vrcanaries Chapter 346 Immortality
Chapter 346 Immortality
Tiny ripples appeared on the surface of the medicine liquid, and Hu Qing slowly floated up.
The silver-gray liquid slid down his soul body without leaving any wet trace.
The moonlight shines through the cracks in the tent, casting mottled shadows on his translucent body.
——Compared to half a day ago, this soul body has become so solid that it is almost a real person.
In the corner, Xiao Zi's snoring became louder and softer, and the ambergris formed a small puddle on the ground.
Tsk, your sleeping posture is so ugly...
He turned to look at Gu Yang and found that he had come out of his cultivation state.
The pile of spirit stones beside Gu Yang's bed had turned into grayish-white powder. The young man was rubbing his numb knees and tiptoed to the medicine cauldron.
"What's wrong? Can't sleep?" Gu Yang handed over a piece of candied fruit, but then remembered that Hu Qing couldn't taste it now, so he put it back into his mouth embarrassedly.
"I'm wondering if what happened this time was arranged by someone, or if it was just fate."
A faint light appeared on Hu Qing's fingertips, and he drew out two pieces of metal fragments, one large and one small, from his dantian.
The larger piece was the size of a washbasin, its jagged edge covered with fine tooth marks;
The small one is only the size of a palm, but it emits stronger energy fluctuations.
"This is……"
Gu Yang sucked in a breath of cold air, and his fingers retracted as if they had been electrocuted as soon as they touched the fragments - the tooth marks actually pierced his fingers the moment he touched them, and dark red blood oozed out of his fingertips!
"This is the fragment of the holy artifact that was inside the Deep Sea King. I dug it out of his body after he died."
Hu Qing flipped the larger fragment, revealing the smooth lines on the bottom. "I traded the trade stone with him and got the smaller piece as a deposit. I'll keep this thing with you for now.
Forget about the Trade Stone, it's too strange. I'm afraid you won't be able to control yourself, so I'll have to keep it with me."
Gu Yang wrapped his hands with his sleeves and carefully pieced the two pieces together.
Spider-web-like black lines suddenly appeared at the broken part, as if trying to reconnect with life.
But those hideous bite marks always hindered complete fusion, and the faint "clacking" sound of teeth rubbing against each other could be heard coming from inside the fragments.
"What kind of teeth can the Deep Sea King have to crush the holy weapon? It's a bit scary."
Gu Yang's Adam's apple rolled as he recalled the ancient records about "the dog eating the moon". "Could it be that he was a dog in his previous life..."
The moment the two fragments touched, a crisp buzzing sound was heard.
The tooth marks on the broken surface began to wriggle strangely, like countless tiny insects suddenly waking up.
Gu Yang subconsciously tried to pull them apart, but found that his fingers were bounced away by some invisible force.
——The edges of the fragments were fusing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and those hideous bite marks disappeared without a trace as if erased by an eraser.
"Damn it, how come this thing looks like it's alive..."
Gu Yang scratched the seam with his fingernails, and the originally jagged cracks were now as smooth as a mirror.
He turned the two pieces over, and the small words etched on the bottom glowed blood-red in the moonlight:
Immortality is the greatest curse.
There was a fuzzy outline of a seal below the writing, as if it had been deliberately scratched with a sharp object.
As soon as Gu Yang's fingertips touched the strokes, they suddenly retracted as if they had been electrocuted.
——Those strokes actually left tiny blood beads under the skin, which were quickly absorbed by the fragments.
"So what exactly does this fragment do? Could it be immortality? Then why call it a curse? Immortality wouldn't be that great."
Gu Yang stroked the line of small words with his hand and asked in confusion.
"It seems that the Deep Sea King's ability is immortality and his self-healing ability is very strong. However, what he traded with the Trade Stone in the end was also immortality, which is very strange."
"Since the power of this holy artifact fragment is immortality, why did he finally trade with the Trade Stone for the same power..."
Hu Qing's soul trembled slightly. He remembered the scene of the monster being chopped into pieces and reborn again and again. Every time it recovered, a deeper madness would flash in its eyes.
He was a little unsure, but looking at the liquid medicine swaying in the medicine basin, he suddenly had an idea.
"Let me try to see what the power of this holy artifact fragment is."
Hu Qing pressed the fragment against his dantian, a black light flashed, and the holy weapon sank into his spiritual palace.
A strange burning sensation came from deep within the soul, as if magma was flowing through the meridians.
He raised his left hand, and the palm knife formed by his soul slashed towards his right chest without hesitation.
"Crack!"
With a teeth-grinding explosion, Hu Qing's soul body sank a lot.
"You're crazy—" Gu Yang's exclamation stopped abruptly as he saw the wound emitting a strange black light.
The sunken chest cavity slowly swelled up like a water-filled balloon, with spider-web-like black lines running through the cracks, and within a few breaths it returned to normal.
——Even more solid than before the injury.
"As expected, my guess was correct. Now I'm curious about the price of this thing."
Hu Qing closed his eyes and looked inward, his brows gradually furrowed.
He pointed to a fading golden thread at the core of his soul: "If I remember correctly, this thing is life span."
Gu Yang looked at this horrifying scene, and the golden thread disappeared in an instant.
It's like an invisible hand is scooping away time from the long river of life.
Gu Yang sucked in a breath of cold air. The life span of a cultivator should be as endless as the Yangtze River, but now it was disappearing at an alarming speed.
Although it was only a small injury, Hu Qing's injury was relatively minor after all.
The soul texture around the wounds repaired by the black light became abnormally tight - like a spring that was forcibly compressed and could rebound at any time.
"Every time the Deep Sea King resurrects, or heals himself..."
Hu Qing's voice was a little hoarse, "They are all burning their own lives.
The reason he went crazy was probably not just because of the burning bloodline..."
Xiao Zi woke up at some point, and her dragon eyes stared at the position of Hu Qing's dantian.
It suddenly ejected a cluster of lightning, forming several ancient dragon characters in the air:
"The flesh and blood can be healed, but the soul's life cannot be extended"
Hu Qing and Gu Yang looked at this scene curiously, but Xiao Zi also stared at the line of words with the same curiosity.
"Xiao Zi, what are you writing? I can't understand it." Gu Yang looked at the words in the air in confusion.
Xiao Zi shook her head in confusion, saying that she had just vomited it out when she saw Hu Qing's dantian.
Hu Qing was even more confused after hearing this. What the hell was this? It just came out by itself. Is this a serious thing?
The sound of the night watchman's clappers came from outside the tent, it was already three o'clock in the morning.
Gu Yang suddenly grabbed Hu Qing's wrist and said, "Senior Sword God must know something."
A rare anxiety flickered in the boy's eyes. "We'll go find out early this morning—"