Growth between acts

Time flew by in the blink of an eye.

Over those two weeks, Xia Lun first successfully established his "Live Cattle Transport Line." Experience proved that cattle had remarkably abundant life force: through "Life Drain," each cow could provide him with an average of one day of lifespan.

After two weeks, his maximum survival time had increased rather than decreased, and the abundance of life force felt wonderfully comfortable.

It felt like basking in the sunshine on a clear spring day. Life force streamed into his body through every pore like warm, gentle light, flowing everywhere like spring water brimming with vitality before gathering together.

Warmth, comfort, serenity.

In this state, Xia Lun's tense, oppressive mood improved considerably. Like golden dawn piercing dark clouds, life force shone into his heart, allowing him to relax a great deal.

The only real pity was that using "Life Drain" on live cattle did not seem to yield any free attribute points. Xia Lun suspected he might have to drain more powerful creatures to obtain those.

On the third day of the first week, White Line delivered the "Snail Statue Summoner," worth 20,000 memory points, right on schedule.

The "Snail Statue Summoner" was less a device than a marble sculpture. The pale stone depicted an enormous snail-person twisted into a spiral. Its mutated body had a slimy, slippery texture, while its features were steeped in indelible agony and despair. A single glance was enough to inspire unease.

Although the sculpture's aesthetic value was clearly negative, it could produce "Snail Statues" regularly, so Xia Lun placed it in the underground darkroom to keep it safe.

For the rest of that week, Xia Lun devoted most of his time to entering the specialization memory dream of "Swordsmanship Mastery." Compared with before his trip to the Ranch,