Reconnecting Meridian

The journey back to the main sect was unexpectedly smooth.

They didn't encounter any incidents like before,maybe because the resources were not as precious as before.

And because of the participation of many Foundation Establishment disciples, the beasts didn't dare attack the convoy. Even the mindless beast would steer clear after sensing the aura emitted from the convoy.

After several days of travel, they finally arrived at the main sect.

Wei Fang hurriedly went to the mission hall to retrieve his reward before impatiently going back to his courtyard.

Even though it was dilapidated and broken, it gave him the greatest comfort.

Wei Fang looked at the courtyard; nothing seemed to change after he left, only the thickening of dust on the floor.

After a brief cleaning, he sat down on his mat.

He opened his interface and redeemed the reward of the 'Live or Death' trial.

Wei Fang looked at the clear white pill in his hand. It was vastly different from the pill he knew.

Even though he held it in his hand, he couldn't tell that it was a medicinal pill if he didn't know beforehand. It was because the pill didn't emit any herbal scent or change the surrounding qi. If one didn't know better, they would assume that it was a stone.

Wei Fanh sniffed at it before saying, "System-sama, are you sure this pill was okay?"

[Does the host question the system's integrity?]

"No, it just..."

[The system knows what the host wants to say.] [Ignorance was one thing, but for the host to question an object from the system was an insult.]

"I am sorry." Wei Fang hurriedly kowtowed.

His life and death were under system control; he could just apologize first and think about other things later.

But he forgot one thing. The system can read his thoughts.

[Too late. Also, you need to be more sincere in your apology next time. The system has already decided to punish the host with an increase in the minor healing pill effect.]

"Hmm?"

Wei Fang was startled. The system said punishment, but why did it seem like a reward instead?

Whatever! Wei Fang popped the pill into his mouth. The pill melted in his mouth instantly and was absorbed by him.

Wei Fang closed his eyes as he felt the change in his body. He could feel every injury in his body starting to heal; even those hidden injuries that were usually hard to treat started to heal. He could feel that his body was becoming lighter. Now only the injury in his meridian was remaining.

Wei Fang's attention was focused on it when he suddenly felt his chest start to itch. He instinctively started to scratch it, but it didn't alleviate the itch; instead, it became even more intense.

Then he could feel that his meridian was starting to heal. The itchy feeling he got was from the meridian that tarted reconnecting.

But, as time passed, the itchy feeling became unbearable.

It was so itchy, but he couldn't do anything about it. Even if he scratched until he dug out his chest, he didn't think the itchy feeling would disappear.

"Aah, so itchy!" 

Wei Fang started squirming on the floor and rolling all over the place because of how uncomfortable it was.

It was then that he remembered something. His punishment was the increase in the pill effects. Is this what the system means by punishment? Just how much did the effect increase for him to become so itchy?

Wei Fang almost swore at the system, but thinking about what happened to him now, he swallowed his words back. Luckily, the system didn't hold it against him, as it could read his thoughts.

"Aaaah, so uncomfortable!"

Compared to this, he prefers his body to feel pain. At least if the pain ever exceeded the threshold, he would lose consciousness.

Of course, it was different if the pain was directly to the soul, like when he received knowledge. If it was like that, he couldn't faint even if he wanted, and on the off chance he fainted, there was a chance that his soul would be injured.

The itchy feeling finally disappeared after the meridian fully healed. Even so, Wei Fang is still shivering from the uncomfortable feeling.

"Fak, I don't want to feel it again."

Even so, Smile couldn't help but break out of his mouth, feeling his reconnected meridian.

Wei Fang closed his eyes and started to circulate his qi. The circulation was unexpectedly smooth, much smoother than before his meridian was injured.

Wei Fang tried to execute Elemental Palm, and his palm became red in no time, showing its high temperature.

He let his palm become normal before closing his eyes to cultivate.

After what he experienced before, Wei became more diligent in his cultivation. Even when cultivation causes some pain in his chest, he still does it because he knows how important it is.

Now that his meridian was reconnected, he couldn't wait and started to cultivate immediately.

As he started to cultivate, he got the feeling that he was not far from a breakthrough. Maybe it was his determination to cultivate with severed meridian that caused his qi to become stronger, or maybe it was because of what he experienced in the mission.

But, after he got the feeling, he suddenly stopped cultivating.

He was too excited before and didn't consider many things. Now that his meridian has fully reconnected and healed, he needs to think about the repercussions.

Wei Fang knew the news of his severed meridian would spread in the sect with no time, and if he suddenly broke through, it would bring him no small amount of trouble.

After all, it meant he had a precious herb or had the technique to reconnect meridians. It was something that could make large clans tempted.

Even though severed meridian was a rare case, it was still something that occurred to many people. Sometimes it even occurs to someone important because of assassination or an incident while cultivating.

So something that could reconnect Meridian was something that a large clan or even a large sect wanted.

"System-sama, do you have something to fake my injury and hide my cultivation?" Wei Fang could only turn to the system.

[Yes]

Wei Fang's eyes brightened. "Can you give it to me?"

[No]

I knew it. How can it be easy to get something from the system?

Should I continue to cultivate? But what if I accidentally breakthrough like before? Guess I just train the Raging Fist technique like the system and Elder Jun advised.

If only other people knew what Wei Fang was thinking, they would be so angry and start beating him. Everyone was working hard and doing everything they could so they could have a breakthrough. And here he was treating breaking through as an accident.

If breaking through was an accident, everyone would want to be involved in an accident every day.