Chapter 237: Wailing in the Body-Tempering Pool

Chapter 237: Wailing in the Body Tempering Pool

Lei Mingchen took the coupon and saw it was the Marrow Cleansing coupon he wanted, immediately beaming with joy. "Thank you, Brother Yun! You're my real big brother!"

Because Yu Mianyun was Jiang Yingxue's older brother, he had special treatment. Jiang Yingxue had reserved a house for him on the fifth floor of Xuehe Mall. When he was in Nanhe Village, he either stayed in the old house or in the fifth-floor apartment at Xuehe Mall.

The suites on the fifth floor all had a three-bedroom, one-living-room, one-kitchen, two-bathroom layout. Lei Mingchen, being his good friend, naturally stayed in the guest room.

He lived on the fifth floor and ate in the dedicated family dining area on the first floor.

Lei Mingchen was the key person who helped Yu Mianyun find his relatives. When Jiang Xianzheng and his wife learned he had arrived, they warmly entertained him and told him to visit often.

At that moment, Lei Mingchen and Yu Mianyun were having afternoon tea on the rooftop.

With beautiful scenery, delicious food, and good company, he almost forgot to go home.

Oh, and there was also a beauty. By "beauty," he meant his girlfriend Zhou Bing. He also had a key to his girlfriend's house, but the guest room at his buddy's place was pretty nice too.

Lei Mingchen knew the effects and benefits of Zhou Bing's Marrow Cleansing. Zhou Bing had also given him a watch that detected air quality. When he was at home, the spiritual energy watch didn't react, but when he came to Nanhe Village, it did. It seemed Nanhe Village really had better air.

Yu Mianyun gazed at the azure sky and downed his glass in one gulp.

A few days ago, he had envisioned bringing his girlfriend back to meet his grandparents and sister, taking her to pay respects at his mother's grave, and touring his mother's hometown with her. But all of that had turned to dust and mockery.

He said flatly, "Let's go."

Lei Mingchen asked doubtfully, "Where to?"

Yu Mianyun said, "Do you want to redeem your Marrow Cleansing coupon?"

Lei Mingchen said, "Of course." He had come specifically for Marrow Cleansing; of course he would redeem it. He quickly caught up.

The two took a boat to the Body Tempering Room.

Today's safety personnel guiding and supervising their body tempering were Xiao Feng and Xiao Yang. The formula in the body tempering pool was the same as that used for members, but safety measures were more thorough, with a one-on-one model. Xiao Feng and Xiao Yang each took charge of one person, deciding whether to pull them out based on their physical condition.

When they first got into the pool, the special herbal bath made them feel comfortable.

Lei Mingchen happily swam a lap in the pool and sighed, "Mm, so comfortable. It's not as painful as Zhou Bing said."

"Mm." Yu Mianyun didn't feel uncomfortable either. Had the members who soaked exaggerated it?

Xiao Feng just smiled and said nothing. They thought it wasn't painful because the time hadn't come yet.

Five minutes later, Lei Mingchen already felt pain, like being electrocuted, numb from head to toe. But this child's play pain was still bearable.

Gradually, the pain in his body became more severe, and his skin turned red, like a boiled shrimp. He cried tears from the pain, and even though he clenched his teeth, screams still escaped through the gaps.

"It hurts, it hurts so much!"

"Help!"

While Lei Mingchen was screaming, Yu Mianyun beside him was also crying out in pain. Tears slid from his eyes into the pool and turned into mist. It was hard to tell whether it was heartache or physical pain.

"Ah! Ahhh!"

"Pain—"

The body tempering pool echoed with heart-wrenching screams. Xiao Feng checked their bodies and silently sat back down on the poolside bench.

Xiao Yang asked, "How is it?"

Xiao Feng said, "They still have strength to shout, so let them soak a bit longer."

An hour and a half later, the two in the pool had shouted until their voices were hoarse. Xiao Yang and Xiao Feng finally pulled them out and transferred them to wooden barrels to soak.

Compared to the devilish soak in the later stage of the body tempering pool, the soaking in the wooden barrels was incredibly gentle.

After soaking in the wooden barrels for half an hour, they finally finished their Marrow Cleansing. Afterward, it could really be described in one phrase: refreshed and invigorated!

Although the outcome was wonderful, the process was too torturous. Lei Mingchen's body involuntarily trembled at the thought of the piercing pain in the body tempering pool.

"I'm not doing this again. I'll never do it again."

Yu Mianyun said, "We're coming again tomorrow." He had asked Jiang Yingxue, and people could soak consecutively in the body tempering pool as long as their bodies could handle it.

But he hadn't heard clearly at the time. Jiang Yingxue said it wasn't for ordinary people, but for cultivators with cultivation bases.

Lei Mingchen: "?"

"Brother Yun, are you joking?"

"I'm not joking with you," Yu Mianyun patted Lei Mingchen on the shoulder and then asked Xiao Feng standing at the bow of the boat, "Brother Xiao Feng, can we drink alcohol in the body tempering pool?"

Xiao Feng asked, "Do you want to drink?"

Yu Mianyun nodded. Alcohol could drown sorrow, and the body tempering pool could relieve pain.

Xiao Feng said, "Yes, as long as your hand can hold the bottle steady."

After sending the two off, Xiao Feng reported their situation to Jiang Yingxue.

Yu Mianyun and Lei Mingchen disembarked and returned to the fifth-floor suite. Lei Mingchen couldn't wait to share the news with Zhou Bing. She was probably busy, so her phone went unanswered. Then he left her many messages on WeChat and sent several photos.

Just as he was about to put away his phone, he saw an incoming call from Jiang Yingxue.

"Sister Ying Xue, is there something you need?"

"I wanted to ask, has my brother been going through something unpleasant lately?"

"Do you think he's been a bit off these past two days too?" Lei Mingchen praised Jiang Yingxue's sharpness.

He said, "He did experience something bad recently—he broke up."

"Was it because of the long distance?" The whole Jiang family knew Yu Mianyun was moving back to J City, and they respected and supported his decision. If it was due to long distance, that would be a pity.

"Not exactly," Lei Mingchen lowered his voice. "His girlfriend cheated on him with someone else—well, ex-girlfriend now. Sister Ying Xue, don't say I told you."

"I see. Okay, I understand. Thank you for telling me."

At Xuehe Academy.

Jiang Yingxue hung up the call with Lei Mingchen. So her brother had broken up, and he was the one dumped. No wonder he wanted to soak again tomorrow.

It also explained why Xiao Feng said his crying in the body tempering pool didn't seem like it was just physical pain. Sigh, she didn't understand mortal heartbreak. Since he wanted to vent his pain through the body tempering pool, she would let him be.

But he was a weak mortal; he probably couldn't withstand consecutive Marrow Cleansing sessions. She'd better change the spiritual plants in the body tempering pool from Marrow Cleansing to ones for strengthening the body.

For the next week, around 3 p.m. every day, the body tempering pool would echo with the screams of two men.

Lei Mingchen howled, while Yu Mianyun howled and downed Spirit Flower Wine until his hand could no longer hold the bottle, leaving only howling.

Lei Mingchen was dragged there by Yu Mianyun, a true sucker accompanying his brother to drown his sorrows. But during that week, they also gained something others could only dream of: a body fit for cultivation.