Chapter 173 Embracing the Dan <TOC> Chapter 175 The Fire of Plutonium
Translator: SumTLMan
With a crisp sound resembling the breaking of ice, the paper-thin shell peeled off the large Dan. Originally the size of half a person, the Dan now stood at only about half a meter tall.
The Dan’s surface was coated with a layer of glaze, similar to that of a precious gem, appearing semi-transparent, as if it were a massive jewel.
At this point, the concentration of psychic metal in the outer layer of the Dan was already quite significant.
Li Mu slowly withdrew his hands, looking haggard at the moment. His hair was a tangled mess, and his thick beard completely covered the lower half of his face.
He took a sip of the Sun Spring, recovering most of his consumed psychic energy, and exhaled slowly before getting up and stretching his body. Throughout the past year, he had scarcely left the Tower of Spectral Energy, continuously repeating the cycle of depleting and recovering his psychic energy.
After taking a deep breath, Li Mu returned to the God and Demon’s Nest, took a bath, scrubbed off the grime accumulated on his body, and shaved his head and beard with a dagger.
The Dan-forming process went more smoothly than anticipated. In the constant cycle of releasing and recovering psychic energy, his control over his own psychic energy had become masterful. Although the total amount of psychic energy had not changed, its quality had significantly improved, and the power that the individual psychic energy units could exert through the Holy relic had become stronger.
The Giant’s Blood in the Exile Realm had matured once more.
Li Mu plucked all the peaches from the tree and ate them, feeling the change in the Giant’s Power. The next moment, he slowly floated several centimeters above the ground.
After eating a large number of peaches, the Giant’s Power finally surpassed his body weight.
This feeling was incredibly peculiar, as if gravity had no effect on him. In this state, he could almost glide for an extended period using the initial velocity from jumping.
Having adapted to the changes brought about by the Giant’s Power, Li Mu returned to the God and Demon’s Nest, ate dinner, and decided to take a short rest.
He hadn’t slept for seventeen hours, having expended all his energy refining the large Dan, and his spirits were somewhat flagging.
After an unknown period, Li Mu sat cross-legged atop the Tower of Spectral Energy, with the large Dan floating in front of him. The black psychic energy enveloped the entire Dan like viscous flames.
The entire Dan was now only slightly larger than a lead ball, resembling a dazzling golden gem, as nearly ninety-nine percent of its composition had been transformed into psychic metal.
As it was transformed by his own psychic energy, the Dan had an exceptionally high affinity for Li Mu, allowing him to control it remotely, much like a manipulator-type awakened individual.
He increased the output of psychic energy, and the blazing psychic energy burned the large Dan suspended in mid-air like flames.
Moments later, a puff of nearly invisible crystalline dust flew out of the large Dan.
After two years of effort, the Golden Dan was finally completed. The time spent was much faster than Li Mu had anticipated.
The main reason was that with the increase in psychic energy control and power, the efficiency of refining large Dans had also greatly improved.
He held the Golden Dan in his hand but did not swallow it immediately.
Ingesting the Golden Dan carried significant risks. Although the large Dan had an extremely high affinity for psychic energy, it was ultimately made from heavy metals, and swallowing it recklessly posed great danger.
Li Mu prepared a large pot of the Sun Spring before sitting down on the Tower of Spectral Energy, using the tower’s power of insight to monitor the subtle changes in his body, ready to drink the Sun Spring to alleviate the heavy metal toxicity at any time.
Naturally, such a large Golden Dan could not be swallowed in one gulp. Li Mu circulated his psychic energy, dividing the lead-ball-sized Golden Dan into six parts under his control.
Due to the inclusion of a considerable proportion of mercury, the entire Golden Dan was not hard but rather more like a semi-solid substance similar to asphalt.
Li Mu pinched one of the Golden Dans, took a deep breath, and swallowed it. He could clearly feel the Golden Dan passing through his esophagus and entering his stomach.
Once the Golden Dan settled, he immediately activated the holy relic Gluttonous Stomach, a precious relic obtained from the Mofulele Python.
It was thanks to this relic that his physique far surpassed other enhancer-type awakened individuals of the same power level. With this ability, his digestion speed of the Golden Dan was much faster than that of other awakened individuals.
However, consuming a large amount of toxic heavy metals in a short time would be too much even for Li Mu. He intentionally controlled the speed of digesting the Golden Dan, maintaining it at about twice the rate of ordinary awakened individuals.
“Lia, project the predicted psychic energy pathway map onto my body.”
He spoke to the Brain in the Vat in the Demon and God’s Nest.
“Alright, Master.”
In the view of the Tower of Spectral Energy, an incredibly complex psychic energy pathway appeared on Li Mu’s body, resembling a large net enveloping his entire body.
Under the erosion of the Gluttonous Stomach, the outer layer of the Golden Dan began to dissolve and was absorbed by the intestines.
Li Mu could feel the psychic metal ions entering his bloodstream, and with the pulsation of his heartbeat, they reached every part of his body.
He tried his best to control these metal ions, stopping them on the psychic energy pathways, passing through the cell membrane and entering the cell interior.
Brain in the Vat Lia marked the absorption rate of psychic metal ions on the psychic energy pathways with colors to assist Li Mu in balancing the ion concentration consistency on the pathways.
This was his unique advantage. Ordinary awakened individuals could only rely on their perception to blindly create psychic energy pathways, or at most hire highly paid psychic-type awakened individuals to assist them.
However, psychic-type awakened individuals were not able to provide nanometer-level high-definition images around the clock like the Tower of Spectral Energy, nor did they possess powerful computational abilities like Lia to process data changes.
An endless stream of psychic metal ions was digested and absorbed, transported by the blood to be absorbed into the psychic energy pathways.
As a vast amount of metal ions were absorbed, Li Mu began to experience dizziness, nausea, and abdominal cramps.
Li Mu drank a large mouthful of water from the Sun Spring to alleviate these symptoms and continued constructing psychic energy pathways.
Time passed swiftly like a white steed crossing a gap, with days and months alternating. Li Mu had no idea how much time had elapsed, only noticing that his once clean-shaven face now sported a full beard.
The Golden Dan in his stomach had completely disappeared, transforming into solidified psychic energy pathways within his body.
Psychic energy was instantly available within the pathways, making its manipulation much smoother than before. He roughly estimated that the upper limit of the power that Shock Tribulation could exert had increased by about 20%, while its activation speed had improved by 50% – almost a qualitative change.
Although his body felt a brief sense of weakness, his physique and strength experienced another increase. With the psychic energy pathways, the psychic energy further transformed and strengthened his body.
He took a breather, poured another large pot of water from the Sun Spring into his stomach to alleviate the weakness, and picked up another Golden Dan, swallowing it.
Since his body had already adapted to the psychic energy heavy metal ions, Li Mu chose to accelerate the digestion process for the second Golden Dan.
A large amount of psychic heavy metal ions were absorbed into his body.
Li Mu let out a stifled groan, gritting his teeth and persevering.
Chapter 173 Embracing the Dan <TOC> Chapter 175 The Fire of Plutonium