Song Weihan clenched his teeth and walked over to the window, staring at Sheng Feilong with an anxious expression. Sheng Lingtian"s expression became even more vicious as he stared and Song Weihan, but before he could open his mouth, the researchers hastily spoke up again."Blood pressure and vital signs continue to destabilize. Immediate support needed."
"Energy saturation falling more rapidly. Saturation level has fallen to D-1. Decrease accelerating continuously."
Song Weihan turned around and immediately gave his commands to the researchers, ignoring Sheng Lingtian"s increasing killing intent.
"Increase the energy saturation to level C-1, if the decrease accelerates to the point where it"s faster than a C-3 increase, change the saturation level to B-2 immediately. Release Blood Mandale and Mending Lotus gas in a 40-60 ratio. What about Spirit Power fluctuations and brain activity?"
The third researcher immediately replied with a serious expression.
"Stable at 63% above normalized parameters. Strain on the brain will become harmful after 26 minutes. Spirit Power expenditure stable, no problem yet."
Song Weihan nodded with a solemn expression.
"Good. Report every change immediately. Sheng Lingtian, cease your killing intent and retract your Soul Power, we need to concentrate. Nothing will happen to Feilong. I swear upon my life. If you can"t take it, get out."
Sheng Lingtian gnashed his teeth, but still retracted his Soul Power after seeing Song Weihan"s expression. The latter was just a rigid as himself, but had to keep a clear mind and give instructions. He couldn"t allow himself to be disturbed by anything right now!
Meanwhile, Sheng Feilong had an even harder time than the others. The Artificial Soul Bone is his hand had already completely entered his body and was currently fusing with him. According to his knowledge, he would have to withstand excruciating pain since the Soul Bone would remold the respective bone, in his case, the skull, of the one who"s fusing with it, but this was different. While the pain he felt inside his head was indeed the remolding of his skull, the power contained within the Soul Bone was also savagely attacking his spiritual consciousness continuously. Moreover, the excess energy was also ravaging through his body, tearing flesh and ripping through blood vessels wherever it went!
Sheng Feilong was frantically absorbing the dense Soul Power around him while simultaneously shielding his spiritual consciousness to the best of his ability and enduring the ravaging of his body. He had to endure the savage beatings of Song Weihan again and again in his training, but this was on a whole different level. The physical pain alone nearly caused him to lose consciousness, but he couldn"t allow that as he had to protect himself from the Soul Bone"s spiritual attacks!
After a while, the Soul Power density in the room increased once again and a soothing fragrance was released in the air, aiding him with the physical pain and allowing him to focus more of his attention on the spiritual attacks.
After around half an hour, the physical pain slowly subsided and instead, Sheng Feilong felt his whole body heat up wherever his blood flowed. This heat increased to the degree of burning his blood vessels and the surrounding flesh from the inside out! At the same time, the attacks to his spiritual consciousness changed as well. The savageness and hostility lessened, while the pressure became increasingly stronger and it felt like something was trying to force itself into his spiritual consciousness instead of destroying it.
The people inside the control room became more and more frantic. The energy saturation had been increased to the 2 level, which corresponds to the power of an average Lv 85 Soul Douluo, but Sheng Feilong still absorbed the power frantically. The density of the medicinal gas has also been tripled only to be absorbed even faster. Still, the researchers were hastily giving their reports while Sheng Feilong"s body had changed from a deathly pale to a burning red colour!
"Blood pressure and body temperature continuing to rise rapidly. Blood vessels are expected to be severely burnt at this point. Various organs showing similar injuries, while vital signs continue to fluctuate."
"Spirit Power fluctuations becoming increasingly abnormal. Unknown, hostile spirit signature detected; expected to be remnants of the Soul Bone"s genetic material"s spirit. Brain activity still stable. 15 minutes remaining until lasting damage is expected to occur."
"Energy saturation stable at 2 level. No problems."
Sheng Lingtian was clenching his fists so hard that his nails pierced his skin and blood was dripping down from his hands by now. He stared at Sheng Feilong through the window while speaking to Song Weihan.
"Is there nothing we can do? We have to do something to help him. At this rate, he... he..."
Song Weihan similarly clenched his fists but still remained his clear mind, although with a vicious glint in his eyes.
"There"s nothing. We"re helping him as much as we can. If he can"t overcome the rest by himself, then-" One of the researchers interrupted him with a surprisingly excited tone.
"Unknown spirit signature has been extinguished! Spirit Power fluctuations returning to normal level. Brain activity leaving critical levels. No remaining damage will occur at current level!"
Song Weihan and Sheng Lingtian instantly snapped their heads around to look at Sheng Feilong. The pained expression on his face had calmed down significantly and he now looked more focused instead of strained. Sheng Lingtian clenched his fists even more, while Song Weihan had an excited glint in his eyes.
Sheng Feilong was ecstatic. He had successfully beaten back the spiritual pressure and the attacks on his spiritual consciousness had stopped! While the physical pain still remained, without the mental pressure, he could focus on enduring it way more effectively! He focused to circulate the incredibly dense Soul Power and strange medicinal energy in the air into his body, along his meridians and blood vessels. At this level, he could endure it without much trouble!
The researchers in the control room had already noticed this and excitedly called out their respective reports. Sheng Feilong"s blood pressure and vital signs were returning to normal values while the energy saturation in the room was stable and slowly reaching the point where Sheng Feilong"s absorbtion was slower than the increase; this would help Sheng Feilong ma.s.sively.
Everyone slowly calmed down and Sheng Lingtian and Song Weihan heaved a sigh of relief. Both of them squeezed out a slight smile as they looked at Sheng Feilong, who"s skin colour was slowly returning to a healthy tone. But suddenly, an alarm rung out from one of the monitors as Sheng Feilong swayed, threw up a mouthful of blood and became deathly pale. One of the researches nearly jumped from his seat and frantically reported the situation.
"Unknown spirit signature has returned! Spirit Power fluctuations disrupted; now plummeting to critical lows while taking on abnormal forms!"
Another researcher chimed in with the same frantic tone,
""Vital signs and blood pressure severely affected my spiritual backlash! Vital signs reaching critical lows as well!"
Sheng Lingtian abruptly turned around again, staring at Sheng Feilong and furiously bellowing with dread written all over his face.
"Feilong!"
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Sheng Feilong was completely focused on regenerating and didn"t pay any mind to the pain from remolding his skull bone. What he didn"t notice, however, was the dreadful spirit attack that was about to hit his spiritual consciousness. The full brunt of the attack him unprepared, ma.s.sively shaking his spirit and causing him to lose consciousness. Still, his body remained seated, circulating the Soul Power and medicinal energy through his body.
Sheng Feilong found himself in the depths of an unknown, ancient forest. Tree towering dozens – if not hundreds – of meters into the air, blotting out the sun nearly completely. Lush bushes and tall gra.s.s were covering the ground and many birds, insects and other animals could be heard in the distance. From behind the trees, a humongous Soul Beast stepped out; 4 powerful claws trotting on the earth, leaving behind deep footprints, a muscular body adorned with gleaming, golden fur with occasional golden scales protruding from it, shouldering is ma.s.sive head. Delicate features with an elongated snout and bright, golden eyes, as well as a third, ominously glowing red eye on it"s forehead. The beast turned from one side to the other, seemingly searching for something, glancing past Sheng Feilong from time to time.
Sheng Feilong instantly froze. This was a Three-Eyed Golden Lion! And not just any Golden Lion; Judging from its size and the pressure it gave off, this was a 100.000-year-old Three-Eyed Golden Lion! As beast such as this could kill him a 1.000 times over with a single sneeze. Just how had he ended up here?! What was going on?!
Just as Sheng Feilong"s mind was running on overdrive to find a way to flee from this situation, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion directly stared at him, causing him to freeze again. Before he could do anything, the scene in front of his eyes changed. He wasn"t standing in the unknown ancient forest anymore, but on a mountain cliff, looking down on another forest of red and orange leafed tree, stretching out even farther then he could see.
Sheng Feilong turned around to find out where he was, and, once again, was forced to freeze in place. On the other side of the mountain stood another humongous Golden Lion. This one had similar gleaming, golden fur with golden scales protruding from it and a ma.s.sive head with an elongated snout and piercing golden eyes. However, it did not have the same ominously glowing red eye on its forehead, but instead something that looked like a badly healed scar in the same place. Not only that, but this Golden Lion was missing a front leg! It only had 3 legs and no third eye, but the pressure it gave off was just as intimidating as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion from before; This must be a 100.000-years-old Soul Beast as well!
Sheng Feilong broke out in a cold sweat. He would have been able to hide in a forest, but on top of a freaking mountain?! As soon as he was seen, he"d be as dead as can be! He stared at the unknown Golden Lion, that was staring at the setting sun and it made a sound as if it was sighing before its pressure spiked to unseen heights and it shrouded itself in a radiant golden light, forcing Sheng Feilong to close his eyes. When he was able to open them again, the Golden Lion in front of him was gone.
In its stead, there now stood a naked man with glossy, tanned skin, and untamed, long golden hair, who was similarly staring at the setting sun. The man turned around, allowing Sheng Feilong to see his face; delicate features are if chiseled by the G.o.ds themselves, piercing golden eyes that radiated an incredible power and a vicious looking, badly healed scar on his forehead. The man had only one arm, but the wound on his shoulder had long since healed. He walked towards the edge of the mountain, directly walking towards Sheng Feilong, who was deadly pale and trembling heavily.
The man didn"t stop, ignoring Sheng Feilong who stood in his way, and directly walked... though Sheng Feilong..? baffled by this, Sheng Feilong turned around, looking at the back of the man and tried to touch him, only to have his hand slide into the man"s back; He couldn"t be touched.
A sound pulled him out of his thoughts, deep sigh from the man, and he looked at the latter"s head in a panic, but the man didn"t seem to have notice him. He stared a while longer at the silent man, before hearing another sigh and a deep and powerful voice filled with regret but also determination, identifying it as the voice of the man.
"30.000 years have I remained on this mountain, absorbing the power of the sun, but to what end? I was unable to open my eyes, unable to heal my wounds. What use to I have for the body of a beast? From today onwards, I shall become a human. I aspired to become a saint, only to bring shame upon my pride. I failed in my life, failed to become useful for my pride. From now forth, "til the end of time, my name shall be Sheng Wuyong; a useless saint!"