Double Cultivation
penalise
"Even if you forgive me, I will never be able to forgive myself for this mistake! I'm really sorry, Master!" Bai Lihua continued to bow to him, feeling as if she had done something even worse than treason.
"Please, punish me so I don't feel guilty! I won't complain even if you deny me as your student!" Said Bai Lihua.
"You want me to punish you?" Su Yang raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, help! Or this guilt in my heart will not subside!" He insisted.
After a moment of silence, Su Yang sighed and said, "Alright, turn around."
Bai Lihua immediately turned around without questioning him.
A moment later
* PLAQUE *!
Su Yang smacked Bai Lihua's butt so hard that she was almost annoyed.
"Aaaah~!" Bai Lihua's sigh of pain with pleasure mixed in her voice.
"G-Teacher is sick" Bai Lihua said a moment later, feeling a stinging sensation on her buttocks.
"Naturally. Or it's not a punishment but a reward." Said Su Yang.
"Anyway, tell me about your situation. Even though I already know what's going on here, I still want to hear it from you."
Bai Lihua nodded with teary eyes and began to explain how she could be in such a dangerous situation.
"After learning the technique you gave me, I had the urge to impress you, so I started making pills myself. Of course, I would burn the easiest pills at first, but after a few days of practice, I managed not to burn the pills once in a while."
"However, even though I have stopped burning every pill, the quality is all the lowest and too dangerous to consume because it contains impurities."
"Then just a few days ago, I finally concocted a pill that was safe to consume, so I.."
"So you consume it?" Su Yang continued for him.
"Yes Master, and since I don't know how much I've increased, I'm eating every pill that is safe to consume to experience my own improvement."
Su Yang sighed at his words and said, "i applaud your enthusiasm in alchemy and feel flattered that you want to impress me, I said, but using your own body to experiment with your own pills as a rookie Alchemist is a pretty stupid thing to do, because you might not accidentally poison yourself like today."
"i won't do it again, Master," he said with a regretful face.
"i'm not saying you shouldn't take your own pills anymore, but you're still not very experienced for such things. Once you're more experienced, it's only natural for you to do it." Su Yang said, and he continued, " Anyway, I was planning to give you a lecture today, but you are not in a condition for it. Spend the next few days removing the dirt you've accumulated instead."
"What about my college?" he asked, still feeling the desire to learn, as he grew fond of Alchemy after doing it himself.
"i'll give it to you after you've made a full recovery" he said.
"Thank you Master."
"Then I'll leave you alone now."
As soon as Su Yang left the place, Bai Lihua stood up with her hands on the buttocks that Su Yang had violated with pain.
"I don't think he beat me for my mistakes as if I were a child." Bai Lihua sighed deeply, still feeling a strange sensation in her butt.
"What's my fault today! I just wish she wouldn't see me as a weird woman right now."
After sighing a few times, Bai Lihua went to cultivate to remove the dirt that had accumulated in her body from consuming her own pills.
Meanwhile, after returning to Wang Shuren's house, Su Yang explained the situation to them.
"It's hard to believe to think that Bai Lihua would poison her body with her own pills." Wang Shuren did not know how he felt about this incident, as it was strange for someone like Bai Lihua to make such a mistake.
However, Senior Zeng, on the contrary, was impressed by Bai Lihua.
"Yes, I was also surprised to hear that he had learned to concoct pills himself. However, having talent would mean nothing if he could not use it since it was dead." Su Yang sighed.
"To be honest, what happened to Sect Master Bai wasn't too strange. There would be at least one or two disciples in the Divine Realm Garden who would poison themselves for swallowing their own pills every year, he said, but that was only the case for novice Alchemists who were also dedicated in their own work. " Said Senior Zeng.
"By the way, since Sect Master Bai won't be attending the lecture, what are we going to do?" Senior Zeng then asked.
"We have to continue without him for now." Said Su Yang.
Some time later, Su Yang brought the four of them into the pill room and said to Senior Zeng and Luo Yixiao, "Because the two of you already have many years of experience in Alchemy, I'm not going to give you any college for now. Instead, I will have you participate in some exercises that significantly improve your ability to concoct pills."
"really? Is there such a profound exercise?" Senior Zeng's eyes immediately shone with excitement, looking like a child who had just received his first toy.
Su Yang nodded and said, "It's also very simple."
He then looked at Wang Shuren and asked him, "Can you bring two more cauldrons here?"
A few minutes later, Wang Shuren returned with two new cauldrons and placed each in a corner of the room.
Su Yang then went out for a while and returned with a few buckets of water and some materials.
He proceeded to pour water into both cauldrons until they were filled with water, and then he threw the ingredients into them.
"Please use your alchemy fire to heat the cauldron. However, I want it to be exactly 300 celsius, and you should keep it at that temperature for more than 1 hour without changing its temperature."
"Not even one celsius?" Senior Zeng raised his eyebrows.
"Did I not clearly say?" Su Yang replied in a serious tone.
"i understand." Senior Zeng nodded, and he immediately went to heat the cauldron.
However, he soon realized that no matter how powerful his alchemy flame was, the cauldron could only heat up to 200 centigrade and would not increase again until at least ten minutes later, and when the temperature increased, it would not increase, it only went up by one or two celsius.
"W-What happened? Why isn't the cauldron heating up?" Senior Zeng muttered with a puzzled face, as this was the first time he faced such a problem.
"Is this because of the mixture you put in the cauldron earlier, Master?" Luo Yixiao asked him with a sweaty forehead.
"really. The mixture inside the cauldron would absorb most of the heat from your alchemy flame, making it harder for you to heat the cauldron itself. If you want to achieve your goal, you must strengthen your alchemy fire."
"Increasing the power and heat of our alchemy flame is easier said than done, because it takes years of practice!" Said Senior Zeng.
"really?" Su Yang asked him.
"What do you mean?"
Su Yang then said, "Just like how one can quickly increase his stamina if they exert themselves to his limit, you can also quickly strengthen your alchemy flame by exerting yourself. All you need to do is push your limits and heat up the cauldron as if you were trying to melt the cauldron itself."
"But how can we control fire if we have to exert so much energy? We won't be able to control the temperature, let alone maintain it!" Senior Zeng said with wide eyes.
"Step by step, old man. You can worry about controlling the fire after you can heat the cauldron to 300 celsius." Said Su Yang.
"…"
Although Senior Zeng still had many questions, she decided to keep them to herself, as she did not want to look too disbelieving and was afraid that it would make Su Yang angry.
Before long, Senior Zeng and Luo Yixiao re-heated the cauldron, but they no longer controlled their alchemy flames and exerted all their spiritual energy, causing the flames to go insane.
However, even when using all their strength, either Senior Zeng or Luo Yixiao could reach temperatures higher than 250 before they ran out of spiritual energy and fainted from exhaustion.
"Until you guys can maintain the temperature I want for 1 hour, I'll have you guys continue doing this exercise. If you guys are unable to achieve it even after 1 month, I will no longer lecture you, and in Luo Yixiao's case, I will release you as my disciple."
When they heard Su Yang's words, their hearts were filled with anxiety, and they immediately began to heat up the cauldron again despite the fatigue, only to stop once they completely lost consciousness.