Chapter 019 Reborn?
early morning.
As soon as Ni Kun opened his eyes, he saw Wen Caiting staring at him intently. He immediately pushed her face away and said unhappily:
"What are you looking at? Haven't you seen such a handsome guy before?"
After saying this, he stood up without any lingering affection for Wen Caiting's plump and soft legs, stretched himself, and suddenly his joints made a crackling sound. For a moment, he felt a sense of comfort and lightness from the inside out, and his spirit seemed to be particularly full and abundant.
"Hey, your body seems a ?"
Ni Kun was secretly surprised, and suddenly felt itchy all over. He reached his hand into his clothes and scratched it, and actually grabbed out a handful of dry skin.
The skin on his palms, which were covered with broken skin, was more delicate and white than before. The thin calluses between his fingers and palms that had been formed when he lifted stone locks to build strength in the villa two months ago had completely disappeared.
"What's going on?"
Ni Kun's heart skipped a beat, suspecting that Wen Caiting was behind it. He turned around to glance at her, only to see that she was looking at him innocently with a hint of grievance in her eyes.
Ni Kun remained calm and said:
"You prepare breakfast while I go wash up."
With his hands behind his back, he walked leisurely to the stream, looked into the still water beside the stream, and found that the skin on his face seemed much smoother and more tender than before.
"Oh my god, how could this be?"
Ni Kun was surprised. He wiped his face and neck and found that there seemed to be a lot of dandruff in his collar. He quickly took off his clothes and shook them hard a few times. He actually shook off a lot of dandruff. He looked at his body again. His whole body was refreshed, as if he had changed his skin.
Looking at the pieces of skin that fell out of his clothes, and then looking at the changes in himself, Ni Kun couldn't help but remain silent for a while.
"Why do you look like a snake shedding its skin? Did you eat too much snake gall yesterday?
“Although this isn’t a bad thing, I’m just a sixteen-year-old boy, and there’s nothing wrong with being a little tender, but I still feel a little uncomfortable…
"Especially the way Wen Caiting looked at me just now, she was so lustful that her saliva was almost flowing out, as if she wanted to swallow me whole... It seems that I have to protect myself doubly from now on!"
While he was thinking, he jumped a few times on the spot, moved some stones to test his strength, and muttered to himself:
"I haven't become any more bouncy, and my strength is the same as yesterday..."
He then practiced the Dragon Elephant Prajna Sutra and moved his internal energy for a while, but he didn't feel that the internal energy was running faster or being generated faster.
When I called up my personal panel again, I saw that the value in the life span column had not increased by even a day.
Ni Kun couldn't help but feel secretly disappointed:
"So I just shed a layer of skin tonight and my skin became better, but there weren't any deeper changes?"
He originally thought that he had eaten enough exotic snake gall, and that the quantitative change would lead to a qualitative change, and he would be reborn overnight. However, now it seems that such a good thing did not happen.
Disappointed, he was too lazy to test it again. He jumped into the stream to wash off the remaining dandruff on his body and went back to have breakfast.
After breakfast, the two continued to travel up the valley.
In fact, Ni Kun no longer had any expectations for the effectiveness of the Bosuqu snake. He was just thinking that maybe he could find Dugu's sword tomb. If he was lucky, he might get the black iron heavy sword or even the Dugu Nine Swords secret book, so he continued to go deeper.
However, when they walked all the way to the source of the mountain stream and came to a valley surrounded by steep cliffs on three sides, they still did not find Dugu's sword tomb.
As for the big eagle and the heavy sword, let’s not even mention them.
However, they hunted more than forty Bosuqu snakes along the way. It seems that it was only the strange snakes that "traveled through time", and the Divine Eagle and the Sword Tomb did not come.
Ni Kun swallowed a few snake gallbladders and found that the gallbladders had no effect on him. Even the warm current in his stomach was gone. Instead, he felt nauseous and wanted to vomit. He immediately lost interest in the snake gallbladders and signaled Wen Caiting to enjoy it herself.
Wen Caiting was flattered and thought that her sincerity had finally moved this seemingly gentle and kind, but actually cruel and cold little devil. She almost burst into tears.
After eating more than forty snake gallbladders, Wen Caiting's martial arts skills and physical strength have been greatly improved.
According to her, it saved her at least several years of hard work. The improvement effect was much better than Ni Kun's, which made him very envious.
However, although Ni Kun's skills have not improved at all, and his strength has not grown much, and "shedding his skin" last night seemed to have not brought much benefit except for becoming more handsome and better-looking, but after personally trekking deep into the valley, Ni Kun did vaguely perceive some changes.
It seems that my reaction has become faster, my balance has become stronger, and my endurance has increased.
When walking
Even the skin and flesh have become much tougher.
On the way, he accidentally grabbed a thorny tree covered with thorns. He felt only a slight pain in the palm of his hand, and there were only a few small red marks, but the skin was not even pierced.
So the shedding of skin last night was actually a rebirth?
But is this transformation reflected in reaction, balance, endurance, and defense?
Think about the Bosuqu snake, its setting seems to be "quick reaction, fast movement, and tough scales"...
Ni Kun's consumption of snake gall did not increase his skills or strength, but after shedding his skin, he acquired some characteristics similar to those of the Bosuqu snake. It can only be said that his physique is a rare gem.
As there was nothing to be gained and it was getting dark, Ni Kun no longer expected more. He told Wen Caiting to prepare food and lodging, and he found a big tree. He sat down with his back against the thick trunk, and looked up at the sky above the valley, where the stars were faintly visible.
After watching for a while, Ni Kun saw a meteor shower suddenly streaking across the sky. His eyes lit up and he called out to Wen Caiting who was busy collecting firewood:
"Hey, look! A meteor shower!"
Wen Caiting looked up and said with a smile:
"When I was young, meteor showers were rare, but in recent years, they are very common, with several occurring almost every year."
"Very common? Several times a year?" Ni Kun was slightly startled: "Isn't this right?"
"Something is wrong." Wen Caiting nodded and said:
"Not only are there many meteor showers, but you can also occasionally see a large starburst at night, which looks like a small moon and can even last for several days. In the past 20 years, there have been five 'starburst' wonders , the most recent of which was just two years ago.
“I heard from my senior sister that this celestial phenomenon is quite unusual and may mean that a great disaster is about to befall.
"But apart from the incident 20 years ago when the Moon Worshiper who inexplicably emerged from southern Xinjiang wanted to cause a flood to destroy the world, there hasn't been any major disaster. The wars and disasters that are now raging all over the Sui Dynasty are probably caused by Yang Guang himself."
Ni Kun frowned and looked up at the sky. After watching the meteor shower that lasted for more than ten seconds, he thought to himself:
"Meteor showers are common? There are also 'starbursts' that last for days and are as bright as a small moon... Not only is the ground weird and chaotic, but there are also weird things in the sky?"
Unfortunately, his eyesight is far from enough to see through the sky and the mysteries hidden in the starry sky.
Before going to bed at night, Ni Kun did not give up and tried to practice the Dragon Elephant Prajna Sutra again. However, the efficiency of generating internal force was still at the "stupid" level as always. He had no choice but to give up and go to bed honestly.
I was sleeping in the middle of the night when a cold wind suddenly blew.
Even though Ni Kun's body had become much stronger after a "transformation", he still felt the cold unbearable. He couldn't help but pull Wen Caiting down and snuggle into her warm and soft arms.
At first, Wen Caiting was extremely happy, thinking that the little devil was going to give her something sweet to taste.
But she didn't expect that after Ni Kun got into her arms, he put his hands into her clothes, rested his face on her chest, and fell into a deep sleep without any movement, which made Wen Caiting happy for nothing and made her so angry that she gritted her teeth.
When he woke up the next day, he saw traces of frost on the grass. Only then did Ni Kun realize that winter had arrived unknowingly more than three months after he came into this world.
After the matter was settled, Ni Kun and the other man turned back the way they came, preparing to continue on to Pegasus Ranch.
On the way back, in order to save time, Ni Kun lay on Wen Caiting's back again and asked her to use her light skills to hurry on.
So the journey that took more than two days to come here only took half a day on the way back, and they were back to the bank of the Zhang River, where the stream flows into the river, and then they went south along the river to the southern foot of Jingshan Mountain.
