Chapter 119: Blood of the Death God Beast

When Gune approached the already dead Death God Beast,

he saw George crouching motionless beside it.

"Is he... looting?"

Gune narrowed his eyes slightly.

George was a "Time Hunter" with special time abilities.

When a hunter finishes a hunt, the harvest is quite substantial.

At this moment, George was most likely scavenging the time that had dissipated after the Death God Beast's death.

Sensing Gune's arrival, George looked up.

His face was brimming with indescribable joy as he softly exclaimed,

"This harvest is truly remarkable!"

"Indeed!"

Gune nodded lightly and walked over.

Without much ado, Gune quickly constructed puppet threads, took out a sealed Dragon Blood Wood Bottle, and began drawing blood.

The Death God Beast had just died, and the supernatural properties of its blood had not yet dissipated; this was the best time to extract it.

Moreover, this Dragon Blood Wood Bottle could largely preserve the supernatural properties of the blood. After sealing it and storing it in the system space,

when taken out again, the supernatural properties of the blood would be perfectly preserved.

Gune had made many preparations for this battle. He had prepared seven or eight Dragon Blood Wood Bottles for storing blood, each capable of holding tens of thousands of milliliters.

If that wasn't enough, there were also "Black Thorn Wood Bottles." Although their effect was somewhat inferior, timely use would still be fine.

Speaking of the Dragon Blood Wood Bottle, Gune's "Planting Page" had recently opened a new "planting slot."

Gune now had three planting slots.

As for the sixth idle slot on the idle page, the progress bar was only halfway through.

It was estimated that by the time spring came next year, this sixth idle slot would fully bloom.

As for the seventh idle slot, Gune estimated it would take another year.

After opening the third "planting slot,"

Gune carefully selected and planted a peculiar tree called the "Hell Abyss Tree."

The Hell Abyss Tree originates from the deeper "Shadow Abyss Layer" of the "Abyss Hell World."

It certainly couldn't survive on the current Oya Continent.

But in Gune's hands, it was different.

As long as a supernatural seed still had life activity, the planting slot could provide a perfect environment for it to take root, sprout, and grow perfectly.

This Hell Abyss Tree was a "King-level" plant.

From ancient books on supernatural plants, Gune learned that the Hell Abyss Tree, when grown to a certain extent, could bear a peculiar fruit called the "True·Abyss Source Fruit."

The "True·Abyss Source Fruit" is a rare fruit recorded in human history that can strengthen the soul and grant it defensive abilities.

Of course, the "True·Abyss Source Fruit" is not without drawbacks.

But compared to its powerful effects, the drawbacks of the True·Abyss Source Fruit seem negligible.

Physical defense and resilience are one thing.

Soul defense and resilience must also be strengthened.

Gune didn't know how the higher-ups of the Pioneer Group obtained the seeds of this tree.

But it was certain that the practical value of these seeds was not high.

And Gune guessed that the Pioneer Group probably still had such seeds, which is why they gave him one.

Overall, the prices of these powerful supernatural tree seeds were not high.

This was true not only for the Hell Abyss Tree,

but also for Dragon Blood Wood seeds, and even the Elf Life Tree seeds.

What truly mattered was the effect after these seeds took root, sprouted, and grew.

The Life Spring Water of the Elf Life Tree goes without saying—it can produce "Life Spring Water."

In the "Twisted Secret Realm" deep within the twisted passage where the Blood Ear Elves and other elf clans gathered, the Elf Life Tree was their last dignified asset.

The "Life Spring Pool" beneath the Elf Life Tree in Gune's possession was already the size of a large wooden basin.

Apart from normal usage, Gune did not excessively collect the Life Spring Water from this pool.

Because Gune discovered that as the Life Spring Water accumulated, its supernatural properties grew richer.

Vaguely, Gune guessed some information.

That is, if the Life Spring Water in the pool was not collected, it might give birth to "Essence Life Spring Water" within it.

Essence Life Spring Water is a level higher than Life Spring Water.

In the future, advanced secret pattern potions brewed with Essence Life Spring Water would raise the upper limit of supernatural properties much higher than those made with Life Spring Water.

By comparing the three levels of "Source Power Spring Water," "Essence Source Power Spring Water," and "Life Spring Water,"

Gune could roughly infer that

perhaps the upper limit of "Life Spring Water" only allowed human supernatural beings to reach the "Elite level."

While "Essence Life Spring Water" might allow humans to reach the "King level."

As for the specifics, it would have to wait until the potion results were out to be determined.

Similarly,

when Dragon Blood Wood grows to a certain extent, it can bear various "Dragon Blood Fruits."

It is said that creatures with dragon bloodline, after consuming these Dragon Blood Fruits, can continuously enhance their dragon blood supernatural properties, strengthen their physique, and improve scale defense.

For creatures without dragon bloodline, consuming them would result in the erosion of supernatural properties in blood and flesh as a minor issue.

In severe cases, blood corruption, loss of blood activity, flesh decay, source power alienation, supernatural失控, and finally a miserable death.

However, Gune's own Dragon Blood Wood was an "Elite-level" plant; whether it could bear "Dragon Blood Fruits" was still uncertain.

And Gune did not intend to wait that long for this "Elite-level" Dragon Blood Wood.

This Dragon Blood Wood was more likely to be cut down and harvested, sold as aged Dragon Blood Wood timber. In the current market, aged Dragon Blood Wood was not cheap.

The vacated planting slot would at least be for a King-level organism.

Because the value of these seeds was not high enough and they were not given much attention, Gune was able to obtain so many powerful seeds.

In the vast deep-sea territories, if Gune offered high prices to acquire seeds, he might obtain some supernatural plant seeds he desired.

While pondering, Gune quickly extracted the Death God Beast's blood.

The blood was dark and thick; upon closer inspection, one would notice a faint golden luster within the pitch-black blood.

This blood had the potential to become dark golden blood.

It was just that this second-order Death God Beast was still relatively weak, and its blood had not yet matured.

Bottle after bottle.

The Death God Beast had more blood than Gune had anticipated.

But with such a massive body, having this much blood was normal.

After more than ten minutes,

Gune finally finished extracting most of the Death God Beast's blood.

He did not extract the blood from the fine blood vessels, as the Death God Beast's carcass would be digested by Gune's blood pool anyway.

"Phew..." he breathed a sigh of relief.

Gune contentedly stored the last half-bottle of Death God Beast blood into his system space.

"This Death God Beast blood is very suitable, no less than dragon blood."

"Once I digest it sufficiently, I can attempt a blood exchange."

"Hmm..."

As he pondered, Gune looked at the massive body of the Death God Beast, recalling the wing he had severed earlier.

The Blood Curse Master's ability to wash and digest blood

started from the point of "blood assimilating blood."

Its purpose was to use one's own blood to absorb others' blood.

But with the arrival of "blood exchange," after changing one's own bloodline,

a higher-level usage method emerged: using the "blood pool" to absorb flesh, bones, scales, and so on.

The range of digestion by this blood pool was limited.

It couldn't digest everything; it could only absorb and digest things with commonality.

For example, if transformed into "dragon blood," it could only digest the bones, flesh, and scales of creatures with dragon bloodline.

The reason Gune could absorb and digest the writhing flesh

was naturally because Gune himself had been absorbed by that flesh once.

Through the system's reincarnation, Gune shared commonality with the writhing flesh, so he could absorb and digest it.

The reason the blood pool is said to be the core of the Blood Curse Master

is that the Blood Curse Master, by digesting blood and using the blood pool to transform his own supernatural blood, gains the life commonality of that supernatural creature.

Then the Blood Curse Master can use the blood pool's common absorption ability to absorb the creature's flesh, bones, and scales, greatly enhancing his physique.

Through some materials, Gune learned that the Blood Curse Master "Gewu" was powerful because he had slain several powerful dragon creatures.

Now, with such a powerful Death God Beast before him,

Gune naturally wouldn't think about dragon blood and such things that were currently out of reach.

Wasn't this Death God Beast good enough?

Once the blood exchange with the Death God Beast's blood succeeded, Gune could also digest the Death God Beast's scales, bones, and flesh.

But the prerequisite was that Gune needed to first absorb the Death God Beast's blood, eliminating any resistance between him and the beast, so digestion could proceed normally.

At that time, with Gune's physique and blood strengthened, combined with secret pattern potions,

and the idle system's enhancement of various spells,

by the third and fourth orders, Gune could become a powerful "tanky spellcaster."

This single Death God Beast would be enough for Gune to digest for a long time.

Once he grew stronger in the future, Gune could seek out creatures more powerful than "dragons."

In this supernatural world with terrifying beings like evil gods, dominators, and those above the stars, powerful creatures abound.

For Gune, they were all his—ingredients.