Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 34: This Thing Has Side Effects Too

Su Ming's voice trembled in the silent night, carrying a month's worth of pent-up grievance and wild joy.

"Master! You... you're finally awake!"

Bean-sized tears could no longer be held back, rolling down the youth's cheeks and falling onto the old book pages, smudging a small patch of ink.

Lin Yu secretly complained, "Hey, hey, hey, don't cry! You crying like this makes me seem like a heartless scoundrel who abandoned the lonely and widowed... no, a heartless master! My image! My lofty demeanor is about to collapse!"

Lin Yu's soul body frantically "steadied itself" inside the ring and cleared his (non-existent) throat.

He tried his best to make his voice sound ancient and unrippled, carrying a trace of weariness and vicissitude from just waking from deep meditation.

"Foolish child, with such an unstable state of mind, how can you seek the Great Dao?"

The voice sounded directly in Su Ming's mind, gentle yet carrying a hint of reproach, yet it was like the warmest flame, instantly dispelling all the coldness and terror in Su Ming's heart.

"Disciple... disciple just..." Su Ming was incoherent, crying and laughing like a fool.

"Your master is unharmed," Lin Yu said lightly, while simultaneously beginning to rapidly inspect the changes in himself.This one "look" startled even himself.

Lin Yu secretly exclaimed, "Holy crap! Is this me?"

Originally, that ethereal, translucent soul body had now solidified several times over! Although it was still an illusory shadow, its outline was clear, no longer looking like it would scatter with a gust of wind. He could even faintly see a layer of faint, flowing ghostly light shimmering on the surface of the soul body.

He felt like he had gone from a refugee starving for five hundred years to a three-hundred-pound strongman after one meal, his entire being brimming with a sense of power.

With a slight stir of his thoughts.

"Swish!"

His perception abruptly extended outward, instantly breaking through the confines of the small room.

He "saw" the rain-soaked bluestone slabs in the courtyard, the spider hiding from the rain under the eaves, and in his eldest brother Su Feng's room next door, the slight frown on his sister-in-law Wang Chuntao's brow as she slept.

Further out, he could even "hear" the uneasy clucking of the old hen in Widow Li's house at the village entrance.

The range had expanded at least tenfold!

And... the perception had become much more refined.

He could clearly "smell" the faint scent emanating from the pine-soot ink stick on Su Ming's desk. Though weak, it was real.

He could also "feel" the vigorous, sun-like Yang energy radiating from Su Ming's body, continuously nourishing his own form and repairing the hidden injuries left from that night.

Lin Yu secretly gloated, "Struck gold! A bloody windfall! Just devouring a little ghost, and the effect is comparable to a super invincible 'I Love One Stick' brand ten-complete great tonic pill! This deal... is worth it!"

An unprecedented sense of satisfaction and power surged from the depths of his soul body.

a thought popped

Yang energy...

could get a little closer, take a whiff... the taste would surely be

Yu's soul body

Yu internally: "Wait! What was I just thinking?! Sucking from my disciple? Am I crazy?! That's my

cold instantly

that his emotions seemed to have become

sugar-coated cannonball. Beneath the sugar coating, it contained the most pure resentment, greed, and madness of that

himself to shift his attention,

has been in turmoil this

stiffened. He lowered his head, his face full of guilt. "Disciple... disciple thought Master

joy nor anger. "So you gave up on yourself, even neglecting the most basic

his forehead pressed against the cold

already, the floor is cold. I'm not completely dead yet. But come to

but his mouth continued to maintain the lofty master persona. "Panic and confusion are the greatest obstacles on the path of cultivation. Do you know why the

Ming was taken aback, raising his head. "Because it...

Lin Yu

Of course it's because I ate it! But can I say that?

Yu's voice was distant and profound, as if expounding some fundamental truth of heaven and earth. "It was devoured by its

he spoke, he tried to

In Su Ming's "vision," that blurry old man's illusory shadow

ability stripped

props for fooling my disciple have been upgraded,

looked at that master's illusory shadow, more solid than ever, his eyes filled with awe and

truly is an immortal among

as Lin Yu was feeling satisfied with his new ability, a "boom" sounded

dark room. A woman with a pretty face was facing a mirror, using a sharp pair of scissors to, little by little... cut open her

her face wore

gushed out, staining her

a breached flood, instantly

Kill!

the living person

his flesh and

Seize his Yang energy!

"Urgh..."

twisted violently. That "lofty master" illusion he had painstakingly maintained instantly disintegrated, reverting to a churning mass of

piercing killing intent abruptly emanated from

"Master?!"

was horrified, his face losing

malice, like countless icy needles, viciously stabbing into his

pure, even more terrifying, than the ghost creature in the broken temple

had fallen into an ice cellar,

"Get out!"

let out a silent