At noon the next day, with Li Ling out of seclusion and back at the residence, all the servants bustled about. The kitchen in particular had been ordered to prepare several extra specialties to give the Prince Consort a change of taste.
Li Ling's appetite had improved enormously, because all the flesh and blood in his body had now grown from the life information within his marrow.
Bone marrow could produce blood. In theory, it could be mixed with origin energy and molded into every bodily organ, even reproducing a complete physical form.
Li Ling's earlier conclusion-that White Bone Regenerates Flesh required fresh bones rather than dried ones-had not been without reason.
Teaweed Incense did not actually possess the power to grow flesh on dried bones recorded in Records of Forgotten Tales. Those ancient accounts might have contained considerable exaggeration, or perhaps this involved the mysteries of uniting spirit and flesh, a method of creating things from the void that Li Ling had yet to grasp...
Whatever the case, this also revealed a fact: Li Ling's present body had effectively regained its youth, possessing a more primal and youthful growth state.
As the saying went, a half-grown lad could eat his father out of house and home. He was now a child who looked twenty-something, still growing and developing, and needed vast quantities of nutrients and origin energy.
Unseen, Li Ling drained the incense essence from the entire table of food in a single breath. Then he chewed through the remnants left without incense essence, devouring even the nutrients that only mortals valued.
Every cell in his body seemed to leap for joy, greedily consuming and growing.
At the same time, sun essence and moonlight from between heaven and earth automatically flowed into him.
Li Ling now possessed a pure