BTTH : From Humble Beginnings to Dou Di

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The Core Quenching Body Milk was incredibly difficult to form. If it were to be completely extracted, this stalactite—formed over ten thousand years—would likely begin to collapse.

Therefore, a portion had to be left behind to nourish it, allowing it to continue growing.

Lin Feng gently pressed the half-severed piece of stalactite back into place. Instantly, the intense glow gradually faded, and the stalactite returned to its previous, calm state.

Seeing this, Lin Feng let out a sigh of relief. He looked down at the jade box in his hand—inside, the emerald-colored liquid still flowed as if alive.

Carefully closing the lid, he stored it away in his storage ring, then flew back the way he came.

Since he already knew the route, Lin Feng quickly emerged from the cave.

Reaching the sky above the small valley, he darted toward the battlefield in the distance.

At this moment, the valley entrance was nearly unrecognizable from the destruction.

The once-flat ground was now riddled with massive craters, and large boulders that had fallen from the cliffs above were scattered everywhere.

The surrounding forests on both sides had also been heavily damaged. Trees lay across the path, blocking half the entrance to the valley.

”Zi Yan, I’ve got the goods—let’s go!”

Arriving near the battlefield, Lin Feng shouted loudly, then flew rapidly toward the woods in the distance.

”Awesome! Big guy, bye-bye now~!”

Upon hearing him, Zi Yan’s little face instantly lit up with joy. She sent the Snow Demon Sky Ape flying with a punch, then quickly chased after Lin Feng in the direction he left.

”ROAR! Cunning humans! You actually used the trick of luring the ape from the mountain! ROOOAR!”

Hearing their exchange, how could the Snow Demon Sky Ape not realize he had been tricked? Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, he could only roar in fury, his voice echoing through the valley for a long time.

After flying for several dozen minutes, Zi Yan could no longer hold back and called out to Lin Feng.

”Hey, where’s my share?”

”These are the diluted ones. You can snack on these for now. The real Core Quenching Body Milk—we’ll divide it once we’re back in Spirit Mountain City.”

Without even looking back, Lin Feng tossed two jade bottles behind him and replied.

Catching the bottles, Zi Yan immediately pulled out the stopper and began gulping them down.

”Ahh~ So tasty! Totally worth the effort!”

She drained the bottle in one go, then casually tossed it into her storage ring with a grin of pure delight.

Hearing the laughter behind him, Lin Feng’s eye twitched slightly, but he ignored the girl.

Instead, he continued scanning the area with his soul perception, searching for the location of the Inner Academy.

Before long, a portion of his soul perception suddenly twisted under a mysterious force—he instantly lost contact with that thread.

”That’s… Space Power?!”

Sensing the distortion, Lin Feng was startled.

He turned to look into the seemingly ordinary forest ahead and silently marked the location in his mind, then flew onward.

Back in Spirit Mountain City, the two began splitting up their spoils.

Lin Feng took out the jade box containing the true Core Quenching Body Milk, then carefully opened the lid.

Immediately, a faint emerald mist wafted upward and gathered above the box, lingering without dispersing.

”Wow… smells amazing!”

Zi Yan rushed over the moment she saw it, her eyes glowing as she stared at the emerald liquid in the box.

”Hey hey! Back off a little. Don’t drool into it!”

Seeing her greedy expression, Lin Feng quickly shoved her aside, afraid she’d contaminate the Core Quenching Body Milk.

He then used a jade bottle to scoop out three portions, tossing them to Zi Yan while saying, ”Half of it’s yours. Once it’s gone, don’t come asking me for more.”

”Tch, like I care that much.”

Zi Yan pouted while carefully hugging the jade bottles, muttering with mild dissatisfaction.

Then, as if remembering something, she turned to Lin Feng and said, ”Once I finish this Core Quenching Body Milk, I might need to sleep for ten days or half a month to digest it. I’ll come find you after I wake up.”

With that, she eagerly summoned her purple wings and shot up into the sky.

”Got it,” Lin Feng nodded, silently watching the direction she flew off.

In his mind, he recalled the location his soul perception had detected earlier. Comparing the two directions, he realized with surprise:

”Heh… looks like I’ve found the location of the Inner Academy of Jia Nan Academy.”

After obtaining the answer, Lin Feng quietly made a note in his heart, then turned and headed toward the alchemy room.

After sitting down, he took out his cauldron, retrieved a small portion of the Core Quenching Body Milk, and flicked his finger—sending the emerald liquid flying into the cauldron.

He then skillfully lit the fire and tossed in Fragrant Candle Grass. Once the essence of the herb was extracted, he used his soul power to fuse the red liquid with the Core Quenching Body Milk.

Seeing them fully merge, he then began adding other herbs—Green Lotus Fruit, Shedding Snake Flower, Buddha Flame Root, and others—to neutralize the violent nature of the Core Quenching Body Milk.

After about an hour of refinement, a multicolored mixture of Core Quenching Body Milk was finally produced.

At this point, the milk had become much more tempered in nature after the blending process.

Moreover, having been refined and fused with dozens of medicinal ingredients, the energy it contained had become even more potent.

Looking at the rainbow-colored liquid before him, Lin Feng didn’t follow the same route as Xiao Yan in the original story by soaking in it.

Instead, he let out a breath and directly swallowed it in one gulp.

After all, with his current strength and physical resilience far surpassing that of Xiao Yan when he used the Core Quenching Body Milk, he could handle this violent power. Naturally, oral consumption—allowing for maximum absorption—was the best method.

As soon as the milk entered his stomach, it began transforming into waves of immense multicolored energy that surged into Lin Feng’s flesh and blood.

He felt a tingling sensation all over, as if ants were crawling beneath his skin.

Enduring the discomfort, Lin Feng tried to circulate Solar Flame Transformation Art at full power.

However, he quickly discovered that the energy was completely out of his control. Like headless flies, the energy rushed throughout his body chaotically.

But soon, he noticed that the multicolored energy wasn’t aimless—it was actually heading directly toward his bones with frightening precision.

Moments later, the energy collided with his skeletal system.

Every bone it touched instantly turned into dazzling five-colored hues.

Under this radiant glow, Lin Feng clearly sensed that something was invading his bones, merging even with his bone marrow.

There was nothing he could do but quietly observe—it was entirely out of his control.

In less than ten minutes, nearly all the bones in Lin Feng’s body had been enveloped in that radiant, multicolored light.

From the outside, it looked as if his entire skeleton had been dyed in surreal colors—strangely beautiful and slightly eerie.

Then, the energy began slowly seeping into the bones.

Soon, Lin Feng felt as if someone were scrubbing his bones with a wire brush—an indescribable pain erupted from deep within his marrow.

And this pain gradually spread to every single bone in his body.

”Holy sh*t! Of course… to gain power, you gotta pay the price!”

Through clenched teeth, Lin Feng hissed in pain. His jaw was tightly shut, grinding out crack crack noises.

His entire body was drenched in cold sweat, soaking his clothes, and he began to tremble involuntarily.

But he knew—this pain was from the Core Quenching Body Milk refining his body. As long as he endured it, his strength would undergo a massive transformation.

As time passed—about a full day—the tempering of his bones finally seemed to complete.

That excruciating, marrow-scraping pain gradually faded.

However, just as he began to feel some relief, the massive multicolored energy—of which less than 20% had been used—started wandering through his body again.

Whatever it touched—bones, meridians, even cells and organs—was instantly transformed into that five-colored brilliance.

Seeing this, Lin Feng immediately focused his mind, tracking the energy as it flowed through him.

Looking at the dazzling state inside his body, he gave a wry smile. He knew—an even more tormenting wave of pain was on its way.

Sure enough, just as the multicolored energy covered nearly all of his internal structures…

A pain at least ten times more intense than before suddenly erupted from his meridians, cells, muscles, and more.

Lin Feng could do nothing at this point—he could only grit his teeth and endure as that bone-scrubbing pain evolved into flesh-scraping agony across all his internal organs.

But amidst the suffering, there was one thing that comforted him.

He could clearly feel that as the burning pain spread, waves of potent energy were being released from within those same regions.

He discovered that after enduring the pain, his bone marrow, skeleton, meridians, cells, and muscles were all undergoing a metamorphosis—a rebirth.

Indeed, this Core Quenching Body Milk truly possessed miraculous effects in washing the marrow and tempering the body.

Moreover, he seemed to sense that in various parts of his body, latent energy—as if once sealed in ice—was now melting and revealing itself.

Finally, this energy transformed into a fog of crimson and cyan, slowly drifting toward his meridians and being rapidly absorbed.

”This is… the leftover medicinal energy from the pills I took before?!”

Sensing his strength steadily rising, Lin Feng pondered for a while, then was shocked.

A wave of joy rose in his heart—he had consumed so many pills before, but had never fully absorbed their effects. Instead, the leftover energy had accumulated inside him, and over time, that kind of sedimentation would actually harm the body.

But now, thanks to this body-tempering process, all that residual energy was being forced out.

As the Core Quenching Body Milk continued refining his body, more and more of this residual energy was drawn out.

He had no idea how long this process lasted, but eventually, the intense pain began to subside.

With his mind sweeping through his body, Lin Feng was stunned to find that the once dazzling five-colored glow had completely vanished.

His bones, meridians, and other structures now faintly radiated a soft glow—like translucent white jade.

They now looked like they held infinite strength within.

However, the energy of the Core Quenching Body Milk had not yet been completely exhausted.

The remaining energy was still vast, spreading throughout his body in search of a new path.

Eventually, it began to seep from the outer walls of his meridians into their core.

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