Chapter Twenty-Seven: Stone Pond
At the highest point, two pine trees are facing each other in the distance, like two mountain gods, standing still in the strong wind, looking down on the mountains.
The waterfall cascades down from between the two mountains, like a silver dragon, and swoops down from mid-air, the water crashing against the rocks with a deafening roar. The smashed water is like thousands of glittering "pearls", and the "pearls" collide with each other, turning into water droplets, which turn into mist, weaving white clouds on the mountainside.
Under the waterfall, there is a stone pool with a radius of tens of meters, and the deep pool water is so deep that it is really impossible to see how deep it is.
Ning Hao came out of the water, and a herring more than a meter long was thrown onto the stone steps on the shore. Several similar-looking fish can be seen lying side by side, and it won't be long before these become food for the rats.
Some time ago, Ning Hao relied on his strength to hunt and hunt wantonly in the jungle. Only when encountering giant creatures would Ning Hao choose to leave cautiously. It's not that Ning Hao's strength can't compare to those giant creatures at this time, it's just that the rat's caution has always told him not to underestimate anything in the jungle.
The lion he had eaten before, Ning Hao found a red stone in its body, and this was not the first time he had found such a thing in an animal's body.
These animals all have a very similar characteristic, they are extremely powerful, their size is generally beyond the limit of what ordinary animals can grow, and they all have a tendency to develop into giant creatures. Ning Hao guessed that this might be the reason why the giant beast was able to grow so hugely.
I also have such a thing in my body, will I grow to that point one day? Ning Hao is now more than a meter tall after sitting upright, and when he climbs down, he is about as tall as a normal cow.
Ning Hao smiled, this may be really interesting, but I don't know where the limit of this growth is, if there are infinite resources and food, will it grow bigger than the planet.
And what is the secret of this, Ning Hao knows that he does not have the ability to investigate all this now, what he has to do is to continue to cultivate and eat until he becomes one of the giant beasts.
Until that day came, Ning Hao didn't have any thoughts of leaving this planet, and as for the storage ring left by the ghost, although it had been worn by Ning Hao, he had never opened it and looked at it.
It's one thing to pursue your dreams, but you can't be carried away by temptation, Ning Hao would rather believe that the storage ring is just a piece of bread on a mousetrap, than try your luck with a fluke mentality.
And Ning Hao doesn't have any need for foreign objects now, as more and more animals are eaten by Ning Hao, more and more memory light clusters have accumulated in his mind, and every time he explores those memories, Ning Hao has a feeling of being alive again.
Depending on the animal's intelligence, the memory capacity in the light cluster is indeed different. Just like some small fish, they instinctively grow and prey, and they have no memories to leave behind.
As the light clusters became more and more, the speed of the Impermanence Heart Sutra became faster and faster, and Ning Hao knew that he had chosen a correct cultivation method.
As he read more and more memories, Ning Hao felt that his thinking was running faster and faster, and many things that he couldn't understand before were now concluded with a slight move of his brain.
It is precisely because of these memories that Ning Hao's ability to use the power of impermanence to transform into other forms has become more and more proficient.
The white lion's blood essence was finally about to be digested, and although it was not as big a reaction as after eating the blood essence for the first time, Ning Hao still felt a heat emanating from his body.
Every time he ate this red stone, Ning Hao's body would swell in a circle. However, because of the cultivation of the exercises, part of the red stone turned into majestic qi and blood, which gathered into the blood essence in Ning Hao's body, and the other part became a part of the impermanent energy, and the growth in volume slowed down.
After a period of cultivation, Ning Hao's acupuncture points had broken through to twenty places, and the acupuncture points that had been broken through one after another spit out countless mysterious substances, which melted into the blood essence and dispersed into the body of the mouse. Ning Hao's physique had improved more than tenfold compared to when he had not cultivated, and his strength had broken through the limit that Ning Hao could imagine earlier.
The world's top athletes, in terms of physique, strength and reaction speed, are not twice as high as the average person. Even if it is an existence with a tenth-higher physique, it can easily abuse its opponents.
As for being more than three times higher, it can already be said to be a superman like Spider-Man on Earth.
The tenfold increase in physique means that Ning Hao has been promoted from one life to another, and what he sees and thinks will be very different from before.
Summer insects can't speak to ice, and well frogs can't speak to the sea. Ning Hao had already broken away from the lowest state in the natural world and came to another dimension, even if he failed to reach the level of a giant beast, he was not far away.
But even so, there were often dangers in the mysterious jungle that even Ning Hao couldn't predict.
Once, Ning Hao was napping under a tree, but when he woke up, he found that he was trapped by a strong silk thread and turned into a zongzi. This silk thread is full of toughness, and it can't break free with Ning Hao's strength.
It was a highly venomous spider the size of a buffalo, with long, slender and sharp legs covered with thick black hair. A pair of fangs bared out, a green glow in the faint light of the night.
It put its teeth on Ning Hao's back and pierced it with all its might, if it pierced the rat this time, the violent poison would definitely paralyze Ning Hao instantly and become the food in the belly of this spider.
Fortunately, at that time, the rat had already opened more than a dozen holes, which was equivalent to going through more than a dozen evolutions, and the sturdy fur gradually grew into an extremely strong existence in each evolution. The spider's strength was not able to pierce Ning Hao's fur at that moment, and Ning Hao took this opportunity to pierce the spider's head with one claw, and then it took a lot of effort to escape from the spider's web.
This was one of the few moments when Ning Hao faced death after cultivating.
And just three days ago, Ning Hao was walking on the shore, and a big fish jumped out of the water and swallowed Ning Hao into his stomach in one gulp.
This big fish is also very unusual, the amazing strength is much greater than Ning Hao, the flesh in the body is like a stone, and the sharp barbs in the digestive tract are constantly squeezing and rubbing on the mouse's body.
The rat tried his best to bite through the belly of the fish, and it was difficult to get out of the body of the stone fish, at this time Ning Hao's row of teeth was about to be smoothed out, and the fur on his body was even more missing, and he was embarrassed.
What made Ning Hao even more desperate was that he found himself being led into a deep underground ditch.
This is the jungle that does not know hundreds of thousands of meters underground, it is pitch black, and it is impossible to discern the direction, Ning Hao did not cultivate to the point of not breathing at this time, as the oxygen in his body disappeared little by little, the feeling of suffocation and suffocation surged up like a tide.
The blood essence in his body was also undulating in his heart, and the constant tremor made Ning Hao's blood all over his body start to heat up.
A cool energy circulated in Ning Hao's body, and Ning Hao's mind gained a brief clarity. The rat's form began to change in the water, and eventually it turned into a giant fish.
In this way, Ning Hao wandered around a dark underground river for two days, and before exhausting the last trace of strength in his body, the mouse was lucky to see the light coming down from the water, and only then did he escape from the water.
Ning Hao gulped in the abundant air, although the body structure of the fish allowed him to breathe underwater, but the weak oxygen drawn from the water was not as refreshing as it came from the ground.
A stream of pure qi and blood came from the blood essence and spread to the entire body of the mouse, Ning Hao felt that his physical strength had recovered, and he was exhausted and urgently needed to find something to eat.
The waterfall hit snow-white flowers in the pool, and when he first came up, he saw a lot of big blue fish, and Ning Hao decided to recuperate here for a few days.