Chapter 20: Fragrant Two Stages

  About an hour later, Bai Yuke returned to the stone cave with a sturdy branch in hand, which was full of fist-sized fruits, dense and enough for two people to eat for several days. After glancing at Nie Kong coldly, Bai Yuke gnawed on the fruit and left the stone cave.

  Indeed, as Nie Kong had guessed, Bai Yuqings main purpose for entering the Illusory Realm was to temper her combat skills. Fighting those youths and battling spiritual beasts were undoubtedly the best methods. Even if this cave remained safe, she would not hide inside until the end of the trial.

  When she re-entered Nie Kong's line of sight again, it was already evening.

  Nor did she know what intense battles she had been through, her white clothes were completely dyed red, and her whole body was filled with a strong bloody smell, as if she had just crawled out of a blood pool. This time, her thighs, arms and back added several deep wounds that could be seen to the bone.

  At night, Nie Kong performed the "Nine Revolutions Golden Needle Technique", and by the next day, Bai Yuqin had recovered as before. The price was that there was one less bottle of high-quality "Rejuvenating Dew" in her pet backpack.

  For three consecutive days, it was all like this.

  At dawn, Bai Yujing, who was on the verge of collapse last night, became lively and energetic again. She pushed open the crevice and walked out of the stone cave, facing the still somewhat dim light. Looking at her enchanting back being blocked by the closed crevice, Nie Kong couldn't help but pinch his chin and mutter to himself: "It's already been five days since we entered the Illusory Realm, yet we haven't encountered any danger, but we've used up four bottles of Rejuvenating Dew. It seems like we made a bad deal."

  Of course, this is just a casual remark. In fact, Nie Kong was very clear in his heart that the reason why this valley could maintain its tranquility was mainly because Bai Yujing would search the surrounding area several times a day, and all the spiritual beasts and intruding youngsters were killed by her.

  In an instant, Nie Kong leaned against the stone wall and sat down cross-legged. Over the past two days, the fragrance of the White Jade Pill had been growing fainter, showing signs of drying up. Nie Kong could only utilize every moment to absorb and cultivate, hoping to break through to the second grade of the Spiritual Realm before the fragrance was completely absorbed.

  ……

  "Ding Dong!"

  Just as he calmed his mind, a clear and crisp sound suddenly echoed in his brain. Nie Kong was slightly stunned at first, but his expression immediately became excited.

  As expected...

  "Pet 'Zi Luo Huan Ling Xiang' successfully upgraded to 2nd rank, increasing pet backpack by two slots; learned 2nd rank same-body combat skill 'Clouded Flower Explosion'; learned 2nd rank same-body combat skill 'Flying Flower Shadow'; learned 2nd rank auxiliary skill 'Fragrance Recognition'; 'Medicine Cauldron Phantom Body' promoted to 2nd rank."

  Fragrant second floor!

  Nie Kong's smile grew thicker on his face, and as soon as this thought ended, he concentrated his mind on the Dan Tian Yao Chi hole. The small guy who was originally curled up into a ball had completely stretched out, with its roots increasing from three to six, its stem growing a little longer, and its leaves adding one more piece. Except for the tender buds at the top, the whole body was purple.

  "Oh no."

  As if sensing Nie Kong's attention, the little guy twisted his body and coquettishly said in a voice that was both excited and proud, like a child waiting for praise from an elder. Nie Kong was overjoyed and quickly grabbed a handful of dragon scale seaweed from the pet backpack and stuffed it into his mouth to comfort this little guy.

  While constantly chewing on medicinal herbs, Nie Kong couldn't help but recall the consciousness that burst forth from the little guy's upgrade.

  Increasing the pet backpack by two grids is easy to understand, one grid equals one cubic meter, and two grids equal two cubic meters. Nie Kong concentrated his mind and sensed it, and the pet backpack indeed expanded a lot, plus the original four grids, now the pet backpack has six cubic meters of space.

  As for skills...

  Through the spiritual connection between him and Ziluohan Xiang, Nie Kong carefully sensed it, and immediately, a string of consciousness flowed into his mind.

  Yun Die Hua Bao: Pet "Xiang Xiang"'s 9th-level skill "Hua Shan Xue Hai"'s second-stage form, first-stage same-body combat skill "Hua Bao"'s advanced form, requires the owner and pet "Xiang Xiang" to cast together.

  In the end, this "Cloud Piled Flower Blast" is just an upgraded version of "Flower Blast". One day when Xiang Xiang successfully upgrades to 9th rank, this skill should also upgrade into its final form "Blooming Mountain Blood Sea". "Blooming Mountain Blood Sea" was the ultimate move of Little Guy when he was still a demon king or BOSS.

  Nie Kong was indeed looking forward to it, but at this moment, Xiang Xiang's distance from the 9th rank was too far away, and he himself had only just reached the spiritual realm of one product.

  Nie Kong continued to browse through the next second-order Twin Body Fighting Skill.

  Fei Hua Liu Ying: As light as flying flowers, as fast as flowing shadows. The pet "Xiang Xiang" has the skills of dodging attacks and escaping from enemies, which requires the joint efforts of the master and the pet "Xiang Xiang".

  Dodge attack, escape and evade enemy...

  Recalling the introduction of Violet Phantom Fragrance on the Demon's official website, Nie Kong was overjoyed. The ultimate BOSS had a mysterious skill that could dodge 80% of players' attacks every time it was activated, lasting for three minutes. Moreover, when the ultimate BOSS was left with only 30% blood, it would actively escape from the Demon Temple and avoid being surrounded by players. Could it be that these two skills combined to form the current skill "Flying Flower Shadow"?

  If it's effective, this "Flying Flowers and Shadows" can absolutely rival those top-notch spiritual techniques that specialize in body refinement, just like the footwork Mu Hongying revealed when practicing with her spinning top. Once mastered, it can make up for Nie Kong's biggest weakness right now.

  It wasn't until after a good while that Nie Kong managed to calm down his excited emotions.

  This skill was all too familiar to Nie Kong, it was the pharmacist's unique identification technique. As his level increased, he could identify all unknown medicines in the game. The current "Smell and Identify" no longer had any level restrictions, as long as Nie Kong ate the medicine, extracted its power for the little guy to absorb, he could clearly distinguish the effect of the medicine and various properties.

  The little guy has such an ability, and in the future, Nie Kong will be much more convenient when refining spiritual medicine. Of course, if Nie Kong wants to reach the level of understanding Chinese medicine like his previous life, becoming a true spiritual medicine master, relying solely on the "smell of fragrance" of the Purple Luo Phantom Fragrance is far from enough.

  The last "Medicine Cauldron Phantom Body" upgrade was roughly the same as Nie Kong's previous guess. After the little guy transformed into a second-order Medicine Cauldron, it could last for an hour, and after each use, the little guy had to rest for ten hours. The duration increased by a whole factor of two, which was indeed a major breakthrough.

  "Alchemist's Transmutation!"

  Nie Kong let out a low growl in his heart. The small sprout's leaves shook violently, and immediately a small medicine cauldron burst out of the Jade Pool Hole, flew out of the Dan Tian, and finally appeared before Nie Kong's eyes.

  It can actually summon outside of its body!

  Nie Kong was overjoyed, hastily grasping the small three-legged cauldron floating in mid-air and placing it on his right palm. This little thing had grown a bit larger than before, roughly the width of Nie Kong's three fingers, with its body almost entirely covered in pale purple, except for the lid where hints of green still showed through.

  The pattern on the surface of the Ding is much clearer than that of the first order, and if all those fine lines are printed on paper, it will be the mature shape of the Zi Luo Huan Ling Xiang.

  "Be able to summon the alchemy furnace out of the body, and then you can refine medicine openly and uprightly!"

  Nie Kong couldn't help but laugh out loud, although he couldn't summon the Medicine Cauldron at will every minute, two hours a day was more than enough. Even if someone were to suspect him, Nie Kong had plenty of excuses ready. In an instant, the frustration that had been building up in Nie Kong for days, even causing him to not dare sell "Rejuvenation Dew", all disappeared...

  ……

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