Chapter 179 - Strange Changes
In a house in the northern town, a gruesome scene could be seen. There was blood splattered all around in a room and the scent of the same was spreading around. The pungent and slightly disgusting smell of the mixture of flesh and blood would assault one’s sense if they entered the room.
At the center of the room was what could only be called as a remnant carcass of a beast of some kind, having only its bones left behind with small pieces of flesh on it. Even the bones seemed to have bite marks on them, and at some places seemed to have been shattered and cracked.
At the side of this carcass was a person who seemed to have been drenched in blood. His face, hair, and clothes were stained in blood and his eyes seemed to be bloodshot as well. This person was none other than Lin Mu.
He was taking deep and tired breaths, making it seem as if he had gone through a great battle, but such was not the reality. For it was none other than Lin Mu who had eaten the beast carcass in such a gruesome manner, no different from any other predator beast.
If such a corpse was found out in the forest or the wild, no one would bat an eye. But when such a corpse was found in a house with a person drenched in blood no less, people would be shocked and astonished, to say the least. And no doubt would call the person that was drenched in blood insane.
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"Hmm, try checking the vital energy in your body, I... can’t feel it," Xukong spoke.
"Huh? What senior? But it seems to be normal to me." Lin Mu replied before chanting the calming heart sutra and sensing the vital energy within his body.
That was when he discovered a difference. While he still had his vital energy that was saturated in his skin, flesh, blood and bones, he could not sense their faint fluctuations. It was as if they had been sealed into his body, and not even an iota of it was leaking out of his body.
Normally vital energy in a person’s or a beast’s body creates faint waves that are naturally emitted by their body. While this results in a loss of vital energy, this is fairly negligible and has no overall effect on the creature involved.
But for some reason, the vital energy in Lin Mu’s body was being fully contained within. Usually, when Lin Mu sensed his vital energy, it would be pulsating, as if it were resonating with his heartbeats, but right now, it was not.
Instead, it was calmly flowing in a loop. Such a peculiarity made Lin Mu curious and wonder why it was happening. Wanting to rest something out, he flexed his fist to see how the vital energy would react. Usually, by doing this, his vital energy should have gotten agitated, but no such thing was happening.
An idea appeared in Lin Mu’s mind and he punched out at the air. While no effect could be seen with the naked eyes, Lin Mu could tell that the punch he had just thrown had the same power as before in it. The change in the vital energy had caused no change in his strength itself.
"What is the cause of this?" Lin Mu wondered.
"Whatever it may be, at least it is not harmful. Hmm, let me think for a while; I’ll try to find something in my bloodline memories and see if I have any information about your peculiar condition." Xukong replied.
"Alright, senior thank you for your help." Lin Mu replied in a grateful tone.
Lin Mu turned his head from side to side and looked at the mess that was his room right now.
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