Chapter 429: One Hundred Perfect Platinum Stigmata (4100)

Unlike the previous times when he absorbed the holy spring water, this time it was too refreshing and extremely satisfying. In the past, whether it was the holy spring water that Kaxiu obtained by completing tasks or the hundreds of units of holy spring water resources exchanged for honor badges, they were all a drop in the bucket for his strong physique. It was like a long-dried land, with occasional light rain, which could not even fill the cracks in the soil. But now, it was directly flooded, and the dry desert suddenly turned into a swamp. There is no doubt that this is a kind of enjoyment.

Kaxiu could feel the layers of warm invisible liquid seeping into his tough skin. It was like a cloud of misty water, passing through the muscles, moisturizing the fascia, and covering the surface of the bones. At this moment, it was like taking a hot spring bath, with waves from all directions like fingers gently patting, massaging and relaxing. It will soon allow the body to enter a transparent state.

The golden pool water was constantly absorbed and began to slowly drop at an inaudible speed. And the spring water above was constantly replenished, making the pool water drop more slowly. Kaxiu entered a free and casual state. It was as if he was lying alone on a boat, swaying with the blue waves, heading towards an unknown direction. But at this moment, he did not relax his vigilance.

The two magical powers of the Holy Spring and the Secret Soul contain trace amounts of disasters. Just like an inconspicuous chronic toxin, a little bit is nothing at the beginning. As time goes by, the dosage increases, the toxin breaks out completely, and it becomes an almost incurable poisonous terminal illness.

After the Night Monsters master various powers from the Black Rain Villa, there will be extreme side effects. As the hunters continue to fight and replenish the Holy Spring water, the disaster in their bodies will also accumulate, and they will be unable to stop turning into beasts.

For intelligent life, especially humans.

Disaster is a highly toxic poison that cannot be cured.

Fortunately, the mysterious ancient Aoyin civilization seems to have left some means of restraint. The five cornerstone runes work by consuming energy with disasters. For example, Kaxiu's spiritual rune can easily absorb the essence of these ownerless disasters. Speaking of this, Kaxiu sometimes wonders whether the Aoyin civilization is fighting against the disaster or controlling the disaster. After all, using the essence of disaster as the driving energy of the five cornerstones, both directions are possible.

Of course, these are all wild fantasies. Kaxiu is still enjoying the convenience brought by the spiritual rune. The essence of disaster mixed in the holy spring water and absorbed into the body has just settled, and before it has time to penetrate, it was swept away by the spiritual rune. The black Ouroboros tattoo on the chest began to slowly rotate and operate silently.

Hualala... Hualala...

In the sound of the spring water falling on the surface of the pool, Kaxiu glanced at the back of his hand. There were 33 platinum-colored stigmata marks on it, and in addition, there were light gold stigmata that continued to grow and overlapped at the end of the platinum stigmata. After a while, the number of golden stigmata was the same as that of platinum stigmata. A total of 66.

This number should have exceeded most shadow hunters.

The first shadow hunter, Colossus Kasai, has only 70 stigmata, while the black organ leader has 79 stigmata. This is the limit of their ability to resist the erosion of disasters at this stage, which is related to the strength of the body and the mental will.

Of course, reaching the limit does not mean that they cannot continue to improve. People are adaptable. After a long time of coexistence, their tolerance for disasters has increased. Maybe they can increase their strength a little bit on the basis of the limit.

And this strength will not be much, at most three or five, at least one or two stigmata. In general, after becoming a shadow hunter, soaking in the holy spring water will most likely reach the limit of talent. The little bit of strength added afterwards is also a drop in the bucket and will not have a big increase.

Kaxiu now has 66 stigmata, which is actually the same as the second shadow hunter, Louis. This is Louis' limit, but not Kaxiu's limit. His body is still absorbing the holy spring water, and the speed is still as hungry and violent as when he first absorbed it, without any sign of stopping.

Gradually, the number of stigmata on the back of his hand began to increase again.

...69, 70, 71...

Easily surpassed the No. 1 Dark Hunter Kasai.

...78, 79, 80...

And surpassed the Black Organ Leader.

At this time, Kaxiu found that the growth rate of the stigmata began to slow down gradually. It was not that the speed of his absorption of the holy spring water slowed down, but that his body seemed to have developed something like drug resistance. The higher the saturation of the stigmata, the more difficult it is to reach the limit or even perfection. So Kaxiu's previous calculation was actually wrong. He thought that only 2,400 units of holy spring water were needed to achieve perfect saturation, but the actual situation was different.

However, it didn't matter at all in the current situation.

Kaxiu soaked in the source of the holy spring and took the precious holy spring water directly for a bath. Even if the holy spring water required was far more than 2,400 units, so what? Ten times is only 60 liters, a drop in the bucket.

What's more, the consumption can't be increased tenfold at all.

This is the benefit of being a shadow hunter, the only chance to absorb the holy spring water recklessly until you reach your personal limit.

97, 98, 99...100!

One hundred holy marks were neatly arranged on the back of the hand, like a square. The lower half was white gold, and the upper half was light gold. At first glance, it looked like a piece of gold foil.

According to Kaxiu's induction, the amount of Holy Spring Water absorbed this time was one-half more than expected. In other words, excluding the original thirty-three platinum holy marks, the remaining sixty-seven gold holy marks consumed about two thousand four hundred units of Holy Spring Water. He made a little calculation and thought of the secret soul power he had already stored, and he was relieved.

Fortunately, he had made a reserve before and saved a lot more, otherwise the secret soul power would not be enough if it had the characteristic of greater consumption as it became more saturated.

Of course, Kaxiu did not do this on purpose. Instead, he took the Ghost Iron Knight to do the Black Rain Villa mission, and the rewards related to the world of disaster were quite rich. Unknowingly, he accumulated a huge amount of secret soul power in his hands.

Now, the holy spring water has reached a saturated state, and only the secret soul power remains to be absorbed. Kaxiu suddenly opened his eyes and found that the sky was approaching dusk. He slowly stood up and showed the back of his right hand. With a slight movement of his mind, the holy marks turned dim and disappeared on their own.

With a flickering gaze, Kaxiu hid the thirty-three platinum holy marks.

Only sixty-seven golden holy marks were left.

The energy of the holy spring water in his body reached saturation, and he felt extremely full and endless. It was not true as the rumor said that if someone could reach 100 holy marks, they could generate a self-circulation in their body. Even if the holy marks were consumed in battle, there was no need to replenish the holy spring water, and those consumed holy marks would grow back automatically.

Kaxiu looked a little surprised, but did not continue to study, after all, the holy hunter Dilixiati was right next to him. He took a step and walked out of the pool. The holy spring water was not absorbed by the cloth at all, as if they were attracted to each other, and remained in the pool. Kaxiu slowly moved his body, and a crisp explosion sound came from his bones.

On the golden stone, Dilixiati opened his eyes and jumped down.

He slowly scanned the back of Kaxiu's hand and saw the appearance of sixty-seven golden stigmata. He nodded secretly: "Very good, your current limit is one higher than Louis. If the subsequent adaptation goes smoothly, it may exceed seventy, and even surpass Kasai." Dilixiati said in an appreciative and encouraging tone.

Kaxiu smiled and looked at the back of Dilixiati's hand: "What about you? I once heard that the black organ chief has seventy-nine."

Dilixiati shook his head, as if he had recognized Kaxiu, and generously showed the back of his hand. There were seventy-seven golden stigmata on it.

"Oh? It's only two less than the black organ chief, maybe..."

Kaxiu's eyes flickered slightly.

Dilixiati smiled and shook his head: "Do you believe all the rumors are true? There are also rumors that I can replace the organ chief, but what about the reality? The gap between him and me, hehe..."

He ended with a self-deprecating laugh.

Kaxiu narrowed his eyes slightly. Judging from Dilixiati's reaction, the rumors might not be true. Or rather, it was real, but seventy-nine was the limit when the Black Organ Leader just became a Dark Hunter. The number of stigmata he later improved through willpower training was a mystery and was not counted. One or two at the least, three or five at the most? So 84?

In the end, Kaxiu did not get an answer from Dilixiati.

The two followed the procedure when they came, and returned to the Florentine City through the dark tunnel. And at this time, it was already night.

Kaxiu first came to the residence of the old hunter Heb, celebrated with a group of old hunters without excitement, and then returned to his single-family house. He took a black box and left the Dark Hunter headquarters at night.

He came to the outskirts of the city, a slightly familiar place. The last time Kaxiu met the Ghost Iron Knight was in this abandoned monastery.

The bright moon hung high on the branches, and the hazy clouds gathered. On the dark sky, dots of stars twinkled, and some similar ones vaguely formed various animal shapes. Next to the dead tree, a young man quietly looked up at the sky.

Wherever he looked, it seemed to be the Southern Dipper constellation.

Kaxiu looked for a while and seemed to have found the ever-changing Vulture and Star Python constellations. He retracted his sight and adjusted his state to the best.

This is the courtyard of the monastery, with dead grass all over the ground and gravel on the stone road. The windows of the pointed building are empty and dark, and there are spider webs entangled in the corners, which looks a bit gloomy. A dead tree stands in a corner of the courtyard, and there are broken stone tables and stone benches next to the tree.

Kaxiu sat on the stool, and on the table was a metal vessel that exuded a hint of coldness. There were 2,800 units of secret soul power in it.

He sat quietly for a while and slowly stretched out his right hand. The symbol on the back of his hand was no longer concealed, and it turned back to one hundred. Kaxiu grabbed the metal vessel with his big hand, brought it in front of him, and drank it in one gulp like a thirsty drink of strong liquor. Suddenly, the cold and icy feeling permeated from head to toe.

By the time he had drunk enough, a deep palm print had been made on the solid metal vessel. Kaxiu put it down and exhaled a chill. He felt as if he had just drunk liquid nitrogen, and his mouth, throat and blood vessels were almost frozen.

Before his senses could ease, Kaxiu could already feel the reaction between the power of the secret soul and the holy spring water in his body. The expected drastic changes occurred, and the feeling of ice and fire was extremely sour and refreshing. The two special energies collided and merged violently under the catalysis of the body's blood. For a moment, it seemed as if every blood vessel in the body was wailing in pain.

Puff...

Kaxiu's skin cracked, and blood spurted out from nearly a hundred cracks, dyeing the fabric of his clothes red in an instant. It looked extremely scary at first glance, but he didn't care, just consuming the energy of life vibration to repair the wound. Then, blood vessels all over his body continued to rupture and heal.

Blood spurted again and again, forming a thick layer of blood scabs on the surface of his body. Kaxiu remained expressionless, his eyes fixed on the back of his right hand.

The majority of golden stigmata were being stained with platinum.

From the original two-thirds, it became one-half, one-quarter...

Finally, the only remaining golden stigmata also disappeared.

At this moment, one hundred stigmata became one hundred platinum stigmata!

The blood in Kaxiu's body seemed to have been replaced by the blood of living beings.

Suddenly, the stigmata on the back of his hand underwent drastic changes. The neatly arranged stigmata actually rotated and reassembled, as if to form a new pattern. At the same time, Kaxiu felt that the spiritual runes on his chest were also echoing each other, with a burning feeling. After more than ten seconds, the brilliant platinum color stopped and a pattern appeared.

This is an equilateral triangle, with thirty-three platinum stigmata overlapping on each side. In the middle of the equilateral triangle, there is a platinum stigmata that connects the vertices and is perpendicular to the other side.

Life Rune? Or life rune?

Of course it is not the rune itself, but it seems to have considerable power.

Kaxiu stood up with great interest and decided to test the effect of the perfect platinum stigmata. He decisively added it to the Nan Dou Fist.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang...

Kaxiu's clothes actually exploded with dozens of holes, as if hit by a hail of bullets. Each hole corresponds to the location of the two Nan Dou Fist acupoints, and he immediately took off all his clothes.

Thirty-one Nan Dou Red Eagle Fist acupoints emit scarlet color.

Thirty-one Nan Dou Sound Snake Fist acupoints emit rich purple light.

The two actually began to echo each other, not only with each other, but also with the flashing frequency of the Giant Eagle and Star Python in the sky. Kaxiu immediately sat cross-legged, put his hands together, and looked up at the sky. The blue pupils reflected the bright starry pattern in the sky.

Crack... Crack...

The body suddenly came with a shattering sound, not the actual physical damage, but the drastic changes in the constructed Nandou virtual meridians.

The two Nandou framework systems that were originally going their own way and clearly separated were compressed and overlapped! It was as if the blood eagle bird slowly extended its sharp claws and captured the python's body. The sound python reversely wrapped around the wings of the blood eagle bird, and the more it wrapped, the tighter it became. In this process of mutual repulsion, fighting and weird symbiosis, Kaxiu felt an unprecedented power...

It's not that I want to break it, but I haven't figured out what this power is...