Chapter 653 - 623: The Effects of the Blood Bag (Part 1)

While the military squad was stunned and overjoyed, the members of Xinghai Squad were feeling almost exactly the same.

They had just killed a wave of Abyssal Creatures and, more importantly, had finally found their first Blood Bag.

"Is this a Blood Bag?" Lin Xinghai asked, picking up the blood-red droplet before him, which was about the size of a ping-pong ball.

The Blood Bag in Lin Xinghai’s palm truly resembled a giant drop of blood, but everyone could sense the immense Blood Qi Power contained within it.

"The Blood Qi Power it contains is certainly dissipating quickly. Every minute you delay consuming it is a huge loss. What a clever design! This way, the top students from the three major academies will have no choice but to come in here and hunt Abyssal Creatures," Lin Xinghai couldn’t help but remark.

However, the members of Xinghai Squad who had gathered around him were focused on something else entirely.

"Captain, hurry and use it! If the Blood Qi Power dissipates, it’ll be a waste. Or... how about I test it for you?" Little Fatty said, his eyes gleaming.

Before Lin Xinghai could even speak, Yan Feijie couldn’t help but retort, "Who was it that was so insistent on setting rules earlier? Now that they’re set, it looks like someone’s thrown them to the dogs."

"What do you know! I’m offering to test it for the Captain, as a precaution. Everyone knows those Abyssal Creatures are up to no good. What if it’s poison?" Little Fatty declared with an air of self-righteousness.

Listening to their bickering, Lin Xinghai couldn’t help but laugh. He didn’t delay, however, simply tearing the thin membrane on the Blood Bag’s surface with his finger and pouring the rich, liquefied Blood Qi Power into his mouth.

’As for Little Fatty’s talk of testing for poison, the military has already run countless tests. If they hadn’t confirmed it was absolutely safe, Zuo Wenya would never have told me about it.’

As Lin Xinghai swallowed the near-liquefied Blood Qi Power, it instantly dispersed, surging through every part of his body.

Normally, if such a vast amount of Blood Qi Power were to run rampant inside someone’s body, any Martial Artist below the Body Shaping Realm would be completely unable to withstand it. Their blood vessels and meridians would instantly burst from the pressure.

But this Blood Qi Power was different. Not only was it pure to the extreme, but it also seemed to contain a type of Vitality Power.

As a result, when this Blood Qi Power surged through the body, not only did it cause no damage, it actually provided a certain degree of reinforcement.

Of course, if left uncontrolled, the force of the impact would certainly be uncomfortable for the meridians, but it would only cause a dull, aching pressure at most, posing no real danger.

Without further hesitation, Lin Xinghai immediately circulated his Blood Qi Technique, began to refine the Blood Qi Power, and channeled all of it into his liver to temper the organ.

Cultivation in the Marrow Tempering Realm consisted of tempering the body’s internal organs—11 in total.

Once Lin Xinghai finished tempering three organs, he would break through to the Marrow Tempering Realm Middle Stage.

And since his heart and stomach had already undergone a transformation, those two organs were already considered fully tempered. He now only needed to temper one more organ to break through to the Marrow Tempering Realm Middle Stage.

Lin Xinghai previously had 2033 points of Source Blood. After his heart and stomach completed their transformation, he had invested all 33 remaining points into tempering his liver.

Thanks to the powerful effects of the Source Blood, Lin Xinghai’s liver was already at least halfway tempered. Now, as he continuously infused it with Blood Qi Power, the tempering process was rapidly accelerating.

For an ordinary person, it would take at least ten minutes to fully absorb the Blood Qi Power from a Blood Bag.

But because Lin Xinghai’s heart had undergone a transformation, he possessed an ultra-fast conversion efficiency for Blood Qi Power. For him, it would take five minutes at most to finish the absorption.

Of course, with his Time Acceleration Ability stacked on top, he completed the conversion and absorption in just half a minute.

Lin Xinghai checked the tempering progress on his liver; it had increased from roughly 50% to 55%.

’Not bad. A single Blood Bag increases the progress by 5%, so it would only take 20 to completely temper one organ. For ordinary Martial Artists, these Blood Bags are truly like Miracle Elixirs,’ Lin Xinghai mused.

Of course, for him, taking this long to get just one Blood Bag meant it wasn’t particularly useful.

Granted, the amount of Blood Qi Power gained from one Blood Bag was equivalent to absorbing ten Nine Yang Blood Pills, which for anyone else was almost an entire day’s worth of cultivation.

But for Lin Xinghai, the effect wasn’t as significant. An ordinary person needed at least two hours to absorb a single Nine Yang Blood Pill. Even a genius like Liu Miaomiao would take an hour.

But with his powerful Perception Power, combined with the system’s purification effect and the absorption ability from his transformed stomach and heart, he could absorb a Nine Yang Blood Pill in 15 minutes at most.

With Time Acceleration active, that was merely a matter of a minute and a half.

Even absorbing ten Nine Yang Blood Pills was only a 15-minute affair for him, while an ordinary person needed 10 minutes just to absorb one Blood Bag.

Therefore, if the number of these Blood Bags was low, they held very little appeal for Lin Xinghai.

Of course, if there were a lot of them, that would be a different story. If not for the bottleneck in his Divine Demon Body’s progression, with enough Blood Bags, he could even advance from the Early Stage of the Marrow Tempering Realm directly to the Peak in a single day.

More importantly, the Blood Qi Power inside these Blood Bags was all obtained for free.

A single Nine Yang Blood Pill was incredibly expensive, costing 30,000 Huaxia Coins.

Even if Lin Xinghai substituted them with Blood Burst Pills, those still cost 5,000 Huaxia Coins each.

So, all in all, Lin Xinghai was quite satisfied with the effects of these Blood Bags. His only dissatisfaction was the quantity; they had killed nearly 1,000 Abyssal Creatures to get just one. It was simply too few.

’I hope we find enough Blood Bags ahead! Otherwise, I might have to venture deeper inside,’ Lin Xinghai thought, gazing into the depths of the dense green fog.

At that moment, the members of Xinghai Squad saw Lin Xinghai finish his cultivation and open his eyes, and they all eagerly began to ask questions.

"Captain, what are the effects of the Blood Bag like?"

"Captain Lin, when you refine the Blood Bag, is it as easy to absorb as Instructor Zuo described?"

"Captain, does the Blood Qi Power in a Blood Bag really equal that of ten Nine Yang Blood Pills? And the absorption speed, just how fast is it? Can you really absorb a whole one in just ten minutes?"

Everyone began talking at once, voicing all their curious questions.