Starting from the limbs, waves of blood and heat surged into the left chest. The muscles were erupting, the tendons and bones were roaring, and the bone marrow was surging...
"Quack!"
As if some enemy was discovered, a toad's cry as loud as a bell echoed, full of anger, domineering and ruthless.
Then a light grey aura as thin as a cicada's wing and almost invisible to the naked eye floated out from Li Qinglin's chest.
Evil,
Bloody, malicious...
A light grey aura floated out, and the moss on the well wall quickly charred. Even the rocks seemed to have turned much darker and were corroded. "Is this the residual aura of the cultivation technique practiced by the Heart-stealing Warrior in the wanted order?"
Li Qinglin had a vague understanding in his heart.
The heart toad is extremely overbearing and cannot tolerate any impurities that do not belong to it.
Boom, boom, boom, boom It was faint at first, then gradually became louder, and finally it was like the beat of a drum...
Li Qinglin suddenly lifted up his clothes on his chest and was horrified to find that his left chest, which had been slow to heal, was healing rapidly at a terrifying speed!
Muscle reorganization and granulation.
His eyes looked from the hideous wound, through the ribs, and saw his own... heart.
From nothing to something, from small to big.
Pink and tender, but like muscle fibers entwined with steel and silver threads.
The strong atria pump blood at high pressure.
Dense and strange hollow protrusions gradually appeared on the surface of the atrium.
Essence and blood quickly burst out from the atria into these cavities.
The cavity now seems to have become an extra 'blood bag'
First it is stored, then transformed and purified, and finally the purple-red blood is transported back into the blood vessels.
Some complex and simple patterns lightly cover the entire heart, bringing with them a special charm.
Li Qinglin was in a trance, and he felt that what he saw was not a heart, but a dormant... toad?! If it doesn't move, it's fine. But if it moves, it will swallow the sky and eat the moon! The heart toad's light is shimmering, and its nature is calm and does not stir.
What a leisurely little world, with endless changes.
[Freedom Furnace: Heart Toad (Feature 1: Blood sac, can store excess blood)]
"Smelt thousands of strange beasts, forge one's own body, break through all obstacles and become... the supreme immortal?"
Li Qinglin understood on the panel why the heart obtained after smelting the bell toad was called the heart toad.
“Gurgle…”
Suddenly, there was a violent rumbling sound in the abdomen.
The empty feeling of hunger in the stomach almost drives me crazy.
An unprecedented feeling of weakness immediately swept over my whole body.
Only then did Li Qinglin realize that his hands and even his body had suddenly become much thinner, with only skin left!
"No, I'm starving!"
Li Qinglin immediately took out the dry food he always kept in his arms and put it into his mouth.
The teeth were like steel knives, and the rice cakes, which were hard enough to beat a dog, were chopped into pieces cleanly and neatly.
I finished the rice cracker in a few bites, but my hunger didn't decrease at all.
"Hungry, hungry, hungry! Not enough, not enough!!"
Li Qinglin's eyes turned red. He immediately rushed into the house, pulled back the quilt, and grabbed a package from the corner.
The package contained a lot of food that could be stored for a long time, and even some pastries that were only eaten a small bite and then thrown away.
This was a gift that the original owner brought back for his younger brothers and sisters after saving money during his return home to visit relatives.
Li Qinglin hesitated for a moment, but hunger eventually overcame his reason. He picked up the food with both hands and stuffed it into his mouth!
After one stick of incense.
Li Qinglin walked back to the well with lingering fear, touched his arm which had almost recovered, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
That was a close call!
This activation furnace seems to require a large amount of nutrients and energy. If it is insufficient, it will drain away its own flesh and blood.
If it’s still not enough…
Li Qinglin shuddered and remembered this incident clearly.
Then he looked at the bell toad in the well.
I don't know if it was Li Qinglin's illusion, but the eyes of the refined bell toad were filled with clear ignorance, without a single spark of light . They were cold and mechanical, relying entirely on primitive instincts.
It seemed that his consciousness was completely wiped out during the refining process.
At the same time, Li Qinglin had a feeling that as long as he jumped in his heart, he could...control the bell toad? Try it?
Li Qinglin's heart moved, and his vision suddenly rose, withdrew, and then replaced by...
It was all hazy, like the vision of someone wearing heavy reading glasses.
It's gray and filled with black, white and gray.
The scenery before my eyes has lines of varying light and dark ravines along the edges.
"Buzz buzz buzz~"
A mosquito flew by.
In Li Qinglin's field of vision, many rebounding lines and ripples suddenly appeared, allowing Li Qinglin to clearly see the trajectory of the mosquito's flight.
Li Qinglin stuck out his tongue and swallowed the mosquito in one bite.
The taste is good...
An unprecedented feeling enveloped Li Qinglin's heart. He looked up instinctively, only to find that he seemed to have no neck.
When he turned his eyes, he saw a figure like a god or demon standing outside the huge circular sky.
But this figure just stood there blankly, as if he was daydreaming.
I felt a cold touch under my limbs; the temperature, humidity, and even the ripples of the well water seemed like quantifiable data.
Li Qinglin can clearly perceive the surrounding environment and get dynamic feedback.
"Is this the Bell Toad clone? Dual perspective?"
Li Qinglin suppressed the excitement in his heart and did not further control his clone. Instead, he chose to return to his original body.
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After all, it was not completely dark at the moment, so there was a risk of being exposed.
Moreover, there is a calico cat staring at him with a ferocious look. If it comes to take revenge, Li Qinglin's current bell-toad clone can only be its snack.
It is better to continue staying in the well.
"When possessing a clone, it seems to lose control of the original body and become insensitive to external stimuli. It seems that I have to use it with caution in the future."
“I don’t know if I will be able to control my main body and clone at the same time in the future as my realm improves.”
"Can I refine other clones? Is there an upper limit to the number of clones that can be refined? Can the same exotic beast be refined repeatedly?"
Li Qinglin pondered silently.
"Huh?"
After returning to his body, Li Qinglin's heart suddenly beat violently.
Then a weak warm current gushed out from the blood sac cavity of the heart toad, flowing along the blood vessels and winding to the limbs and bones.
"Is this the essence and blood of the cricket corpses, mosquitoes, rice weevils and other insects that the bell toad has swallowed recently? The heart toad with a blood sac seems to have transformed into some kind of extraordinary organ?"
Li Qinglin was pleasantly surprised.
Under the effect of this essence and blood, after a day of hard work, Li Qinglin's tired body gradually gained more strength and his physical strength was restored.
He seemed to have thought of something and immediately did basic exercises such as push-ups, sit-ups, and squats in the yard.
As expected, this feedback of essence and blood was quickly absorbed by Li Qinglin during the exercise.
Half an hour later, Li Qinglin clenched his fists in surprise, and vaguely felt that his strength seemed to have increased a little.
"So my hard work on exercising on my own has such a big effect?"
Although Li Qinglin's original body was not weak, after all, he did physical work every day and had some strength, but it was definitely not strong, and he even had some hidden injuries.
But now, his skin is taut and his muscles have more definition.
If there was more blood essence, or even if the blood sac was completely filled...
The future is promising! "What is the origin of this panel? This great power that can turn decay into magic, could it be the legendary Dao fruit? A fragment of the Dao?"
“What principles and rules is it based on?”
Li Qinglin subconsciously used logical thinking to infer.
"Snap!"
Li Qinglin slapped himself directly. He had traveled through time and space and was still talking about the principle? He just asked if it could be used! …
Two days later, we went to enjoy the lotus pavilion.
Li Qinglin, Donkey Face and other insect-raising tenants drew two buckets of water from a spring in the water pavilion and walked towards the outer courtyard.
The autumn insects that lay eggs are very particular about food and water. Only the spring in Wang's house can satisfy their needs.
You can enjoy the walk from the lotus pavilion to the outer courtyard, but it is not close.
In addition, the tricky requirements of Wang, the foreign affairs manager, meant that in order to ensure the quality of the running water, they had to carry it back to the yard without stopping and freeze it into smoothies! These insect-raising tenants often had to use all their strength, with veins bulging, to barely carry it back.
now,
Donkey Face held his waist and lifted the bucket with some difficulty, his legs shaking weakly.
"Why did you get so much heavier?"
The donkey's face looked secretly bitter.
He subconsciously turned his head and saw that the tenants beside him were only slightly better off than him. They were all holding their breath, their faces were dark blue, and they were moving slowly.
"Luckily I'm not alone."
Just as he was thinking, the donkey-faced man's gaze swept across Li Qinglin, but suddenly stopped.
Then we saw Li Qinglin's steps were vigorous and each step was extremely steady.
The buckets weighing a total of 60 kilograms on his shoulders seemed to be non-existent.
There was not a single shake, it was as steady as if it had taken root.
Donkey Face thought he was hallucinating, he opened his eyes and was a little dazed.
"Brother Lin, aren't you tired?"
Li Qinglin picked up the load with his left hand, and used his right hand to straighten the wrinkled clothes under the pole. Then he turned around and smiled, "I'm tired, of course I'm tired."
Donkey Face fell silent.
(End of this chapter)