Healing Overlord Leg!

After soothing the Auspicious Beast with a few words, Gao Ren began reciting the Soul Chant for his third Soul Skill.

"Overlord Chicken Leg, let old wounds fly away; flesh and bone reborn, the source restored!-Healing Overlord Leg!"

He raised his right hand, and the Third Soul Ring beneath his feet immediately blazed with black light.

The next second, seven Healing Overlord Legs materialized out of thin air and landed on the tray Gao Ren had taken out at the same time.

"Everyone, please have a taste."

No sooner had he spoken than only two Healing Overlord Legs remained on the tray, and then that number swiftly dropped to one... Xuan Zi, Di Tian, Bi Ji, Xiong Jun, and the Scarlet King had moved too quickly for Gao Ren to see clearly. He had only caught the Auspicious Beast's hand darting out and pulling back.

At the sight, Gao Ren couldn't help smiling.

People scrambling for his food was the greatest affirmation a Food System Soul Master could receive!

Smiling, he opened his mouth and took a hefty bite of his Healing Overlord Leg, just like the others, whose faces already wore all sorts of expressions.

Meanwhile, the Silver Dragon King, who was hiding in her Miniature Plane and peeking out, underwent two changes of expression in very quick succession.

〣(ºΔº)〣 No!

(ᗒᗣᗕ)՞ Why am I the only one who can't taste the new flavor of Overlord Drumstick right away?!

The craving is killing me!

Forced to stay in her Miniature Plane and stare helplessly, the Silver Dragon King felt as though ants were crawling all over her.

She had clearly sneaked plenty of food earlier, yet the moment Gao Ren brought out a new flavor, it was as though she hadn't eaten anything at all. She kept drooling inside her Miniature Plane.

There was no other reason: she was curious about how the Healing Overlord Leg tasted, and kept using her world-shaking wisdom to imagine its deliciousness.

The Healing Overlord Leg had a faint green tint... Why is your chicken leg green? Is it fresh?

Gao Ren: "I'm a professional when it comes to chicken. Would I sell you a rotten drumstick? That's the color of nature! The color of life!"

The Healing Overlord Leg itself didn't actually taste particularly unusual. It was much like an ordinary Overlord Drumstick.

However, once someone ate it, they would be infused with a tremendous amount of life force.

For any living being, a tremendous amount of life force was an excellent tonic, leaving their entire being refreshed and renewed.

As that great surge of life force washed through their body, pleasure naturally welled up, filling them with comfort from head to toe.

If that, too, counted as the Healing Overlord Leg's flavor, then it was the most delicious Overlord Drumstick of all.

While everyone was immersed in the joy of life, Xiong Jun and Bi Ji experienced something a little different.

After eating the Healing Overlord Leg, Xiong Jun discovered that his newly regenerated left paw no longer had even a trace of stiffness. It was as easy to use as the original.

"I feel as though I've grown a little stronger," Bi Ji said succinctly.

Since Bi Ji wasn't skilled in combat, when she said she had grown stronger, she was surely referring to her healing abilities.

To gauge a healer's strength, testing their healing output was the one and only gold standard!

However, no one present was injured, so she had no way to demonstrate her improved healing output.

Hearing Bi Ji's words, Di Tian, who wanted to test her strength, slowly turned toward Xiong Jun, whose face practically had "bliss" written across it.

Sensing Di Tian's undisguised gaze, Xiong Jun inexplicably felt a bad premonition rise in his heart.

"Di Tian, why are you staring at me?" Xiong Jun grew a little anxious under that gaze. Despite standing over two meters tall in Humanoid Form, he couldn't help shrinking back and hiding behind the little girl who was the Auspicious Beast.

"Xiong Jun, I remember you saying earlier that you wanted to trade your own bear paws for Gao Ren's chicken legs, right?"

At those words, Xiong Jun's expression suddenly turned as ugly as if he were constipated.

Although Di Tian hadn't said it outright, he understood the implication.

Di Tian wanted to go after his bear paws again!

"I did say that. What about it?" Xiong Jun asked, sweating.

"You just ate a new flavor of Overlord Drumstick. Shouldn't you make another trade?" Di Tian's expression remained unchanged. "We still haven't settled on any gifts for Gao Ren and Xuan Zi to take back to Shrek Academy.

"Why not use your bear paws as the gifts? That way, everyone can also see how much stronger Bi Ji has become."

The corners of Xiong Jun's mouth twitched uncontrollably, and inwardly he kept calling Di Tian a devil.

Xiong Jun: Damn it! Di Tian! How can such cold words come out of your mouth?!

If I lose another paw, that'll make three times today!

I'm the sixth-ranked member of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, the renowned Xiong Jun! Not some bear-paw wholesaler!

Don't I have any dignity?!

Can't you go catch some other soul beast and have Bi Ji heal them? Why do you have to keep tormenting me?!

Seeing that Xiong Jun remained unmoved, Di Tian knew he wasn't particularly willing to offer up his bear paws.

Di Tian: If you won't do this with dignity, I'll help you do it with dignity!

The Black Dragon Sword appeared in Di Tian's hand once more!

Seeing Di Tian draw the Black Dragon Sword again, Gao Ren interrupted him just in time.

"Senior Di Tian, I'm afraid using Senior Xiong Jun to test Senior Bi Ji's current healing abilities might not be appropriate."

"Yes, yes, it's completely inappropriate!" Xiong Jun hurriedly agreed.

Di Tian glanced at Xiong Jun, then turned a puzzled gaze toward Gao Ren.

"Inappropriate? How so? Xiong Jun is so large, and Bi Ji treated him earlier. Comparing the before and after would make it easy to see exactly how much stronger she's become."

"My Healing Overlord Leg fills whoever eats it with life force," Gao Ren explained. "That's probably why Senior Bi Ji has been strengthened.

"Its specific effects are..."

Simply put, Gao Ren's Healing Overlord Leg was very similar to his First Soul Skill-Overlord's Belly-Filling Leg.

The difference was that one granted a second health bar, while the other granted a second mana bar.

One lasted only three hours, while the other lasted as long as ten days.

Whenever the original health bar was depleted, the second health bar would replenish it directly. Once the second health bar was emptied, the Healing Overlord Leg's duration ended.

In terms of its practical effect, it was roughly equivalent to killing every cell in someone's body once, yet still allowing them to recover to full health (provided their health bar wasn't emptied outright and they had a chance to regenerate at super speed).

What?

You think a duration of three hours is too short?

Then let me ask you: if eating one chicken leg gave you a chance to regenerate as long as your head and heart weren't destroyed simultaneously, would you still complain that it didn't last long enough?!

This was a pseudo-revival armor that lasted three hours!

"If the effects of your Soul Skill really are as you described, then for Xiong Jun to reach the point where he needs Bi Ji's healing, he'd have to lose more than just one bear paw..."

Di Tian wasn't deranged enough to make Xiong Jun keep cutting off his paws until he could no longer regenerate them. "In that case, we'll test Bi Ji's healing abilities after you two have gone back."