Chapter 191 : Chapter 191
Chapter 191: Carnival of Life!
Li Mu ate the Destiny Pill.
The Talent Traits immediately surfaced in his mind.
【SSS-Grade Talent: Carnival of Life】
【Savage Growth of Cultivation: Cultivation grows savagely. There will be no shackles when breaking through cultivation bottlenecks, and cultivation speed is doubled.】
【Savage Growth of Tendons and Bones: Tendons and bones grow savagely. Every time cultivation rises by one grade, physical strength doubles.】
【Savage Growth of Flesh and Blood: Flesh and blood grow savagely. When injured, flesh and blood recover madly. The heavier the injury, the stronger the body becomes, and the faster the recovery.】
【It can nurture the Life Spirit of All Things. All weapons and Spirit Treasures used by the talent holder will gradually awaken spiritual intelligence and strange abilities. The strength of that intelligence and those abilities depends on the length of time they accompany the talent holder and how frequently they are used.】
That was it.
An SSS-Grade Talent, with four traits.
However, Li Mu felt as though his mind was buzzing at that moment.
Worth it! It was too worth it!
Savage Growth of Cultivation looked even more useless than his Listen Close at first glance, but the disappearance of bottlenecks alone was already unparalleled.
The most valuable one was the second trait.
Savage Growth of Tendons and Bones!
It doubled with every grade he advanced.
From his current Profound Rank First Grade to the Heaven Rank, he still had seventeen increases left.
That was exponential growth. It was indeed savage enough!
Fortunately, this SSS-Grade Talent had been condensed by the system after seizing Destiny, rather than being the Green-Armored Giant’s own talent.
Otherwise, even nearly forty Profound Rank experts might not have been able to kill it!
The third trait corresponded perfectly to his current condition.
The fourth one was the most amusing.
Weapons and Spirit Treasures could have lives too?
You are a mature weapon now. You should learn to fight on your own, right?
It was somewhat amusing.
It was also somewhat funny.
The instant the Destiny Talent fused with him, Li Mu felt an extremely sensitive change occur in his body.
An endless stream of vitality surged out from within him.
The ruptured wounds across his back were unbearably itchy. While he was bathing, pieces of blood-red residue fell away.
When Li Mu touched the skin on his back again, it was as smooth as it had been before.
It was as if he had never been injured at all.
These were injuries caused by the explosion of an Earth Rank expert, wounds that even the medical personnel from the Military District’s Medical Department had not been able to heal directly.
Yet they had recovered while he was simply taking a bath.
After washing, Li Mu put on his clothes and glanced at the sleeping Wang Yinhuan.
Li Mu locked the door from the inside, then used Gather Form and Scatter Qi to slip out through the crack in the window.
An Xing had also suffered very serious injuries in this battle.
However, when he saw Li Mu, his face was full of smiles.
His first words were:
“Congratulations, Tiger Marquis!”
Li Mu did not need to ask to know that his Merit had been issued.
“What is there to congratulate me about?”
“If the Heaven Society had not caused trouble, all of this could have been avoided.”
Li Mu spoke somewhat helplessly.
An Xing patted his arm and said:
“You will get used to it after you see it more often.”
“Besides, there is also a good side to this.”
“Do you know how much Merit you received in total?”
As he spoke, An Xing made a six with his hand.
“Six thousand!”
His shock was written all over his face.
After serving as a soldier for so many years, he could be considered experienced and well-informed.
But as far as he was concerned, Li Mu was the first person who could instantly obtain several thousand Merit within such a short time!
“For planting Sub-Profound Spirit Trees for the Pearl Military District and the Wanren Military District, handing over the Lu Family’s medicine-accelerating secret method, and successfully stopping the Heaven Society’s plot this time, you took the greatest credit.”
“You were rewarded for several achievements at once. There seems to be other Merit too, but I am not too clear on that part.”
Li Mu, however, understood it very well.
The other Merit should have come from the cultivation arts he had modified, which had begun to show results.
General Su Qianyuan of the Military Merit Bureau had told him that as his cultivation rose, a portion of Merit would be settled for him every grade he advanced.
This should have all been settled together now.
Li Mu opened his Technological Watch and glanced at it.
Sure enough, his Merit had already become 9,900 points.
He was only 2,100 points away from Junior Dragon General.
It seemed he needed to make time to visit the Bloodsea Military District and plant a Sub-Profound Spirit Tree there.
While he was at it, he could modify a few more sets of cultivation arts.
Li Mu did not continue this topic. Instead, he asked An Xing:
“What is the situation with the Liang Family now?”
At the mention of the Liang Family, An Xing still sighed with a hint of astonishment.
“Several of them sacrificed themselves. Almost all of the remaining Profound Rank members were injured.”
“The Liang Family also asked me to express their gratitude to you after you woke up.”
“If you had not risked your life to draw that golden circle at the very end, more than half of us who were injured at the time might have been taken away by the Earth Rank self-destruction.”
Li Mu was somewhat speechless.
“Then did you express gratitude to them? If the Liang Family had not arrived in time this time, things would probably have become a lot more troublesome.”
An Xing nodded.
“Of course. To be honest, I truly did not expect the Liang Family to take action.”
“And I only found out afterward that the Liang Family had sent out all of its elites!”
“Except for the Patriarch of the Liang Family and some third-generation disciples.”
“All of the Liang Family’s Profound Rank experts and Yellow Rank Ninth Grade members came. If all of them had died, even if the Liang Family was not wiped out, only a few remnants of its bloodline would have remained.”
Li Mu could not help feeling shaken as well.
That was right.
If all those people had died, the Liang Family would have declined immediately.
Based on this battle alone, there was already no need to doubt the Liang Family’s “bottom line” anymore!
Moreover, the Liang Family deserved to be rewarded.
Especially because of what Liang Jianxin had said.
Although my Liang Family is no famous orthodox clan, we still have our own bottom line.
The Liang Family had indeed made mistakes before and had conflicts with the Abyss-Suppression Army, but after Li Mu had spent a long time interacting with Hong Liangpeng, even he had almost wanted to have a few conflicts with Hong Liangpeng himself.
Could there be some circumstances regarding the Liang Family’s matter that he did not know about?
He had to find an opportunity to visit the Liang Family.
“Mm. Let us go. Did Old Shui not want to see me?”
The two of them left the Abyss.
Then they headed straight for the seaside.
This sea was called the Long Abyss Sea, because beneath this stretch of water was an unfathomably deep trench that extended over a vast area.
Linyuan City had also been named because of this.
Ships occasionally came and went across the Long Abyss Sea, including both passenger ships and freighters.
From here, after heading southeast across this stretch of sea and then traveling thousands of kilometers over land, one would reach Bloodpool City.
To the northeast, beyond another vast sea, lay the Demon-Human Nation, which bordered the Divine Elephant Nation.
The Demon-Human Nation, as its name suggested, was rich in human-demon hybrids.
However, these human-demons did not refer to transgender people, but to beings formed from the union of humans and demons.
Although it was a tiny little country, it did possess some cultural foundation.
During the era when the Abyss erupted, it had barely survived by relying on evil arts such as Jiangtou curses and ghostlings.
Later, they used evil arts to draw the blood of Abyss monsters and combine it with the human body for cultivation.
Unexpectedly, they actually carved out a path of demon cultivation.
Because the entire nation practiced evil cultivation, its culture was extraordinarily twisted.
And thanks to their evil methods, another tiny little country named Eden also developed a system from a branch of demon cultivation.
They did not draw monster blood. Instead, they mutated by eating the limbs, viscera, and organs of monsters.
It was said that their entire country guarded only a single Abyss entrance.
The fact that they had survived until now without being wiped out by surrounding nations was quite a rare thing.
After arriving at the seaside, Li Mu summoned the Somersault Cloud, while An Xing was also about to use his own flying movement art.
Li Mu pulled him over.
“Come up, old man. I will save you some energy.”
“Huh? Your cloud can carry people?”
An Xing was stunned.
While he was speaking, Li Mu had already dragged him onto the Somersault Cloud. Under the baffled gazes of the surrounding people, the two of them shot rapidly toward the sea.
After flying only a few dozen li, An Xing signaled for Li Mu to slow down.
In the distance, a black-haired man in a black robe stood on the surface of the sea.
The man was only in his thirties, and his long hair was tied behind his head.
The waves around him surged, but the spot beneath his feet alone was as smooth as flat ground.
He held one hand behind his back, and he did possess a trace of an immortal’s bearing.
He had somewhat of Old Shui’s air, but the traces of imitation were a little too heavy. Instead, it made his aura seem slightly inferior.
When he saw Li Mu and An Xing arrive on the Somersault Cloud, the man’s eyes were filled with confusion and astonishment.
However, he did not show it outwardly.
An Xing cupped his hands respectfully from atop the cloud.
“Mr. Liao, thank you for coming to receive us!”
The black-robed man’s voice was calm.
“It is no trouble. My master has been waiting for the two of you for quite some time. Follow me.”
The black-robed man stretched out his hand and turned it through the air.
A strange energy spread outward.
The black-robed man said:
“Hold your breath! From now on, do not breathe. Follow me closely!”
Li Mu and An Xing did as instructed.
Immediately afterward, the scenery before their eyes changed in an instant.
The calm sea surface and the sky from moments ago were all flipped over in an instant.
It was truly as though heaven and earth were spinning. Li Mu and An Xing felt as if they were about to fall.
Then, in the next moment, the two of them were actually underwater!
Although they did not float up, the surrounding area was full of aquatic creatures, and all kinds of fish swam past them.
Beneath their feet, however, was an invisible passage.
The black-robed man walked ahead first.
Li Mu and An Xing followed behind him.
At the same time, Li Mu opened the system and purchased the Water-Avoidance Art.
Very soon, the pressure from the water disappeared.
Moreover, to Li Mu, the surrounding water actually gave him the feeling that he could manipulate and repel it at will.
It was not that he could freely control water.
Rather, as long as Li Mu wished it, he could make the surrounding water move slightly farther away from him.
After walking a short distance along the invisible passage, a small island actually appeared ahead of them underwater.
It was covered by a wicked-looking curtain of water.
The black-robed man arrived before the water curtain and rapidly made several hand signs with both hands.
He seemed to be about to use some Secret Art to open the water curtain.
Unexpectedly, while he was still making the signs, An Xing and Li Mu caught up behind him.
And as Li Mu approached, the water curtain actually opened a huge circular hole on its own.
The black-robed man froze for a moment.
Then he turned around in extreme shock and looked at Li Mu and An Xing. His eyes widened as if they were about to fall out in the next second.
The two of them were so frightened that they thought they had done something wrong.
An Xing hurriedly pulled Li Mu back one step.
Unexpectedly, that circular hole instantly closed and returned to its original state...