In the Wa Palace, the three lights on the blood jade skull in Wu Jin's hand flickered slightly.
Curled up in the dimly lit mine, Wu Tie tightly gripped the crystal brain left behind by Lao Tie and suddenly woke up.
A faint joy emerged from his heart.
In the center of his eyebrows, due to the injection of a large amount of information, a massive amount of information was directly imprinted in his mind, causing the golden sphere that consumed ninety percent of his Qi and blood to tremble slightly.
The elemental Qi in the air continued to surge, transforming into a visible sparkling stream that flowed into Wu Tie's head from above. Due to the joy in his heart, his Qi and blood became extremely active, and the combination of Qi and blood energy and elemental Qi was repeatedly tempered by the majestic righteousness.
Strands of golden light emerged from the Qi and blood energy, continuously flowing into his eyebrows and injecting into the golden sphere.
Originally, Wu Tie's soul power was as powerful as that of a hundred ordinary people. This information imprint had burned ninety-five percent of his soul power, leaving only a pure and condensed soul power equivalent to that of five ordinary individuals. It was like a small mercury suspended in his eyebrows, condensed and heavy, each thread resilient and difficult to destroy.
After this tempering, the essence of his soul suddenly elevated several levels.
It became difficult for the elevated soul to "repair and grow." Strands of golden light continued to flow into his eyebrows, but the golden glow remained unchanged and showed no signs of increasing.
Wu Tie was not anxious either.
After experiencing so much, especially after Lao Tie fell into an unknown sleep in front of him, his temperament had been tempered. He became calm and indifferent, with an aura that seemed to have seen through life and death accompanying him.
The range covered by the invisible force field shrank back to fifty meters after ninety-five percent of his soul power was consumed.
But within this radius, even the trace of a speck of dust was clearly visible. Within these fifty meters, the world seemed like a crystal clear realm, and every movement and sound were clearly perceived. His control had increased by a hundredfold compared to before.
Countless strange and bizarre words and patterns tumbled in his mind for a while before settling down.
Some things couldn't be "read through" and touching them in his mind caused a sharp pain.
Only some simple and basic things could be easily accessed.
Wu Tie pondered for a while, picked up a stone, and vigorously rubbed it on the ground, causing a spark to burst out.
"Control!"
The invisible force field trembled slightly as Wu Tie sternly reprimanded. He formed a peculiar hand seal with his right hand and pointed it at the spark.
A fist-sized ball of fire emerged from the spark, and within the flame, several slender elemental Qi twisted and condensed into a simple flame rune. The flame rapidly expanded to the size of a human head and then stabilized.
Following the rules, another eight balls of fire burst out.
Under the control of the invisible force field, the nine balls of fire formed a nine-palace formation floating above Wu Tie's head, emitting a faint red light that illuminated the entire mining chamber.
The ground gleamed with reflections of metal.
Wu Tie looked down and saw the half of Lao Tie's head that was originally there.
Lao Tie's head had finally disintegrated, and the countless streams of multicolored light in his mind finally condensed into a small crystal brain.
Originally, Wu Tie thought that was the end of Lao Tie's existence.
But unexpectedly, he had left behind a small trinket.
From a pile of fine metal residue on the ground, Wu Tie pulled out a delicate whitish chain that was over two feet long. The chain was extremely thin, only half the thickness of a mung bean, with delicate hooks on both ends and a small metal spider-shaped pendant in the middle.
The body of the metal spider was very small, while its legs were quite long.
Wu Tie looked at the design of the metal pendant, picked up Lao Tie's crystal brain, and gently brought them together.
A few metal legs clicked together, securing Lao Tie's crystal brain to the pendant.
"Lao Tie... You've thought of everything. I was worried that I would lose you."
Wu Tie smiled contentedly, hung the chain around his neck, and tightened the delicate hooks on both ends. He gave the chain a strong tug, exerting thousands of kilograms of force, but the chain didn't budge at all.
"Well, so your entire essence is integrated into this chain? It's quite sturdy, which is great."
Wu Tie murmured softly.
A warm joy surged in his heart.
He tapped his own cheek in doubt, "Why do I feel joy? Could it be that I can't wait for you, Lao Tie, to die? There's no reason for that..."
The golden sphere in the center of his eyebrows moved, and Wu Tie looked in a certain direction.
In the distant horizon...
Wu Tie instinctively felt that there was a force of joy coming from a far distance. It seemed like a call, a strange call that originated from his bloodline, urging him to go quickly in that direction, where someone important to him was located.
"What is this?" Wu Tie wondered to himself.
He was just a small cultivator in the Foundation Building Stage, possessing only physical strength and some strange metaphysical arts. He didn't have the ability to cultivate yet.
This strange feeling made him somewhat joyous and somewhat uneasy.
With too much information in his mind, Wu Tie furrowed his brow and pondered for a long time before finding something similar in the shallow knowledge imprinted by Lao Tie.
"In the Great Wilds, there is an unusual snake that excels at calling souls from a thousand miles away... Those who hear it feel joy, as if their elders at home called their names... They rush to the source of the call, only to be devoured by the strange snake."
"Therefore, in the wilderness, if someone hears someone calling their name, they must not respond or pay any attention and should leave quickly... Remember, remember!"
It took him a quarter of an hour to find this somewhat useful record.
"An unusual snake in the Great Wilds?"
Wu Tie subconsciously thought of the Jiao Dragon in the secret realm. He shivered and suddenly stood up straight, looked around, then walked directly in the direction where the calling force was coming from, away from the risk.
It was dangerous to provoke such a thing. He would deal with it when he cultivated to a much stronger level.
Now...according to Lao Tie's request before he fell asleep, Wu Tie had to live well.
Live well, cultivate well, cultivate the "Primeval Scripture" until he became strong enough, strong enough to find a new body for Lao Tie and wake him up.
Even, become strong enough...
When Lao Tie injected information, he specifically released a dazzling light in Wu Tie's soul to mark this message:
"In ancient times, there were saints... They could distort time and revive the dead!"
Be strong enough to become a saint!
Wu Tie didn't know what kind of existence saints were... but since they had existed before, he also wanted to become a saint.
Distort time, revive the dead.
"I will bring my father and brothers back to life." Wu Tie clenched his fist tightly. "Since there is such a possibility... then I will strive to do it. Ha, fight hard, young one..."
Nine fireballs the size of a human head floated above his head, quietly emitting light and heat.
Wu Tie infused his elemental Qi into the tattered tight-fitting armor on his body, causing the pale armor to wriggle and eventually transform into a pair of white shorts covering his lower body, while two heavy chest protectors were formed, tightly attached to his body.
Whether it was the shorts or the chest protectors, they had the same color as the White Tiger Armguard on Wu Tie's right arm.
The original full set of tight-fitting armor was too eye-catching, so it was better to be low-key. This simple chest protector couldn't even be considered half of the original armor, so it wouldn't attract too much attention.
If someone was so desperate that they needed to rob even such a rudimentary chest protector...
Such a person couldn't be strong, and Wu Tie could easily deal with them.
As he continued on, Wu Tie recalled the knowledge that Lao Tie imparted to him while walking.
Alone and without any support, in an unfamiliar environment, how should one survive?
Moreover, Wu Tie's cultivation of the "Primeval Scripture"... he now knew that the Foundation Building Formula was part of the "Primeval Scripture" and was the introductory method.
The cultivation of the "Primeval Scripture" could forge the "Perfect Way" that Lao Tie mentioned, but it required an extremely long time and massive resources to accelerate cultivation speed.
Resources... during the cultivation of the Foundation Building Formula, the main resource required was a large amount of flesh and blood.
Wu Tie needed a substantial amount of flesh and blood.
However, from the information Lao Tie inputted, Wu Tie knew that some unusual flowers and plants could also greatly assist in the cultivation of the Foundation Building Formula. However, since he had already reached the Qi and blood realm of the Foundation Building Stage, he only needed abundant Qi and blood.
A huge amount of flesh and blood was not as effective for Qi and blood cultivation as some strange flowers and plants.
"But... as Lao Tie analyzed, the environment here is very different from the familiar environment... those unusual flowers and plants may have already gone extinct..."
"But, there's a piece of graphic interpretation here, right? Is it an inference of the future mutations of those unusual flowers and plants when entering a new environment?" Wu Tie browsed through the information in his mind and muttered, "Is it reliable? Just by inference, can it predict the future mutations and changes of those unusual flowers and plants?"
"Well... this is definitely not something Lao Tie came up with... he doesn't have this ability. He only knows how to fight and kill."
"It should be what Lao Tie mentioned, those knowledge that does not belong to him... the knowledge that was forcibly injected into his mind... just like the 'Primeval Scripture'... Lao Tie and his brothers have become carriers of a certain civilization's torch? These knowledges were forced into his mind and they spread the knowledge when they encountered the suitable targets?"
The thin chain on his neck flickered.
The crystal brain embedded in the spider pendant also flickered.
Countless reflections shimmered on the complex facets, appearing nimble and gorgeous, full of indescribable charm.
Wu Tie suddenly stopped in his tracks, lowered his head, and looked at the dazzling crystal brain. After pondering for a while, he infused a strand of elemental Qi into the chest protector on his chest. The chest protector wriggled, and soon a small droplet of metallic liquid floated out.
This droplet of metallic liquid quickly covered the crystal brain, and after a slight wriggle, it transformed into a crudely crafted grayish-white spider pendant.
There were countless spiders in the underground cave. According to what Wu Tie knew, many gray dwarves and stone dwarves worshipped spiders as their totem.
Many of them carried spider-shaped amulets with them.
So it was quite ordinary for him to hang a metal spider pendant; it wouldn't attract attention.
Wu Tie continued walking, rapidly advancing along the winding tunnel.
An hour later, he left the complex mine and entered the outer passage.
He was unfamiliar with the nearby geography and didn't know where any particular direction would lead. He randomly chose a direction and continued walking along a passage that showed signs of recent activity.
Every day, he would dedicate more than half of his time to practicing the Foundation Building Formula.
Every move, every gesture, every aspect of the Foundation Building Formula was perfectly imprinted in Wu Tie's mind.
Each day, he would hunt down a large creature and collect some strange and unusual medicinal materials, using the methods taught by Lao Tie to prepare Foundation Building Pills on his own.
In the first month and a half, Wu Tie failed every time.
The flesh and blood of one big creature after another was wasted, turning into putrid pus under the corrosive effect of powerful medicinal properties.
After a month and a half, Wu Tie finally succeeded once.
Without using the pharmaceutical equipment from the Ancient Divine Armory, he managed to manually prepare a batch of ten Foundation Building Pills.
The method Lao Tie taught for preparation was extremely exquisite. If there was any mistake in the preparation process, all the raw materials would undoubtedly be completely ruined. But once successfully prepared, the results would undoubtedly be high-quality products.
Wu Tie chiseled a few stone bottles and carried the pills with him.
"The damn Mist Blade, the damn Changsheng Sect... so many pills were hidden in Lao Tie's belly. It's a pity they were all destroyed."
After consuming one Foundation Building Pill, Wu Tie practiced the Foundation Building Formula while chuckling softly.
"Someday, I'll give them all back to you, someday."
Walking, cultivating, hunting creatures, and making pills like this, three or four months quickly passed.
Wu Tie's hair became long, and fine, sparse hair grew on his face.
His physique also underwent subtle changes.
Perhaps it was because of bone mutation; he grew about a foot taller than before, and his body became taller and thinner, his face elongated a little, turning into a slightly longer oval face.
His nose became more prominent, his brow ridge more pronounced, and his eye sockets deeper...
The feeling that Wu Tie gave was that the rest of his facial features became fierce, like a sharp spear that could kill at any moment.
He had changed greatly from when he first left the secret realm.
On this day, Wu Tie stood by a small pond and carefully examined the changes in his facial features and body. Satisfied, he nodded.
After another week or so, Wu Tie arrived at the end of the passageway.
In front of him was a wall that was over three hundred meters wide and about ten meters tall, completely sealing off the passageway.
Sitting behind a wooden table outside the city gate was a fat man who kept shaking a bronze bell and shouted loudly, "Great opportunity, hey, great opportunity... you lot of wandering bastards... our Shi family is hiring, hiring hey!"
"Food guaranteed, get meat to eat... perform meritorious deeds, and you can even get a bit of fun with a-wo-man... not slaves, but hired hands... Our Shi family is hiring hey..."
"A great opportunity has come, why are you guys still waiting?"
Outside the gate, nearly a thousand people had gathered.
A glance revealed that they were mostly dwarfs, gnomes, and lizardfolk.
Wu Tie pondered for a moment, then walked towards the fat man with large strides and asked, "Guaranteed food? Meat to eat? Is that true?"
(End of Chapter 62)