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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 449

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:21:03 AM


Chapter 449: Mute

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Chapter 449: Mute

The demon in that chamber of Sages mental labyrinth was smashing its hands against the door, trying to break out and overwhelm him with the sharp pain. Sage was no stranger to the pain of losing a limb. Such injuries were so severe that the body basically shut down the sense of pain. Bottling up his sense of pain served a similar purpose. The loss of a major body part was more traumatic than it was life threatening for him. With his healing ability, he could recover from such wounds pretty quickly. With his bodys focus being on other areas, it meant it was no longer powerful enough to regrow limbs and extremities, but it would make it quite difficult for him to die from blood loss.

Now tongueless, Sage swallowed a few healing pills and waited for his body to stabilize from the loss. Once recovered, he returned to his human form for the crafting process and examined the giant forked tongue that had been sitting in stasis for an hour. He made sure it fit the requirements listed for the Hearts Tongue technique and then went to gather supporting materials. The requirements for materials were quite loose and Sage had a whole planet full of herbs and plants to draw from, so he quickly found suitable items.

He also felt a bit inspired and incorporated his Heavenly Materials in the process. A Heavenly Material was like a seed, when it was provided with enough Qi it grew and multiplied. In most cases it created a form of energy, but some of them created a type of matter. Sage actually had two such materials, the Blue Icesilver and Black Enhydros. The Hearts Tongue had no need for a metallic material like the Blue Icesilver. It would surely be a pain to always need to expend Qi to merely speak, but he did come up with a use for the Black Enhydros.

Sage drained the blood from the forked tongue and carefully infused it with a replacement fluid. The new fluid was a mixture of the Black Enhydros, Green Lifewater, Moon Honey, and a few other supporting herbs. The Green Lifewater is a Heavenly Material that Sage received from Guan Zhenyan to grow the plants on his Inner World. It carries a small amount of lifeforce and is very good at raising the potency of plants watered by it. The Moon Honey is created by the Silverbees that Sage still has colonies of in the Universe Ring and the Inner World. It was very good at absorbing the qualities of ambient Qi and transferring them to those who consume it. It was a very commonly used mixing medium to bond two other substances. It acted as a glue for the other ingredients and combined them into a stable state.

Whoa, is it working? Was that your voice, or am I just imagining it?

Yes. Yes. Feed me! Worms, big slippery worms. Crickets, big crunchy crickets. Carcasses, big smelly carcasses.

Sage made the determination that the Hearts Tongue was working. The Vulture Gecko was just a simpleton. It wasnt a surprise. Insects were quite like robots and he was sure if he tried talking to them it would be just as entertaining as talking to a toaster. The Hoplites were already pretty dull and they were the product of his focused attempt to increase intelligence. Most Demonic Beasts had to get very powerful and old to increase their intelligence and have a hope of attaining a human form on their own. The Vulture Gecko was a mutant he created to breed quickly for use as a flying mount, he didnt care about making them intelligent at the time. Not bothering to talk with the Gecko any longer he sent it back to the Inner World and told some Hoplites to feed it. Then he moved from the Universe Ring and back out to the Chameleon Mantis.

Time for a real test.




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