550. This Is a... Stone with a Billion Years of History

At the center of the forehead, as spiritual energy circulates, it brings a refreshing sensation.

Then, when this cool aura accumulated to a certain degree, it transformed into a bronze light flashing between Song Shuhang's eyebrows. At this moment, Song Shuhang felt a faint throbbing pain between his eyebrows—this was the pain caused by his physical body not being able to keep up with his spiritual power.

As time goes on, this stinging sensation will become more and more intense.

Normally, only Third-Grade Cultivator can condense and compress their spiritual power from the intangible into a tangible form.

The bronze color is the Transformation of spiritual power. At this stage, spiritual power is like that of an infant; although its direct offensive power is weak, it has many wondrous uses.

When spiritual power increases again with the advancement of cultivation realm and transforms into a bright silver color, it is a symbol of the maturity of spiritual power. At that time, the cultivator will have enough spiritual power to cultivate the Sword Flight technique and ride the sword to the Nine Heavens.

After those 88,888 voices were chanted in Shuhang's mind for two days and two nights, they directly pushed his mental strength to the level of Third-Grade cultivator.

As a result, the physical fitness that had been painstakingly improved could not keep up with the mental strength.

Mental strength far surpasses physical strength... This gap is not something that a single body-refining technique like "Steel Hand" can bridge.

"This is a headache, another one of these happy troubles... I need to find a way to improve my physique quickly," Song Shuhang thought to himself.

I always feel like my physical condition is never good enough, no matter how much I try to improve it.

Perhaps I really should consider learning a systematic body-refining technique like the 'Dharma King Creation'? Actually, the Dharma King Creation's <War Buddha True Body> is quite cool; when he transforms, he's like Super Saiyan, albeit a bald version.

Wiping the blood from his face, Song Shuhang rested for a while before looking around. It was still the same space made of mirrors, but the glowing black sphere in the space had disappeared.

Even though the light source was gone, the entire Mirror Space became even brighter—every mirror was glowing.

"Speaking of which, what exactly were those 88,888 sounds?" Song Shuhang rubbed his temples, recalling the sounds that had lasted for nearly two days and two nights and almost driven him crazy.

No... My head hurts so much. Just recalling the scene of those 88,888 voices makes Song Shuhang feel pale and weak all over.

He reached out and braced himself against the mirror beside him, panting heavily.

[Buzz~~]

At that moment, a buzzing sound came to his ears. At the same time, his right hand, which was supporting himself on the mirror, felt as if it had been put into a meat grinder and was being wrung out. A sharp pain came, and large beads of sweat slid down Song Shuhang's forehead.

"What happened?" Song Shuhang pulled his hand back... and saw that there were hundreds of wounds on his right hand.

The wound wasn't deep; given his current physical condition, it would heal completely in a few minutes. But it was incredibly painful. This pain was as if his pain receptors had been amplified a hundredfold!

"Strange, I wasn't attacked at all just now," Song Shuhang. He was just holding the mirror with his hand, so why did his wrist have hundreds of wounds?

He looked at the mirror he had just been holding with his right hand. Could there be something strange about this mirror?

Song Shuhang's figure was reflected in the mirror.

He looked in the mirror, Shuhang in the mirror was also looking in at him.

A moment later, Song Shuhang noticed something odd about his reflection in the mirror.

It's an eye!

In the mirror, countless runes appeared in his eyes, covering his pupils. Then, these runes burst forth from his eye sockets and hurtled forward!

[It's not that the reflection in the mirror is strange, but rather that there's something unusual about your own pupils!]

The runes in Song Shuhang's eye sockets fell onto the mirror, vaguely forming the shape of a 'clock'.

He could see the clock hands rapidly moving backward. In the blink of an eye, they had gone back about a hundred times.

Then, these runes dispersed from the clock's state, flew back from the mirror, and landed back in Song Shuhang's eye sockets.

After the runes returned, Song Shuhang involuntarily spoke up: [Ordinary glass enhanced with magic is harder than steel... The time of its creation Unknown the creator. It was transported here by Fairy Chu when Time City was established, and each mirror was imbued with an illuminating spell.]

After speaking, Song Shuhang paused.

Huh?

Why did I suddenly start talking?

Coming to his senses, he realized that he had just been recounting the origin of the 'mirror' in front of him.

This mirror was just an ordinary glass mirror, but it was enhanced by magic by a master. Later, Fairy Chu moved it here to create a 'Mirror Space'.

In other words, this Mirror Space is the work of Fairy Chu? Then, is the Glowing Jellyfish that brought him here also related to Fairy Chu?

Song Shuhang rubbed his temples to relieve the throbbing pain and clear his mind.

It seems I unintentionally cast a spell just now? And this spell must be something like [Appraisal Technique]?

No, it can't be as simple as 'Appraisal Technique'! He just saw the runes that came out of his eyes combine to form the shape of a 'clock' on the mirror.

Could this spell be related to time?

But... what exactly is this spell? And how am I supposed to use it?

Boom boom boom~~

As Song Shuhang pondered, the two mirrors in front of him automatically opened, revealing a passage to leave the 'Mirror Space'.

Clearly, someone had been monitoring his condition. Once they confirmed that he had received the inheritance and learned the secret techniques, they opened the door for him to leave.

Perhaps the glowing jellyfish was the one that opened the door; after all, it's quite possible that it brought me here.

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Song Shuhang grabbed his Overlord Shatter Saber, and strode into the passage. He wanted to know what the glowing jellyfish was up to.

The passageway is not long.

Five minutes later, Song Shuhang had left the passage. However, what appeared in front of him was not the 'tree hole space' where the Glowing Jellyfish was located.

After stepping out of the passage, he found himself in the underground passage of 'Time City'.

Ahead was the ordinary hall that he and Chu Chu had entered when they first entered the Underground City 'Time City'. There was nothing in the hall except for a portrait of the founder of 'Jadewater Pavilion', which hung alone in the hall.

When Song Shuhang turned his head, he found that the 'passage' he had just come out of had disappeared.

If it weren't for the throbbing pain between his eyebrows, he would have wondered if he had been sleepwalking.

"Anyway, let's go find Chu Chu first," Song Shuhang said after thinking for a moment.

The hundreds of wounds on his hands have mostly healed, but the excruciating pain still stings his nerves.

Speaking of which, last time the 'Myriad-Mile Escape Technique' made her fly away so suddenly, leaving Chu Chu in the One Hundred and Eight Bronze Men Formation, I wonder how she is now?

She didn't cry from being beaten by the 108 bronze men, did she?

I hope she's safe and sound... It would be even better if she had already left 'Time City' safely.

Finding Chu Chu wasn't difficult; just follow her scent, and you'd find her. Second-Grade Cultivator's nose is incredibly sensitive!

Of course, an overly sensitive sense of smell also causes trouble for many Second-Grade Cultivators.

When he can't control his sense of smell, if someone were to give Song Shuhang "Stench Pill," he would absolutely feel nauseous and vomit acid!

Following the scent left by Chu Chu along the way, Song Shuhang moved quickly through the passages of the 'Time City' Underground City.

At the same time, he recalled the scene when he cast that strange 'Appraisal Technique earlier—let's call that spell' Appraisal Technique's for now, although it was certainly not that simple.

When he unintentionally used the Appraisal Technique, he first recalled the content of the 88,888 buzzing sounds in his mind.

At the same time, his right hand accidentally touched the mirror.

After a sharp, excruciating pain, runes appeared in my eyes and landed on the mirror.

After the runes returned, I received information about the 'mirror'?

"Should we try again?" Song Shuhang thought to himself.

Do it if you want to!

So, Song Shuhang tried again to recall the scene of 88,888 buzzing whispers. Recalling this scene was practically self-torture; each time he recalled it, he was torturing himself again.

So, what target should we choose for identification this time?

Song Shuhang looked around as he ran.

He quickly found a suitable target: a strange rock formation in the Underground City passage just a short distance away. It looked quite interesting.

So, Song Shuhang ran to the strange rock area, picked up a fist-sized strange rock with his good left hand, and stared at it.

About two breaths later, Shuhang felt a burning sensation in his left hand!

Then came the intense burning pain; the skin on my palm had been burned through and turned black at some point.

Just like the hundreds of wounds on his right hand, the injuries on Song Shuhang's left hand appeared inexplicably, even though nothing was attacking him!

Song Shuhang grinned. "Sure enough, this strange injury and pain are related to the 'Appraisal Technique.' Is this the price for using that 'Appraisal Technique'?"

Despite the pain from the burns, Shuhang stared intently at the stone.

Just as he guessed.

In his eyes, the runes reappeared, bursting forth and landing on the stone surface, taking on the shape of a 'clock'.

The hands of the clock were rapidly reversing direction.

After hundreds of laps, the rune returned to Song Shuhang's pupils.

They also brought back a piece of information about this strange rock.

[This is a stone with a history of 1 billion years... just an ordinary stone! Its advantage is that it is very hard.]

A concise introduction.

Song Shuhang: "..."

Not everything that has a long history is a treasure.

Stones aren't Ginseng; no matter how old they are, they're not treasures.

A billion-year-old ordinary rock is still just a rock...

To find out this, Song Shuhang paid the price of burning his left hand.

He threw the stone back into the strange rock forest, both amused and exasperated, and then continued to follow the scent trail of Chu Chu.

At the same time, his mind started to wander.

In his Inch-Shrinking Bag, isn't there a mysterious doll? If we use 'secret methods' to probe it, what can we tell?

Second update... one more update to go, time to sleep after I finish writing.