Paint Green Clothes [Ghost Tiger]

The so-called "Simulation" refers to planting wild beast hairs, teeth, and eyeballs to make the Beast Head Tattoo as lifelike as possible.

It sounds easy to do, but carrying it out requires meticulous control.

"Bloody" involves bathing the Beast Head Tattoo in the blood of its own kind, which can also trigger transformation, though the effect is not very pronounced.

Strange beast blood can also be used for Bloody, but it will increase the ferocity of the Beast Head Tattoo, and over time, it may inevitably backfire on Li Mo.

Li Mo walked out of the warehouse; the Beast Blood he had exchanged was enough for over half a month of Bloody. He would first see how the Beast Head Tattoo grew.

He could feel the limitations of his cultivation of Paint Green Clothes.

Within two hundred li of Smelting Town, the wild beasts seemed to have undergone some strange mutation, forcing even cultivators to hunt on Xinji Ridge.

This caused the exchange price for beast-related materials to be prohibitively expensive.

Li Mo knew there was a black market outside Smelting Town where rogue cultivators gathered. Once he advanced to Childhood Stage Layer 2, he would need to make contact.

He left the pawnshop directly and, while the day was still young, headed to the Medical Hall.

The streets were bustling and lively on the surface, but in truth, as dusk fell, the townsfolk would immediately rush home and lock their doors and windows.

After surviving the cultivators' purges, the surviving strange beasts, even without Spiritual Intelligence, had become exceptionally cunning due to their instinct for early warning.

When Li Mo arrived at the Medical Hall, he found at least a hundred people in the main hall.

Most of the townsfolk seeking treatment had external injuries from the erosion of the Death Sickness, but a dozen or so among them had peculiar conditions.

For some unknown reason, their bodies had grown several extra pairs of arms.

These arms sprouted from the joints, and the patients couldn't control them; they could only be removed by the doctor. The consultation room in the inner chamber was filled with screams.

"Honored Cultivator, may I ask what brings you to the Medical Hall?"

A clerk stepped forward and used a towel to brush the dust off Li Mo.

Li Mo did not conceal his Miasma Spiritual Power; even ordinary people could see it at a glance, as a cultivator's status was useful anywhere.

"What's wrong with them?"

"Reporting to the Honored Cultivator, that's Polymelia caused by demons. It's a strange occurrence that's appeared recently, but it won't threaten the patients' lives."

Li Mo nodded.

But he felt it wasn't as simple as just strange beasts. Those arms were like maggots parasitic in flesh and blood.

"Please ask Doctor Han if he has any basic medical books on Universal Skill. Say it's the junior Li Mo seeking help."

When the clerk heard the name Doctor Han, his expression hesitated, but in the end, he steeled himself and headed to the back courtyard.

While waiting, Li Mo couldn't help observing the Polymelia patients.

He noticed their skin was a dark gray, their eyes red and swollen with bloodshot, and their gums blackened—seeming like signs of Metal Poisoning.

Eternal Life should eliminate all diseases, so the patients' condition was somewhat strange.

After a moment, the clerk hurried back to the main hall and respectfully handed a Bone Scroll to Li Mo.

Li Mo had expected to pay some spirit stones, but the clerk didn't mention it at all, showing that Han Cai didn't value the medical skills of Universal Skill.

On his way back to the Inner Room, Li Mo absorbed the contents of the Bone Scroll.

The Medical Book recorded techniques of Universal Skill, covering all aspects of skin and flesh surgery, but only skin and flesh.

That was enough for Li Mo.

Simulation only targeted the skin where the Beast Head Tattoo was located, not involving flesh, blood, or bones.

As soon as Li Mo returned to the Inner Room, he opened the fifth page of the Book of Fortune. A blank page immediately manifested a dark red heart phantom.

The heart imprint was successful.

"Hm..."

He suddenly clutched his chest; the rhythm of his heartbeat grew heavy, as if trying to drain all the blood from his body.

Li Mo knew that nurturing a divine ability required enduring pain.

He simply used Universal Skill, taking his own arm as an experimental template, to practice surgical techniques.

By the time the heart completed its transformation, ten days had unknowingly passed.

The heart's volume had doubled in size, its internal and external blood vessels had become more complex, and the heartbeat's rhythm hadn't improved from the imprint.

However, as blood flowed in and out of the heart, it was clearly becoming gradually thicker.

The divine ability awakened by the heart was called [Azure Blood, Loyal Heart].

Azure Blood, Loyal Heart could refine the blood, turning it into a mercury-like state, indirectly affecting flesh, blood, and bones to strengthen the physique.

Li Mo understood that with the foundation laid by Azure Blood, Loyal Heart and the Multi-layered Dantian, his future cultivation path would surely avoid many detours.

He just wasn't sure if the Heart Spiritual Root Transformation would affect Azure Blood, Loyal Heart.

Li Mo took a sketch of the Tiger Head Tattoo from his Storage Bag. During his seclusion, he had never slackened in his practice of painting.

Even though his painting skill had hit a bottleneck, he still found time to practice every few days.

This time, Li Mo didn't even use charcoal to outline. After grinding ink with Tiger Blood, he directly used the Magic Finger to trace the tiger head's outline on his right upper arm.

The Crimson Fox Tattoo bared its fangs, as if sensing the threat from the Tiger Head Tattoo.

Li Mo couldn't be bothered with the Crimson Fox Tattoo; the tiger head was more than half finished in just ten minutes, and his own aura began to shift.

A suffocating bestial nature filled the room. If anyone had been present, they would likely have been so terrified their legs gave out beneath them.

The Tiger Head Tattoo absorbed the Miasma Spiritual Power, and the ferocious White-Eyed Hanging-Eye Tiger revealed itself.

Li Mo summoned the Tattooed Tiger Beast.

His body was slightly gaunt, miasma shrouding a ten-meter radius, and then he saw a black-and-white Mountain Lord crouching in the shadows, watching.

Its dark-golden beast eyes seemed capable of devouring a soul.

The fox leaned toward the Fire Element, autonomously absorbing Fire Element Spiritual Energy from the air to strengthen itself, and its attacks carried high-temperature burns.

The Ghost Tiger leaned toward the Yin Element; as soon as it was born, Yin Element Spiritual Power surged into it. Its methods were more covert, allowing it to hide silently in the shadows.

Li Mo checked his body's condition.

With both tattooed beasts active at once, he estimated they consumed only about thirty percent of his flesh, blood, and spiritual power—completely acceptable.

Compared to using Paint Green Clothes two years ago, this was undoubtedly much easier.

If he were to pay the maximum price in flesh, blood, and spiritual power, the tattooed beasts would probably break past five meters.

Li Mo withdrew the Ghost Tiger with satisfaction and at the same time took Beast Blood from his Storage Bag.

He poured the Beast Blood over the tattoos. The Crimson Fox and Ghost Tiger greedily devoured the blood, and it was clear that the tattoos' colors gradually deepened.

One bottle of Beast Blood should be enough for the tattooed beasts to digest for a few days.

Li Mo didn't stop there. He immediately planned to try a Simulation, planting Beast Fur on the surface of the Beast Head Tattoo to enhance its potential.

But he wasn't confident about it, because Simulation required connecting the fur to the capillaries.

Li Mo didn't expect to pull it off easily. He tentatively picked up a strand of Tiger Hair and pierced it under the skin, searching for the location of the capillaries.

Yet when the Tiger Hair neared the capillaries, the Ghost Tiger Tattoo actually guided it on its own, making the Simulation fur-planting process unexpectedly smooth.

Li Mo simply spread the beast hide flat on the Desk.

The Magic Finger moved faster and faster, repeating the motion of lifting and lowering. Tiger Hair gradually covered the Beast Head Tattoo, and the Ghost Tiger became increasingly lifelike.

Once the Tiger Hair was planted, Li Mo also finished the fur on the Crimson Fox Tattoo. As soon as he was done, he collapsed and slept, snoring like thunder in the room.

The Beast Head Tattoo slowly began to transform.

The increase in Spell power wasn't obvious for now, but the speed at which the Beast Head Tattoo absorbed external Spiritual Energy had increased by at least fifty percent.