Eating a Blood Potion

Name: Phantom Object - Blood Bottle

Elements: [Items], [Blood], [Medicine], [Healing]

Description: A common game item used to replenish health and stamina. It can heal most internal and external injuries after consumption, but it cannot remove toxins, although it can repair the damage to the body caused by toxins.

Note: You must eat it with the bottle on!

"What the hell did they eat the bottle too!" Feng Xue threw the salt that had appeared in her hand back onto the sofa, then picked up the blood bottle and licked it.

Hmm, it's not rock candy or anything like that; it's probably a glass bottle—or maybe a crystal bottle.

Is this edible?

Was there a significant amount of internal bleeding in the returned blood?

After much deliberation, Feng Xue decided to sell the item on the Black Market. Since those unsuspecting buyers couldn't see the notes, the potion might actually fetch a good price.

As for himself, the Boots of Silence were enough. After all, drinking a potion during a battle already disrupted his rhythm, and having to swallow that glass bottle the size of a baby's fist as well... would be quite difficult.

With that thought in mind, Feng Xue stopped paying attention to the potion and instead focused her attention on the last item, "Diary of a Madman."

After calming her breathing slightly, Feng Xue decided to put in a little more effort this time.

He selected the Madness Element, then directly pressed 9999 in the [Knowledge] input field. As soon as the confirmation button was pressed, the entire Diary of a Madman began to distort.

However, unlike the previous Reforge and distortion, this distortion was more like an expansion from the inside out. The originally thin booklet expanded into a large book ten centimeters thick, filled with all sorts of strange symbols, right in front of Feng Xue.

Whether it was due to the Translation Konjac or the power of the Infinite City, Feng Xue understood the meaning of the symbols on the book.

History.

"So, I've... sold the book?" Feng Xue didn't immediately touch the book. Instead, he took two steps back because he instinctively felt that a Phantom Object history book made from Diary of a Madman and Madness Element was definitely not a good thing.

Quickly switch to the identification function, and the attributes of the Phantom Object will appear before your eyes.

Title: Phantom Object: The History of Cannibalism

Elements: [Cannibalism], [Books], [History], [Madness]

Synopsis: This seemingly ordinary historical encyclopedia has the words "benevolence, righteousness, and morality" written on every page. But if someone were to try to read between the lines, they would be devoured by its contents.

Note: Don't ask me how I read between the lines!

"Sizzle!" Feng Xue slashed the book cover with her knife, and a strange blood gushed from the "wound." The thick red color made Feng Xue quite uncomfortable.

Feng Xue did not hesitate, and swung the knife even faster, because he didn't even know if looking at the words on the book cover at an angle counted as reading between the lines.

A Demonic Nature Phantom Book was instantly shattered into pieces, but Feng Xue felt no heartache; instead, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Having lived in the Infinite City for so long, he had come to understand to some extent the terrifying rule of this world that "the rules are above all else." It can eat people whenever it wants, and once the rules are triggered, if you don't have the corresponding element (such as [non-human]), you will be eaten by it.

Feng Xue casually tapped the shards of book pages scattered on the ground to Smelt them down, trying to salvage something. Although Phantom Object becomes False Thing after being destroyed (except for those with special elements), it is still a whole. Smelt all of them together, so there is no bug that allows Smelt hundreds of pieces separately.

As the remnants of those Phantom Object disappeared, Feng Xue's eyebrows rose slightly, because this time, it seemed he had actually created something quite good.

Elements, [books].

"Hehehe, isn't this a skill book entry ticket?"

Feng Xue looked at the book's elements and a very exaggerated smile appeared on his face, but then he pinched his cheeks hard, forcibly bringing himself back to his senses.

"Refining Phantom Object, then destroying them and recycling the book's elements—that seems like a good approach. It's just that the books themselves are a bit difficult to refine. Speaking of which, was the reason I was able to produce Phantom Object book this time because I invested 9999 before?"

Looking at the book element in the element list, Feng Xue felt a little restless, but he didn't rush into it. Instead, he forced himself to calm down, took out the Thirteen Swords of Life Taking manual, and copied it again. This time, however, he didn't use cursive script, but rather regular script with a pen.

This time, Feng Xue copied the text with particular care, as if he wanted to infuse it with his own spirit. As his Sword Technique improved, he could already understand the first six swords of the Thirteen Swords of Life Taking. Although he couldn't say that he could use them all at once, he should be able to use them after a short period of practice.

However, now was not the time to think about these things. After the secret manual was re-copied, Feng Xue still used needle and thread to bind it slowly and meticulously, and then used a guillotine to trim the edges.

"Hmm, I'll place an order on the Black Market later and see if they have any Phantom Object like sewing machines. It would be even better if this manual could have its edges finished." Feng Xue was still a little disappointed with the appearance of the manual he had made, but his needlework skills were clearly not enough for him to complete such a high-end operation as hand-finishing the edges.

After a slight regret, he carefully put the [Books] element into the book, and then added 9999 [Knowledge].

Then...

Nothing happened.

No, it happened!

Just as the elements of the book were merging into the manual, the elements within Feng Xue's body began to twist and coalesce once more. This feeling was familiar to Feng Xue; it was a sign that [Tag] were gathering.

Although the Tag of "[Book Copyist]" had solidified within him, Feng Xue found it very strange. It wasn't like he hadn't Smelt and Reforge in the Infinite City before, but the Infinite City had never given him the blacksmith Tag just because he created a Phantom Object weapon!

Or going a step further, not counting skill CD, he's already created two manuals; why is he only being given this Tag now?

Could it be because there's a quantity limit?

Or was it because I copied the book so diligently before?

Feng Xue didn't know the specific reason, and the [Book Copyist] Tag didn't specify a method for condensing it. He roughly examined the Tag and was surprised to find that one of the elements had already been activated—

[Copy].

"With the copying element activated, can it further improve the speed and accuracy of copying text?" Feng Xue sensed the function of the Tag, browsed the table of contents of the knowledge given by the Book Copyist, and found that most of them were techniques on how to restore the original text of the book as much as possible. She then temporarily withdrew her attention and focused it on the manual of the <Thirteen Swords of Life Taking>.

To his disappointment and surprise, the manual did not become Phantom Object, but rather, like the pocket watch that only had the elements of [time] and [stop], it became False Thing with those elements.

[Books], [Sword Technique], [Assassin]

Of the three elements on the False Thing, the [books] were clearly added by herself, while the latter two seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. However, looking at these two elements, Feng Xue inexplicably had a certain thought...