Chapter Twenty-Nine: Powerful Healing
It is very appropriate to use the word hideous to describe this huge beetle, it is very large, about half a slap of an adult, the whole body is covered by a dark carapace, reflecting a black luster, two forefeet are thick and powerful, but also with strong pincers, four pairs of red compound eyes, is a dozen symmetrically distributed chelicerae composed of mouthparts, because it is much larger than ordinary insects, so it is particularly terrifying, the most bizarre is that it has seven or eight mushroom-like tentacles on its back to break out, these mushroom handles are pure white, straight and slender, the umbrella cover is red but very small, this bright color, in nature usually represents the poisonοΌ
Catherine couldn't help but retch at the thought that she had just eaten such a disgusting thing as herself, but Ling Mo didn't let her go in the slightest, and handed the worm to her face again, asking her to eat it quickly.
Catherine stepped back again and again, her hands swinging like lotus leaves in the wind: "Master, I feel that I am well now, and I am already well! Such a precious insect, don't waste it, right?
Ling Mo frowned: "Feel good? That's just your own feeling! There is obviously a wound in the second lobe of the right lung that has not healed, and the coronary artery in the heart has not been repaired, do you believe it or not, as long as you exert your strength again, you will die of acute myocardial infarction? Come and obey and eat this thing." β
Is your eye permanently blessed with the "See-Through Eye"? Can you directly see the inside of a person so clearly? Catherine was scornful in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it at all, she reluctantly took the worm, and pulled the flagellar insect foot in the palm of her hand, that strange touch made Catherine have goosebumps, she looked the beetle up and down, and finally struggled: "Master, such a conspicuous color is usually poisonous, can't you eat it......?"
"The so-called mushrooms are poisonous, in fact, it's not that mushrooms are really poisonous, it's just that fungal organisms are rich in too many kinds of substances, and the human body can't absorb them, and besides, do you know what this is? I won't tell you more, open the barrage and take a look, your sailors know more than you!
Yes?
Catherine opened the live barrage in confusion, and was immediately shocked by the screen full of "Eat, eat, eat!", and many people made a wild swallowing expression, and the barrage did not praise how handsome she was in the action of getting out of danger just now, all urging herself to eat this thing quickly, and what is even more amazing is that these urgings, without exception, are the dozens of local tyrants who often reward in the live broadcast room:
"Anchor, eat it!"
"Anchor, do you know that you have found a treasure?!Eat it!!"
"Hey, what a waste, I want to grab it and stuff it into my mouth now!"
"If the anchor doesn't eat it, keep it carefully, if you can eat it for me within three days, I'll give you a thousand gold coins!"
"Shameless in front! For this quality of cordyceps, you will pay a thousand gold coins to send it to Hanako?!"
"Anchor, I have low requirements! Even if you can keep it for me in a month, I will pay 2,000 gold coins!"
"Anchor: I'm from the Biological Research Association, not a liar, look at my certified ID! If you don't eat it, keep it, this precious sample research value is too high!"
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A large number of local tyrants have brushed up on the golden font, some of them are crazy to persuade themselves to eat, and some of them ask her to keep this thing for him to buy it for a lot of money, but all of them show that this thing in his hand is definitely a very super good thing! Catherine couldn't help asking: "It's not that I'm arrogant, how can I say that I've also traveled to many places from south to north, and I've never seen this thing, why are all sailors familiar with this thing?"
The official certification ID of the 'Mi Jianguo Biological Research Association' directly sent out a floating box across the entire screen, and a large paragraph of text appeared from it:
"That's because you used to be too poor! This thing is called Cordyceps sinensis in some parts of the Chana Empire, but its scientific name is a fungus of the ergot family, which is neither an insect nor a grass, it is the spores of the fungus that parasitize the larvae of the bat moth family, and after absorbing all the nutrients of the larvae, it breaks out and grows, and has extremely high nutritional value! Small functions such as treating diseases are not worth mentioning at all, and the most important thing is that it can repair all kinds of dark wounds on the heart, lungs, liver, and pancreas as quickly as possible! According to rumors, it also has the effect of prolonging life! As long as it appears on the market, it will be snapped up at a high price, poor ghosts, don't say you've seen it, you may not have heard of it! Ordinary Cordyceps is the size of a little finger, it's the best, yours is the size of a fist! What's even more amazing is that this thing doesn't come out of the larvae's body, I remember that the last time I saw an adult Cordyceps was sixteen years ago, right?!"
So awesome?
A very professional explanation persuaded Catherine, she first thanked this enthusiastic sailor for helping her solve her doubts, and then brought the huge insect to her mouth, and looked at the beetle's dead compound eyes for a while, Catherine gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and gnawed it directly!
The expected splash of juice did not appear, the seemingly hard black carapace, the teeth were torn apart at the slightest touch, revealing the dry flocculent structure inside, the whole body was filled with this flocculent structure, and the various filaments that were clustered together were actually the root system of the fungus, and the higher it went, the more twisted into a strand, and the broken fungus umbrella handle was connected together.
After eating the first bite, Catherine's eyes lit up: this thing looked super disgusting, but it was super delicious in the mouth, so delicious that people wanted to swallow their tongues, and the flocculent filaments melted one by one on the tongue, just like the honey taste in a dream, and the slightly hardness of the carapace was the finishing touch of this wonderful taste, soft and hard, sweet and fresh, the faster she ate, the more she ate it, she ate the whole beetle in a few big bites, leaving only the umbrella-shaped part that broke out of the body, and I was a little nostalgic for this worm-shaped "honey biscuit." Without hesitation, he directly stuffed these mushrooms into his mouth.
Hmm~~ Catherine was so comfortable that she wanted to moan, and it was right to leave the umbrella handle for the end! It tasted like braised pork with a marinated crispy braised pork, but the taste was as delicious as the top abalone, every time she chewed it, the umami exploded more violently, making her almost reluctant to swallow it, and when the bright red umbrella lid finally slipped into her abdomen, the surging energy washed up in Catherine's body like a tidal wave!
"Hold your breath! Carefully experience how energy works! Immerse all your senses in your lungs!"
Catherine was fluttering, Ling Mo's stern voice sounded, which immediately pulled her thoughts back, and she quickly gathered her thoughts and immersed all her mind in herself. She immediately understood why Ling Mo had to eat this thing, the energy turned into this cordyceps could actually be vaguely perceived by herself!
Although it was as hazy as seeing flowers in the fog, I still felt that this energy was broken down in the small intestine, integrated into the blood veins, and transported to every cell in the body. Especially in the seriously damaged lungs, the energy poured into it more frantically, and the perception was clearer, Catherine, who closed her eyes and was immersed in it, thoughtfully, it turns out that her lungs work like this? It turns out that the oxygen inhaled in the body is used in this way? The utilization rate is really low, only about one-tenth of the oxygen inhaled in each breath is really involved in the energy transport in the body, and the rest is all exhaled out of the body, wasted in vain, if ......
Ling Mo watched as Catherine entered a state of concentration expressionlessly, watching her breathing rhythm begin to gradually slow down, from four or five seconds to a breath in more than ten seconds, and then gradually extended to a breath in tens of seconds, when Catherine's breathing rate exceeded once every two minutes, a bright light like ivory white appeared on her body surface, although the light only existed for a moment and disappeared, but Ling Mo knew very well that Catherine had broken through!
She didn't explain anything in the martial arts to her, she simply comprehended her own breathing method without a teacher! Now, the last huge shortcoming of the naturally evolved body has been filled, and the endurance and oxygen utilization capacity of her lungs have increased several times, although the actual attack power and explosive power have not increased much, but the endurance and recovery power have increased geometrically!
Perhaps, the meaning of the so-called genius's existence is to use it to hit others, to tell others that you are not this piece of material at all, right? In two days, directly from a martial arts layman to an intermediate martial artist, Ling Mo recalled the hardships he had traveled all the way, his heart was full of emotion, he forcibly suppressed the jealousy in his heart, walked over and patted Catherine on the shoulder: "Don't settle down for a long time, the mind will sink into the body for too long will produce huge losses, and the gains outweigh the losses, just like the meditation of magic practice, it should be stopped in moderation." β
Catherine snorted, opened her eyes, her expression was calm, she knocked on her chest, and said to Ling Mo with certainty, "Master, I have been promoted." β
"Yes, you're on the cut. Ling Mo nodded in affirmation, he hesitated for a moment, and praised, "Amazing." β
Hearing these three words, a big smile bloomed on Catherine's face, her body trembled slightly, trying to suppress her excitement, and finally she couldn't bear it, she rushed over and hugged Ling Mo tightly, opened her mouth, choked a little, and finally didn't say anything, just buried her head on Ling Mo's shoulder, took a deep breath, and then let go of her hand and took a step back, and asked excitedly: "Master, intermediate martial artist, how should you practice next?"
Motionless and letting Catherine hold and let go, Ling Mo smiled, rubbed his nose, and replied: "Cultivation, this is not in a hurry, now you can hurry up, let's go to the original destination first, it's late, and the rare wonders won't be seen." β