Chapter 70: Thousand Scars Ember, Feather Roost Return
“Li Tian, how are you?” Dugu Yan asked with concern, holding Li Tian.
“Listen—”
Li Tian was originally fine, just feeling a bit weak after relaxing.
But with her holding him like that, it seemed quite serious again.
“Pain—so much pain, every cell in my body hurts. Am I… not going to make it?”
Li Tian asked, feigning weakness.
“Ah?”
Dugu Yan instantly panicked, turning to shout at Dugu Bo: “Grandpa, come quickly, Li Tian says he might not make it.”
Dugu Bo: “...”
You brat, are you taking advantage of my granddaughter right in front of me?
“Is that so? Let me see.”
Dugu Bo walked closer, squatted down, and asked, “Where does it hurt?”
Li Tian weakly said, “My whole body hurts.”
“Does your hand hurt?” Dugu Bo grabbed his hand, secretly applying force as he spoke.
“Ow, ow, ow…”
Li Tian shook off Dugu Bo’s hand and abruptly sat up.
Dugu Yan: “.”
Dugu Bo laughed, “You seem perfectly fine, aren’t you quite agile?”
“Cough, cough.”
Li Tian gave an embarrassed smile: “Senior has excellent methods. In terms of healing, even the Nine Heart Begonia cannot compare to one ten-thousandth of yours.”
“Li Tian!”
Realizing she had been tricked, Dugu Yan gritted her teeth, squeezing out two words, and grabbed a handful of dirt to throw at Li Tian. Li Tian instinctively spread his wings, smoothly flying backward several meters.
“?”
Dugu Bo said in surprise: “Didn’t they say external Spirit Bones require long-term practice to fully control? How are you using yours so skillfully?”
“Ah?”
Li Tian was full of questions, but in an instant, he realized what the other person meant.
He tried a few times.
He found that his wings were like his hands and feet; there was no awkwardness in controlling them.
This was clearly not normal.
One must know that after Tang San absorbed his external Spirit Bone, let alone using it as an extension of his body, even basic control was extremely difficult, and he frequently lost control. Later, it was only with Yu Xiaogang's guidance and long-term practice that he barely managed to control it, and then finally achieved complete control with the help of the three great teaching elders' pressure.
Li Tian half-squatted and leaped upwards.
With his wings spreading, he shot straight into the clouds, reaching hundreds of meters high in the blink of an eye.
“So fast!”
Dugu Yan stared at the sky, dumbfounded. Li Tian’s figure was already just a black dot in her eyes.
Dugu Bo’s pupils also contracted.
With this flying speed, even a flying-type Spirit Emperor might not be able to catch him.
It seems this external Spirit Bone isn't so useless after all.
“Woohoo—”
Li Tian soared in the sky, so excited that he couldn't help but let out strange cries.
This was flying.
Earthlings, especially Chinese people, have an indescribable fantasy about flying.
He was naturally no exception.
When he was a child, watching Wuxia TV shows, he fantasized about how cool it would be if he could use Qinggong. And after watching Xianxia, he had an even stronger desire for flight.
Now, he could fly. How could he not be excited?
“Don’t fly too far, this is a Spirit Beast forest.”
Dugu Bo’s shout came from below, startling Li Tian.
He instantly sobered up.
After an exchange of glances, he quickly returned, afraid that a flying Spirit Beast might suddenly appear.
His wings wrapped around his body.
Li Tian plummeted towards the ground like a missile, then suddenly spread his wings a hundred meters from the ground, swooping towards a large tree.
“Swish, swish—”
He flew past the large tree, his wings like sharp blades, cutting through the tree.
“Rumble—”
The large tree collapsed with a crash, and Li Tian quietly hovered in the air, looking down.
After a series of tests, he finally confirmed.
He indeed had an unimaginable degree of control over this newly absorbed external Spirit Bone.
Furthermore.
He also received clear feedback on the abilities possessed by the external Spirit Bone.
Growth.
This goes without saying; it is an ability that all external Spirit Bones possess.
In addition to this, it also had a Spirit Ability: those sharp feather blades could detach from his body to attack enemies from a distance.
However, he would lose his flying ability after they detached, but he could recall the launched feather blades at any time.
As long as he controlled the distance well, he wouldn't be afraid of falling to his death.
Moreover, he didn't only have his wings for flying.
Chen Xin had a flying Spirit Ability.
Considering this, his external Spirit Bone didn't seem so bad after all; at least in terms of Spirit Ability, it was more useful than the Eight Spider Lances' devouring ability.
Let's call these wings the Cyber Golden Wings.
As for the Spirit Ability, Li Tian injected his spirit power into the Cyber Golden Wings, and the feather blades instantly detached, forming a metallic serpentine Dragon that swept towards a large tree not far away.
The speed was extremely fast; the naked eye could only see a serpentine Dragon formed by golden cold light.
Losing the Cyber Golden Wings.
Under the pull of Earth's gravity, Li Tian rapidly plummeted towards the ground.
“Puff, puff, puff…”
A part of that large tree turned into a sky full of wood chips under the cutting of hundreds of feather blades.
Then, those feather blades made a turn and flew towards Li Tian.
They returned one by one, quickly re-forming into a pair of wings.
Li Tian spread his wings and flew high into the sky again.
He fell from a hundred meters high, then took off again fifty meters from the ground.
This showed how fast the attack was.
“Thousand Scars Ember, Feather Roost Return!”
Li Tian secretly gave this Spirit Ability a name he considered decent.
The necessary tests were complete.
Li Tian slowly landed in front of Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, meeting Dugu Yan's gaze full of envy.
The ability to fly was something most Spirit Masters desired, and Li Tian's wings were so cool, and his Spirit Ability was explosive.
Who wouldn't be envious?
Most importantly, external Spirit Bones could grow with the Spirit Master.
One day, it would grow into a 100,000-year Spirit Bone.
At that time, both the flying speed and the power of that Spirit Ability would receive a huge boost.
Perhaps it could even derive another Spirit Ability.
Thinking of these things, envious Dugu Yan was almost drooling.
“You kid, your luck is unparalleled.”
Dugu Bo’s tone was sour. What about the supposedly useless external Spirit Bone?
It didn't look useless at all.
“Cough, cough—”
Li Tian humbly said, “Just luck, just luck.”
His luck was indeed good this time, and it also made Li Tian discover a problem.
The Thousand Machine Umbrella was even stronger than he imagined.
Under normal circumstances, an external Spirit Bone would absolutely not undergo such a change.
From the mechanical feel, it could only be because of the Thousand Machine Umbrella.
Even a Spirit Bone could be affected; let alone the entire Douluo series of novels, even if you added Douluo fan fiction, no one had ever heard of such a thing.
The Thousand Machine Umbrella, forever a god.
He just didn't know if Spirit Bones in the correct positions would change because of this.
It should not be possible.
After all, normal Spirit Bones appear in bone form; mechanizing them would turn them into prosthetics, and this wasn't a cyberpunk World.