Free Web NovelChapter 334: Chapter 49: Five-Spirit Colorful Feathers and the Reverse Scale
"Professor Su, could you do that one more time? I mean, so we can record the data?"
At Yaochi Lakefront, a scowling Su Zhou held a bottle of Yaochi Jade Liquid. On the table before him sat a neatly cut Jade Marrow Slice and a few Peaches of Immortality. Several professors of biology and energy studies, holding various instruments, had surrounded him expectantly, waiting for him to open his mouth and eat.
If not for the fact that no ordinary streamer could possibly command such a grand entourage, the scene would have looked uncannily like a mukbang stream.
"I’ve already eaten several slices! That’s enough, you guys!"
He knew they just wanted to collect data on how he digested these Energy Crystals, and Su Zhou himself didn’t really mind eating a bit more. After all, the two items were genuinely delicious. But being surrounded and watched while he ate... it made him feel like a giant panda on display.
It wasn’t that Su Zhou was unwilling to cooperate, but there wasn’t really anything to research about his ability to digest Spiritual Power Crystals. His body was simply much tougher than an ordinary person’s. Even the Spiritual Power circulation within him was as strong as the Array Base of a large-scale Array, so digesting that spiritual power was naturally simple. There was nothing an ordinary person could learn from it. Collecting data once was enough; any more than that was just harassment from these professors.
When the professors saw that Su Zhou was truly unwilling to eat more, they departed with regret, having already collected sufficient data. At this, Su Zhou sighed. He looked at the Jade Marrow Slice and Peach of Immortality on the table and said with resignation, "Heh. If I actually became a mukbang streamer, I bet I’d blow up!"
What Su Zhou didn’t realize, however, was that after the Spiritual Energy Revival, the live-streaming industry was indeed experiencing a renaissance. After all, with more and more extraordinary individuals popping up, the content had become much more interesting.
For one thing, there were a lot more competitive eaters. Some streamers who were already famous for their large appetites had actually awakened digestion-related Superpowers, making it commonplace for them to devour an entire cow in a day.
As for the Peaches of Immortality... although it had been proven that they didn’t possess the legendary, life-prolonging miraculous effects, their yield was surprisingly high—higher even than the Spirit Plant popularization that the Zhengguo Government was still researching. Admittedly, this was because the Peach Tree Forest was located on the shores of the Jade Pool, absorbing far more Spiritual Power than the outside world. But it also proved that the ancient Immortal Gods truly had a unique talent when it came to cultivating Spirit Plants.
Not far from Su Zhou, a team led by the Agricultural Saint was attempting to transplant a Peach of Immortality sapling to the outside world. They hoped to crossbreed it with ordinary peach trees to further increase its yield, and they were also trying to replicate the ancient Immortal Gods’ methods for large-scale Spirit Plant cultivation.
Although this would lower their potency, the most pressing issue for Spirit Plants at the moment was production volume.
If their research really succeeded, it was plausible that in the future, the Spring Festival greeting would be "No gifts this year, unless it’s a Golden Peach of Immortality." It was no joke to imagine government departments handing out Peaches of Immortality and Huang Zhongli as year-end bonuses; it could actually happen.
"That’d be great."
Regarding this matter, Su Zhou had only one thought: ’But when is the European Union going to find their Golden Apple Tree? The Peaches of Immortality taste good, but I want to try something new.’
Casually finishing off the Peach Jade Marrow and Jade Liquid from the table, Su Zhou then found a quiet clearing in the woods and began his Cultivation of the Five Spirits Colorful Feathers.
This thing was related to the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord Divine Technique, so he couldn’t explain it to the government for the time being. The reason Su Zhou had filed was that he was preparing to turn his bones into a Spiritual Power Organ. The government knew that Su Zhou had already completed his bone marrow, so they believed him without question. The Math Saint had only remarked on his incredible speed but didn’t pay it any further mind. After all, this was Su Zhou—being fast was normal. They were already used to it.
The Five Spirits Colorful Feathers itself was a special organ used by the Divine Bird Peacock to rapidly switch its Spiritual Attribute, and it also had the function of storing large amounts of Spiritual Power.
For a Peacock, the more dazzling, the better, but for Su Zhou, that wasn’t necessary.
After mulling it over for several days, he decided to slightly alter the structure of the Five Spirits Colorful Feathers, transforming it into a scale-like shape that would cover the area over his heart, serving as a sort of Reverse Scale.
The Heart of the Thunder Marsh was the Spiritual Power Organ in Su Zhou’s body that generated Thunder Spiritual Power. However, his fundamental nature was of the Fire Attribute, so there was a conversion process involved. Although this process was negligible, the Peacock had been defeated and killed by a chain of his attacks precisely because he had exploited a similarly negligible flaw.
In a battle between Transcendents, no danger or hidden flaw could be ignored.
The Five Spirits Colorful Feathers could solve this problem. With it directly connected to the Heart of the Thunder Marsh, Su Zhou’s Spiritual Power conversion would no longer have any lag. He could even wield thunder in one hand and fire in the other, unleashing a storm of both in the sky, and even combine them to create a Chaos Meteorite.①
Altering the structure of the Five Spirits Colorful Feathers wasn’t too difficult. Under Yara’s guidance, Su Zhou quickly adapted it to his own body, covering the area over his heart. He then gathered his Spiritual Power and, bit by bit, began to reshape the ribs, flesh, and skin in that area, connecting it to the other organs in his body.
Time passed bit by bit. Five-colored Spiritual Light began to flicker on Su Zhou’s chest, with faint arcs of Thunder Light flashing within it.
As they were both Special Level Spiritual Power Organs, and with the Heart of the Thunder Marsh directly connected to the Five Spirits Colorful Feathers, they naturally needed a period of adjustment, which generated reactions. However, thanks to his rapid regeneration and resilient body, Su Zhou could always sense the instant something went awry. He would forcibly suppress the ensuing reaction, heal the damage, and then try a new way to connect them.
