Fairy cage

Now this gourd marrow, because it has been refined to the extreme, reveals an inexplicable aroma, which makes Yu Lie immediately feel fluid, and he wants to swallow all the gourd's marrow.

However, in this case, the medicinal effect of this bone marrow will be wasted.

Bang bang, Yu Lie suddenly took out red threads with the thickness of mung beans. They were full of toughness. They were the seventh-grade monster meridians he bought from the ghost market. They had been prepared by him in advance and were just used for this time. Equipment for transformation.

He then stretched out his little finger and opened multiple small holes at the bottom of the gourd. With a flick of his finger, the monster meridian was glued to the bottom of the gourd.

After the two were connected, the gourd rose on its own and hovered above Yu Lie's head, spinning smoothly.

Bright red meridians hung down on the top of his head, circling uncertainly.

So prepared, Yu Lie took a few deep breaths and took out many steel needles made of secret iron. Each one was as thick as a mung bean and shone with cold light. Any one of them was superior to an eighth-grade blood vessel.

He murmured: "Everything is ready, it's time to start transforming."

The next moment, all his clothes were taken off, and his muscular body was revealed in the quiet room.

And it wasn't just clothes. He gently slid on the flesh, and its tough skin split on its own, forming cracks.

The skin can separate on its own, but the flesh and blood cannot. Yu Lie can only stretch out his fingers and dig holes in various parts of his upper body, reaching directly to the bones.

The pitch-black bones were like iron tools, emitting a cold light under the rays of light.

Yu Lie once again tapped his bones with his fingers, starting from the collarbone position, trying to tap holes, but unfortunately, there was only the sound of clanging copper and iron in the quiet room. Although his nails were sharp, they were still Can't compare to my own bones.

"Fortunately, I was prepared." He could only sigh and took out an awl, with a cold light shining on it, which was sharper than the steel needle hanging above his head.

This awl, he spent a lot of spiritual stones from the ghost market to buy a serious seventh-grade soul weapon called "Bone-Eroding Steel Needle", which was made from Gu Yuanhan Iron. It can not only restrain the soul and be controlled by the Taoist's spiritual consciousness, but its hardness is one of the best among seventh-grade magic weapons.

However, in addition to its hardness, it also has various shortcomings, such as being too strong and easy to break, not having enough toughness, easily breaking when facing enemies, and becoming a disposable Horcrux if not careful.

Fortunately, Yu Lie used this steel needle as an "awl" today, mainly using it to open his own bones and penetrate into the marrow.

Bah! hiss……

These seventh-grade soul weapons are really amazing.

Yu Lie used it to drill into his own bones, and marks suddenly appeared on the surface of the black bones, and an unprecedented sharp pain appeared in his perception, making him tremble all over.

Previously, when peeling off the skin and pouring the bones, they only used medicated oil to pour it from the outside, which only damaged the periosteum. But now the transformation has damaged the muscles and bones, and they have to dig holes.

Especially after several transformations, people in the Taoism are different from ordinary people. Their bones are also covered with small meridians, and their perceptions are sharp, which is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. It is precisely because of this that if a Taoist breaks a bone, he can massage the bones to reset them without making any mistakes.

But this advantage has now become a pain point for Yu Lie.

Fortunately, he had already prepared in his mind. He was sweating coldly and struck his collarbone one by one.

Knock on the bone, ding, ding!

After finishing one clavicle, he tapped on the second clavicle.

When the second clavicle was cut halfway, his hand shook and the steel needle suddenly fell.

I saw him hunched over, trembling all over, cursing secretly: "It hurts me!"

Even with his Taoist heart, this move was somewhat unbearable.

And the pain of knocking bones is different from the pain of opening flesh and blood. When the bones tremble, the whole body trembles. The pain is continuous and not temporary.

Yu Lie closed his eyes slightly and said in a cold voice: "No, if you continue like this, it will hurt me to death or faint."

As soon as he thought, the Yin Shen immediately jumped out of his body, then transformed into a human form and picked up the steel needle that fell on the ground.

After the soul and flesh were separated, Yu Lie immediately felt that the pain was relieved a lot. Although not all of it, it was just enough for him to continue drilling holes in the bones.

It's a pity that when he transforms, he still has to return from Yin Shen and cannot stay outside, otherwise his spirit and body will not be integrated. The transformation of "flying into the clouds and riding on the mist" that he has worked so hard to prepare will only get the result of "lifting off the ground and flying into the air".

If he was unlucky and there was something wrong with his body, but he didn't notice it, even the foundation of his body might be damaged.

Ding-ding-ding-ding!

The sound of knocking bones was loud in the secret room, as if someone was cutting wood.

A full day and a half later, Yu Liecai made holes in all 206 bones in his body, including the smallest bone.

This time the snake has enough bone marrow. Since it wants to transform, it simply needs to transform completely, not even a single bone is spared.

His originally strong and handsome body was now half skeleton and half flesh and blood.

He sat cross-legged in the quiet room, with his dark bones exposed and holes drilled into them, so densely packed that it was terrifying.

If there were any mortals here, they would be frightened to death.

Even if Gui Yeluo and other Taoist officials saw it, they would be impressed by Yu Lie's methods and feel horrified.

After the bone knocking was completed, Yu Lie's Yin spirit instantly returned to his physical body, and a sharp pain came over him like a wave, flooding into his heart and turning his face pale.

If the previous severe pain was one, the severe pain at this moment was two hundred and six, which directly broke Yu Lie's will and left him completely stunned.

This is why Yu Lie initially planned to use his physical body to manually dig holes in his body. The idea was to gradually adapt to the pain, so as not to have to make up for the pain later on after using Yin Shen to find a trick.

The severe pain activated the self-protection of Yu Lie's brain and soul. His will was immediately in a daze and he was about to pass out.

"Certainly!"

But a sharp shout resounded in the quiet room. Yu Lie's face was ferocious, and his meridians swelled in his flesh and blood, making him look like a ghost that had just crawled out of the ground.

"I didn't prepare for so long just to pass out!!"

Yu Lie growled. With trembling fingers, he grabbed the steel needle above his head and thrust it into his body.

Every time one was inserted, the pain would become more severe, and all the bones in the body would tremble. But he didn't stop his movements, nor did he think about inserting just one, and he started to transform first, gradually.

Once the bone marrow metamorphosis begins, all the bones in his body will begin to recover, and the flesh and blood will begin to heal. If he does not take the opportunity to insert the steel needle, all the suffering he suffered just now will be in vain.

This is also the reason why the steel needles inserted into Yu Lie's body must be made of spiritual materials. With his current state, when the bones are closed together, they will generate strong force. Ordinary copper and iron cannot withstand the squeeze at all, and will directly break and be melted away.

One after another, one after another.

Yu Lie was in a daze, but the movements of his hands continued, extremely fast, steady and ruthless.

Finally, when an unknown amount of time passed and his fingers moved up to capture it again, there were no empty monster meridians on top of his head.

Looking back at his physical body, it was covered in dense red meridians, and black steel needles were inserted into his body, as if they were bone spurs growing from the bones, which was very scary.

Yu Lie's willpower at this moment was only a little bit away from fainting, but when he made sure that all the steel needles were inserted, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

His eyes were downcast and his figure was stooped. He stretched out his hand with difficulty and slapped his sternum hard.

Just listen to his crazy voice:

“This body is not a body, the well star is originally a star.

Knocking the thin bones forward still has the sound of copper. "(Note)

The roar was muffled as his sternum shook, and the entire quiet room seemed to tremble:

"Transformation! Transformation!!"

With a click, two hundred and six bones vibrated and passed upwards. The jade gourd was shaken, and the bone marrow of the snake inside began to flow, drilling down along the meridians of the monster one by one.

I don't know whether it was due to the attraction of Yu Lie's flesh and blood, or because Yu Lie's own bones and flesh were fused together, a strong sucking force spread outwards, and the speed of the Teng Snake's bone marrow gushing down exceeded Yu Lie's previous estimation.

It seemed like two hundred and six worms, crazily burrowing into his body.

Yu Lie, who had been able to shout loudly and look crazy just now, could only cry out now, and his body was shaking like a sieve.

He felt that there were bugs in his bones, and they were bugs that alternated between cold and hot, eating away at his bone marrow. In addition, there was unbearable itching that appeared all over his body.

Yu Lie couldn't help it anymore. He stretched out his hands and started scratching all over his body.

His only concern is that the part he scratches avoids his face, his crotch, and the location where the steel needle is inserted.

But even if he scratched the skin membrane, blood prickled all over his body, and the itching did not stop. On the contrary, it penetrated even more, which made him have the idea of ​​​​jumping out of the Yin Shen and ending the transformation.

Fortunately, Yu Lie knew in his heart that this was his bone marrow fighting against Soaring Snake's marrow. The two were eroding each other. The longer he could hold on, the more he could eat Soaring Snake's marrow.

Once he gives up or passes out early, the success rate of his bone marrow transformation will be greatly reduced. Whether he can obtain the ability to "fly into the clouds and ride on the mist" will only depend on luck.

And right now, there is only pain and itching in his body, and there are no other distractions, demonic obstacles, etc., which is already a blessing.

It should be noted that ordinary people use the bone marrow of monsters to transform and have to add a variety of medicinal materials to suppress the beastly evil spirit in the bone marrow. However, Yu Lie used a bronze wine cup to refine it, removing almost all the harmful things to the human body in the soaring snake's marrow, retaining only the benefits.

After exercising like this, seven days and seven nights passed in a flash.

But Yu Lie's transformation has not ended yet, and it has exceeded the transformation time of ordinary Taoist officials.

At this time, even if Yu Lie wanted to stop his transformation, it was already impossible because his Yin Shen had been tightly imprisoned by his physical body's energy and blood. A trace of mist emerged from his bones and filled the quiet room, making it feel like it was in the clouds.

This was the great benefit he gained from using the Soaring Snake's bone marrow to transform. His bones had begun to take on the beauty of the Soaring Snake's bones, and the clouds and mist generated themselves. From then on, he could rely on this cloud and mist to travel and fly in the clouds.

It can be said that this "soaring into the clouds and riding on the mist" change has been completed.

But it was obvious that Yu Lie didn't want the transformation to end. He continued to suffer until the ninth day, when his physical body began to change, and an irresistible impulse hit his heart.

He went crazy and suddenly tore off all the red threads on his body, crawled to the ground, his eyes became fierce, and all the bones in his body squirmed, especially the ridges on his back, which were extremely eerie, as if It feels like it's about to pierce the skin membrane.

In this kind of incident, Yu Lie's consciousness has been completely lost.

Fortunately, before his consciousness was lost, he was sure that he had completed the transformation. He could also hand over his body to his instincts and wait for his soul to rest enough before taking over.

Then in the clouds and mist, a gurgling sound was heard, and a creeping and ferocious thing appeared in the quiet room.

It has a slender body with protruding bones, and its skin is so thin that it seems to be attached to it. It has no horns, looks like a long snake, a crocodile, or a lizard. Its whole body exudes an aura that can make people surrender from the heart.

"Hungry, hungry, hungry!"

The creature roared, biting open the jars of medicinal gourds that Yu Lie had placed in the quiet room, and swallowed various elixirs, including the Qi-refining soul-nourishing pills that Yu Lie had left over from his practice and was going to exchange them. medicine.

As a result, after it swallowed these many valuable elixirs that were difficult for Taoists to find, it was still hungry and thirsty.

Suddenly, there was a tentative knocking sound outside the quiet room again and again.

It was the coercion of the ferocious thing that actually penetrated the formation and filled the stone room outside the quiet room. The gatekeeper, Ya Ba, felt something was wrong, so he knocked on the door to see what was going on with his master.

As a result, this move caused the ferocious thing to pounce on the quiet room door. It opened its mouth and teeth, and actually bit through the formation in three times, gnawed open the door, and rushed out.

Ga! When Yaoba suddenly saw the ferocious thing thrown out of the quiet room, his hair stood up in fear.

Fortunately, through its breath sensing, it can be sure that this object is Yu Lie and its owner. It squawked and immediately knelt down with both paws, admitting its mistake and begging for mercy.

But at this moment, Yu Lie was purely controlled by physical instinct and could not recognize Ya Ba. Instead, "it" had red eyes, looked at Ya Ba greedily, and pounced on him to devour him.

Ya Ba has the ability to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune, so he got out of the way without any danger.

Quack quack!

This guy was in the huge stone room and started to be chased and bitten by Yu Lie. When he heard the word "hungry" from Yu Lie's mouth, the bird looked pained and took out a small purse from his armpit. With a shake, he immediately threw down spiritual stones, pieces of flesh and blood, and medicinal herbs to feed Yu Lie.

It's just that the amount of money it has secretly saved, although it is large, is not as valuable as the pills that have been wasted by the rest of the list. It only buys it a little time to breathe and survive.

Silly Bird was frightened and looked around. Suddenly, he saw an aura very similar to Yu Lie's on the gourd hanging in the quiet room.

It swooped over, took the gourd in its mouth, jumped in, and planned to hide...

(Note: The original poem is from "Twenty-Three Horse Poems", Part 4, written by Li He. Slightly modified.)