Chapter 438 - Second Stage Of The Mortal Strengthening Scripture
Lin Mu was currently sprawled on the ground in the soft snow, while rubbing his bulging belly. He had eaten for the first time in a quite a long while because of which the food only tasted that much delicious.
He had also gotten to taste Little Shrubby’s cooking which was acceptable to say the least. Without any spices or condiments, the beast had done well. Lin Mu had eaten a little from what Little Shrubby had cooked and the rest he had made himself.
He still had plenty of spices and condiments left in his ring and they would probably last him for a month or two if he kept the same rate of consumption. Little Shrubby was also lying on the side in the snow but the snow kept on melting under its body heat. Eventually, he just broke a few pine branches and laid on them.
Lin Mu laid like this for a while and thought of his plans. The first step was to get the Mortal Strengthening Scripture to the second stage and then to go and gather information from the nearby settlements.
Another thing that Lin Mu was a bit surprised about was that not a single beast dared to come near the area that they were in. Except for a few small animals, Lin Mu couldn’t see any other beasts.
"That is because of Little Shrubby. With his strength, he is already a dominant beast that others will not challenge. Even a peak stage core condensation realm beast is not likely to come out on top due to Little Shrubby’s speed and abilities." Xukong explained.
Lin Mu nodded his head and wondered how much fast Little Shrubby had gotten. He knew that while hunting the Horn Helmed Wolf, it had not used its full speed and it could go even beyond that.
Even when little shrubby was at the late stage of the Qi refining realm it was already faster than most Core condensation realm beasts. But now it has only increased by a lot more and Lin Mu was looking forward to seeing it.
Xukong who had been busy in his cultivation, woke up due to the question and replied, "yes they can, of course. It is just that not all spirit tools are compatible with them and they would need some special ones made."
"Hmm... I guess we can get something made that will help little shrubby in cooking." Lin Mu muttered.
Xukong looked on in awkwardness as he imagined a large cat cooking while using an expensive spirit tool that was the form of a spatula. ’Hmm... that would be a first. I don’t think anyone has gotten a spirit tool made for a beast, that too for cooking.’
Xukong left Lin Mu in his thoughts and returned back to his own cultivation. It had spent most of the time teaching while in the Sleepscape and thus hadn’t had enough time to cultivate himself.
He had already restored his cultivation back to the state it was in before dealing with Gu Yao and had even exceeded it a little bit. Currently, he just hoped to reach a stage where he would be ready for anything that was thrown at them.
"That strange feeling I’ve been having... is it a premonition perhaps..." Xukong muttered to himself.
Lin Mu meanwhile was now practicing the Mortal Strengthening scripture. He had already covered a certain part of the second stage and only needed to finish it now. He started pouring the earth attribute spirit Qi he had refined before and its amount in the Dantian started reducing.
The brown layer appeared on Lin Mu’s skin again and stone like patterns started appearing on it. They kept on getting more and more clear until a glowing light was emitted by it. This signified that the second stage was now complete, and it had taken about half of the entire store of earth element spirit Qi Lin Mu had refined.
~huu~
"Let’s test it again..."