I Am God

Xian Wu tilted his head, lying flat on the ground, watching Xiao Ning'er leave.

She was disheveled, staggering, her slightly yellowish hair falling over her fragrant shoulders, as if she had fought a great battle with someone.

"What a life-draining little sprite~" A bitter smile appeared on Xian Wu's face.

One treatment had completely depleted his Soul Force.

Twenty-two points of Soul Force, squeezed out until not a drop remained.

He felt hollowed out...

But the thought of getting a Bronze Demonic Spirit by healing Xiao Ning'er, and then leveling up to a Bronze Spirit Master with the Bronze Demonic Spirit, made Xian Wu very excited.

At that time, he would have a Soul Force capacity of 999, and in the beginner Warrior class, he could absorb anyone he wanted. If Shen Yue dared to show off in front of him again, he would turn him into a dried husk in minutes.

It's worth mentioning that after absorbing and refining a Bronze Demonic Spirit, although he couldn't summon it to possess him, he could use the Demonic Spirit's combat skills.

If he had absorbed a Horned Sheep Demonic Spirit, after refining it, he would be able to use the Berserk combat skill.

He currently had no Soul Force, and natural recovery would take twenty-two hours, which is forty-four hours.

Normally, Spirit Masters cultivate not their Soul Force, but their Soul Force capacity.

Once Soul Force is depleted, it automatically recovers. Running cultivation techniques can speed up recovery until the Soul Force capacity is reached.

Xian Wu's situation was a bit special. His current Soul Force capacity was 99, but his Soul Force limit was only 22. He could naturally recover a maximum of 22 Soul Force.

As long as he absorbed more foreign Soul Force, his Soul Force limit would increase, up to a maximum of 99.

The problem before him was how to recover his depleted Soul Force in a short period.

Cultivation was out of the question. If he dared to cultivate the Seven Star Divine Curse, his body would explode.

The only way was to absorb foreign Soul Force.

"Who should I absorb from?" Xian Wu started thinking about his good brothers. "Lu Piao? His Soul Force was just drained, he probably hasn't recovered yet. Du Ze? His Soul Force is quite high, maybe..."

He was a fair person. He couldn't just absorb from Lu Piao and not others; that would be too unfair to Lu Piao.

Xian Wu licked his lips and sat up.

Gazing at the blazing bonfire, an idea suddenly popped into Xian Wu's mind.

Soul Force was, in the end, a form of energy.

Since the Chaos Spirit Devouring Art could absorb Soul Force, could it absorb other forms of energy?

Wind energy, kinetic energy, thermal energy, light energy, radiation energy, and so on.

With a "let's give it a try" attitude, Xian Wu sat down by the bonfire and slowly extended his right hand towards the crimson flames.

"Chaos Spirit Devouring Art!"

As soon as Xian Wu spoke, an invisible vortex formed in his right palm.

The flames, attracted by the vortex, began to surge towards Xian Wu's palm.

"It doesn't even feel hot?" He watched the flames burn his palm skin, but felt no burning sensation.

"This method works!" Xian Wu felt like he had discovered a new world.

As the Chaos Spirit Devouring Art devoured, the bonfire's flames grew more and more intense, only stopping after all the firewood had burned to ashes.

Adding more firewood, he took out a fire starter and relit it. Xian Wu didn't start devouring immediately.

He took out a Primary Soul Crystal and slowly injected his Soul Force into it to test.

The bonfire actually provided him with 6 points of Soul Force!

"Not bad, not bad, tasted great." Xian Wu gave a thumbs up.

He had a question now.

Did thermal energy count as foreign Soul Force? In other words, could absorbing thermal energy increase his Soul Force limit?

With this question in mind, Xian Wu once again used the Chaos Spirit Devouring Art on the bonfire.

Once absorption began, he no longer had to foolishly hold his hand towards the bonfire.

The Chaos Spirit Devouring Art would run automatically, absorbing at an exponentially increasing rate.

Xian Wu freed up his hands and started frantically adding firewood to the bonfire.

The flames lunged at Xian Wu like a fierce tiger, and Xian Wu, bathed in fire, looked like a god of fire descending.

Although the flames were fierce, they caused no harm to Xian Wu; not even his clothes were damaged.

The energy from the flames was completely absorbed one centimeter away from Xian Wu's body.

After burning through Xiao Ning'er's firewood, Xian Wu moved the firewood from his own camp.

He created a line of fire along the way in the rocky forest, which was quite spectacular.

However, Xian Wu did not add the firewood from his own camp, fearing he would be overstuffed.

When the bonfire burned out and the energy absorption was complete, Xian Wu took out the Soul Crystal and tested again.

Exactly twenty-two points of Soul Force, no more, no less.

"Absorbing energy that isn't Soul Force can't increase the maximum Soul Force?" Xian Wu wasn't too sure.

He continued adding firewood, continued burning, continued absorbing.

After exhausting the firewood at his camp, Xian Wu tested again.

"Still 22 points?" Now, he understood the truth.

Absorbing energy that wasn't Soul Force could only rapidly restore Soul Force, not increase its maximum limit.

Since that was the case, where did the excess absorbed energy go? It clearly entered his body.

"This doesn't follow the law of conservation of energy?"

Just as Xian Wu was wondering, he suddenly caught sight of strange characters appearing on the back of his left hand: "-521kj".

"What does this string of characters mean?" Xian Wu was a bit bewildered.

After a brief study, he felt that this string of numbers should record energy.

"kj" should mean kilojoules.

Why was it negative energy?

Debt?

"Right." Xian Wu smacked his forehead, suddenly understanding, "This energy must be what he owes from decomposing everything with the Demon Left Hand. Decomposing chemical bonds absorbs energy, synthesizing chemical bonds releases energy."

Since crossing over to this world, he had decomposed countless things.

He had thought it was unconditional, arbitrary decomposition, but he hadn't expected there to be such a thing as energy debt.

"It's surprisingly scientific," Xian Wu couldn't help but complain.

The next day, he got up very early.

To get rid of the unsightly tattoo, he used the Chaos Spirit Devouring Art on the rising sun.

He had tested it last night; absorbing energy that wasn't Soul Force wouldn't increase the maximum Soul Force.

Beams of sunlight shot towards Xian Wu. He looked like a god of dawn bathed in sunlight, well, the husband of the goddess of dawn.

"Hahaha... I am a god... Hahahahahaha..."

Xian Wu stood on the rockery with his hands on his hips, roaring at the sky, radiating dazzling golden light all over his body.

"God, my ass!"

"What are you yelling about so early in the morning? Spring's long gone!"

"It's just that after you finish yelling like a lunatic, can't other people sleep?"

Curses came from the dormitory.

Xian Wu sheepishly touched his nose, jumped off the rockery, and walked towards the cafeteria.

The golden light on his body appeared as quickly as it disappeared. Because the Chaos Spirit Devouring Art absorbed energy in an exponentially explosive manner, it didn't take long to eliminate the tattoo on the back of his hand.

After the energy reached zero, the characters "0kj" remained for about three seconds before disappearing on their own.