On his way back from the rear mountain, Huo Yuhao received a message from Luo Feng and hurried back to his room.
Huo Yuhao looked solemn, and Luo Feng, far away in a safe spot on Mist Island in Swallowed Star, looked just as serious.
Just moments ago, after consuming a Millennium Willowwood Heart, his physical fitness had broken straight through to the beginner War God realm, while his psychic power had reached the intermediate War God realm.
Once his physical fitness reached the beginner War God realm, they could carry out that utterly deranged plan the two of them had devised.
During a chance experiment, Huo Yuhao had discovered that after he sent his hair to Luo Feng, the system returned all of it the following day.
After repeated experiments, he finally reached a conclusion: exchanging body parts between the two bound individuals was considered a violation by the system.
Once a day had passed, the system would automatically return them, and withdrawing each part cost only one point.
And so Huo Yuhao, who could not practice the Swallowed Star Cultivation Technique, suddenly came up with an extremely bold idea. As luck would have it, there was no complete criminal code in the universe.
Thus, the two arrived at the same idea without even discussing it.
At first, Luo Feng had been startled by his audacious idea, but after thinking it over repeatedly, both of them realized it had considerable potential.
Inside his room, Huo Yuhao swallowed and asked apprehensively:
"Luo, have you finished getting ready?"
Although Luo Feng had already advanced to become a War God, even his voice was trembling a little:
"If there's one thing Mist Island has no shortage of, it's Vegetation Spirits. I've prepared three Millennium Vegetation Spirits. That should be plenty. If not, there are a few hundred more on the ground."
Luo Feng brimmed with swagger.
After receiving Luo Feng's affirmative reply, Huo Yuhao hesitated:
"How about you gouge yours out first?" Huo Yuhao ventured.
"No, you first!" Luo Feng graciously deferred.
"I can't bring myself to do it."
Huo Yuhao's voice trembled. His two fingers formed a pair of scissors, half bent as they hovered in front of his large, clear, bright eyes, without moving an inch for a long time.
"I can't do it either."
Luo Feng's voice trembled as well. Although he had killed decisively over the past few months, he still could not bring himself to do this to his own body.
"I'll count to three, and we'll start together. We have the Millennium Willowwood Heart anyway. It can raise cellular activity to seventy percent, so we can reattach them in an instant," Huo Yuhao analyzed calmly, speaking in a quiet voice.
"All right."
Luo Feng nodded in agreement.
"One, two..."
Huo Yuhao paused, then continued:
"Three. Start."
The moment Huo Yuhao finished speaking, a scream like a pig being slaughtered came from the other end.
A while later, Luo Feng's weak, pained voice came through. The eyes had far too many densely packed nerves. Gouging them out while alive was absolutely enough to send pain piercing through the heart.
"Why didn't you scream?"
Faced with Luo Feng's questioning, Huo Yuhao drew a deep breath and said:
"I'm about to. Remember to coat them with plenty of the Millennium Willowwood Heart's energy essence. That stuff costs a fortune in Withdrawal Points. Besides, the more you coat them, the faster your eyes will heal."
"You don't have to tell me. Both my eyeballs are soaking in the Millennium Willowwood Heart. These are my eyes. I treasure them."
Luo Feng curled his lip as he spoke. He had barely finished when he heard Huo Yuhao scream like a pig being slaughtered too, and immediately felt much better. Fighting through the excruciating pain, both of them clicked to trade their eyes, their eye sockets empty.
The next instant, the two eyeballs in each of their hands vanished simultaneously and appeared in the System Space. The withdrawal cost was two Withdrawal Points. With a grand wave of Huo Yuhao's hand, his last two trade points disappeared instantly.
Suddenly, two similarly sized eyeballs materialized in his hand. These enormous, supercharged eyeballs teemed with cellular activity, and plenty of green mucus brimming with vitality still clung to them. Huo Yuhao shoved one straight into his mouth.
Slurp.
In an instant, the energy-rich vegetation essence entered Huo Yuhao's frail body and began strengthening his cells. After licking it clean, Huo Yuhao fitted the left eye into place and began slurping the right one.
Meanwhile, Luo Feng had also received Huo Yuhao's eyeballs. After soaking them briefly in the Millennium Willowwood Heart's energy liquid, he installed them in his own sockets.
With that powerful revitalizing effect, the two eyeballs settled into Luo Feng's empty sockets in a single breath, as though they had been his original eyes.
After trying them out, Luo Feng discovered that these eyes, which served as Huo Yuhao's martial soul, really did see farther and in greater detail than his own.
But just then, he suddenly heard slurping from the other end, and inwardly thought, Oh no.
"Huo Yuhao, you disgusting bastard. You're not licking my eyeballs, are you?" Luo Feng asked, his face full of disgust.
"Don't sweat the details. You have a whole island of Vegetation Spirits to use however you like, but I don't. With all that energy sitting right in front of me, how could I not be tempted?
"Enough talk. I'm going to refine this energy first. You should get started too."
Huo Yuhao was a dead pig unafraid of boiling water.
Luo Feng gave a bitter laugh and shook his head, unsure whether to laugh or cry. He thought that, at worst, he would wash them before putting them back in when they returned.
Following his principle of wasting nothing, Luo Feng drank the remaining spirit liquid, of which more than half was left, then began helping Huo Yuhao's eyes gather genetic origin energy.
Terrifying energy fluctuations radiated from Huo Yuhao's body. He had truly underestimated the power of Swallowed Star's Millennium Vegetation Spirits on the Douluo Continent.
A treasure capable of directly helping War God-level powerhouses advance could reasonably be called divine medicine on the Douluo Continent.
Without Luo Feng's War God-level eyes keeping it under control, even the tiniest amount might have made his body burst.
Swallowed Star used cellular cultivation, with cultivation primarily revolving around revitalizing cells, so Luo Feng's eyes were unequivocally at the War God level.
With their assistance, Huo Yuhao's body began absorbing the energy slowly and steadily. As he absorbed it, his soul power level also soared rapidly.
Of course, the increase in soul power was merely a side benefit. Since the Millennium Willowwood Heart was a treasure that revitalized cells, the greatest changes occurred in Huo Yuhao's body.
His chronically malnourished cells rapidly grew active under the nourishment of this energy, and his body underwent a transformation with every passing moment.
His skin, muscles, bones, blood, internal organs, meridians, and everything else throughout his body developed rapidly. Nourished by the Vegetation Spirit, his meridians began widening on their own.
Blocked areas were cleared as well, and all the impurities within his body were slowly expelled through his pores.
Time passed, bit by bit.
It took Huo Yuhao almost an entire day and night to absorb those dozen or so drops from the Vegetation Spirit. After absorbing the energy, he had no time at all to examine his body's transformation.
Checking the time, Huo Yuhao discovered that only three hours remained before the system automatically returned the organs, so he began cultivating according to the method Luo Feng had provided.
During this period, although he had been unable to cultivate, he had discovered that these techniques could speed up his meditation. Thus, he had thoroughly mastered the Swallowed Star cultivation techniques Luo Feng had given him.
Now his body contained energy from Swallowed Star, and he also had Luo Feng's eyeballs. Since he and Luo Feng shared the same blood type, there would be no rejection.
Luo Feng's eyes had been inside him for almost an entire day and night. After so many cycles of blood circulation, his body should already have contained the RR Virus and beneficial antibodies.
With the Genetic Origin Energy Cultivation Method, once the body's genes had been optimized to a certain degree, one could absorb wisps of energy from the universe and integrate them into every cell in the body.
During this process, every part of the body would be strengthened continuously, and the degree of cellular activity in Huo Yuhao's body was already sufficient for him to practice this cultivation method.
Huo Yuhao sat on the bed with his legs crossed, both soles facing upward. He rested his hands on his legs with his palms up and kept his back straight.
This was Five Hearts Facing Heaven.
Hehehe, the cheats will all be set up soon, no dragging things out. The Swallowed Star portion will wrap up within ten chapters, and then we'll get into the plot.
(End of chapter)
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