Cultivation Begins with Caring for Sister-in-law Chapter 16: Ninth Grade Refining Skin

East side of the village.

After stewing for more than half an hour, following a shout from Wang Xi.

The villagers imdiately rushed forward, not caring about the heat, grabbing the at and stuffing it into their mouths.

The next mont, each of them hissed from the heat, yet no one was willing to spit out the at in their mouths.

The continuous cold wind couldn’t dampen their enthusiasm for eating at.

They were really too hungry. Normally they lived with their belts tightened, eating only one al a day, lying down whenever possible. At this mont, they were eating freely, their faces shiny with grease.

Liu Ergou and Wang Xi squatted together, gnawing on at, "Brother Wang Xi, can we go deal with Brother Mo now?"

"No rush yet." Wang Xi frowned, "Brother Mo has picked up so skills recently, last night he even broke Lu San’s leg, and this morning he dealt with Aunt Lu, many won saw and got frightened, just having this al won’t be enough to drive them..."

"Brother Xi, the at is gone, can we add so more? We haven’t had our fill yet..."

Suddenly, a woman ca over, pointing at the empty pot, smiling broadly.

Wang Xi finished gnawing the at off a bone, threw the bone aside, wiped his greasy hands on his clothes, stood up, and shouted, "Everyone, was the at tasty?"

"Tasty."

"After eating this al today, my life is not in vain."

"..."

The villagers chatted among themselves.

"Do you want more?" Wang Xi’s voice was raised a notch.

"We do," the villagers answered in unison.

"Alright, then tomorrow at this ti, all the n co here to gather, we’ll go up the mountain to hunt, and feast again," Wang Xi declared.

"Good, Brother Wang Xi is mighty, Brother Wang Xi is aweso," Liu Ergou shouted.

"Brother Wang Xi is mighty."

"Brother Wang Xi is mighty..."

Many others echoed.

...

[at consumption count 0.05, Blood Nourishing Technique experience 0.05.]

[at consumption count...]

Chen Mo was also eating at, taking big bites.

Han Anniang, slled the at fragrance wafting in from outside, and biting her chopsticks, asked in surprise, "Uncle, soone like Wang the Pockmarked, why would he share at with the villagers?"

Wang Xi wasn’t known for generosity in the village, her grandmother used to tell her that Wang Xi was a petty thief.

What’s caused him to change so much and beco so generous now?

"No good deed is without motives. Sister-in-law, be cautious these days..."

Chen Mo glanced at the Blood Nourishing Technique information (Entry Level 83/100)).

By tomorrow at the latest, he would have fully mastered the Blood Nourishing Technique experience.

Due to the Lu San incident.

After breakfast, Chen Mo reinforced the doors and windows at ho, especially Han Anniang’s room.

...

Early the next morning.

Chen Mo was woken up by the uproar outside again.

He walked out of the room.

Han Anniang was squatting in front of the kitchen door, rinsing her mouth with salt on a willow twig, shivering from the bone-chilling wind, brushing her teeth.

Seeing Chen Mo co out, she looked up, mumbling with her mouth full, "Uncle... you’re awake..."

"What’s going on outside?"

Han Anniang took a sip of water, mumbled a few tis, spat it out, and said, "Wang the Pockmarked led the villagers up the mountain again, this ti there are even more people than yesterday..."

Chen Mo nodded, then skillfully went to the kitchen to break a willow twig, dabbed it with coarse salt, and began brushing his teeth.

During the first couple of days after coming here, while brushing his teeth with a willow twig, he, who was accustod to electric toothbrushes, ended up with a mouthful of blood, and even hurt during als.

Besides brushing teeth, there’s also going to the toilet.

The Chen Family didn’t have an outhouse, just a pit dug in the backyard vegetable patch, with so planks erected for cover, for anyone to squat at when necessary.

The wind blew on one’s behind, there was no toilet paper, only bamboo strips for wiping.

Making Chen Mo utterly uncomfortable.

After his first toilet trip, he even specially took a bath.

Occasionally, while lying in bed, he would wonder why so many people online wished to travel back to ancient tis. For pampered modern people, wouldn’t that just be suffering?

Even crossing over as a prince wasn’t more comfortable than a modest modern family.

Fortunately, after all these days, he had adapted.

After finishing breakfast.

Chen Mo wielded a firewood knife and practiced in the yard.

Then he went to the river to fetch water, back and forth several tis until the water tank was full.

He also chatted with Han Anniang, and the morning passed.

When lunchti ca.

Chen Mo’s mood beca extraordinarily excited.

The Blood Nourishing Technique had reached (Entry Level 97.2/100).

Whether he would beco a dragon or insect depended on this al.

Chen Mo eagerly used his hands to grab a at chunk the size of a fist, biting into it.

[at consumption count 0.05, Blood Nourishing Technique experience 0.05.]

[...]

[at consumption count 0.05, Blood Nourishing Technique experience 0.05.]

"Almost there..."

Seeing the Blood Nourishing Technique (Entry Level 99.95/100), Chen Mo drank so water and took another bite, after a few chews, he swallowed it down.

[at consumption count 0.05, Blood Nourishing Technique experience 0.05,]

Boom!

At that mont, Chen Mo felt a fire ignite inside him, burning up his blood.

In no ti, Chen Mo sensed all the blood in his body starting to boil.

Now, his body was like a pot boiling water, every place like ears, nostrils, and mouth where steam could escape was emitting heat, and his skin beca scorching hot.

"Uncle, what’s happening to you, don’t scare ..." Han Anniang, seeing this scene, was frightened, her eyes imdiately red, hurriedly coming over to see what was wrong with Chen Mo.

But as soon as she touched his skin, Han Anniang felt as if she touched a burning iron, quickly retracting her hand.

"Uncle..." Han Anniang thought sothing had happened to him, her eyes filled with anxiety and tears, and then she rembered sothing and quickly ran to the kitchen.

Chen Mo sensed that boiling hot blood circulating through his body, he didn’t feel pain, it was like being in a sauna.

Then, he detected a peculiar energy, rging into every inch of his flesh.

[Na: Chen Mo.]

[Age: 16.]

[Cultivation Technique: Blood Nourishing Technique (Small Success 0/500).]

[Realm: Refining Skin (Ninth Grade).]

[Power: 38.]

[Skills: Celestial Harmony Saber Technique (Perfection, next strike can break through the tier).]

"Success, I finally succeeded..."

Chen Mo stood up, feeling the seemingly endless power within, an unstoppable joy erged, he wanted to shout out loud...

And then he got doused with a bucket of cold water.

Han Anniang scooped a bucket of cold water from the kitchen, and splashed it over Chen Mo as she entered the house.

Chen Mo: "..."

The previous overwhelming joy was extinguished by the cold water.

Chen Mo wiped the water off his face, dumbfounded, looking at Han Anniang, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"

"I-I didn’t an to, I saw Uncle was steaming and your whole body was scorching, so I just..." Han Anniang said worriedly.