true qi, her entire skin felt like it was burning with a hot, stinging sensation, leaving no room to feel itchy.
If she hadn’t been keeping her mouth shut while circulating qi, she would have let out a groan of “Argh!”
-Heng. From now on, you’ll suffer quite a bit. Originally, when a person’s body is in pain, time doesn’t pass. When the pain subsides you’ll be itchy, and when you think you can bear the itchiness, you’ll be in pain again. Try to endure the next two shichen like it’s a year.
Cheon Yuhak didn’t stop teasing even in this situation.
Qing’s eyebrow twitched.
Damn, I’m dying here.
Ow, it’s spicy and cold and stinging and hot.
The fact that it wasn’t so excruciatingly painful that she couldn’t think at all was truly malicious.
It was bearable if she tried to endure, but it kept gently scratching her nerves and poking at her.
The itchiness too wasn’t enough to make her laugh uncontrollably or convulse, but just enough to tease her like she was about to sneeze but couldn’t.
It wasn’t that it was too hard, but it kept poking at her, disrupting her concentration on circulating qi and reminding her of the time not passing.
In Qing’s experience, it felt like listening to a notoriously boring four-hour lecture while having a stomach ache that was just annoying enough to be distracting.
In the end, as Cheon Yuhak said, it was truly a time that was hard to endure with a sane mind, like a year.
Cheon Yuhak had experienced it himself, so he just laid out his impressions as he had felt them, so how could it be different?
And then, whoa, what a surprise.
“Master? What’s going on with this? My hands, what?”
-What, did your body swell up? Of course your body swells when you’ve absorbed all the medicinal energy in the bath. It’ll return to normal by the end of today, so don’t worry.
Qing looked at her hands.
Her fingers had doubled in thickness, feeling puffy and squishy when touched.
Not just her fingers, but her palms were swollen too, looking like bear paws. When she looked down just in case, oh my goodness, what. What is this. What’s this.
If Koreans had seen this sight, they would have been reminded of the mascot of a Western tire company.
It was even more grotesque because only her face remained beautiful while everything below the neck was like that.
However, Qing didn’t know because there was no mirror.
Anyway, since he said it would return to normal by the end of the day, the easy-going Qing quickly brushed it off and turned her attention to the state of the medicinal bath.
“Master? Is the bath supposed to be like this?”
-Keke, surprised by the rotten water? Originally, the Stinking Sewer Medicine absorbs the medicinal properties and releases the evil properties, so it turns into dirty water when it’s done.
“Oh.”
Qing looked down at the bath she had been soaking in.
The medicinal bath that had been sticky, slimy, and with a nose-stinging stench had somehow turned into something like a milky bone broth.
“This doesn’t seem as bad as dirty water…”
-Keke. It came from your body, so you might not see how dirty it is. Wash yourself thoroughly, put on clean clothes, and call me.
It was a bit awkward to keep talking through the wall.
Qing washed her body with the clean water provided on one side and put on her clothes.
She wondered why she was told to come wearing extremely large clothes with plenty of room, but now she understood the intention.
After that, Cheon Yuhak entered the bath and looked into the medicinal bath.
“Let’s see, let’s see how rotten my disciple’s body was, hm? What? Why is the color like this?”
“Is something wrong?”
“No. If medicine is too strong, it can become poison, right? When the medicinal properties are all absorbed and the excess comes out, it should dissolve the impurities in the body with it.”
Because Qing’s constitution made all poisons ineffective, she absorbed all the medicinal properties as they were and neutralized the toxins, so nothing came out.
Qing, having chosen her constitution herself, didn’t know the exact workings but thought similarly, so she understood, thinking “Ah, I guess that could happen.”
“I guess there were no impurities.”
“Heng. Did you undergo some kind of body reconstruction? Why are there no impurities? People are originally born with-“
“Didn’t you hear? I already underwent body reconstruction. Last year.”
“Ah. I see. Still, it’s strange. Even setting aside impurities, a person’s body shouldn’t be able to take in that much medicinal energy at once…”
Since there had never been a Divine Thief who achieved body reconstruction before even entering the sect, he had no choice but to think it must be so.
“Whew. That was tough. Can we go eat now?”
“You’re hungry even after absorbing all the medicinal bath? What food? Before the medicinal properties are wasted becoming waste, we should start the real training.”
At this, Qing’s expression was…
Half sorrowful desolation and half shocking betrayal, as if to say how could you say such a terrible thing.
“What do you mean real? What on earth, then what have we been doing until now…”
“That was preparation. The key is to twist your joints while wrapped in medicinal energy. Now it’s finally time to use this.”
Cheon Yuhak dragged something from the corner, which looked more like a torture device than a training tool no matter how you looked at it.
It was similar to a frame for tying up criminals.
However, with bizarre devices attached at each joint, it was clearly not a normal object.
“Um… Master?”
“Didn’t I tell you before? External technique training is a combination of several out of four things. Overwork, torture, poison, medicine.”
Qing pointed at the device with her finger.
Cheon Yuhak giggled and answered.
“It’s a combination of two. Overwork. Torture.”
“Hmm, thinking about it, do I really need flexible joints when I already have a sturdy body…?”
Then Cheon Yuhak smiled kindly.
“I’m joking, you fool. It looks vicious, but it’s not that vicious of a thing. It’s not such difficult training, so you don’t need to be so scared.”
“What, you scared me.”
Qing sighed in relief and lay down on the frame.
Cheon Yuhak muttered about what kind of girl is so tall while turning, tightening, pulling, and inserting various parts to adjust the frame, and then click click, metal rings covered almost her entire body.
“Master? It’s too tight, it hurts.”
“That’s because your flesh is swollen from the medicinal energy. As the medicinal energy leaves, it’ll fit just right.”
“It hurts quite a bit…”
“It’s okay. Anyway, that level of pain should be nothing to you now.”
“…? What did you just say?”
“Now. Say ah. You might damage your teeth if you clench them.”
Cheon Yuhak said this while holding out a gag.
Qing asked seriously:
“Master? Didn’t you say it wasn’t a vicious thing- mmph!”
Cheon Yuhak is the Divine Thief, and it’s not such a difficult task for the Divine Thief to put in the gag the moment Qing opens her mouth to say “ah”.
“That was a joke too. You fool. Can’t you tell just by looking? It’s clearly made to properly mess up a person. You’re so naive, how on earth are you going to navigate the harsh martial arts world.”
“Mmph, mmph…!”
“I’m sorry. It’s just returning what I received. Didn’t you say something good? The inheritance of hatred. If you’re really upset, you can pass it on to your disciple too.”
“Mmph! Mmph…!”
“Even if you faint, I’ll wake you up, so don’t make things troublesome for your master and maintain your consciousness. The medicinal energy concentrates when you endure the pain in a conscious state.”
The true nature of the Flowing Willow Soft Refinement external technique training was to forcibly bend the joints in the opposite direction while the body was swollen with medicinal energy.
Because the body is already full of medicinal energy, the joints recover as soon as they are damaged, gradually increasing their range of motion.
However, when a person forcibly bends their joints, the pain is extraordinary. The medicinal energy only reacts intensely to pain close to crippling, so anesthesia or fainting won’t work.
In the face of such pain, of course you can’t see anything, be it master or parents.
Thrashing about and flailing limbs in all directions, that’s why it was a specially made steel frame.
“Just endure for about one shichen. If you think of it as achieving as much as you hurt, it should be bearable.”
At this, Cheon Yuhak finally revealed his true colors, not hiding his wickedly unparalleled smile as he continued:
“By the way, I couldn’t endure and ended up wailing pitifully with snot and tears. Well, it’s okay. You won’t die.”
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