Unlike the previous times when I absorbed the holy spring water, this time it was really enjoyable and extremely satisfying. In the past, whether it was the holy spring water that Ka Xiu obtained through completing tasks or the hundreds of units of holy spring water that he exchanged for badges of honor, it was only a drop in the bucket for his strong physique. It's like a land that has been dry for a long time. Occasionally, light rain falls, and even the cracks in the soil cannot be filled. But now, it is flooded directly, and the dry desert has suddenly turned into a Ze country. It's a treat, no doubt.
Ka Xiu could feel layers of warm invisible liquid seeping into the tough skin. Like a hazy mist, it passes through the muscles, moistens the fascia, and covers the surface of the bones. At this moment, it's like taking a hot spring bath, with water waves in all directions like gentle lapping of fingers, massaging and relaxing. Your body will soon enter a state of clarity.
The golden pool water continued to be absorbed and began to slowly decline at an inaudible speed. There is spring water above that is constantly replenishing, making the pool water lower more slowly. Ka Xiu entered a free and undisciplined state. It was as if I was lying alone in a boat, swaying along with the blue waves, heading towards an unknown direction. But at this moment, he did not relax his vigilance.
Both the holy spring water and the power of the secret soul contain a small amount of disaster. It's like an inconspicuous chronic toxin, which means nothing at first. As time goes by, the dose increases, and the toxins explode, turning into a highly toxic and terminal disease that is almost incurable.
There will be extreme side effects after the Eye monsters master various powers from Black Rain Villa. As hunters continue to fight to replenish the holy spring water, the disaster will accumulate in their bodies, and they will inevitably transform into beasts.
For intelligent life, especially humans.
Disaster is a kind of poison that has no cure.
Fortunately, the mysterious ancient Aoyin civilization seems to have left some means of restraint. Those five cornerstone runes use disaster as energy consumption to function. For example, Ka Xiu's spiritual runes can easily absorb the essence of these ownerless disasters. Having said this, in fact, sometimes Kaxiu would wonder whether the Aoyin civilization was an existence that fought against disasters or controlled disasters. After all, with the essence of disaster as the driving energy of the five cornerstones, both directions are possible.
Of course, these are all wild fantasies. Ka Xiu is still enjoying the convenience brought by spiritual runes. The essence of disaster mixed in the holy spring water and absorbed into the body had just settled, and before it had time to penetrate, it was swept away by the spiritual runes. The black Ouroboros tattoo on his chest began to rotate slowly and silently.
Blah blah blah...blah blah blah...
Amidst the clear sound of spring water falling on the surface of the pool, Ka Xiu glanced at the back of his hand. There are thirty-three white gold holy marks on it. In addition, there are light golden holy marks that continue to grow and are superimposed at the end of the platinum holy marks. After a while, there were as many golden stigmata as there were platinum stigmata. The total is sixty-six.
This number should have exceeded most shadow hunters.
The No. 1 Shadow Hunter Colossus Jam has only seventy stigmata, while the Black Agency Chief has seventy-nine stigmata. This is the limit of their current ability to resist the erosion of disasters, and it is related to physical strength and mental will.
Of course, it doesn't mean that you can't continue to improve after reaching the limit. People are adaptable. After living together for a long time, their tolerance for disasters increases. Maybe it can improve a little bit of strength based on the limit.
And this power will not be very large, as many as three or five, and as few as one or two stigmata. Generally speaking, after becoming a shadow hunter, taking a dip in the holy spring water will probably reach the limit of your talent. The little bit of strength added later is just a drop in the bucket and cannot achieve much growth.
Card Xiu now has sixty-six stigmata, which is actually as many as Shadow Hunter No. 2 Lewis. This is Lewis's limit, but not Cardiff's limit. His body is still absorbing the holy spring water, and the speed is still as hungry and violent as when it was first absorbed, without any sign of stopping.
Gradually, the number of stigmata on the back of the hand began to increase one after another.
……69,70,71……
Easily surpasses the No. 1 Dark Hunt Jam.
……78,79,80……
He surpassed the black agency chief again.
At this time, Ka Xiu found that the growth rate of the stigmata began to slow down. It wasn't that his rate of absorbing the holy spring water had slowed down, but that his body seemed to have developed something similar to drug resistance. The higher the saturation of the stigmata, the more difficult the process is to reach the limit or even perfection. Therefore, Ka Xiu's previous calculation was actually wrong. He thought that only 2,400 units of holy spring water would be needed to fully saturate it, but the actual situation was different.
However, it doesn't matter at all given the current situation.
Kaxiu soaked in the source of the holy spring and took a bath directly in the precious holy spring water. So what if the holy spring water needed was far more than 2,400 units? Ten times the amount is only 60 liters, a drop in the bucket.
What's more, the consumption cannot be doubled at all.
This is the benefit of becoming a Shadowhunter, the only opportunity to absorb the holy spring water unscrupulously until you reach your personal limit.
97, 98, 99...100!
One hundred sacred marks are neatly arranged on the back of the hand, like a square square. The lower section is white gold and the upper section is pale gold. At a glance, it looks like it is covered with gold foil.
According to Kaxiu's induction, the holy spring water absorbed this time was one-half more than expected. In other words, excluding the thirty-three platinum holy marks that already existed, the remaining sixty-seven golden holy marks consumed more than 2,400 units of holy spring water. After a little calculation, he felt relieved when he thought about the secret power he had already reserved.
Fortunately, I had made a reservation before and saved a lot more. Otherwise, if the power of the secret soul also has the characteristic that the more saturated it is, the greater the consumption will be. I'm afraid it won't be enough.
Of course, this was not what Ka Xiu did intentionally. Instead, he took the Ghost Man Iron Knight on the mission of Black Rain Villa, and the rewards related to the disaster world were quite rich. Unknowingly, he had accumulated a massive amount of secret power in his hands.
Now, the holy spring water has reached a saturated state, and only the power of absorbing the secret soul is left. Card Xiu suddenly opened his eyes and found that it was almost dusk on the horizon. He stood up slowly, exposing the back of his right hand. With a slight thought in his mind, the sacred marks turned out dimly and disappeared on their own initiative.
With flickering eyes, Kaxiu concealed the thirty-three platinum holy marks.
Only sixty-seven golden stigmata flickered.
The energy of the holy spring water in his body reached a saturated state, and he felt extremely abundant and endless. It is not true as the rumors say, if someone can reach a hundred stigmata, a self-circulation can be generated in the body. Even if the energy of the stigmata is consumed in battle, there is no need to replenish the holy spring water, and the consumed stigmata will grow back automatically.
Card Xiu's eyes were slightly surprised, but he did not continue to study. After all, the Holy Hunter Dilishati was right next to him. He took steps and walked out of the pool. However, the holy spring water was not absorbed by the fabric at all, and remained in the pool as if they were attracted to each other. Ka Xiu slowly moved his body, and a crisp explosion sound came from his bones.
On the golden stone, Dilishati opened her eyes and jumped down.
He slowly glanced at the back of Card Xiu's hand and saw the appearance of sixty-seven golden stigmata. He nodded secretly: "Very good, your current limit is already one level higher than Lewis. If the subsequent adaptation goes well, Maybe it can exceed seventy, maybe even more than Kasai." Dilishati said in an appreciative and encouraging tone.
Card Xiu smiled and looked at the back of Dilixiati's hand: "What about you? I once heard that the black agency chief is seventy-nine."
Dilishati shook his head, seemingly recognizing Kaxiu, and showed the back of his hand generously. There are seventy-seven golden holy marks on it.
"Oh? It's only two strips shorter than the black mechanism. Maybe..."
Ka Xiu's eyes flickered slightly.
Dilishati smiled lightly and shook his head: "Do you believe that all the rumors are true? There are also rumors that I can replace the agency chief, but in reality? The gap between me and him, haha …”
He ends with a self-deprecating laugh.
Ka Xiu's eyes narrowed slightly. Judging from Dilishati's reaction, the rumors were probably not true. In other words, it is true, but the seventy-nine points are the limit of the black agency chief when he first became a dark hunter. The number of stigmata that he later improved through willpower training is a mystery and has not been taken into account. As few as one or two, as many as three or five? So it’s 84?
In the end, Ka Xiu did not get the answer from Dilishati.
The two of them followed the procedure they came from and returned to Feileng Cui City through the dark tunnel. By this time, it was already night time.
Card Xiu first came to the residence of the old hunter Herb, celebrated with a group of old hunters without excitement, and then returned to his single-family house. He took a black box and left the Dark Hunting Headquarters at night.
He came to the outskirts of the city, a somewhat familiar place. The last time Cardiff and the Ghost Iron Knight met was in this abandoned monastery.
The bright moon hangs high on the branches, and hazy clouds and mist gather around it. On the dark sky, stars twinkled, and some similar ones vaguely formed various animal shapes. Beside the dead tree, a young man quietly raised his head and looked at the sky.
Wherever he looked, it seemed that there were the Southern Dipper constellations.
Card Xiu looked at it for a while and seemed to find the ever-changing Giant Vulture and Star Python. He withdrew his gaze and adjusted his condition to the best.
This is the courtyard of the monastery, with dry grass everywhere and gravel on the stone road. The windows of the pointed building were empty and dark, and there were spider webs wrapped around the corners, making it look a bit eerie. A dead tree stood in the corner of the courtyard, with broken stone tables and benches beside the tree.
Ka Xiu was sitting on a stool, and there were metal utensils on the table that exuded a hint of coldness. Inside are 2,800 units of secret soul power.
He sat quietly for a while and slowly stretched out his right hand. The symbol on the back of the hand is no longer concealed and changes back to a hundred. Ka Xiu grabbed the metal vessel with his big hand, brought it to his body, and drank it down in one gulp like a generous thirsty drinker. Suddenly, a cold and cold feeling spread from head to toe.
By the time he drank enough, a deep palm print had been made on the solid metal vessel. Only then did Ka Xiu put it down, and a deep chill came out of his mouth. He felt as if he had been drinking liquid nitrogen just now, and his mouth, throat and blood vessels were almost sealed by ice.
Before his senses could relax, Ka Xiu could already feel the secret power in his body reacting with the holy spring water. The expected drastic changes occurred, and the feeling of being in the world of ice and fire was extremely sour. The two special energies suddenly collided and merged violently under the catalysis of the body's blood. For a moment, it seemed as if every blood vessel in his body was wailing in pain.
Pfft...
Kaxiu's skin burst apart, and blood spurted out from nearly a hundred cracks, immediately dyeing the fabric of his clothes red. It looked extremely scary at first glance, but he didn't care and just used life vibration energy to repair the wounds. Subsequently, blood vessels throughout the body continued to burst and heal.
The blood surged again and again, forming a thick layer of blood scab on the surface of the body. Ka Xiu remained expressionless, staring at the back of his right hand.
The majority of the golden stigmata are being dyed in white gold.
From two-thirds to one-half, one-quarter...
Finally, the only remaining golden stigmata disappeared.
At this moment, a hundred holy marks turned into a hundred platinum holy marks!
The blood in Ka Xiu's body seemed to have been replaced by the blood of living creatures.
Suddenly, the stigmata on the back of his hand changed drastically. The neatly arranged sacred marks rotated and rejoined, as if to form a new pattern. At the same moment, Ka Xiu felt that the spiritual runes on his chest were also echoing each other, with a burning feeling. More than ten seconds passed, the brilliant white gold color stopped, and a pattern appeared.
This is an equilateral triangle, with thirty-three platinum holy marks on each side that overlap and piece together. In the middle of the equilateral triangle, there is a platinum holy mark connecting the vertex and perpendicular to the other side.
Life runes? Or the rune of life?
It's certainly not a runic body, but it seems to have quite the ability.
Card Xiu stood up with great interest and decided to test the effect of the Perfect Platinum Stigmata. He decisively added it to Nandou Boxing.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang...
Card Xiu's clothes actually exploded with dozens of holes, as if he had been hit by a hail of bullets. Each hole corresponds to the location of two Nan Dou Quan techniques. He immediately took off all his clothes.
Thirty-one Nandou Red Eagle Fist acupoints exude scarlet color.
Thirty-one Nan Dou Yin Snake Fist acupoints emit rich purple light.
The two actually began to echo each other, not only echoing each other, but also having a direct connection with the twinkling frequency of the Giant Vulture and Star Python in the sky. Ka Xiu immediately sat cross-legged, clasped his hands, and looked up at the sky. The blue pupils reflected the bright star pattern in the sky.
Click, click, click… click, click…
There was a sudden cracking sound in the body. It was not a substantial physical damage, but a drastic change in the constructed Nandou virtual meridians.
The two Nandou framework systems, which were originally going their own way and with clear distinctions between Wei and Jing, were actually compressed and overlapped! It was as if the blood vulture slowly lowered its sharp claws and grabbed the python's body. The sound python wrapped around the blood vulture's wings in reverse, wrapping it tighter and tighter. In this process of mutual repulsion and strange symbiosis, Ka Xiu felt an unprecedented power...
It's not that I want to give up, it's that I haven't thought about the power of this...
