Time slowly ticked by. Six hours had passed in the outside world.
The father and son soaking in the tub of herbs were now going through terrible pain and suffering. They would faint from the pain, then it would cause them to wake up again, and they couldn’t keep themselves from shouting and screaming inside the tub. But since Qingcheng had already covered both rooms with a soundproof formation, none of their noise would attract any attention from outside.
They only had one thought in their minds right now: They had to survive this! They had to survive this!
Back inside the interspace, Qingcheng had already managed to merge the various attributes together in pairs, so she was now going to try to make them mimic her Spirit Qi attacks.
She imagined that her attack would be in the shape of a dragon, so she raised a hand to maneuver her Fire Spirit Qi. “Fuse together!”
POOOOF… A bright red flame that resembled a worm appeared…
Qingcheng looked speechlessly at this… uh… worm.
She calmly kept her hands away, then tried one more time. Three days passed just like that…
BOOM…
A fiery dragon appeared within the cultivation room, and this slightly small creature flew around inside the cultivation room. Qingcheng could feel the heat from the dragon’s body, but it didn’t burn her, and she felt rather relieved. It was finally no longer some worm or snake! It now looked like a proper dragon! It now revealed its teeth and claws as it occupied the space at the top of the room.
After that, she tried all the other attributes and made them appear in various forms. She was able to produce them in whatever shape she thought of.
“It’s a Godly level technique, alright. It’s really powerful, of course, and… it’s pretty cool too.” She peeked at the clock.
“Forty days have passed. I still have another twenty days. I’d better start cultivating.” She sat down cross-legged and started to cultivate.
On the last day, she finally emerged from the room, looking all energized and raring to go, and seemed to be in a pretty good mood. Well, of course, her expression remained as cold and aloof as usual.
As always, after she was done cultivating, she would take a bath. Only Qingcheng could enjoy the luxury of using Sacred Spirit Spring water to bathe every day…
Qingcheng didn’t choose to wear any of her usual dresses but got into one of the few men’s robes she had. She picked a white embroidered robe and a pair of white boots with gold embroidered seams. She then tied her black hair with a purple jade hair crown. Her exquisite features had matured a little, and she looked even more charming and mesmerizing now.
She wasn’t sure if it was because she had been eating mostly Spirit Fruits and always drinking Sacred Spirit Spring water, or if it was due to the fruit juice that she had made by combining the Spirit Fruits and the Sacred Spirit Spring water.
In the accumulative two months she spent in the interspace, her body had grown taller by quite a bit. Now she was nearly five feet two inches tall, and after she had inserted some additional cushions into her male boots, she now stood at five feet four inches, which made her look around the average height of a teenage boy.
She bound her chest, added on a fake Adam’s apple, then made her thin and shapely eyebrows a little thicker and straighter. This look with her absolutely enchanting phoenix-shaped eyes made her look handsome beyond comparison.
And why did she want to dress up as a man? She had a number of things to attend to, so it was easier to walk around like this than it was to do so as a woman.
When she emerged from the palace, Tealwood could sense her even while cultivating, so he stopped doing so immediately. But when he opened his eyes, he was so shocked that he thought his master had disappeared.
Tealwood called out in shock, “Master?”
He was so surprised and thought that some man had gotten in there. But thankfully, he knew that this was his master’s interspace, and he had seen what his master truly looked like. Otherwise, he really wouldn’t have dared to be so sure.
“Come on, let’s go. They should be done.”
……
The two of them stood outside the two rooms, and Qingcheng dispelled the formation once time was up.
She called out to them, “Elder Yan, Yan Xuan, if you can hear me shout.” It wasn’t appropriate for her to go in now since they were both not wearing anything. It wasn’t nice to walk in on them if they were conscious.
Elder Yan’s voice called out first, “I can hear you! I can hear you, my benefactor! Thank you, thank you!!”
He had endured the pain all the way until daybreak to absorb all of the effects of the medicine in the water. He realized he could feel his dantian again, his meridian channels were no longer clogged, and he could feel an energy turning inside his dantian. He immediately started cultivating, and he was surprised that he could really cultivate again!
He had really recovered! Even though it would take a bit of time for his cultivation level to be restored, he wasn’t worried about that at all! He tried to stand and was immediately hit by the stench from inside the bathtub, so he quickly got out and started to put on his clothes.
At this time, he heard Qingcheng’s voice call out to him, and he was so happy and excited.
“My benefactor, wait for a while. I’ll be out soon!” Elder Yan excitedly dressed himself properly. Even though he really wanted to bathe, that wasn’t the most important thing he had to do now.
Yan Xuan called out hoarsely from the next room. It was immediately apparent that the pain he went through the night before must have been so unbearable.
He quickly responded, “Miss! I’m awake, and I’m still alive! Wait for a while and I’ll be out soon!” He couldn’t control his excitement and trembled as he noticed the feeling come back into his arms and legs again. He clutched onto the sides of the bathtub tightly.
SPLAAAASH.
“I can get up! HAHAHA! I can stand again! This is great! I can really stand up! HAHAHA!” He was laughing loudly, but tears of joy were flowing out of both his eyes.
Five minutes later, the two of them had gotten dressed properly and opened the doors to their rooms. Elder Yan looked excitedly at Qingcheng and was stunned for a moment. He looked at Tealwood and asked, “Where’s the young lady?” Why was there now a handsome young man outside instead?
Yan Xuan was surprised when he first emerged from the room on the right side, but he could tell immediately that the person next to Tealwood was Qingcheng.
His steps weren’t steady, but he made his way towards her resolutely.
Qingcheng didn’t say anything and just stood with her hands behind her back as she watched Yan Xuan walk towards her.
Yan Xuan stopped about three meters away from her and fell to one knee. He placed his right hand over his heart as he looked at Qingcheng with determination and said, “Miss! I am very grateful for the new life you have given me! My life belongs to you from now on! Please tell me your name!” He had already decided in his heart.
Qingcheng looked at him. She had taken a Voice Changing Pill, and her voice now sounded cold yet charming in a lazy way. “Feng Qingcheng.” Since she wanted him on her team, she had to be honest with him.
Yan Xuan immediately took an oath, saying, “I, Yan Xuan, hereby declares to the heavens that Feng Qingcheng will be my master, and I will follow her all the days of my life, even if I have to die! If I ever betray her, I shall be struck by lightning! I shall be completely destroyed!” With that, his words of allegiance formed a bond between them and was inserted into the spot between their brows.
After Yan Xuan recognized Qingcheng, Elder Yan also moved so he was three meters away from her. But when Qingcheng told them her name, he couldn’t help but be in shock. After Yan Xuan finished making his oath, Elder Yan asked, “Miss, could I ask if you are the Second Young Mistress of the Feng family, Feng Qingcheng?” He was really very shocked because he simply couldn’t put both of them together.
Qingcheng didn’t intend to hide anything from him, so she calmly replied, “Yes.” She wasn’t afraid of them finding out who she really was since she was here precisely to take revenge anyway.
After hearing her answer, Elder Yan was still stunned, but he was more relieved and happier. He was so glad to have run into her. Just like Yan Xuan had, he knelt to take an oath. Once they were both done with taking their oaths, they started to call Qingcheng their master.
Qingcheng replied, “Very good. Both of you should go and take a bath for now. I’ll wait by the window on the second story of the restaurant. I have some instructions for you two.” She walked out after leaving these instructions.