The effects of Dragon Blood, Luo Feng's surprise!

In the bathtub, Luo Feng took a deep breath.

With exceptionally steady hands, he opened the sealed cap of the glass tube.

A faint, strange bloody smell instantly filled the bathroom.

Luo Feng worked carefully with the viscous Dragon Blood, its dark gold and scarlet colors intertwined.

Bit by bit, he drew it into the enormous syringe.

Looking at the liquid in the syringe, which seemed to be burning with flames, Luo Feng felt his heartbeat quicken involuntarily.

After all, he was a pioneer now!

On the entire Earth, he was probably the first madman to dare inject Dragon Blood directly into his body!

"I'm going all in!"

Luo Feng gritted his teeth.

To keep the agony from making his hands shake and sending the needle astray,

He used his Spiritual Force to hold the syringe firmly in place.

The instant the Dragon Blood entered his body, Luo Feng's expression changed.

A terrifying agony beyond words

Surged through the blood vessels in his arm like a flood bursting through a breached dam, racing wildly into his limbs and bones!

Luo Feng clenched his teeth.

He endured the pain that made even his soul tremble.

Forcing himself to control his Spiritual Force, he pushed every last bit of Dragon Blood in the syringe into his body.

Not a single drop was wasted!

The instant he pulled out the syringe,

Luo Feng collapsed into the bathtub.

Beads of cold sweat the size of beans poured from his forehead like a waterfall.

Luo Feng clenched his fists tightly against the pain, his nails digging deep into his flesh.

The muscles all over his body trembled faintly and uncontrollably.

It hurt too much!

Luo Feng finally couldn't hold back a low roar.

His heartbeat raced! Stimulated by the Dragon Blood, the blood in his body flowed faster and faster!

Luo Feng could no longer hear any sound from the outside world.

Luo Feng's vision began to blur, and the world before his eyes turned bloodred.

That violent energy was frantically tearing apart and rebuilding his cells.

The pain, beyond the limits of human endurance,

Was making him lose consciousness, threatening to send him into a complete blackout!

Just as Luo Feng's consciousness was on the verge of sinking into endless darkness,

"Don't fall asleep!"

Lin Mo's voice exploded through his sea of consciousness!

"Think of your family! Think of your parents and your younger brother! Think of Xu Xin, who's still waiting for you!"

"Think of the vast universe you haven't yet seen with your own eyes!"

Hearing about the people he still cared about,

Luo Feng bit hard enough to break the tip of his tongue, and a metallic sweetness spread through his mouth.

The sharp pain finally brought his consciousness back into focus.

Yes! How could he fall here?

He still had so many things left to do.

If he fell, who would support his parents? Who would take care of his disabled younger brother?

He had promised Xu Xin he would marry her.

He had yet to see with his own eyes the vast universe his teacher had spoken of.

To fight the pain that was enough to drive a person mad,

Luo Feng's mind began to race.

He forced himself to recall the three saber forms Lin Mo had taught him.

He had already gained a basic grasp of the first form.

Now, amid the torment of endless pain,

Luo Feng began frantically contemplating the even more profound second form in his mind!

Time seemed to stretch out endlessly amid the excruciating pain.

Every passing second felt to Luo Feng like a century of torment.

Three days later.

Luo Feng had sat motionless in the bathtub for three days and three nights.

Finally, on the morning of the fourth day,

The torrent of violent energy in his body finally began to subside.

In the end, it completely merged into Luo Feng's limbs and bones, into every cell.

Luo Feng slowly opened his eyes and let out a long breath of turbid air, hot with heat.

"I'm so tired."

Luo Feng's voice was as hoarse as sandpaper scraping, full of a bone-deep exhaustion.

As his words faded, he braced both hands against the edge of the bathtub.

With some difficulty, he stood up and stepped out of the tub.

His eyes were bloodshot.

He looked like an evil spirit that had just crawled out of hell.

Although the agony in his body had vanished,

Once the mental string that had been pulled taut for more than seventy hours relaxed,

Sleepiness and exhaustion came crashing over him like mountains and seas.

Luo Feng didn't even have time to wash off the thick layer of foul-smelling grime covering his body.

He staggered out of the bathroom.

He came to the large, soft bed in the suite.

Without even pulling back the covers, Luo Feng fell onto the bed with a thud and went straight to sleep.

Luo Feng slept extraordinarily deeply.

The sun rose and the moon set, and another full day and more passed.

When Luo Feng opened his eyes again, it was already the afternoon of the fifth day.

Luo Feng stretched himself out.

He felt as if he had slept for a century.

His spirits were fuller than ever, and his mind was exceptionally clear.

The moment Luo Feng breathed in, the smell coming from his body nearly knocked him out.

He rushed into the bathroom at once and turned on the shower.

He set the water to its highest temperature.

It took him more than half an hour to wash away all the foul, bloody-smelling grime.

He dried himself and put on clean casual clothes.

Luo Feng stood before the huge floor-to-ceiling window.

Looking out at the scenery of Hongning Base City, Luo Feng felt more high-spirited than ever.

"Let's try out my strength now."

Luo Feng closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then suddenly clenched his fists.

A terrifying sense of power erupted inside him!

The surrounding air even gave a muffled boom as his power surged.

Luo Feng's eyes snapped open, an unmistakable light of wild delight bursting from them.

He wouldn't have known without testing it, but once he did, Luo Feng was utterly shocked!

"Teacher! You were absolutely right!"

Luo Feng shouted excitedly in his sea of consciousness.

"Injecting it directly into my body let me absorb every last drop of the Dragon Blood's medicinal effects. The results are simply heaven-defying!"

"I can feel it. My physical condition has reached Apprentice Level Ninth Stage!"

Luo Feng paced back and forth across the room in excitement.

Apprentice Level Ninth Stage!

That was equivalent to a High-level War God on Earth!

After his brief excitement, Luo Feng forced himself to calm down.

"Since my physical condition has already reached Apprentice Level Ninth Stage,"

"I should be able to absorb more cosmic energy now."

At that thought, Luo Feng immediately sat cross-legged in the center of the spacious living room.

He closed his eyes and began trying to absorb cosmic energy.

However, not long afterward,

Luo Feng suddenly opened his eyes, his brows knitted tightly together.

"Teacher, what's going on?"

"Why can't I convert cosmic energy anymore?"

Hearing this, Lin Mo said calmly from within his sea of consciousness,

"You can't absorb it because you've already reached the critical point."

"The critical point?"

Hearing the term, Luo Feng grew even more puzzled.

Lin Mo patiently explained:

"A martial artist's cultivation is really a process of continually breaking genetic shackles."

"At the Apprentice Level, there is a limit to how much cosmic energy your body's cells can contain."

"What you need now isn't to continue absorbing energy, but a qualitative transformation!"

"You need to break through this critical point and reach the Planetary Level."

"Only by letting the genes in your body undergo a fundamental leap can you continue absorbing cosmic energy and growing stronger."