275: Chapter 271: Major Tonic 275: Chapter 271: Major Tonic At West Mountain Villa, on the living room sofa.
Lost in thought, Chen Hai, who had been staring into space for half an hour, lifted his wrist to check the time on his watch.
Before he knew it, more than an hour had passed, with only about ten minutes remaining until midnight.
The large color TV that was playing “The Legendary Qianlong” had already finished broadcasting all of its programs.
Chen Hai casually picked up the remote and turned off the TV with a flick of his hand.
“I have formally started my cultivation in the Little Five Thunder Skill.”
“I need to find a moment to talk to Uncle Ban, to see when he has time to come over.”
“The Little Five Thunder Skill, when used in healing, indeed has a miraculous effect on expelling wind and dampness.”
“However, Uncle Ban’s leg injury has been dragged on for so many years, I hope the Little Five Thunder Skill will have some effect on him!”
Thinking of this, Chen Hai muttered to himself.
After successfully cultivating the Little Five Thunder Skill, he planned to try and heal Uncle Ban’s legs, a promise he had made quite some time ago.
Such a commitment, he certainly wouldn’t forget.
He had a clear understanding of the formidable power of his Little Five Thunder Skill when used in combat.
Utilizing this Dharma Method in healing, Chen Hai believed the effects should not be too shabby.
In another two days, it would be the start of the new semester at the Capital Political and Legal University.
Whether to continue school or to drop out altogether, he still had not made a real decision.
In this era, college students are considered the favored children of heaven.
After graduating from university, getting a job is almost always smoothly paved.
But for Chen Hai, he always felt that studying was meaningless.
In school, he was like the fisherman who nets fish for three days and dries his nets for two, basically just whiling away the days.
To graduate and then get a job assignment?
Chen Hai felt he simply didn’t need any of these.
As for expanding networks?
Among the students at his school, he could hardly find anyone whose connections were broader than his!
If he really decided to drop out, the only people he felt he’d be letting down were his parents.
Frowning, Chen Hai pulled out a cigarette and lit it for himself.
He tightened his clothes around him, suddenly feeling a chill coursing through his body.
Just as he got up, intending to put on more clothes, he felt the environment around him suddenly distort and change.
Where he had been sitting in the living room of his villa, he now seemed to be standing in the middle of a land blanketed with ice and snow.
When a person’s perceptions are blocked off, and their subconscious believes that they are truly freezing to death outside,
they will actually die, and their body will exhibit symptoms of having frozen to death.
Similar scientific experiments have been conducted more than once or twice by scientists on Blue Star.
Caught off guard, Chen Hai was unable to react in time, and his perceptions became somewhat disordered as well.
Standing amidst the ice and snow, he shivered violently several times.
Just as he was becoming alert and ready to react, a slender figure with a head full of white hair suddenly appeared before his eyes.
The figure was graceful, as if dancing among the ice and snow.
Wherever she went, blizzards raged.
A moment before, her form was indistinct, seemingly miles away!
But in less than a blink of an eye, the distance between her and Chen Hai had shrunk to merely a few meters.
“Such heavy demon qi, this is, a demon…” With a thought, Chen Hai’s Divine Soul departed from his body.
The white figure, with her long white hair draped over her shoulders, had a face that remained blurry and hard to discern.
However, for Chen Hai, it didn’t matter what the figure looked like.
As long as he didn’t feel a chilling threat to make his scalp tingle, then, in his eyes, this figure was no different from food.
Confronted with the fierce Divine Soul of Chen Hai, the figure visibly paused.
Immediately, an uncontrollable and deep fear of encountering a natural enemy surged in her heart.
Without a second thought, she turned and ran.
“Little monster, you come here and want to run away…” Amidst a strange, sinister laughter, Chen Hai flashed forward, cutting off the white figure’s path of retreat.
His huge leech-like body engulfed the white figure in one sweep.
“Great one, spare me…” This white figure was the Snow Woman, a Shikigami of Ono Sari.
Her entire spirit relied entirely on the Snow Woman.
The purpose of her coming here was straightforward: to dispatch Chen Hai to his death unawares within this villa.
Now, her cold face was filled with panic.
Jiang Zhendong had never told her that Chen Hai, the man before her, was so powerful and had such high cultivation.
And she, confident in her own strength,
after reviewing the information Jiang Zhendong had handed her about Chen Hai, hardly took such a young student seriously.
In her opinion, with her full effort, such a youngster was naturally easy to capture.
To kill him would require no more effort than blowing away dust.
But now, deep regret had already filled Ono Sari’s heart, and no matter how much she regretted, it was already too late!
Chen Hai’s massive leech-like body, with one in the front and one in the back, its two large suckers had already pierced into her body.
“You think I’ll spare you just because you ask for mercy?
If I spare you, where would my dignity be?”
“You took on me, you should be prepared to die here!” A surge of pure Soul Power rushed into Chen Hai’s body.
Apart from the beginning of his Cultivation when he was lucky to devour the souls of two demons, he hadn’t encountered such strong nourishment in a long time.
Now that she had presented herself on a platter, how could Chen Hai let the opportunity slip by!
Feeling her power rapidly ebbing away, Ono Sari, tightly ensnared by Chen Hai’s leech-like body, began to struggle hysterically.
Aside from the intense coldness, she even used her teeth in an attempt to break free from Chen Hai’s hold.
Sadly, these tactics were utterly useless against Chen Hai.
The life force of his leech-like body was incredibly robust and its resilience reached an extreme.
No matter how fiercely Ono Sari struggled, he kept her tightly bound, as his two large suckers voraciously drained her pure Soul Power.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes…
Nearly twenty minutes had passed, the Shikigami Snow Woman, with her Soul Power completely drained by Ono Sari, finally dissipated into nothingness, vanishing into the void.
Almost at the same time, several miles away in a parked car on the side of a street.
Ono Sari, who had been hiding her true form in this place and half-reclining in the driver’s seat, began to look vacant as the consciousness she had projected into the Snow Woman was completely extinguished.
Her beautiful face, which looked to be at most in her thirties, aged rapidly at a visible rate.
Her once expressive eyes, now dull and lifeless, remained fixed forward.
Her face, heavy with hate and unwillingness, as the last bit of life force left her body, her head tilted, plunging into eternal silence.
“A demon from Japan?
Quite the tonic, ah, refreshing…”
“Could it be that the spirits served by the Onmyoji were originally demons?”
“Otherwise, how could the Shikigami formed by this woman, with the power bestowed by the spirits as its foundation, end up being just like a demon?”
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In the guest hall of West Mountain Villa, Chen Hai, in stark contrast to the now silently deceased Ono Sari, was visibly elated.
After devouring the Soul Power of the Shikigami Snow Woman, he felt his Divine Soul’s power reach full saturation, and he couldn’t advance any further; he nearly leaped for joy.
This indicated he had reached the pinnacle of cultivation within the Day Tour Realm.
One step further lay the threshold into the Object Controlling Realm, which he could barely glimpse.
If he could successfully break through this barrier, the world outside would be wide open to him, and he would truly enter the Object Controlling level.
Devouring a demon soul, he could obtain the purest Soul Power within it.
Devouring spirits of the unknown, he might not gain power, but he could access some of the unknown spirits’ memories.
However, the Shikigami Snow Woman, formed by Ono Sari, was slightly different from the demon souls and the unknown spirits.
Chen Hai completely devoured her, not only draining all her power but also acquiring some of Ono Sari’s memories from her consciousness.
Though fragmented and incomplete, Chen Hai still gleaned much from these scattered memory pieces.
He clearly understood that Ono Sari, the Onmyoji woman, came to Yanhuang Country at the invitation of her junior, Murakami Taro.
She sneaked to him in the middle of the night, attempting to assassinate him because of some cooperation agreement with that guy Jiang Zhendong.
While Chen Hai was clear about these insider details, for the time being, he set aside thoughts of revenge against Jiang Zhendong and Murakami Taro.
At present, he had only one thought: to blow through the barrier in one vigorous effort and step into the Object Controlling Realm.
After all, whether it was Jiang Zhendong or Murakami Taro, they were right there.
He didn’t need to rush to seek vengeance against them.
In his eyes, nothing was more important than a breakthrough in his own cultivation level.
“To retreat right here in this quadrangle and attempt the breakthrough?”
“This seems a bit risky; stepping into the Object Controlling Realm is a critical breakthrough into a Great Realm.”
“Perhaps, it will take a substantial amount of time to successfully breach the barrier and advance further.”
“During this period, I cannot afford any disturbances, or else the breakthrough could very well be aborted halfway.”
“When it comes to breaking through realms, it’s about striking hard in one go, losing steam the second, and exhausting by the third…”
“If possible, I must find an undiscovered, undisturbed place for the retreat, which would be far more appropriate!”
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Frowning, Chen Hai’s mind whirred as he picked up the phone from the sofa and started dialing.