Mortal Mirror

After struggling with himself, Li Ergou finally decided to give this guy some essence. Now that this thing was entangled with him, it couldn't cause too much trouble anyway.

As it said, if this thing became stronger, he would also benefit. As for the future, well, he'd deal with it later.

With that thought, he cut off one-fifth of the essence.

The Blood Linglong was overjoyed. It emerged from Li Ergou's body, transforming into a ball of flesh, and swallowed the essence in one gulp. Then, it floated in mid-air, emitting a strange, bloody-red light.

Clearly, this thing was refining the essence.

Li Ergou ignored it and, looking at the remaining essence, began to refine it using the Limitless Method. The essence was incredibly tough, but under the enhancement of Li Ergou's technique, it began to melt and was eventually absorbed and refined by his body.

Time passed slowly. After a full three hours, Li Ergou suddenly opened his eyes.

At that moment, he exerted his strength, and with a loud bang, the clothes on his body were shattered into pieces by the powerful aura he emitted, scattering everywhere.

Beneath his skin, rows of incredibly strong tendons bulged. His body expanded, and muscles rippled all over, like gnarled tree roots. He was now half a person stronger than before.

He clenched his fist and punched the ground. A booming sound emanated from his fist, and a dense fist shadow shot out.

With a deafening 'boom,' sand and stones flew everywhere. A pit, fully three zhang in diameter, was punched into the ground beneath his feet.

The power of this punch was truly terrifying. Li Ergou felt his martial arts cultivation had advanced further, now possessing the strength of the mid-stage of the凝气 (Ningqi) realm. He felt he could only become stronger, and if he worked hard enough, breaking through to the凝气 (Ningqi) realm wouldn't be difficult.

He just hadn't expected that a single essence could have such a miraculous effect. No wonder those heretical cultivators liked to take this shortcut. Such cultivation speed couldn't compare with that of orthodox cultivators.

His only advantage was probably the things copied by the bronze mirror, lacking the original aura carried by the originals; otherwise, he probably wouldn't have been able to resist the evil thoughts and would have become demonized.

In any case, his cultivation had improved by leaps and bounds, bringing him closer to his goal.

He was happy and really wanted to laugh out loud, but he felt that would be too much like a cultist. With that thought, he decided to forget it. He was a constable, a constable of the Great Xia, and he had to be a good person.

Just then, the ball of flesh floating in front of him finally moved slightly. It stretched out, and its body expanded, eventually transforming into the shape of a person.

This person currently only had a human form, but soon, the flesh on its face began to wriggle, and a mouth, nose, and ears appeared. Then, for some unknown reason, it fiddled around for a long time, and all these features disappeared.

Finally, a three-inch-long slit appeared on its face, which seemed difficult to open, only cracking a little.

This appearance was truly bizarre.

After a moment, a mouth appeared on its face again.

Then, scales began to grow on its body. In a short time, its entire body was covered in scales.

It looked at Li Ergou and chuckled, "Hahaha, it's done, it's done! I can finally stand up."

Li Ergou was quite surprised to see this scene. He wondered what kind of monster this was, and the thought of it staying inside his body made him feel a chill in his heart.

However, he had a large portion of his divine sense in this body. He snorted coldly and began to take over the body, despite the Blood Linglong's dissatisfied voice.

This body began to change again.

Its appearance was reshaped. Li Ergou's divine sense entered the ball of flesh and realized that this ball of flesh could freely change its appearance.

He fiddled around and changed the appearance of this thing to look exactly like himself, and the scales were also removed, turning into ordinary skin.

Before long, there stood before him a person who looked exactly like him.

Looking at this second self, Li Ergou sighed. He didn't expect this thing to not have lied to him.

Using this second body to cultivate, it would then nourish his main body, which was equivalent to cultivating with two bodies. Wouldn't the cultivation speed increase rapidly?

His natural talent wasn't good, but he had many external aids. In this way, the gap between him and those genius disciples would become smaller and smaller, right?

When he used the Burial Sutra to repair his natural talent, who knew who would be stronger then? At this moment, he only felt that his heart was terrifyingly strong.

He secretly smiled, put everything away, told the Five Ghosts to keep a good eye on Yellow Maple Valley, and he took Gou Jianqiang back to Orange Mountain.

Orange Mountain was pitch black at the moment. He didn't disturb anyone and returned to his house.

He took out the corpse of the White Scale Spirit Fish he had bought from the black market today, as well as the White Feather Three-Colored Spirit Egg.

The White Scale Fish was completely dead and could not be saved.

Looking at the White Scale Spirit Fish, he couldn't help but sigh with regret. It seemed that this thing could only be steamed or braised. Three Dao-storage gold coins; even if he was rich, he couldn't be so extravagant.

He looked at the White Scale Fish for a long time. Suddenly, he looked at the huge fish belly and couldn't help but think that although the White Scale Spirit Fish was dead, its fish roe might not be dead.

He seemed to have entered a misunderstanding.

Regardless of whether it would work, he should copy it first. Even if the fish roe inside was dead, he could still eat more fish meat.

After the White Scale Fish was copied, Li Ergou immediately cut open the fish belly. He didn't expect the spirit fish's roe to be very different from ordinary fish roe.

The spirit fish's roe was very large and golden in color, as if it were made of gold. Each one was the size of a thumb, and there were only twenty-three fish roe in the huge fish belly.

Li Ergou immediately put these fish roe into the water. He had no experience with this kind of thing and could only leave it to fate.

A total of forty-six fish roe were taken from the bellies of the two fish. If these fish roe could hatch into fry, then these three gold coins would not have been spent in vain. Li Ergou's mood inexplicably improved again.

At this time, he put the fish roe aside and looked at the egg again. Bai Su said that even if the spirit chicken hatched, it would not be easy to raise; otherwise, spirit chickens would not be so worthless.

But he had a bronze mirror, and the bronze mirror could change the essence of these chickens. Maybe it would become easy to raise.

An egg dared to sell for one Dao-storage gold coin. This Oriental family was also black-hearted enough. When the time came, he would sell its eggs at cabbage prices. With that thought, the corners of his mouth curled up, revealing an extremely sinister smile.