Lin Xia's heart tightened.
Larvitar's condition was far too abnormal.
Lin Xia strode quickly to the mineral wall. Ignoring Lou Gao's warning of "Be careful!", he reached out and forcefully pried off a fist-sized dark silver crystal, within which star-dust-like lights flowed slowly.
The moment it entered his hand, it was icy cold, as if he were holding a solidified spring of frozen water. Inside the crystal, the slowly revolving star-dust lights emitted a heart-palpitating spatial fluctuation.
Without any hesitation, Lin Xia brought the crystal, containing vast spatial power straight to his mouth.
"Crack!"
At the instant his teeth closed, Lin Xia's pupils violently constricted!
An indescribable, extreme sense of freshness and deliciousness exploded inside his mouth like a cosmic Big Bang!
It was not a flavor belonging to any known food, but an utterly pure taste of space itself!
It felt as though his tongue had touched folded dimensions, his taste buds were savoring flowing starlight, and what slid down his throat was condensed void nectar!
This was a sensory storm that transcended taste itself, bringing supreme pleasure at the level of the soul, as if his entire body had become light and ascended in an instant!
However, this unparalleled bliss lasted for less than a single breath.
The very next moment, an unimaginably violent torrent of energy—like a breached galactic river—carrying chaotic, razor-sharp spatial power capable of slicing everything apart, erupted from the shattered Void Stone and slammed into Lin Xia's body!
"Ugh—!"
Lin Xia couldn't suppress a pained groan.
This energy was far too tyrannical!
Unlike the heavy, nourishing power of earth and metal elements, or the gentle, controllable nature of pure soul power, this force was violent, disorderly, and imbued with a property that tore everything apart.
It rampaged brutally through his meridians, flesh, and bones!
Lin Xia felt as though countless tiny fragments of space were cutting and expanding his body from the inside—it felt as if he could explode at any moment!
Excruciating pain surged through him like a tidal wave.
At the same time, the soul power that had been circulating steadily within Lin Xia was instantly ignited, as if red-hot iron had been thrown into it!
Under the crude impact of this foreign energy, the Level 17 soul power bottleneck was torn apart like paper!
Boom—!
A powerful surge of soul power erupted uncontrollably from Lin Xia's body, blasting nearby rubble into the air.
In just a few breaths, Lin Xia's soul power Level was forcibly pushed up to Level 18!
But this skyrocketing soul power was extremely unstable—hollow and agitated like strong liquor diluted with inferior impurities, filled with volatility and danger.
It surged wildly through his meridians, impossible to tame, bringing tearing, swelling pain with every pulse.
An even stranger change occurred on the surface of his body.
Lin Xia stared in shock as both his own body and Larvitar's, which had curled up beside him in visible pain, began to show dense, strange patterns beneath the skin, flickering with dark silver light!
These patterns were complex and profound, like ancient star maps branded into the flesh, or the manifestation of spatial Crack.
They writhed faintly beneath the skin like living things, pulsing with intense spatial fluctuations, as if they could burst out of the body at any moment!
"This…!"
Lou Gao's expression changed drastically. He instantly understood the terrifying energy and domineering nature contained within the Void Stone.
He didn't dare touch Lin Xia rashly and could only watch anxiously.
Fortunately, these eerie and dangerous patterns only flickered for a dozen seconds. As the violent spatial energy within was desperately suppressed, dispersed, and absorbed by the body and soul power's instinctive resistance, the patterns gradually dimmed.
In the end, they vanished completely beneath the skin, as if they had never existed.
"Huff… huff…"
Lin Xia gasped for breath. Fine beads of cold sweat covered his forehead, and his clothes were already soaked through.
Slowly opening his eyes, Lin Xia's gaze was filled with lingering fear.
Just moments earlier, he had truly felt the danger of his body being torn apart, his soul power losing control, even assimilated by the power of space!
The energy contained within the Void Stone was far superior in quality to the scales of the Black-Patterned Rock Python, and it carried an extremely tyrannical, hard-to-tame spatial attribute!
Forcefully devouring it was no different from pouring a galaxy into one's body, any slight mistake would result in exploding from within or being shredded by spatial power!
"Teacher…"
Lin Xia's voice trembled faintly.
"This Void Stone… its energy is far too overbearing! Forcibly increasing soul power leaves the foundation as unstable as a sandcastle! And that spatial force… it nearly tore both me and the little guy apart from the inside!"
Lin Xia pointed at the skin of his arm, which had already returned to normal, yet still seemed to retain traces of phantom pain.
He then looked at Larvitar, whose belly was still swollen, the little one letting out uncomfortable, muffled whimpers. The dark silver patterns on its body had also disappeared, but the pain of indigestion and energy congestion was clearly transmitted to Lin Xia.
"This is absolutely not ordinary energy replenishment! Without a solid foundation, a forcibly raised tower will collapse the moment the wind blows! This Void Stone is a double-edged sword!"
Lin Xia walked over to Larvitar, squatted down, and gently rubbed its bloated, overheated belly, sensing the violently congested spatial energy inside.
The little one rubbed its head against his hand in grievance.
"Did you hear that, little guy?"
Lin Xia's voice was low and serious.
"This thing is good stuff but it's also poison! You must not be greedy!"
"In the future, when eating this, you must do it the same way I taught you to eat other minerals bit by bit, chew carefully, absorb slowly, and let your body fully adapt and completely refine it!"
"Eating too much at once will leave you like this—stuffed to death! Do you understand? The weaker the foundation, the faster the collapse!"
"Larvitar…"
Although Larvitar was still in discomfort, sensing Lin Xia's serious warning and concern, it nodded its heavy little head with grievance. A trace of lingering fear and understanding flashed through its crimson eyes.
At this moment, Larvitar gained an unforgettable new understanding of the concepts of "overeating" and "danger."
Watching this scene, Lou Gao's gaze gradually shifted from initial fanatic greed to deep solemnity. He spoke in a low voice.
"Xia is right! What the Void Stone contains isn't just energy, it's fragments of space itself!"
"Forcibly devouring it is like a child swinging a giant hammer, it harms both others and oneself! Extreme caution is required! After we return, we must thoroughly research how to use it safely and effectively."
The master and disciple exchanged a look, both seeing lingering fear reflected in the other's eyes.
After Larvitar recovered a little, Lin Xia directly said to it.
"Larvitar, please excavate this Void Stone vein first. Then we'll head back and rest properly."
Hearing Lin Xia's words, Larvitar immediately nodded.
Without hesitation—despite its extreme discomfort, the instinctive obedience to Lin Xia's commands rooted deep in its bloodline, as well as its innate craving for "minerals," overpowered the pain.
Larvitar knew that Lin Xia needed these stones that radiated both alluring and dangerous stardust light.
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