Chapter 348 Fluxing Agent

Ding Ning felt overjoyed when he found the coral polyps were still unresponsive after he collected over one hundred Spiritual Crystals of Water. It appeared to him that the coral polyps would not poke their noses into his business.

Ding Ning was in awe of the jellyfishes yet not afraid of them. However, he was scared by those countless coral polyps, who could melt jellyfishes’ hard shells with the flames they breathed out. From this, one could tell how terrifically hot those flames were. Ding Ning did not want to end up as red corals’ nutriment.

After collecting over a hundred Spiritual Crystals of Water and seeing that the coral polyps turned a blind eye to him, Ding Ning was relieved and started to collect the crystals at his will.

Just as he was collecting the Spiritual Crystals of Water happily, something that made his hair stand on end happened. Staring at the “bloody men” that suddenly appeared in front of him, he was paralyzed and dared not to move in fear that he would provoke them.

From each red coral walked over a “bloody man”, and with his All-seeing Eye, Ding Ning found those “bloody men” to be made of red coral polyps.

He did not know if it was because those coral polyps had never seen any human being before that they imitated Ding Ning curiously. In the shape of Ding Ning, those “bloody men” copied his actions of turning his head, bending down, picking things up…

The “bloody men” looked funny, yet, Ding Ning felt cold all over as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

He would rather face jellyfishes than those coral polyps, who could radiate terrifying intense heat.

Ding Ning took out a handful of crystals and handed them to the polyps while saying in a humble way, “I give them back to you. I won’t take them.”

However, feeling the aura of the crystals in Ding Ning’s hands, the “bloody men” looked scared and retreated backward, again and again, their human forms almost shattered.

“They are scared of Spiritual Crystals of Water? But it’s impossible.”

Surprised, Ding Ning looked at those retreating “bloody men”, who were scared and barely in the shape of a human being. With a humming sound, the coral polyps scattered and fled back to hide in the red corals. The cave fell into silence at once.

As a numb feeling came over from his hand, Ding Ning looked down and found that he was so hurried just now that he took out a Spiritual Crystal of Thunder by mistake.

Recalling how scared the coral polyps looked before, Ding Ning almost burst into laughter. It was so great that he took out a Spiritual Crystal of Thunder by mistake yet scared the coral polyps away. He had not expected the coral polyps to be afraid of Spiritual Crystals of Thunder.

With greedy eyes and a sinister smile, he held the Spiritual Crystal of Thunder in his hand and approached a red coral about three meters high.

With a humming sound, the coral polyps hiding in the red coral dispersed in a rush and fled to hide in other red corals, daring not to stay in this red coral.

The Spiritual Crystal of Thunder indeed worked. Ding Ning was all smiles and tried to break off the red coral and store it in his Mermaid Space…

However, he failed. He was flabbergasted and felt it unbelievable, given that he possessed the power of over ten thousand kilograms. How could he fail to break off just a coral?

Ding Ning gave it another try. Face-blushed, nerves standing out on his arms, he shouted “break” and used all his strength to break the coral, yet, the coral was not shaken even a little bit.

“What the hell! I don’t believe I can’t break it.”

He took out his silver saber and slashed the coral at its root.

“Clang!” A sound of metal on metal sounded, and Ding Ning felt his arm numb and sored, yet, he failed to even leave a scratch on the coral.

He was dumbfounded. He had thought about making a fortune by taking a red coral back and had not expected that he could not break it even with a blade.

Ding Ning felt the coral unbelievably hard, but at the thought that those corals were solidified with the decomposed shells of the jellyfishes, he felt it understandable.

Holding his chin in his hand, he was thinking about giving it another try with his Soul-severing Knife. Anyway, he did not want to return without anything.

It was true that human beings were never to be satisfied. Actually, Ding Ning had gained enough from the adventure under the sea. However, he was unwilling to leave without any red coral, a great treasure that one would meet only by luck.

By controlling the power of his spirit and soul, he slashed the red coral at its root hardly with his huge Soul-severing Knife. With his movement, terrifying water currents were created in this cave under the sea and washed against the walls.

With a slight cracking sound, the red coral was broken off. Ding Ning grinned as he put the coral in his Mermaid Space.

To his surprise, the Mermaid threw the coral out with resistance and jumped out of the space by shaking its tail. She spat out a bubble, which covered Ding Ning, and said angrily, “Are you crazy? Fire and water are never to be compatible with each other. You can store Spiritual Crystals of Thunder in my space, but the top-level objects with a property of fire are the nemesis of mine and would do harm to me.”

“What? Top-level objects with a property of the fire?”

Ding Ning swallowed at the words and asked in confusion, “This is a red coral. How could it be a top-level object with a property of the fire?”

“No, this is not a red coral but the best material to make weapons with a property of the fire in the human world,” the Mermaid lectured angrily.

However, when she saw the coral thickets covered the ground, she looked surprised. With her lower body parallel to the floor, she poked at the ground with her slender fingers before saying in surprise, “Wow, they are really corals, but they have undergone variation. I never thought there would be a vein of Spiritual Crystals of Fire.”

“A vein of Spiritual Crystals of Fire?”

Ding Ning’s mind exploded as if he had been struck by thunder, and he suddenly understood everything.

Like the jellyfishes and numbfishes he had seen before, those coral polyps must have undergone variation after absorbing the spiritual energy from the vein of Spiritual Crystals of Thunder so that they could breathe out flames and secrete gelatinous red corals after digesting the jellyfishes they swallowed through their mutated bodies. As a result, those red corals were on longer ordinary red corals but mutated red corals, which were the best materials to make weapons with a property of the fire.

Compared to ordinary red corals which could be used only as decorations, art collections, and medicinal materials that could improve people’s eyesight, the mutated red corals were more precious and were priceless treasures to those who knew their value.

Ding Ning wanted to keep the red coral to refine weapons, but he knew nothing about it though he had been refined as a weapon, so, it would be a waste if he kept the red coral for himself.

The Mermaid seemed to have seen through his mind and said with anger, “All Chiyou learned of the Weapon-refining Techniques was from the Golden Abstruse Book. However, you never studied it.”

Ding Ning was dumbstruck with his mouth wide open. “The Golden Abstruse Book? Is that golden paper the Golden Abstruse Book? And it recorded Weapon-refining Techniques? Where did Chiyou get the that book?”

“I don’t know. I only know that all Chiyou learned about the Weapon-refining Techniques were from that gold paper. As for what’s else on that paper and where he got that paper, I know nothing about them.”

The Mermaid shook her head with confusion. It seemed that she did not know why she would think of these, and her eyes were full of confusion.

A tingle of enthusiasm flashed across Ding Ning’s eyes. Though he was more interested in Chiyou’s medical skills, he was now interested in Chiyou’s Weapon-refining Techniques as well after he was refined as a weapon.

Besides, with the top-level material for refining weapons before him, he would be lying if he said he did not want to learn Weapon-refining Techniques.

The problem was he could not understand the ever-changing runes on that golden paper, and he even failed to copy the runes to study them, let alone learn Weapon-refining Techniques.

Nevertheless, he was not frustrated. Since Chiyou was able to learn Weapon-refining Techniques from the paper, Ding Ning believed that he would be able to find out the secret of the paper one day as well.

“Then, could the Ghost Space store this kind of red corals?”

Ding Ning stared at the huge red coral, unwilling to give it up.

“Yes. However inferior the Ghost Space is, it was built with space stones of no property. Thus, it could store objects with all kinds of properties.”

The Mermaid spit bubbles and looked down at the ground with a disgusted look, adding, “Don’t touch the vein of Spiritual Crystal of Fire until you wakened your ancestral magic power of fire. For the time being, you’re not able to bear the power of this vein.”

Ding Ning could not agree with her more. Though he scared the coral polyps away with a Spiritual Crystal of Thunder by accident just now, the “bloody men” formed by coral polyps still threatened his life. Moreover, under him was a complete vein of Spiritual Crystals of Fire, the terrifying spiritual energy of fire which contained could vaporize him.

The Mermaid swam in the coral forest and felt the aura. A moment later, she bent down and pointed at a block of land and said, “Break the ground open with your Soul-severing Knife. There are several Spiritual Crystals of Fire buried there. You can take them with you.”

Ding Ning was overjoyed at the words. Controlling the Soul-severing Knife, he broke the ground open and dug out two purple Spiritual Crystals of Fire quickly.

“Good. The Spiritual Crystals of Fire have four colors, orange-red, crimson, bright red, and purple. The two you dug out are top-level Spiritual Crystals of Fire. Put them away, and I advise you not to collect these mutated red corals now because when they grow purple-red, they would become ethereal materials, which are very rare even in Ethereal World. One day, if you could master the Weapon-refining Techniques to a high level, you may be able to make divine weapons with them.”

The Mermaid pondered while saying, “Besides this usage, the red corals could be the best fluxing agent that helps materials with opposite properties merge with each other in the process of making a weapon. In addition, it is an auxiliary treasure for refining human bodies.”

Ding Ning opened his eyes wide at the words. He did not pay any attention to the ethereal materials but was more interested in the red coral’s usage of blending materials with opposite properties. He asked eagerly, “Could red corals be used as medical materials? Are they harmful to human bodies?”

“Since it could help refine human bodies, it should be unharmful to them and used as medical materials, I guess.”

The Mermaid shook her tail and answered in an uncertain tone.

Ding Ning was overwhelmed by excitement for a long while upon hearing the words. If these red corals indeed could eliminate the repulsive effects between different materials, it would bring a great leap forward to the human history of medicine.

As it was known to all the people, with the development of medical technology, organ transplantation was no longer a fairytale. Even a heart could be transplanted, let alone other organs.

Nevertheless, no matter it was a bone marrow transplantation or heart transplantation, the implanted organ might be rejected by the subject body after the operation even if the organ was from a family.

As a result, even if a patient was forced to accept an organ transplantation operation, he might be able to live only several years more, and would face the fate of having another organ transplantation or death if organ failures caused by the organ rejection occurred.

What worried Ding Ning the most was that Feng Jun’s artificial limbs would be rejected by his body, and if that happened, Feng Jun would lose his artificial limbs.

There were two reasons why Ding Ning took a risk giving Feng Jun an operation to arm him with four artificial limbs. One was that he wanted to see if his theory was practical, and the other one was that he hoped he could find a solution before the rejection occurred.

At the moment, he saw new hope from the mutated red corals in respect of their special properties. If he was able to make some anti-rejection pills with the red corals, the rejection of between implanted organs and human bodies would be solved.

At the moment, Ding Ning stared at the red corals with greedy eyes, at which, the Mermaid could not help but got a chill. She said in an angry tone, “Hey, are you thinking about taking all these red corals away with you? That’s as stupid as emptying the pond to get the fish.”

“One more, I just want one more red coral.”

Eyes bloodshot, Ding Ning enquired the Mermaid with eager eyes, fingers pointing at the red corals. At the moment, the ethereal materials were less important than the anti-rejection medicines in his eyes.

“Whatever, don’t dig out all the red corals here. Do as you wish, and I have to remind you that the jellyfishes are approaching here, so, you’d better think a way to escape from them.” said the Mermaid indifferently while shaking her big tail.

She then transformed into the tattoo on Ding Ning’s arms.

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