Killing God - Chapter 42

Chapter 42 Abnormal State
White Fish Bay, inside the cave.

The thick stone wall seemed to isolate all sounds from the stone room. The sound of the waves and the sea breeze could not be heard at all, leaving only a peaceful atmosphere. It was the most suitable atmosphere for cultivators to cultivate calmly.

At this moment, Shen Shi sat cross-legged on the bed and quietly looked at the Lingxiao Sect [Starnet Art] secret art incantation in his hand. At the same time, he gently held a small glittering stone in his right hand. It was a spirit crystal.

His gaze swept over the spell carefully, and he casually put it aside and began to ponder. According to the Starnet spell, because the human body was indeed too weak, it was best for a human cultivator to cultivate once a day in the Qi Refining Realm, that is, only once a day to absorb spiritual energy from spirit crystals into their bodies, so that they could gradually increase the number of times they absorbed spiritual energy from spirit crystals after their cultivation deepened in the future. Otherwise, if they were to act too hastily, their spiritual energy would enter their bodies too much, causing their bodies to be unable to withstand it, causing them to suffer great harm.

“In the daytime, because of the backlash of the body, the Spiritual Energy dissipated before entering the body. This shouldn’t be considered to have been cultivated once, right?” Shen Shi frowned and carefully recalled the situation during the day. Finally, when he looked at the spirit crystal in his hand, he saw that the spirit crystal was completely sparkling. It was clearly in an intact state. One had to know that if a cultivator had absorbed spiritual energy from it, the light of the spirit crystal would dim. The more times one absorbed spiritual energy, the dimmer the luster of the spirit crystal would be, and it would be easy to distinguish. As for spirit crystals that were used by cultivators, even if they had only absorbed spirit energy once, they would no longer be able to buy all kinds of spirit materials on the market like money.

After pondering for a few times, Shen Shi still decided to try cultivating again. Anyway, in the Morning Star Hall by day, Senior Brother Wang Gen had already told them clearly that the physical backlash was actually just like that. It was just that his physical body and spiritual energy were not in harmony. There was no shortcut to solve this problem. He had to obediently cultivate a few more times and suffer the pain of the physical backlash. Once his physical body gradually adapted to spiritual energy, he could naturally begin cultivating.

Shen Shi comforted himself in his heart, then took a deep breath, closed his eyes, clenched his palm, and tightly grabbed the spirit crystal in his hand.

Once again, the Starnet Spell started to circulate. However, without the help of the strange spell formations in the Morning Star Palace, Shen Shi clearly felt that he could not quickly calm down and concentrate. It took him several times longer than the day before he slowly calmed down and felt the faint glow of Spiritual Energy in the Spiritual Crystal.

The rest, Just like he had done in the day, Concentrated, In the darkness to chase after the faint light, After spending a lot of effort, Shen Shi finally managed to grasp that trace of Spiritual Energy. At this moment, Shen Shi faintly felt that his body was beginning to tremble slightly. His spirit was actually extremely exhausted. He had clearly not absorbed Spiritual Energy into his body yet, and the signs of a physical backlash had yet to appear. However, for some reason, he felt that he was going to be unable to hold on any longer.

Only with great difficulty did Shen Shi grasp that trace of Spiritual Energy. He was truly unwilling to give up so easily, so he forcefully endured the discomfort in his body and tried to absorb this trace of Spiritual Energy like the Qi Meridians in his palm.

Under his control, Slowly approaching his body, As soon as he touched the skin of his hand and was about to merge into his body’s Qi meridians, Shen Shi’s body shook violently. An incomparably intense pain seemed to tear apart his entire body. It appeared from every corner of his body at the same time, causing his body to instantly collapse. His entire body collapsed onto the ground and he fell down from the bed with a “bang”.

The fleshly backlash finally appeared again.

Shen Shi’s entire body trembled. It was actually twitching on the ground, His face was also pale. Unexpectedly, for some reason, the pain of the backlash was even more intense than in the daytime. Apart from the intense pain around his body, there was also a headache that had never appeared in the daytime. It was as if his entire head was about to explode, causing him to feel extremely painful and almost smash his head to the ground.

This pain was almost unbearable. It made one feel as if they were about to die. Although the pain in their body was incomparably intense, they were still able to barely endure it. However, the pain in their heads that they had never experienced before was extremely ferocious. It was simply hard to resist. Shen Shi was caught off guard and hugged his head on the ground. He couldn’t help but shout out out loud as he rolled his legs desperately.

Fortunately, this intense and terrifying pain did not last for too long. After a while, it gradually faded away. Otherwise, Shen Shi really suspected that he would die of pain just like that.

This path of cultivation was truly arduous and tortuous.

Shen Shi lay on the ground. For a moment, he was powerless to get up. He felt exhausted and exhausted. It was as if he had died once and had come back to life. It was much worse than being in the Morning Star Hall during the day.

Looking blankly at the stone wall above his head, Shen Shi felt a little confused. Was this an accident? Didn’t he clearly say that the pain of the backlash of his body gradually weakened with the increase in the number of times he cultivated? Why did it actually increase so much when he arrived at his own place?

Or was it that even if no spiritual energy entered his body during the daytime, he had actually cultivated once. If he cultivated again at night, it would be “a great disaster” as mentioned in the Starnet Art?

Thinking about it, Shen Shi was truly too tired. He actually lay on the ground and fell asleep in a daze, However, when he was about to fall asleep, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. He seemed to have thought of something, but in the blink of an eye, he forgot it. He seemed to think that this thought was somewhat important, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn’t remember it at all.

April 17, clear.

When Shen Shi woke up from his daze, he felt a faint pain all over his body. After thinking about it carefully for a moment, he finally remembered what happened last night and couldn’t help but break out in cold sweat.

This path of cultivation was indeed no joke, Although he still couldn’t figure out why the pain of the physical backlash had intensified last night and there were signs of severe head pain that he didn’t have before, Shen Shi still decided that he must be more cautious when cultivating in the future. In addition, he had better find an opportunity to ask Senior Brother Su He about his situation today.

Last night, he directly fell asleep on the ground. At this moment, he felt his body stiff. He hurriedly moved around in the stone room before he felt that he was slowly recovering. After closing the Starlight Pearl above his head with the Cloud Talisman, he saw a ray of sunlight falling from the skylight. Suddenly, Shen Shi was shocked and shouted, “Damn it!”

He hurriedly packed his clothes and opened the stone door to run out. The better it was in Red Clam Village yesterday and Miss Hai Xing, the better it would be. Today, it was a long time too late.

He secretly complained in his heart. When he thought of how he had asked if he would wake up so early yesterday, Shen Shi couldn’t help but feel a fever on his face. However, there was no other way at this moment. He could only rush over as soon as possible. As for asking Su He or other senior apprentice-brothers about the strange state of the backlash of the body, let’s go and find them when we get back earlier today.

After running out of the immortal’s cave, Shen Shi quickly walked towards the Blue Fish Market. Not long after, the stone door of the immortal’s cave next door suddenly opened. Young friend Sun walked out and saw Shen Shi at the first glance. His eyes lit up for a moment before he extended his hand to greet him.

Shen Shi stopped. When he ran up to him, he sized him up and down. He smiled and said, “Where are you going?”

Young Friend Sun also spoke. He actually asked the same question. The two of them looked at each other and smiled. Then, they walked side by side. Shen Shi said, “I’d better go to the Red Clam Village.”

Young friend Sun glanced at him and said, “You really can do the shrimp peeling? How many pieces of shrimp meat did you peel yesterday?”

Shen Shi shook his head and said, “There are only five. Let’s try again today. The main reason is that there really isn’t any suitable mission for White Crane Hall. By the way, did you guys find any missions after you guys returned yesterday?”

Sun You paused for a moment, then secretly glanced at the surroundings, seemingly feeling somewhat guilty. Then, he whispered to Shen Shi, “He Xiaomei and Jiang Hongguang did not find anything satisfactory. They said that they would visit again today. After all, it is said that White Crane Hall would often issue new missions.” “As for me,” he laughed dryly and whispered, “I went to the Spirit Beast Hall and accepted the beast feeding mission.”

Shen Shi was stunned and asked curiously, “Didn’t we ask about this mission at White Crane Hall yesterday? I remember that senior sister clearly telling us that the mission of feeding beasts is already full.”

Sun You coughed and said, “Oh … you’re full. That senior sister didn’t lie to us.”

Shen Shi looked at him and said, “Then how did you get in?”

Sun You’s expression became even more awkward. After hesitating for a moment, he lowered his voice and said, “Isn’t my little uncle at White Crane Hall? He is very familiar with a senior apprentice-brother from Spirit Beast Hall and asked him for a favor …”

Shen Shi looked at him for a long time without saying anything. Then he laughed and shook his head. “Shen Shi, actually, I did ask you yesterday if you could go to feed the beast together. But my little uncle said that it was already a great honor for that senior brother to take in one more person. I really can’t do anything about it,” he said awkwardly as he ran over to his side, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

Shen Shi turned around and shook his head with a smile, “Sun You, don’t be overly concerned. I’m not thinking about anything else. It’s a good thing that you have your little uncle to help you. I can only be happy for you. It’s not a big deal.”

Young Friend Sun said, “Oh,” and his expression seemed to be somewhat concerned. He said, “Are you really not taking it to heart?”

Shen Shi smiled and said, “How can things under the heavens be treated equally and fairly? It’s fine.”

Only then did Young Friend Sun breathe a sigh of relief. The two of them chatted all the way and unknowingly arrived at the Green Fish Market. Young Friend Sun was heading in another direction-the Spirit Beast Hall’s Beast Feeding Area. As for the path to the Red Clam Village, there was only one place and no other youth had gone there, so Shen Shi was the only one heading in that direction.

Walking all the way to the Red Clam Village, Shen Shi saw a young girl squatting on the ground at the entrance of the village. Beside her was a large basket of bamboo cages. It was obvious that there were ghost-faced shrimps inside.

Shen Shi’s heart skipped a beat as he approached. Miss Hai Xing’s expression was extremely gloomy, as if a volcano was about to erupt …