The next morning Yu'er awoke to the pleasent smell of chrysanthemum flowers as she layed on her mother. She rubbed her eyes and saw that Yian slept peacefully before her eyes flutterd open.
She looked at the drowsy child in her arms and smiled. "Yu'er mother will cleanse your body of immurities these coming days so you can start to cultivate."
She smiled at her mother and nodded. She knew the world was big and that currently she hadent even seeen the tip of the iceberg. Her mother stood and began to cook breakfast for her instead of buying it.
"Mother why don't we just buy food?"
"Commeners eat regualr foods that bring immpurities for the body which won't benefit you. Many martial artist even after breaking their mortal chains eat foods that contain spiritual energy in order to improve their body's constitution. This helps with cultivation and having a strong body."
Yian smiled at her curious child whose eyes shimmerd at the thought of food. Natrually not every cultivator did this as the resources to cook with were difficult to obtain. Spirit beast were the easiest to kill as their stength varied but the herbs and spices contaning spirit energy were considerd to valuable to eat. Herbs would instead be put into alchemy to refine pills and medicine.
Anyone would cry at Yian's luxurius ways of raisng a child. Many would kill for the simple spice she used to add flavor to the the meat and bleed a river of blood for the spirit beats she casually cooked.
Yu'er who knew nothing, ate comfortably making sure to not to leave anything in her bowl. Who knew the child was actually a glutton? Many in the future would spit blood in anger for the many world treasures that fell into her tummy.
Once Yu'er finished yian grabbed her into her arms before opening a portal. Inside was a small world filled with many treasures. Many houses and valuble items layed on the grass to be forgotten for many years while herbs grew at every corner. Yu'er could help but gasp at the amazing place. It was as big as a city and she could feel an odd pressure coming from the houses letting her know that there were many powerful items.
Yian was oblivious to her daughters thoughts and went straight into a house which contained ice and snow. At the center of the living room layed a bathtub which seemed transperant while many colors where reflected off. The aura it leaked was extremely cold and made Daiyu's small teeth chatter. Inside lay a water with many diffrent herbs mostly red in color. She could feel the heat the herbs radiated and looked at her mother in confusion.
"The human body is filled with many immpurities, your young so you dont have as much as adults, but if you are clensed it will help open up your mediteranians even more and purify your body. The purer a persons body is the stronger the spiritual power they will give off."
Yian couldnt help but feel a little pain in her heart as yu'er would have to go through a large amount of pain in order to walk the path of immortal cultivators. Cleansing her body was onlt the begining of the painful journey.
"It will hurt a lot yu'er, but you must hold on and absorb everything until the end. I will help you now but I won't be able to in the future, the world to the summit has many dangers and is cruel. The pain you experiance today will only be a small amount compared to later on. I hope you keep this in mind."
Long Daiyu could only nod her small head with determination, if this is what it took to be a cultivator then she would have to endure. The suffering at the end of the day would grant her the power she desired and only through pain would she get stronger. She let her mother walk towards the terrifying bath and with every step the collision of fire and ice battled for supremecy.
Yian slowly brought Long Daiyu down into the water and the usual happy face on her daughter turned deathly pale. The water relased bubbles the momment Long Daiyu was placed in as if it wanted to boil her alive. Pain similar to when her mediteranians were forced open invaded her body but this time it was much worse. She felt as if she could drown in the sufficating fires of hell while it'd suddenly change into being frozen into a statue at the bottom of a snow mountain. The transition between one another battled in her body forcefully drving everything bad away.
A black substance began to leak from every pore of her body as if running away from the forces threating to destroy her. Every second felt like an eternity and all her mother could do was direct spirit power into her body to protect her organs from collapsing.
Yian knew well this would happen, this herbal baths true purpose was used in order to purify the body to breakthrough into a higher rank but if used on a person without a spec of spirit power it would accelerate the formation of a purer daintian, strengthen the bones, and help her mental concessness by leaps and bounds. Although it was painful, the benefits outweighed it as her constituation improved.
Long Daiyu was in the brink of falling unconsious but dared not forget her mothers words. If she did not obsorb everything, then it would waste her mothers resources. Although Yian did not tell her how expensive the herbs were, she knew they were probably hard to obtain.
She grit her teeth trying to bear with the pain in her body. Never in her past life had she gone through such hardship. She only remembers segments and small memories but she knew well back on earth it was much more simple. The energy in her body ran rampant without care both damaging and rebuilding.
The arduours development lasted an entire day and night torturing Long Daiyu without fault.