Invincible through Touching Corpses

Lin Xinghai was quite satisfied as he looked over the various attributes on his system panel.

"Excellent! I’m much stronger now. I can even protect myself in the wild without a Mecha," Lin Xinghai quickly assessed.

After all, an ordinary Standard Mecha only had 800 points for each of its attributes.

But when he activated his Divine Demon Body, his Power and Speed attributes would directly increase by 1,000 points.

Even his Physique, which received the smallest boost, still increased by 500 points.

It was no exaggeration to say that activating the Divine Demon Body was like wearing a personal, form-fitting Mecha.

And while piloting a Mecha could only be augmented by Superpowers, the Divine Demon Body was different.

In addition to Superpowers, the Divine Demon Body also benefited from his own base attributes and could even be combined with Martial Arts. The resulting combat power was undoubtedly much greater.

The only drawback, perhaps, was that it consumed Blood Qi Power.

It was worth noting that the Divine Demon Body was, in essence, a form of Martial Arts developed to its absolute peak. Therefore, they belonged to the same system; their effects could be added together, but they couldn’t amplify each other.

To put it simply, while the Phantom Body Technique could double his base Speed of 200 to 400, it could not double the 1,000 Speed points granted by the Divine Demon Body to 2,000. That bonus was simply a flat addition of 1,000 points.

Superpowers, on the other hand, belonged to a different system, so they could affect both Martial Arts and the Divine Demon Body.

Lin Xinghai focused his attention back on the system panel. After he broke through to the Blood Qi Realm, the "Genetic Optimization Level" section had vanished.

In its place was his current Realm.

He hadn’t paid much attention to this before, but now that he wanted to rapidly increase his strength, he suddenly noticed that there was no "+" symbol after his Realm.

This meant he couldn’t use the system to directly increase his Cultivation Level.

’Does this mean I’ll have to slowly improve my strength just like any other student?’ Lin Xinghai’s brow furrowed.

Upon reaching the Blood Qi Realm, one’s Cultivation was inextricably linked to the Blood Qi Power within the body.

For a normal student to increase their body’s Blood Qi Power, the first step was to learn a Martial Art called the "Blood Qi Technique."

The purpose of this Martial Art was simple: to rapidly digest the energy within the body, thereby strengthening one’s blood and qi and quickly increasing the total amount of Blood Qi Power.

Cultivating the Blood Qi Technique wasn’t difficult. The crucial part was what one consumed to provide energy for the technique to digest and convert into Blood Qi Power.

The most basic fuel was, of course, a massive amount of meat. A more extravagant option was to consume medicinal herbs that replenished blood and qi. But naturally, the most effective method was to use refined Elixirs.

So, at the end of the day, the biggest problem was still... money.

’For now, I’ll just have to go collect the Cultivation Resources from the academy. I’ll take it one step at a time after that,’ Lin Xinghai thought, rubbing his forehead.

However, as he looked at the system panel, he had a nagging feeling he’d forgotten something.

"That’s right, the system missions!" Lin Xinghai clapped his hands together. He quickly scrolled to the very bottom of the system panel, clicked on the collapsed section, and opened the hidden mission log.

The main mission displayed there read: "Break the 3rd Genetic Lock."

With his current strength, Lin Xinghai had, of course, completed this mission long ago. To the right of the mission description was a "claim reward" button. He clicked it, and 1 point of Blood Qi Power was immediately credited to him.

Lin Xinghai couldn’t be bothered to give such a meager reward a second glance.

After he claimed the reward, the main mission quickly updated.

"Break the 4th Genetic Lock and become a Blood and Qi Realm Martial Artist. Reward: New feature unlocked."

Lin Xinghai had a strong feeling that this new feature would be extremely important.

Without a moment’s hesitation, he claimed the reward.

A stream of information immediately flooded his mind.

He instantly understood what the system’s new feature was.

Energy Purification!

This new feature didn’t seem all that impressive at first glance, but Lin Xinghai’s mind was already racing with possibilities.

He immediately picked up the Body Tempering Pill from his desk.

He had just cut off a tenth of this Body Tempering Pill to restore his Blood Qi Power for the strength test. Now, he tossed the entire remainder into his mouth.

A prompt from the system quickly popped up.

"PING! Energy detected in the body. Please select ’Absorb’ or ’Purify’."

The "Absorb" function had always been there; selecting it would convert all the energy in his body into the system’s Blood Qi Power.

Ever since Lin Xinghai discovered he could absorb Blood Qi Power directly from Elemental Crystals, he hadn’t used this function on anything else.

This time, he immediately chose "Purify."

He soon felt the medicinal potency released by the Body Tempering Pill undergo a miraculous change within his body.

In truth, the medicinal potency provided by a Body Tempering Pill was already extremely pure and had virtually no side effects.

But after the system’s purification, Lin Xinghai instantly felt the potency elevate to a whole new level.

The feeling was like refining river water into purified water; they might not look very different, but once consumed and absorbed by the body, the difference was immense.

For instance, he could now clearly feel that his absorption speed for this medicinal potency had literally doubled.

Of course, this energy purification consumed Blood Qi Power. Lin Xinghai found that purifying the energy from the Body Tempering Pill once had cost him 900 points of Blood Qi Power.

And that wasn’t even for a complete Body Tempering Pill. A whole one would have cost a full 1,000 points of Blood Qi Power.

The only benefit was cutting his cultivation time from one hour to thirty minutes.

Using this feature on a Body Tempering Pill was obviously not worth it. ’But what if I used it on low-quality Elixirs?’

Why were Body Tempering Pills so expensive? Besides their obvious Body Tempering effects, the more important reason was that their medicinal potency was pure, with almost no side effects.

The latter point, in particular, was why Body Tempering Pills were so sought-after.

If one were only pursuing sheer potency, a single low-quality Elixir might not compare to a Body Tempering Pill, but the potency of two or three combined would definitely surpass it.

And yet, those Elixirs cost only a tenth, or even a twentieth, of a Body Tempering Pill.

’I knew the system wouldn’t let me down. It just gave me a different way to accelerate my Cultivation.’

As these ideas surfaced in his mind, Lin Xinghai quickly left his dormitory and headed for the administration building.

His destination was the Resource Distribution Center on the third floor of the administration building.

At the academy’s Resource Distribution Center, every student could collect a monthly stipend of resources based on their rank.

These resources were distributed on a monthly basis.

Special Class Students could receive resources equivalent to 500,000 Huaxia Coins, First Class Students received 300,000, Second Class Students received 200,000, and Third Class Students received 100,000.

This was just a single month’s allotment, an amount that was an absolute fortune for the average student.