Chapter 126: Brand, *Iron Refining Record* completed!

"Main Brain, judge the brand status on me, Jiu Jiu, and Daphne."

Su Xing said loudly.

"Su Xing."

"Brand: Buddha Realm attraction rate five percent (from Buddha mud), Vacuum Hometown attraction rate thirteen percent (from Wusheng Laomu's gaze), Demon Realm attraction rate thirty-two percent (from Castlevania)."

"Jiu Jiu."

"Brand: Demon Realm attraction rate forty-six percent (from Castlevania)."

"Daphne."

"Brand: Demon Realm attraction rate forty-one percent (from Castlevania)."

Su Xing had had a strange feeling before.

The intensity of this Demon Realm brand was far inferior to the Buddha Realm and Vacuum Hometown brands. He didn't even have a trace of feeling for those two brands; if not for the Main Brain's display, he wouldn't know they existed at all. Moreover, their growth rate was slow. After this trip to Castlevania, the Buddha Realm's attraction rate finally increased by one percent, and Vacuum Hometown increased by two percent. Although these two were truly fatal threats—one was 0.1 of the baseline reality, the other 0.2—they wouldn't pose any threat to him in the short term.

But the Demon Realm brand was different.

When Su Xing returned to Gaia, he already had a vague feeling that something was attached to him, Jiu Jiu, and Daphne.

Now, through the Main Brain's judgment, it was indeed the Demon Realm brand brought out from Castlevania.

In Castlevania, one would be constantly subjected to Chaos pollution, and whether this Chaos pollution would increase the Demon Realm brand was unknown, but entering the graveyard area would definitely result in being branded with the Demon Realm brand. Even after experiencing the test of the graveyard area and returning to Castlevania, the increase in this Demon Realm brand was exaggeratedly large.

Even with Su Xing's thirty-two percent attraction rate, he would be dragged into the Demon Realm after experiencing the graveyard area at most two more times.

(However, I heard the skull mention that the Dark Archmage entered the graveyard area many times, and even it had been in a few times, yet it remained unscathed. I just don't know if this is unique immunity for Castlevania monsters.)

Su Xing thought silently, not knowing the truth.

But with this brand, he definitely wouldn't go back to Castlevania in the short term, at least not for thirty days. He had to keep strengthening his strength during these thirty days, and when he returned to Castlevania, he had to find a way to solve this brand. He figured the skull should know something.

Besides that, the most important thing was...

"Main Brain, open my personal information data panel," Su Xing said.

"Su Xing, Human, Pure-blood."

"Level 2 Maintenance Personnel, Low-level Employee."

"Physical Body Rank Three Initial (Potential +1) (Muscle strength is 2.4 (increased by 0.2 since last check), Gene strength 1.6 (increased by 0.2 since last check), Nerve reaction speed 2.2 (increased by 0.1 since last check), Hematopoietic immune function 2.9 (increased by 0.1 since last check), Self-healing ability 2.9 (increased by 0.1 since last check)), Soul Rank Two (Death Return), Inspiration Rank Two (Bizarre Perception 2.8, Barrier-breaking Perception 1.8)."

"Martial Arts: Dan Jin (3.9%) (increased by 3% since last check), Tiger Demon Art: Supreme Manifest Saint (40%) (increased by 7% since last check) (Already obtained inherent Manifest Saint attribute: Sleeping Spiritual Light)."

"Human Immortal Martial Dao: Skin Tempering Great Success (100%), Flesh Tempering (100%) (increased by 82% since last check), Green Python Molting Art: Peak Perfection (80%) (increased by one rank since last check), Tiger Demon Bone Tempering Fist (0%) (Initial threshold)."

"Virtual Personality, can absorb self-fragments to condense into truth, Sea of Consciousness negative backlash rate nine percent (increased by one percent since last check), Sea of Consciousness negative total???"

"Brand: Buddha Realm attraction rate five percent (from Buddha mud) (increased by one percent since last check), Vacuum Hometown attraction rate thirteen percent (from Wusheng Laomu's gaze) (increased by two percent since last check)."

"Lost Brand: Primitive Demon Prison Sixth Layer Shadow Hall coordinate (one-time qualification)."

"Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, judging... judgment complete. This is a special activated unknown component, extremely easy to react with any substance, thereby activating the substance, including organic substances, inorganic substances... Second judgment... judgment complete. Heaven and Earth spiritual energy, in addition to interacting with substances, also interacts with energy, including electrical energy, thermal energy, nuclear energy, thereby producing special life-like combinations. When maintaining high Heaven and Earth energy concentration for a long time, it will transform from life-like to sentient life, thereby forming special life scenarios, including animals, plants, fungi, rocks, flowing water, air, magma, lightning, stars... all can turn into sentient life."

"Contains Heaven and Earth energy in the body, evaluated by equivalent amount of electrical energy, the current total amount of Heaven and Earth spiritual energy in the personnel's body is 3.5 units, which is rapidly decaying, with a total decay of 0.1 to 0.2 units every 24 hours."

Su Xing looked carefully at his personal information data panel. The strengthening of his physical body was expected.

After defeating the Peacock King descendant skeleton, a strange cool air appeared in that tomb, and Su Xing guessed that the cool air was the so-called Heaven and Earth spiritual energy. Although he only breathed it for a short time before being transferred out of the tomb area, he could still feel the cool air constantly coursing through his body, like the legendary internal energy.

This was indeed verified now; his body contained Heaven and Earth spiritual energy, but it was rapidly decaying.

This Heaven and Earth spiritual energy had stimulated and evolved his physical body once, but the magnitude wasn't large. Coupled with the monsters he killed in Castlevania, including the commander-level monsters like the Bronze Minotaur, it only brought his Human Immortal Martial Dao Flesh Tempering realm to 100%, which brought about the growth of his basic physical attributes. All of this was within his expectations.

The only thing that exceeded his expectations was that the Green Python Molting Art reached 80% of the Peak Perfection realm, still 20% away from the extreme Supreme Manifest Saint stage. And the Tiger Demon Bone Tempering Fist, which hadn't entered the threshold before, finally reached the initial threshold. This could also be considered an unexpected joy.

Moreover, he also felt that the 3.5 units of Heaven and Earth spiritual energy in his body weren't dissipating out of thin air, but were being continuously absorbed by his physical body, subtly improving his physical body and Human Immortal Martial Dao foundation, progress, potential, etc. Just breathing a few mouthfuls of Heaven and Earth spiritual energy had brought so much strengthening and nourishment to his physical body; this effect was simply countless times stronger than the meat of a boar demon with over three hundred years of cultivation!

It was completely imaginable how strong the physical bodies of those mythological giant demons would be after living in a high-concentration Heaven and Earth spiritual energy environment for a long time.

After Su Xing looked at his panel, he immediately said to Jiu Jiu and Daphne, "We survived in the Ten Thousand Demon Hall before and breathed the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy inside. Although the quantity wasn't large, it has great benefits for us all. I don't know if you have any cultivation methods. If you do, start practicing now. If not, then keep your consciousness and spirit focused, and concentrate on controlling the cool air in your body to course through your whole body. The more places it courses through, the better."

Jiu Jiu chirped, then flew to a high place and closed her eyes, motionless.

Daphne also knew what was good for her. She had a cultivation technique, so she rolled on the spot and transformed into a Samoyed, also closing her eyes, the Samoyed assuming a funny posture of front paws hugging its dog head.

Su Xing saw that Jiu Jiu and Daphne had both started practicing, so he didn't bother with them anymore. He immediately took out the original *Iron Refining Record*, opened it to the first page, and while visualizing the images on it, he ran the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy in his body according to the human meridians marked in the *Iron Refining Record*, while his hands began to assume various hand gestures, accompanied by the twisting and turning of his body, etc.

In less than ten minutes, Su Xing felt that feeling of "prickliness" in his breathing again, as if the air he was breathing had a metallic texture.

With the acquisition of Heaven and Earth spiritual energy, Su Xing felt a sense of rapid progress when practicing the original *Iron Refining Record*.

In less than an hour, a warm current appeared in the very center of his chest, roughly to the right of his heart. At first, it was flickering, but gradually this warm current became solid.

This was definitely not some delusion after going crazy from practicing Qi cultivation, but a truly tangible warm current he could feel in his chest.

Three hours later, this warm current was completely fixed. Even if he stopped visualizing and circulating the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy, this warm current always existed.

!

At this point, the *Iron Refining Furnace*, the foundation of the *Iron Refining Record*, was completely completed, which also marked that Su Xing had finally entered the threshold of the *Iron Refining Record*.

Eight hours later, Su Xing moved all the remaining Heaven and Earth spiritual energy into the *Iron Refining Furnace*. These cool currents immediately turned into wisps of warm current in the *Iron Refining Furnace*, which was also controllable internal energy, and could also be circulated through the whole body by the circulation method of Qi Jin. As for what specific effects it had, it was unknown for now.

Until this moment, there was not a drop of spiritual energy left in Su Xing's body.

"Main Brain, display my *Iron Refining Record* cultivation technique," Su Xing opened his eyes and said immediately.

"Spiritual Energy Body Tempering, *Iron Refining Record*: Initial Threshold (3%) Heaven and Earth Five Metals: Not stored."

Su Xing looked carefully at this attribute column, and a smile finally appeared on his face.

"Spiritual Energy Body Tempering, is this what the *Iron Refining Record* belongs to? It sounds like a body tempering technique in immortal cultivation. And then there's Heaven and Earth Five Metals... if only there were enough Heaven and Earth spiritual energy."

Su Xing sighed with regret, and at the same time, he closed his eyes again to feel the *Iron Refining Furnace* in his chest carefully.

This position was actually the middle dantian in the human body.

In martial arts, there is a detailed description that the human body has three dantians, which are the lower dantian, middle dantian, and upper dantian. The lower dantian goes without saying, the middle dantian is to the right of the heart in the chest, and the upper dantian is the human sea of consciousness, which is where the Sleeping Spiritual Light is located.

Although he had no Heaven and Earth spiritual energy now, this *Iron Refining Furnace* was very wonderful. It wasn't just Heaven and Earth spiritual energy; it was even equivalent to a second organ in the human body, between existence and non-existence. If it were on a material level, even if his chest were dissected, its position couldn't be found. But anything he ate could be decomposed by the *Iron Refining Furnace*, and its digestion efficiency was far higher than his real stomach and intestines.

It was just that the *Iron Refining Furnace* was still very small, and its power was very weak. The food it digested wasn't much, and the total digestion amount was only about one-twentieth of his own physical digestion amount. There was another point here, which was that the *Iron Refining Furnace* could digest anything, even iron and stone.

In other words, he could even survive by swallowing iron, stone, and air, although it could only offset one-twentieth of his food consumption.

"Looking at it this way, could it be that those legendary immortal cultivators who abstain from grains rely on these extraordinary organs to obtain nutrition?"

Su Xing was full of ambition for a while, falling into some kind of reverie.

After a while, he collected his mind and refocused his attention on the harvest from this trip to Castlevania.

"One full random draw."

"One personal attribute increase!"

"Eight sleeping maintenance personnel awakened!!"

Su Xing stood up from the ground seriously. He glanced at Jiu Jiu and Daphne who were still practicing, and didn't make a sound, but walked silently toward the maintenance station.

He wanted to...

Bathe, change clothes, fast, and wash his hands!!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 127 =====