Chapter 4 Bone marrow cleansing

Lin Luoran turns on the light and takes a deep breath, trying to calm herself down. Lin Luoran was fairly calm when she discovers the mysterious space. Many people in china are atheists because of the way they were educated in school. Thus, she still needs some time to digest everything she saw back there. If everything is real, should she use that spring to irrigate vegetables and sell them on the market? Lin Luoran has to make a quick decision before she runs out of money. She is a decisive woman. If it hasn’t been dark outside, she might rush out to buy some seeds at once. It’s best for her to rest early so that she can get up early tomorrow. Anyhow, she must seize the opportunity to shake off poverty. It occurred to Lin Luoran that she hasn’t decided whether to eat the fruit she brought back or not! Wait a second! Lin Luoran rubs her eyes in order to make sure she is not hallucinating. It has only been a few minutes. How come the fruit looks discolored? Is it going bad? Lin Luoran frowns. If the fruit is indeed a magical restorative, she is going to cry herself to sleep if it is wasted. Although the sapling is still there, no one could guarantee when it will bear another fruit… Lin Luoran put the fruit into her mouth without hesitation. It slips into her stomach before she even tastes anything. She also realizes that she didn’t even wash it! Nevertheless, Lin Luoran feels nothing unusual after lying on the couch for half an hour… This is clearly not a magical restorative! Lin Luoran gets furious because she is so disappointed when things don’t go as she expected. She gets up instantly. The bead on her waist is still glowing and she has no way to take it off. Lin Luoran can enter that mysterious space if she wants and the grass will still be green, and the spring will be as clear as before. But these are no longer meaningful to her. The space is worthless! Lin Luoran immediately abandoned the possibility of using this space to make money. On second thought, she feels that she acts like an immature little girl, which is quite funny. This is totally a windfall. Things will be better if her expectations can be reached, but there is no need to get annoyed if not. At least the space can serve as a portable storage space. With such thoughts, Lin Luoran finally calms down. She looks at the wall clock. It’s already 10 o’clock. She should go to sleep now so that she will have the energy to find a new job. Lin Luoran seldom wears makeup so it only takes her a few minutes to get ready for sleep. Lying on the bed, she compels herself to sleep. However, the image of Li Anping keeps appearing on her head. She was only pretending to be calm during the day. After all, they had been together for over seven years. She would be reluctant to be parted from a pet dog, let alone a man. Sad and resentful, Lin Luoran’s got a headache. She tosses and turns on the bed and finally falls asleep. The wall clock points at 11:45. Moonlight shines onto the bead on her waist. The bead leads the moonlight to circle around Lin Luoran, making her sleep so comfortably that her frowning brows are relaxed. The light is gradually absorbed by Lin Luoran. Tic toc, tic toc, the clock’s hands overlap with each other. It is at 12 o’clock sharp. According to the ancient Chinese chronometry, it is the exact time when Yin (negative principle in nature) culminates. Extreme Yin breeds a bit of Yang (positive principle in nature). Right at this moment, the fruit Lin Luoran ate before starts to take effect. Heat rises in her belly and instantly breaks through Lin Luoran’s untrained meridians. Pain, so much pain. Lin Luoran feels like she is being roasted on a stove. What is happening to her?! Sharp pain keeps striking her body. Lin Luoran is in so much pain, but she cannot wake up. If she can’t wake up, so be it… This thought comes to her mind and Lin Luoran passes out because of the pain… The strong efficacy of the fruit runs over and over Lin Luoran’s body, which is shattered over the years. Her meridians were burst open one after another, and constantly being restored by the spring water she drank before and the Reiki channeled from the bead. Fortunately, Lin Luoran has passed out, otherwise, she might die from the pain. Lin Luoran does not know that she has eaten a “Flame Fruit”. It is originally a famous spiritual fruit in the world of cultivation, which ranks higher than the legendary medicinal plants like the Red Fruit. Spiritual fruits are something that everyone in the world of cultivation desperately wants. Lin Luoran, who had received no training before, accidentally ate it. Almost 70% to 80% of the efficacy of the flame fruit is wasted, so all it can do now is to cleanse her bone marrow and her meridians. The rest of its efficacy will be stored in Lin Luoran’s meridians and body. Cleansing meridian is just one of the reasons why Flame Fruit is so awesome. Novels always make it sound like a huge topic. While in fact, it is quite easy to cleanse meridians for there are many medicines for this even in the mortal world. However, “bone marrow cleansing”— improving a person’s essential quality of cultivation, is not very common. The efficacy of the Flame Fruit doesn’t stop flowing in Lin Luoran’s body for over three hours. Lin Luoran is enveloped by a layer of black sweat, which gradually turns into a huge dark cocoon. It looks like that the bead is also worn out. It lies beside Lin Luoran’s waist quietly after sensing her body is no longer boiling hot. The light of the bead dims. “Beep, beep.” Lin Luoran wakes up when the alarm clock rings. Her eyelids are so dry that dander falls off when she rubs them… Lin Luoran keeps rubbing and feels the strangeness. Why there is dander on her hands as well? She suddenly comes to her senses. Lin Luoran opens her eyes and sees the strange state of her body! She is covered by a black crust which smells awful. Her sheet and quilt are filthy. Lin Luoran remembers the pain from last night. God, isn’t that a dream? Mysterious space, fruit, pain… Lin Luoran suddenly realizes something. She rushes to the bathroom and looks into the mirror. Stains cover her face except for the eyes. Lin Luoran blinks. The foggy mirror even becomes cleaner than before. Her hands are shaking as she reaches to her face, holding back the joy. As she expects—After rubbing off all the black and smelly cuticle, the skin of her face and hands is tender and fair. Lin Luoran jumps into the shower, cheering… After washing off all the stink and dirt, Lin Luoran is amazed by her reflection in the mirror. Her skin is white, smooth and elastic like a boiled egg without a shell. Her cheeks are rosy. Her hair looks like the best piece of silk, black and shining. Her appearance doesn’t change much. But she looks completely different, at least five years younger! Lin Luoran takes a while to calm herself down. It is almost noon. She was going to search for new jobs today, which seems to fall through. She was numbed by her thought for a while, and then bursts into laughter. She should forget about work and try to figure out how to utilize that mysterious space and the spring! Lin Luoran looks around the house. Everything is old and shabby. They look dusky no matter how hard Lin Luoran tries to clean. She didn’t have spare money to decorate the house before. There is just a Fallopia multiflora which she bought from the market, weakly clinging to the window. Lin Luoran only brought it because it has a remarkable ability to reverse hair loss and gray hair. But now, it can be of greater use! With a smile, Lin Luoran sets her eyes on the fallopia multiflora. The wind blows and its leaves shake as if it is responding to its malevolent master…