"You made the wrong decision... You underestimated how much she values her brother."
Professor Lu calmly shook his head: "On the contrary, the more she cares about it, the more it proves that I am right. The more she worries about it, the more disadvantageous it will be for her future path."
"I didn't do anything wrong, I just didn't succeed."
Aqin shrugged: "As long as you are happy."
Professor Lu glanced at her and said, "He is a martial artist who has just started practicing martial arts. With your ability, why couldn't you defeat him?"
"He's not just a martial artist," Qin retorted.
She briefly recounted her encounter with Xue Jing and the course of the battle, then continued:
"That young man knew very little about the recipient. I originally thought that his strange black flame ability was brought by the divine relic... But thinking back, I don't think that's possible."
"He used that ability so naturally that it didn't seem like he was relying on any external force at all."
"Oh?" Professor Lu narrowed his eyes slightly.
Aqin thought for a moment and said, "Professor, that boy gives me a bad feeling."
"Maybe I have some psychological trauma after losing."
She scratched her face.
"I don't know what you plan to do in the future, but I don't recommend that you continue to attack him."
"Even if you want to attack, don't look for me. Anyway, I don't want to be his enemy. That person... is very dangerous."
Professor Lu didn't say anything, but just nodded thoughtfully.
Aqin didn't say anything more and left quickly.
Only Professor Lu was left standing in the dilapidated flower garden.
…
Early in the morning, when the sky was just beginning to brighten, Xue Jing opened his eyes.
[Early to bed and early to rise, health tips +51]
[Health care upgraded to Lv8 (37/6000)]
"Finally reached Level 8..."
After the panel prompt, Xue Jing's body suddenly trembled.
His strong and sharp spiritual consciousness felt that there was an indescribable invisible force like a burning flame wandering in every inch of his body.
Xue Jing showed surprise on his face.
"Is this... life force?"
This power brought him a feeling of vitality and vigour, which was undoubtedly the so-called "vitality".
It was as if the blazing fire of life was the embodiment of one's own lifespan, health, and vitality.
"Health Level 8... Is your vitality strong enough for my spiritual vision to sense it?"
Xue Jing thought about it, sat up from lying down, stretched out his right hand in front of himself with five fingers spread out.
With a thought, he used the "telekinesis" that was enough to affect reality and turn the pages of a book, trying to drive his own life force.
The fire of life that was originally burning quietly in various parts of the body began to sway as if blown by a breeze.
“It’s hard… but not impossible.”
Xue Jing narrowed his eyes slightly.
Driven by spiritual power, the vitality moved slowly, like a snail crawling.
Slowly, he concentrated his vitality on his five fingers.
At the fingertips of the five fingers, the fire of life gradually burned more vigorously.
Afterwards, the nails on the five slender fingers began to grow and lengthen at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In a short while, it grew from bare to two or three centimeters.
The texture of the new nails is like jade, bright white, with a smooth surface without any lines, extremely clean, and exuding a strong sense of hardness.
The front end of the nail is sharp and pointed, like the claws of a wild beast.
"What Inuyasha."
Xue Jing shook his head and scratched the air with his five fingers.
He opened the bedside table, found a pair of nail clippers, and began to trim the growing nails.
However…
“Ka-ka—”
He pressed the nail clippers to their limit, and the steel handle bent under the heavy load, but the jade-like nail on his index finger... was almost unharmed.
Xue Jing raised his eyebrows: "This..."
How could the nails created with the fire of life be so hard
Putting the nail clippers back on the bedside table, Xue Jing stood up and walked to the corner, picked up the Futu knife placed there, and drew it out of its sheath.
The powerful force was released and poured into the blade, and the blade flashed past.
The five sharp nails were instantly cut off at the root, and the cut was extremely smooth, as if it had been carefully polished.
"Not bad." Xue Jing nodded with satisfaction.
"Oh, let's try to recover..."
He took the Futu Knife and slashed his arm. The sharp blade immediately cut a big gash on his arm, and sticky blood as crystal clear as ruby slowly flowed out.
Then he thought about it and activated his vitality, concentrating it on burning at the wound.
Suddenly, the wound began to wriggle and started to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just less than a few seconds, it was completely healed, and the skin was smooth and flawless without even a trace of a scar.
If it weren't for the blood on it, it would be as if nothing had happened.
"Awesome, super-fast regeneration." Xue Jing's eyes lit up.
"As long as you focus your vitality on burning, you can recover from your injuries in a very short time."
"In this case, I probably won't die even if my neck is cut... Even if my head is cut off, I can probably recover as long as it is put back in time."
He looked inward and saw the still strong fire of life in his body.
"As long as I have enough vitality and am not killed instantly, I think I can recover."
"It's simply immortal!"
Xue Jing looked at the [Health Level 8] on the panel with satisfaction.
It is worthy of being one of his most important conventional skills, and it is indeed useful.
Judging from the fact that [Fitness] and [Charm] have already triggered the sublimation conditions, health preservation should also be able to be sublimated.
I wonder how powerful the skills will be after they are upgraded. I am really looking forward to it...
…
At noon, Xue Jing finished his meal and was sitting on the sofa, petting his cat and looking at the skill panel.
[Possessing Divinity: 702]
He first glanced at the divine value, then turned his attention to [Plant Contract].
Do you want to upgrade the plant contract by one or two levels to see the effect
It only takes 100 points to upgrade the divine skill at Lv1, and 300 points at Lv2.
That's only 400 points...
Xue Jing, who had obtained another way to obtain divinity, felt that he could be more generous now.
Just as I was thinking about adding it, there was a light knock on the door.
He closed the panel, released his mental consciousness, and visualized the scene outside the door.
It was Xue Wan. She was holding a black bag and reaching out to knock on the door.
Xue Jing interrupted his conscious visualization, controlled Shadow Flame to activate a black arm, and opened the door.
Xue Wan had already contacted him on the phone just now and said that he would come over, and the visualization was just to confirm it.
The door opened and Xue Wan walked in. She immediately set her sights on the cat curled up next to Xue Jing, and her eyes lit up.
"Feng Wan, my little Feng Wan, mommy is here!"
Xue Wan pounced over, hugged the cat in his arms, and rubbed it with his face.
"Meow~"
Mao Mao's face was full of anthropomorphic helplessness, and he looked at Xue Jing as if asking for help.
"Meow meow meow meow~" Xue Wan started to act cute towards the cat.
"That's enough. Can't you see that it's very unhappy?" Xue Jing said with a pout.
"Which eye of yours is unhappy to hear it? Little Fengwan must be so happy to be loved by her mother, right?"
Xue Wan said as he rubbed the cat hard again, then buried his face in its belly and began to suck the cat.
"Sniff... you smell so good."
"Meow… "
Faced with Mao Mao's eyes looking for help, Xue Jing could only shrug helplessly.
"The little kitty must want a kiss from her mother, mua~mua~"
By the time Xue Wan was satisfied, the cat was already lying on the sofa with all four paws facing the sky and its pupils out of focus.
"This is for you."
Xue Wan had a bright and happy expression on her face and handed the black bag in her hand to Xue Jing.
"What is this?" Xue Jing asked curiously.
He reached for the bag and took a look inside.
Inside are a few dark green... vines
"This is my mentor's hair, and also her 'stigma'."
Xue Wan said.
"You said that absorbing the polluted and alienated things in the stigmata would be good for you, right?"
Xue Jing raised his eyebrows.
He talked to his sister for a long time yesterday and specifically mentioned this matter.
Unexpectedly, Xue Wan brought it to him today.
He reached into the bag and pulled out a few dark green vines.
[Divine matter detected, absorbing divinity... ]
"How did you get it?" Xue Jing asked.
"Uh... the instructor felt guilty about forcing you to join the sect, so he cut his hair to apologize?" Xue Wan said innocently.
Xue Jing glanced at the messy broken ends of the vines.
This was obviously torn off.
"Are you kidding me?"
Xue Wan said dissatisfiedly: "Just take it, why are you asking so many questions!"
Xue Jing smiled and said nothing more, just said: "Thank you, sister."
After saying this, he looked at the vine in his hand.
The stigma is a part of the recipient's body that is alienated and resembles the god he or she believes in.
So this is what the hair of the Lord of Thousand Colors looks like—if He has hair.
It didn't take too long. After dozens of seconds, the panel prompt lit up.