When Zhao Lin walked back to his residence carrying the fish basket, the sky had darkened.
The evening breeze blew, the moonlight was slightly cool, but my heart was extremely hot.
He walked quickly across the yard, walked into the main room, closed the doors and windows, put the fish basket on the ground, and squatted aside to watch.
The three Pipa catfishes all woke up, fluttered for a while, and soon became still.
If the gills didn't open and close occasionally, they would look dead at first glance.
Zhao Lin was slightly surprised, thinking that this kind of fish is proficient in survival. It knows that struggling is useless, so it saves its energy to prolong its survival time.
"Which one should I choose?"
Zhao Lin opened the lid of the fish basket and looked back and forth at the three Pipa catfish.
Having absorbed more than a dozen souls, this was the first time he had multiple choices, but he quickly thought of a way.
"You three brothers, come together!"
Angler fish were ugly and poisonous. Zhao Lin didn't want to have physical contact with them, so he punched the fish basket a few times from the air.
After a while, three spirits floated out from the fish basket and condensed into shape in the air.
Zhao Lin looked carefully and saw that the spirit in the middle had clear lines and a perfect shape, and couldn't help but nodded.
"You are the one!"
Take a step forward and take a breath...
The essence entered the body and turned into countless silver lights, bringing Zhao Lin an unprecedented experience.
In the past, spirits would either strengthen a certain ability or generate attribute Qi, and would undergo drastic transformations on the body.
But this time, it was like a continuous drizzle, moistening things silently, and the body underwent subtle changes from the outside to the inside.
There are various sensations in the body including cold, heat, soreness, pain, numbness, itching, swelling... but they are not very severe.
A very strange energy flows back and forth in the body.
When it gets completely dark, the soul is absorbed.
Zhao Lin moved his body a few times and felt that every place was different from before, but he couldn't tell where exactly it was different.
"Let's put some blood and see the effect!"
Zhao Lin's first thought was to test his self-healing ability, but he ran into a little trouble.
He has been cultivating his physical body since he started training his skin and bones. After being tempered in the Blood Realm, Yuan Realm, and Xiantian Realm, his body has become as solid as copper poured into iron.
There weren't any sharp tools in the room, so it wasn't that easy to make yourself bleed.
Although you can definitely injure yourself as long as you exert a strong force, it is not yet certain of its self-healing ability.
What if you exert too much force and get seriously injured and cannot recover?
Zhao Lin thought silently for a while and went through the martial arts techniques in his mind.
The ice-type skills have the power to freeze, so the effect is not easy to see; the thunder-type skills are too overbearing and may knock you unconscious...
He finally chose to slash through the air.
The palm edge is sharp and easy to control damage.
Zhao Lin took off his outer robe, leaving only his small clothes on.
He pulled up a chair, raised his legs and stepped on it, frowned and gritted his teeth, and slashed his thighs three times. …
The first palm was not very strong and only left a red mark on the leg.
The second palm increased the strength and cut the skin, causing blood to flow out.
With the third palm, the strength was increased by 30%, the skin was torn and the blood was pouring out!
hiss……
Zhao Lin breathed in, ignoring the pain, and stared at the three wounds without blinking.
In less than two breaths, the red mark made by the first palm disappeared.
Five breaths passed, and the wound caused by the second palm was completely closed!
The third wound, which was originally very deep, had stopped bleeding and was healing quickly.
Seeing this magical change, Zhao Lin's pupils shrank and his breathing became heavy.
About thirty breaths later, the traces left by the first two palms had been completely eliminated, and only a shallow mark remained on the wound of the third palm.
If you don’t look carefully, it’s almost hard to spot!
"The self-healing ability is stronger than I expected!"
Zhao Lin was very satisfied and waved his arm vigorously.
"Calm down, calm down, you are in your thirties, how come you still act like you have never seen the world."
Zhao Lin muttered, but couldn't help but look happy on his face.
After walking around the room for a while, my mood gradually calmed down, and I thought to myself: "Whether self-healing ability is good for practice needs to be tested again. Opening champagne at halftime is not advisable."
Thinking of this, he sat down cross-legged and started to practice the Hua Zong's method of breathing in and moving Qi.
…
Two hours later, Zhao Lin stood up, with a smile on his lips and a bit more calmness in his eyes.
Just now he was practicing the exercises non-stop, deliberately taking the path of vigorous and diligent progress, and not sparing his own body at all.
In less than an hour, the meridians could no longer bear it.
But he ignored it and continued to do his best.
After an hour and a half, the meridians began to show slight damage, and there was a feeling of tearing around the acupuncture points.
But in an instant, an invisible but perceptible energy passed over the injured area, and the damage immediately returned to its original state.
After trying this three times with the same result, Zhao Lin finally felt relieved.
"It seems that my conclusion is correct. Self-healing ability can indeed speed up your practice!"
"Of course, this does not mean that you can practice endlessly. Although the wounds will heal on their own, the body will still become tired and the ability to refine spiritual energy will continue to decline."
But the faults do not hide the faults, Zhao Lin is very satisfied with this spirit.
At this point, all nine grids of the spirit animal map are filled: strength, hearing, smell, wind, ice, thunder, fire, earth, and self-healing.
"The ability is finalized. From now on, you can only upgrade the spirit."
Zhao Lin muttered to himself with some emotion, suddenly remembering that he had been busy testing the spirit's ability just now, and forgot to check the spirit beast map, and quickly looked in his mind.
It didn't matter at this glance. When he saw clearly what the spirit beast was trying to do, he was stunned with shock.
The spirit animal picture is grayed out!
The Pipa catfish appears in the ninth grid, but the entire spirit animal picture is gray and black, without any life at all, as if it has fallen into a long sleep.
how so?
Could it be that by gathering all nine spirits, the Spirit Beast Map will have completed its mission and be ready to retire?
Zhao Lin's heart tightened, followed by a burst of disappointment.
To be able to be where I am today, the spirit beast map has always been my biggest reliance.
Although in the world of cultivating immortals, the advantages brought by the spirit beast map are not as obvious as before, they are still indispensable.
He originally wanted to find more powerful monsters so that his abilities could continue to evolve.
"By the way, could it be related to the spirit stone?"
Zhao Lin suddenly remembered that the last time he held the spirit stone at the stationed monk's place to observe, there was an abnormal reaction to the spirit beast picture.
Maybe the spirit beast map is just dormant and requires spirit stones to "activate" it again?
It's a pity that I don't have the spirit stone at hand now, so I can't find out.
"That's all, I am destined to gain it, and I am lucky to lose it. If the fate is really over, let it go."
After all, Zhao Lin has been a man of two generations and has experienced the world. After a long test, he slowly accepted this result calmly.
Moreover, his intuition told him that the spirit beast map was still "alive" and it just needed an opportunity to recover again.
(End of chapter)
