InvincibleConnoisseur

Chapter 43 The Spiritual Energy

Wang Ke was dumbfounded and he couldn't believe his eyes. As the colorful and splendid world disappeared, he was horrified to find something that he could not even fathom.

He was slightly closing his eyes, but he saw the insides of his body. He saw blood vessels connecting to all directions, meridians intertwining, and bones emitting a glittering luster. Even internal organs were clearly visible to him.

In addition, he keenly noticed that the reason he was able to see the inside of his body was that an area the size of a fingernail had appeared at the center of his brows. A stream of milky white smog thin as hair was diminishing at a rapid speed that he could perceive. Even though it was "a rapid speed", it would take half a minute for the three or four-centimeters-long milky white smog to diminish completely.

Bizarre!

A bizarre scenario was happening in his body.

Wang Ke's heart trembled slightly. Suddenly, two words came to his mind that he had often seen when reading martial arts fiction before, the "inner vision".

Did he develop an inner vision?

After these two words appeared in his mind, a look of horror flashed into his limbs and insides all of a sudden as if it had transformed into electric currents. His body which had originally been stiff became more like a wooden stake without sensation.

Wang Ke was not the kind of person who could not handle the pressure from undergoing a huge psychological change. After breathing a couple of times, ecstasy rushed to his heart. The sudden feeling of happiness washed over his body and made his body shook slowly as the stiffness gradually diminished.

The inner vision!

This would only happen if one cultivated inner power to an extremely deep degree, and he just achieved that?

Excellent!

God blessed him!

Wang Ke was almost overwhelmed with happiness. He looked around and immediately felt waves of spirit energy fluctuating from his body as the spirit energy in his body was quickly consumed.

"What is that?"

Wang Ke's ecstatic face froze.

He keenly captured six blobs of weak fluctuation of spiritual energy. On the shelf of the first-floor entrance hall, there were two spiritual energy fluctuations. Upstairs above him, there were four spiritual energy fluctuations.

Wang Ke's gaze swept across the shelves not so far away in an instant and his body shot from the counter like a bomb. In a second, he stood before the shelves with his gaze firmly fixed on the two antiques on the shelf.

A heavy and ancient Four-legged Bronze Tripod was carved with patterns of circling dragons surrounded by colorful phoenixes. Every carved dragon and phoenix was lively and vivid. The milky white smog floating in some kind of route between every dragon and phoenix seemed to bring them infinite liveliness.

The wooden knocker was brought by an old man who sold antiques by telling lies. He was invited by Zhao Menfeng to educate him and test him. This magic weapon left a heavy impression on Wang Ke's mind. On the wooden knocker, there was similarly a stream of milky white smog slowly floating.

Previously, whenever Wang Ke used his extraordinary vision to inspect the magic weapons, the milky white smog originally floating in the special routes would stop floating and struggle to rush toward his eyes. Yet now the two streams of milky white smog had no such tendency. Wang Ke's whole body was emanating spirit energy, and the stream of milky white smog thin as hair in the center of his eyebrows was being consumed at a speed ten times faster than before. It shot out of his body and hit the two streams of milky white smog directly.

There was a feeling in Wang Ke's heart that the milky white smog shooting out of the center of his eyebrows had a special connection with the two streams of milky white smog. He even felt that if he wished, he could absorb the two streams of milky white smog into the center of his eyebrows immediately to expand that in the center of his eyebrows.

Should he absorb them or not?

Wang Ke felt a struggle in his heart. If he absorbed the spiritual energy in these two magic weapons and the spiritual energy in the two magic weapons was gone, then wouldn't the magic weapons be useless? If the two magic weapons were damaged because of his absorption, this would be a serious consequence! Plus, if the magic weapons were damaged, what he had done would count as stealing. He believed that with Zhao Menfeng's skills, he would surely be able to detect what went wrong with the two magic weapons.

But he felt a moment of reluctance if he did not absorb it. He could feel that he would benefit from absorbing the two streams of spiritual energy.

Wang Ke decided to give it a try after a moment of inner struggling. After all, this kind of opportunity was very rare. He would also very much like to know what kind of benefits he would gain after absorbing the spiritual energy in the magic weapons.

However, he did not prepare to absorb the white spiritual energy in both of the two magic weapons, but only picked that inside the wooden knocker to absorb. These days, he had been studying with Zhao Menfeng and observing and learning endlessly in the antique market, so he had been able to roughly estimate the price of a magic weapon. He felt that the price of the magic weapon in front of him would not exceed two hundred thousand yuan, and even the white spiritual energy inside it was not as much as that in the Four-legged Bronze Tripod in terms of quantity. Therefore, the price of the Four-legged Bronze Tripod should be more expensive than the wooden knocker.

He no longer hesitated after making the decision. According to the feeling in his heart, he quickly hooked that white smog and quickly pulled it out from the wooden knocker magic weapon. Almost in the blink of an eye, Wang Ke felt that white smog drill into the center of his own eyebrows along the milky white smog emitted from there.

As he watched with full attention, the white smog that was absorbed into the center of his eyebrows did not merge with the hair-thin milky white smog that was now about to disappear. In the space at the center of his eyebrows of the size of a fingernail, there was a small channel opened downwards. The absorbed white spiritual energy surged into the small opening along the channel into the meridians in his neck.

Was the channel opened downwards the only connected meridian?

Wang Ke's heart trembled and then he felt the white smog emanating from his chest. A part of it integrated into the spirit energy along the meridian, while the other part quickly integrated into his flesh and blood, refining his body.

In just about ten seconds, Wang Ke was shocked to find that the amount of spirit energy in his body had increased drastically. His cultivation had improved significantly, and even a large portion of the previously-depleted spirit energy was replenished back at this moment.

"The quality of such a small stream of white smog was even vaguely better than the spirit energy? It had such a large amount after being converted into spirit energy of my own cultivation?" Wang Ke murmured with a shocked look flashing in his eyes.

The milky white smog at the center of his eyebrows only had the last bit remaining, and at best it would only be able to hold on for ten more seconds.

Wang Ke's heart trembled. He immediately took control of the release of spirit energy and tried to inject the spirit energy in his own body into the wooden knocker. If he could manage to do that, the magic weapon would not be damaged.

A few seconds later, a bitter smile appeared on Wang Ke's face. He tried his idea and it ended in failure. The cultivated spirit energy could not be injected into the wooden knocker. It was as if there had been a barrier that separated the spirit energy from the wooden knocker.

The magic weapon was damaged.

The value of the magic weapon dropped drastically. It could only be sold at the price of an average antique now.

Before the milky white smog at the center of his eyebrows was about to be consumed completely, Wang Ke decisively cut off the way to release it outside his body. Even the spirit energy released out of his body was quickly cut off.

"An antique worth two hundred thousand could only be sold at fifty thousand at most now after being absorbed and turned into an average antique." Wang Ke silently took the wooden knocker in his hands. Although there was a hint of regret in his eyes, he was still relatively satisfied with the warmth of his body after tempered and spirit energy surging in his meridians.

"I should buy this damaged wooden knocker magic weapon from Mr. Zhao tomorrow! This loss can't be borne by Mr. Zhao, for after all it was me who absorbed the white smog inside it."

He lazily stretched, feeling his body getting comfortable. He reluctantly retracted his gaze from the other magic weapon.

At this moment, he really wanted to own a very, very large warehouse. Inside the warehouse was filled with an endless number of magic weapons for him to absorb the white spiritual energy from.

His expression suddenly froze for he thought of a problem all of a sudden.

He was able to absorb the spiritual energy in magic weapons, which meant that the spiritual energy inside magic weapons was like an elixir to him. As long as there were enough magic weapons, he could absorb the spiritual energy inside to improve his cultivation state.

With the spiritual energy in the magic weapon he had just absorbed, he felt that he had improved his cultivation more than he did in an entire month by cultivating himself.

An existence just like an elixir!

Wang Ke felt very excited. He secretly vowed to earn countless money to purchase an endless number of magic weapons. With a steady stream of money to purchase magic weapons, his cultivation could improve quickly.

He subconsciously clenched his fists and swung them in front of his chest multiple times before he slowly suppressed the excitement in his heart.

Money!

Wang Ke slowly walked back to the counter and sat down on the chair with a thoughtful gleam in his eyes.

He needed money. Even though he still had nearly three hundred thousand in his hands, it was not enough to do anything. Not to mention other things, the magic weapon he had just damaged could cost him more than ten thousand.

In addition, his family also needed money right now. Although he had sent fifty thousand yuan back home before, his brother was now in his second year of high school and the tuition fees plus living expenses were a considerable amount. His brother had good grades and was definitely able to pass the examination to attend a good university. He must earn more money to pay for the future expanses of his brother's four years of college.

Wang Ke's eyes wandered for a bit.

Everything needed money. The cost of his brother's education, the money to improve the living conditions of his family, the capital to start his own business, and the money to buy magic weapons to improve his strength.

Wang Ke looked at his hands and sighed, "Money! All of them need money! If I were a money-printing machine or a bank safe, it would be excellent, wouldn't it?"

For a while, he did not deliberately pick up any treasure, nor did he have much income. However, after calculating today, he needed money for too many things. Therefore, he had made up his mind that from tomorrow, he would start to earnestly pick up treasures in the antique trading market after his morning studies. He would use his extraordinary vision to find undervalued magic weapons to make money.

For the whole afternoon, Zhao Menfeng did not come back. Wang Ke did not know what this old man went to do, so he spent the entire afternoon reading books about antiques and magic weapons, absorbing knowledge from the books. It was till dusk that he locked the door of Self House and left.