Draining the Stone Tablet

Zhang Chen looked at the Stone Tablet before him, feeling that it was bloody and eerie, shrouded in malevolent energy and even absorbing blood. It didn't seem to have a good origin; the more he looked, the more sinister it felt.

"To study the strange, I must continuously use the Golden Light to stimulate it and see what wonders these strange things in the world possess." Zhang Chen took advantage of the fact that the Stone Tablet couldn't run, so he pressed his palm onto it without hesitation. Then, he saw the Golden Light penetrate the Stone Tablet. Wherever the Golden Light shone, countless blood-red veins and threads on the Stone Tablet shattered, and large amounts of Experience Points dropped down.

[Experience Points +80]

[Experience Points +60]

[Experience Points +90]

[Experience Points +120]

Large amounts of Experience Points continuously dropped, immediately making Zhang Chen beam with joy. With the Stone Tablet providing Experience Points, why bother painstakingly digging graves? It was much better to just fleece the Stone Tablet. The Stone Tablet seemed to be provoked by Zhang Chen; countless characters burst forth with blood-red light, flickering and reflecting in the void. However, the next moment, Zhang Chen's body burst with Golden Light, and the red light emitted by the Stone Tablet was directly beaten back to its original form.

"So I'm this strong?" Zhang Chen was startled by the Stone Tablet's counterattack earlier. After all, the Stone Tablet suddenly bursting with red light did give him a fright. But who would have thought that the red light was just for show? Facing his Light of the Righteous God, it had no room to resist and was directly turned into nothingness.

"So weak!" Zhang Chen muttered to himself. Seeing the countless blood-red threads on the Stone Tablet being continuously erased, a hint of surprise appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes: "However, as the Stone Tablet suffers damage, the Experience Points dropped also seem to be decreasing."

"Hmm~"

A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Chen frowned, looking at the Experience Points dropped by the Stone Tablet, and couldn't help but furrow his brow:

[Experience Points +8]

[Experience Points +6]

[Experience Points +9]

[Experience Points +1]

[Experience Points +8]

[Experience Points +7]

[Experience Points +10]

[Experience Points +2]

"The drop in Experience Points seems to have significantly decreased." Zhang Chen stopped his actions and then looked at his golden finger panel:

[Name: Zhang Chen]

[Skill 1 (Tier 2): Light of the Righteous God (0/5000)]

[Skill 2 (Unranked): Dragon Qi (0/2000)]

[Points: 4500]

At this time, Zhang Chen's Experience Points had increased to four thousand five hundred, only five hundred away from the five thousand Experience Points mark. As long as he accumulated another five hundred Experience Points, he could upgrade his Light of the Righteous God. However, the Stone Tablet before him seemed to have been drained by him; the dropped Experience Points began to decrease drastically, even starting to appear in single digits. Moreover, sometimes it required multiple consecutive attacks for Experience Points to drop.

"I have now verified one thing: my Light of the Righteous God can cause damage to the strange, and once the strange is damaged by me, it will drop a large amount of Experience Points. Of course, the most crucial point is that there is also a limit to the Experience Points dropped by the strange." Zhang Chen looked at the Stone Tablet with his Dharma Eye open, examining it from top to bottom, carefully observing the changes in the energy within the Stone Tablet. He saw that the red mist on the Stone Tablet was so faint it was almost invisible. The blood flowing from the blood-red characters on the Stone Tablet seemed to be more abundant, even pooling on the ground into a small puddle.

Zhang Chen looked at the blood pooled on the ground; there was no energy surrounding it, as if it were just ordinary blood.

"Truly strange," Zhang Chen muttered to himself, examining the Stone Tablet from top to bottom, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"I watered it with blood before, and only then did it begin to revive and become strange..." Zhang Chen looked at the Stone Tablet with extremely thin red energy flow before him, quickly dragged over the Rabbit and Wilds chicken from the side, and then the next moment, with a knife in hand, hot blood splattered onto the Stone Tablet.

As soon as the blood dripped onto the Stone Tablet, it was instantly absorbed by the Stone Tablet.

Zhang Chen looked at the Stone Tablet with his Dharma Eye. As expected, as the Stone Tablet absorbed the blood, the red energy flow also began to gradually recover.

After watering with the blood of one chicken and one Rabbit, Zhang Chen threw the Wilds chicken and Rabbit aside, then stared intently at the Stone Tablet: "This Stone Tablet can become stronger by absorbing blood, which is truly bizarre. It's fortunate I discovered the anomaly in advance, otherwise, the consequences of continuing to feed it would be unimaginable. If I continued to raise it for a while, I wonder if this Stone Tablet could directly fly out and eat people."

Zhang Chen saw that the red energy flow on the Stone Tablet had recovered somewhat, then pressed his Golden Light onto it again. He saw countless newly generated red threads within the Stone Tablet break again, but the dropped Experience Points were still pitifully few:

[Experience Points +5]

[Experience Points +3]

[Experience Points +1]

[Experience Points +2]

[Experience Points +3]

[Experience Points +4]

[Experience Points +5]

The number of dropped Experience Points was pitifully small. Zhang Chen looked at the Experience Points on the Stone Tablet, momentarily unable to figure out the pattern.

"Logically, since I watered the Stone Tablet with the Rabbit and Wilds chicken, the red energy flow on the Stone Tablet has recovered somewhat, so the dropped Experience Points should be more. Why is there still no improvement?" Zhang Chen looked at the Stone Tablet before him, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

Moreover, he also discovered something: he could only damage the blood-red threads on the surface of the Stone Tablet. His Golden Light could not penetrate the deeper red threads within the Stone Tablet, and he couldn't do anything to them at all.

"How to deal with this?" Zhang Chen walked around the Stone Tablet, examining it back and forth. After a long time, he still couldn't come to a conclusion. He looked at the Stone Tablet before him. As Zhang Chen stopped causing damage, the blood-red threads deep within the Stone Tablet slowly extended out, beginning to reoccupy the area purified by Zhang Chen.

After the Stone Tablet was completely filled with the blood-red threads again, Zhang Chen's Golden Light shone down, but the dropped Experience Points were still very few, almost none.

"Drained by me?" Zhang Chen looked at the pitifully dropped Experience Points, those +1+1+1+1 were very sad.

"Probably drained by me!" Zhang Chen stopped his actions, then looked at the Stone Tablet, a thoughtful expression on his face, and then stopped his actions: "I'll come back and see tomorrow!"

After all this commotion, a day had already passed. The sun had shifted, and the cave was bone-chillingly cold. Zhang Chen glanced at the Stone Tablet, then wrapped himself in the beast hide and ran out.

Zhang Chen went to the stream to wash up, but seeing the water level drop again, he couldn't help but frown. "This seems a bit bad!"

The water level had dropped again!

Although Zhang Chen was worried, he was powerless in the face of such a natural disaster.

Carrying the wild chicken to the Honeycomb, Zhang Chen directly chopped up the chicken legs and fed the Hornets for a while. After cleaning up all traces, he returned to the Cave to search for a suitable nest for cultivating Hornets.