New Skill: Bloodsucking

As Zhang Chen kept striking, fewer and fewer Experience Points fell from the Stone Tablet. At last, every bit of Experience Points that dropped had become +1, yet Zhang Chen had no intention of stopping. To him, repeatedly farming Experience Points from the Stone Tablet was far faster than digging through dirt.

Bang~

At a certain moment, the Stone Tablet before him suddenly trembled. A spray of blood mist burst from it, followed by a dazzling golden orb that fell from the tombstone and landed before Zhang Chen.

"A skill! This is a skill!" Zhang Chen hurriedly stopped his hand. His eyes moved from the blood mist erupting from the Stone Tablet to the golden skill lying on the ground, and a thought involuntarily surfaced in his mind. "Did it drop equipment?"

He recalled playing games in his previous life. When fighting monsters, skills could drop.

He had previously beaten the Stone Tablet before him until it spat blood. Clearly, he had dealt enough damage to make it drop something, just like in a game—once enough damage was dealt, equipment and skills would drop.

Zhang Chen did not immediately pick up the skill on the ground. Instead, he stared fixedly at the Stone Tablet, a solemn look in his eyes. "I seem to have noticed a pattern. When I use golden light to damage these strange things, they drop Experience Points. Once the damage reaches a certain level, they drop skills. If it works like a game, then if I completely smash and kill this 'monster,' will there be an even greater reward?"

Zhang Chen's heart pounded. He stared intently at the Stone Tablet before him, his eyes glowing green. It felt as though he had returned to his days at the internet café, killing monsters for skill drops and equipment drops.

"That must be it! I keep using my skills to damage these strange things—aren't I just farming monsters?" Once Zhang Chen figured this out, the corners of his mouth slowly split into a grin as he looked toward the skill that had dropped on the ground.

New skill discovered. Would you like to pick it up?

"Pick it up," Zhang Chen replied.

Ding. New skill acquired: Bloodsucking

Name: Zhang Chen

Skill 1 (Second Tier): Light of the Righteous God (0/5000)

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

Skill 3 (Unranked): Bloodsucking (0/10000)

Points: 4600

Zhang Chen's gaze fell on his Points. After all that beating, it had only dropped a hundred skill points.

Then his eyes moved to the new third skill, and a strange look appeared in them. "Bloodsucking? That's an odd skill. What use is sucking blood?"

Zhang Chen focused his consciousness on Skill 3 and stirred his thoughts slightly. In the next instant, a stream of information flooded directly into his mind:

Skill: Bloodsucking. Description: Can directly draw the blood of living creatures, accelerating wound healing.

"This skill?" Zhang Chen froze, surprise flashing in his eyes. This was quite a rare skill.

Simply put, absorbing another creature's blood could rapidly heal his own wounds.

"The Stone Tablet absorbs the blood of living creatures, so it dropped a Bloodsucking skill for me?" Countless thoughts flickered through Zhang Chen's mind. The next moment, he stretched out his palm, and a tiny mouth appeared in its center. Like a bat's mouth, it had two miniature blood-red fangs, each seemingly no larger than a grain of rice.

Zhang Chen examined the mouth in his palm, his expression turning strange. With a thought, the bizarre mouth vanished. When he thought again, it reappeared.

"I'll need to find a test subject. The skill doesn't specify what kind of creature's blood it can absorb, which means any creature's blood should work."

Then Zhang Chen turned to look at the pheasant and rabbit nearby. After pondering briefly, he went over to a basket and lightly drew his hand across a somewhat sharp bamboo strip. A bright red cut appeared, blood flowing down from it.

As for why he did not use a knife?

Zhang Chen did not dare!

Knives from ancient times could practically be called tetanus blades. They were covered in rust; once they cut you, even Great Luo Gods would struggle to save you.

Watching blood continuously seep from the wound, Zhang Chen looked toward the pheasant in the basket. He reached out and seized the pheasant by the neck. With a thought, a mouth appeared in his palm, its fangs incomparably sharp as they bit directly into the pheasant's neck.

Those fangs seemed connected to Zhang Chen's mind. In his perception, after the two fangs pierced the pheasant's neck, they abruptly lengthened by around two centimeters and plunged deep inside. The next moment, Zhang Chen felt a surge of heat flow into his body through the fangs.

Comfortable!

An indescribable comfort!

Within a few breaths, the pheasant had turned into a dried corpse, every drop of blood in its body sucked clean by the fangs. Zhang Chen then released its neck. The fangs in his palm vanished, and the cut he had made earlier had already disappeared. Aside from the bloodstain left at the wound, there was no trace of an injury at all.

"This skill is downright heaven-defying!" Zhang Chen looked at the healed wound, horror in his eyes.

Absorbing blood could heal wounds. If he raised the skill's level, wouldn't that be equivalent to having an Undying Body?

This skill was awesome! Awesome beyond belief!

"At the very least, I won't have to fear getting injured anymore!" Zhang Chen lowered his head to look at his palm. The fangs had vanished, and the bizarre huge mouth had disappeared without a trace as well.

"I feel like my body is getting a little hot!"

Zhang Chen stood where he was, sensing the changes in the warm current inside his body. He only felt himself growing incomparably feverish, as though he had been pumped full of chicken blood. Even the stamina he had expended earlier was recovering under the effects of that warm current.

"It can restore stamina and relieve fatigue too?" Zhang Chen sensed the changes in his body. He did not seem to feel any discomfort—he was simply full of energy, as if he had endless strength in his body.

"It's like I've been pumped full of chicken blood," Zhang Chen muttered. Then he looked at the pheasant and blanked for a moment. "Wasn't I literally pumped full of chicken blood?"

"Could that be a side effect too?" Zhang Chen stood there, staring at the blood-drained pheasant with a contemplative look in his eyes.

The pheasant's blood had been sucked completely dry, leaving only its meat behind.

"I wonder if this chicken can still be eaten?" Looking at the pheasant, a thought arose in Zhang Chen's heart. "There won't be any aftereffects if I eat it, right?"

After pondering for a moment, Zhang Chen simply picked up the pheasant and cut it open with a small knife.

He had to figure out every change and eliminate every possible source of unease.

Now that he had acquired a new skill, he naturally had to understand it thoroughly.

With a flick of his wrist and a drop of the blade, Zhang Chen had already butchered the pheasant. Looking at the tender, smooth chicken meat, he saw that it was completely unaffected and still edible, no different from pheasant meat that had been drained of blood normally.

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