owlsbooks Chapter 35 [The Cauldron of Returning to Origin]
Chapter 35 [The Cauldron of Returning to Origin]
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Chen Bai's face was rosy, and he let out a long, comfortable sigh.
The meridians of my limbs and bones swelled slightly under the flow of this heat, and my muscles and bones felt as if they were soaking in a basin of warm water, giving rise to a tingling and comfortable soreness.
This ball of vital energy and essence is indeed not as potent as the real Fusion Yang Blood Mushroom, but it is pure and can be directly absorbed by the body without the need for elaborate refining.
As the heat gradually subsided, Chen Bai stood up and stretched his limbs.
He could feel that his body's energy and blood were more abundant than before, and there was a faint warmth flowing through his bones and joints.
The condensation of the spiritual energy in his dantian was also much faster than before.
After fully refining it, Chen Bai sat down cross-legged, his gaze falling on the two remaining monster corpses on the ground.
【Jade Horned Antelope】, 【Water Leech】.
The two corpses of the demon beasts in the embryonic stage have not been moved yet. If nothing unexpected happens, the small cauldron will be able to refine blood essence from them.
Chen Bai suppressed the surging thoughts, his heart burning with passion, and pressed down with both hands.
The left hand holds the fur of a white antelope, which feels warm and smooth to the touch. Although the antelope has been dead for a long time, its light blue short fur is still soft and smooth, like the finest brocade.
The leech held in the right hand was completely different; it felt wet and sticky, with a lingering fishy and putrid smell, and the area touched by the fingertip was covered with fine, ring-shaped folds.
The small cauldron suddenly trembled and burst forth with a bright white light.
This tremor was even more intense than when the Ironback Mountain Armor was retrieved earlier. Chen Bai felt as if an earthquake had struck his mind, and his vision suddenly went black.
Two suction forces simultaneously surged from his left and right palms.
The pair of jade antelope's translucent white horns were the first to lose their luster. Originally as clear as mutton fat jade, with a faint spiritual light flowing at the tips, they now seemed to have had their essence drained from their insides by something. The translucent white color gradually faded, turning into two pieces of grayish-white, withered bones.
Immediately afterwards, the hair became dry and brittle, the edges of the mane curled up and broke at the slightest touch. A faint hissing sound came from beneath the skin and flesh, the sound of the flesh shrinking and collapsing as its life force was drained.
The four long, powerful antelope legs were the first to give way, and the leg bones made a cracking sound, like dry firewood being broken by a stomp.
In comparison, the changes in the water leech are even more bizarre.
When this leech was alive, it was over three zhang long and as thick as a water bucket, and its whole body was covered with a layer of dark green mucus.
At this moment, the mucous membrane is losing moisture at a visible rate, cracking and peeling from the edges to reveal the grayish-white leech flesh underneath.
The ring-shaped folds on the leech's body, which were originally full and swollen, now looked like deflated sacks, collapsing layer by layer and squeezing out a few strands of dark green viscous juice.
The most terrifying thing was the venom sac inside the leech's head, which was about the size of a fist. It had been bulging and hanging under its jaws, but now it began to writhe violently.
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A thin wisp of green smoke billowed from the top of the venom sac, carrying a cloyingly sweet odor.
Chen Bai frowned and was about to step aside when the small cauldron between his brows suddenly emitted a low hum. Before the green smoke could dissipate, it was forcibly pulled back by an invisible force and sucked into the mouth of the cauldron.
"It's as clean as chewing bones and sucking marrow!" Chen Bai exclaimed in admiration.
The recovery speed of the two demonic beasts was significantly faster.
The water leech dried up completely in less than half an incense stick's time, its entire body shrinking into a dry, grayish-white sac, curled up on the ground, less than a third of its original size.
The jade antelope was a little slower; it took almost half a cup of tea for the corpse to completely lose the last bit of moisture, its fur clinging tightly to the skeleton, turning it into a dried-up corpse.
The trembling of the small cauldron only stopped when both of them turned into ashes, and two semi-transparent phantom images of demonic beasts appeared inside the cauldron.
"Buzz—"
A familiar vibration sound followed.
[Recycling: 1 Jade Horned Antelope (Novice Stage) and 1 Water Leech (Novice Stage)]
[Extract: "Jade Antelope Horn *1", "Leech Venom Sac *1", "Monster Beast Essence *2", "Blood Essence *2"]
Before Chen Bai could even see clearly, a dazzling white light exploded from the small cauldron.
This white light was more dazzling than ever before, shining like the sun, turning his entire sea of consciousness into a vast expanse of white.
Within the spiritual light, six orbs of light shot out from the mouth of the cauldron almost simultaneously, hovering before his eyes, floating up and down, their spiritual energy flowing endlessly.
"The Six Paths!"
Chen Bai gasped. Even though he was mentally prepared, he was still taken aback.
The last time we recycled the Ironback Mountain Armor, we only got three items. This time, by refining the corpses of two Nascent Soul stage demon beasts at the same time, we actually got double the items.
"Is there no failure rate for retrieval?"
He composed himself, not having time to think it through, and quickly focused his gaze to examine it closely.
The six beams of light split into two colors.
Four crimson orbs of light, each of different sizes, hung on the left side. Inside, spiritual light flowed as if they were alive, and in two of them, one could vaguely see the phantom of surging blood and qi.
Two milky-white orbs of light floated on the right, their luster warm and their aura deep and concentrated, faintly resembling the shapes of the demonic beasts in their former lives. It was clear at a glance that they were the essences of two demonic beasts.
Chen Bai first reached into the crimson light cluster on the far left.
The warm touch was exactly the same as the blood essence from before, but compared to the one from the Iron-Spine Mountain Armor, this essence was lighter in color, a pale red, with wisps of light blue light wandering inside. Holding it in my palm, I could feel a light and agile aura.
Without a doubt, this is the blood essence of that jade antelope.
Although the Jade Horned Antelope is a first-tier demon beast, it prefers to inhabit places abundant with spiritual herbs, feeding on the tender shoots of various spiritual herbs year-round and rarely consuming blood. Therefore, its blood and energy contain a trace more plant-based essence than that of a ferocious beast like the Iron-Spine Mountain Armor, which burrows through mountains and digs into the earth.
Chen Bai weighed the weight in his hand and understood.
This essence is only about 70% as effective as the one from the Ironback Mountain Pangolin, but it is lighter and gentler, making it easier to refine, and it also has some healing effects.
He put down the primordial essence and turned to probe the second crimson light.
This ball of light was much darker than the former, a thick, almost dark red color, like a solidified blood clot forcibly molded into a bead by spiritual light.
It felt heavy in my hand, weighing more than twice the amount of Jade Horned Antelope Essence.
The moment my palm touched it, a chilling, oppressive aura traveled up my wrist and into my meridians.
This is the vital essence of the water leech.
Chen Bai examined them for a moment, then carefully put away the two Yuan Essences together, his gaze falling on the remaining two crimson orbs of light.
The third crimson ball of light, though small, only about the thickness of a thumb, shone brightly, its radiance almost overshadowing the others beside it.