Chapter 153: 147, One-Eyed Demon Sword (Seeking Subscription & Monthly Tickets)
Perhaps, I can try to visualize the broken knife.
There’s no rule in the Soul Splitting Skill on what to visualize; as long as I can visualize it, the more realistic, the better.
Although there is a principle that the higher the grade of the visualized object, the greater its positive impact on Spiritual Strength.
But Visualization must come first.
If it were before today, asking me to visualize the broken knife, I might have had to reconsider.
But just now, when I stabbed that Kongming White Ape, the broken knife actually absorbed the Star Power and Life Force from its body!
Perhaps visualizing the broken knife might have other wonderful uses?
Lu Lin’s heart burned with anticipation. He stopped the car, held the broken knife in his hands, and examined it meticulously.
The broken knife doesn’t look particularly eye-catching and appears somewhat damaged.
However, as he continued to look at it, Lu Lin faintly sensed that the broken knife wasn’t truly damaged.
It might be that the Star Device Master deliberately forged the broken knife into this very appearance.
Even the patterns and bloodstains on its surface might have been added during forging.
When I stabbed the Kongming White Ape just now, there were some bloodstains on the blade, but these stains didn’t leave any permanent marks.
Realizing the extraordinary nature of the broken knife, Lu Lin also had a peculiar feeling.
He remembered that when he first bought the broken knife, he didn’t possess much strength. When he used it to practice the Ten Steps Kill, he felt the blade’s weight was just right for him to control.
But after cultivating the Golden Body Sutra, his physical strength increased from a few hundred pounds to three thousand pounds, and now it had doubled again to 6,000 pounds. Yet, when he used the broken knife, it still felt perfectly suited to him.
The F Level Alloy Warsword given by the War God Alliance feels light to me, so just how heavy is this broken knife in my hand?
Or is it actually a magic treasure?
Just like in those mythological stories—it could become larger or smaller. Light as a feather when small, and heavy as a thousand-weight when large, it completely defied the laws of conservation of mass and energy.
Lu Lin didn’t know, nor did he have much inclination to speculate.
His sole objective now was to commit every detail of the broken knife’s image to memory and then replicate it within his Consciousness Universe.
「An hour later.」
Lu Lin felt he was almost ready.
The image, size, patterns, bloodstains, handle, and guard of the broken knife—he had memorized them all, ensuring no detail was amiss.
He closed his eyes and entered the Consciousness Universe.
Lu Lin observed the dark Consciousness Universe and began to depict.
It doesn’t work.
I can remember every detail of the broken knife, but I just can’t depict it.
If I can’t depict it, I can’t visualize it.
This Soul Splitting Skill was a secret technique of the Kongming White Ape Clan. Other exotic beasts had attempted this cultivation, and while they could understand every word of the technique, they were unable to successfully practice it.
It wasn’t just exotic beasts in the Demon God Kingdom that attempted this Secret Method. Powerful individuals from various Alien Races also sought to learn and cultivate it, but all their efforts ultimately proved futile.
Lu Lin didn’t know if any humans had ever cultivated it.
But right now, in his Consciousness Universe, he could clearly feel that obstruction.
The image of the broken knife was vivid in his consciousness, yet he couldn’t depict it in the Consciousness Universe.
"I refuse to believe it!" Lu Lin exclaimed inwardly, his resolve hardening.
"Humans are the pinnacle of all creation! There’s no reason I can’t cultivate a Cultivation Method that even an ape can learn."
"Souls on twin banks cry on, unceasingly, yet my swift boat has passed ten thousand peaks."
"On Yearning Ridge, tears of longing flow; ere three calls sound, the heart with sorrow breaks."
"Where even yellow cranes cannot take flight, apes, seeking passage, grieve with every climb."
...
Lu Lin had to resort to his Trump Card.
Earlier, while in the outside world, he had specifically searched for poems describing apes, never expecting they would actually come in handy now.
Just as Lu Lin began reciting the poems, something suddenly floated out from his Eyeball Star Core.
It wasn’t just ’something.’
It was actually an eye.
It looked like a smaller version of the colossal eye Lu Lin had first seen in his Consciousness Universe.
The floating eye drifted before Lu Lin’s spiritual body, directly facing him.
Then, the eye elongated, transformed, and changed color.
It preliminarily took on the shape of the broken knife.
Then, patterns, bloodstains, and some marks Lu Lin hadn’t even noticed before appeared on the blade, followed by the guard and the handle.
Once the broken knife was completely replicated, an eye suddenly appeared on the guard, at the front of the handle.
Lu Lin was stunned from beginning to end. He hadn’t expected that he wouldn’t have to do anything; the broken knife had naturally completed its depiction.
Was this a bit too easy?
Swinging the broken knife in his hand a couple of times, Lu Lin could feel his Spiritual Strength gradually increasing.
As long as the broken knife remained in the Consciousness Universe, his Spiritual Strength would increase at a constant rate.
This was far superior to the method of the Kongming White Ape Clan, who had to rely on Visualization to bolster their Spiritual Strength.
My Spiritual Strength can undergo automatic cultivation and grow stronger!
Lu Lin raised the broken knife in his hand and laughed heartily.
Now, this broken knife in the Consciousness Universe should have a more suitable name.
One-Eyed Demon Knife.
Hearing Lu Lin bestow the name, the broken knife in his hand trembled.
He couldn’t tell if it was due to excitement, agitation, or approval, but it certainly wasn’t disdain.
Lu Lin exited the Consciousness Universe and drove home.
Unexpectedly, today’s biggest gain wasn’t the living Kongming White Ape, nor the hundreds of bags of pet food, nor even the Magnetic Levitation Car I’m driving, but the Soul Splitting Skill!
This Mental Secret Skill, which no one in the Exotic Battlefield had even attempted to cultivate for so long, had unexpectedly been mastered by Lu Lin.
I wonder how agonizing it would be for the young Kongming White Ape I stabbed, if it ever found out.
A casually discarded secret book had actually been successfully cultivated by someone!
「Meanwhile.」
The Kongming White Ape that Lu Lin had stabbed was squatting listlessly in a cage. Not far from it sat a young scholar wearing a white coat and glasses.
Bai Buyi.
He was one of the few specialists in the Star Investigation Office dedicated to researching exotic creatures.
Typically, such talents were found in the Human Federation’s major research institutions focusing on exotic beasts and alien species.
Alternatively, they might join organizations like the Exotic Beast Investigation Department or the Alien Race Investigation Bureau.
The Star Investigation Office primarily handled crimes committed by human Star Core Warriors; cases involving exotic beasts were extremely rare.
"Tell me," Bai Buyi asked with a smile, "what brings you to the Human Federation?"
He had just performed tests on this Kongming White Ape, and all the data indicated one thing:
This juvenile Kongming White Ape had prematurely entered old age.
It sounds contradictory, yet it’s perfectly scientific.
Indicators such as its blood’s Star Power capacity and the wrinkled, pale-red skin visible where its fur had thinned, all showed that this Kongming White Ape had entered old age. It likely had less than two years of its lifespan remaining.
Such a strange paradox made Bai Buyi even more curious.
Just what had those investigators downstairs done to this white ape?
"I won’t tell you!"
"Humans are all demons!"
"I’ll never run away again!"
The little white ape said, sobbing.
To others, its vocalizations sounded like "ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!", but Bai Buyi was a top student of Demon Race languages; how could he fail to understand?
"Don’t be afraid. Tell me what happened and how you came to the human world. If you tell me, and if it’s possible, I’ll arrange for you to return to Kongming Mountain."
"Kongming Mountain?" the white ape asked, looking up.
"Yes. I know many Big Shots. As long as you’re cooperative, I can ask them to send you back."
"BOO HOO... I want to go home! I’ll be a good boy from now on, I won’t run off anymore!"
"Whatever you want to know, I’ll tell you."
Hearing this, a smile spread across Bai Buyi’s face.
Intelligence on the Kongming White Ape Clan... finally within reach!