Chapter 22 Psychic Energy Bias <TOC> Chapter 24 Principle of Martial Arts
Translator: SumTLMan
In the Exile Realm, Li Mu sat on a massive rock by the side of the Sun Spring. Behind him, the Giant’s Blood Peach Tree had already produced several young peaches, which would take about ten years to mature.
After more than ten years of construction, the Exile Realm had added another floor. Three or four meters high smelting furnaces stood at the foot of Xianyin Mountain, using high-quality iron ore extracted from the mountain to forge farming tools for the residents of the Exile Realm.
The blacksmith respectfully offered Li Mu a three-meter-long horse-spear with his two hands.
The spearhead of the horse-spear was 60 cm long, made of fine steel folded multiple times, with eight sides, like a short sword.
The spear shaft was made using the technique of stacking bamboo and hardwood. Using forty-year-old yew wood as the core, the yew wood and split bamboo were glued together with tung oil and fish glue, then tightly wrapped with old vine and another layer with silk thread.
It took three years just to make this spear shaft because the raw lacquer had to be completely dry before being painted again.
Li Mu held the tail of the horse-spear with one hand and easily lifted the entire spear. The processed spear shaft felt soft and had a good balance of rigidity and flexibility, a spear that the gunners had longed for.
He stood firmly and practiced the most basic and difficult move in gun technique, the block and thrust. The waist, arms, and wrist combined to provide power to the gun.
Under the nourishment of spiritual energy, the forty-year-old yew wood was as hard as steel and more flexible. Li Mu swung the large spear with great force, bringing up a strong gust of wind.
The master held the gun barrel and used his arms to make the gun bend where it needed to bend, easily knocking away the enemy’s attack, and with a thrust of the gun, he could stab the enemy and draw blood.
The Exile Realm was just a few essence stones away from another lottery, and he planned to hunt fierce beasts and corpses in the swamp to make up for the essence stones before heading to the city of Awaraniga.
A few black cranes surrounded him, they had already reached adulthood, with a height exceeding three meters and wings that seemed like black clouds when spread.
The young crow that had always stayed in the wasteland flew low because it was still immature, and compared to the others, it looked like a dwarf.
Under the nourishment of spiritual energy in the Exile Realm, their size far exceeded that of their peers, and they could easily carry humans in flight.
The strongest leader of the black cranes flapped its wings and swooped over the pool, pecking a two-meter-long giant catfish with its short beak and offering it to Li Mu like a treasure.
Once fish grow to this size, their meat usually becomes poor in quality and has a strong muddy flavor. However, fish that are nourished by the Spring of the Sun are free from these issues. Even when they grow to be two meters in length, their meat remains exceptionally fresh.
Li Mu carried the fish on his shoulder, leaving his horse behind in the Exile Realm, and set off. Upon returning to the wasteland, he climbed onto the back of the horse mount and brought the large fish back to the camp.
In the camp, Li Mei was in the midst of cultivation, transforming her source essence into psychic energy. Her transformed psychic energy was already enough to reach the fourth level, but her essence showed no signs of depletion.
She was preparing to pour more of her source essence into the holy relic.
Li Mu took out his knife and scaled the entire fish, removing its entrails and roasting it over the fire. The fish’s oil was extremely rich, and as it was grilled, its tempting oil seeped out of the fish meat and sizzled on the fish skin.
“You’re grilling the fish so much that it’s going to burn!”
Li Mei sniffed, feeling a bit heartbroken. Li Mu’s cooking skills were too rough, completely wasting the ingredients.
She used her butt to push Li Mu to the side and carefully controlled the heat, using her sword to make a shallow cut on the fish.
“Why is the flesh of this fish so good?”
As a skilled swordsman, Li Mei immediately detected the quality of the fish meat from the sensation of wielding her sword. The sword blade cut through the fish meat as if it were cutting through a highly elastic gel.
After just sprinkling a little coarse salt, she eagerly tore off a piece of already grilled fish meat and stuffed it into her mouth.
The fresh taste exploded in her mouth.
Li Mei’s eyes widened, and she couldn’t resist sticking out her tongue to lick her lips. This was almost certainly the best fish meat she had ever tasted in her life.
“The delicate fish meat is sweet and fragrant, with a hint of sweetness. This fish must have undergone a rare mutation to have such a perfect taste.”
Li Mei was both regretful and frustrated. Such a valuable beneficial mutation was almost a miracle. It was possible that there was only this one fish in the entire swamp that underwent this benign mutation. If it could be kept and bred, it would be a huge wealth.
Unfortunately, this valuable fish has been grilled.
She transformed her grief and anger into appetite, tore off a large piece of fish meat overflowing with oil, and gobbled it down.
Psychic energy can transform the mutations of various plants and animals into beneficial mutations. And these fish, which are already very susceptible to mutations, were caught from wastelands and nurtured by the Sun Well, producing a species of fish with very delicious meat.
Li Mei had a limited appetite, stuffed two or more pounds of fish into her stomach, and could no longer eat anymore, but could only watch helplessly as Li Mu ate the sea and drank.
The entire catfish weighed more than a hundred pounds. Li Mu ate more than fifty pounds and then sat down with a cross-legged posture. He felt a rolling heat flow through his body, the nutrition contained in the catfish meat far exceeded that of a swamp wolf of the same weight.
The surging heat almost made his blood boil.
A dull shock echoed, and the surging heat slowly melts into the depths of the bones under the flow of Shock. Under the impact of the heat, his bones were like iron in a blast furnace, slowly melted into fine steel.
Until the psychic energy approached exhaustion, this surging heat was exhausted. The large amount of fish meat consumed had an effect that was close to that of a primary energy potion.
Even wealthy awakened beings who are not short of money do not want to use primary energy potions for daily training, as the raw materials are very precious. Most of them are used to supplement physical strength during battles.
Taking out the water pot and pouring in the Sun Spring, Li Mu recovered some energy and spiritual energy, performed a Tai Chi fist posture, stepped forward, and punched.
Shock was triggered, and this punch directly smashed the air and punched out a white air ring in the void. The fierce impact was easily borne by his arms that had been strengthened by the Dragon’s Roar Bone Sublimation Method.
He stepped forward continuously and punched twice more, completely consuming the restored spiritual energy, and his arms still felt no pain.
“So this is the feeling of hitting punches with gusto.”
Li Mu took a deep breath and calmed his surging blood.
“This is a common person’s fist technique, not an awakened person’s fist technique.”
Li Mei unconsciously digested some of the fish meat in her stomach, tore off a piece of fish meat and stuffed it into her mouth, and belched with difficulty.
“Among awakened beings, especially in battles between enhanced system awakened beings, the rhythm is extremely fast. Because the body is filled with psychic energy, their movements are fast as lightning, and just a slow reaction means death.”
As she spoke, she drew her steel sword and turned her wrist into a sword circle.
Li Mu was just in a daze, and the sharp sword tip had already crossed a distance of five or six meters, landing on his chest.
Chapter 22 Psychic Energy Bias <TOC> Chapter 24 Principle of Martial Arts