Where's my golden core? Did you think I removed a kidney stone?

Chapter 11 The extraordinary fades, and the chapter returns to mediocrity!

three days later.

The night was deep and the June night in Jiangcheng was cool. The wind blew from the river in the east of the city, passing through the streets and alleys, and rustling the branches and leaves of the roadside trees.

West of the city, an old residential area, first floor.

The light in Wang Ming's house was still on.

This is an old two-bedroom apartment with slightly yellowed walls. In the living room, there is an old-fashioned sofa and a small television. On the coffee table are several boxes of post-operative recovery medication, and next to them is a bag of unfinished fruit.

Wang Ming sat on the sofa, wearing a loose T-shirt, scrolling through short videos on his phone.

This is the college student who asked in the clinic, "Brother, is this really not a golden elixir?"

The postoperative recovery is going well. The puncture wound in the lower back has almost healed. The follow-up ultrasound showed that the kidneys are normal in shape, the hydronephrosis has subsided, and all indicators are within the normal range.

From a medical perspective, he has recovered.

But Wang Ming felt something was off, yet he didn't know where to begin.

In the period leading up to the surgery, although he experienced significant pain in his lower back, his mind was unusually clear, to an abnormal degree. During class, he could almost remember everything the teacher said, and he could solve problems more than twice as fast as before. He even had a strange illusion that everything around him seemed to slow down under his perception. The speed of his classmates' speech, the rhythm of their walking, and even the movement of the wind blowing through the curtains all became delicate and gentle.

That feeling was wonderful.

It's as if the world has applied a special filter to him.

But now, my back doesn't hurt anymore, and the discomfort has disappeared.

That magical feeling also disappeared.

He went back to being an ordinary college student.

Wang Ming put down his phone and stared at the ceiling for a while.

"son."

His mother's voice came from the kitchen.

"You've almost finished taking leave from school, right? You've recovered enough to go back to school. You can't neglect your studies; it wasn't easy to support you as a college student."

"Okay," Wang Ming replied absentmindedly.

His mother nagged him a few more times about taking care of his health, and Wang Ming responded with "uh-huh" before getting up and going back to his room.

Turn off the lights.

The room darkened, leaving only a dim, yellowish light from the streetlights outside the window.

……

Outside the window, Su Ye withdrew his gaze from the branches of an old locust tree.

He squatted on a thick tree branch, his body steady and upright. The night wind blew the hem of his clothes, but he didn't move an inch. If it were a week ago, he definitely wouldn't have been able to do this. He had been squatting here for who knows how long, his body was stable, his condition was good, and he didn't feel numb at all.

Su Ye held a small booklet, about the size of a palm, covered with dense writing.

Over the past three days, Su Ye has been continuously observing Wang Ming through various means.

Calling Wang Ming as a resident trainee to inquire about his post-operative recovery is a normal follow-up procedure and will not arouse any suspicion. He also personally went to Wang Ming's neighborhood after get off work to observe his daily activities, mental state, and physical performance from a distance.

The results of three days of observation are clear.

Su Ye opened the booklet and glanced at his summary in the dim light of the street lamp.

"The appearance of the Golden Core rudiment caused Wang Ming discomfort. This was his first reaction after the mutation occurred. The Golden Core rudiment crystallized in his kidneys, which belongs to the water-based evolutionary direction and is conducive to the evolution of the spiritual direction. The pain and discomfort that Wang Ming felt was the Golden Core rudiment 'assimilated' the host, or rather, promoted the evolution."

"During the assimilation period, the host will gain a boost to the corresponding attribute. Wang Ming's water-type golden core corresponds to the mental type, so during that time his thinking became faster, his perception became sharper, and his memory was enhanced."

"Now that the nascent golden core has been removed, assimilation has been interrupted, and the host has returned to normal from the state of mutation."

"The specific amplification on Wang Ming has completely disappeared."

Su Ye closed the booklet and sighed softly.

This is the result of his recent observations.

He still held a sliver of hope, wanting to see if Wang Ming still had any unique traces left on his body after losing the nascent form of the Golden Core, even just a little bit, which would mean that the assimilation process of the nascent form of the Golden Core would leave irreversible changes in the host's body.

but no.

Wang Ming has completely returned to being an ordinary person.

Once the golden elixir is removed, everything is reset to zero.

This also means that the appearance of the Golden Core prototype was not because Wang Ming had any special physique, but was purely "chosen by heaven." The spiritual energy permeated his kidneys and crystallized there. If it were someone else, the result might be completely different.

Probability event 1.

Su Ye put away the booklet and nimbly jumped down from the tree.

The landing was almost silent; the impact was naturally absorbed by the soles of the shoes as they touched the ground.

As Su Ye walked home, the night breeze brushed against his face. He looked down at his hands.

Under the moonlight, the skin on the back of my hand had a faint sheen, not an oily sheen, but a jade-like luster, delicate, smooth, and full.

Three days.

I absorb three to four strands of spiritual energy each day, for a total of eleven strands.

Each wisp was accompanied by heat and stinging, but each wisp also brought about real changes.

His skin was the first to change. Starting from the fifth strand, he noticed that his skin had become unusually tough. Last night, he did a test by gently slicing his forearm with a utility knife. The blade grazed the skin and left only a white mark, without even breaking the epidermis.

He added a little more force.

It still can't be cut.

Only after he used tremendous force did a faint red mark appear on the surface of his skin, from which a drop of blood seeped out, and the red mark disappeared in less than ten seconds.

This is no longer normal human skin.

Absorbing the essence of heaven and earth.

This has already made Su Ye's body extraordinary. For example, when he stood on the tree trunk, his body was light and his strength was amazing. He didn't have any skills and relied solely on his physical attributes.

Besides the skin, changes are also occurring inside the body. The path that the spiritual energy travels through each time it enters the body, from the center of the eyebrows to the dantian, is gradually solidifying into a real channel. At first, the path was blurry and temporary, and it would dissipate after the spiritual energy passed through. However, as the number of absorptions increases, this channel becomes clearer and more stable. Su Ye can even feel its presence when he is not absorbing spiritual energy, as if there is an invisible meridian in his body.

The sensing range stabilized at around 35 meters, which is 5 meters larger than when the fusion was completed.

This is the benefit of "spiritual practice".

The unique properties of the Golden Core will disappear once it is removed, but the spiritual energy that has already been absorbed will remain permanently in Su Ye's body.

It belongs to him.

Su Ye put his hands in his pockets and looked up at the night sky.

There weren't many stars, and the city's light pollution was too severe, but his senses could detect those extremely thin strands of spiritual energy high in the sky, finer and fainter than those on the ground, as if they hadn't had time to settle down yet.

Spiritual energy is continuously flowing into this world.

The concentration is increasing.

The speed is increasing.

Su Ye withdrew his gaze and quickened his pace.

He needs to be stronger.

Before the world is completely changed.