Taking a deep breath, I start to run Qi all around my body. I can't test around anymore; I don't have time, and who knows how fast it or they will get to me...
And so I prepare to take the next step, and, well, just to make sure everything goes fine, this (Venus Grass) is going to be one of the few things I am sure about. I still don't understand how I got knowledge about this... but if the info I got is true, then making a foundation all around my body will be even more possible with this little grass...
I walked out of my room, and while doing this, I was running Qi breathing with pretty much all of my Qi in my body as I made my way to the bathing house, and I entered it and spoke, "Get out, all of you! Leave me alone! Don't come in unless I tell you!" And all the maids and servants run out of the bathhouse fast, leaving me alone, and without a second to waste, I break apart the grass in my hands and throw it in the hot bath, and the other half of the grass I put inside my mouth and start to chew it slowly. It tastes like old tea leaves—bitter...
And after a few seconds of chewing, I swallow with great difficulty, and then I pull off my clothes fast and sit down in the bathtub. It was old; I could almost feel the wooden tub, which was made with an inner coat of clay to keep the hot water inside. It was pretty smart, but at the same time, this made the tub hard to clean, so it did not look the best, and the half-grass I had thrown inside the hot water had mixed with the water, giving the water a greenish look...
Entering the hot bath, I first feel my insides burn up, and then my outside body starts to burn. My skin feels like it was in the sun... and a second later, I feel all my Qi moving inside my body like a storm when my body felt like it was in the sun... but I could not just sit here and do nothing. No! I had to start gathering more Qi all around my body, not leaving a single part of my body that did not have Qi gathered. That's the only way I could make a foundation all around my body and keep it stable!
But doing this was much harder than I thought, to the point I was pretty much losing control of my Qi and just wasting it, but then I started to use Qi breathing without thinking, pushing all the storming Qi through my lungs inside my body... This made my body go stiff, and the Qi was storming, and it had no other path to go other than my lungs, which were already burning up, so after a second, the Qi, like a pipe filled with pressure, exploded...
The Qi did have another way or path to enter the blood. Do you know how a heart works? When you breathe air, it goes inside your lungs, and the oxygen goes inside your heart, and the heart starts to beat and pump air or oxygen into your blood cells. That's how most living things breathe and how our hearts beat. So when Xiù started to use Qi breathing to control the raging Qi inside his body, the raging Qi only got more irritated, and so, like a pressured pipe, it broke through and went inside even the smallest spaces connected to the lungs and heart and Xiù's blood cells. And without knowing this, Xiù had gotten lucky and done what he wanted to do. Gather Qi in every part of his body through his blood, which went to every part of his body...
ahhh ah ah! I push my head out of the water, which was no longer warm, and I take deep breaths and spit out the water that was inside my mouth, and I blink fast, looking around. My whole body was feeling better than ever; in fact, my body even felt a little stronger. Or was I just dreaming? I did not understand, but the first thing I tried to do next was sense the Qi inside my body, and well, I was happily shocked. My whole body, every single part of it, from the inside at least, had Qi gathered all around, and it was even stable and ready to use...
Without a second thought, I blink my eyes once, and then, when I open my eyes, I can see the world. It was much more beautiful, to say the least. Qi Sight—I did not even need a second to use it, only a thought, and since the Qi was already in my eyes, I was able to use Qi Sight. But not only that, I felt there was a change. Qi Sight had changed my eyes; now I could easily see through the cracks in the wood of the bathhouse, and it was sunny outside...
Wait, how long have I been inside this bath? Shit, I had all my mind on Qi; I forgot about everything else... I can test Qi and this full-body foundation later, but, well, I should be a little happy I just stepped on the second level of cultivation Qi Foundation realm... No, just because I stepped into another realm of cultivation, this is nothing to rejoice about. I don't know how deep the waters of this world are, and also, I don't know how big of a deal the Qi Foundation is. For now, let's move out...
I stood up out of the bathtub, and I noticed how the bathwater was now a pretty weird blue color, and I did not know what was up with it, but if the info I got is true, then this must be the waste from using Venus Grass. It makes your body numb and fills your skin with heat, making your body feel like you are in the sun, so your body starts to sweat a lot. Before you know it, you are passed out in your sweat because your body is low on water and thinks you are having a heat stroke when your body is just in cold, blue water... This stuff is maybe useful...
I hide the bathtub...