Stone Vein Spirit Liquid

In the bedroom, Cao Bing carefully placed a suitcase on the bed with one hand.

After entering a ten-digit password, the suitcase's combination lock popped open with a click.

Then a chill rose from inside the suitcase, and Cao Bing immediately opened it carefully with both hands.

Inside was a reagent vial as thick as a thumb, containing roughly twenty milliliters of liquid.

The liquid was milky white and semi-translucent.

Stone Vein Spirit Liquid!

The expensive medicine Captain Yan Ying had once recommended that Cao Bing buy.

It could raise an Advanced Warrior's physical fitness to that of a Beginner General without any side effects.

Originally, Cao Bing had not planned to purchase the Stone Vein Spirit Liquid so soon. After all, his physical fitness had only just reached the Advanced Warrior level. Even if he used the Stone Vein Spirit Liquid now, he could not guarantee that he would absorb its effects perfectly.

What if he did not absorb enough of the medicine's effects and failed to fully reach Beginner General level?

Besides, Cao Bing had planned to first hone his combat techniques, so after receiving his share of the money, he had not rushed to buy the Stone Vein Spirit Liquid.

Instead, he had continued charging into the wilderness to kill monsters and train his movement techniques and blade skills.

In truth, if he had not received Zhuge Tao's call today, he would not have planned to use the Stone Vein Spirit Liquid so quickly. But that call from Zhuge Tao had set Cao Bing's heart ablaze.

The Elite Training Camp spot was simply too tempting.

Cao Bing might not get a chance to become a reserve member, but he could directly enter the special trial. As long as he passed that special trial, what was a Stone Vein Spirit Liquid worth? This little expense was utterly insignificant!

Thus, Cao Bing gritted his teeth and made up his mind, opening the Limit Home marketplace interface.

Then Cao Bing got slapped in the face!

Seeing the price of the Stone Vein Spirit Liquid on the list, Cao Bing nearly hurled his computer away!

Name: Stone Vein Spirit Liquid

Requirement: Two-Star Contribution Value

Price: 4 billion Huaxia dollars, (half-price: 2 billion Huaxia dollars)

"2 billion!"

"What kind of Advanced Warrior needs to spend 2 billion to advance to Beginner General, and also needs Two-Star Contribution Value?!"

"No wonder hardly anyone buys it! At this price, the cost-effectiveness is outrageously low!" Cao Bing glared at the computer resentfully.

He truly wanted to know who, like him, was missing a screw badly enough to even look at something like this.

For an Advanced Warrior to save up such a huge sum as 2 billion, it would probably take more than a decade! And Two-Star Contribution Value was not so easy to earn either.

Cao Bing figured this thing was something Limitless Martial Arts used to fleece Advanced Martial Artists with children but mediocre talent! Or those rich tycoons who had money but no strength.

Only people like that would spend such a huge sum on a vial of Stone Vein Spirit Liquid with such terrible value for money.

"Maybe I just shouldn't buy it!"

Cao Bing had thought so at the time, but then he shook his head again!

Time was pressing.

Not to mention the Elite Training Camp that Cao Bing had been yearning for, even the upcoming trip to Forest No. 017 urgently required him to improve his strength.

For an Advanced Warrior to charge into a forest where monster groups had undergone mutations was clearly not safe.

After agonizing over it for a long while, Cao Bing finally gritted his teeth again and clicked purchase!

Once he had completed the series of procedures, Cao Bing collapsed directly onto the bed.

"Damn it, Limitless Martial Arts, you fleeced me for a huge sum this time! Once I become stronger and meet Hong, I'll make him cough up double!" Cao Bing thought indignantly.

Of course, he was merely venting. Once he truly reached that level of strength, why would he care about 2 billion? It would just be a pile of worthless paper!

Before long, only two hours later, a staff member delivered the suitcase to Cao Bing.

And that led to the scene of Cao Bing opening the suitcase just now.

Taking out the vial of Stone Vein Spirit Liquid, Cao Bing still felt his teeth ache. After all, 2 billion had bought him this tiny little thing, and it felt as though his heart was bleeding.

But there was nothing to be done. He had bought it already; he could not just leave it unused!

Hardened his heart, Cao Bing opened the vial and, following the instructions, poured the entire tube of Stone Vein Spirit Liquid directly into his mouth.

Yet as he drank the Stone Vein Spirit Liquid, Cao Bing could not taste anything at all.

"It tastes no different from tap water!" Cao Bing said painfully.

It tasted like tap water, but if its effects were also like tap water, Cao Bing swore that once he had the strength, he would chop Hong, that black-hearted merchant, into eight pieces!

Though he cursed inwardly, Cao Bing also knew that an important figure like Hong had no need to do something so unscrupulous over a little money.

Sure enough, before long, Cao Bing felt his body gradually growing hot!

"Warm and quite comfortable!"

Cao Bing sat cross-legged on the floor, not daring to waste any time. The medicine's effects were improving his physical fitness, and he could not bear to waste even the slightest bit.

That was 2 billion! Cao Bing's hard-earned money!

Circulating the Gene Primal Energy Cultivation Method that accompanied the Phantom Blade Technique, Cao Bing began frantically absorbing the medicinal effects radiating from the Stone Vein Spirit Liquid.

Cao Bing could feel every cell in his body gradually transforming. The cells' appetite and toughness slowly increased, while they also greedily swallowed the dense cosmic energy.

A full half hour passed. Under Cao Bing's unrelenting cultivation, his cells seemed to have reached their limit in absorbing the Stone Vein Spirit Liquid's effects. The excess medicinal effects no longer seemed capable of improving his body.

Only then did Cao Bing reluctantly open his eyes!

"At least several million went to waste!"

Cao Bing's heart ached so badly it made his liver tremble. He would have to kill several hundred Advanced Beast Soldiers to earn back several million!

"Right, I wonder whether these medicinal effects can help cultivate Internal Force!" Cao Bing suddenly had an idea. Wasting the remaining effects was still wasteful, so he might as well see whether Internal Force could absorb them.

After all, Internal Force and cosmic primal energy shared the same origin. Since it could strengthen cosmic primal energy and physical power, perhaps it could also increase Internal Force.

He acted as soon as he thought of it. The Pure Yang Formula he had learned from Qin De silently circulated through his meridians.

Cao Bing discovered that the remaining medicinal effects were indeed useful for cultivating Internal Force. Though their boost was far weaker than their enhancement of cosmic primal energy and physical strength, his Internal Force was steadily increasing.

As the last trace of medicinal power was refined by Cao Bing's Internal Force, his inner cultivation was finally pushed to the Half-Step Xiantian stage. He needed only to pierce through that final thin barrier to reach the Xiantian realm!

"Now I should be more than capable of crushing my former self! Those 2 billion were not spent for nothing after all."

Although he still ached over the drastic shrinkage of his wealth, feeling his strength clearly improve gave Cao Bing considerable comfort.

"I'll test my strength! Maybe tomorrow I can give Uncle Xie, Uncle Guan, and the others a big surprise!"

Cao Bing could barely wait to see how much his strength had grown. He sprang up from the bed, flashed out the door, and dashed away!