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Chapter 445 The Seal of the Body

Chen Xin glanced thoughtfully at the small patch of discolored, corroded skin on the back of his hand.

In the "Complete Guide to Suppressing Spirits," sealing a turbid spirit requires contact with it, so each time you seal a turbid spirit, you have to take a certain risk.

Although there are now methods such as the Tongyou Seal and the Seal-Sealing Seal, the probability of death directly caused by physical contact is very small, at most resulting in some loss of physical health, but it is indeed a problem that needs to be solved.

Currently, there are three ways to resolve this issue.

Suppressing objects, suppressing seals, and strengthening exercises.

As for talismans, special talismans like the Illusionary Body are of great help to Chen Xin, but because it is not his true body, the Illusionary Body cannot seal the Turbid Ghost by contacting it.

If we could find some special talismans that could directly affect Chen Xin's body, things might be much better.

But such talismans are rare.

At least among the talismans he currently possesses, only a handful can cause Chen Xin's physical body to exhibit some special states.

For example, Zhuye Stone Town allows Brother Chicken to cover Chen Xin's body with virtual fire, giving Chen Xin the virtual fire bonus, which allows him to penetrate physical barriers.

For example, a Yama-level reed can be integrated into Chen Xin's body, giving Chen Xin the ability to bind evil spirits.

For example, the Three Yang Fire Lamp can open the candle's eye and light three flames, allowing one to see ghosts and spirits on special levels, such as the netherworld.

But that's about it.

The blessings of these protective objects may be very effective in the mortal world and in the underworld, but in the netherworld...

After all, the Yama-level warding artifacts correspond to the Black Abyss-level ghosts and spirits. Faced with the level of turbid ghosts, the current warding artifacts are still somewhat lacking in ability.

Therefore, solving the problem of sealing the turbid ghost at the level of talismanic objects is very difficult and may take a long time.

Unless Chen Xin immediately fabricates the Gate of Hell and elevates it above Yama, it's impossible.

In that case, the "Complete Collection of Town-Suppressing Objects" might undergo some changes.

But these are all unknowns, and we cannot place all our hopes on this.

Besides using objects to suppress negative influences, the ability of a suppressing seal is a good alternative.

The currently appearing seals—the Tongyou Seal, the Hutian Seal, the Tongzhu Seal, the Fengjie Seal, and the Jianshen Seal—all have abilities that, except for the Tongzhu Seal and the Jianshen Seal, have more or less an impact on Chen Xin's physical body.

Although this influence is not enough for Chen Xin to directly confront the turbid ghosts, at least their appearance gives Chen Xin a certain ability to protect himself in the netherworld.

However, the situation with the Zhenyin seal is somewhat complicated. For Chen Xin, obtaining the Zhenyin seal is more random than obtaining any other Zhenwu (a type of magical object).

At least the talisman has something to rely on, but with the seal, Chen Xin has no way of knowing what the next one will be.

Therefore, for Chen Xin, Zhenyin is currently like a blind box.

Maybe the next blind box will give you the hidden item, or maybe you won't get what Chen Xin wants even in the last one.

Therefore, Zhenyin can only rely on luck and cannot be planned.

In the end, only the exercise routine remained.

Chen Xin's physical exercise is still in its seventh version. After entering the seventh version, the required Yin Virtue Points are 1,000 for every 1% increase in progress.

In other words, it would take 100,000 good deeds to upgrade the exercise to its seventh and highest level.

not much.

After entering the seventh edition, Chen Xin has been slowly increasing the pace of the strengthening exercises to avoid overexerting his body at once.

When Chen Xin first entered the seventh version of the exercise, his Vajra Body merged into his body, becoming a thin protective layer.

This protective layer appears to be only as thick as skin, but its defensive capabilities are about five times that of Chen Xin's physical defenses.

As long as the protective layer on his body is not broken, Chen Xin will not be harmed.

Chen Xin had tested it with ghosts. Ghosts below the Black Abyss level could not even break through the body's defenses. They would simply be evaporated by the layer of blood and qi defense on the surface of Chen Xin's body.

As for those above the Black Abyss level, unless they are exceptionally powerful, ordinary Black Abyss spirits would have to stand still and let the Black Abyss attack them for more than a minute to break through Chen Xin's defenses.

Chen Xin had learned about Yang Xiu's strength in the seventh edition of the fitness exercises from the Bureau of Investigation, and found that he was far inferior to him.

To date, Chen Xin's exercise routine has reached its seventh edition, with 90% completion.

After reaching this stage, the seventh version of the exercise has undergone another change.

The body's ability to recover!
Minor wounds usually stop bleeding and heal quickly.

However, this recovery ability is limited. For example, the traces left on the back of Chen Xin's hand by that slimy, turbid ghost did not work due to the recovery power within his body.

Or rather, it worked, but because this restorative power was far inferior to the power of the turbid demon.

It will take time to restore the mark on the back of your hand to its original state.

Based on past experience with the exercises, this recovery ability, which appears at 90% completion in the seventh edition, should be a power that only the eighth edition of the regular exercises possesses.

In addition to his recovery ability, Chen Xin's internal energy is now seeping into the bones inside his body!

Since the infiltration began, Chen Xin has noticed that his strength is increasing!
Chen Xin couldn't find any corresponding information about this change in the Bureau of Public Opinion's database, nor did he see a similar situation in any of the Bureau's agents, not even in Feng Jin!

This situation continues to this day.

When he met the six people, he found that their blood and qi were of similar quality to his own. Later, when he brought the six people into the Netherworld, Chen Xin also took the opportunity to examine their bodies.

The purest and most reactive parts of those six people's bodies are the bones throughout their bodies!
This situation reminded Chen Xin of someone he had met before.

The leader of the Skull God Cult, or rather, the avatar of the leader of the Skull God Cult!
After Chen Xin pulled the avatar of the Skull God Cult leader into the base and destroyed it, he obtained something from the leader's vanished body.

A golden skull!

That skull contained a special energy, a similar energy that Chen Xin had seen in the relic at Zhenlong Temple!

Chen Xin didn't know what it was before, but now he has some guesses.

If the eighth version of the exercise is designed for bones, then perhaps after mastering it to its peak, all the bones in Chen Xin's body will transform into something like the skull of the leader of the Skull God Cult.

Of course, this is the ordinary eighth version of the exercise routine. If Chen Xin were to enter the eighth version of the exercise routine, there would definitely be other changes in the later stages of practice.

This change might give Chen Xin the answer to the problem of contacting the turbid ghost.

This is the most stable and most likely to succeed of the three paths Chen Xin has seen so far.

However, there is a problem here.

Please do me a good deed!
The sixth version required 100,000 merits to advance to the seventh version. According to the previous advancement rules of the exercise, the seventh version should require one million merits to advance to the eighth version!
This is just the amount of good karma required to advance to the eighth version.

After the breakthrough, reaching the pinnacle of the eighth version of cultivation would require an additional million merits.

In other words, if Chen Xin wants to take this path, he needs to prepare at least two million merits!

So far, the highest amount of good karma Chen Xin has accumulated is just over a million, and it has never reached two million.

Just in case, Chen Xin should leave behind some good karma, at least 100,000.

Therefore, although this path is foreseeable, some preparations are still needed.

Thinking about the guides of the divine messenger organizations that the Bureau of Investigation would have to eliminate, and the turbid ghosts that might be found on those guides, Chen Xin felt that he had to spend those two million!

In this way, he would have more confidence when sealing the turbid ghost later. With this in mind, Chen Xin already had a general plan in mind.

After that, he'll probably have to work hard himself to deal with those underworld areas.

Reaching out, Chen Xin took the "Complete Guide to Town-Suppressing Objects" in his hand and looked at the section on Town-Suppressing Seals.

After the scissor prints, a new seal was added.

[Self-Implantation Mark]

"Possession?"

After thinking about the pool of slime and making some guesses, Chen Xin placed his hand on the [Possession Seal].

Immediately, information about the [Possession Mark] appeared in his mind.

"This... venom?"

Chen Xin was taken aback when he thought of a movie he had seen before.

With a strange expression, he immediately spent 10,000 units of Yin Virtue to exchange for the [Possession Seal].

This time, Chen Xin did not imprint the [Possession Mark] on his palm, but instead pulled open his clothes and imprinted it on his chest.

As the small seal in his hand disappeared, a small thing had already connected with Chen Xin's consciousness.

Immediately, Chen Xin's consciousness touched that little thing.

After the small mark on his chest lit up for a moment, countless fleshy veins, like vines, surged out from his chest and covered Chen Xin's entire body in the blink of an eye.

The muscleman that previously appeared on the pedestrian street has reappeared.

However, unlike the muscular man on the pedestrian street, Chen Xin's skin and muscles remained unchanged.

His condition is more like having a layer of clothing over his body.

Chen Xin raised his hand and looked at the somewhat grotesque and disgusting flesh and veins on the surface of his body.

Suddenly, Chen Xin clenched his five fingers together.

A loud cracking sound rang out!
"Physical strength has roughly doubled?"

Chen Xin felt the power within his body, somewhat uncertain, since there was no reference point here.

With a flicker of his body, Chen Xin left the Netherworld and arrived at a smooth stone wall ten meters high at the foot of Sanfeng Mountain.

Raise your hand and pump your fist.

After a hissing sound, the rock wall did not crack as Chen Xin had expected.

Pulling his arm out, Chen Xin looked thoughtfully at the hole left in the rock wall.

The information I received about the [Parasite Seal] didn't mention how much power it would add; it only said that the power added would vary depending on the foundation.

In other words, the stronger the body the [Possession Seal] is imprinted on, the greater the power of the blessing.

If it were just printed on an ordinary person, the added force might only be less than tens or hundreds of kilograms.

In that case, the most cost-effective way to use the [Parasite Seal] is to imprint it on a skilled player.

But what if we change our perspective?
The [Seal of the Body] can also be seen as a kind of 'growth-type' power.

As long as the person with the [Possession Mark] continuously improves their strength, the [Possession Mark] will also improve accordingly.

Moreover, the [Parasite Seal] has more than just the ability to enhance power!

Chen Xin took a step, placing one foot on the cliff face, followed by the second.

And so, Chen Xin, with his feet parallel to the ground, stepped onto the cliff face and walked up step by step!

What enabled Chen Xin to achieve this level of skill was naturally the layer of tissue covering his body!
As Chen Xin stepped onto the cliff face, a network of flesh and blood stretched out beneath his feet.

It was precisely this binding force of flesh and blood that enabled Chen Xin to walk on the cliff face.

Moreover, this kind of walking does not require Chen Xin to provide the strength above his waist and abdomen himself. The object he is attached to will actively support all parts of Chen Xin's body, making it as easy as walking on flat ground!

After walking for a while, Chen Xin placed his feet on the cliff face and leaped over it.

As he fell, dozens of finger-thick threads of flesh shot out from Chen Xin's body, clinging to the cliff face and the surrounding trees.

With the support of these threads, Chen Xin, who fell from a height of ten meters, felt as if he had jumped slightly in place.

"interesting."

Those dozens of fleshy threads were the reaction and deformation of the host after Chen Xin gave the order.

Chen Xin doesn't need to actively control it; a vague command is enough to achieve a level of perfect harmony with his intentions.

This tacit cooperation was even more convenient than Chen Xin's remote control of other town objects, second only to the illusionary body.

Chen Xin then conducted many more tests.

It uses the object it inhabits as wings to glide, as weapons to attack, and as a hanging bag to sleep, etc.

Anything Chen Xin could think of, the object he possessed could accomplish.

However, the specific effect still depends on the 'quantity' of the object being inhabited.

For example, if Chen Xin wanted to create a huge network of flesh and blood covering Sanfeng Mountain and use the perception of the flesh and blood network to monitor the entire Sanfeng Mountain, this would be impossible.

It's not that the thing it's attached to lacks the ability, but rather that it doesn't have enough of it!
The object attached to Chen Xin's chest could only undergo some deformation within a ten-meter range, and this deformation would vary depending on the nature of the object.

When Chen Xin tries to create a pair of enormous wings, either he is unable to complete it, or the host organisms on other parts of his body are removed.

It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul.

The solution to this problem is quite simple: create another [Possession Seal] and imprint it again!
If Chen Xin is willing to spend his Yin Virtue Points, it's not impossible for the thing he possesses to cover the entire Sanfeng Mountain!
After the test, Chen Xin put the object he was using back away.

Overall, the [Seal of the Body] is very good.

Unfortunately, Chen Xin has too many tricks up his sleeve, and the auxiliary ability of the [Parasite Seal] is somewhat useless to him.

However, if the [Possession Seal] could be popularized among the underworld officials, their survivability would be greatly improved!

Chen Xin wasn't in a hurry about this.

After all, a single [Possession Seal] requires 10,000 merits, and currently, it would only be awarded to a single underworld official.

Just like Xu Zhiheng, the only underworld official currently carrying the Calamus Sword.

After completing the test, Chen Xin left Sanfeng Mountain.

On the other side, the illusory body had already led Feng Jin and the others to kill several more divine messengers and guides.

Then another guide led their god.

Chen Xin was preparing to greet their god.

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(End of this chapter)