Rebirth: A Cinderella's Counterattack

Chapter 1148: Chapter 1128: Body Refining Stage 9

What’s wrong with snakes? Snakes are terrifying, okay?

”Um, actually this isn’t a bad thing, just handle it yourself first. We’ll be leaving now and come back later.” Xiao Hei, seeing Big Black’s somewhat dissatisfied look, quickly dragged him away.

Qhianqhian watched as her skin, like a flaky mooncake, peeled off when touched, and tears fell along with a big chunk of skin.

Qhianqhian was even more distraught: ”Ah!!! My toner and moisturizer!!! I just applied them!!!”

In such a cold place, you naturally need to maintain your skin. How can she let herself become haggard before she’s even married? She must keep herself in the best state; even if her body doesn’t age on its own, she absolutely can’t let her skin crack due to the environment or become allergic and redden.

As a new human, she naturally knows women should take care of themselves, or else sooner or later, their husbands will look at other women.

Thinking about it, under the current circumstances, besides her, Tang Tianyi only has three beasts to face, and they’re all male.

But even so, she can’t let her guard down and still needs to take good care of herself.

Seeing the skin at her wrist fall off to reveal brownish-red skin beneath, Qhianqhian broke down in tears again. Is she not turning into a snake, but into old tree bark? She doesn’t want that!!!

She stood up and took out a mirror, a bit flustered and afraid to look at her own skin.

But in a moment, she made up her mind and turned the mirror to her cheeks, seeing a large dark red patch like a birthmark. The mirror slipped from her hand...

Her fingers trembled slightly, not just from the gravity at her wrist but also from the unbearable reality.

In the next second, she hurriedly took out a large wooden barrel, poured in some milk, and then took out a pot to heat the milk...

As her actions intensified, more and more skin fell to the ground, like autumn leaves, eagerly dropping.

She submerged herself in the milk-filled wooden barrel, not sparing even her head, submerging her whole self.

After a long time, she emerged, her tears still falling in large drops.

Until the milk slowly cooled down, and there was no longer a feeling of anything falling from her body, Qhianqhian slowly stood up, without even glancing at her body, casually put on pajamas, and dejectedly lay on her sleeping bag, silent and sullen.

”If I turn into old tree bark spirit, will my brother still recognize me? Will An Hao be scared to tears? Will Nuannuan mistake me for firewood? Wuwuwu, I said beauties have an ill fate since ancient times, right? Indeed, heaven is jealous of beauty, wuwuwu, old tree bark spirit, will others affectionately call me tree bark spirit in the future? I don’t want that... wuwuwu...”

Under immense sadness, she didn’t feel any change in her body at all.

Mumbling to herself, she didn’t even want to bother with saving the world anymore; she wanted to exchange the world for not becoming a tree bark spirit!!!

Who ever heard of tree bark becoming a spirit? There were fox spirits, ginseng spirits, but whose old tree bark becomes a spirit?

”Tree bark spirit, old tree bark spirit... wuwuwu, I’m not old, I’m still young...”

No matter the time, no woman likes to be called old...

The only exception is probably in the term ’wife’.

She hesitantly lifted her hand in front of her and the touch seemed not bad, like a smurf?

Qhianqhian slowly opened her eyes and looked at her skin, her narrowed eyes suddenly widened, full of disbelief, it was actually her normal skin tone?

How could it be? The color just now was vivid in her memory, wasn’t it?

Such a terrible thing she surely wouldn’t misremember!

Staring wide-eyed, she quickly took out a small mirror and nervously pointed it at her face, hesitating a long while before slowly meeting her own cheek in the mirror.

”Wow!”

Exclaimed with surprise, Qhianqhian suppressed the excitement in her heart, because she really couldn’t be sure if her brain was deceiving her, conspiring with her eyes to trick her.

After all, the fact that the brain is the smartest organ is told to us by the brain itself.

She suddenly stood up and shouted, ”Big Black, Xiao Hei, are you there?”

”Here.” Xiao Hei’s cold voice rang out.

”I seem to be not right?”

As the rustling sound slowly rose, Qhianqhian watched Big Black and Xiao Hei appear at the cave entrance, scratched her head, recalling her irrational behavior earlier, her face flushed slightly, but wasn’t overly panicked. More than that, verification was the most important thing.

Her big, watery eyes stared directly at the two of them.

Xiao Hei, with great effort, managed to roll his eyes on his stiff face, ”What? You mean you turned into a snake? You didn’t, and you don’t have a tail. What’s wrong?”

There was even more awkwardness on Qhianqhian’s face as she fished around in her lap and took out the largest piece of dry skin she had picked up from the ground earlier.

But now it couldn’t compare to when it was on the body, having dried up and withered, shattering with the slightest touch.

”What is this all about?”

”This is our goal,” Xiao Hei continued, ”We just didn’t expect you to reach it so soon.”

Qhianqhian looked at Xiao Hei with confusion.

A breeze blew through, the dried skin in her hand shattered, falling away and vanishing as it was swept away by the wind.

After Big Black and Xiao Hei’s explanation, she kind of understood some things, that cleansing marrow is not a simple outcome but a long process, apart from the basic impurity removal, there are several stages to go through, only by slowly strengthening the body can the whole be stronger, otherwise it’s like the short board of a barrel, the shortest one determines the capacity.

And even if you tilt the barrel, it can never hold as much liquid as a level one can.

Even if you’re not into body cultivation, you have to train your body to a certain degree.

Beasts can use their bodies to fend off enemies purely because their bodies are unfathomably strong for humans to reach.

Cleansing marrow is also divided into nine stages, corresponding with the heavenly tribulation.

Removing impurities is the first stage, followed by gradually refining in the order of skin, subcutaneous meat, blood, bone, meridians, organs, heart, and brain.

After the explanation, Qhianqhian pondered, looking at the silver ring on her arm, her eyes filled with dark surges.

According to this, isn’t the next phase about meat? Shedding skin and whatnot is one thing, shedding meat...

Hehehe, strangely looking forward to it a bit...

The curve at the corner of Qhianqhian’s mouth left Big Black and Xiao Hei confused, yet they could only look at each other speechlessly.

Qhianqhian’s thoughts were always incomprehensible to them.