Reborn as Huo Yuhao, but also in Battle Through the Heavens

Chapter 17 Cultivation Arrangement

As the sun sets, the valley is bathed in an orange glow. The waterfall cascades down, flowing into a deep pool and splashing water.

A soft rustling sound of fabric came from inside the tent. Under Xiao Yan's gaze, Little Fairy Doctor emerged from it and pulled Huo Yuhao into the woods by the pool.

"Wow! They're already hiding in the woods? What a beast!" Xiao Yan said with a mischievous smile as he watched the two disappear in the direction they had gone.

……

"Brother Yuhao, did you just see...?"

"What is that?"

Huo Yuhao tacitly agreed, not dwelling on the matter, and instead directly inquired about Little Fairy Doctor's physical condition.

"It's just a sign of the Calamity Poison Body, nothing unusual!" Little Fairy Doctor's face burned all the way to her ears, then she seemed to have made up her mind. She slightly pulled down her long skirt, pinched a corner of her top with her fingertips, and gently lifted it. Then she circulated her battle qi, revealing a seven-colored hidden line that had appeared on her lower abdomen to Huo Yuhao.

"The Seven-Colored Poison Scripture says that this line will continue to extend as my fighting spirit or poison increases. When it spreads to my heart, I... will die." Little Fairy Doctor bit her lip, her voice and the arm clutching the hem of her clothes trembling slightly.

Huo Yuhao's eyes held no allure, his expression remained unchanged, and his spiritual power directly penetrated through his skin, searching for the hiding place of this line between his muscles and bones.

After a long while, Huo Yuhao withdrew his mental energy, his voice low and deep.

"This line... is just a reminder, not the culprit."

Upon hearing this, Little Fairy Doctor loosened her grip on the hem of her dress, her eyes dimming slightly. The two stood facing each other, falling into silence for a moment. After a long while, Little Fairy Doctor managed to force a smile again, trying to make her voice sound relaxed.

"It's alright. Compared to other cursed poison bodies, I'm much luckier. This storyline is actually quite beautiful!"

As Little Fairy Doctor spoke, she took out the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and flipped to one of the illustrations.

"Look, the Calamity Poison Body of a normal Fighter stage is much longer than my Seven-Colored Hidden Line."

"...Let's go back."

Beside the pool, Xiao Yan sat on a large rock, holding a simple fishing rod. In the bucket beside him, several fish lay dying, their eyes rolled back. They didn't look like they had been caught.

Hearing footsteps, Xiao Yan turned around, his eyes questioning as he looked at the two people walking side by side. His expression softened after seeing Huo Yuhao shake his head slightly.

"You guys are here so fast? By the way, how about we have fish for dinner tonight?"

"Can."

……

"Ouch—it's so spicy!!!"

Ignoring Xiao Yan, who was lying by the pool, Huo Yuhao handed a grilled fish of a normal color to Little Fairy Doctor.

……

the next day.

Considering Yao Chen's special circumstances, Huo Yuhao and the others discussed it and decided to postpone their plan to search for medicinal herbs and instead cultivate in this place for a period of time.

"Begging me won't help. Don't bite off more than you can chew. You can start cultivating the Purple Cloud Wings after you successfully open your Sea of ​​Spirit." Huo Yuhao refused Xiao Yan's request to cultivate a flying combat technique. He raised his hand and pointed to the ground, where a patch of ice condensed on the open ground beside him.

"Your burst speed is acceptable, but your agility is lacking. Next, practice your turning on this ice surface. Do not leave the ice area. When you recover your battle aura, remember to apply the Burning Blood."

After setting Xiao Yan's cultivation goals, Huo Yuhao then began to make arrangements for Little Fairy Doctor.

"It's good that you don't plan to change your cultivation method. The teacher said that it is not advisable to change cultivation methods frequently. Next, Little Fairy Doctor, you can start by practicing this fighting technique. It can make up for your lack of attack power when facing non-human targets."

Huo Yuhao handed the "Mad Poison Claw" to Little Fairy Doctor and explained the key points of cultivation in detail.

"Yuhao, didn't you just see this thing yesterday?"

"I studied it for a while last night."

"Hiss!" Xiao Yan gasped. Then he asked, "So what are you practicing now?"

With a crash and a clang, a pile of weapons formed a small mountain at Huo Yuhao's feet.

"This is?"

"I plan to study the 'legacy' of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group to see if it is possible to forge magical artifacts using ordinary weapons."

……

The sun had already set, but the weather was still quite hot, especially near the forging furnace. The day after Huo Yuhao arranged the training tasks for the group, Yao Chen stopped his "seclusion" and, while teaching Little Fairy Doctor and Xiao Yan how to refine medicine, also helped Huo Yuhao improve his weapon-refining methods.

Huo Yuhao extinguished the furnace fire, picked up the newly "improved" long-handled warhammer, and infused it with battle qi. However, this time, the surrounding天地元气 (heaven and earth energy) reacted almost entirely.

"It still doesn't work. The materials lack spiritual energy, making the spirit runes extremely inefficient."

Huo Yuhao dropped the hammer, which had collapsed due to overload caused by forcibly activating the spirit runes. His voice carried a hint of dejection.

"This ground is littered with scrap metal. People will think I'm a junk collector." Looking at the twisted and deformed weapons scattered all over the ground, Yao Chen sighed and helped Huo Yuhao pick up a few usable weapons.

"I never expected you could actually complete these spirit runes." Yao Chen held one of them up to his eyes. Although he had seen it many times before, he couldn't help but marvel every time he witnessed Huo Yuhao completing these spirit runes.

"Your modified core Qi-gathering rune should be sufficient for use in second to fourth-grade spiritual artifacts."

"To be precise, they are classified into second- to fourth-grade spiritual weapons based on the spiritual properties of the materials and the abilities of the accompanying spiritual runes. Essentially, they are still in the same major stage." Huo Yuhao took out the ancient book that Yao Chen had given him earlier. "This is somewhat different from the classification recorded in the book."

After a brief review and comparison, Huo Yuhao took out another piece of silvery-white metal blank. This was a piece of empty silver, characterized by high hardness and light weight, but unfortunately, its energy conductivity was very poor. Therefore, in the Jia Ma Empire, it was mainly mined to forge armor for high-ranking officers.

Injecting his Dou Qi into the forging furnace to raise the temperature, Huo Yuhao placed the empty silver into the furnace to soften it. Afterward, he took out a piece of refined gold. Both of these rare metals were obtained from the Mittel Auction House in Wutan City. It's unclear what kind of backroom deal Xiao Yan and Ya Fei made to obtain such a quantity of rare metals from her.

"Yuhao, it's been almost a month, and you haven't slept a wink every night. How can you take this?" Seeing that Huo Yuhao was about to continue, Yao Chen grabbed his wrist, his voice urgent. He stared into Huo Yuhao's eyes, trying to find some evidence of exhaustion so that he could force Huo Yuhao to rest.

While in Wutan City, Yao Chen didn't see Huo Yuhao every day. Therefore, he didn't know that Huo Yuhao hadn't had a break for more than just half a month.

"I can't sleep." Huo Yuhao's eyes remained calm, as if he wasn't tired at all.

"Sigh!" Yao Chen sighed, knowing he couldn't persuade his disciple otherwise. These past few days, he had asked Huo Yuhao to rest almost every night, but Huo Yuhao hadn't listened once. Even hypnosis techniques had no effect. Each time, Huo Yuhao would say that studying cultivation techniques and combat skills was enough to count as rest.

"Yuhao, when will you finally believe us?"

"I have always believed in you, teacher, I have believed in Xiao Yan, and I have also believed in..."

"Sigh—that's not what I meant..." Yao Chen looked up, seemingly looking at something.

The conversation between the master and apprentice became inaudible, with only the clanging of metal remaining.

Under Huo Yuhao's forging, Kong Yin was hammered into a pair of light and thin wings. The refined gold veins, pre-engraved with spirit patterns, were embedded inside.

"Very good, as expected, the core spirit rune does not need to be inscribed together with other functional spirit runes." After confirming that there were no other problems with the wings, Huo Yuhao condensed an ice needle at his fingertip and inscribed a Qi gathering spirit rune on the core area of ​​each of the two wings.

Buzz! As Huo Yuhao infused his battle qi, enveloped by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, his two wings floated up on their own, emitting a soft spiritual light.

"Success. By standard, this flying artifact should be a grade three artifact."