Stirring

After asking Master Hamil for help, Lin Hai hesitated no longer. He pressed his right hand firmly against the flower bud.

Perhaps his energy had risen to a new level, because the instant the New Life Force within him formed an energy bridge with the bud—

Boom!!

As though a dam had burst, energy poured from the bud with almost brutal force, surging through Lin Hai's right arm and into his body!

"Urgh!" A stifled groan escaped Lin Hai's throat, and his whole body shook violently.

His right arm and the half of his body connected to it felt as though they had been thrown into a furnace—or pierced over and over by countless red-hot needles.

The meridians in his body, repaired only recently, groaned under the strain of the torrent once more.

If there was one stroke of luck in this misfortune, it was that his meridians had already been ravaged and repaired once during the clash between the forces of life and death within him.

Rebuilt through the restorative power of the New Life Force's Everlasting Vitality, his meridians were several times tougher than before. Otherwise, the instant that torrent entered him, the meridians in his arm and half his body would have shattered completely!

Even so, they teetered on the brink beneath the onslaught.

Lin Hai could clearly sense fine cracks spreading through his meridians like porcelain about to break.

It hurt. The pain cut straight to the bone!

But he had no attention to spare for it.

All his willpower and focus went into two things: barely guiding the runaway torrent toward his dantian, and driving his own energy after it to repair the splitting meridians as fast as he could.

Meanwhile, the sight inside his dantian was spectacular.

As if sensing a feast approaching, the