Armor-Piercing Passive!

Once his wildly pounding heart gradually calmed down,

Zhou Feng swallowed Sun Gui's Demon Devouring Gu.

A massive amount of spiritual energy and vital energy instantly filled his meridians.

The Demon Devouring Gu inside him also began eagerly drawing in the spiritual energy and vital energy.

However, that spiritual energy and vital energy were incredibly chaotic.

Clearly, Sun Gui's cultivation had also been raised by continuously devouring other people's Demon Devouring Gus.

Naturally, Sun Gui's spiritual energy was far from pure.

It was even more mottled than Zhou Feng's own spiritual energy, and all kinds of resistance and blockages arose.

The circulation of spiritual energy was like a rusty old car—slow and inefficient.

Even worse was that enormous amount of vital energy, mixed directly with the vital energy of many people, some of it not even refined at all.

"This..."

Zhou Feng's muscles began to swell, veins spreading across his body like coiling dragons.

His spiritual energy began to riot, rampaging wildly through his body.

The side effects of devouring a Demon Devouring Gu were greater than he had expected.

Fortunately, it was still within the limits of what he could endure.

The Demon Devouring Gu in his body did not care whether the spiritual energy was pure or whether the vital energy was chaotic. In any case, there was only one word for it: devour!

Such an enormous amount of spiritual energy and vital energy also caused the Demon Devouring Gu to begin giving back.

Because the amount was somewhat excessive, even the Demon Devouring Gu was getting a little stuffed.

More importantly, Zhou Feng had gained the Demon Devouring Gu's recognition.

How long had it been? Yet he had already provided it with so much spiritual energy and vital energy to devour.

So the Demon Devouring Gu began investing in him, feeding back threads of pure spiritual energy and pure vital energy.

It urged Zhou Feng to quickly raise his realm so he could devour even more Demon Devouring Gus.

Thus, his cultivation realm began rising steadily.

In an instant, he broke through into the Qi Condensation Realm.

First Level of Qi Condensation...

Second Level of Qi Condensation...

Ninth Level of Qi Condensation!

The spiritual energy within Zhou Feng was compressed frantically, and his realm shot up to the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation in an instant.

Even though his spiritual energy appeared extremely mottled and impure, its quality had still improved.

Compared with the Qi Gathering Realm, the spiritual energy in his body could now completely crush it.

Even the injuries on his body had fully recovered.

"This feels way too good!"

This cheat-like rate of advancement was truly addictive.

No wonder those who became obsessed with crooked and wicked paths were willing to indulge in them even when they knew there were countless side effects.

Because this feeling was simply too good.

Could you imagine it?

He had done practically nothing. There was no need for tedious cultivation, nor did he need to comprehend anything.

He had merely devoured someone else's Demon Devouring Gu, and his realm had shot from the Qi Gathering Realm to the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation in a flash.

Such a swift shortcut was truly hard to refuse.

Even if his spiritual energy was not pure enough, his vital energy was mixed, and his combat strength might be a little lower than others at the same realm.

All of that was acceptable, and those issues could be resolved slowly over time.

"Demonic sects and wicked paths! No wonder they've always existed!"

Zhou Feng forcibly calmed himself down. Just now, many terrible thoughts had already surfaced in his mind.

He had to restrain himself. If he allowed his own desires to run wild,

then he would be no different from the lunatics on Bitter Bamboo Peak.

After calming down, he began searching the corpse.

This was also his habit. After all, he had grown accustomed to being poor, and he had no businesses supporting him from behind.

"This is that little knife?"

Zhou Feng picked up the small knife Sun Gui had used to attack him earlier.

Looking closely now, he realized there was not a trace of blood on the blade.

Under the dim moonlight, it still gave off a faint, cold gleam that carried a peculiar chill.

He also noticed that the knife's handle was merely a piece of rotten wood.

He had no idea what material it was made from.

But he had already experienced its sharpness firsthand.

Even with the Demon Devouring Armor protecting him, along with Bone Plating, he had nearly been killed with a single slash.

He wondered where Sun Gui had gotten a weapon like this.

Could this be the legendary magical artifact?

But it did not seem like one!

It was said that magical artifacts needed to be steeped in spiritual energy for a long time, gradually gaining astonishing spirituality of their own.

Once infused with spiritual energy, a magical artifact could unleash tremendous power.

Because of this, magical artifacts had always been scarce. Not only did one need to find suitable materials,

one also needed special methods to maintain them. Otherwise, they would be nothing more than ordinary weapons.

Next, he searched Sun Gui's corpse again.

Unfortunately, there was nothing on him at all.

Other than the little knife he had just obtained, Sun Gui had not carried anything else.

"Now I should be able to draw another Passive Skill, right?"

After a simple search, Zhou Feng turned his attention back to the Skill Panel.

Based on his previous experience, after devouring so much spiritual energy, the progress bar on the Skill Panel had definitely filled up.

Sure enough, not only was the progress bar on the Skill Panel full,

it had even begun displaying another color.

"It actually turned purple?"

Zhou Feng was somewhat surprised. The progress bar had actually turned purple.

This meant the Passive Skill he drew would definitely not be of low quality.

While it had not reached gold quality, it certainly would not be too bad.

He hoped it would be a Passive Skill that directly boosted his combat strength.

To be honest, he had been rather lucky to win just now.

If Sun Gui had been mentally sound, Zhou Feng would have had almost no chance of escaping that pursuit.

That feeling of helplessness had been truly despairing.

And it had been the kind he hated most—being crushed by someone with a higher realm.

He had said before that what he disliked most was being weaker than his opponent in realm.

Challenging opponents above one's realm might sound impressive, but it was not what he wanted.

What Zhou Feng wanted most was to crush his opponents with a superior realm. As for being challenged across realms by some monstrous genius?

That was not even within his considerations. In any case, he simply did not want his realm to be lower than his opponent's.

Therefore, the Demon Devouring Art truly suited his mindset.

Putting everything else aside, at least its cultivation speed was definitely fast enough.

"Draw!"

He cast aside those complicated thoughts in an instant. This was the happy moment of drawing a Passive Skill.

Drawing...

Draw successful!

Armor-Piercing Spear (Level 1): Your attacks are like sharp spears, capable of piercing through an enemy's defenses.

Every attack you make ignores one percent of the enemy's defense and directly strikes their body.

Note: Cannot cross a major realm.

This was... armor piercing?

Seeing the description of this passive, Zhou Feng froze. Was this not an armor-piercing attribute?

"Great! I finally got an offensive passive!"

He was extremely happy now, because he had finally drawn an offensive Passive Skill.

And this passive seemed incredibly overpowered!

It directly ignored the enemy's defenses and attacked their body?

Although there was a restriction afterward—it did not work against enemies more than one major realm above him—it was still powerful enough.

Do not underestimate that one percent armor piercing, because it directly attacked the enemy's body.