Mysterious mirror hanging high

"What the hell is this?"

Wen Rennuo's spirits lifted, and he looked at the half-exposed bronze mirror, his imagination running wild.

Apart from mining and practicing, his favorite thing to do on weekdays is to read various biographies of immortals. Naturally, he is not unfamiliar with such plots.

"Could it be some treasure?"

The thin young man gripped the pickaxe tightly and quickly dug out the bronze mirror completely. He held it in his palm and looked at it carefully for a while.

"Why is there no spiritual energy fluctuation at all? Could it be a magical weapon?"

Wen Rennuo used his magic power to infect the bronze mirror, but it was like a drop in the ocean, with no response at all.

He bit his finger again and dripped a drop of blood onto the mirror, but the drop of blood slid down the mirror without any intention of recognizing its master with blood.

"It's not just an ordinary mirror!"

Wen Rennuo refused to believe in evil, so he pasted a few more talismans on the bronze mirror and even burned it with real fire for a while...

But no matter how he tried, the bronze mirror did not respond at all, which made Wen Rennuo, who was originally very excited, become discouraged.

"It's really just a broken mirror."

However, the bronze mirror was at least made of extraordinary material. At least when Wen Rennuo used his magic power to swing the pickaxe, the mirror surface was not damaged at all. He stuffed the mirror into his chest and planned to find a way to melt it after returning to the market to see if he could refine a piece of copper essence, which would be at least an income.

"But it's true. This bronze mirror is buried under the spirit stone mine. This place is not thousands of feet underground. If it was really a good thing, it would have been picked up by others long ago. How could it be my turn?"

Wen Rennuo cursed, "Besides, [Heaven] has already plowed through the secret caves and secret realms under its jurisdiction, the immortal mountains and spiritual springs over and over again. All spiritual resources and treasures must be centrally allocated. How can there be any wild opportunities?"

At this moment, a huge gray rat flashed out from a cave, staring at Wen Rennuo with its scarlet eyes, revealing a row of sharp fangs.

"Soul-eating rat!"

Wen Rennuo's face turned pale and he lost his voice.

"Soul-Eating Rats only appear in mines a hundred feet below the surface, so why did we encounter one fifty feet underground today?"

The demon rat in front of him was at the third level of Qi training, although it was only one level higher than Wen Rennuo. If it were a true disciple of a sect or a descendant of a noble family, it would not be difficult for him to fight against a higher level.

But Wen Rennuo was just a lowly miner, squeezing out time for spiritual practice. How could he possibly have the luxury of cultivating the magical skills needed to protect his Dao? He didn't even have a single decent magical weapon to defend himself. The only thing he had that had any lethality was his pickaxe!

The demon rat suddenly pounced towards Wenren Nuo. The young man gritted his teeth and used the skill of controlling objects to wield the pickaxe and smashed it at the demon rat.

Unfortunately, the Qigong cultivator had no divine consciousness, and his ability to control objects was extremely ordinary, so the pickaxe was easily dodged by the demon rat.

Seeing that the fangs of the demon rat were so close, and that he was bound to be torn to pieces, Wen Rennuo couldn't help but reveal a look of despair on his face.

At this moment, the bronze mirror on his chest suddenly shone slightly, revealing four square blue seal characters stacked neatly on top of each other:

【Skin of iron and bones】.

A stream of blue light escaped into Wenren Nuo's body.

Ding--

The Soul-Eating Rat bit Wen Rennuo's entire head, but not only did it fail to bite off the young man's head, but it also broke its own two front teeth.

The demon rat felt pain and quickly let go.

Wen Rennuo touched his neck and found that there was no wound, not even a trace of skin was rubbed off. He was stunned for a moment.

Although the soul-eating rat in front of him had low intelligence, it seemed to have realized that the person in front of him was not easy to mess with. After calling out to Wen Rennuo a few times, it drilled back into the cave and disappeared.

"Just now, just now..."

Wen Rennuo touched his cheek, which was still stained with the smelly saliva of the Soul-Eating Rat, indicating that what had just happened was not an illusion.

"That Soul-Eating Rat's fangs are indestructible, yet I took a bite from it, and I'm actually fine?"

The more Wen Rennuo thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. How could he, a young Qi cultivator who had never practiced any physical exercises, remain unscathed after being bitten by a monster at close range?

"Could it be?"

The young man hurriedly took out the bronze mirror from his arms, but saw that the blue seal characters "Copper Skin and Iron Bones" on the mirror were already faintly visible.

"Skin of iron and bones..." Wen Rennuo murmured.

The mirror's precious light completely went out, and Wen Rennuo felt that his physical body had returned to its original fragile state, and he couldn't help but tighten his grip on the bronze mirror a little more.

"My precious mirror, you saved my life just now, didn't you?"

Wen Rennuo stroked the surface of the bronze mirror, and the mirror suddenly lit up again, filling it with densely packed square seal characters, mostly white, with a small number of blue seal characters.

The young man looked intently, a strange light flashing in his eyes:

"【Seeking good fortune and avoiding disaster】, 【Skin of iron】, 【Skilled craftsman】, 【Concentrating energy and returning to the origin】, 【Late bloomer】, 【Genius】, 【Extensive knowledge and strong memory】, 【Handsome and elegant】..."

"What do these seal characters mean?"

His finger touched one of the seal characters and he casually tapped it: "【博文强识】."

A ray of blue light sank into his body, and Wen Rennuo suddenly felt that his mind seemed to be working very fast. Many things that he couldn't understand before suddenly became clear, and he felt that he had the wisdom in his hands.

He then clicked on [Condensing Qi and Returning to Origin], and these four blue seal characters instantly occupied the entire mirror surface.

The next moment, Wen Rennuo felt that his memory seemed to have declined, but his perception of the spiritual energy between heaven and earth seemed to have become much clearer. At this moment, the young man had an inspiration and quickly sat cross-legged in the mine, breathing in and out.

Countless spiritual energies gathered in his dantian. Wen Rennuo discovered that the capacity of his dantian and the speed of his cultivation had increased by about 50%!

"These seal characters... seem... to be very similar to the legendary [Innate Dao Body]?"

Wen Rennuo's mind buzzed with excitement. "Is this a rare treasure that can temporarily bless a cultivator with the [Innate Dao Body]?"

"Good baby, good baby!"

"With this rare treasure, doesn't it mean that I can switch between countless [Innate Dao Body] at will?"

Wen Rennuo was ecstatic and almost shouted:

"With this rare treasure in hand, I, Wen Rennuo, shall become an immortal!"

"Heavenly Court Suying, East Sea Mysterious Mirror, Celestial Prodigy Yingzhao, Juechen Fuhua... these world-renowned geniuses are nothing but humble figures!"

Wenren Nuo laughed loudly, and for a moment he was a little too proud of himself.

"But I can't stay in Heaven anymore... I have to find a way to escape from Heaven's rule, otherwise this opportunity will be snatched away by someone else sooner or later."

However, he was just a Qi-cultivating cultivator, and it was uncertain whether he could escape from the [Jiachen No. 13 Mine], let alone under the rule of the Heavenly Court. This also gave Wen Rennuo a headache.

But he changed his mind:

"No, if I 'awaken' my [Innate Dao Body], wouldn't I become a hot commodity in the [Heavenly Court]? Then I'd be specially recruited into the [Wendao Academy] and enjoy the treatment of a genius!"