Divine Feet Scripture [Wolf-Foot User]

Li Mian sighed. "I feel like there's something fishy about the outbreak outside the city."

Li Heng nodded worriedly. "Brother Bo has been gathering information from the constables. Let's wait until he gets back."

Ren Qing wasn't too concerned. He'd deal with whatever came his way. Since the Forbidden Zone couldn't move, it wouldn't reach Sanxiang City at all.

Still, he planned to advance the Divine Feet Scripture as soon as possible. Once the Fire Workers from Hexing Street returned, there would be too many eyes around to make a breakthrough.

As for the choice of deviation direction, aside from the obviously mutated Elephant-Foot User, the Wolf-Foot User and Leopard-footed each had their own advantages.

The Leopard-footed's agility boosted speed, but came with facial deformation.

The Wolf-Foot User's stamina probably wasn't just about literal endurance—it likely enhanced blood and qi, indirectly increasing both strength and speed.

Thinking it over carefully, for someone on the Path of Weirdness, the seemingly balanced but mediocre Wolf-Foot User might actually carry the lowest risk of deviation.

"A Wolf Walker... as I advance, I'll probably become more suited for solo combat, right?"

Seeing that night was approaching, Ren Qing started preparing dinner. Luckily, there was an iron pot in the yard, so he didn't have to make a special trip to the Kitchen Courtyard.

As the aroma of food gradually spread, everyone began setting out bowls and chopsticks.

Since there were no corpses burning in the furnace, they simply placed the dishes on the stone table. Enjoying the slightly chilly spring breeze, it was actually quite pleasant.

It wasn't until then that Bo Feng hurried over.

Li Mian immediately asked, "Brother Bo, what's the situation with the Fire Workers on Hexing Street?"

"I probed the constables a bit. It doesn't seem related to the plague. Since they're being kept at Sibu Hall for observation, they're probably fine."

Xiao Wu mumbled, "They weren't hurt, were they?"

"The three of them are unharmed, but they've suffered some mental shock."

Xiao Wu and the others were dazed for a few seconds, but quickly returned to normal.

Without anyone noticing, the number of Fire Workers being discussed had become three, as if two people had never existed.

"Wait..."

Ren Qing suddenly felt something was off. He vaguely remembered there being more than three, but when he thought back carefully, it was indeed three.

"Didn't we discuss this before? Li Mian, how many did you say there were?"

Li Mian answered with certainty, "Three. But I heard it from someone else."

Ren Qing closed his eyes and thought for a long time, his head starting to ache faintly.

He carved the character "three" on the underside of the stone table with his finger, then forcefully suppressed the strange feeling in his heart.

After dinner, the others cleaned up the dishes.

Ren Qing practiced his blade technique for a while. Driven by a vague sense of crisis, he returned to his room to prepare for advancing the Divine Feet Scripture.

He closed all the doors and windows, sat cross-legged, and visualized the Eye-less Method for two hours. Only when it was deep into the night did he summon the Information Flow.

[Do you wish to select the branch Wolf-Foot User? This will consume 1 year of lifespan.]

He had already mentally prepared himself, and with the experience from his last advancement, one year of lifespan vanished without issue.

Time passed, minute by minute.

But the excruciating pain he imagined never came. Instead, it felt like the calm before a storm.

Ren Qing waited for another half hour. Aside from digesting his dinner, nothing else felt different.

He subconsciously looked at the Pig Eyes by his bedside, and his emotions gradually grew restless.

His right hand uncontrollably grabbed the Pig Eyes, trying to shove them into his mouth. The smell of blood frantically stimulated his taste buds.

He felt like a lone wolf starving for days in the deep mountains and forests, his mind left with only the instinct to fill his stomach.

The Pig Eyes were just a finger's width away from being swallowed, but he gritted his teeth and held back.

What little consciousness Ren Qing had left told him that if he ate the Pig Eyes, his reason would likely be destroyed by bestial nature, turning him into a wild beast.

But because his arm was so tense, drops of blood from the Pig Eyes dripped down.

His tongue instinctively licked the bloodstains at the corner of his mouth. In that instant, his defenses crumbled, and he gulped down all the Pig Eyes in one go.

Ren Qing's hunger still wasn't satisfied. He walked step by step toward the door. Just as he was about to rush out—

His Double Pupils turned, and reason returned.

The moment Ren Qing suppressed his bestial nature, the muscles in both his feet suddenly swelled, and silver-white fur slowly began to grow.

His toenails grew sharper and sharper...

It was clear that the wolf-man transformation was limited to his legs and wouldn't spread to his whole body.

The wolf-man features disappeared, and the dim room fell silent once more.

Ren Qing let out a breath. At least he had gotten through it safely.

If he had known that advancing the Divine Feet Scripture would cause something like this, he could have just tied himself up with iron chains and been fine.

The main culprit was eating the Pig Eyes. That had made him instinctively less resistant to raw meat, giving the beastial nature a chance to take hold.

This showed that even reaching the Half-Corpse Realm didn't mean there was no risk in advancing lower-realm techniques.

He summoned the Information Flow and confirmed the mutation had been completed successfully.

[Skill: Eye-less Method (Double-Pupil User), Divine Feet Scripture (Wolf-Foot User), Human Skin Book]

Ren Qing immediately checked his legs.

He found that aside from smoother muscle lines and a silvery-white tint to his leg hair, the changes brought by the Wolf-Foot User were almost negligible.

He tried to execute the Divine Feet Scripture. The muscles in his legs swelled abruptly, and dense wolf fur sprouted, but the wolf-man transformation remained confined to his lower body.

Ren Qing was likely still in the early stages of mastering the Wolf-Foot User, so fully transforming into a half-beast would probably take some time.

Yet the cultivation method for the Divine Feet Scripture had already been learned without a teacher.

Ren Qing walked out of the house, sat down cross-legged in the open space of the courtyard.

The clouds in the sky were sparse, the moon hung overhead, and the surroundings were dotted with starlight.

With each breath Ren Qing took, he felt the gentle moonlight merging into his flesh and blood, while a warm current rising from his feet spread through his veins.

If he wanted to accelerate his cultivation, he could drink wolf blood before training.

But Ren Qing had no intention of obtaining wolf blood—the risks simply did not justify the rewards.

The cultivation resources for the Divine Feet Scripture were surely controlled by the Bloodhound Gang. If he deliberately went looking for them, he might end up exposing himself.

Ren Qing closed his eyes and communicated with the newly grown Mutation Tree. The Ghost Envoy Realm advancement paths for the Divine Feet Scripture appeared before him.

[Trojan Wolf: Harboring Malice]

[Mountainous Elephant: Monstrous Strength and Chaotic Power]

[Five-tailed Fierce Leopard: Life as Cheap as Grass]

The Divine Feet Scripture was a body-strengthening technique, the exact opposite of the Eye-less Method, and could compensate for his own weaknesses.

Ren Qing couldn't help but leap onto the eaves to survey his surroundings.

When he confirmed that no patrolling Constables were nearby, he tested his current speed by running back and forth.

As it turned out, even without wolf-man transforming his legs, his speed had already increased by more than half.

He nearly crashed into a wall because of this, barely reacting in time.

He couldn't fully control it yet and would need a long period of adaptation.

It was a pity that once the Fire Refining Hall on Hexing Street finished its confinement in Sibu Hall, he wouldn't be able to act so recklessly in the Fire Refining Hall anymore.

He would even have to be careful about eating Pig Eyes—otherwise, how could he explain needing to consume several jin of them every day?

Suddenly, Ren Qing thought of something, and his expression darkened. Speaking of which, how many survivors were there from the Hexing Street Fire Refining Hall?

He bent down to look at the back of the stone table and found the character "Three" carved there not long ago.

Was it three people?

With doubts lingering, he returned to the house to sleep, planning to visit Sibu Hall tomorrow.

Thanks to Shu Ba for the reward.