Chapter 106 - 92: An Audience with the Emperor
"Young Master..."
Chai Cuiqiao looked at Li Ang with a worried expression, immediately brought over a basin and towel, and wiped the cold sweat from Li Ang’s face with hot water.
She could tell that the uncomfortable expression on Li Ang’s face was not due to the noisy congratulations in the courtyard but was actual physical pain.
Li Ang rubbed his brow forcefully, let out a sigh of relief, and slowly sat up from the bed.
The dark threads lurking in my brain—let’s call them Mo Si for now—act as a bridge for spiritual energy, connecting the severed spirit veins on both ends of the brain. It is precisely because of this that I was able to bypass the trigram restrictions of the Skull-interrupted Sword to complete the Initial Guidance of spiritual energy and break through to the Qi Sensing Realm. But the problem is, what exactly are Mo Si? What are their functions and harms?
Mo Si was taken from the Sword Immortal Tomb by Jiao Cheng. He and his group died in the underground palace, and their gathered data vanished without a trace.
I was in such a hurry at the time, I didn’t have a chance to carefully observe what else was in the underground palace, like books left by the Sword Immortal. And now, the underground chamber beneath the Ghost Market has surely been discovered by the garrison; they may already be digging it up vigorously. It’s impossible to go back there to look for clues again.
Li Ang’s thoughts raced. In the time of the Former Sui, cultivators abused Alien substances. They not only used Mutated Objects to aid their cultivation, but some on the Demon Path even directly implanted Mutated Objects into their bodies, merging with them. Through special ceremonies, people could directly gain the special abilities of Mutated Objects without the original restrictions, significantly enhancing their strength.
The only downside was that cultivators would gradually lose their humanity, become infected and assimilated by the Mutated Objects, and degenerate into Demons.
At the end of the Former Sui, the increasingly reckless cultivators caused great harm to the common people, directly leading to the collapse of the Former Sui and the onset of an extremely cruel, chaotic era.
Once bitten by a snake, one fears a well rope for ten years.
The Academic Palace and Yu Country are extremely cautious about Mutated Objects, perhaps even to the point of hypercorrection.