Chapter 388: No One Is Allowed to Leave the Table

Getting such a large piece of Imperial Flowing Nectar paste was heaven's gift, but sometimes, food could also choke people to death. Of course, He He Lingchuan knew nothing about the principles involved, and he didn't even have time to think about whether the violent performance of the God-Slaughtering Elixir was normal, just busy and chaotic guiding the true power to rush toward the Shanzhong acupoint along the meridians.

However, the torrent of true power was overly violent, and the regular meridians couldn't bear it at all. He He Lingchuan only felt his whole body bulging, expanding like a balloon; if he couldn't divert the flood immediately, once the meridians broke, he would also "bang" and explode, covering the entire ground cave.

What to do?

The opened meridians couldn't accommodate it, then... then...

Then just count the unopened ones together.

Anyway, rushing to waste was death, and not being able to rush open was also death.

He He Lingchuan was not a character who would sit and wait for death; he did what he thought, and immediately guided the majority of the true power torrent to the extraordinary meridians.

He had only opened two extraordinary meridians before, and the rest should have been guided slowly with water-grinding effort; now he couldn't care so much, and directly let the violent true power rush to the Ren and Du meridians.

These were the two most important meridians among the eight extraordinary meridians, like the son and noon of the human body, the way of ascending and descending of yang fire and yin symbols. Especially the Ren meridian, which was the shortest path for true power to go from the lower abdomen dantian to the Shanzhong acupoint. He He Lingchuan practiced the Zi-Wu formula, and the two he most wanted to open were these two, but unfortunately, the difficulty was also the greatest, and he originally wanted to put them last.

Today, let's just stew them all in one pot.

Either they open, or he dies.

The pain of true power forcibly rushing the pass was as if someone had stabbed his meridians full of holes with steel nails.

If it were in normal times, he would definitely scream, but now he couldn't even scream, and could only grit his teeth and hold on.

Not holding on meant death.

It was seen that the extraordinary meridians, which were usually blocked tightly, were being opened little by little by the torrent of true power. This kind of resistance would only grow larger and larger, but the opening speed of the true power torrent was actually getting faster and faster, just like a locomotive, after the difficult start in the early stage, the speed actually picked up.

From Guan-Yuan, Qi-Hai, Shen-Que... all the way to Jiu-Wei, Zhong-Ting, Shanzhong! However, the true power didn't stop, didn't enter Shanzhong, and continued to go up to attack other acupoints.

At the same time, the Du meridian was also being forcibly expanded.

In order to wait for these two armies that were out of line to come and converge, He He Lingchuan had to drive the remaining true power torrent to walk a few cycles in the regular meridians first.

About a quarter of an hour later, the Ren and Du meridians were forcibly opened.

The whole body's qi mechanism circulated, He He Lingchuan let out a long breath, only feeling that the two meridians that had just been opened were aching and splitting.

The violence of true power inevitably injured the meridians themselves.

Fortunately, at this time, the protective characteristics of the Imperial Flowing Nectar began to manifest, quickly making up for the damage caused just now.

He He Lingchuan had no time to distract himself to check the internal injuries, because the true power torrents that had been divided into several routes finally converged again, rushing directly into the Shanzhong acupoint!

After taking so many detours, he finally walked to this step.

To expand a singularity into a second dantian required explosive power.

If there were no Imperial Flowing Nectar, He He Lingchuan wouldn't possess this kind of power at the current stage. The conventional way should be to repeatedly purify and compress the true power in the Qi-Hai until it couldn't be compressed anymore, and then use this extremely pure true power to attack the Shanzhong acupoint.

Even so, there was a possibility of failure; after all, everyone's actual physical situation was different, and there was no quantitative or fixed formula.

However, today he was borrowing the power of heaven and earth; he had to consider instead what to do if the Imperial Flowing Nectar's power was too great and broke the Shanzhong acupoint, rather than not being able to explode a flower.

Helian Chen let him choose the Shanzhong acupoint to open the second dantian mainly because the eyebrow position was too close to the brain, fearing that he would become a fool if he had a qi deviation, which was called choosing the lesser of two evils.

However, the Shanzhong acupoint was one of the famous death acupoints of the human body; even if it were pointed by an outsider, the consequences would be worrying, let alone self-internal explosion.

In the blink of an eye, the medicinal power of the God-Slaying Elixir surged into the Upper Dantian; before it could even be compressed into place, it forcefully blasted open a sea of Qi! After the first explosion, the power of the God-Slaying Elixir had not been consumed at all, and immediately, a second and third explosion followed.

This kind of power was simply not something the human body could bear, and He He Lingchuan immediately vomited three liters of blood, only feeling that his chest was like being blown open a large hole.

He immediately guided the true power to leave Shanzhong, but it was too late; the power of the God-Slaughtering Elixir was gathering rapidly, brewing the third explosion.

He He Lingchuan secretly said "Bitter."

The Floating Life Blade seemed to sense something was wrong and vibrated slightly; as the main character, He He Lingchuan couldn't spare any mental effort to deal with it.

Could it be that heaven wants me dead this time?...

He He Lingchuan still sat quietly on the ground, as quiet as this.

Except for the muscles on his face twitching, and the blue veins on his neck jumping non-stop.

In the tall grass outside the ground cave, insects were having a great chorus. There were also frogs and poisonous snakes coming from afar, wanting to find some buffet to eat.

The tiger lay on the large rock by the ground cave, not noticing any abnormality.

The Eyeball Spiders were beside it, hanging two grasshoppers wrapped tightly with a strand of silk, feasting away.

No creature knew that He He Lingchuan was going through fire and water, walking on the edge of life and death.

And no one discovered that the large mass of moss deep in the ground cave had turned from dry to wet at some point, completely restored its vitality, and was splitting and growing outward at an astonishing speed.

It had no legs, but it could move toward the cave entrance step by step by means of replication and growth.

That was moving toward He He Lingchuan's back.

At this time, it could no longer be called a moss mass, but a fresh and thick fungal blanket, with mushrooms of various colors growing out of it like bamboo shoots after rain; at first, they were just small dots, and in just a few breaths, they grew into white or red or red-and-white mushrooms.

After they opened their caps, they began to tremble, and each shake scattered a large amount of dust into the air.

In just this short while, hundreds of spores grew on the fungal blanket, and the dust that exploded filled the entire stone cave.

This kind of poisonous powder had a strong hallucinogenic effect, and once a creature inhaled it, it would soon fall into a coma or a manic state.

But He He Lingchuan closed his eyes and knew nothing.

At this time, he was trapped in internal breathing and was not using his mouth and nose to breathe.

On the contrary, the mirror hanging at the cave entrance felt something wrong: "Hey, there is something behind, hey!"

He He Lingchuan made the mirror surface face the cave entrance to guard against external enemies, but unexpectedly, the abnormality came from deep in the stone cave! Damn it, it couldn't turn its head by itself and couldn't see what happened behind!

The mirror shouted, but He He Lingchuan didn't respond.

It's terrible.

If this newly recognized master was gone, and it didn't have a mirror slave, it couldn't get out of this ground cave by itself! What to do, what to do? The mirror was in a state of anxiety, and the fungal blanket had extended to He He Lingchuan's side.

This was followed by another creature on the blanket: white ladybugs.

They didn't fly in from outside the cave either, but drilled out from inside the fungal blanket; I don't know if they lived inside originally or if the insect eggs hatched temporarily.

As soon as they drilled out, they began to gorge on the mushrooms, and their bodies grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, changing from sesame seeds to the size of hazelnut kernels in no time.

Only then could it be seen clearly that there was something like an antenna on their tails, connected to the fungal blanket.

At this time, the fungal blanket also "crawled" to He He Lingchuan's side, surrounding him silently.

As if counting three, two, one, then the fungal blanket suddenly turned inward, and with a "pop," wrapped He He Lingchuan's whole person!

Just like this person wrapped tightly in a blanket, from head to tail, not even a single strand of hair was exposed.

The ladybugs on the fungal blanket received the order at the same time, crawling onto He He Lingchuan in a swarm, three or four gathered in a pile, aiming precisely at several vital acupoints.

They pierced the acupoints precisely through the clothes with mouthparts as sharp and long as needles.

Of course, including the Qi-Hai acupoint and the Shanzhong acupoint.

The true power in He He Lingchuan's body was immediately sucked out continuously.

If the old residents of this forest witnessed this scene, they would know that this was the man-eating fungus hunting again. This monster fed on living things, and the ladybugs living in the fungal blanket had a symbiotic relationship with it, which would seize the nutrition in the living body to feed back to the fungal blanket.

Of course, the order of sucking was true power first, and then flesh and blood.

When He He Lingchuan was refining the God-Slaughtering Elixir, the man-eating fungus woke up. It had lurked here for a long time, and it wasn't until He He Lingchuan was completely in meditation that it launched a sneak attack.

The day after the Imperial Flowing Nectar outbreak, there were plenty of leaks to pick up.

If you can't pick up leaks, picking up meat is also fine.

The ladybugs gulped and sucked, and both they and the fungal blanket were overjoyed: the true power in this prey's body was simply too abundant!

This was like someone going to an inconspicuous small restaurant for a meal, thinking they could only eat stir-fried noodles, but only after sitting down did they find that this place served a full-course banquet, and it wasn't allowed to leave until it was eaten clean.

Yes, not allowed to leave until eaten clean.

These hundreds of ladybugs sucked and sucked, and the true power flowed along the tubes on their tails and was transported to the fungal blanket.

The latter slowly expanded, and every fungal thread became thicker, longer, and more watery. Spores on the fungal blanket popped out batch after batch, each batch was hundreds, growing from small to large and then exploding, taking only a few seconds.

The mirror shouted: "Hey hey, what is going on!"

It released an evil ghost to act as its eyes and finally saw clearly the changes happening in the stone cave.

What kind of ghost thing is this... no, this is a man-eating fungus! Terrible, He He Lingchuan has been completely wrapped by it, life or death unknown.

Just when the mirror wanted to notify the tiger to come and rescue, the fungal blanket had turned deep red and was expanding rapidly toward the outside of the cave.

Clang, the mirror was knocked over to the ground, falling into a small corner, just taking in everything in the cave.

Uh... it wasn't that it hadn't seen a man-eating fungal blanket, why would this thing be so violent? In fact, the fungal blanket itself was not having a good time.

It ate the buffet at He He Lingchuan's place very happily, and then it was full.

This was the first time the fungal blanket hadn't sucked the prey dry before it was full; it ordered the ladybugs to let go of He He Lingchuan, preparing to wait until it digested the newly acquired true power before eating again.

Anyway, the prey was injected with the ladybugs' poison, and couldn't even lift its hands.

However, the ladybugs only discovered the most fatal problem when they wanted to close the stall: the mouth needles couldn't be pulled back! The true power in He He Lingchuan's body sucked their mouthparts in reverse, making the ladybugs unable to move, directly becoming a channel for true power to rush outward, pouring into the fungal blanket continuously.

Now, no one is allowed to leave the table!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 389 =====