Rock Goat Enters the Body

"What exactly is this?"

Looking at the unfamiliar space before him, Lin Sheng's heart was as impossible to calm as a raging tsunami.

As though it had sensed his thoughts, a wisp of blood-red mist abruptly appeared before his eyes. Before he could react, it plunged directly into his body.

Lin Sheng only felt a stream of information flood into his consciousness.

"Mountain Sea Scroll."

When Lin Sheng regained his senses, he suddenly realized that he had returned to the slaughterhouse.

He was still tightly gripping that slaughtering knife in his hand.

The people around him continued busily working as though nothing had happened, as though that scene just now had been nothing more than an illusion.

Yet the memories that had appeared in his mind constantly reminded him that everything had truly happened—at least, it had for him.

After a brief daze, he immediately came back to himself, his eyes filled with barely concealed delight.

"My golden finger has finally arrived!?"

He muttered under his breath. A flash of crimson flickered through his eyes, and his consciousness entered that void space once more. The wavering mass of blood-red mist was still before him.

"The Mountain Sea Scroll can absorb the strength of ten thousand beasts into one's body, using the strengths of ten thousand beasts to make up for one's own shortcomings..."

That was the information in his mind regarding the Mountain Sea Scroll.

The method of activating the Mountain Sea Scroll was simple: absorb the essence blood of ten thousand beasts.

"Essence blood of ten thousand beasts."

Muttering softly, Lin Sheng could no longer restrain himself.

His gaze fell upon the wooden bucket below. Wasn't there ready-made rock goat blood right in front of him?

As the thought flashed through his mind, he glanced around. Only after seeing that no one was paying attention to him did he calmly slip one hand into the wooden bucket.

At once, he felt a faint warmth rise from his chest.

The instant his palm touched the blood in the bucket, a string of information immediately appeared in his mind.

Beast name: Rock Goat (Common Grade)

The most common beast in the wilderness. Small-headed, large-eyed, and beardless beneath the chin. This was a domesticated rock goat; years of captivity had long since stripped it of its wild nature. It truly belonged among the lowest ranks of common-grade beasts.

Requirements for Entering the Body: None

Effect of Entering the Body: Stamina Boost 1

"Stamina Boost!?"

After digesting the information in his consciousness, Lin Sheng did not hesitate. With a thought, he directly chose to let it enter his body.

He immediately felt the rock goat blood in the wooden bucket seem to be drawn by some force toward his palm.

In the span of a few breaths, one-third of the blood in the bucket had been absorbed by him.

Just as Lin Sheng worried that if he continued absorbing it, people might notice something was wrong, the pulling force from his palm abruptly vanished.

At the same time, the thin mass of blood-red mist in his consciousness space suddenly began to change.

In only a few breaths, it gathered into a rock goat standing proudly with its head raised.

Name: Lin Sheng

Beasts That Had Entered the Body: Rock Goat

Effect of Entering the Body: Stamina Boost 1

As the process completed, Lin Sheng instantly felt the exhaustion and weariness in his body vanish.

What replaced it was a vigorous, lively feeling.

He had to work every day during this period, and at night he still stayed up late practicing martial arts. Even though he paid great attention to maintaining his body, he inevitably felt sore-backed and weary while working each day.

But after the rock goat entered his body, he felt his condition improve to an unprecedented degree.

"So this is the effect of entering the body. I never expected it to work so instantly."

Feeling the tremendous changes in his body, Lin Sheng could not help but marvel inwardly.

At that moment, within the circular mark on his chest, he could faintly see a blood-red pattern—a simply outlined image of a rock goat.

Besides that, he also felt that the slaughtering knife in his hand seemed a little lighter.

"Has my strength increased as well?"

Thinking this, seemingly to test his guess, he picked up the slaughtering knife and began skillfully skinning the rock goat before him.

His movements, which had once been somewhat sluggish, now flowed far more smoothly. Especially at certain parts that were usually difficult to handle, he barely needed to exert any effort.

"As expected, my strength has increased somewhat too, probably by twenty to thirty percent. But the greatest increase is still in stamina."

Lin Sheng thought to himself, yet his hands did not slow in the slightest. His movements flowed like drifting clouds and running water, completed in one breath. Using only half his usual time, he skinned the rock goat perfectly intact, and the quality was even a little better than before.

Feeling the changes the golden finger had brought him, Lin Sheng took a deep breath before suppressing the wild joy in his heart.

To avoid drawing attention, he did not act too differently from usual. He merely finished work earlier than before, finishing two rock goats half an hour ahead of schedule.

Although they were still workers at the slaughterhouse, perhaps out of consideration for Tian Hu's reputation, Wang Dehai had given them some conveniences.

As long as they completed their daily quota of two rock goats, they could leave work early and go home. Of course, they could also choose to continue working.

After all, according to the rules of the skinning workshop, the more rock goats they processed each month, the higher their wages would be.

When he returned home, the sky was still bright. Lin Sheng did not waste any time. He immediately shut the courtyard gate and began practicing the Raging Bull Fist in the yard.

He desperately wanted to know what changes his current physical condition would bring to his Raging Bull Fist practice.

After taking up his stance, he immediately began training.

One minute... two minutes... three minutes...

Time quietly flowed by. Soon, five minutes had passed, yet Lin Sheng still felt that he had not reached his limit and had plenty of strength left.

Only after ten minutes did he feel a trace of fatigue, but he persisted nonetheless. It was not until fifteen minutes had passed that he finally relaxed.

Casually wiping the sweat from his forehead, his face was full of excitement.

"I was actually able to last fifteen minutes on my first try. This Stamina Boost is truly extraordinary—and that still wasn't my limit. I should be able to hold on for another two or three minutes."

Previously, he could only last a little over two minutes, but now he had multiplied that by nearly several times. He was even far stronger than Wu Gang, the most talented among all the skinning workers.

After resting only briefly, he began practicing again.

Since he had already met the fifteen-minute requirement for the fist stance, he planned to use the Qi Circulation Method during this session, attempting to stir the power of qi and blood within his body.

After the time it took to burn an incense stick, his taut body suddenly relaxed. He panted heavily, and beads of sweat had long covered his forehead.

"Did I fail? As expected, even after meeting the requirements for the fist stance, stirring qi and blood is not an easy matter."

Lin Sheng shook his head and gave a bitter smile, but he was not particularly discouraged. After all, he had never truly expected to succeed on his first attempt at stirring qi and blood.

Now that the rock goat had entered his body, his physical condition had already surpassed that of ordinary people by far. Even Wu Gang, the most gifted among the skinning workers, was nowhere close to him.