Chapter 144. The Lucky Ling Xiao

     With the lights on, Ling Xiao finally experienced the sensation of instantaneous teleportation.

     He walked around Ye Mo’s house, then glanced at the world outside, confirming that he had indeed traversed over 200 miles in a second. It was too incredible, and defied science, causing him to examine the space key in his hand over and over again.

     “Sister, with the space node and the space key, can you go anywhere in the world instantly?”

     “In theory, it’s possible, but it’s difficult to operate in practice. Long-distance space arrays are difficult to arrange, and there may be irreversible costs. Space nodes consume too much energy and it’s impossible to cover the entire earth. You can set one up in your sect, and give me the address outside the sect when the time comes.”

     “Okay.”

     Ye Mo led Ling Xiao down to the basement and first came to the ordinary workroom. As a science student, he finally felt like he was still alive when he saw various instruments similar to those in the laboratory.

     “Test your talent first.”

     “How do you do it?”

     Because Ling Xiao had not awakened any talent, whether it was using arrays or testing talents, he could only use blood, and the fresher the blood, the more accurate the test results.

     The blood dripped in the center of a small pure white square array, and Ye Mo turned off the lights in the workroom.

     After a while, the square array began to emit a faint light, mainly purple-gold, and there were many other colors, but after a few seconds, the purple-gold light covered all other colors, very pure.

     And the brightness of this purple-gold color could almost illuminate the entire workbench in the end.

     After the purple-gold brightness dissipated, Ye Mo turned on the light, glanced at Ling Xiao, who was nervous and pretending to be calm, and said: “The bloodline is thunder attribute, the talent is excellent, and the root bone is also thunder attribute, and the talent level is above the middle. It matches your pure yang constitution.”

     Ling Xiao was still a little greedy, with a mysterious confidence: “Isn’t the root bone talent excellent?”

     Ye Mo replied: “The root bone bloodline is contradictory. It is rare that your bloodline and root bone talent are balanced above the middle level. You can focus on supernatural powers and assist in martial arts. It’s very good.”

     Watson’s bloodline water is excellent, but the root bone is inferior. Wang Xue’s root bone is extremely excellent, but the bloodline is inferior. Ling Xiao was curious: “Sister, what about you?”

     Ye Mo dripped a drop of blood on the white jade array plate. There was no need to turn off the lights. After 10 seconds, it flashed colorful lights like the neon lights in the city, not only illuminating the workroom, but also blinding people.

     Looking carefully, the brightness is the same.

     Ling Xiao: “Fuck! All excellent!”

     Ye Mo replied, “Yes, all excellent, and balanced. For example, all of them have to be awakened, so right now I can’t awaken any elemental abilities. The path to future awakening is far off, and my innate talent is even a notch below average.”

     Ling Xiao: “…”

     He could now understand the saying, “People with excellent talent are rare, and those with excellent talent who are alive are even rarer.”

     When talent exceeds a certain level of excellence, it may not necessarily be a good thing, like with his sister.

     Ling Xiao comforted his sister like this: “Sister, believe me, you can definitely awaken all your elements!”

     Ye Mo: “Yeah.”

     …

     Talent test completed.

     Ye Mo customized a set of internal cultivation techniques that best suited Ling Xiao. As for external cultivation, it was too obvious whether he practiced martial arts or not, so he would wait until he entered the sect first. Wang Xue was more proficient in this than she was.

     The techniques had been converted from bronze characters to simplified Chinese, but some words were still difficult to translate and a bit awkward.

     Ling Xiao was different from Wang Xue and Ye Mo. He had not experienced ancient memories. It would take him some time to understand this, especially before the internal force was trained and could not be circulated in the body.

     In addition to this, at Watson’s suggestion, Ling Xiao could take certain medicinal potions internally and externally to improve his physique; as his physique strengthened, he would be able to take an increasing number of potions.

     Once his physique accumulated to a certain degree, it would not only benefit his martial arts cultivation, but also awaken his lightning-based elemental ability.

     Ling Xiao’s luck was really good.

     Because with Watson as the lead, and Wang Xue and Ye Mo participating, they had already jointly created a plan for a regular person, Watson’s brother. Whether it was potions or anything else, they had gained experience.

     Ye Mo removed Ling Xiao’s bandages, observed and photographed his injuries. There were very few external injuries, mainly a rather severe dislocation, and the medical neck sling was for protection.

     She gave him a bottle of bone-related magic potion.

     After Ling Xiao drank the potion, within a few short minutes, his dislocated area was completely healed.

     “With this potion, who needs hospitals?”

     …

     After the treatment, Ye Mo recorded Ling Xiao’s current physical data through simple instruments.

     Including:

     Grip strength 41.5kg.

     Punch strength 157kg.

     Vision left 4.9, right 5.0

     Hearing…

    Due to the atmosphere of the laboratory, Ling Xiao suspected that his sister was using him for experiments.

     After recording the physical data, the first step was to take a medicinal bath.

     It was the same medicine that Ye Mo had taken in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Watson made several improvements.

     The brother and sister came to the bathroom on the first floor. “Sister, I can do this by myself–“

     Ling Xiao thought, he was so old, it was a bit embarrassing to take a bath in front of his sister.

     “Hmm?”

     Ye Mo threw a bathrobe that was obviously in ancient style in his face. The single garment was sky blue, made of high-quality silk, smooth and soft, delicate and exquisite, and the fabric was very soft.

     “Nothing happened!”

     Ling Xiao went to the martial arts room next door and changed into a bathrobe. The bathrobe was originally the clothes worn by the witches before the Western Zhou Dynasty. The style was very simple, but it looked a bit out of place on him.

     When he came out, he saw a wooden barrel in the bathroom, which turned out to be not a bathtub.

     The wooden barrel was filled with 80% clean water, and there was a cluster of small flames below. A closer look showed that the flames were emitted from around a fiery red gem, and no wood was needed.

     “Sit in.”

     Ling Xiao obediently entered the wooden barrel and sat cross-legged. The water was neither hot nor cold, but warm, and he didn’t feel anything.

     Ye Mo had a small glass bottle of dark green powder medicine in her hand. She opened the bottle stopper, and a strong smell of medicinal herbs floated out from the bottle mouth. She poured the powder into the wooden barrel.

     The clear water quickly turned dark green, and Ling Xiao also felt that the water temperature had dropped significantly.

     Ye Mo turned up the heat a bit, then put on a wooden lid with a circular cutout. Ling Xiao was now like a human-shaped urn, with only his head sticking out while his body was submerged in the dark green medicinal liquid.

     “1 hour and 20 minutes.”

     Ye Mo placed a glass of water with a straw on top of Ling Xiao’s wooden tub to prevent him from dehydrating.

     Then, across from the tub, she opened her laptop, casually started playing “Tom and Jerry,” and then left the bathroom, planning to go to the basement. She had gotten a lot of inspiration today.

     “…”

     …

     Before Ling Xiao could say that he didn’t watch cartoons, his sister had left, so he could only watch Tom and Jerry on video. After watching one episode, he thought it was really good.

     It was at this time that the medicine began to work.

     The first step is a little hot, hot from the inside out, the second step is that the bones all over the body feel sore and itchy, and there are some slight tingling, the third step is that the tingling becomes more and more obvious.

     At this moment, Ling Xiao discovered that the wooden lid he thought he could move was actually immovable. He felt like one of those foolish cats from “Tom and Jerry.”

     “…”

     One hour and 20 minutes, Ye Mo did not appear, but her voice came: “You can come out.”

     The wooden barrel cover suddenly became lighter.

      Ling Xiao opened the wooden barrel cover, and the dark green water inside turned into light green, and his skin was stained with a layer of light green. He hurried out and took a shower.

     As a result, there was a second medicinal bath, and the time was halved, only 40 minutes.

     After the second medicinal bath, Ye Mo asked Ling Xiao to go back to the workshop to test his body data.

     Grip strength 49.5kg.

     Punch strength 164kg.

     Vision: 5.2 on the left, 5.3 on the right

     Hearing…

     Statistics don’t lie. After Ling Xiao found that he had improved, he was no longer afraid of any medicinal bath.

     So Ye Mo arranged a second medicinal bath for him, divided into three times, for a total of two hours.

     This medicinal bath was more uncomfortable, but Ling Xiao had learned to take a bath by himself, and even didn’t bother his sister. No matter how uncomfortable it was, he could stick to anything when he thought that he was getting stronger.

     Until “Tom and Jerry Hanna-Barbera version,” “Tom and Jerry MGM,” “Tom and Jerry Kids,” “Tom and Jerry Tales,” “The Tom and Jerry Show,” and all the other versions had played through once or twice, Ling Xiao finally finished his medicinal bath.

     There is no doubt that Ling Xiao’s physical fitness has improved significantly again, and his vision has improved to 5.4.

     He wanted to come again, but Ye Mo stopped him and stuffed him with a bottle of low-level mental recovery agent to relieve his sequelae of staying up late: “Drink it, it’s dawn, let’s go back.”

     “…”

     Sure enough, it’s already 6:30 now. If they don’t go back to Beijing, the fact that Ye Mo and Ling Xiao stayed out all night will not be hidden from Uncle Ling and Aunt Zhang, and they can’t find an excuse to explain.

     “Hey, let’s go.”

     Ye Mo took out the bandage and wrapped it around Ling Xiao again. Considering there was still tomorrow night, she decided not to break it again for the time being.

     Ling Xiao: “Thank you, sister, please show mercy.”

     …

     Sure enough, around 7 o’clock in the morning, Aunt Zhang had entered Ling Xiao’s room and asked him to get up and eat noodles, and to deliver breakfast to Grandma Ye and Ye Mo in the yard next door.

     “It’s already sunny, your sister Mo must have gotten up, you’re the only one who’s lazy!”

     “…”

     This whole day, Ling Xiao also felt like every second was a year, wishing it would be night soon. In the afternoon, when Ye Mo said goodbye to Grandma Ye and drove back to Hebei Province, he wished he could get on the car.

     The temperament of a young man really needs to be tempered.

     It wasn’t until 9 o’clock in the evening that Ye Mo returned to the courtyard to pick up Ling Xiao.

     That night, there was only an hour of medicinal bath at the beginning, and three kinds of medicine were taken in the rest of the time.

     If we continue, the sect may find something wrong, so we stop temporarily.

     Ye Mo prepared a storage ring with only 0.48 cubic meters of space for Ling Xiao. Strictly speaking, it is a waste product, and it can only hold some small items, such as the spirit gathering cushion and other medicines.

     “Ah–“

     There was also a fracture that was slightly more serious than the night before. This bit of suffering was really just the basic suffering of practicing martial arts.