Chapter 575: Chapter 564: Advancement! Entering the City
The surge in digestive ability is one aspect.
The constant frenzied increase in strength, physique, and defense is the most critical.
No matter how Ding Ling speeds up eating meat and drinking blood, ultimately, he can’t withstand the severe backlash from the insane boost in strength, physique, and defense, and with a momentary blackout, he collapses uncontrollably.
Neigh!
The two Ferghana Horses guard Ding Ling, their eyes vigilantly scanning the surroundings.
They have traversed several worlds with Ding Ling, consuming plenty of Great Medicine, and have become sentient.
Neigh!
The urgent neighing wakes Ding Ling up again.
He abruptly opens his eyes, following the sound, only to see a fierce tiger battling the two Ferghana Horses.
The horses strive hard with their hooves, but they are no match for the fierce tiger, getting bitten with blood streaming, wailing incessantly.
Yet they do not retreat a step, firmly guarding Ding Ling. In an instant, Ding Ling understands what has happened and, without a second thought, points a finger, Six Meridian Divine Sword!
A streak of Sword Qi bursts from his fingertip, whoosh! It swiftly strikes and pierces the heart of the fierce tiger, which lets out a tragic cry before collapsing dead on the ground.
The two Ferghana Horses express joy in their eyes upon seeing Ding Ling awake, trotting to his side and stretching their heads to lick him.
Ding Ling stops them with a hand and presses it on the wound of the Ferghana Horse, letting Longevity Venerable Qi flow through.
The wound swiftly heals.
In no time.
The two horses are well.
They neigh in gratitude.
Ding Ling chuckles, glancing at the fierce tiger, then walks over to perform the Burning Wood Saber Technique, roasting the meat on the spot.
He still feels incredibly hungry.
There’s a sense of imminent starvation.
He looks at the character list.
[Strength +9]
[Physique +9]
[Defense +9]
Ding Ling’s pupils constrict.
The extent of this increase is too exaggerating!
It’s known that the Vajra Indestructible Body Divine Skill only adds +1 to defense.
Other Divine Skills merely increase by about 0.1, 0.3, or 0.2 points.
This time, each attribute increased by 9 points!
Ding Ling still feels his strength, physique, and defense continuously enhancing.
He glances at the prompt list:
[Strength +0.1]
[Defense +0.1]
[Physique +0.1]
"It seems the surge was so fierce my body couldn’t handle it, triggering an auto-protection mechanism?!"
Ding Ling ponders.
It’s like someone overeating until their stomach can’t handle it, risking bursting;
Or like someone desperately training to boost muscle and strength in a short time, ending up injured.
The enhancement in Ding Ling’s strength, physique, and defense is hundreds, thousands, or even ten thousand times more astonishing than just a little muscle boost!
This is the root cause of his falling faint from hunger.
The increase was too intense.
If it had been slightly slower, it wouldn’t be like this.
Just like now.
Constantly growing strength, physique, defense, but at a much slower pace.
"It seems the library sensed my crisis and slowed down the improvement speed?"
Ding Ling subtly perceives and explores but finds nothing.
He decides not to overthink it.
Yet after experiencing this crisis,
Ding Ling comes up with an idea: in the future, when encountering skills like the Dragon Elephant Wisdom Skill, which are game-changing, he ought to prepare Great Medicine and food in advance; otherwise, if the same thing happens, wouldn’t it be unlucky?
"Even two to three hundred years old Great Medicine only increases about 0.1 points. Plus, there’s drug resistance after enough consumption. This has increased a full 9 points. How much Great Medicine would that require? No wonder I fainted from hunger."
Ding Ling smiles in relief.
The meat is roasted to about medium-rare before he can’t stand the hunger and starts devouring. After eating, he still feels extremely hungry!
"It seems this boost has left me starving miserably. To completely alleviate it, I must consume enough Great Medicine."
Comparing the spiritual mechanism and primordial Qi contained in food.
The Spiritual Vitality and Primordial Qi of Great Medicine are evidently more abundant!
Ding Ling cannot find Great Medicine in the forest for the moment, so he activates Soaring in the Void, fluttering around the forest like a breeze. Upon seeing an animal, he kills, skinned, and eats it raw.
He consumes no fewer than hundreds of wild beasts.
He eats for a full day and night.
Only then does Ding Ling feel slightly relieved.
Though he still feels very hungry and weak.
He plans to look for more beasts, only to discover the forest is dead silent, even the bird songs are gone.
Obviously.
His blatant carnage in the forest scared nearly all the wild beasts away! Even those who didn’t run chose to hide instead of foraging now.
Ding Ling can’t find beasts and doesn’t bother looking, returning to the Ferghana Horses, and speeding towards the east.
He wants to enter the city to buy some Great Medicine.
The effects of consuming Great Medicine surpass eating flesh and blood by far.
"I also don’t know which time point we are in the Fengyun storyline now."
Ding Ling suddenly recalls.
It appears that 24 hours have passed already.
Players are all online now!
"I also don’t know how long I’ve been unconscious? If it were very long, players could have logged in even earlier."
Ding Ling sighs.
Had he known the Dragon Elephant Wisdom Skill was this monstrous,
he would never have improved it unprepared.
He thought the Dragon Elephant Wisdom Skill, though stronger, wasn’t excessively outrageous compared to Toad Skill or Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
Yet this Cultivation Technique.
Indeed, peculiar like his unusually long cultivation years.
"Cultivating for thousands to tens of thousands of years to achieve Great Perfection. Ordinary Earth Immortals can’t reach Great Perfection. I’ve achieved Great Perfection directly. The physical body’s quality elevates constantly. It seems this Cultivation Technique alone might let my physical body quality reach the peak value of this world."
Ding Ling speculates.
The specific facts are unknown.
Clip-clop!
The Ferghana Horse’s speed is very fast.
Speeding all the way.
Along the way, passed a few villages.
Ding Ling inquired of a couple of passersby and, upon learning that there was a city further ahead, thanked them and sped up his journey.
After some time.
Reached the city.
Ding Ling carefully observed.
He noticed that this city was no different from those in other Martial Worlds, except that the local sects were even more rampant, with a flag waving above the city bearing the words: World Association!
It was evident that imperial power had declined to the extreme here.
Ding Ling recalled scenes from TV shows where the Jiuzhou Emperor was captured and controlled by Japan’s Godless Palace and felt at ease. In such a High Martial World, combat power was everything.
Facing Grandmaster Level masters.
Bringing in more soldiers would be futile.
This is why Jianghu sects gradually replace the declining royal power in this world.
Unless an unparalleled figure like Emperor Qin Shi Huang emerged, royal power would still be despised, disdained, and trampled by other martial artists.
Clip-clop!
Ding Ling did not see any players in this small city, probably because they were either more scattered or had gone to various sects to learn martial arts and become apprentices.
And there are three more worlds now.
New players have more choices, and since the Breathing Technique is no weaker than Inner Power, it is imaginable that players who have thrived in the Historical Plane would never give up their cultivation to come to the Martial World.
Yet, the number of new players compared to old players is much smaller, and with so many world choices, they disperse into various worlds and then into different parts of Jiuzhou.
In such a small city, there might only be a few players allocated.
Understanding this clearly.
Ding Ling stopped worrying, asked a few elder folks, and then rode straight to a large medicine shop.
Directly asked the shopkeeper how much Great Medicine they had and to pack it all up for him.
"Are you sure?"
The shopkeeper was moved.
"Hurry up."
Ding Ling took off a storage pouch from his waist and pulled out a hundred taels of gold from it: "You won’t be short on money."
The Ascension reward was 500 taels of gold.
Now it seemed it played its role just in time.
"So much gold."
The shopkeeper’s pupils constricted, but what really took him aback was that such a small pouch in Ding Ling’s hand could hold so many treasures!
Greed flickered briefly in his eyes.
Ding Ling saw it clearly but couldn’t be bothered to argue, only urged him to hurry up as he was starving.
All of Ding Ling’s weapons were placed in the storage pouch, and he would take them out whenever he needed them.
This was a habit he developed in his previous worlds.
Upon arriving in this world, the habit didn’t change immediately.
When he realized it, he inwardly sighed, thinking he was really too hungry to think clearly and didn’t know how to keep a low profile?
But considering the existence of players, Ding Ling’s intention to keep a low profile instantly faded.
Now, which player doesn’t know he has a storage pouch? Has treasures?
Keeping a low profile doesn’t help!
Thinking this way.
Ding Ling felt relieved.
Whatever comes will come.
But no matter what.
Soldiers will counter if the enemy comes; earth will dam if water floods.
Ding Ling feared nothing.
"Sir. Here is the Great Medicine you asked for, please check it."
Ding Ling received it, glanced casually, and most were 100-year-old Great Medicines, totaling fifty plants.
It seemed that gold was still quite valuable in this world.
Ding Ling asked if there were more.
The shopkeeper said only the owner had more. If Ding Ling didn’t mind, he could take him to the owner’s place.
Ding Ling frowned and turned to leave.
The shopkeeper called after him several times, but he didn’t stop. In a hurry, the shopkeeper immediately summoned an assistant and gave a few instructions.
After Ding Ling left the medicine shop, he started munching on the herbs.
As the Great Medicine was consumed one by one.
Vast Spiritual Vitality and Primordial Qi were rapidly digested, replenishing all parts of his body. The constant state of extreme ’weakness’ and ’emptiness’ in his body felt like a drought meeting a spring, instantly sweeping away much of that powerlessness and ’sickly weakness’ feeling.
[Strength +0.1]
[Defense +0.1]
[Constitution +0.1]
However, his physical qualities continued to grow slowly.
The Great Medicine he consumed eventually couldn’t satisfy his needs.
Soon after.
Ding Ling felt empty and hungry again.
Each 100-year-old Great Medicine could at most increase 0.1 Attribute Points.
But the quality of the 200-year-old Great Medicine was excellent, better than many in the Celestial Dragon Eight Books World, and the effects on Ding Ling were quite strong, increasing by 0.3 attribute points, with Strength, Constitution, and Defense each increasing by 0.1, totaling 0.3.
Normally, consuming Great Medicine would simultaneously increase the four-dimensional attributes.
But now, the growth of these three-dimensional attributes was too fast, leading to a serious deficit, so all the Spiritual Vitality and Primordial Qi in these Great Medicines were used to supplement these three-dimensional attributes.
"Still not enough."
After consuming enough Great Medicine,
Getting ready to go to the next medicine shop,
But unexpectedly, a shout came from behind.
"Young brother. Wait."
Initially, Ding Ling thought it was for someone else, so he ignored it.
Only when the person dashed in front of his horse to stop him did Ding Ling realize it was directed at him.
He recalled returning to reality, looking in the mirror, and seeing that his appearance had become much younger, like an 18-year-old youth, and felt at ease.
It had to be said about the immense effects of Longevity Venerable Qi, the Water of Eternal Youth, and Immortal Tree Bark.
It worked as soon as it was consumed back then.
Afterward, with the constant operation of Longevity Venerable Qi and the Everlasting Skill’s Longevity Qi, Ding Ling continued to grow younger.
This led to a reason why he still looked like a youth even in his twenties.
"Who are you?"
Ding Ling was surprised; the person before him looked impressive, with an extraordinary aura; he was evidently a middle-aged hero with a touch of elegance.
"I am Lü Yi, the Mansion Master of the Hero Prince’s Mansion."
Lü Yi smiled slightly and said:
"I heard from Shopkeeper Wang of the Hundred-Year Medicine Shop that a young brother spent a huge sum of gold just to buy herbs. Our Hero Prince’s Mansion has quite a lot of medicinal herbs, but I wonder if the young brother still has any spare gold?"
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