Chapter 21 The Soul Cult <TOC> Chapter 23 Awakened Arts
Translator: SumTLMan
A swift horse galloped across the swamp like a black wind, with Li Mu slicing through the grass with his dagger.
The dagger effortlessly sliced off the head of a swamp wolf in the bushes.
The remaining swamp wolves tried to jump onto the horse’s back, but the horse just accelerated and left the pack behind.
After several charges on horseback, Li Mu crushed the pack of wolves. The desperate swamp wolves turned to flee, but Li Mu chased them down one by one and beheaded them.
He rode the horse and picked up the body of a wolf from the ground.
“Lunch is ready.”
Li Mei looked at Li Mu on horseback with a strange gaze and struggled to control her envy. Li Mu’s luck was simply outrageous.
Not long after they returned to the swamp, they encountered this one-in-a-thousand mutated horse.
This black mutated horse stood two meters tall at the shoulder and was a truly massive beast, with strong bones and a supple physique. Its black mane shimmered like brocade, and even among mutated horses, it was a one-in-a-million king.
The mutated horses in the swamp were usually very unruly and difficult to tame. Their running speed was too fast, and to hunt them, one usually needed to follow them with an airplane or helicopter and then control them with a sedative gun or psychic energy before transporting them to a specialized stable for taming.
Ordinary hovercrafts couldn’t keep up with mutated horses.
Because they are so difficult to tame, mutated horses are usually extremely expensive luxuries. But Li Mu tamed this horse effortlessly without much effort, which was simply unbelievable.
Li Mei had already made a campfire. She took the wolf body that Li Mu threw over, pulled out a dagger to skin and disassemble it, cut pieces of fat and thin meat, threaded them on iron skewers, roasted them over the campfire, and then threw the soft internal organs to the flying leopard.
“How should one determine their psychic energy bias?”
Li Mu took out a water bottle and poured the Sun Spring into his palm, allowing the thief to drink from it. He had been very curious about the various bias of psychic energy for a long time, and now he finally had some free time to ask.
Li Mei explained:
“As one masters psychic energy, the awakening individual typically comprehends their bias on their own. However, there is another way, which is to direct psychic energy towards fire.” As she spoke, she directed her psychic energy towards the campfire.
The burning campfire suddenly changed, its color turning golden yellow, as if it were burning gold.
“This is the psychic system, the fire will change to the color of psychic energy.”
After Li Mei spoke, the golden fire suddenly changed again, becoming a liquid that flowed on the ground, leaving scorch marks along the way.
“This is the manifestation system, it can transform the fire into other substances.”
She used her psychic energy again, and the golden, flowing fire suddenly came to life, turning into a living and present little dog that ran around the campfire and then jumped back into it.
“This is the control system, it can control the form of fire. The enhancement system can increase the temperature of the fire, while the plastic energy system can make the fire burn more vigorously.”
Li Mei stopped directing her psychic energy towards the campfire.
“You should be the control system.”
After looking at the well-behaved and clever thief and the flying lian, she said that some control system awakening individuals are naturally more likely to gain the favor of mutated creatures.
Li Mu tried to infuse his psychic energy into the campfire.
At first, there was no change to the campfire, but after Li Mu increased his output of psychic energy, he felt that the temperature of the fire seemed to have increased and was swaying, releasing scorching heat in all directions.
“It seems you are an enhancement system.” Li Mei was taken aback, as Li Mu was not a manipulation system.
“Awakeners of the enhancement system are best suited for practicing martial arts. Psychic energy can permanently enhance one’s self, granting greater strength, reflex speed, and resistance to impact than other awakeners.”
Many of the powerful warriors are awakeners of the enhancement system.
“This may be a hereditary factor, as all of my ancestors were warriors.”
Li Mu remembered the martial arts books collected in his original family and the training he received from a young age.
“You now have a Gluttonous Stomach that can enhance energy intake, a resilient skeleton from the shock of the earthquake, which are holy relics sought by awakeners of the enhancement system. As long as you practice in order, your strength will naturally soar.”
Li Mei said, tossing the somewhat charred meat skewers to Li Mu.
“Starting from now, you must eat a large amount of food every day to enhance your body with spirit, which will consume a lot of nutrition. If the supply of nutrition is insufficient, it will deplete your body and become weaker the more you practice.”
Ordinary people who eat a lot will only become fat because they cannot consume it, while awakeners of the enhancement system can easily use these nutrients and energy to enhance themselves.
“The nutrition that this wolf can provide is roughly equivalent to a secondary energy potion, but ordinary awakeners cannot eat an entire wolf in a short time.
But you are different, you can do it with your Gluttonous Stomach, achieving the same effect as a secondary energy potion worth five gold Lasu with a swamp wolf worth two silver Taka.”
Energy potions are drugs made from exotic deep-sea fish and nutrition fluids that can quickly supplement large amounts of energy.
Li Mu bit into the meat skewer, the muscle fibers of the swamp wolf were rough, and there were many tough tendons in the roasted meat, which was difficult to digest. But the Gluttonous Stomach just slightly churned and easily digested nearly a pound of meat.
Li Mei put more meat chunks on the grill, constantly flipping them and sprinkling salt.
Before long, Li Mu had eaten nearly 50 kilograms of meat into his stomach. Ordinary people could not stuff such a quantity of meat into their stomachs, and even awakeners would be stuffed to death. But he only had a slight feeling of fullness.
After consuming a large amount of food, he felt that his psychic energy became extremely active and his entire body was slightly warm. After drinking from the Sun Spring, he felt even hotter, as if he was covered in a steaming basket.
“Take the opportunity to practice the Dragon Roar Bone Sublimation Method.”
Li Mu immediately sat down, clasped his hands into a seal, and activated the Shock Calamity. He was already used to the Shock Calamity, and his arms slightly trembled first, followed by his upper arms.
He could feel the heat flow and psychic energy entering his bones and muscles as he trembled.
In the low-speed rumble, Li Mu only sat for a while and was almost soaked in sweat.
After completely exhausting all of his psychic energy, Li Mu slowly opened his eyes and stood up. He felt refreshed, as if he had taken a sauna, and felt lighter by a few pounds.
He drank a large amount of the Sun Spring to relieve the pain in his bones.
“This is the real practice of the Dragon Roar Bone Sublimation Method.”
Li Mu suddenly realized that his previous method of simply using psychic energy to strengthen his bones was a detour.
Perhaps to prevent the method from being leaked, the real practice of the Dragon Roar Bone Sublimation Method was not written in the books.
“The Shock Calamity is the most suitable holy relic for strengthening the senses of the awakened in the Seven Calamities. Because in addition to possessing terrifying destructive power, it can also comprehensively strengthen oneself. However, without the Gluttonous Stomach to intake a large amount of nutrition and energy in a short time, the effect would not be so good.”
Li Mei said.
The Dragon Roar Bone Sublimation Method can consume a large amount of nutrition in a short time. Ordinary awakened ones who want to replenish it can only do so by eating mutated creatures, energy potions, or the flesh and blood of their kin. With the Gluttonous Stomach, they only need to make up for quality with quantity and eat a large amount of meat.
Each holy relic has its unique function. In certain specific fields, even star-level psychic energy may be able to perform better than day-level psychic energy.