Chapter 18: The Miraculous Thermal Current
BANG! With a loud noise, a yellow drake with a touch of gold fell from the sky, into the deep pool, splashing beautiful water.
A group of elephants playing by the water stopped and stared at the pool curiously. They seemed to sense something interesting, and they rumbled one after another.
Their rumbling sounds immediately frightened the cheetahs preparing to hunt in the distance. They glanced at the huge elephants with some fear and ran away.
Brandon jumped into the deep pool, and the huge impact made him even more injured. His abdomen was churning violently, and his whole body was in severe pain, as if his internal organs were about to be crushed. He couldn't hold back a mouthful of blood, it couldn't help but overflow from the corner of my mouth.
Brandon endured the severe pain, slid his claws hard, and finally climbed onto the shore. Under the curious eyes of the giant elephant, he staggered towards the cave.
An hour later, Brandon and Skyler returned to the cave. By this time, it was completely dark. Brandon opened the treasure box and admired it carefully. He felt very satisfied. The injury was completely worth it.
He placed the strange crystal on his bedside. He liked this orb and the majestic yet friendly aura it brought to him. Brandon put the orb under him and laid upon it. It felt like he had returned to the days when he was a child in the arms of the old monk. It was really cordial and nostalgic. He could feel a strong sense of protection.
After feeling it for a while, Brandon came back to his senses and began to heal. As soon as he looked inside, Brandon frowned. The situation was worse than expected.
It was like an earthquake had occurred in his body. His internal organs had been damaged in many places. It was filled with a lot of bruises.
The situation could no longer be delayed any longer. Brandon began meditating and lifted up the golden bell, releasing the true qi. The qi slowly flowed through the meridians. He felt severe pain all over his body, like a razor scraping across his body. A heavy cold sweat flowed from Brandon's body involuntarily. After finishing meditation, his whole body was trembling slightly.
After the pain lasted for more than ten minutes, it started to itch slowly, and it became more and more itchy. It was so deep into the bone marrow that Brandon wanted to cut himself with a knife.
An hour passed away and the pain and itching began to gradually lessen, and the internal energy began to become more rounded and pure. Brandon speculated that perhaps when the internal force was repairing the body, the internal force was purified, and the impurities in the internal force were absorbed by the body.
At this time, Brandon noticed a tiny stream of heat rising from his abdomen. Although this stream of heat was small, it was extremely pure. He was a little confused. He tried to guide the heat stream, but the heat stream was like the motionless Optimus pillar, paying no attention to the internal power of the golden bell.
This heat flow did not rush toward the meridians, but was transmitted through the body. The heat flow passed through the flesh, and the damaged muscle tissue was repaired one after another. It seemed to have shrunk a little, but it seemed more powerful. This repair speed was more than a hundred times faster than the golden bell.
The heat continued to rise from the abdomen and disappear in the body. Brandon felt as if his body was slowly changing. This was an indescribable feeling. The flow of the golden bell qi was becoming smoother and faster. Many places that were originally very obscure had become smoother under the transformation of this heat current.
The meridians began to slowly expand and become more flexible. What was once a small road had now become a highway. The internal force of the golden bell gradually increased visibly to the naked eye.
After 36 cycles of qi circulation, Brandon slowly opened his eyes. It was already the next morning. The serious injuries on his body had completely disappeared, and he felt that his strength had become stronger. Brandon took a big look at himself and couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice.
He felt as if he had shrunk all over. His original height of almost two metres was now 1.8 meters. But the body appears thicker, and the muscles all over the body were bulging in a streamlined shape, showing its powerful explosive power.
The originally light yellow scales were covered with a thick layer of black mud, and there was a stench all over the body. Could it be that this was the marrow of the blood-discharge valve? wasn't this something that would only happen on the sixth layer of the Golden Bell? Brandon roared unconsciously, and it actually made a rich sound, completely unlike the hiss before.
He suddenly found that his snake-like tongue was slowly getting thicker, and the crossed tongue tips were slowly degenerating. Maybe this is the dragon gene in the body at work, Brandon thought to himself.
Basically, Brandon was very satisfied now, and his strength had become much stronger. Although the golden bell had not advanced, was it still far from being advanced at the current speed of cultivation?
He slowly stood up and saw the strange crystal beneath him. Brandon felt that it seemed a little smaller. Brandon blinked quickly to confirm that he was not hallucinating. Brandon had played with this crystal carefully. Its size, colour, and weight had been deeply imprinted on Brandon's heart. Brandon believed that he was absolutely right.
Could it be that the heat rising from the abdomen yesterday was caused by this crystal? This is really a wonderful thing. Brandon thought to himself. If you can't figure it out, just don't think about it. This had always been Brandon's advantage.
He staggered towards the pool. The black mud was sticky and gave off a disgusting smell. Brandon felt uncomfortable all over. The cold underground river water gradually covered Brandon's scales, and he exhaled comfortably from his nostrils.
He felt his abdomen rolling, heat surging, his throat hot, and a thick sulphurous smoke came out of Brandon's nostrils. Looking at the smoke, it was thicker than before.
Brandon's mouth grinned unconsciously. He believed that it wouldn't be long before his nose would be able to spit out flames. After washing for half an hour, the entire pool water was dyed black.
Brandon stood up and looked at it carefully. The scales became thicker and the colour turned into light gold. Brandon touched his smooth scales narcissistically and let out a proud laugh. The weird laughter echoed in the space for a long time…