Chapter 3551: Surprising Moisturization

Lin Mu gasped.

A clot had formed.

He halted instantly, flooding the area with Qi, breaking the obstruction apart and restoring balance. The pain faded slowly, leaving behind a cold reminder.

"This isn’t something I can rush," he muttered.

Still, he continued cautiously.

Over the next two weeks, he experimented with water control in different tissues. Muscles. Organs. Skin.

That was when he discovered something unsettling.

He could extract water from his skin.

At first, it was barely noticeable. A faint dryness. Then, as he increased the effect, his skin lost all moisture. It became pale, cracked, and brittle, as if he had wandered through a desert for months without relief.

Lin Mu stared at his own arm, shocked.

His physique was absurdly resilient. Ordinary injuries struggled to mark him. And yet, here was damage caused not by force, but by absence.

When he reversed the process, reabsorbing the suspended droplets of water, the effect vanished instantly. His skin smoothed, regaining its healthy sheen.

The implications were staggering.

He was testing this quietly when Daoist Chu wandered nearby, watching Meng Bai train with focused intensity. The old cultivator’s gaze drifted, then stopped.

"Lin Mu," Daoist Chu said slowly. "Are you... alright?"

Lin Mu glanced up. "Yes. Why?"

Daoist Chu squinted. "Your skin."

Lin Mu looked down.

His forearm was dry, cracked, lifeless.

"Oh. That," Lin Mu said casually. "Just testing my water control."

Daoist Chu walked closer, curiosity overcoming caution. "May I?"

Before Lin Mu could stop him, Daoist Chu reached out and touched the suspended droplet of water floating in the air between them.

The reaction was immediate.

A faint glow spread from Daoist Chu’s fingertip, racing up his hand and across his skin. Wrinkles smoothed. Dryness vanished. His complexion brightened, becoming almost luminous.

Daoist Chu froze.

Lin Mu froze.

Meng Bai turned, eyes widening. "Master?"

Daoist Chu slowly withdrew his hand, staring at it as if it belonged to someone else.

"...I feel," he said carefully, "remarkably refreshed."

His skin looked years younger. Not cultivated youthfulness, but genuine vitality.

Lin Mu’s heart pounded.

The water he had extracted was not ordinary water.

It carried something else.

Life.

Life Breath dissolved within it.

Lin Mu’s mind raced.

Water was not just a medium. It was a carrier. A vessel. A bridge between fundamental elements and living matter.

He looked at the droplet again, this time with reverence.

Water was no longer just an element.

It was a convergence of mysteries.

And Lin Mu had only just begun to understand it.

Lin Mu spent the next several days in a state of intense focus that bordered on obsession.

The discovery of the water extracted from his skin had opened an entirely new avenue of understanding, one that was both profound and, unexpectedly, extremely practical.

At first, he approached it purely from a scholarly angle.

He isolated a droplet of the extracted water and suspended it before him. Compared to normal water, it looked almost identical at a glance. Clear, transparent, seemingly mundane. But when Lin Mu extended his immortal sense into it, the difference became immediately apparent.

This was not just water.

Within it, there was a dense, harmonious mixture of vitality. Not raw Life Breath by itself, but Life Breath stabilized, softened, and bound within the structure of water. It was as if the water had become a perfect vessel, carrying life energy in a form that was gentle, nourishing, and readily accepted by the body.

Lin Mu frowned slightly.

"This composition..." he muttered.

Even with his perception, it was difficult to fully unravel. The vitality was not floating freely, nor was it forcibly sealed. It existed naturally, as if this was how the water was always meant to be. He quickly realized that this was not something ordinary water could achieve.

"This must be the Water Core," Lin Mu concluded.

The Water Core was not simply granting him control over water. It was refining it, elevating it, infusing it with a deeper aspect of life itself. The water produced from his body was, in a sense, water that had been perfected by passing through him.

He tested another aspect soon after.

When he extracted too much water from his skin, the dryness and cracking appeared again, just as before. But instead of leaving it like that, he observed closely.

Within less than a minute, his body began repairing itself automatically.

Moisture flowed back into the damaged skin from deeper tissues. Qi circulated. Cells regenerated. The cracked skin smoothed out as if nothing had happened.

At most, Lin Mu felt mildly thirsty.

He drank a cup of water, and even that sensation vanished.

"So the cost is negligible," Lin Mu murmured. "At least at this level."

That alone was astonishing.

Most techniques that produced substances with such potent effects came at a steep price. Lifespan, blood essence, cultivation base. Yet this required nothing more than water intake and a bit of focus.

Cattaleya was the first to truly react.

She had been watching Lin Mu’s experiments with idle curiosity at first. When she saw Daoist Chu’s skin regain its youthful sheen earlier, she had already been interested. But now, seeing Lin Mu repeatedly extract and reabsorb the water with no apparent harm, her curiosity turned sharp.

"Let me try," she said suddenly.

Before Lin Mu could respond, she leaned in and lightly touched another suspended droplet.

The effect was immediate.

A faint glow spread across her skin, far more pronounced than what Daoist Chu had experienced. Her already impressive physique seemed to gain an additional layer of polish, her skin becoming smooth, radiant, and almost luminous.

Cattaleya blinked.

Then she looked down at her arms.

Then her legs.

Then she clenched her fists, stretched, and burst out laughing.

"This is ridiculous," she said, flexing slightly. "I feel amazing."

Elyon, who had been quietly observing from the side, narrowed his eyes.

He stepped closer, sniffed faintly, then frowned.

"That water," he said slowly. "It smells... alive."

That was when Lin Mu felt it.

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