Deepwater Mussel Pearls and Advanced Body-Tempering Potions

Deepwater Mussel Pearls + Advanced Body-Tempering Potions

Song Chi immediately leaned closer.

"Dad, what are you looking at?"

Song Chao shot his son a sidelong glance without answering, then quickly turned back to the star chart before him.

Song Chi glanced toward the kitchen. Seeing that his mother was not paying attention to the living room, he leaned close to Song Chao's ear and whispered, "Dad, did you find out anything concrete about the Titanium Crystals?"

Song Chao's expression remained unchanged as he said blandly, "This isn't something you can get involved in. Focus on preparing for your third alien starfield deployment."

Though Song Chao's tone was mild, Song Chi had lived with him for thirty years and knew him better than anyone. His father was usually easygoing, but whenever he got serious, his tone became softer. And the softer his tone, the less likely he was to change any decision he made.

If he kept pressing about the Titanium Crystals, Song Chao would probably really lose his temper. Thinking of what his father was like when angry, Song Chi wisely shut his mouth.

After lunch, he briefly told his father and mother that he would be focusing entirely on cultivating the Psionic Guidance Technique for the next five or six days. If he did not leave his room during that time, they need not worry about him.

Song Chao and Chen Lixia nodded without asking any further questions.

The Psionic Guidance Technique had taken the Kindling Human Civilization tens of thousands of years to develop, followed by nearly two hundred thousand years of continuous refinement. Its cultivation effects far exceeded what one might imagine.

With absorbed psionic energy replenishing the body's expenditure of life energy, one could not quite reach the foodless, breatharian state described in web novels, but going ten days or half a month without food or water was perfectly normal.

However, the abundant blood-energy contained in food could further accelerate cultivation of the Psionic Guidance Technique, so most people still ate normally.

Before returning to his bedroom, Song Chi tentatively asked his father a question.

"Dad, do we have any way of getting advanced body-tempering potions?"

It had only been a casual question. Perhaps, deep down, he still held a sliver of hope regarding the Dinghai Song Clan his father had mentioned before. Yet the moment the words left his mouth, Song Chi immediately felt that he had been overthinking things.

If the so-called Dinghai Song Clan truly possessed considerable influence, how could he have gone thirty years without receiving even the slightest treatment befitting a noble descendant?

Or had the Dinghai Song Clan been reduced to nothing but a high-level visualization chart?

Yet Song Chao's next response greatly surprised him.

"Advanced body-tempering potions? You need those?"

"Body-tempering potions of that level are powerful, but they also have high requirements for physical fitness. Usually, only those with a Guidance Technique at lv10 or above can use them. Are you sure you want to try one now?"

Snapping out of his daze, Song Chi asked again uncertainly, "Dad, are you saying you can actually get them?"

Song Chao shook his head.

"It's not a matter of whether I can get them. Your dad already has some. If you want them, go take them yourself. They're in the bookcase on the right in the study."

As he spoke, he tossed over a key. Then, to make sure, he asked again, "Are you certain you can use them? The effects of advanced body-tempering potions are too potent. If your physical fitness isn't enough, they won't accelerate your cultivation. They'll damage your body instead."

"During this alien starfield exploration, I got several Deepwater Mussel Pearls that are over three hundred years old. It should be fine."

Hearing Song Chi's answer, Song Chao thought for a moment before nodding.

"Deepwater Mussel Pearls over three hundred years old are fairly rare. Their age is a little low, but they should barely suffice. Go get them."

"I originally planned to let you use them after your Guidance Technique reached the first rank. But since you were lucky enough to obtain several Deepwater Mussel Pearls of decent age, using them early is fine. The sooner you use them, the greater the effect the advanced body-tempering potions can exert."

Song Chi ran excitedly toward the study. After unlocking the bookcase with the key his father had given him, he successfully found an exquisite potion case. There were only three potions inside, and judging from the markings and color along the edges of the tubes, they were indeed advanced body-tempering potions.

Looking at the three exquisite purple-tubed potions, Song Chi's gaze grew somewhat unfocused. From this moment on, he began to see the four words "Dinghai Song Clan" differently.

After hesitating for a while, he ultimately took all three potions.

He still had five Deepwater Mussel Pearls. The seven-hundred-year and nine-hundred-year pearls would each be more than enough to pair with one advanced body-tempering potion, while he planned to use the remaining three three-hundred-year pearls together to neutralize another advanced body-tempering potion.

Compared to the potency of a single advanced body-tempering potion, one three-hundred-year Deepwater Mussel Pearl was clearly not enough to fully neutralize its violent medicinal properties. Three used together, however, should be about right.

Moreover, using them together would not waste either one's effects. It would merely extend the potion's duration considerably.

"Dad, I took all of them."

Song Chao nodded lightly to indicate his approval, while his mother, standing nearby, worriedly reminded him once more.

"Son, don't push yourself. Watch your condition carefully. If your body can't take it, stop cultivating immediately."

"Got it, Mom."

Holding the three advanced body-tempering potions, Song Chi eagerly returned to the Market Ruins.

Inside the All-Attribute Cultivation Room, after adjusting his body to its optimal state, he swallowed the advanced body-tempering potion mixed with the powder of three three-hundred-year Deepwater Mussel Pearls in one gulp.

A wave of burning heat immediately rose from his abdomen. Then, a huge amount of far-from-gentle energy surged from his stomach and rapidly flooded every limb and bone in his body.

Crack, crack, crack!

Fine popping sounds rang from all the bones in his body. It sounded frightening, but Song Chi actually felt fairly good. There was no unbearable, tearing agony. Instead, waves of numb tingling spread throughout his entire body.

Correspondingly, the speed at which psionic energy flowed into his body became increasingly astonishing. If his cultivation speed had been 60 when he previously took that intermediate body-tempering potion mixed with a single three-hundred-year Deepwater Mussel Pearl, then his cultivation speed now was 100.

Though this speed was not much higher than before, the potion's enhancement lasted for a full three days—three times as long as before.

Three days later, when Song Chi emerged from cultivation once more, his Psionic Guidance Technique had risen from lv5 to lv6. He had also advanced a considerable distance toward lv7.

Having developed a taste for it, Song Chi did not stop cultivating. Instead, he directly took out the second advanced body-tempering potion and added the powder of the seven-hundred-year Deepwater Mussel Pearl.

Once it had been completely neutralized, he swallowed it in one gulp as well.

The effects of this potion were several times more terrifying than the previous one. This time, the tingling throughout Song Chi's body was no longer the only sensation; it was mixed with considerable pain. Fortunately, it was still not a major problem, and his body could continue to endure it.

However, Song Chi understood that he would not be able to use the nine-hundred-year Deepwater Mussel Pearl for the next dose anytime soon—unless he wanted every blood vessel in his body to burst, leaving him with incurable internal damage.