Chapter 16: Spiritual Rhinoceros Horn
[Can this silly cat’s stomach really hide things?]
[And what’s this? A horn from some animal?]
He watched as the exquisite rhinoceros horn landed on him.
While Li Boyang was still puzzled about what Xiluo was doing, he suddenly heard a childish voice.
[Huh?]
[What is this voice?]
[Why does it sound... like I’m the one speaking?]
Instinctively widening his eyes, Li Boyang seemed to realize something, and immediately cast his gaze towards the raccoon cat on the cradle.
As expected, Li Boyang saw Xiluo baring her teeth, looking fierce and aggressive.
"Who are you calling a silly cat?"
"You’re the silly kid!"
"Be mindful of controlling your inner voice. I don’t want to tell you again!"
"This is a Spiritual Rhinoceros Horn. It allows the holder to speak their inner voice without opening their mouth."
"The only downside is if you can’t control your thoughts, all sorts of nonsense will spill out!"
After blinking, Li Boyang immediately understood what was happening.
However, controlling one’s inner thoughts is easier said than done; it’s truly difficult.
[Wait... I must focus... can’t let this silly...]
[No, Mountain God... but she’s just a silly...]
[Darn it... can’t think...]
[With a heart like ice, fear not even if the sky falls. With a heart like ice, fear not even if the sky falls.]
As the fragmented thoughts in his mind became genuine inner voices,
Li Boyang finally chose to silently recite the "Ice Heart Technique," only then barely managing to control his inner voice.
During this process, Li Boyang clearly felt his Life Essence Qi continuously pouring into the Spiritual Rhinoceros Horn.
If it weren’t for the relentless supplement of evil Qi from outside.
Li Boyang felt that the Spiritual Rhinoceros Horn could drain all his Life Essence Qi in just a quarter of an hour.
In fact, it wasn’t until Li Boyang consciously cut off the transmission of his Life Essence Qi that the thoughts in his head stopped turning into inner voices.
It wasn’t until this moment that Li Boyang had the time to lower his head and examine the Spiritual Rhinoceros Horn.
This was a small and exquisite horn, pure white throughout, appearing almost like a carved jade ornament.
Inside this small horn, a barely visible fine line ran through the entire horn, nearly splitting it in half.
"You... you..."
When Li Boyang looked up again, Xiluo was staring at him with a face full of shock, as if looking at some sort of monster.
"You can actually control the flow of ’Primordial Qi’ actively?!"
For a mountain god spirit monster like Xiluo, "Primordial Qi" is indeed a very abstract concept.
Celestial Gang and Earthly Evil, Essence of Sun and Moon, Life Essence Qi can all be viewed as types and branches of "Primordial Qi."
𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
In this world, there indeed are lives capable of absorbing and expelling "Primordial Qi"—Xiluo herself possessed similar abilities.
But the problem was, Xiluo had never seen anyone who could precisely cut off the flow of Qi like Li Boyang.
[Is it that hard?]
Hearing this, Li Boyang actively transmitted a thread of Qi to the Spiritual Rhinoceros Horn while also controlling his brain to surface this thought.
This dual operation was a bit challenging, but luckily it didn’t stump Li Boyang.
"It’s not about whether it’s hard..."
"For example, can you humans randomly control the flow of blood within your bodies?"
Deliberately lowering her voice, Xiluo vividly described the extraordinary nature of Li Boyang’s actions.
Then, amid her shock, Xiluo noticed the noticeably unusual color of the other party’s skin.
"Wait, what’s going on?"
Under the bright moonlight, Li Boyang’s skin showed a crimson hue, glaringly evident like an evil ghost.
"You’re actually using Nai Fu’s ’curse’ to absorb evil Qi?"
With a glance, she saw what Li Boyang had done, and Xiluo once again opened her mouth wide in astonishment.
A curse of evil Qi that ordinary people would avoid at all costs, Li Boyang had not only perfectly endured it but had even absorbed some of the evil Qi into his body.
That crimson skin was evidence of being tempered by evil Qi.
[What’s there to be surprised about...]
Subtly realizing that he might have achieved something astonishing, Li Boyang didn’t understand why it was worthy of such surprise.
"You really are a freak!"
Seeing this, Xiluo knew there was no point in speaking with such an "outsider," so she just helplessly rolled her eyes.
"Fine, since you can put this Spiritual Rhinoceros Horn to good use, I’ll lend it to you for now..."
But before Xiluo could finish the sentence, Li Boyang’s inner voice once again slipped out.
[Just lending it? Truly a stingy fellow...]
Under Xiluo’s fierce glare of intimidation,
Li Boyang quickly stopped his thoughts from leaking out, then showed a somewhat awkward grin.
Li Boyang swore that the previous thought was definitely not intentionally revealed by him—it was just a momentary lapse of his inner thoughts.
"What do you mean by stingy fellow!"
"Do you have any idea how precious this Spiritual Rhinoceros Horn is?"
With a fierce whack to Li Boyang’s little noggin, Xiluo flashed her claws in a threatening manner.
"This is the horn of a Heaven-Reaching Rhinoceros, a very rare treasure across all the Nine Provinces and the Eight Desolate Extreme Lands!"
"Back then, if it wasn’t to teach me how to speak, my sister wouldn’t have entrusted this to me!"
When mentioning her sister, the previously aggressive Xiluo suddenly deflated, her voice turning listless.
"Never mind, why am I even bothering to argue with a kid like you."
"Remember this, I’ll temporarily lend this to you, but it’s not a gift!"
Nodding obediently, Li Boyang wasn’t the kind to take advantage and still argue, so he wouldn’t refute Xiluo’s words.
He was just a little curious about the identity of this raccoon cat’s sister.
Could it be she’s the Valkyrie worshiped in the Mountain God Temple on Feilai Peak?
[What’s happening outside?]
[What were you fighting with just now?]
[Earlier today, an Er Tu came near the village...]
[It claimed that the spirit creatures in the mountain were planning to migrate due to the ’Earth Vein disturbance’—is that true?]
Collecting his excess thoughts, Li Boyang finally asked seriously.
These were the questions Li Boyang most eagerly wanted answers to and the original reason he sought out Xiluo.
"Actually, this matter is somewhat related to you."
With a complex expression, Xiluo gazed at Li Boyang, remaining silent for quite a while before speaking.
"I don’t know if you remember your past life experiences..."
"But before you became a human child, you killed a person, someone who seemed to possess some exotic techniques—a Witch Sacrifice?"
"His soul now lingers in the Black Cloud Marsh, having transformed into an Evil Ghost."
"No one knows what truly happened inside it."
"The only thing for certain is that a Yin Spirit went in but never came out."
"And it seems even Nai Fu’s previous release is connected to that Evil Ghost..."
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