"Roar!!!"
The gorilla roared as it stomped on the ground, and the ground instantly cracked open.
With this force, the gorilla leaped high, and then swung an iron fist bigger than a bus at Ling Jiu.
This punch was so powerful that it could even blow up a mountain. But in the face of this blow, Ling Jiu lowered his body into a horse stance and met it with a punch.
"I'm not afraid of you when it comes to strength!"
Boom!!
The two fists collided violently, as if Mars had collided with Earth. Accompanied by a thunderous explosion, a violent shock wave spread out in all directions with the two of them as the center.
Wherever the shock wave passed, bushes, weeds, and trees were all turned into powder.
The two initiators of all this retreated almost at the same time. Ling Jiu retreated 20 meters, and the gorilla retreated seven or eight meters.
It seemed that the stronger one was the weaker one.
Ling Jiu was not angry, but happy instead. Great, I can use you as a punching bag!
"Again!"
Ling Jiu looked up to the sky and laughed as he pounced again.
"Roar!!!"
The gorilla pounded its chest with its iron fist and also came up to meet him.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A fierce collision unfolded, and the surrounding forest was completely unlucky. Wherever Ling Jiu and the gorilla passed, be it shrubs, weeds, or towering trees, they were either shattered into powder or collapsed.
Everywhere they passed, there was a mess.
Bai Ya flew out of the airship and saw such a scene. She quickly put away the airship and chased in the direction of the battle.
Bang!!
Bang!!
Bang!!!
"..."
"Roar!!!"
The gorilla roared and swung its fist at Ling Jiu again. It did not know how many times it had punched at Ling Jiu, and it always had the upper hand.
But what it did not understand was that Ling Jiu could take its attack head-on every time. Not only was he not injured, but he was also getting stronger.
This was completely different from the other Direbeasts in the forest. This made the gorilla very angry, and it attacked more and more fiercely.
"Come on!"
Ling Jiu was excited. He did not dodge and went up to meet the gorilla. The repeated collisions had consumed a lot of his physical strength.
But Ling Jiu could clearly feel that the huge vitality stored in his body was constantly being consumed, and his cells were frantically absorbing the excess vitality.
Absorb.
Consume.
Absorb again.
Another round of consumption.
Throughout the process, Ling Jiu's body was improving at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Just this point alone made this battle worth it.
"Again!"
"Haha!"
"Again!"
Ling Jiu was like a humanoid machine, attacking tirelessly.
He was not afraid of exhaustion, injury, or death … Even if he was sent flying by the gorilla time and time again, even if he was faced with danger several times, he still did not fear death and pressed forward.
Unknowingly, the situation on the battlefield had quietly changed.
At first, they were at a disadvantage, but gradually, they were evenly matched. After the battle lasted for half an hour, they went from being evenly matched to having the upper hand.
The difference was:
This time, it was not the gorilla that had the upper hand, but Ling Jiu.
"Bang —"
There was another violent collision, and the gorilla was sent flying 20 to 30 meters away. This situation made the gorilla even more violent.
It casually grabbed a large tree in front of it, and with a sweep of its hand, all the branches and leaves on the tree trunk were instantly swept clean.
The next second, the gorilla swung the thick tree trunk at Ling Jiu like a monkey swinging a golden cudgel.
"Do all monkeys like to play with sticks?"
Ling Jiu chuckled. With a flip of his palm, the Emissian war blade appeared in his hand. The war blade expanded in the wind and grew to 50 meters in the blink of an eye.
Holding the war blade, Ling Jiu met the tree trunk that was smashing down on his head. With a crack, the sharp war blade slashed across the tree trunk and blew it in half.
"Ugh …"
The gorilla was slightly taken aback as it looked at the stick in its hand, and then at the war blade in Ling Jiu's hand. It did not expect the war blade to be so sharp.
"Again!"
Ling Jiu was not going to hold back. He swung the war blade and slashed wildly. In the end, the tree trunk in the gorilla's hand was directly cut into a wooden block.
Seeing this, Ling Jiu put away the war blade and swung his fist again.
He just wanted to fight it head-on!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The battle began again.
A few hours had passed in a blink of an eye. The white hole in the sky was still emitting light, and there was no sign of night falling.
The gorilla, on the other hand, was exhausted. There was a pleading look in its eyes. Under the high-intensity battle, it was exhausted and could not hold on any longer.
"For the sake of fighting with me, I will spare your life today."
Ling Jiu wiped the sweat off his head and stopped attacking. Instead, he waved his hand, signaling the gorilla to leave.
"Roar!!!"
The gorilla left as if it had been granted amnesty. It was exhausted.
"Are you all right, my dear?"
Bai Ya quickly came up to him.
"Not only am I fine, but I feel very good."
Ling Jiu stretched his arms. "I feel very comfortable now, as if I have just been in a sauna. My whole body feels comfortable."
"That's good."
Bai Ya breathed a sigh of relief and then said, "What did you go out for just now? Why didn't I see you when I woke up?"
"Sorry, I went out to replicate Arcana," Ling Jiu said awkwardly. "It has been seven days. I can replicate other Arcanas again."
"All right."
Bai Ya nodded in understanding.
"My dear, I am hungry."
Ling Jiu touched his belly.
"I am hungry, too."
The two returned to the airship and ordered the smart robot to cook. After a while, a fragrant meal was served on the table.
After the meal, the two went back to bed and did some wonderful things before falling asleep. When they woke up, it was a few hours later.
Ling Jiu was not in a hurry to practice. Instead, he sank his mind into the Inner World.
He found that the whale-like galactic being that he had swallowed earlier had not been digested. Only some of its skin had been burned, and most of its body... was intact.
The raging flames had been burning for so many days, but they could not do anything to it.
"A galactic being is a galactic being after all. Even if it is just a corpse, it is not something that I can easily digest now."
Ling Jiu sighed and ignored it. He turned to continue practicing.
Buzz!!
A steady stream of Dark Bio-energy swept in from all directions, pouring into his body, and finally converging into the elixir field, where it was swallowed by the rotating nebula.
The Gene Arcana Core was still rotating at high speed, devouring the surrounding nebula. A massive amount of Dark Bio-energy was being devoured every moment.
Ling Jiu still felt that this speed was too slow, so he sent a Dark Bio-energy crystal into the Inner World.
Boom!!
The raging flames burned the Dark Bio-energy crystal wildly, and the Dark Bio-energy crystal was decomposed into pure Dark Bio-energy at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This part of Dark Bio-energy then poured into his body and was devoured by the Gene Arcana Core.
It absorbed the Dark Bio-energy in the air.
It also absorbed the Dark Bio-energy crystal.
With the two-pronged approach, Ling Jiu's self-cultivation speed reached an unprecedented level. It was like a force-feeding method.
Time passed quietly, and in the blink of an eye, another ten days had passed.
On this day, Ling Jiu stopped practicing again.
"I have absorbed a Dark Bio-energy crystal, but there is still a long way to go before I reach Level 9. It seems that I need to consume another Dark Bio-energy crystal."
Ling Jiu muttered to himself, then got up and stretched.
Bai Ya was still immersed in self-cultivation, and Ling Jiu did not disturb her. He sensed the dimensional mark he had left on the Mud Beast and quietly disappeared into the airship.
"Replicate the Anti-Aging Arcana!"
Replication successful. Integrate?
"Integrate!"
"Ahh!!!"
...
Anti-Aging was a rather magical ability.
The reason people aged was that the length of the telomeres of the cell chromosomes was fixed.
Every time a cell divided, the telomeres shortened a little. As the cells continued to divide, the telomeres continued to shorten until they were completely exhausted.
Once the telomeres were exhausted, the cells would no longer divide, and people would naturally age and die.
The Water of Life on Earth was a highly efficient nutrient. It could replenish the depleted telomeres and increase the number of cell divisions, thereby delaying aging and prolonging life.
Because of this, a portion of the Water of Life could extend life by 30 years.
The principle of the Anti-Aging Arcana was similar to that of the Water of Life, which was to lengthen the telomeres at the end of the chromosomes.
But unlike the Water of Life, the Anti-Aging Arcana was not a highly efficient nutrient. It gave the chromosomal telomeres a... regeneration function.
What did it mean?
It meant:
With the Anti-Aging Arcana, the chromosomal telomeres could continue to regenerate.
In this way, even if the cells continued to divide, the chromosomal telomeres would continue to regenerate, greatly extending the number of cell divisions, thereby delaying aging and prolonging life.
Simply put, the Water of Life and the Anti-Aging Arcana were the difference between medicine and ability. It could be understood as the difference between teaching a man to fish and teaching him to fish.
The Water of Life was like giving you a few kilograms of chromosomal telomeres, so you could live a few more years.
The Anti-Aging Arcana was like giving you the ability to make chromosomal telomeres. You could continuously regenerate chromosomal telomeres, thereby prolonging life.
Which one was better?
The Anti-Aging Arcana, of course.
"I wonder how long this arcana can prolong life?"
Ling Jiu muttered as he returned to the airship. He then woke Bai Ya up. "Honey, do you want to stay young forever?"
"Stay young forever?"
Bai Ya was stunned. "What are you talking about, honey?"
"Let me ask you, do you want to stay young forever?"
Ling Jiu smiled.
Bai Ya was confused, but she still said, "Of course, as a woman, who doesn't want to stay young and beautiful forever?"
"Just think about it."
Ling Jiu activated his recently awakened third Natural Arcana, the Bestowal Arcana, and gave the Anti-Aging Arcana to Bai Ya.
"Ahhh!"
Bai Ya let out a muffled groan as her expression changed.
"Honey, I just gave you a new ability."
Ling Jiu explained, "It will be very painful when you integrate the new ability. Bear with it."
"Got it."
Although Bai Ya wondered why Ling Jiu could give her an ability, she could not care less at this time because... it was really painful.
"Ahhh!"
"Honey, bear with it."
Ling Jiu held Bai Ya's hand tightly and cheered her on. As the owner of Arcana Replication, he knew all too well the pain of integrating Arcanas.
Fortunately, the pain came and went quickly. Ten minutes later, it was finally over. Bai Ya's face was a little pale.
"Dear … dear, what's going on?"
"It's like this..."
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