Spirit-Rhino Body

Chapter 30: Spirit-Rhino Body

"This..."

The smile on Chen Lin's lips froze, and his body stiffened instantly. Immediately after, a look of wry amusement appeared in his eyes; he had not expected the little girl to be such a coward.

Yang Qianqian's delicate, pretty face was streaked with tears. Beneath her beautiful eyelashes, her large eyes were red and swollen. A row of fine, pearly teeth bit down hard on her lip, and her face was pale with sorrow. She looked utterly pitiful, enough to stir one's heart with sympathy.

Watching the tear tracks on the young girl's cheeks, Chen Lin's gaze suddenly drifted into a trance.

For some reason, the girl's tears acted like a form of magic, gradually conjuring a scene buried deep within his heart...

It was also the crying of a young girl.

A shrill, biting wind howled across the mountain peak, where a graceful silhouette stood. Dressed in white like snow, amidst the bone-chilling wind, that figure appeared exceptionally frail under the lonely moonlight. After a long while, that small, delicate body finally crouched to the ground, wailing and sobbing heart-wrenchingly like a helpless child...

"Heart Piercer..."

Chen Lin felt a faint ache in his heart and found it somewhat difficult to breathe. He hurriedly rubbed his nose and took a deep breath, as if trying to ease his emotions, but the smile never returned to his face.

Chen Lin slowly stood up and remained silent for a long time. Only then did he reach out to pat the storage bag at his waist, taking out a wide, oversized robe meant for a man. He then secretly communicated with the Main God Coffin, exchanging Death Energy points for a medicinal pill for healing, and tossed it alongside the clothes to the girl. His tone was weary as he said, "Alright, put these clothes on. I still have questions for you."

As it turned out, before the girl was abducted, she had likely been injured during the struggle, leaving her clothes tattered and her in a sorry state.

Yang Qianqian looked at the clothes and the pill beside her in astonishment, finally ceasing her tears. A moment later, the girl reacted; she lifted her tear-streaked face, her delicate nose sniffling once more, and whispered, "Hey... you stinking demon... does this mean... you aren't going to touch me anymore?"

"What? Do you actually want me to touch you?" Chen Lin's tone carried obvious fatigue and a hint of impatience. However, when he saw the girl's pitiful appearance, his heart softened slightly. He rubbed his brow and said, "Fine, I promise I won't touch you, but you must help me with a few things. Afterward, I will naturally let you go."

"Really?"

Yang Qianqian's red, swollen eyes brightened. Her expression seemed somewhat skeptical, but she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes haphazardly and asked suspiciously, "Stinking demon, what do you want me to help you with?"

"First, tell me, what is your Saint Body constitution?"

Yang Qianqian was clearly stunned by Chen Lin's question, but after a moment of hesitation, she finally answered honestly, "My constitution is the 'Spirit-Rhino Body,' but I have only awakened the mortal-grade innate divine ability of this constitution so far."

"Spirit-Rhino Body?"

Chen Lin's eyes flickered; it was clearly the first time he had heard this name. After thinking for a moment, he communicated with the Main God Coffin and secretly began to search.

"Spirit-Rhino Body: Special constitution. Possesses the innate divine abilities of photographic memory and perfect deduction..."

After a long while, Chen Lin finally understood the unique nature of Yang Qianqian's constitution.

Among human cultivators, special constitutions could also emerge, much like how Demon Race cultivators possessed Heavenly Demon bloodlines and innate divine abilities. However, such special constitutions among humans were extremely rare, and every possessor was a cultivation prodigy.

The "Spirit-Rhino Body" could control any matter to a microscopic level. For instance, when refining pills, a person with this constitution would instantly simulate the refining process in their mind several times—calculating the intensity of the true fire needed for the furnace, the precise amount of each ingredient, and the subtle changes occurring as the medicinal properties fused—all to arrive at an accurate conclusion.

Simply put, the Spirit-Rhino Body was not a constitution suited for combat, but it functioned like a sophisticated, complex instrument capable of calculating various consequences and changes. It was a genius constitution born for alchemy, artifact refining, and talisman making!

No wonder she was personally taken in as a closed-door disciple by the Valley Master of Forget-Emotion Valley and kept hidden away!

Chen Lin stared at the girl, his eyes beginning to glow with a greenish light once again...

"Hey! Stinking demon! You treacherous fellow, don't tell me you're going back on your word?!"

Seeing Chen Lin approaching with a sinister grin, Yang Qianqian screamed in terror again, thinking he had reneged on his promise. Her delicate body scrambled backward on the bed, and she trembled, "Stinking demon... death demon... what... what are you trying to do now?"

"Hehe, don't be afraid. I won't do anything to you... I just need your first drop of blood... hehe... hehe..."

Yang Qianqian curled her lip, tears nearly welling up again. She huddled into a ball, shivering as if she were a helpless girl cornered in a dark alley by a lecherous man, waiting for unknown devastation and ravaging...

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Yang Qianqian was incredibly frustrated. She had initially misunderstood Chen Lin's words, thinking he intended to commit some vile, lecherous act against her. Now, she finally understood that this damn stinking demon really only wanted her blood.

And he didn't just want it once; from last night until nearly noon the next day, Chen Lin had demanded it seventy-seven times! At this moment, the damn stinking demon was wearing an impatient and frustrated expression, constantly urging her to proceed with the seventy-eighth bloodletting!

Fortunately, a cultivator's body had more abundant and vigorous blood and Qi than an ordinary person's. The seventy-plus bloodlettings only left the girl feeling somewhat exhausted, without causing much harm to her body.

Still, to have such a disgusting hobby—he really was a perverted, despicable, base, and shameless stinking demon!

While the girl cursed him in her heart with a shudder of disgust, she obediently extended her fair, delicate wrist. With a concentration of her slender fingers, she squeezed out a few more drops of vibrant, crimson blood.

"Drip~"

The blood fell through the air, landing entirely on the back of Chen Lin's hand. In the blink of an eye, it eerily merged into the surface of his skin and vanished.

Chen Lin was also frustrated, perhaps even more so than Yang Qianqian. He had not expected the trigger rate of his innate divine ability, Gene Theft, to be so low—it was pitifully small. Although absorbing Yang Qianqian's blood had made his senses sharper and his mind a bit more agile, he had yet to acquire her innate divine ability.

As the blood entered his body, Chen Lin, though not holding much hope, forced himself to perk up. He closed his eyes and carefully sensed the changes within his body.

But just then, a cold, numb, mechanical voice, sounding like music to his ears, suddenly echoed in Chen Lin's mind.

"Innate divine ability 'Gene Theft' triggered successfully..."

"Warning, warning. Contractor's genes are undergoing changes... Gene encoding is being reorganized and rearranged..."

Chen Lin suddenly let out a muffled groan, his entire body convulsing. Beneath his skin, blue veins began to squirm slowly, looking exceptionally hideous and terrifying. Seeing this, Yang Qianqian shrieked in fright, her body scrambling backward in a panic as she stared at Chen Lin, at a loss for what to do.

"It actually... succeeded?!"

Chen Lin was filled with joy. He hadn't expected that after more than seventy consecutive failures, he would finally succeed on the seventy-eighth attempt!

Before he could even heave a sigh of relief in his heart, Chen Lin let out another muffled groan of pain. He furrowed his brows, gritted his teeth, and his entire body trembled uncontrollably.

Pain! It reached deep into his marrow!

Integrating foreign genes into one's own was never going to be easy. He had to import new sequence codes and information into his genetic bloodline, altering the biological characteristics of his original bloodline to undergo a process of re-fusion and transformation.

A long while passed...

"The contractor's bloodline is undergoing an irreversible transformation. The contractor is awakening a natural divine ability... The system is re-evaluating the host..."

"Contractor has awakened natural divine ability: Perfect Memory (Mortal Grade, evolvable)."

"Perfect Memory (Mortal Grade, evolvable): Anything seen once, whether an object or a process, can be perfectly imprinted in the mind and will never be forgotten."

Chen Lin closed his eyes, absorbing the information fed back from the bloodline inheritance.

After a long time, he snapped his eyes open. A brilliant light shimmered within them, dazzling like the stars. But soon, the radiance in Chen Lin's eyes gradually subsided, returning to a state of stillness, like a deep, undisturbed well.

"Perfect Memory..."

Chen Lin murmured to himself, a thoughtful look appearing in his eyes.

As it turned out, much like the Demon Race, the bloodline of the Human Sacred Body was divided into Mortal, Earth, Heaven, and Immortal grades. However, unlike the Demon Race, the natural divine abilities of the human race required time and opportunity to awaken slowly; with each grade awakened, the natural divine ability would improve.

For instance, "Perfect Memory" was merely the ability manifested at the Mortal Grade of this natural divine ability. If it reached the Earth Grade, it would grow into the special ability of "Multi-Tasking."