Bamboo Mound

What puzzled him was that the bamboo joint clearly had a large thickness inside that had not been eroded and could have withstood the erosion for a longer time, yet it just cracked open like that, which seemed a bit unreasonable.

Just then, Ning Chang felt a strange emotion in his mind. After so many communications, he immediately realized that this emotion originated from the spiritual core of the Azure Bamboo!

But before he could fully experience it, the emotion abruptly stopped, as if it were just his imagination!

"No, it's not an illusion... Even though it was controlled from birth, it still developed a faint consciousness, and even so, it sacrificed itself for me without hesitation..."

"Haha, I was negligent in my observation. It seems that the cultivation of the Green Spirit Bamboo population should be put on the agenda."

However, he would not unconditionally trust the Azure Bamboo that would emerge later, after all, he had almost died at its hands twice before, and this time it was just that he communicated with it more.

He manipulated several bamboo leaves to sever all the decaying tissue below his neck, and then swallowed all the scattered Rejuvenation Pills. As soon as they entered his mouth, they transformed into a powerful medicinal effect, automatically impacting his severed neck, and new bone, blood, and flesh tissue grew rapidly.

As the bamboo split open, the decay on his body stopped abruptly, giving him a chance to relax. Now, he naturally needs to recover as quickly as possible.

After learning that spiritual power could replace the function of internal organs, he had some ideas in this regard. After this incident, Ning Chang felt that the time was right, so he tried to absorb his own dissipated spiritual power to control the flow of the medicine's effects and reshape it to achieve the result he wanted.

The process was easier than he had imagined. He didn't even need to operate with great precision. All he needed was a specific configuration to make the drug work according to the target!

"Hmm... then let's just keep the heart and lungs. Although the functions of these two can be replaced by spiritual power, let's keep it automatic for now to reduce the multi-line operation of spiritual power."

"As for the digestive system... just leave an esophagus, then connect it to a small stomach, and below that, the diaphragm. We won't need the stomach acid function either."

Although he can abstain from grains, he still wants to taste the delicious food. After the residue enters his stomach and he has initially extracted spiritual energy, he can throw it away. Not to mention that the food he eats later might not even produce any residue!

"With so much space freed up, let's fill it all with meridians. This will allow us to hold many times more spiritual energy... I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing."

Obviously, with this change, the spiritual energy he needs to break through will increase exponentially, but his endurance will also increase significantly!

"No need to change the arms and legs, add another spine... no, too many spines will affect flexibility, so let's just keep one. Add more ribs to cover the abdominal cavity and close up the front."

As the custom-made ribs were reshaped one by one, he soon realized that this was not as good as the original structure of the ribs!

Under the pull of gravity, several working ring-shaped ribs fell downwards simultaneously, putting a considerable burden on the still-developing spine.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that due to its own traction, each of the newly grown ribs was several times wider than the original ones, which was the reason for the excessively high quality!

"That's a bit unexpected, but it seems to have increased defensive capabilities quite a bit. Let's add another one that supports each other then. Let me think..."

"A structure that can provide support without hindering waist and abdominal movement... I can't think of one, so I'll forget about it."

The act of bending over is very important, as many actions require flexibility of the waist and abdomen. Therefore, Ning Chang had no choice but to shatter all the ribs that had already been modified and refocus the medicinal power of the Rejuvenation Pill on the spine, so that it could regenerate the ribs in the chest cavity according to their original structure.

As the medicine takes effect, dense blood vessels and nerves also form autonomously, with pathways and connections that perfectly match the new body structure.

However, because of his casual creation, he consumed too much of the medicinal effects. In addition, since he was already at the ninth level of the Spirit Platform Realm, the third-level Rejuvenation Pill, which was used by people at the Spirit Platform Realm, was no longer very effective.

At this moment, just as his pelvis and the surrounding flesh were barely reconstructed, the medicinal power that had originally enabled Ning Chang to fully recover was completely exhausted, with not a single drop remaining.

Ning Chang slowly propped himself up with his arms, absorbed some spiritual energy, and floated in mid-air, feeling the subtle changes brought about by his new physical body.

The newly reconstructed ribs in the chest cavity are neatly arranged. Although they ultimately retain the original structure, they are noticeably more resilient and have a faint sheen, as if they contain immense power.

His spine, or rather his waist and abdomen, were stronger, and he felt lighter than before when he made various movements.

The skin and flesh all over the body are firm and elastic, and the newly grown skin has a whiter and more tender color, like jade floating on water!

However, this otherwise beautiful body is a different color at the junction with the head, and it has no lower limbs, which makes it look somewhat eerie.

"I don't have any other way to restore my physical body... I'll go get some more pills."

The Rejuvenation Pills he possessed were obtained from a mine on the outskirts of Wangzhou Kingdom. He had not been injured or used them since then.

"But before that, we need to get a prosthetic leg. Although it won't affect mobility, showing it directly in the crowd will still cause unnecessary panic and attention."

He turned his gaze to the bamboo section that was originally used to hold the spirit core of the Azure Spirit Bamboo, and after a moment's hesitation, he spurred another bamboo to grow.

The Green Spirit Bamboo quickly grew to a suitable height, and then Ning Chang used the still-unformed new spirit core to thicken the bamboo. He then picked off all the bamboo leaves, trimmed away the miscellaneous branches, leaving four sections of roughly the same length, and then connected them to his body according to the shape of his legs.

He didn't expect the bamboo joints to provide any reliable support; he could maintain stability with his spiritual power alone, so he didn't try to control them to make any delicate movements.

He put his sect robes back on and attached his shoes to the bamboo joint. Now, as long as he didn't touch the ground and just levitated with his spiritual energy slightly off the ground, no one could see through his abnormality!

After spending some more time absorbing all the spiritual energy he had lost, Ning Chang straightened his clothes and flew towards the central square.

Because of his missing leg, he couldn't use the direct Azure Cloud Step, which greatly reduced his speed. Although he could use the four bamboo sections to move, he felt that the feeling was too strange. In addition, the distance wasn't too far to begin with, so he decided to just fly there slowly.

Moreover, with the enhancement of two levels of Heavenly Demon Speed, the pure flight speed is still quite fast.

Before long, Ning Chang landed at the entrance of the exchange hall, then quickly moved to the nearest, less crowded corner and stood steadily in front of the counter.

"Fifty bottles of fourth-grade Rejuvenation Pills." He tossed out his identity jade token and said calmly to the disciple behind the counter.