His body and spirit had reached the level he was at today, and it was very rare to see a numerical increase of this magnitude.

If it were a normal situation, he would probably have to keep exercising and studying...... Progress that takes months or half a year to achieve.

Even if the route of cultivation and strengthening is not right, the work done for several months will be useless, and you will not be able to improve at all.

The value of this bath, even if it is poisoned, it doesn't matter.

If it weren't for the fact that he had reached his limit now, he would still want to continue soaking.

However, he also admonished himself in his heart that he should know how to measure everything, and know how to advance and retreat.

It is enough to be grateful and fortunate when you get cheap, and not to breed excessive greed, only in this way can you always stay sensible.

This [Jizo Spirit] is indeed a wonderful thing, but Li Heng also understands that its role for himself has ended here.

Continuing to do so will only lead to irreversible dependence, and even a superhuman mind like him may not have the dependence that he can confidently wean himself from.

It is no exaggeration to say that the stimulation of human nerves by this substance is more than ten times more effective than the world's strongest banned drug!

The initial contact causes intense stimulation and unparalleled suffering, and once accustomed to the past, it brings an instant recharge of satisfaction that no living activity can match.

The reason why the "Iron Armor Bronze Corpse Immortals" of the White Lotus Sect were not addicted was that after bathing in the [Jizo Essence], they were actually immersed in the effects of the medicine all the time, and when the effects of the medicine dissipated, it was also when their bodies collapsed.

They simply died after the second immersion of the "addiction", or the cause of their death was the "withdrawal reaction" after the effect of the drug wore off.

This is a "super forbidden drug" that will instantly regurgitate humans to death as long as the effect of the drug has passed!

Only a freak like Li Heng, who has been strengthened to a perverted level of flesh, can resist toxicity and will not have a withdrawal reaction due to dependence.

But he didn't dare to use it for a long time many times, and it was hard to guarantee that he wouldn't capsize in the gutter.

Just staring at the milky white pool that had regained its calm again, he couldn't help but glance slightly.

It's so magical and effective, but it's not very friendly to humans, and the benefits of using it are far less than the price to pay, and if it's not for yourself, no one can make perfect use of it.

This couldn't help but make him think of the words written by the immortal seeker under the earth temple - "There is a true spiritual law in the world, but there is no legal person"

Looking at the [Earth Treasure Essence] pool in front of him, it is clear that there is such a "heaven and earth treasure", which can be called a super compound, but the price is too harsh for humans.

His mind drifted a little, he thought of the many cases and records he had seen when he studied biomedical science before, in fact, in many laboratories around the world, some substances with strange effects have been synthesized more or less, and how many scientists feel that they have found a way to overcome cancer, improve intelligence, and increase life...... and so on.

However, as soon as it is clinically tested, the result is that the ground is broken, and most of the reactions of those substances after entering the human body are unsatisfactory, and may even directly lead to human failure.

All of this points to the fact that the human body is too weak.

It's not that the drugs and substances are ineffective, it's that they have to accommodate the complex and weak organism of the human body.

Even the Gundam engine can't take a classic car flying, and it will definitely fall apart before it flies.

"Perhaps some natural and invisible law dictates that the mortal body is untouchable and transcendent."

He took a deep breath, feeling the flow of power in his body becoming more and more pure, and the energy from the [Jizo Essence] could be perfectly integrated into his own circulation, without the intention of repulsion.

He stretched out his arms and spread his hands, and then clapped his palms together, and the applause exploded like thunder, causing a violent movement in this closed underground cavern, and even directly overshadowed the noisy rat cry!

In an instant, the rats below shook in panic, squeaking and surging like a low tide, setting off a spectacular picture.

And just after these rats dispersed from the stone slope, Li Heng saw something.

It was a ladder hanging from the cliff face ahead, which had been overrun by a colony of rats, and now the rats had dispersed only briefly to reappear.

Ahead is already the end of this underground cavity, and beyond that, it's basically just the most primitive ground fissure, why did the previous people hang a ladder here?

Li Heng's eyes were slightly condensed, and he walked down with steps, walking all the way down the semi-circular stone slope until he came to the area that was originally occupied by the rat colony.

As soon as he stepped inside, he felt that his feet were soft, as if he had been covered with a thick blanket.

This is feces.

A large amount of rat droppings accumulate to form a covering!

Squeak squeak squeak –

Manic squeaks came from both sides, and countless pairs of small scarlet eyes stared at him in the dim environment, as if they were being targeted by the red dots of countless sniper rifles.

However, until Li Heng had walked dozens of steps, not a single mouse dared to move forward, but the rat colony retreated where he passed.

"Another detail in the story was confirmed"

Of course, this is not that he has any domineering aura that can naturally deter this group of rats, and it is not that he has cultivated some body protection divine light within a radius of ten steps to avoid people and animals.

In the story told by the old man, it was mentioned that when the rat infestation occurred, the man in black avoided the rats wherever he went, but in fact, his current principle is the same.

Anyone who has soaked in the [Jizo Spirit] will make these rats fear and retreat, just as they dare not climb this semi-circular stone slope to directly ingest the sperm pool.

Therefore, the "Iron Armor Bronze Corpse Fairy" can naturally force back the rat population and suppress the rodent infestation, but this also has limitations.

That is, you have to be alive to do it.

Only a living iron-armored bronze corpse fairy can deter the rat swarm, and once they die and become corpses, the situation will be reversed in an instant, and all the rats will rush up and gnaw desperately.

Because the dead corpse is just like the scene just now, the rat corpse that dies violently after drinking the [Jizo Spirit] will become the food of the rat queen, and it will be dissolved and transformed into milk to nurse the offspring.

Therefore, the corpse of the Iron Armored Bronze Corpse Immortal will have a similar effect, greatly stimulating the devouring desire of this group of rats.

This is probably another practical reason why the White Lotus Church put all the corpses of those "great immortals" in iron coffins and hung them in the air without touching the ground - they were afraid of being gnawed by rats.

However, even so, in the end, it did not escape this fate.

"Life...... Incredible"

After being silent for a long time, Li Heng spit out such a sentence.

He didn't feel cruel and evil...... It's just a feeling of being weird about this particular biological mechanism.

And when he came to the depths of this rat's nest and the proximity of the cliff face, he solved the question he had always asked - what do these things eat?

It was in the cracks of the rock formations that he saw something familiar—a large number of fungi clumped together in a straw mushroom-like form, overlapping and growing in a mixed matrix of rat droppings and pulverized rock formations, and the constant heat gushing out of the ground became the energy source for its growth.

There are a lot of them, and they grow at the bottom of the nest, where many rats are constantly feeding on the blanket and mushrooms.

At the same time, Li Heng also saw an incredible scene, a class of rats that were relatively large and had significantly thicker hind limbs, constantly crawling upside down in the rat's nest, rolling and pushing the feces on the ground into the fungal jungle.

And based on these traces, it is inferred that the distribution range of these feces is regular.

"They...... In the range of the growth of the bootstrap fungus?! ”

Li Heng was very surprised when he looked at this behavior, what does this mean?

This means that this group of rats is "farming"!

They deliberately transfer and accumulate their feces, and the rock layers are soaked and corrupted to form a substrate layer where fungi can grow, and then the fungus absorbs geothermal heat and grows into clumps that become food for the rat colony.

This is similar to the behavior of humans fertilizing the land with fertilizer, then plowing and sowing the seeds, allowing the crops to absorb the solar energy to grow, and finally picking them!

A group of rats, developing "agriculture" underground.

(End of chapter)