Chapter 40

Zhu Lingwu casually threw the little white fox into the iron cage, ignoring its resentful gaze as it turned to look back. He clapped his hands, stood up, and walked towards the door of the room.

Liang Cai was waiting at the door, with another servant following behind, carrying a wooden box containing the prepared medicinal broth and spirit beast blood.

"Alright, Liang Cai, go lock the cage. Don't let my little Daji escape!"

Zhu Lingwu had named the little white fox Daji, and he truly had high hopes for it. Unfortunately, only he knew the significance of this name, and no one else could understand it.

The little white fox turned its head away, avoiding Zhu Lingwu's eyes, and its mouth opened and closed slightly, as if it were secretly cursing Zhu Lingwu. This expression looked very human-like.

Its movements did not escape Zhu Lingwu's spiritual awareness, which was why he always suspected it could speak.

However, Zhu Lingwu did not expose its little actions. Instead, he gestured for the servant to bring him the spirit beast blood and stretched his body comfortably.

Liang Cai, following orders, went in to relock the iron cage containing the little white fox. On this side, the other servant opened the wooden box and presented Zhu Lingwu with a jade bowl filled with spirit beast blood.

Zhu Lingwu took the jade bowl with one hand. The bowl was not large, and the spirit beast blood mixed with the medicinal broth amounted to about 300 milliliters, filling the bowl more than halfway.

This spirit beast blood was indeed different from ordinary fierce beasts' blood. Zhu Lingwu could see a faint luster within it with his naked eye.

As for the medicinal broth added to it, it was reacting subtly with the spiritual energy in the blood, creating a special liquid fluctuation in the jade bowl, much like a chemical reaction in an alchemical potion.

Zhu Lingwu did not hesitate and directly lifted the bowl to his throat, pouring it in without savoring the taste.

The taste of blood was not pleasant, and as a lich in the past, he had no sense of taste, so he could drink as much as he wanted and even swish it around in his mouth.

Now, in this living body, which had undergone special conditioning, he was more sensitive to the bloody taste.

Each time he drank blood, it was a torment, but fortunately, the blood was quickly digested by Zhu Lingwu, and he did not let it enter his intestines.

Furrowing his brows, Zhu Lingwu reached out and took a silk handkerchief from the servant. Soon, he spat out a mouthful of turbid blood into the jade bowl, filling it about halfway. He then wiped his mouth with the handkerchief.

Handing the jade bowl, now devoid of any spiritual energy and medicinal power, back to the servant, Zhu Lingwu also tossed the handkerchief back. "Ashan, remember the rules. Dispose of this bowl of blood so that no one knows. How did you handle it before?"

Zhu Lingwu naturally did not want anyone to know that he could absorb the spiritual energy and medicinal power from the spirit beast blood so quickly and then spit out the remaining turbid blood. Therefore, he always had his servants carefully dispose of the turbid blood he spat out.

In the past, with ordinary beast blood, Zhu Lingwu could let the servants pour and bury it anywhere. This time, with spirit beast blood, he had to remind the servant responsible for disposing of the turbid blood again. He did not want Liu Ping or Meng Yishi to know about this.

"Sir, rest assured. I will follow your orders and pour it into the furnace to burn it, ensuring no one discovers it!"

This servant named Ashan originally worked in Zhu Lingwu's private kitchen, so he had many opportunities to dispose of the bowl of turbid blood in the furnace.

"Alright, go ahead!"

Zhu Lingwu waved him off, slightly distracted as he sensed the effects of the spirit beast blood in his body.

This bowl of spirit beast blood was taken from a black bear with upper and lower earth spirit veins, so it contained a good amount of earth elemental spiritual energy.

With the addition of the medicinal broth prepared by Meng Yishi, the earth elemental spiritual energy and life essence in the blood were fully activated. After entering Zhu Lingwu's body, these energies were quickly absorbed by his body.

The medicinal power and life essence in the broth and blood were absorbed directly into Zhu Lingwu's body, but the innate earth spiritual energy was different.

Zhu Lingwu's spiritual awareness could clearly feel a pale yellow energy stream rising from the spirit bear's essence blood and entering his body. However, it seemed to resist being integrated into his body, like oil in water, floating and merging within his body.

As they merged, they seemed to rise like clear air, trying to drift out of Zhu Lingwu's body.

"Hmm, that's strange. Why can't this innate spiritual energy be absorbed like other energies? This is troublesome. How can I absorb this innate spiritual energy? I can't waste it! Wait, cultivation techniques! Let me think, does this body's memory contain any cultivation techniques?"

Zhu Lingwu had never expected his body to be unable to directly absorb this innate spiritual energy. It was indeed innate spiritual energy, which was not easily absorbed by a mortal body.

Just like in the legend of the creation of the world, where the turbid air sank to form the earth and the clear air rose to form the sky, a mortal body was formed from the aggregation of turbid air and thus could not easily blend with the innate spiritual energy in the air.

Perhaps only cultivation techniques could help him absorb the innate spiritual energy. He began to search through the memories left in this body, hoping to find some cultivation techniques.

Unfortunately, the original owner of this body, an eight-year-old child, had no memories of cultivation techniques.

"Should I just let the spiritual energy dissipate? That would be such a waste! Wait, it seems a tiny bit is being absorbed, but the absorption rate is too low! Although the energy in the spirit beast's blood is indeed stronger than that of ordinary fierce beasts, if it's only this much, it's meaningless!"

Zhu Lingwu could not help but feel frustrated as he pondered this.

With his fine spiritual awareness, Zhu Lingwu finally felt that a tiny bit of the innate spiritual energy was being absorbed by his body as it flowed through him.

However, most of the innate spiritual energy still refused to be absorbed and continued to move out of his body.