Taking Dragon Blood

Xu Feng placed the combination case in the corner. It was a fingerprint-locked case. His finger brushed across it, and with a click, it opened. The case was large.

It was divided into upper and lower compartments. The upper compartment contained a neatly stacked Combat Suit, a Blood Shadow Saber, a shield, throwing knives, and a series of other items. Xu Feng took them all out and set them aside before looking at the lower compartment. There were only three wooden boxes inside.

"These three wooden boxes—one contains the Nine Heavens Thunder Blade manual, another contains Dragon Blood, and the last should contain the Black God Suit." Xu Feng carefully opened the first wooden box. Inside was a thick manual and a whole stack of discs. Four large characters were written on the manual's cover: Nine Heavens Thunder Blade. The manual was finally in his hands. "I won't need to spend any more effort or money on this manual in the future." Xu Feng closed it again.

He opened another wooden box. With a click, a pair of black gloves appeared before his eyes. This was the Black God Suit, said to be impervious to attacks from warriors below the Planetary level.

When facing attacks below the Planetary level, wearing it was practically like activating a damage-reduction cheat.

Attack damage would only be -1, -1, -1...

He opened the last wooden box. Inside was a test tube secured in foam, stoppered at the top. Golden blood filled a little more than one-third of the tube.

"This is Dragon Blood—Dragon Blood worth eighty billion." Xu Feng carefully removed the foam, then cautiously picked up the test tube, afraid of breaking it. Logically speaking, a test tube containing Dragon Blood should be extremely sturdy, but Xu Feng did not dare test that casually. He raised the test tube high and held it toward the fluorescent lamp. Under the light, the golden blood was mesmerizing. If one did not know its value, no one would believe that this thing was worth eighty billion.

"On the night of the twenty-eighth, my punch strength tested at twenty-five thousand kilograms in the Nine-Layered Tower. I wonder how high it will reach after using this Dragon Blood."

My punch strength was twenty-five thousand kilograms when I used the Dragon Blood. If it doubles, that'll be fifty thousand kilograms. Xu Feng thought. The stronger one was, the weaker Dragon Blood's effects became.

The lower one's strength, the more obvious the effects of Dragon Blood. A Warrior level martial artist was weak to begin with, and after using Dragon Blood, their strength could even become four times what it had been. The so-called doubling was only an approximate figure.

My current physical fitness is only at the level of an average war general. After using Dragon Blood, it should increase by more than two times—possibly even three. Xu Feng secretly looked forward to it. After all, Luo Feng's physical fitness in the original work had also been twenty-five thousand kilograms. After using it, he had gained nearly fifty thousand kilograms of strength and reached the Intermediate War God level!

In the underground chamber, Xu Feng lay flat on the floor. He held the test tube containing Dragon Blood in his left hand and gently pulled out the stopper.

A peculiar scent immediately spread through the underground chamber. Simply smelling it and breathing it in made every part of Xu Feng's body faintly tingle, giving him the feeling of cultivating Gene Amplification. "Dragon Blood." Xu Feng slightly tilted the test tube and poured the Dragon Blood onto his chest. The Dragon Blood was highly viscous, like mercury.

It flowed slowly. The test tube was only so large, and one-third of its volume truly was not much Dragon Blood. It did not even cover much of his chest. When the Dragon Blood was almost completely drained from the test tube,

Xu Feng saved the final drop, then carefully smeared it over a certain mysterious spot.

It was said that the area coated with Dragon Blood could have its defensive power strengthened. He did not know whether that was true.

Xu Feng immediately felt his entire body beginning to heat up. "It's taking effect." Xu Feng was full of anticipation.

He felt streams of heat rapidly seep into his body from where the Dragon Blood touched his skin, surging through every part of him—his legs, arms, back, chest, head, everywhere. The heat currents continued to strengthen. The Dragon Blood on the surface of his skin visibly diminished, seemingly penetrating into his body. The heat kept growing stronger, and the temperature kept rising.

"The instructions said the process would be agonizing, enough to make someone faint. I never expected it to be this painful." Xu Feng clenched his fists, his whole body trembling faintly. It felt as if tens of millions of ants were biting every part of his body. The pain made his face turn pale.

Moreover, the pain kept intensifying.

Soreness, numbness, even pain.

Every part of his body, even his head.

The heat made him feel as though he were being burned alive.

The numbness and itchiness made him feel as if he could scratch himself to death.

The pain sank into his bones, making him convulse.

"Ah!" Beads of sweat rolled down Xu Feng's forehead. His entire body spasmed in waves, his muscles twitching, his heartbeat accelerating, and the flow of blood in his body increasing without end.

The sound of his heartbeat—

Thump, thump, thump.

Each heartbeat was like the beat of a heavy drum beside his ears. The sound grew louder and louder until he finally lost consciousness and fainted.

The Dragon Blood smeared over Xu Feng's body continued to diminish, continuously seeping into him. Along with that seepage came violent convulsions throughout his body. It was not merely his entire body twitching; every individual muscle was spasming as well. The muscles across his upper body writhed and convulsed like earthworms. His skin looked as though it had been scorched red, and the veins across his body bulged and twisted in a terrifying sight. Sizzle, sizzle~

Along with this horrifying process, every cell in Xu Feng's body crazily devoured the strange energy and began transforming again and again. From childhood to adulthood, even when Xu Feng had first awakened as a Psychic Master, the extent of his physical transformation had never been this exaggerated.

The genetic material within his cells rapidly transformed under the energy of the Dragon Blood, shedding useless genes and improving and perfecting the rest.

Some dead cells and impurities were directly expelled, emerging from Xu Feng's body like grime.

Under this cellular-level transformation, Xu Feng's tendons, bones, membranes, muscles, skin, internal organs, and everything else underwent astonishing changes. The hardness of his bones continuously increased, while the toughness of his periosteum and fascia underwent leap after leap of transformation. The Dragon Blood's energy was enough to sustain all of it. Everything progressed rapidly, thousands or even tens of thousands of times faster than ordinary cultivation. At the same time, within Xu Feng's sea of consciousness, in that vast sea of consciousness—

At the center of the sea of consciousness shrouded in endless mist, the enormous dark-golden sphere no longer rotated slowly and released Mental Power bit by bit as it had in the past. At this moment, it was like a burst dam. Massive amounts of near-liquid energy flowed out, instantly dispersing into mist. Vast amounts of mist spread wildly, filling the entire sea of consciousness. Whoosh, whoosh~

The density of the mist within the sea of consciousness continuously increased, and it increased at an astonishing speed. The dark-golden sphere madly released enormous quantities of mist, more than a thousand times faster than usual, perhaps even faster. His physical fitness was improving at a frightening rate.

Naturally, the dark-golden sphere, which had always been constrained by Xu Feng's physical fitness and unable to fully release the Mental Power it contained, was now freely releasing it within the sea of consciousness. Xu Feng's Mental Power strength continued to rise. From its previous Beginner War God-level strength, it began increasing at an astonishing pace. Gradually... gradually... the density of the mist seemed to reach a limit. It actually condensed, forming droplets. One droplet, two droplets.

Gradually, Xu Feng's body calmed down, and the dark-golden sphere in his sea of consciousness finally stopped its frenzied release of Mental Power. It resumed its former slow release. Within the sea of consciousness shrouded in mist, many droplets now floated in the air. The mist sometimes merged into the droplets, sometimes dispersed from them again. Xu Feng's sea of consciousness had entered a state where mist and liquid coexisted. "Mm?" "I... I fainted?"

Xu Feng's body jolted slightly as his consciousness finally returned. His eyelids twitched, and his eyes slowly opened.

At this point, Xu Feng's entire body was covered in a layer of grime, black from head to toe, even his face. After opening his eyes, Xu Feng casually rose to his feet and moved his arms a little. He suddenly rubbed his left hand across his body, scraping away a patch of black grime and revealing bronze-colored skin beneath. Yes, Xu Feng's complexion had completely changed.

His ordinary yellow skin had become the bronze color of forged steel. It was clearly the result of Dragon Blood permeating his body. "What incredible strength." Xu Feng felt the astonishing power inside his body. "Three times stronger than before."

Xu Feng thought for a moment, then looked at a certain mysterious spot.

"No change. Forget it, I'll test it another day!"

Xu Feng suddenly slammed a fist into the alloy wall beside him. With a boom, more than half of his entire fist sank into it. Then his left fist delivered another heavy blow. Every punch shook the entire underground chamber, and every punch left an astonishing dent in the alloy wall. Thump, thump, thump, thump!

The dull vibrations sounded as though they were striking directly against one's heart, one after another. Having suddenly gained such tremendous strength, Xu Feng vented his exhilaration in the most savage way possible.

"Exhilarating! So exhilarating!" Xu Feng could not help shouting.