Martial Arts and Longevity: Starting from the Spiritual Beast Picture

Chapter 70

"Old man, how do you sell this turtle?"

Zhao Lin stood in front of the turtle stall in the fish and bird market and asked the old seller.

After solving a murder case, the pressure on his body was greatly relieved. Zhao Lin asked Liang Song and others to patrol the streets, while he went to the fish and bird market near the pier.

The market is small, and only sells some ornamental goldfish, koi, parrots, starlings, and small animals such as rabbits, turtles, crickets, and grasshoppers, and small insects.

The purpose of his coming here is to find inspiration, to see if there is a suitable animal spirit to absorb.

The picture of the spirit beast transformed him from a weak boy into a warrior with both strength and speed, as well as a strong sense of hearing.

There are still six empty grids in the picture, so we have to plan in advance.

He used to fantasize about absorbing the spirits of some animals or insects with special abilities to transform himself into Spider-Man and Brother Mantis.

Also tried several times, but all ended in failure.

For example, if you trample a spider to death, you can indeed see the spirit, but the spirit beast map cannot absorb it.

When he went to the deep mountains to hunt strange beasts, he also killed birds by the way, and the result was the same.

The reason should be the limitations brought about by different body structures.

Zhao Lin felt that he had touched the underlying logic of the Spirit Beast Map's absorption of spirits: spirits can only strengthen the abilities he already has, such as strength, speed and hearing.

There is nothing you can do about abilities that require special organs, such as flying and spinning silk.

After all, he has neither wings nor silk glands or poison sacs.

Zhao Lin walked around the fish and bird market, but didn't see any unusual animals. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly saw a stall selling turtles in the corner of the market, and he couldn't help but feel moved.

The tortoise is also called the golden tortoise, and it also has the elegant names of Xuanyi Duyou and Hebo.

There are two most famous features: strong carapace and extremely long lifespan.

The turtle's carapace is not the skin, but the exposed bones, so because of the body structure, this specialty cannot be obtained.

But what about longevity?

As a time traveler, Zhao Lin certainly yearns for longevity, but unfortunately this is the world of martial arts.

Practicing martial arts cannot lead to longevity, at most it can prolong life. Even if you practice to the extreme, it is difficult to break through the 120-year-old threshold of human life span.

In fact, due to injuries, most warriors did not live as long as ordinary people.

As the saying goes, the thousand-year-old tortoise is 8-year-old, can I absorb the spirit of the tortoise and live longer?

In front of the old turtle seller were several large shallow bamboo baskets, in which were more than a dozen tortoises, mountain tortoises, green tortoises, and golden thread tortoises of various sizes and shapes.

Just as Zhao Lin was about to step forward to inquire, a young man in brocade clothes with a servant came by.

Holding the cricket cage in his hand, the young man in brocade clothes smiled and asked the old man, "Hey, old man, how long can you live like a bastard?"

The old man glanced at him, "It's no problem for this bastard to die for three generations of your family. How long do you think he can live?"

The complexion of the young man in brocade clothes changed, "How are you talking?"

Since it was always the children and grandchildren who died, the old man secretly scolded his family as bastards.

The old man ignored him, sprinkled a few young leaves and rice into the bamboo basket, and said to himself: "Turtle son, eat well, don't bite people at every turn."

The young man in brocade clothes' face was blue and red for a while, but he couldn't get angry.

Zhao Linxin said that the old man's mouth was pretty bad, but the young man in brocade clothes was rude first, so he couldn't fight back too much, the first to flirt is cheap.

He stepped forward and asked, "Old man, how do you sell this turtle?"

The young man in brocade clothes turned his head and saw Zhao Lin dressed as a headhunter. He didn't dare to pester him anymore, and angrily led him away.

The old man said: "Master Huizhu, the tortoises are small for three pennies and the big ones for five pennies. Eagle-billed tortoises and golden-threaded tortoises are more expensive."

Zhao Lin also didn't understand the difference between turtle species, so he just said, "Which one will live longer? Pick one for me."

The old man stroked his beard and said with a smile: "The long-lived tortoise is a long-lived tortoise. It can live for 200 years without any problem. There is a long-lived tortoise in my family that was raised by my father since childhood, and it is still alive and well."

"Here is a small one, do you like it?"

like?

Zhao Lin thought that the tortoise would definitely die if he got it in his hands.

"Then how much is this long-lived tortoise?"

"Six Wen..."

Zhao Lin paid the money, took the long-lived tortoise tied with straw rope, left the fish and bird market, and walked all the way to the river.

He found a place with few pedestrians, untied the straw rope, and said to himself: "Meeting is fate, today is your death day."

The tortoise is timid by nature, and as soon as it is released, the head and limbs are retracted into the shell and remain still.

Zhao Lin was not in a hurry, took out the iron ruler, sat aside and waited.

In fact, with his current strength, he could kill the turtle with one punch, but he wasn't going to do that.

Because according to past experience, the better the corpse is preserved, the stronger the condensed spirit energy will be.

A few months ago, when the Zhao family was still living in the village, Zhao Lin occasionally went to the fields to help, and once did experiments with locusts.

Breaking off the head of the locust, and stepping on it to make it smashed, the spirit of the former is clearer, while the latter takes a longer time to condense, and the color is dull and weak.

Zhao Lin worried that breaking up the tortoise might affect the quality of the spirit, so he decided to give it a whole corpse.

Not long after, the tortoise relaxed its vigilance and poked its head out of its shell.

Zhao Lin's eyes were quick, and he hit it on the head with an iron ruler.

Snapped!
The turtle died.

Silver light rose and gathered above the corpse, gradually condensing the tortoise's appearance before it was alive.

The spirit beast picture trembled...

Zhao Lin's heart beat violently, and he actually reacted!
This means that I can absorb the spirit of the longevity turtle and have the ability to live a long life!

Although it cannot live forever, at least it can live for dozens or hundreds of years.

Zhao Lin couldn't wait to absorb the spirit, but out of caution, he took another look at the spirit beast picture and immediately found something wrong.

Why did the grid turn black?

I saw that the grid of the bear and the black-horned antelope was pitch black, and nothing could be seen, as if they had stopped.

Although the grid of the chrysanthemum-headed bat did not turn black, it also turned gray, with only a trace of white mist overflowing outward.

what's the situation?
Startled, Zhao Lin took two steps back, watching the spirit of the Longevity Turtle disappear before his eyes.

Since all three grids have changed, it means that as long as he absorbs the spirit of the longevity turtle, he can gain longevity, but these three special abilities are likely to be affected, or even lose them!
At this time, he looked at the picture of the spirit beast again, and the three grids were restored to their original state.

Strange, why is this happening?

Zhao Lin frowned, thinking about the reason behind it, staring at the slowly flowing river without moving.

After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly smiled knowingly, "I understand!"

There are two reasons why turtles live so long.

The older the animals in nature, the more aging the cells, and the aging of the body functions.

The cells of tortoises are quite special. Human cells can divide for 100 generations, while tortoises can divide for more than [-] generations, and their aging speed is slower than that of humans.

This is an innate factor.

Another reason is metabolism.

In addition to eating and sleeping, tortoises rarely exercise, the amount of activity is small, and their metabolism is extremely slow.

If he absorbed the tortoise's soul, not only would he gain the ability to divide cells, but his metabolism would also become very slow.

However, both strength and speed require a high basal metabolism.

The two contradict each other!
That's why the grids of bears and impalas turn black.

After figuring this out, Zhao Lin couldn't help thinking that it was dangerous.

Fortunately, he didn't absorb the spirit of the longevity tortoise, and lost all the abilities he possessed. What's the use of living a long time?

Although the tortoise is long-lived, such a spirit should not be used!

(End of this chapter)