Chapter 51: Cultivation in the Mountains (Two in One)

The black curtain fell, the cold autumn wind blew, and the sky became gloomy. Lu He followed Sanhei through the silent mountain forest slopes.

The dim moonlight, the dark night and the strong wind brought out the shadows of the trees, like ghosts and monsters in the mountains.

He thought Sanhei had discovered some treasure, and quickly urged them to lead the way.

After climbing over two mountains, crossing a river, and then passing through two jungles, Sanhei stopped at a crack in the mountains until Lu He was about to become impatient.

It is sandwiched between towering rocks on both sides, and the cold and damp atmosphere is particularly strong. The road under your feet is rugged, and you can step on dry branches from time to time, and the sound of breaking echoes in the silent mountain road.

Not far ahead is a cave with obvious traces of artificial excavation around it.

Sanhei kept roaring towards the entrance of the cave, making whining sounds at the same time. The black hair on his body stood up, as if there was something terrible inside.

"Shut up!"

Lu He felt something was wrong, scolded lightly, and all the invisible skins were immediately activated.

After sensing the danger with his mental strength, he slowly approached the entrance of the cave.

"I said, let there be light!"

Standing in front of the cave entrance, Lu He said a spell that was not there before, stretched out his right hand and raised his index finger.

As soon as he finished speaking, a little white light was generated at his fingertips, and then the light grew larger, forming a ball of light the size of a basketball.

With a slight wave, the light ball flew into the unfathomable black hole, illuminating the inside like daylight.

Now he could see clearly. The cave was very deep. A few meters from the entrance were several white bones, including adults and children, as well as some things he had seen in TV series when he was a child.

After a moment of silence, he walked in expressionlessly.

Sanhei wanted to follow him in, but was stopped by Lu He, so he had to squat at the entrance of the cave.

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An hour passed.

Lu He walked out with an ugly expression on his face, holding in his hand a bunch of wailing and screaming resentful spirits that he had just managed to gather. He glanced at Dongfang and secretly cursed a beast.

Then he took Sanhei and returned to the base cursing.

After returning to the laboratory, he sealed the resentful spirit in a box and carved an evil-gathering talisman array on the outside of the box. This talisman can automatically absorb some extremely negative energy particles to nourish the resentful spirit in the strong wooden box.

It took Lu He until three or four in the morning to complete the work, mainly because he was not skilled and was easily eroded by particles, so he was a little slow.

"According to this absorption rate, it will take almost a month for this group of resentful spirits to be completely formed."

"That's okay, use this time to study soul curse spells."

Lu He stood up and stretched. He didn't feel tired when he was concentrating on doing things, but now he felt dizzy and bloated when he stopped, and he was overusing his brain.

I came to the bedroom and lay down on the bed, ready to play with my mobile phone for a while. When I found that there was no signal, I curled my lips and went to sleep.

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Three days later.

On the experimental table, a white-bellied rat was tied to the smooth and bright iron experimental table with its legs in the air.

The white-bellied rat was caught by Lu He and Sanhei. It is actually a rat in the mountains. Because its belly is white, it is called white-bellied rat in their local dialect.

The meat of white-bellied rats is delicious. Wild white-bellied rats sell for more than 100 yuan each in the county vegetable market, which is more expensive than native chickens.

Squeak!

The little squirrel in the corner cage looked at the experimental table and screamed in fear, its body trembling.

"I'm not messing with you. Don't scream at me."

Lu He felt irritated and turned around to take a quick look. The little squirrel's cry suddenly stopped.

He invested a lot in the little squirrel and kept it in good health. He was reluctant to treat it as a disposable consumable for the time being and planned to use it in the most critical place.

He took out the scalpel and shaved off the hair on his belly. Then he cut off a small piece of meat and placed it in a petri dish on the side to keep it as a control experiment specimen.

Ignoring the howling of the white-bellied rat, Lu He smiled slightly and took off his gloves.

His right hand gently stroked the belly of the white-bellied mouse on the experimental table. The skin was as smooth as silk, with a little warmth.

Lu He put away his smile and began to whisper a mantra with strange syllables in a low voice.

A few minutes passed, and his hands began to change color. His fair skin slowly became bloodshot, and then the bloodshot spread. Soon, his hands completely turned into a weird look with countless bloodshot intertwined, and his nails were still glowing with red light. If You can't even notice it if you don't look carefully.

Lu He's expression did not change, and although the incantation in his mouth slowly stopped, the magic power in his body had been activated to the extreme, and his sleeves were puffing up.

after an hour.

Lu He's face turned slightly pale, and he slowly backed away, one meter away from the experimental table, and quietly stared at the white-bellied rat on the stage.

After more than ten seconds, the white-bellied rat's whole body began to twitch, and a dark red light appeared and disappeared on his body.

Suddenly, its forelimbs grew and lengthened rapidly, and it clawed at its white belly. Its sharp nails scratched the tender flesh, drawing blood.

Immediately afterwards, a red eye came out of the belly and directly hit the claws. It was like a balloon being punctured. It exploded with a bang and mucus was sprayed out.

After a while, its mouth opened unnaturally, showing a 180° straight line. The pink tongue broke automatically from the root and ran out on its own, squirming and jumping around like a little snake.

Its sharp claws seemed to want to grab the tongue and stuff it back, but the tongue was too flexible and slid back and forth on its belly, unable to catch it.

Lu He felt that it was almost done. He would lose his appetite if he continued to watch, so he waved his hands gently.

A ball of fire appeared on the white-bellied rat's body, and then began to burn violently. In the flame, the tongue and red eyes faintly let out strange screams.

"Is this the effect of the curse superimposed and evolved? It makes the life information of the caster garbled, and produces irreversible body activation mutations..."

This scene just now was a sudden idea that Lu He had when he was learning the basic knowledge of curses these days. He combined the evolutionary mutation runes in botany with the curse runes to study a spell rune model.

"It is very powerful. This activation collapse is irreversible, just like the domino effect. Once it starts, it will produce a series of chain reactions."

"It's just that the casting speed is too slow!"

"It takes an hour of physical contact to succeed."

"Even your girlfriend won't let you touch her for an hour, let alone an enemy."

"Let's set up a topic and slowly optimize it later. The power of the spell doesn't have to be as strong as it is now, but the casting speed must be fast."

Lu He's eyes flashed with wisdom and intelligence.

"This is the first spell I developed myself, I need to think of a name..."

After a moment.

"Well, I've thought of it, let's call it the Apprentice Lu He's Great Collapse of the Flesh and Body!"

Woof woof woof!

"Get out of here, what are you barking about?"

After finishing the experiment, Lu He went to see the vengeful spirit in the wooden box again.

It is growing vigorously. Three days ago, it was shaky and scattered at the wind. After three days of cultivation, it has stabilized now, but at this rate, it will take three or four months to fully take shape.

He input some more magic power to increase the nourishing effect of the magic circle. This is a great gift he prepared for some people, and it needs to be carefully cultivated.

Walk out of the laboratory and come to the botanical garden.

In the corner is a strange little tree, thin, light purple, with a twisted smile on the trunk.

Mosquitoes should be rampant in the deep mountains, but the area around the little tree is quiet, no insects approach, and even the few flowers and plants planted by Lu He around it have withered.

Lu He observed for a while, then turned and went into the house to continue the next experiment.

He had too many things to learn, botany, curses, the basics of the five elements, potions, spells... there was simply not enough time.

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There are no years in the mountains, and no time in the caves.

At the end of November, Changyang welcomed the first heavy snow of the year.

In the morning, Lu He, who looked tired and weary, pushed open the bamboo door, and saw all white.

No one disturbed the snow scene on the mountain. The peaks near and far were all white. The dwarf pines on the mountain were covered with crystal snowflakes, the bamboo leaves were also covered with snow, and the bamboo stems were covered with layers of frost.

Taking over the wild pheasant that Sanhei had hunted from somewhere, Lu He did not use magic. He picked up dead bamboo and built a simple stove outside to boil water to scald the feathers.

After washing, chop it into small pieces, replace the dead bamboo with pine wood, heat the pan with cold oil to stir-fry various spices, pour in the chicken pieces and stir-fry, and when it feels almost done, add mountain spring water, boil over high heat, and put in the prepared hazel mushrooms and fir mushrooms.

The next step is to wait quietly.

Lu He moved a chair and sat in front of the bamboo house, looking at the snowy scenery all over the mountains.

After a while, he took out a small thumb-sized glass bottle from his jacket pocket. The transparent bottle contained purple-black dry powder.

This is a catalyst made of black lily as the main material. It took him two days and two nights. He didn't close his eyes or eat in the middle, but drank a few sips of water.

Pull off the bottle cap, gently shake all the dry powder in the palm of your left hand, and then throw the small bottle into the trash can next to it.

Put your left and right hands together and rub them hard.

A hissing and squeaking sound rang out, and an extremely harsh sound came from the palm of your hand, as if someone was scratching the glass with a blunt knife, or as if white plastic foam was rubbing back and forth on the rough cement floor.

Lu He's face was expressionless as he continued to rub his hands while chanting spells.

Slowly, black smoke rose from his palms. As the cold wind blew, the black smoke remained motionless, covering his hands along a specific trajectory and penetrating into his skin bit by bit.

The next moment, the black smoke began to burn, and the surface layer of skin was burned out, revealing the red subcutaneous tissue and muscle layer inside.

"The cursed hand is finally practiced." Lu He slowly exhaled a breath of white air.

It should be said that the transformation of his hands was successful. In the future, some contact-type curse spells do not need mental modeling or chanting spells, but can be performed by hand contact.

For some weak people, they don't even need to touch, as long as they look directly at his cursed hand, they will be affected.

Lu He sniffed his nose, and his stomach suddenly rumbled. The wild mushroom stew was almost done.

So he clapped his hands lightly, and a layer of black mist emerged from the muscles of his hands again, wrapped his hands, and finally dissipated in the surrounding air.

The palms were restored to their original state, and the black mist and skin had completely merged into one.

He went back to the house, took out a bottle of homemade liquor, added a few thick pine woods to the stove, and started to eat.

Noon.

Lu He returned to the old house, took his ID card, household registration booklet and photo to the county police station to apply for a passport.

The staff told him that it would take ten working days, and after the passport was issued, he could apply for a visa to go abroad online without having to go to the consulate.

It would take about a month to get everything done, and by then he would probably be able to break through to the advanced apprentice.

Higher apprentices are the true limit of human beings, especially in spirit, reaching the end of the human species.

When he reaches higher apprentice, there is basically nothing in the world that can threaten him. Even the ultimate weapon on earth, the nuclear bomb, is difficult to kill him as long as he is not in the center of the explosion.

If he continues to break through, he will belong to a different species from humans.

After returning to the village, Lu He did not return to the deep mountain base immediately, but went to Aunt Lin's house for a banquet.

She celebrated her 69th birthday today. She didn't celebrate it when she was 60 before. There is a custom here that people don't celebrate birthdays after 70 years old, so she chose this year.

The rural banquet is still very lively, which can be regarded as the real fireworks of the world. That kind of atmosphere is difficult to experience in a big hotel in the city.

The dishes are also very rich and taste good. The most important thing is that they are all made on the spot, without some pre-made dishes that look fancy.

Lu He is very low-key. After the meal, he left after doing a favor.

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On the way back to the base, there was still a mountain between them, and he heard the barking of dogs. After crossing the mountain, he saw Sanhei surrounding a wild boar that was estimated to be 200 kilograms.

Lu He stopped and watched with interest.

This gray-black wild boar looked rough and sturdy, with thick and hard bristles on its back like armor, and a pair of 20-centimeter fangs sticking out of its sharp mouth.

I thought it was a century-long battle between pigs and dogs, but after watching for a while, I found that it was a completely one-sided play.

The wild boar rushed left and right with its sharp fangs, but it couldn't even touch Sanhei's hair. Moreover, Xiaohei was the most naughty, always dodging at the last moment, giving the wild boar the illusion that I would win if I was faster.

Perhaps smelling Lu He's scent, Dahei shouted at him from a distance.

Then he flashed away and disappeared from the wild boar's sight. The next moment, he appeared next to it, bit the wild boar's neck fiercely.

The wild boar howled shrilly and fell to the ground, blood gushing out, and finally unable to move.

Lu He nodded, took a few steps, and came to the battlefield.

He kicked away Da Hei, whose mouth was full of pig blood, and stretched out his right hand, placing it on the wild boar's body.

The magic power in the palm of his hand fluctuated, and a spiral wind vortex appeared. A huge suction force came from it, and the blood and flesh essence of the wild boar's body flowed back from the wound on the neck and was sucked into the vortex.

Finally, it was compressed in the palm of his hand to form a fist-sized red meat ball.

"Take it, your spoils of war."

Divide the meat ball into three equal parts and throw it into the mouths of San Hei.

Then, one person and three dogs left, leaving behind a shriveled wild boar skin.

At night.

Lu He did not practice, and planned to take a rest. He was exhausted in the past two days to practice the cursed hand.

He turned on his mobile phone that had not been used for two days, and the vibration sound kept ringing, and there were many 99+ messages.

Lu He checked them one by one.

Zhou Wei's elder brother Zhou Wu asked him to come and exchange ideas, saying that he had made a breakthrough recently.

Lu He replied with a smiley face and refused.

Li Tao x-on:him in the group, inviting him to go to Pyu Kingdom to play, saying that he could play with long spears there, and said that he could shoot through at least two idiots in the group with one shot, which immediately caused a lot of noise.

Lu He replied with a smiley face and refused.

Ge Xiaomi sent him a lot of photos and videos, sharing some daily life, all talking to herself. Lu He told her before that he was working in the mountains and the signal was not good.

Lu He sent a red envelope and replied one by one.

There were some other people, some he knew and some he didn't know, he replied selectively.

After playing for a while, Lu He started to search for information on the Internet, searching for some basic information about foreign countries, to learn in advance, so as not to know nothing when he went out.

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