Chapter 558 - Fruit Of Wisdom
Lin Mu could tell that Little Shrubby was definitely interested in the beast Qi in his hand. The way he was looking at it was of absolute attention and it would not even blink, no matter how much Lin Mu moved his hands around.
"Beast Qi really is every attractive to beasts huh…" Lin Mu muttered to himself.
He looked at little Shrubby who was still enthralled by it and coughed lightly.
~Ahem~
"So I presume you want it?" Lin Mu questioned.
"YES!!" Little Shrubby responded hurriedly.
"Okay, I'll give it to you. But you need to tell me what effect it has on you." Lin Mu replied.
"Okay!" Little Shrubby said in an impatient tone.
Lin Mu then sent the Beast Qi flying towards Little Shrubby, who quickly sucked it in. He then closed his eyes in pleasure as if he had eaten something very delicious and his stomach was full.
"This feels good." Little Shrubby said before laying down on the ground.
"What are you doing now?" Lin Mu questioned.
He wanted to know how exactly was little Shrubby processing the spirit Qi as he had only seen him do this unconsciously. He reckoned that it was the passive absorption that his body did automatically, which must have been slow.
Lin Mu wanted to see how it worked when Little Shrubby was awake.
"The Beast Qi… it feels good… it is spreading in my body and my spirit Qi, feels to be flowing smoothly. It feels warm." Little Shrubby said.
~Sigh~
'Must have guessed that he wouldn't be able to fully explain how it works.' Lin Mu thought.
Lin Mu then extended his spirit sense and probed little shrubby's body. The beast did not mind it at all and Lin Mu's spirit sense easily entered his body with no obstructions. Inside little Shrubby's body, Lin Mu could see that the beast Qi had fully assimilated into his cells.
There were only faint traces left with which he could tell that the beast Qi was still here. The beast Qi was stimulating his cells and was causing them to produce a lot of vital energy which coursed through the blood, nourishing his body further. After a few circulations, Lin Mu could even see that the vital energy was being converted into Vital essence.
"So this is how it works… the beast Qi stimulates the cells, producing vital energy which nourishes his body, prompting it to further refine the vital energy to vital essence. This vital essence then increases the overall quality of his body, thus causing the bloodline to improve." Lin Mu hypothesized.
It was quite similar to how Lin Mu had reached the Xiantian physique after breaking through the thirteenth stage of the body tempering realm. It had triggered a qualitative change that caused his body's cells to be replaced by Xiantian cells which could produce vital essence.
It was a like a feedback loop that amplified itself as time went by and more energy was fed to it. Though Lin Wu reckoned that the Beast Qi was only compatible with beasts and not humans.
At first, Lin Mu was doubtful that since it worked on the bloodline, it should have worked on the cultivators who had assimilated bloodlines of other beasts too. But seeing its actions and workings in Little Shrubby's body, he realized that it would not work on any humans.
The Beast Qi did not directly act on bloodline but rather influenced their body, increasing its quality till it reached a level where the bloodline would improve on its own.
"Hmm… no wonder the Fire Fang Snake and Black Water Snake had such reactions." Lin Mu muttered.
Xukong was impressed by the thinking process of Lin Mu and had seen how he had come to the conclusion.
"While most of what you have come up with is right, that is not all what Beast Qi does." Xukong said after thinking for a bit.
"Mm? What do you mean, senior? What did I miss?" Lin Mu questioned.
"There is one important thing you missed in this. Can you tell me what it is? It's related to your Nine divine heart sutras too." Xukong replied.
"Related to the Nine Divine Heart Sutras?…" Lin Mu muttered before closing his eyes and thinking deeply.
About five minutes later he opened his eyes, which dawned with the light of realization.
"THE PATHS! I forgot about the Paths!" Lin Mu said.
"Indeed. And what did you exactly forget about them?" Xukong added.
"The Nurturing Heart Sutra is representative of the Beast Path and can make Beast Qi. With that relation, Beast Qi itself should also contain insights of the Beast Path." Lin Mu answered.
"That's correct. Nearly every beast will follow the Beast Path, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Many of them will follow more than just the beast path though, they could follow some other path like the Demonic path, if they have the bloodline of demons in them.
Each path is the cumulation of the entire type of cultivation. The beast path is that of the beasts and how they cultivate. It collectively has the experience and insights of every beast that ever came into existence, whether it be a tiny worm crawling in the ground or a mighty dragon soaring through the skies.
If a beast assimilates enough beast Qi, you should know what else they would be able to do with it." Xukong explained.
Lin Mu's eyes lit up with the spark of knowledge and he thought over senior Xukong's words understanding that there was a lot more to Beast Qi. The only reason why he could not see it right now was his lack of experience.
He knew he could not rush it and that he would have to slowly observe the fine changes that happened in the long term.
'The fruit of wisdom is not grown in one day and a life is not lived in one day… the only way is to have a steady heart that sees all and observes all…' Lin Mu learned.