Chapter 112: The Paths (1/2)

Lin Mu let out a sigh after reaching his house. He had been through a lot of events in the past twenty-fours hours and was now feeling mentally exhausted. He used to look forward to a little excitement, but this was way too much for him.

”Let's rest for a bit. I still have three hours till sunset.” Lin Mu muttered to himself as he opened the gate of his house.

~Sigh~

He walked into the courtyard and let a tired sigh. He felt as if the exhaustion was rushing to him, now that he had stepped into his house. Lin Mu already had a few tasks charted out for the night, thus he wanted to cultivate and rest for a bit.

Strangely for him, cultivation was pretty relaxing and also helped in restoring his energy. Lin Mu was just about to open the door of his bedroom when he heard a rumble in his belly.

'Oh, I've completely forgotten to eat due to all the stuff that happened. Guess, I'll make something.' Lin Mu thought to himself.

Lin Mu thus went to the kitchen and cooked some spirit beast meat. Fifteen minutes later he was done eating and was now sitting on his bed in a cross-legged position.

”Finally…” Lin Mu muttered.

He then started chanting the severing heart sutra and began his cultivation session. Lin Mu discovered that his speed of cultivation seemed to have increased by a little bit, a few percent perhaps.

Ever since the morning when Hei Wen had that strange incident, Lin Mu felt as if his comprehension of the severing heart sutra had increased by a slight amount.

Lin Mu cultivated for two hours, after which his spirit qi in his dantian was not only completely replenished but had actually increased. He tried measuring his spirit qi wisps and found out that he had a little over nine hundred wisps of spirit qi.

Another thing he discovered was that originally according to senior Xukong's words, his dantian's capacity should have been about a thousand wisps. But now that he had nine hundred wisps of spirit qi in his dantian, it was nowhere close to being filled. It was perhaps about sixty percent filled. Unable to understand the reason for this he decided to ask Senior Xukong.

”Senior Xukong, my dantian's capacity seems to have increased somehow.” Lin Mu spoke.

Xukong was currently busy in his own cultivation as well. He had borne the full brunt of the impact of the Demonic path's aura, thus he had a few minor injuries. He had just finished healing them when he heard Lin Mu speaking.

Xukong awakened from his trance but continued absorbing the extremely pure Spatial energy within the mysterious ring. If Lin Mu were to see him right now, he would see that his size had actually increased by a little bit as well. Before Xukong was about the size of the tip of a pinky finger, but now he was as big as the size of a tip of an index finger.

”Oh, so you've finally noticed,” Xukong spoke.

Lin Mu felt a little surprised upon knowing that Xukong had already known about this.

”What do you mean, senior?” Lin Mu questioned.

”Your dantian's capacity has been increasing for a while now. I don't know the exact reason for it but it has been happening for a while now. Last time I checked, the capacity of your dantian was at about 1300 spirit qi wisps.” Xukong answered.

”1300 spirit qi wisps? But senior it seems to be even higher now. My dantian is only sixty percent filled.” Lin Mu replied.

”Oh? Only sixty percent? It seems like your dantian's capacity has increased to about 1500 spirit qi wisps now. This is a good thing so you shouldn't worry.” Xukong spoke.

”But won't it take me longer to reach the late stage of the qi refining realm this way senior?” Lin Mu asked with concern.

”It will indeed take you longer, but think of it in this way. You will have higher spirit qi reserves than other cultivators and would be able to last a long time in a battle. And of course, when you reach the next stage eventually, you will be even stronger.” Xukong explained.

Lin Mu realized the benefits of this and nodded in response.

”I see, senior.” Lin Mu responded.

Lin Mu estimated that he should still have about thirty minutes left till he would have to leave for the mercenary camp to help Hong Luo, thus he decided to ask Senior Xukong about a few more matters that had been bugging him for a while now.

”Senior what exactly happened to me in the town head's office? You told me you would explain it later on.” Lin Mu questioned.

”Ah, yes. You awakened a new sutra from the Nine divine sutras right?” Xukong responded.

”Yes Senior, The Burning Heart Sutra.” Lin Mu spoke.

”When you were obtaining the Burning Heart Sutra, I witnessed the changes that happened within the mysterious ring,” Xukong replied.