From Igniting Talent to Becoming a Demon God Section 48

But in Prism Ring City, and even the entire Alliance State, most supernatural knowledge was controlled by the super Mega-Corporations and key government departments.

The higher-level portions in particular were completely beyond ordinary people's reach. For example, Vitality Development Theory was only publicly available for free up to the content before Combat Grade; anything after that was very hard to look up.

And clearly, Intuition Sensing had given him a new direction.

This ability was the equivalent of giving him an extra layer of insurance when eating. He would no longer have to be controlled by others in this area or worry about being poisoned in secret.

And he had also gained a free channel for obtaining knowledge on how to efficiently take in nutrients.

"Good."

Lu Chao nodded heavily, his eyes unusually bright. He was extremely satisfied with the effects of Intuition Sensing.

Aside from that.

Thinking of the other talent effect, Digestion Enhancement—

Lu Chao stopped suppressing the powerful instinct of hunger. He immediately tore open the bag, picked up the bread, and began wolfing it down.

"Hungry!"

"Still hungry..."

Ten-odd minutes later.

The torn bread bag fell to the floor. Two empty bottles of beast milk toppled over with a clatter, rolling half a circle across the tabletop.

Lu Chao licked his lips, still unsatisfied, not even sparing the crumbs stuck to the corners of his mouth or the ring of white milk foam there.

A whole big bag of bread, plus two bottles of beast milk—normally, that would have been enough for him to make a meal of.

But now, he was still hungry, as if he had only eaten himself half full.

"Is it because there's too little high-quality nutritional energy? Or is it because my digestive ability has been enhanced..."

The intense hunger kept surging up. Lu Chao rummaged through the refrigerator, only to find a few wilted vegetable leaves and half a jar of sauce left.

After thinking it over, he opened his wristwatch, intending to order a few takeaway nutritional meals.

"Hm?"

Suddenly, something stirred in his heart, and his fingertip hovered in midair.

He had suddenly thought of what he had gained last night.

Then he strode back to the bedroom. Lu Chao pulled open the drawer of the desk by the window.

Two glass-bottled neural stabilizers came into view. The pale silver liquid inside swayed gently, and a layer of transparent rubber covered the needles.

In an instant, almost the very moment Lu Chao looked over—

Primary Neural Stabilizer

Quality: Inferior

Edible Effect 1: After injection, it can repair minor nerve trauma, relieve mental fatigue for a certain period of time, and slightly reduce psychic pressure!

Edible Effect 2: Contains concentrated biological nutrients. If fully absorbed, there is a relatively high chance of increasing vitality. The first absorption has the best effect; afterward, drug resistance increases with each use, and subsequent effects are halved each time...

"As expected."

Lu Chao's eyes lit up, and he once again experienced just how powerful Intuition Sensing was.

This talent was like a food appraisal device. With just one simple glance, it allowed him to understand every function of the neural stabilizer, including the corresponding method of use.

Immediately after, he hesitated no longer.

With a trace of curiosity and expectation, Lu Chao pulled off the rubber protective layer of the neural stabilizer and aimed the needle at his forearm.

Then, following the injection method he had searched online, he quickly gave himself a shot.

At first, it felt as if an ant had bitten him, with a slight prickling pain.

But very quickly, as his finger pushed down and injected the liquid from the glass syringe, a cool sensation gradually spread through him.

In just a few dozen seconds, Lu Chao felt a warm current far purer and more violent than food surge through his blood vessels.

"What powerful medicinal effect."

His eyes shone brightly. The effect of the neural stabilizer was even stronger than Lu Chao had expected.

The rapidly spreading warm current was so savage, hot and scorching, spreading madly along the tendons and channels of his forearm, rushing toward every limb and bone, burrowing into his flesh and blood.

This was worlds apart from the food from before.

In fact, from the past until now, he had never obtained such a full sensation from any kind of dietary supplement.

Even the blood in his body seemed to be boiling because of it. In a daze, Lu Chao heard every single cell greedily fighting over it.

In the span of only two breaths—

His face gradually flushed, and his body actually began to heat up.

Lu Chao suddenly snapped back to himself and remembered some of the pointers Senior Brother Zheng Wu had given him during sparring.

The effects of medicines were rather tyrannical. Even fighters had to be extremely careful when taking them, needing to practice standing postures and tempering methods to guide the medicinal power, preventing the energy from stagnating and injuring the internal organs.

But.

Buzz!

A strange sound seemed to echo inside his body, and Predatory Growth actually began to exert itself wildly, continuously devouring all the nutrients.

Lu Chao was slightly stunned. Only then did he realize that his digestive ability had already doubled, far surpassing that of an ordinary Combat Grade.

Clearly, the concerns ordinary people had when taking potions simply did not exist for him.

"How about one more?"

Lu Chao felt he still had plenty of capacity left. After thinking for a moment, he decided to give it a try.

Before long, he took out another Neural Stabilizer and jabbed himself hard with the needle.

At once.

As the syringe was discarded, another stream of cool liquid poured into his body, changing from docile to frenzied and savage.

His body grew hotter and hotter, and beads of sweat seeped from Lu Chao's forehead.

He did not overestimate himself again. Although Predatory Growth was powerful, he still assumed the posture of Stake Stance, inhaled and exhaled deeply, and began guiding the medicinal effect according to the breathing method of the combat technique.

Time passed like this as Lu Chao sank his waist into a horse stance and stood in place.

Strands of warm current were digested and converted into pure biological energy. Guided by the breathing method of the combat technique, they surged into his limbs and bones, nourishing flesh and blood, tempering bone, and allowing them to slowly grow stronger.

Every cell received nutrition at that moment, replenishing the massive consumption from his earlier talent awakening.

Finally, more than ten minutes later.

When the last trace of medicinal effect had been completely absorbed and fully merged into his flesh and blood.

Lu Chao released the Stake Stance posture and slowly exhaled a mouthful of scorching white breath.

"Hoo!"

That white breath hung in the air for several breaths before finally dissipating.

The sweat on Lu Chao's face vanished, and his complexion was ruddy.

All feelings of hunger faded at that moment.

"So this is Digestion Enhancement?"

Carefully sensing himself, he finally experienced the other effect of Predatory Growth.

According to Vitality Development Theory, everyone's constitution was different, and their absorption efficiency for all kinds of dietary supplements and potions was different as well.

This represented how quickly resources could be converted into strength.

And clearly, he was already ahead in this aspect.

At the very least, he had never heard any Combat Grade senior brother say they could inject two potions at the same time like this.

"In that case, compared to others who can only slowly supplement themselves with resources, I'll be much faster."

"If there are enough resources, I might even improve faster than others within the same amount of time."

Thoughtful, Lu Chao soon discovered that his strength had increased by another small margin, roughly a little over ten kilograms.

The Martial Arts Energy in his body also seemed to have grown a little stronger.

"Could it be..."

A guess surfaced in his mind. Lu Chao focused his thoughts and summoned the panel of light.

[Vitality: 20→22!]

"As expected."

His guess was confirmed. His vitality had indeed increased.

And by a full two points at that!

"After reaching Combat Grade, every point of vitality increase raises strength by seven or eight kilograms, far more than before. That's precisely why increasing it is much harder than it used to be."