Chapter 24: Essence of Flesh and Blood Pill

[Mission: Eliminate a low-level Commander-level monster (Repeatable)] (Completed 1 time)
Reward: 60 points

The ferocious head of the cow-sized red-haired hyena was severed by Luo Feng’s Blood Shadow combat blade, ending its life. Looking around, the pack of hundreds of red-haired hyenas, which had been full of vitality just moments ago, had already been reduced to warm corpses.

Luo Feng spared a moment to glance at his mission panel, his eyes brightening slightly. He recalled that during his last hunt, he had to kill a Bloodthirsty Bull with strength approaching a mid-level Commander to receive a 50-point reward. And yet, this red-haired hyena, which was significantly weaker, yielded 60 points?

Lower difficulty, higher reward—such a good deal? "Bai is quite generous," Luo Feng thought to himself.

Little did he know, Bai Chen, residing within him, was even happier.

"Stole 600 energy, gave Luo Feng 60 points, and netted 540 energy in one go. Energy is much easier to earn now than it was before," Bai Chen remarked.

After these days of research, Bai Chen had summarized some experience regarding energy acquisition efficiency:
1. When completing the same task, the stronger Luo Feng is, the more energy is acquired.
2. The higher the task difficulty, the more energy is acquired.
3. A third, less certain point: The greater the influence Luo Feng exerts, the more energy is acquired.

The last point was merely a hypothesis of Bai Chen’s own. "I’ll be able to confirm if the third point is as I suspect in a while," Bai Chen mused. With Luo Feng’s strength exposed, the emergence of such a young Warlord-level powerhouse would certainly create significant ripples within the warrior community.

Shifting his focus back, Bai Chen saw that Luo Feng had finished harvesting the valuable materials from the Commander-level red-haired hyena. With a thought, Bai Chen coordinated with Luo Feng’s actions, sweeping all the monster corpses killed by Luo Feng into his storage space. As Luo Feng’s strength increased, Bai Chen’s collection range had grown to thirty meters in radius around him.

Feeling the mountain of monster corpses piled up in the warehouse (over ten thousand from Luo Feng’s previous hunt), Bai Chen began to configure settings and use his [Creation] ability to forge new items.

Setting 1: Pills condensed from pure, easily absorbed flesh-and-blood essence energy.
Setting 2: One pill increases strength by 100 kilograms.

[‘Flesh Essence Pill’ * 10,320, Creation Complete]

Bai Chen felt the negligible energy expenditure and was immediately satisfied. "As expected, with abundant raw materials, the energy consumed is worlds apart from creating things from scratch."

"Come here, Nengliangduo," Bai Chen waved over the cat-girl who was playing with toys in the cat room.

The void space was infinite. Theoretically, as long as Bai Chen had enough energy, he could even create a real universe here. He simply spent a tiny fraction of energy to build a super-luxurious, thousands-of-square-meter cat room for Nengliangduo. The room was equipped with various exercise instruments, plush toys, scratching boards, clothes, and other daily necessities. Since he had a steady supply of basic materials (monster corpses, building debris, etc.), the creation cost was extremely low. As a novice cat owner, Bai Chen would never mistreat his first cat.

With a graceful sway of her petite body, she bounded a few times and landed at Bai Chen’s feet, crouching half-upright to look up at him. "Master, meow~"

"Eat this." Bai Chen tossed a Flesh Essence Pill to Nengliangduo, who caught it deftly with her small mouth and swallowed it.

After the pill hit her stomach, Nengliangduo felt a sudden warmth throughout her body. She rubbed her head against her master, feeling somewhat uneasy, but as the pill quickly decomposed into a surge of pure energy, she let out a few sharp cries and began to bolt around, incredibly restless. She unsheathed her sharp claws and frantically swiped at a massive scratching board wall, driven by excitement and the need to burn off the vigorous energy surging within her.

Throughout this process, Nengliangduo’s physical fitness was undergoing a rapid transformation. Bai Chen created a personal panel for her, similar to Luo Feng’s, to monitor her physical strength in real-time.

[Name]: Nengliangduo
[Warrior Rank]: Unranked (Strength: 506kg, Speed: 30.6m/s)
[Spirit Reader Rank (Beast Controller)]: Unranked

Through the personal panel, Bai Chen could clearly see her strength and speed rising visibly: 510kg, 523kg... finally stopping at 530kg in strength and 30.8m/s in speed. The strength increase was far from a hundred kilograms, only thirty.

This was normal, as the Flesh Essence Pills required digestion and absorption to convert into one's own strength, and the amount one could digest daily varied based on individual talent and strength. Neferpitou’s talent was certainly not weak—otherwise, she wouldn't have consumed over a thousand points of Bai Chen’s energy—but her current base strength was too low, so she could likely only digest two to three pills a day.

"I wonder how many Luo Feng can digest in a day?" Bai Chen wondered.

...Outside, Luo Feng, having just cleared a pack of red-haired hyenas on the outskirts of City #003, continued his advance before suddenly coming to a halt. He reached into his tactical backpack and pulled out a handful of bright red pills that emitted a faint blood-colored glow, looking quite extraordinary.

"What is this?" Luo Feng asked curiously.

"Didn't I say that collecting monster corpses would bring you benefits? Well, this is it," Bai Chen explained, transmitting the information regarding the Flesh Essence Pills' efficacy into Luo Feng’s mind.

"Flesh Essence Pills? Digesting one can increase my strength by a hundred kilograms?" Luo Feng’s eyes lit up. This was excellent stuff. Currently, with his Giant Elephant Guidance Technique, Body-Forging Pills, and gravity belt, he struggled to increase his strength by even a thousand kilograms a day. Could he gain a thousand kilograms just by eating ten of these little pills?

Without hesitation, Luo Feng swallowed five Flesh Essence Pills. Given his physical constitution, five should be no problem. A moment later, a wave of heat surged from deep within his body, and his skin turned slightly red. Luo Feng took a few deep breaths, suppressing the heat. Through his panel, he saw his stats rising, though the speed was not particularly fast.

"Fighting should help me digest this energy faster!" With this thought, Luo Feng flashed forward, accelerating toward the city.

As he officially entered the suburban area, the number of monsters he encountered skyrocketed. He wiped out over a dozen small packs of dozens or hundreds, and even encountered two large herds of over several thousand. Yet, regardless of the size of the packs, Luo Feng had no intention of avoiding them. Feeling full of restless, surging energy, he only wanted to engage in a hearty and satisfying slaughter.

He executed the moves he had mastered from the *Nether Blade* manual, using his Micro-level movement technique to fluidly dodge the monsters' attacks.

Over half an hour later, as the last tiger-cat monster fell, Luo Feng let out a light breath. The jet-black Blood Shadow blade in his hand was now stained with a terrifying dark red hue. Feeling that the energy from the five pills had been completely digested and his strength had increased by another five hundred kilograms, a satisfied smile spread across Luo Feng’s face.