Chapter 14 Shock Calamity <TOC> Chapter 16 Zombie Horde
Translator: SumTLMan
Thanks to the Book of Heroes, Li Mu’s soul stored a large amount of loose source essence, and he controlled the Shock Calamity worm texts, constantly pulling the source essence in his soul and absorbing it.
The Shock Calamity holy relic was only temporarily imprinted in his mind, and if he did not use source essence to fill it in time, it would not last long before dissipating.
After absorbing a large amount of source essence, making the Shock Calamity more solid, Li Mu controlled another Gluttonous Stomach holy relic to fill it with source essence.
As a star-level holy relic, the Gluttonous Stomach is green in color, with fewer worm texts than the Shock Calamity, not appearing in the mind, but directly wrapping around the stomach. It only stabilized after absorbing a small amount of source essence.
The fact that holy relics need to absorb source essence is why some awakeners cannot plant emblems while they are in the fifth level. This could lead to their inability to enter the fourth level.
Even with Li Mu, who obtained a considerable amount of source essence through the Book of Heroes, the governor only recommended that he implant three or fewer holy relics. And the remaining empty slot must not be a day-level holy relic as powerful as the Shock Calamity.
The fifth level implantation of holy relics has such a big risk, and the rewards are also considerable.
When they reach the fourth level, all of the awakeners’ source essence will have been converted into psychic energy, and only psychic energy can be used to fill the holy relic. This will create a barrier between them and the holy relic, and using it requires using psychic energy to control it. Unlike holy relics implanted in the first level, using them feels like an innate instinct.
This difference will not improve until the third level.
After merging enough source essence, the holy relic will change to match the awakeners. Different awakeners, even if they implant the same holy relic, will have different abilities.
After both holy relics stabilized, Li Mu noticed the change not long after. First, he felt a strong wriggling in his stomach, and the dried meat and pancakes he had eaten before were completely digested.
In order to be stored for a long time, the dried meat they brought was so hard that it was like a stone, and if they had bad teeth, they could break their teeth directly. The pancakes were also tough like cowhide. After they entered the stomach, they would take at least three or four hours to digest, and eating too much would also easily cause constipation.
If it were just to speed up digestion, the Gluttonous Stomach would only have a minimal effect on Li Mu. But Li Mu was not the first person to implant the Gluttonous Stomach. According to the governor’s understanding, after implanting the Gluttonous Stomach, the body would increase in height by approximately five to six centimeters, and physical and strength would also increase.
He picked up the jug, took a sip of the Sun Spring.
A flow of heat more intense than before surged from his stomach, causing Li Mu to feel a jolt and making the fatigue from his journey disappear in an instant.
The efficacy of the Sun Spring has been enhanced, which should be due to the Gluttonous Stomach enhancing Li Mu’s absorption ability.
Li Mu now focuses more on the Shock Calamity. After all, this is a powerful holy relic stolen from a first-level family, and even among the sun-level holy relics, it is outstanding.
He naturally mastered the ability to activate the Shock Calamity, just like a baby can breathe when it is born, fish can swim when they hatch, and using the Shock Calamity ability is as simple as instinct.
He took out a book from his pocket.
This was given to him by the governor after he learned that Li Mu had inherited the Shock Calamity, and it contains the martial arts created by the hero, Yue Zhen, for the Shock Calamity.
Dragon Roar Bone Sublimation Method.
This is a method that uses the Shock Calamity to drive psychic energy into the bones, and under specific vibrations, the bones will permanently combine with psychic energy and become stronger than steel. It enables the awakened to endure the burden on their bodies after activating the Shock Calamity.
The method can still be practiced without the Shock Calamity, but the effect is much worse.
He first controlled the psychic energy in his mind to slowly flow into his right arm, his fingers pressed the pictures on the book into a seal, slightly activating the spell, and the psychic energy in his right arm trembled slightly, causing the muscles and bones inside to tremble slightly and emit a slight humming sound.
The sound was low and deep, like the rumble of a large-displacement engine when idling.
This vibration made Li Mu’s whole arm feel somewhat comfortable, as if all the pores on his arm had opened up. There was a tingling feeling deep in the bones, which meant that the psychic energy was penetrating into the bones along with the vibration.
After vibrating for a long time, until most of the psychic energy was depleted and his right arm was somewhat sore, Li Mu stopped the vibration.
He took a sip of the Sun Spring to recover the psychic energy and relieve hunger, and treat the burden on his arm from cultivation.
After cultivation, the right arm temporarily does not show any difference from the left arm, this is a method that requires cumulative efforts over time.
However, with the Sun Spring, he can practice for much longer than a normal person.
After stabilizing his condition, Li Mu started cultivating his left arm. Compared to the spine and head, which require greater caution, cultivating the arms first can help him get used to the use of shock waves.
After cultivating until midnight, Li Mu could feel that his arm bones had become somewhat stronger.
He suddenly felt a sinking feeling, and Fei Lian, who was on guard, landed on his shoulder and gently pecked at his head with its beak.
Li Mu immediately opened his eyes, something had happened.
Carefully moving to the window, after looking for a while, he finally discovered a group of zombies migrating like ants, hundreds of meters away, in the dim moonlight.
Their appearances were different, some like dried zombies, with wrinkled skin tightly attached to their bodies, and jagged rib bones visible, while others were like water bags, with green and yellow pus under their skin.
Most of the zombies still had scraps of clothes, which showed their identities in life. There were victims of the disaster, plunderers, scavengers, and even Xia people.
Now they only have one identity, the enemy of life – Zombies.
Li Mu quietly woke up Li Mei, there were 150 of these zombies, and they must be more vigilant. Li Mei was sleeping lightly and immediately woke up alertly, and carefully moved to the window to observe the group of zombies.
“The number is not right.”
She lowered her voice and said, “This number of zombies could not possibly attack that settlement, you see those zombies, there are few bullet holes on their bodies, indicating that the scavengers were not resistant and were killed, which is not right, there may be divers among them.”
Divers are strange existences that escape from the depths of the Source Ocean.
Under certain special astronomical conditions, the Source Ocean will overlap with the waste world, and source aggregates can escape from the Source Ocean.
The surface layer of the source essence collection is very weak and will soon dissipate. Li Mu initially saw a huge black shadow in the swamp, which may be a source essence collection that swam out of the Source Ocean.
But if some strange things from the depths of the Source Ocean happen to enter the wasteland world, they are powerful enough to seize the bodies of various creatures. Whether it’s humans, mutated creatures, or families, they are all susceptible to being taken over.
As a monster revived by the tide of the Source Ocean, the zombie will unconditionally obey the orders of the diver.
Li Mu was a little shocked, how is the diver similar to the worm that killed the original body.
Li Mei directly drew her sword, ready to stab the Brahman bull to death.
Covering one’s eyes and ears is of no use to some divers, they can easily stir up the deepest fear in the hearts of living beings.
She was very decisive, but still too late.
A very strange wailing suddenly sounded in the ear, as if a baby was crying in the ear. The sound seemed to have substantial hands, cold and wet against the ear, bringing strong discomfort.
The Brahman bull was directly awakened, and the wailing had a more severe impact on it. Its body was violently convulsing, and a stench came from underneath, resulting in incontinence.
“Dammit!”
Li Mu was also affected, under the strong malicious wailing, his vision began to blacken, he felt like he was falling into the water, countless wet sticky hands crawled into his ears, mouth, and nose, wet and sticky in his body.
【Touch of the Infant Ghost】