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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 278

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:28:23 AM


Chapter 278: Refining Blue Icesilver

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Chapter 278: Refining Blue Icesilver

With the exception of the Eye of the World, which he only collected, Sages other Heavenly Materials basically refined themselves. That is to say, they werent really refined by him, but forcibly taken control of by the Seed of Life. First Light, Stormbreath, and the Sovereign Stone were never actually refined or even collected by him. They were in protective casings of various types and the Seed of Life had freed them all and wrangled them. At the moment, they seemed excited to be nearby another Heavenly Material, but the Seed of Life itself wasnt making any big moves.

His only guess was that the Seed of Life had enough support now that it wasnt acting out immediately in pursuit of more. So, Sage figured he just had to refine the Blue Icesilver himself and then it would naturally join in with the others. Or so he hoped. It was quite the gamble he was making. It was less of a gamble than it would be for others, considering he could be reborn. On the other hand, he would lose many years of time to recover his cultivation level again.

Theres also no telling if Tao Ba will be as nice as he was last time. He may not take pity on me again and make me suffer for even longer as a beast.

Not wanting to be stuck as a mindless beast for an unknown amount of time was a pretty good motivator. Sage focused his Spirit Power upon the Blue Icesilver, it was like a mass of partially translucent molten metal. Spreading out within his body like a squid with no head and thousands of tiny tentacles. Those small tendrils of flowing metal slid through his meridians, spreading and branching out, filling his body slowly. At the same time, the mass in his stomach kept growing larger and larger, stretching his body. He was being overwhelmed both in his physical and internal energy systems.

He formed his Spirit Power into a spike and stabbed it into the center of the Blue Icesilver. Then he sent his Qi through that spike of Spirit Power, injecting it into the core of the Blue Icesilver. Like a syringe, his energy spread into the Blue Icesilver slightly tinting it a lighter hue. He had to completely spread his own influence into the whole of the Blue Icesilver in order to refine it. That Beast Core he found in the center must have been the previous owner, and upon its death the Blue Icesilver no longer had the energy it required and became corrupted battling with the Beast Cores fading will. That or the Beast turned the Blue Icesilver into a casket, using other materials to hide its nature. Or maybe it wasnt burying itself, but buying time for something else. There wasnt a good way to tell, though it meant that Beast Core was something of a danger if there was a Beast Soul still slumbering inside it. This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

Maybe they even want the Blue Icesilver to win. Hah, Im so stressed Im even talking about objects like theyre conscious. Time for drastic measures.

With the Blue Icesilver growing so large, his whole body was struggling. While he could use a rapid influx of Qi to slow the expansion inside his Meridians and Qi Channels, there was no such help in his physical body. The meridian and Qi system existed inside the body, but they occupied a sort of other realm. Like another dimension overlaid upon the physical world. They interacted with the many energies of the world and inside the body and could only be seen with a cultivators special inner perception and felt with Spirit Sense. The Blue Icesilver wasnt just a physical or energy construct, just like a cultivator it had a physical and energy component. The energy component overran his meridian system while the physical component was expanding his stomach.

It was already threatening to burst, stretching larger and larger like he had an overdue baby in his belly. He bit his lip, feeling pain as he diverted a sliver of energy into the Universe Ring to summon out a small dagger. Breathing hard, he moved his hand towards his midsection and slowly spun his wrist. Turning the tip of the blade towards himself, he pulled open his robes and placed the sharp point against his bloated abdomen.

He let out a strangled roar, screaming for courage and stabbing the dagger into his body. Carefully placing the dagger to avoid his other internal organs and intestines, he gave it a push. Piercing his stomach and then giving the dagger a slight sideways pull to widen the hole. He carefully pulled the blade out, gritting his teeth to fight the pain. Even mentally prepared as he was, it was a terrible shock and he almost lost control of his Spirit Power. The liquid metal spilled out from the hole, Sage focusing with all his might to maintain the spike of Spirit Power. If he lost focus he would lose progress. Metallic blue liquid spilled onto the ground, forming into a puddle beneath him. It looked like a blue and icy version of slowly flowing magma. A very murky and thick frosty liquid. At the same time, bright red blood mixed into the blue spill, creating quite the brilliant contrast.

I cant even heal it, or the pressure will just build up again!




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