Host: Zhang Yuan
Realm: First Order (Bright Force)
Divine Nest: Level 2 (1%)
Host Body: Level 2 Black Giant Ant (18%)/Fourfold Strength
Host Body: Level 2 Jade Mantis (5%)/Intermediate Blade Technique Proficiency
Host Body: Level 2 Golden Grasshopper (3%)/Fourfold Agility
Host Body: Level 1 White Dragon Loach (27%)/Beginner Water Proficiency
Vitality: 95/160
Source Essence: 17.1
Zhang Yuan opened the Divine Nest Panel and took a look.
He had slain more than thirty aberrations in total, reaping as much as seventeen points of Source Essence—a bountiful harvest indeed.
But using the Blood Burning Art twice had consumed sixty points of his vitality!
According to the marginal notes in the manual, it was best not to use the Blood Burning Art more than three times in a single day.
Otherwise, it would damage one's foundation, and in severe cases, even shorten one's lifespan!
Judging solely by the loss of vitality, Zhang Yuan should have had no major problem using it twice more.
But that was only if he did not simultaneously empower himself with the extraordinary power of his host bodies.
His vitality would not be able to bear it!
After some thought, Zhang Yuan poured all the Source Essence he had just obtained into his fourth host body, the White Dragon Loach.
The Source Essence he had previously invested in the White Dragon Loach had only raised its evolution progress by twenty-seven percent.
The energy required for an Extraordinary Lifeform to advance was clearly far greater than that needed by the Black Giant Ant, Jade Mantis, and Golden Grasshopper.
Closing the panel, Zhang Yuan took out a slice of dried ginseng and held it in his mouth.
Wild Ginseng could both replenish depleted vitality and speed up its recovery, so he always carried a few slices with him.
Its effects took