As the deep autumn season arrived, the temperature had already turned quite cold.
A gust of chilly wind blew past, making him shiver slightly, and his skin raised a hint of goosebumps.
After the marrow refinent, Chen Li felt completely rejuvenated, his entire skin as delicate and sensitive as that of a newborn baby, just separated from the warm womb.
This was not a weakening.
Instead, his body had beco more sensitive, capable of receiving more and finer details. A slight chill made his body acutely aware and react spontaneously.
He felt delighted in his heart and checked the ga panel.
"Swordsmanship Grandmaster: 0/3200"
Besides that, his lifespan had also increased by two years, reaching 142 years.
"It’s hard to tell when I’ll be able to master grandmaster-level swordsmanship to the fullest!" he thought to himself.
He glanced at it and then closed the ga panel, sheathed his sword, and started to head back.
Walking after the marrow refinent was slightly awkward. Having been accustod to a ’high-latency’ body, he was not yet able to adapt to this ’low-latency’ in a short period.
When walking, his feet were sowhat uncoordinated, often the front foot had not yet firmly stepped on the ground before the rear foot began eagerly moving forward, and even the natural swinging of his arms during walking had beco sowhat unnatural.
If it were not for his high degree of bodily control, an ordinary person would probably have been stumbling all over, not knowing how many tis they would fall.
Chen Li walked slowly, adapting to this suddenly unfamiliar body while carefully experiencing the marvelous sensation after the marrow refinent.
The forest after the great fire was charred, so of the burnt stumps still emitting thick smoke, with sparks twinkling and crackling in the night, possibly re-igniting at any mont.
What his eyes saw, ears heard, nose slled, skin felt...even the most ordinary scenery felt vivid and ca alive at this mont.
Everything was incredibly novel and marvelous.
Until he returned to the temporary hut.
...
Evening.
Afterward!
Afterward!
Afterward!
Chen Li turned over and lay on the bed, his gaze empty as he stared at the beams above his head.
"What’s the matter, it’s nothing!" Zhou Hong propped up her arm, laughing and nudging Chen Li: "Maybe you’re just too tired, hee-hee!"
This was not re fatigue.
"Just wait a while, you’ll see," Chen Li said dully.
With a coddling tone, Zhou Hong soothed: "I know how capable you are."
"Sigh!" Chen Li felt vexed: "Sleep, sleep, we have to get up early tomorrow."
He hadn’t expected this kind of drawback after the marrow refinent.
His body was too sensitive.
And he wondered when he would be able to adapt?
Thinking of this, Chen Li let out another deep sigh.
...
In the following days, as Chen Li refined his body daily, it beca increasingly sensitive.
Even towards the objects around him, he began to sense an indistinct connection. There were no images, no light, but there was a strong intuition that let him know what was around him, and he clearly understood their general shape and even their texture.
For example, he could sense how many people were within a few ters’ radius, knowing clearly whether they were male or female. He could feel a small bug squirming a foot deep under the ground beneath his feet.
In the end, this ’super intuition’ was never wrong.
Chen Li suspected this to be the Spiritual Sense of Foundation Establishnt.
Basic swordsmanship not only was a technique for body refinent, but it also had the effect of tempering consciousness. From consciousness to flesh, to organs, and now marrow—apart from the brain, his entire being was thoroughly refined.
His soul and consciousness had long been trained to be extrely powerful, far surpassing ordinary Ninth Layer Qi Cultivation Loose Cultivators.
It took Chen Li a full half a month to get used to and adapt to this body once again.
...
"That’s a Tree Demon, isn’t it?" Zhou Hong exclaid in surprise.
"It’s huge!" Zhang Shuniang said.
In the distance, a towering tree shook violently, seemingly trying to escape before the flas reached it.
The giant tree Chen Li estimated to be over twenty ters thick, its body dark and iron-like, covered in cracks, emitting an ancient and desolate aura—as if it were a pillar supporting the sky, appearing to connect heaven and earth, its massive canopy covering a space several miles in radius.
At the mont, its roots, like raging dragons, were rising from the ground at an extrely slow pace, with the ground heaving and shifting. Even though the crowd was a dozen miles away from the giant tree, they could still feel the earth tremble.
This was the first ti Chen Li had seen a plant turn into a demon.
He was overwheld and felt rather insignificant at the sa ti.
The shock ca from its unimaginable size and strength—a slight movent shook the earth, while the feeling of insignificance stemd from the obvious and fatal weaknesses of such Tree Demons: not only were they fearful of fire, but their movent speed was also extrely slow.
Given the situation, it could not escape its fiery fate.
"There are so many bugs on it," Chen Li said.
As the fire line gradually closed in, countless tiny specks flew out from the colossal Tree Demon, swarming en masse, too nurous to count, looking like a cloud of ash taking flight.
Soon after, these specks crossed the fire line and sward towards them.
The buzzing sound gradually rose, initially almost inaudible, but quickly grew to reverberate in their ears, overtaking all other sounds in the world.
Bai noticed sothing was wrong and shouted loudly, "Be careful, those are Poisonous Sting Grey Bees, make sure to defend."
Only then did the crowd react, causing chaos as they clumsily put up defenses.
Chen Li and others quickly slapped on a Golden Light Body Protection Talisman for themselves.
The swarm of Grey Bees, like a cloud of smoke, was fast approaching, increasingly filling the sky and darkening the light.
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