Li Huang soaked her body in water and cleaned herself as much as she could while thinking and exploring her own body.
With the pericardium and San Jiao functioning inside her body, she felt like all her organs were working with increased efficiency.
and the connection the organs had created inside her body did make them work with increased efficiency, but not in the way she thought they were working.
She thought they were working with increased efficiency and dumping the stress in another organ.
But the organs were using the wuxing cycle to reduce the stress of the organs and passing it along until the stress was reduced to nothingness.
Her organs were working normally, but the slight stress was passed along and reduced and transformed until it was sent back to the original organ.
After taking a bath, Li Huang got up, but Xie Ning stopped her on the door.
"Take a few days off, go outside, and do something; your foundation is solidifying itself, and you can't just go forward without a single pause."
"The same way you can't build a house on top of wet cement, you can't go forward in cultivation while your foundation is still solidifying itself."
Li Huang sighed
"Sure, that makes sense."
Then Li Huang frowned a bit.
"I just noticed I will be tempering all parts of my body except the brain; why is that?" Li Huang looked at Xie Ning while tilting her head.
"With the pericardium, you tempered a part of your brain. When you begin cultivating the five sensory organs, you will also temper a part of your brain with each one until you temper your eyes and get a fully tempered brain."
Li Huang though for a bit before nodding
"I will be going out then; sight see a bit."
"Okay, just come back for dinner." Xie Ning nodded and left Li Huang to do her thing.
She went into her room, took off the towel, and dressed in a simple black dress that went down to her shins and covered her shoulders.
On her feet were simple wood sandles.
and Li Huang exited her home and began walking down the street.
The ground was paved with stones.
and, as far as she could see, a big wall all around the city protecting everyone from beasts.
Li Huang made her way out of the red light district, where most people knew her.
As she walked down the streets, many young men and even some women had to do a double take of Li Huang's face and body.
Most of the vendors knew Li Huang from her aunts, so they just said hi to her and greeted her.
As Li Huang walked, she was suddenly stopped by a young man.
"As I first lay my eyes on your, I must say, you are the most beautiful woman this city has to offer. Will you allow me the pleasure of knowing you more closely?" The young man wore a blue shirt and had pants just a blue
His eyes were green, and on his head was short blond hair.
Li Huang smiled, causing the young man's breath to get caught in his throat.
"You seem like a cutie, but I will be refusing your offer as I am not looking to get myself tied together with someone. In the future, if you find me in the mood to get together with someone, you can try your luck again."
Li Huang was about to go on her way before the man once more stopped her.
"May I please at least get the name of the beauty that made me so infatuated?"
Li Huang smiled at him and went back on her way.
As the man's shoulders slumped down, he heard her voice.
"Li Huang," she said as the man's vitality was invigorated.
As Li Huang said her name, many young men and women began trying to get information about her.
They never saw such beauty before out and about in the city.
As Li Huang was walking, she was stopped once more by another young man this time.
His eyes filled with lust and desire looked Li Haung up and down like an object.
He wore a purple robe.
Li Huang frowned
Just as the man was about to open his mouth, Li Huang spoke first.
"Say anything I deem inappropriate; I will have my foot stuck up your ass."
Everyone was momentarily stunned.
Just now Li Huang was courting the other young man, but with this one, she just said such a crass thing?
Even the young man was stunned himself.
His face began getting red as he looked at everyone looking at him.
"Who do you think you are, bitch? You are worthless! I was trying to be a good person and give you a chance, but you blew it! How about this? You spend the night with me, and I might overlook this issue!"
Li Huang shook her head
"Who do you think you are?" Li Huang said as she walked forward and suddenly punched the man in the stomach, causing him to fall over.
As the man was bent over on the ground, Li Huang looked around for a bit.
"And if anyone tries anything like that again on me, you will answer to me, Don't like it? Take it up with my aunty, Xie Ning; she would be more than happy to back me up and even open her lips about a few secrets she accumulated along the years in the business."
"Maybe even address a few recent rumors she heard; what do you think?"
There are two people you never anger.
the strong and the knowledgeable
and prostitute end up in the middle of the two as many strong men levitate to prostitutes for one night stands, and many of those end up revealing secrets in their drunken and blissful minds.
If you are a strong person, why wouldn't you defend the woman who warms your bed?
And even if you didn't want to act, what if she revealed a secret she heard during your session?
The remaining of Li Huang's walk was calm.
A few people approached her and talked with her, and she talked back.
It was good having different people to talk to.
No one tried to mess with her after her identity was made public.
and then the young man that was punched in the stomach was nowhere to be seen for the rest of the day.
After spending the entire day walking, Li Huang went back home and told Xie Ning what she had done.
Xie Ning just nodded.
"You've done the right thing; don't ever let someone treat you like that and let them get away with it."
On the second day, the young man that was punched had to beg Li Huang for forgiveness as his father beat him black and blue after his favorite dancer refused to serve him after hearing what his son tried to do with Li Haung.
After three days of leisure walking, exercise, and study, she went back home ready to continue cultivating
Li Huang was sitting down on a chair while Xie Ning placed needles on her head.
"We can do one every day or we can do everything right now; there is no real difference, but one is quicker."
"Let's do everything right now then."
Xie Ning nodded and continued placing needles on Li Huang's head.
She then took her silver hammer and began the work.
After eleven minutes, Xie Ning began working on another set of needles.
"Tongue, taste, and part of the brain done; mouth, touch, and another part of the brain now."
After another eleven minutes, Xie Ning changed the set of needles she was working on.
"Nose, smell, and brain now."
After another eleven minutes, Xie Ning changed what she was hammering once more.
"Ears, hearing, and brain, one more to go."
and on the fifty-fifth minute, Xie Ning stopped
"Eyes, sight and brain fully done; go soak in a tub now, chop chop."
After rushing into the bath and getting rid of the impurities that were leaking out of her skin and head, Li Huang was amazed at how much of the world she could perceive now.
Once out of the bath, Xie Ning was already waiting for Li Huang.
"Alright, open your mouth." Xie Ning said before putting a flower inside Li Huang's mouth.
Li Huang was surprised before her face twisted.
"Nuh, uh, first tell me what you taste; I want to know how good your sense of taste is now." Xie Ning placed a hand on Li Huang's mouth as she was about to spit the flower out.
Li Huang sighed and began trying to concentrate.
"Bitter, sour, salty, umami, and sweet somehow?"
Xie Ning nodded. "Considering your reaction, then I guess everything is fine. Now take the flower out of your mouth and smell it."
Li Huang did just that, and her nose crumpled a bit.
"What the hell? It's rancid, putrid, and rotten, but I feel a schorched and fragant smell as well."
Xie Ning nodded. "That was an alchemical test flower; it's a common flower used to test an alchemist's potential and also test the quality of someone's sense of taste and smell."
"It's also used by chefs and cooks to test their potential in the kitchen."
"Really useful flower for anyone that has to smell or taste as a job."
"Anyway, there are five levels, and you passed all five for those two senses."
Li Huang just shook her head; would it hurt for her to explain things before doing them?
Xie Ning did another three surprise tests on Li Huang, and she passed them all with perfect senses.
After the last test, Xie Ning just nodded.
"You have perfected all your senses; at least you have perfected their potential; you have to train them if you want to use them."
"I have to train my senses. Don't they just go up as I cultivate?"
"Yes, of course they do, but if you elevate their power, their potential goes up in the next realm."
"By the way, another few days of rest; use them to train your senses."
Li Huang nodded as she began to turn away. She suddenly ducked as Xie Ning had thrown an apple at her head.
"What the hell? What was that for?"
Xie Ning just nodded.
"That was to test your sixth sense; considering your progress, I suspected that you might have unlocked it along with your perfected five senses, and you did duck perfectly that apple, so I am inclined to believe you have a tier five sixth sense that you should also probably train."
"I will train them for you if you want; make you do random tests during the day."
Li Huang sighed
"Sure, just tell me when they are supposedly perfected, then we can get it done with the last part of the body cultivation."
Xie Ning just smiled and nodded. "Sure thing."
Not even five minutes after that, Li Huang had to run out of a room as she smelled something weird inside it.
and had to spit out a cup of water as she tasted something weird in it.
Xie Ning just smiled as she looked at Li Huang suffer a bit.
She always spoiled her, so finally being able to punish her a bit was nice.
Li Huang herself was almost going crazy as she did not even have time to eat as she had to spit her food out fearing the Xie Ning might have poisoned it with something.
probably a laxative just to irritate her, but still
Even in her sleep, Xie Ning trained Li Huang's sixth sense, causing her to wake up multiple times in the middle of the night.
Li Huang at least did not regret anything as she felt her senses getting better.
As Li Huang closed her eyes to sleep, it was already almost morning, so Xie Ning allowed her to sleep, only for the cycle to continue in the morning.