48 Chapter 48 - Leaving in the Lurch (1/2)
Chuxue looked on with her mouth agape. Zong Shou and this octopus had simply given her too many surprises today, so many that her little head couldn't comprehend them all.
Looking at Little Gold's current state, it looked more like a spiritual tool and talisman weapon than a protector beast!
Zong Shou's lips rose slightly, his hand shook as a black talisman knife appeared in his palm.
Not only was a rune moving within the knife, there was wind lightly blowing around it too, the aura given off by it growing more indiscernible.
He then stowed the talisman knife, taking out a Pine Pattern Wind Sword instead. Instantly a layer of silver spread from his palm onto the sword, totally covering it.
Zong Shou smiled, joy appearing in his eyes.
Be it energy-swallowing or purifying, this was Little Gold's innate skill!
Changing into anything was an Awakened ability after Little Gold upgraded to Grade Two. The current Little Gold could not only toughen the Pine Pattern Wind Sword, the spiritual network in its body was like a natural talisman, letting Zong Shou use the Wind Wall ability of the Green Wind Spirit Bead.
If it was an emergency, it could use it to replace the original Wind Storing Ball as the core for the Wind Wall Formation.
However, that ability wasn't very strong, at most it could be used as support only. After Grade Four, its transformation ability would start to show itself.
His thoughts moved, and Little Gold knew what he was thinking. The silver hue covering his arm retracted and hid back into his sleeves.
At that moment, Zong Shou felt a piercing stench entering his nose. Looking down, he could see that all his clothes were drenched, especially his chest and abdomen area, where a layer of black mud-like substance seeped out, the smell rising into the air.
Zong Shou frowned slightly, following which he laughed, looking towards Chuxue with nefarious intentions.
Looking at the amount of time that had passed, it should be time for the medicine bath. Coincidentally, he was so tired that he couldn't even move a single finger.
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Over the next few days, Zong Shou didn't make use of the Energy Swallowing Technique. Each day he would practice the Foundation Breathing Spirit Fist at least forty-eight times, no less, only more. There was also the Energy Leading Method, which he repeated at least thirty times. Even his sword training was reduced.
While it helped to solidify his foundations, he also used this fist technique to control the true Qi in his body, which was increasing swiftly.
Occasionally he entered a focused state, and he would go all out to solidify the foundation, breathing, and narrow meridians. Occasionally he would open up one or two extra acupoints to store true Qi. The number of usable extra points in his body reached twenty, mostly belonging to the wind and water Elements.
During the night, he would use the Sky Mirror Soul Shining Technique to gather up the moonlight, burning his soul without any rest.
The number of copper mirrors had already increased to sixteen, their surfaces polished by Zong Shou. Thus the amount of Sun Essence Fire and heat had tripled.
”The so-called Spirit Observing realm of a spirit master is to observe the will of one's soul, to control the changes in it. Similar to the Focus Concentration realm, it was not just the beginning of the spirit master cultivation journey. Even when one reached the True Image Stage, one still needed to do their homework everyday. Similar to how martial cultivators check up on their body's condition...”
Maybe because he was too deep into the martial cultivation path, the current Zong Shou, although he could be considered a Spirit Observing realm spirit master and a dual cultivator, his thinking hadn't changed much. He still treated himself as a martial cultivator.
In his last life in game, he had already crossed the celestial level. In real life, he had been able to forcefully enter the Ascended level with his normal body, even in an era with little spiritual energy.
Since all techniques came from the same source, even if Zong Shou walked the martial cultivator path, it also had benefits for his spirit cultivation.
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In just a short few days he had improved his journey of Spirit Observing. Apart from gathering soul power, which was still lacking, he had already largely grasped the structure of his soul.