Alone in a quiet room again, Liu Yuan took a God-Returning Pill and began to meditate with his eyes closed. His spiritual energy and spiritual consciousness slowly entered a state of recovery, and he was immersed in a state of selflessness, with only a few groups of ants patrolling diligently around him.
A whole day and night passed. Liu Yuan opened his eyes and let out a clear whistle. His energy, energy, and spirit had returned to normal levels.
It was less than half a month before the opening of the new mine tunnel, and Liu Yuan naturally did not want to miss this opportunity.
He must find a way to winterize the ant colony.
In the market, Liu Yuan searched all the shops specializing in magic books. Most of the cold-proof spells sold publicly were fire-based, such as fire shield and fire feather. But they all indicate that they require the Dzogchen realm, which cannot be mastered by the eighth-level Liu Yuan.
The only option is to look at auxiliary elixirs.
After some searching, it was found that most of the cold-resistant elixirs were tailor-made for monks. A very few of them could work on spiritual beasts, but none of them were suitable for spiritual insects.
As for magical weapons that protect against the cold, they are even more expensive as the Trial Cave mission is about to be released. Even talismans with similar functions are out of stock.
Now he only has a few cold-proof elixirs in his storage bag, and they will be gone after they are used up. This was purchased a while ago for the purpose of testing the air film.
At that time, because the Soul-Returning Pill was comprehended by Qi Miao, he purchased various pills to test. At that time, rumors about the new mission had not yet spread, and cold-proof elixirs were still available.
Later, he joined Zheng Jing's team and never had a chance to be alone, so the test was shelved.
Since Qi Miao can understand the properties of the Marrow Cleansing Pill and the God-Returning Pill, can he learn the cold-resistant properties?
But he had less than ten such pills in his bag, so he really didn't dare to take risks.
Then try using other auxiliary elixirs first to see if the probability of learning them is high.
With this idea in mind, he randomly selected a fire-preventing pill, drank it, and began to meditate...
After one stick of incense, the fire-proofing effect of the elixir has expired, but the air film is still quiet, and nothing expected happens.
Come again.
He took another Juli pill...
For three consecutive days, Liu Yuan took dozens of various pills, but his gas membrane seemed to be asleep. No matter whether the medicine was strong or mild, there was no reaction.
Could it be that the same elixir needs to be accumulated to a certain amount before quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes?
But it's wrong to think about it. At the beginning, there was only one marrow cleansing pill and it was effective.
Or maybe the elixir must be used to its full potential?
In the spirit of experiment, Liu Yuan went to the market again, and soon he found the ideal experimental subject, the most popular low-level elixir - hemostatic pills. He bought thousands of them in one go and almost emptied his inventory. Well, fortunately this common pill is not expensive.
In order to both accumulate quantity and make full use of the material, he made a plan for the next step.
Sitting on the futon magic weapon, he summoned all kinds of ants and let them cling to his arms, legs, and even everywhere on his body.
The hemostatic pills had been taken out of the storage bag, and thousands of pills were piled into a hill in front of him.
He ordered an army ant to bite his upper arm. Its sharp jaws easily pierced the skin, and the donated blood immediately flowed down his arm. Liu Yuan endured the pain and ignored it, but took a hemostatic pill.
The air film has been stimulated, the pain gradually subsides as time goes by, the power of the hemostatic pills also begins to take effect, and the bleeding area quickly clots.
Liu Yuan calculated the time and gave the ants the order to bite the flesh every once in a while.
So he entered a cycle of injury and hemostasis. In order to stimulate the air membrane, he let different types of ants bite him in turn. Fire ants, army ants, leaf-cutting ants... every injury has a different feeling, which is really uncomfortable.
He didn't know why, but although giant bull ants caused the biggest wounds, he always felt that stone ants were the most painful bites.
He couldn't help but become more curious about this mysterious species.
After several rounds of injuries and hemostasis, he began to consciously immerse himself in a meditative state. Even the process of taking hemostatic pills was brought to his mouth by the ants, serving him to complete.
Blood continued to flow from the arms, thighs, and everywhere on the body, and it healed again. There are more and more scars, until they overlap one another. After hundreds of rounds, there were not many intact parts of Liu Yuan's body. Although the wound was not deep, the accumulated blood loss was quite terrifying.
He himself didn't realize it at all. As the machine repeated this process, he had fallen into trance and was immersed in a deep state of meditation.
It stands to reason that Liu Yuan was in danger of losing too much blood at this time, but he was as unaware as if he was asleep.
Liu Yuan missed this point. Ant just obeyed Liu Yuan's instructions faithfully and would not stop. It is still unknown whether the body's instinct can be alert and break away from the meditative state.
The injuries and scars continued, his face became paler and whiter, and the blood flowed out continuously, soaking all the tireless ants into blood red.
Something strange happened.
A stone ant suddenly emitted a faint cyan light, then a second one, a third one...
Soon, all the stone ants emitted a blue light, and the light connected together and spread to all the blood-red ants.
Finally, the light enveloped Liu Yuan's body, and the blood flowing down began to be blended into the light little by little, and even the blood gathered on the ground was sucked back.
The cyan brilliance was rendered into red, and this red light slowly merged with the air film.
Since the air film adheres to Liu Yuan's body, when the blood color fills the air film, Liu Yuan's body seems to be wrapped in a red skin.
In fact, the air film at this time should be more appropriately called a blood film.
After the blood color of this layer of skin was evenly distributed throughout the body, the blood film suddenly emitted a bright red light, so intense that the veins in Liu Yuan's body were reflected.
Next, the blood film seemed to come alive, and a network of veins similar to the human body was formed on the blood film, as if the blood film was imitating Liu Yuan's body.
However, this new set of veins seems to have an affinity for Liu Yuan. It tentatively reaches out to Liu Yuan, trying to merge into his body.
As the veins in the body and the new veins in the blood film gradually connect, the blood film suddenly beats rhythmically like a heart, and the bright red blood flows back into the body little by little with every beat.
The light on the stone ant colony weakened until it disappeared completely. They lay on Liu Yuan's body intimately and also on the blood film. They seemed very tired and motionless.
The beating of the blood film slowly weakened and eventually stopped completely. Its color also changed from blood red to pale, and finally turned into a transparent flesh red, which was extremely close to the color of skin.
Liu Yuan's complexion also recovered a little rosy. He was still immersed in a meditative state, his breath was steady and long, and except for the shocking scabs on his body, he seemed unaffected.
The blood stains on the ants and on the ground also disappeared, as if nothing had happened.
…
Liu Yuan had a dream.
A long, long dream.
