Reborn One Week Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 134: Chapter 126: Jingjing’s Request

Tang Mo practiced alone in the open space, losing all track of time.

She took deep breaths of the air, thick with spiritual power, and focused all her attention on wielding it.

The form of her Wind Blades was too monotonous, so Tang Mo used her imagination to develop more variations.

For example, fine needles, long whips, and even swords and staves.

The more adept she became at using these weapons condensed from her spiritual power, the more she deeply understood its immense potential.

She recalled what a professor at S Base had said in her previous life: humanity would sooner or later realize that spiritual power was the most outstanding attribute in the world.

Tang Mo had more or less figured out the diagram for condensing solid forms. The rest would require constant refinement and application in actual combat.

Tang Mo randomly picked one of the two remaining diagrams. She carefully found its starting point and injected her spiritual power into it, beginning a grand cycle just like before.

The method was identical: condense the diagram’s pattern into a solid form, let it travel throughout her body as a pattern, and finally, at the critical point of output, perceive and transform the energy.

With the experience from her first attempt, Tang Mo found this time to be much easier.

When the energy gathered at the final point in her body’s meridians, she could clearly feel a comforting, soothing power stirring within.

’This has to be external healing!’

Tang Mo quickly confirmed it. This diagram was the secret behind the Sect Leader’s Medicinal Insect.

There was no one around who needed healing, so she could only start with Jingjing.

At that moment, Jingjing was happily playing on a mat nearby, hugging its personal stash of Crystal Cores, completely unaware of the danger quietly creeping up on it.

Tang Mo walked over to Jingjing and injected the spiritual power she had successfully condensed at the exit point into its body.

Feeling the external power, Jingjing first froze. But upon realizing it was Tang Mo, it didn’t resist, instead sitting obediently and letting her do as she pleased.

After Tang Mo’s spiritual power entered, it began to circulate within Jingjing’s small body.

She could feel that every place her spiritual power passed through was a light yellow, radiating with light.

Only a few spots were a dark yellow. Those were the bruises and contusions Jingjing had gotten when it fell.

Tang Mo slowly maneuvered her spiritual power to gently soothe the dark yellow areas, and soon their color became the same as the surrounding tissue.

By now, Jingjing had closed its eyes in comfort. It felt warm all over, and its previously aching body now felt incredibly light, as if it had just emerged from a soak in a hot spring.

Jingjing’s body was very small, so Tang Mo’s spiritual power quickly completed a full circuit before she withdrew it back into herself.

After retracting it completely, Tang Mo felt as if her spiritual power had increased slightly.

’Could healing actually increase my spiritual power?’

This discovery was a pleasant surprise for Tang Mo.

Spiritual power was incredibly important; the amount of strength a condensed form could exert depended entirely on the concentration of that spiritual power.

Being able to learn a cultivation method that placed no burden or harm on the body was naturally the best possible outcome.

’If only the Sect Leader had been more broad-minded back then,’ Tang Mo thought. ’If he had treated the villagers of Wuxi Village for free, he could have killed two birds with one stone. His Spirit Attribute might have even surpassed mine, and he wouldn’t have been so easily defeated.’

She had already tested it once on the only living specimen here. Reluctantly, Tang Mo put the diagram away, deciding to wait for a real patient to try it on next time.

’Once I get out of here, I have to go back to Wuxi Village.’

Tang Mo was someone who took her promises seriously. Xiao Tao was still waiting for her there, and she had never forgotten.

Although she wasn’t too tired yet, she wasn’t planning on taking out the third diagram.

She understood the principle of quitting while you’re ahead and not biting off more than you can chew. She had plenty of time; it didn’t all have to be done right this second.

Tang Mo sat down and started picking at the sand in the corner.

She wasn’t just idle; she wanted to see just how thick these sand walls were. What if she could actually dig her way through?

Having just received a full-body ”spa treatment,” Jingjing was no longer playing with its Crystal Cores. It crouched next to Tang Mo, watching her dig at the sand, looking like it wanted to say something but was holding back.

Unfortunately, Tang Mo was too focused on her digging to notice Jingjing at all.

”WHIMPER.”

Jingjing pawed at Tang Mo with its front claw.

”Hm? What’s wrong?” Tang Mo turned her head.

Jingjing pawed at Tang Mo again, then pointed to itself.

”Like this?”

Tang Mo started stroking Jingjing’s fur.

”You want me to pet you? You don’t usually ask for this. What’s gotten into you today?”

Normally, Jingjing was quite aloof; it had never acted so spoiled.

After all, Jingjing was a fox, not a cat.

”Don’t tell me... you’re in heat? But I don’t even know if you’re a boy or a girl. We’re trapped in here, where am I supposed to find you another Little Fox?”

Tang Mo speculated as she continued to pet it.

Then she started worrying about how to solve the major issue of finding Jingjing a mate.

”WHIMPER!!”

Jingjing was about to cough up blood from sheer frustration with Tang Mo. Only she could come up with such an idea.

It was so anxious it was on the verge of speaking, pointing emphatically at its little head.

”Are you... asking me to tame you?”

Tang Mo asked tentatively. The head was where one’s spiritual power was located.

When she had been healing Jingjing just now, she had deliberately avoided its sea of consciousness to prevent her spiritual power from coming into contact with Jingjing’s and harming it.

”YIP!”

Jingjing nodded its head vigorously.

When it had felt Tang Mo’s spiritual power enter its body, its first reaction had been that she was trying to tame it.

So, it had hesitated for a second and chosen not to resist.

But when Tang Mo’s spiritual power deliberately avoided its mind and retreated, Jingjing had even felt a hint of disappointment.

But back in the Quicksand Area, Tang Mo hadn’t abandoned it; instead, it had led her to this strange place.

Mutant beasts were unwilling to acknowledge a master and be controlled, but following a master who would protect it... well, that might not be such a bad thing.

Besides, this master could provide it with a steady supply of Crystal Cores. No matter how you looked at it, this was a great deal.

The clicks of the tiny abacus in Jingjing’s head were practically audible.

”You’re really willing?”

If it were tamed, the minds of master and mutant beast would be connected.

During battle, there would be no need for unnecessary words; the coordination between human and beast would be far more seamless.

If Jingjing was willing, Tang Mo couldn’t ask for anything more.

Although Jingjing’s current strength wasn’t apparent, it had been by her side for so long. If Tang Mo couldn’t even see its potential and special qualities, she might as well give up on being a Spiritual Ability User.