CHAPTER 198: CHAPTER 194: TOO MUCH IS AS BAD AS TOO LITTLE

Wang Wu could no longer control himself and started laughing foolishly.

Not bad, not bad!

No matter the effectiveness of this Basic Invisibility Technique, the important thing is that it proves that the Demon Race isn’t too bad at cultivating Spirit Root Dao Skills, except for being a bit slower.

Of course, having a human soul is crucial in this.

"However, this Basic Invisibility Technique is rather useless for me. I might as well make some Invisibility Talismans to sell and supplement my cultivation resources."

Wang Wu now understood what this Basic Invisibility Technique was about. Last year, whenever that Little Tree Spirit sneaked over, it used the exact same Invisibility Talisman.

These things are actually visible to the naked eye, just like the Space Magic of the Female Bodhisattvas on those apps back on Earth. At first glance, nothing seems off, but upon closer inspection, traces are everywhere.

Back on the west shore of the Xijiang River, he discovered those two Human Race Cultivators in the same way. In the end, the drawbacks are too great.

It’s really not as good as his Passive Concealment.

It can only be effective in certain environments.

In addition, he could make Invisibility Talismans; they should have a good market in the West Wilderness.

Moreover, as long as the Spiritual Energy Light Membrane phenomenon is slightly adjusted, it can be well used for alchemy.

Yes, the Spiritual Energy Light Membrane phenomenon allows for invisibility by sealing the Spiritual Qi. In earthly terms, it isolates all physical and chemical phenomena, directly achieving quantum invisibility, so naturally, you can’t see it.

Similarly, the goal of alchemy is greater energy utilization efficiency. If the Spiritual Qi can’t dissipate, it naturally becomes half of that.

Next, Wang Wu quickly dismantled the Eighth-Grade Pill Furnace, took out the two spherical reactors inside, casually put an Eighth-Grade Spirit Fruit inside, secured it, and then channeled Red Flame Spiritual Qi.

So skilled, with most of the principles understood, what’s difficult about it?

The Spiritual Energy Light Membrane can seal Spiritual Qi, and the high-speed rotation is like a centrifuge.

Coupled with suitable high-temperature baking, this isn’t called alchemy; it’s called energy purification.

In less than half an hour, a faint fragrance wafted out.

With a collection of Spiritual Fire, the hemisphere was opened, and there was a thumb-sized, bulging, pale golden Spirit Pill inside.

The pill can be completed!

Wang Wu happily swallowed the pale golden Spirit Pill directly.

It tasted pretty good.

But a few seconds later, his delighted expression was replaced by a very complex one.

Because—

"You consumed an Eighth-Grade Practice Pill, and you gained 5,000 Points of Spiritual Qi..."

"Note, this item is also commonly known as a Basic Pill, refined by Junior-level Alchemy Disciples of the Human Race Dao to practice and enhance alchemy techniques daily. It holds little technical value and can be used as material to refine more advanced Spirit Pills."

——

What a blow to the ego!

He had worked hard for several months, thinking he had created something big, only to find out it was only equivalent to the level of a basic Human Race Alchemy Dao disciple, with little technical merit.

Come on!

Is the gap really this wide?

With a bitter smile, Wang Wu quickly took out another Eighth-Grade Spirit Fruit. Practice Pill or Basic Pill, at least the utilization efficiency of Spiritual Qi is finally close to one hundred percent; 5,000 Points of Spiritual Qi!

However, this Practice Pill is indeed easy to refine. As long as the control over the Spiritual Energy Light Membrane phenomenon is good, the pill-forming rate is one hundred percent.

He refined two more in one go, devoured them quickly, and gathered 15,000 Points of Spiritual Qi. Without a word, he activated Level 6 Fury.

Thereby achieving the effect of instantly boosting a certain Basic Attribute by one hundred percent.

Next, Wang Wu continued refining this Practice Pill, consuming one as he refined one, sequentially upgrading to Level 3 for the Bloodline Secret Techniques of Qi Gathering and Transformation, Turn the Tide, and Thunderous and Swift, reaching the same level as Copper Head Iron Bone.

The effects are a thirty percent overall increase to Basic Attributes, one hundred twenty percent power increase, and one hundred twenty percent agility increase, respectively.

The total cost was 45,000 Points of Spiritual Qi, equivalent to gobbling down nine Eighth-Grade Practice Pills in one go. Including the previous ones, it means he has already consumed twelve, costing 60,000 Points of Spiritual Qi.

Such a thrill, but also...

Something seems a bit off, feeling like a balance was broken, or like the last straw that broke the camel’s back.

Wang Wu suddenly felt a bit dizzy, seeing golden lights before his eyes, while it seemed two small streams flowed from his nose, which was actually fresh blood gushing, his ears buzzing, his whole body starting to become numb and weak.

Faintly, a few lines of blurry information emerged.

"In a short time, you have consumed an excess of elixirs, causing your bloodline flesh to absorb an overdose of Spiritual Qi, leading to an unprecedented, rare condition. You are very likely experiencing Spiritual Qi poisoning."

"Your bloodline has experienced a certain degree of disorder, impacting most of your Bloodline Talents, making it impossible to release and operate. You are highly likely to face backlash, and your bloodline may collapse."

"Warning! You are really facing something akin to a Human Race cultivator undergoing Qigong Deviation and bloodline collapse!"

"Evaluation complete: You have borne and possessed too much power before your body fully matured. Like a small horse pulling a large cart, after repeated extreme breakthroughs, your bloodline and body can no longer maintain balance, leading to bloodline collapse!"

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"I screwed up! Was too careless!"

Wang Wu murmured bitterly, realizing his body isn’t digitized; upgrading requires gradual progression.

It turns out he was almost at his current limit when he last maxed out his Basic Attributes to 90 Points.

Now, his entire body started bleeding outward, also feeling inner bleeding, and even his Danger Perception couldn’t sense his situation.

His Bloodline Talent, Bloodline Power, was unable to self-rescue.

Even the Healing Talent was in a collapsing and striking state.

This truly felt like experiencing Qigong Deviation.

The Inner Breathing Technique was ineffective, and the three Acupoint Opening Demon Pills faced the greatest impact, merely able to maintain the influence on the core forces.

At this moment, who could save him?

Wang Wu was despairing, yet amidst this despair, he decisively activated the Ice and Fire Dual Spirit Roots.

Innate conditions require acquired methods to neutralize and heal.

At this moment, he was truly grateful for the past two years of cultivation investment in the Ice and Fire Spirit Roots.

That monotonous, desolate, life-draining slow cultivation was so excruciating, yet he persisted through it and ultimately cultivated to 9/10 progress, allowing his Ice Spiritual Qi and Red Flame Spiritual Qi to each reach a storage limit of 1,000 points.

At this moment, the abundant Ice Spiritual Qi flowed throughout his body, forcefully freezing and suppressing the collapse of his bloodline to pause temporarily. Whether it worked or not, alleviating it first was the right call.

Immediately followed by Red Flame Spiritual Qi commencing repair and adjustment, rhythmically and with restraint, allowing a portion of the bloodline collapse to awaken.

In essence, although I cannot stop you, I can control the scale and speed of your collapse.

Thus preventing a chain reaction, a panic-induced, complete collapse.

This point is crucial.

Because at this moment, there is still a part of the bloodline genes that have not collapsed.

When the risk of collapse is confined to a small range, unused power can be allocated from the whole to deliver aid.

Similar to a real-time strategy game, where you can pause the opponent’s progress to organize deployment calmly.

Thus, once the small-scale collapse ends, the Healing Talent first comes to repair.

Once repaired, the Ice and Fire Spirit Roots continue to thaw the next section of bloodline collapse.

Bit by bit, step by step, adjusting and coordinating.

And begin to attempt operating Inner Breathing Technique within already repaired bloodline regions, communicating with the three Acupoint Opening Demon Pills.

This step is the most critical of this phase.

Because the core area guarded by the Acupoint Opening Demon Pills is the regular army, is the main force, is the Taishan Stone suppressing the Companion Demon Vine.

Previously, everything was utter wilderness decay, basic decay, the core area nearly affected, risking explosive escalation if attempted rescue, let alone with the Companion Demon Vine, which genuinely eyed predatorily, purely relying on the three Acupoint Opening Demon Pills for suppression.

Thus, Wang Wu also had to appreciate that he hadn’t released the authority of the Companion Demon Vine; otherwise, this time might have resulted in a complete takeover.

And now, as the situation began to be controlled on a smaller scale, the blood Qi cycle could be rebuilt.

However, despite this process being simple to describe, it was difficult in practice, and needed time to buffer.

It could be said that at this moment, if just a small demon intruded, it could easily kill him.

Fortunately, due to his low-profile hibernation the past two years, extended invisibility genuinely intimidated Snake Flower and Lv Dongyang, making them reluctant to bother him.

This granted him some opportunity to survive.

A day passed, ten days passed.

A full month passed.

Wang Wu’s bloodline collapse, akin to Qigong Deviation, was finally forcibly salvaged by him.

All Bloodline Talents returned to their correct position, all Bloodline Secret Techniques returned to normal, but in exchange, he possibly faced a continued three to five-month weak recovery period.

Like recovering from a severe illness.

The only good news was that after this Purgatory-like ordeal, his Bloodline Evolution Level not only did not fall but directly increased by 2 percentage points, reaching 48.2%, with the attribute bar singing praises of perseverance and Phoenix Nirvana.

However, under severe weakness, his Passive Concealment regressed directly to Level 5, unable to maintain normal concealment anymore; any eighth-grade demon could see through him.

With no other choice, Wang Wu could only cast a Human Race’s Invisibility Technique on himself.

Better than nothing.

Then he hid in the storage room, using the dark shadows and door obstructions to compensate for the shortcomings of the Basic Invisibility Technique.

Since a prerequisite for the Basic Invisibility Technique to be visible to the naked eye is abundant light and that the concealed target is continuously moving, such as dancing or making provocative gestures, where exposure happens accidentally.

So long as these two points are compensated, this Basic Invisibility Technique is still quite effective.

Of course, each day he also picked mature berries once and occasionally infused spiritual energy into the Spirit Field Array, which was crucial to avoid appearing as if these two dwellings were unoccupied.

This was truly worry-inducing and thrilling.

And just like that, another three months swiftly passed, already reaching Wang Wu’s seventh year in this world and his third year in Great Pit City.

If calculated, Xiong Shiliu’s adventuring team would soon return, likely this winter, since Xiong Shiliu, Yuan Bupu, and Tiger Vanguard would undoubtedly advance to Fifth Grade.

Their advancement is vastly different from Snake Flower’s Mortal Blood Fifth Grade.

Snake Flower only represents possessing certain specialties that barely reach Fifth Grade, while the former signifies comprehensive Fifth Grade mastery.

If Old Niu and Niu Xiaocao still lived, they might have advanced to Fifth Grade too, considering the abundant resources in Black Forest.

As for Little Wild Boar, it was hard to say, perhaps it already ended up dead.

Wang Wu sighed, continuing to cultivate the Ice and Fire Dual Spirit Roots unaffected by his weak status.

Over the past three months, he never relaxed in this aspect of cultivation.

Now, he had a premonition he was about to break through, nearing the cultivation of Intermediate Ice and Fire Spirit Root.

However, at this moment, he suddenly heard some unusual sounds outside.

An intruder?