Chapter 3: The Strange Ring
The sky is full of stars, and the night is like water.
Xin Mu lay in the firewood room of the Black Tiger Hall's dining room, and through the broken window of the firewood room, he quietly watched the bright full moon in the sky. Reaching out and feeling a ring-like pendant from his chest, "Huh!" accidentally touched the wound, and he gasped in pain. The pendant is dark and heavy, without a trace of light, and the texture can not be seen, not stone and wood, like iron and stone, and slightly exudes a faint fragrance.
"This is the only relic your mother left you. When Xin Mu first discovered the ring around his neck, that's what his father, who was locked up in the dungeon, told him. But who was my mother, and how did she die? My father never said. Only Granny Hao, who raised him, once told him, "Your mother died in childbirth!"
Later, Granny Hao, who had swept the land in the Black Tiger Hall all her life, died, Xin Mu was only five years old that year, and since then he has completely become a wild child who no one cares about and no one loves, and has endured all the neglect, cynicism and insults. The only thing that silently accompanied him was the ring left by his mother, which was hung around Xin Mu's neck with hemp rope. Xin Mu regards it as a treasure and cherishes it as his life.
"Is it that it protects itself today, is it the mother who has appeared? By the light of the moon, Xin Mu carefully measured the ring, and there were no words or drawings on it, only some extremely thin and strange lines that twisted and twisted.
Xin Mu stroked it carefully, the more he looked at it, the more he loved it, and couldn't help but gently put it on the thumb of his right hand, then raised his hand, put it to his mouth and kissed it affectionately, like kissing his mother.
The ring suddenly buzzed, and the black lines floated out, like a group of black ants, flowing up the body along the thumb and arm, where it passed, like falling cold ice, Xin Mu was startled, and quickly picked it down, but found that he had lost this opportunity, his body suddenly tightened, and the cold breath had instantly flowed all over the body, and the arms, legs, feet, and fingers suddenly lost their vitality, and the skin, blood veins, and muscles froze layer by layer, and before he could feel the pain, he lost consciousness.
Then the cold air was retracted and drilled into the body, and the internal organs, muscles, bones, and bone marrow instantly froze into a glacier, "Click! click!" The small voice echoed softly, as if it sounded outside the body.
In the summer night, there was a strange scene, a dilapidated firewood house was as cold as winter, a layer of hoarfrost fell on the firewood and grass everywhere, and a person in the middle was shining under the moonlight, his whole body was shining, reflecting the white light, and his hair, eyebrows, and clothes were all covered with thick hoarfrost, like a new snowman.
At this time, the brain of this "snowman" is still awake, but it can't perceive its own body, just like the body doesn't exist, only the awake brain remains, and I don't know if I am dead or alive, this feeling is indescribably weird.
"What's the matter? who can save me!" Xin Mu's silent cry could only be heard by himself.
Minute by second, moment by moment, time is as slow as a snail, making people crazy and despairing.
Suddenly, the ring buzzed again, and a golden air current, with a scorching breath, flowed out of the ring continuously, filling the entire house, forming a big golden ball of light to wrap Xin Mu, slowly rotating, all the firewood and grass in the firewood room floated, floating in this huge ball of light, like a huge formation, slowly rotating with the golden heat flow.
The golden heat broke through the solid ice and slowly seeped into Xin Mu's body, every inch of skin, every muscle, and every bone converged into a river, and the heat wave was majestic. Xin Mu felt that his body had begun to melt and melt, little by little, inch by inch, the flesh, blood, muscles, bones, and even hair had disappeared!
In the broken window of the firewood room of the dining room of the Black Tiger Hall in the South Wilderness Gate, a golden light was revealed, which eclipsed the moonlight. Fortunately, no one came to this broken firewood house at night, otherwise they would have thought that there was a fire, and I don't know what kind of turmoil it would cause.
A huge golden cocoon in the firewood room rotated rapidly, emitting a dazzling golden light, slowly tightening, shrinking smaller and smaller, shrinking smaller and smaller, the outline of the Xin wood gradually appeared, the bronze skin showed robustness, the rigid limb lines exuded strength, the broad chest was full of masculinity, and there was a faint trace of Yuan Force fluctuations, announcing the end of a realm, and the cultivation of the physical realm was completed.
It's a pity that few people know that this is the legendary golden cocoon soul quenching! Take the soul of the ice dragon as the guide and the spirit of the hot sun as the cocoon
Refining the ears, eyes, mouth and nose, strengthening the five internal organs, forging skin, flesh, muscles and bones, making cocoons and self-binding, breaking cocoons into butterflies. I don't know how much stronger the body refined by this method is much stronger than the ordinary quenched body!
The last trace of gold that remained on the nail cover swirled and subsided, and the house of firewood and grass fell like rain, resounding. Xin Mu also fell back to the ground, he let out a long breath to prove that he was still alive, he looked at the strange ring that had finally quieted down, it became crystal like jade, as clear as nothing, and disappeared on his thumb, leaving only a thin golden thread, zigzag and circling, like a tiny golden dragon, sleeping in a distant world.
Xin Mu moved his hands and feet, feeling full of strength, he touched his chest, those two bulging muscles made people love it, "Huh!" What's even more amazing is that the knife wound on his chest is gone, he ripped off his clothes to look, only to see that his chest was intact, not even a scar.
"Hahaha......" Xin Mu laughed, "I'm so stupid!
He smiled, leaned back, and lay down in the wood.
The next morning, Xin Mu was awakened by the full force in his body, and the excitement of his whole body encouraged him, so that he could not lie down for another second. He jumped up and ran to the dining room to find a knife, he needed a knife, he wanted to practice.
"Waste wood, what are you doing so early?" In the courtyard of the dining room, a tall and thin man was practicing knives. "Senior Brother Sun, it's early!" Xin Mu approached and replied, "I want to find a knife!"
"Cut! What are you looking for a knife for?" said the tall and thin man disdainfully.
"Ha Lu Ha, I want to practice knives!"
"Ha Lu Ha ——!" The tall and thin man laughed, wanting to hear the funniest joke, "Waste wood, haven't you woken up!
Xin Mu didn't answer, turned around and was about to leave. "Wait!" The tall thin man stretched out his knife to block Xin Mu, "Waste wood, as long as you can catch my move, I will give you this knife!"
"Senior Brother Sun, don't be kidding, how did I beat you!"
"Less nonsense! Take!" The thin and tall man didn't wait for Xin Mu to get ready, and with a wave of his big knife, he slapped the latter's chest directly with the knife surface, the speed was so fast, the force was so fierce, there was no mercy. Most people have to vomit blood.
"Smack!" the knife surface landed firmly on Xin Mu's chest. "Dang!" sounded the sound of metal falling to the ground. "How is that possible?" exclaimed the tall and thin man, shaking his hands, his hands numb. He thought that a knife could shoot Xin Mu's waste wood far away, but what he didn't expect was that Xin Mu was motionless, and the huge reaction force shook his knife and fell to the ground.
The tall and thin leg is a kick, "Damn! you...... Ouch!" His foot hit Xin Mu's body like a stone, and it hurt him.
Xin Mu was also full of surprise, although he knew that Lu Dao's body had changed, but he didn't know how much Lu Dao had changed? He bent down and picked up the knife, and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Sun, you don't know how to speak, do you?"
The thin and tall man stretched his nose wings, "Hmph!" I thought to myself that if I couldn't beat a waste, what would I still be messing with in the South Wilderness Gate!
Xin Mu didn't dodge either, he wanted to test what kind of strength he was now, raised his leg and kicked back. "Tom!" There was a muffled sound, and a figure flew out upside down and landed on the ground ten paces away. But he was tall and thin, and he kept saying "ouch!" on the ground.
"Senior Brother Xie Lu!" Xin Mu shook the knife in his hand, turned around and left. The thin and tall man sat on the ground, holding his stomach, looking at Xin Mu's back stupidly, and instantly a little messy, what is the matter? He has changed? Could it be that the era of bullying waste is over!