. This time his consciousness is a bit better and he can turn around, seeing the girl in gray digging... MC notices he's a live and sighs, seems disappointed. She crawls from the very deep pit and offers him food. He recognizes it's a very rare ice ginseng and throws his suspicions away. She's treating him so well! He hesitates a little since he can't repay her, but he really needs it right now, so he nods and eats it. It starts replentishing his spirit and healing his tendons. Shen Ying is watching him and thinking how he looked dead for the past several days, but she was too lazy to spend the effort to bury him. Today on a whim, she decided to dig him a pit and he woke up. MC asks him if he wants to eat more and offers the radish, but he faints due to the pain of repairing his body. MC wonders if he's allergic to radish.
When he wakes up for the fourth time, he's still lying in the same spot, but his meridians are all fixed now. But due to unclean body (the demonic arts used by the devil dude interfering or something?) he can't use his spiritual power. The girl is back to digging a pit... He calls out to her and she complains that he should say early if he's not dead, she's been digging for so long. Awkwardly, she explains the digging away as digging earth to fill in the pits made by the devil dude earlier. Yi Qing gives up on asking further. He thanks her for saving him (MC is : O.O I saved him?) and introduces himself, then asks her name. She introduces herself as Shen Ying. He tells her he'd like to repay her and he'd do anything as long as it doesn't betray his morals and she refuses at first, but then makes him fill in the pits in her yard. He's happy to do it. Even if he can't use his spirit, he's a healthy swordsman (buff), so it doesn't take him long to fill in all the pits, including the one she dug. Suddenly he senses a yin aura (like evil,cold, demonic, that kinda thing) and thinks a very powerful demon is approaching and gets into battle mode. It's a rabbit demon that's 8 feet tall or more, clearly the rabbit demon king. Yi Qing is desperate, even in his best days, he wouldn't be a match to this demon king, let alone now when he can't use his aura.
He thinks since he's embarked on the cultivating road, he's prepared to die at any time, but his benefactor's there and he hasn't even repaid her yet. He decides to sacrifice his life and grabs his sword and mobilizes his spirit, but the evil spirits inside his body give him a backlash and he spits blood.