In the wilderness, Lin Sheng smashed a large pit in the ground and placed the lifeless body inside.
After a moment of hesitation, he dismissed the idea of erecting a tombstone for him.
After all, his name should be known to the Guo family, and if they found it, he might not be able to rest in peace.
"Yuanyang Beast Sect, Gongsun Shou."
He muttered the name, bowed towards the burial site, and then turned to leave.
Regarding the other party's identity, he had a guess when he accurately pointed out the weakness of the centipede monster in the underground space.
This person should be the abandoned disciple of the Yuanyang Beast Sect that Guo Feng saved, as mentioned by Huang Quan.
However, judging from his situation, he was also used by Guo Feng after being saved.
He didn't know exactly what happened between the two, but that centipede monster was likely cultivated by Guo Feng using the Blood Beast Spirit Imbueing Method.
Although it couldn't be considered a Spirit Beast yet, it was undoubtedly a Pseudo-Spirit Beast.
From this, it could be seen that this beast-cultivation method was quite remarkable.
It was only then that Lin Sheng focused his attention on the panel, specifically the information about the centipede monster.
【Beast Name: Blood Demon Centipede (Pseudo-Spirit Beast)】
【A special mutated beast artificially cultivated using a special method. It possesses the blood of a thousand spirits, has tenacious vitality, and can be classified as a Pseudo-Spirit Beast. However, there are defects in its cultivation, lacking intelligence, being bloodthirsty and murderous, with a high possibility of devouring its master.】
【Required for Embodiment: Physique 2, Stamina 2】
【Embodiment Effect: Physique 5, Stamina 3, Agility 2】
【Talent: Rapid Healing (Initial Level)】
"Blood Demon Centipede..."
Seeing the information on the panel, Lin Sheng chewed on the name.
However, when he saw the embodiment attributes of this centipede monster, his eyes lit up, and quickly a look of pleasant surprise appeared on his face.
"There's actually a Physique bonus of five points!!"
As he couldn't help but exclaim, what surprised him even more was the long-awaited talent attribute.
This was the second talent he had seen after Earth Affinity.
He had experienced the effect of the Earth Affinity talent many times personally, and it was an important factor that allowed him to fight Blood Transportation Warriors in the Forging Tendons Realm. There was no doubt about its improvement to his strength.
Thinking of this, he was already eager to embody the Blood Demon Centipede and feel what changes would occur after embodiment.
As for the attributes required for embodiment, he had already met them. Even without embodying any mutated beast, his own Physique was enough to meet the requirement of two points in Physique and Stamina.
The System panel could be visualized, and he had checked his body's various attributes before. Without any embodiment enhancement, his Physique and Stamina both reached two points.
Of course, his highest attributes were Agility and Strength, both reaching 3 points.
In addition, there was one point in Perception, and an attribute that had never appeared before, Spirit.
This was the data of his own strength visualized with attribute points, with a total of 11 attribute points.
It seemed like one more point than the ten-point attribute increase from embodying the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile cub and the current Blood Demon Centipede.
But he knew very well that without the embodiment attribute increase, he would have no chance of winning against the Blood Demon Centipede with his own strength, and it was very likely that he might not even be able to escape.
Therefore, the embodiment attributes do not represent the attributes of these mutated beasts themselves.
The Blood Demon Centipede's embodiment attribute increase is ten points. Based on the distribution of its various attributes, its specific strength can be seen.
"A five-point Physique increase, no wonder it was so tough, even stronger than the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile by one point."
Don't underestimate this one-point difference. The larger the attribute increase value, the more significant a one-point difference is.
As for the second highest Stamina increase of three points, and the third highest Agility increase of two points, they were just average.
"Let me see how the five-point Physique increase feels."
With a thought, Lin Sheng silently willed to embody the Blood Demon Centipede.
The next moment, he felt the blood in his body suddenly boil, as if his whole body was burning with fire, and the blood in his body kept rolling.
Like a tide, it swept from the inside out to all parts of his body.
Lin Sheng was prepared for this situation, as he had experienced it once when he first embodied the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile.
This was a side effect of embodying a high-grade mutated beast for the first time. As long as this severe pain subsided, there would be no such abnormality when embodying it again later.
He also had a guess about the occurrence of this situation. It was nothing more than his own Physique being too weak compared to the mutated beast he was embodying. However, as his cultivation increased, this situation would become weaker and weaker until it completely disappeared.
As the tidal wave of severe pain continued to wash over him, his body shape also began to change.
His body became taller and stronger at a speed visible to the naked eye, and red patterns appeared on his exposed skin.
His pupils instantly turned blood-red, and his messy black hair was also dyed a touch of crimson.
His whole person looked indescribably evil.
Of course, the change in body shape was very different from when he embodied the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile. Although both became taller and stronger, compared to the heaviness of the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile, it was more of a sense of fitness, and his whole body's skin was quite delicate and smooth, completely opposite to the roughness after embodying the former.
However, as he moved, the red patterns covering his body also slowly twisted, like countless wriggling red snakes, giving people a chilling feeling.
Looking at his smooth arms, where pores were almost invisible, Lin Sheng didn't pay attention to these things, but slowly stretched his body, feeling the changes in his body at this moment.
At this moment, he only felt that the blood in his body had become unprecedentedly rich. When he pointed his finger on the muscle of his arm, it felt like a smooth piece of beautiful jade, yet full of elasticity, and it would cut open without much force being applied.
Without stopping his movement, he directly stretched out his palm and plunged it into his other arm, and the force suddenly erupted.
However, the feedback felt like an elastic spring. Most of the force that was originally about to burst out was directly bounced back.
"Interesting."
Seeing this scene, a look of interest appeared on his face. Obviously, the Physique increase of the Blood Demon Centipede was quite different from that of the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile.
Although this effect was not as tough as the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile, the actual defense was much higher.
If ten points of force were applied, perhaps only half of the force would land on the body, and the other half would be directly dispersed by the muscles, and the force that landed on the body would also be reflected back faster.
In addition, there was the most important point.
Lin Sheng stretched out his finger and drew a line on his forearm with force.
A small wound appeared on the muscle.
Tiny drops of blood flowed out from it.
However, within a few breaths, this small wound had stopped bleeding and began to scab over.
After about ten minutes, the wound had completely healed, and there was basically no trace left.
"Activate Rapid Healing!"
He muttered in a low voice, and once again stretched out his finger, drawing another wound on his forearm with force.
Crimson blood drops flowed out from the wound, but the next moment, as if there was an attraction in his body, the blood drops were pulled back in, and the wound on his forearm also began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye. Hair-thin flesh buds surged out from the wound, intertwining with each other, completely covering the wound, and finally the wound was completely restored to its original state.
"Three breaths... The wound completely healed in three breaths."
He calculated the time it took to heal, and his eyes became brighter.
Three breaths translated into modern units is only about ten seconds.
Such a recovery speed would probably make those scientific researchers in his previous life drop their jaws.
"Before activating the Rapid Healing talent, it took about ten minutes for such a wound to heal. It seems that activating the Rapid Healing talent directly increased my healing efficiency by about 60 times."
He couldn't help but exclaim.
"No wonder that centipede monster's vitality is so strong. With such a talent, it would be strange if it weren't strong."
Of course, this was just the simplest experiment. To understand how strong this talent effect was, he still needed to do more experiments.
"I wonder if it can reach the point of regrowing severed limbs..."
This thought flashed through his mind, but he quickly shook his head slightly and smiled wryly.
"It's not the right time yet. Let's go to Linjiang first, and then experiment after settling down in Linjiang Prefecture."
Suppressing the restless emotions in his heart, Lin Sheng quickened his pace and rushed towards Linjiang Prefecture.
It would be best if he could catch up with Xiao Shi and the others.
They had left more than an hour before him. At his speed, he might be able to catch up with them in not too long.
Although there was a Blood Transportation Warrior like Huang Quan escorting them, he thought they wouldn't encounter any danger, but he still needed to see it with his own eyes to be at ease.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Clatter, clatter, clatter...
The sound of hurried carriages echoed from the official road. Two carriages raised large clouds of dust on the yellow ground, scaring away several wild rabbits that were approaching the official road from afar.
"Senior, if we leave like this, will it attract experts from the County Town to chase after us?"
Wang Dehai was driving the carriage, occasionally raising his whip and letting it fall on the black horse in front. However, he looked at the skinny old man sitting beside him, who was calmly smoking his pipe, with some worry.
Just as they were about to leave the city, the guards at the city gate were normal, but then they saw two sneaky figures in the crowd whispering to the city gate official.
What was the city gate official's reaction after that? The old man jumped out of the carriage first, knocked out the several guards blocking the city gate, then kicked the carriage hard, and drove the two carriages straight out of the city gate.
The guards behind wanted to chase after them, but they were also knocked out by the old man with lightning speed. As for the two sneaky figures who whispered to the city gate official, they were even beaten to death against the wall by the old man with his pipe.
Breaking out of the city gate like that really startled him.
Although he didn't know why the number of guards at the city gate was much less than usual, if they were caught by the officials by forcing their way out of the city gate like this, they would definitely be killed on the spot.
Moreover, there were many experts in the County Town's government office. There were at least two great experts at the Blood Transportation level. If a Blood Transportation Warrior chased after them, he seriously doubted whether the old man beside him could hold on, although he could see that the old man's strength was extremely strong.
But his heart was also pounding.
However, what surprised him more was how his Brother Lin had become more and more unfathomable to him in the blink of an eye.
Not only was his own strength very strong, but he could also arrange for a powerful expert like the old man beside him to escort them.
This change was too damn big.
He also thought about whether Lin Sheng was a young talent from some legendary hidden family or sect who was down the mountain for training.
But he felt it was unlikely. After all, he didn't think such a young talent would spend several months skinning animals in a smelly and dirty Slaughterhouse. Wouldn't that be a complete waste of time?
However, while he was confused, he couldn't hide his joy.
It still had to be me, Fatty Wang, with my unique insight and sharp eyes, who could see at a glance that this child was extraordinary, and had already established a connection with him early on.
But the more he thought about it, the more he regretted why he was so stingy back then and didn't invest a little more to deepen their relationship.
"Don't worry, they're just a bunch of rotten fish and shrimp. If they catch up, this handsome one will handle it. Just drive your carriage properly."
While Wang Dehai was lost in thought, Huang Quan took a puff from his pipe, showed a relaxed expression, and then said impatiently.
As he spoke, he also stretched out his somewhat dirty hand and stroked his messy, grayish-white hair on his forehead.
"Uh... Understood."
Fatty Wang was a little stunned, but he still nodded subconsciously.
After realizing it belatedly, he muttered to himself with a strange feeling.
"Handsome?? What handsome!?"
"Alright, don't bother me anymore. I'm tired, I'll rest for a while."
At this time, Huang Quan seemed to feel a little bored. After taking another hard puff, he conjured a book from behind him.
Then he shrank into the carriage and began to read with relish.
Wang Dehai turned his head suspiciously and looked curiously at the book in the other person's hand, whose title seemed to have been deliberately smeared off.
"No wonder his martial arts are so high. In this situation, he still doesn't forget to study martial arts secrets."
While he was a little respectful, he also seemed to notice that the pattern on the old book looked like a drawing of a woman.
"I saw it wrong, I must have seen it wrong..."
Muttering to himself, Wang Dehai widened his eyes, trying to see more clearly.
"What are you looking at? If you're interested, I'll sell it to you for five thousand taels of silver."
Huang Quan said without lifting his eyelids.
This immediately startled Wang Dehai, and he quickly turned his head back, concentrating on driving the carriage. Martial arts techniques were the most important things for anyone. He didn't want to be remembered just because he looked at them a few more times.
The carriage sped away, and Huang Quan was engrossed in reading, his pale, wrinkled face flushed red.
Just then, his ears twitched, and then he frowned, reluctantly closed the book, and carefully put it into his Arms.
Woof woof woof...
At this moment, Big Yellow's barking also sounded from the carriage behind.
Huang Quan raised his eyebrows and looked at Big Yellow, who was barking wildly at the back from the carriage behind, and couldn't help but click his tongue twice.
"This yellow dog is indeed not an ordinary dog... It's just a pity that kid won't let go... It's really a shame."
He muttered to himself, and the next moment, his figure disappeared from the carriage.