stonecrandall Chapter 85 Taking the Dew of Longing
Chapter 85 Taking the Dew of Longing
Chapter 85 Taking the Dew of Longing
In the following days, Yang Zhentian and Yang Podi did not search for any more soul beasts. Instead, they found a soul beast's den and settled down temporarily. To ensure that their son would not be disturbed during these days, Yang Zhentian even made arrangements in various ways.
Yang Podi then devoted all his time to cultivating his soul power and adapting to his body. After absorbing the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum, its main function was to circulate Qi in his limbs and open his blood through his eight meridians, thus enabling him to cultivate an indestructible body.
Yang Podi, on the other hand, tried his best to accelerate the flow of his soul power, striving to absorb the medicinal effects of the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum as quickly as possible.
As time goes by, the circulation of soul power throughout the body will become faster and faster, especially in the limbs. The muscles and skin will become much stronger, and the limbs will even swell up as if they have undergone long-term training.
At the same time, some special parts of his body seemed to have become more unobstructed, covering the entire body. According to Yang Podi's understanding, this should be the so-called eight extraordinary meridians.
Whether practicing martial arts or cultivating oneself, if the eight extraordinary meridians are unobstructed, the efficiency will be much higher.
Sixteen days passed in the blink of an eye, and Yang Podi felt that his physical fitness had reached its limit, and that he could no longer improve in the short term.
The effects of Qirong Tongtianju have spread throughout the body, greatly enhancing its overall health. However, its effects on improving the body's innate qualities are not yet apparent.
Through his father's testing of his soul power, Yang Podi was found to be fully capable of withstanding the pressure of a peak Soul King. In other words, although Yang Podi currently only has level 40 soul power, his body's endurance is already close to level 60, or even stronger.
Yang Podi took out a seemingly inconspicuous herb. The herb was entirely green, but strangely, in the center of the herb were three snow-white leaves, with a few water droplets in the center of the leaves, just like the dew flowing down in the morning.
This magical herb is called "Wang Chuan Qiu Shui Lu" (望穿秋水露). According to the original text, consuming it can train one's "fiery eyes" (火眼金睛), allowing one to see through all strange and wondrous things.
The so-called forging of piercing eyes and the ability to see through all things is simply a training of a Soul Master's spiritual power, only this spiritual power manifests in the eyes. There's a saying: "The eyes are the windows to the soul." Many Spirit-type Soul Masters even operate through their eyes.
This "Looking-Through-Autumn-Water-Dew" seems to be the only immortal herb in the entire Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well that can enhance spiritual power, making it more valuable than other immortal herbs in some ways. After all, in the era of Douluo Continent I, there were no cultivation methods for training spiritual power; the only ways to enhance spiritual power were through head soul bones or absorbing the soul rings of spiritual-type soul masters.
Yang Podi currently lacks Tang San's Purple Demon Eye, which allows him to cultivate spiritual power, and he also lacks a powerful head spirit bone, let alone the ability to absorb any spiritual spirit rings. The Autumn Water Dew of Wangchuan is the only solution.
Yang Podi placed the center of the "Looking Through Autumn Water Dew" plant into his mouth and gently sucked on it, causing a few drops of clear liquid to fall into his mouth. By the time those drops of liquid had completely left the plant, the entire "Looking Through Autumn Water Dew" plant had withered completely in his hand, clearly because its essence had been absorbed.
As the Dew of Autumn Water of the River of Hope entered his mouth, Yang Podi's entire body seemed to undergo a strange change, mainly manifested in his head and eyes. He seemed to be in a particularly ethereal state, somewhat like a kind of enlightenment, and even his spirit felt unprecedentedly comfortable.
This time it was relatively short, only three hours.
After a while, Yang Podi opened his eyes, and his entire eyes turned silver, including his eyeballs, eyelids, and the area around his eyes.
When Yang Podi looked around, he felt that he could see everything with exceptional clarity, even the slightest fluctuations in soul energy in the air. In particular, he could clearly see the patterns and veins on the surfaces of animals and plants, as if he were seeing the very essence of things.
Immediately afterwards, Yang Podi looked into his mind. In his mind, there was still a giant holding the Soul-Breaking Spear, but the giant had changed. At this moment, the giant's eyes had turned into pure silver-white, but his body had not changed and was still only a little bit silver.
Yang Podi thought to himself, "This is a bit troublesome. The second awakening of my main body's martial soul only awakened the eyes. The rest of the second awakening process will probably be even more troublesome. Fortunately, neither the martial soul nor the body has shown any deformities."
However, upon closer inspection of his entire spirit body, his eyes and body were starting to look somewhat mismatched. He wondered if it was due to the effects of the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum, but his entire spirit body had become significantly stronger, with both his limbs and torso being much more robust. Fortunately, he had consumed the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum beforehand; otherwise, the difference would have been even greater.
Yang Zhentian looked at his son with some worry. He only breathed a sigh of relief after Yang Podi had completely absorbed the immortal herbs. After all, this was the absorption of two immortal herbs at the same time, and no one could predict the specific outcome.
"Broken enemy, how are you feeling now?"
"Dad, I feel great right now. I think I can see everything much more clearly, and my mental processing speed and perception of the surrounding soul energy are much stronger. Do you have a way to test the actual strength of my mental power?"
Yang Zhentian shook his head: "After all, I am not a mental-type Soul Master, so I cannot make accurate mental attacks. However, judging from your mental energy fluctuations just now, they should have exceeded the Soul King level."
"Dad, if I use my mental power to attack you, could you test the specific strength of the attack?"
"It's possible, but both mental attacks and the use of mental power are extremely difficult. If you're not careful, you could easily injure yourself."
After saying this, Yang Zhentian couldn't help but think to himself: This son has only just greatly increased his mental strength, and he already wants to use his mental strength to attack me. Is it because he took my money last time and now he wants to take revenge?
After some discussion, the two decided that Yang Zhentian would try to withstand Yang Podi's mental attack to see its actual power.
"Dad, are you ready?"
"Don't worry about that. I don't take a mere Soul King-level attack to heart. I'm a high-level Soul Douluo, after all."
Logically speaking, even if one had consumed the Dew of Autumn Waters Over the River, one should be unable to use mental attacks. However, Yang Podi was an exception, because he had previously consumed the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and had a profound understanding of swords, or rather, of metal-based weapons.
Yang Podi closed his eyes and concentrated all his mental energy. Instantly, he felt as if his entire body was a Soul-Breaking Spear, as if he had reached the state of man and spear as one, or man and sword as one.
Suddenly, his eyes opened, and two spear beams shot out from them. These two spear beams seemed different from those he had used with the Soul-Breaking Spear before. They were in a formless and intangible state, clearly spiritual energy being emitted in the form of spear beams.
Yang Zhentian himself was also startled, but when the two spear beams approached Yang Zhentian, they seemed to be stuck in a huge wall, unable to go any further, and eventually slowly dissipated.
This attack seemed to have never happened. Both the attack and the defense were invisible, and probably only some high-level Soul Masters could truly detect it.
(End of this chapter)