Chapter 178: Absorbing the Blood Touch

A few days later.

Late at night.

Inside the silent, dim secret chamber.

Gunie, seated cross-legged on the meditation cushion, flipped his hand, and the dark metal sealing box that sealed the Blood Touch landed before him.

The sealing box, now taken out, lay quietly in front of Gunie, without any abnormal sounds or movements.

After these days of blood feeding and contact with the touch, the Blood Touch had gradually calmed down.

In fact, Gunie had already felt a subtle connection between himself and the Blood Touch; the Blood Touch was eager to enter Gunie's body and merge with his blood.

His right palm pressed against the sealing box.

Gurgle...

A large amount of blood flowed out and was quickly absorbed by the sealing box.

Thump, thump...

As it absorbed the blood, a faint bumping sound came from inside the sealing box.

Gunie sensed that the Blood Touch wanted to come out, wanted to merge with him.

"It should... be about right," Gunie said softly.

After the feeding was complete.

Gunie began to undo the seals on the outside of the sealing box.

Click! Click!

As Gunie unfastened the latches, the entire sealing box was officially opened.

What met his eyes was a peculiar sphere about the size of a shot put, gleaming with a metallic blood-red luster.

"So this is the Blood Touch?" Gunie murmured.

"It doesn't look very ferocious, but in reality, it's quite bloodthirsty and violent."

"These past few days, you've devoured nearly half the blood in my body. Fortunately, my blood pool can easily convert Death Beast blood into my own, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to feed you, you thing," Gunie said softly.

As if sensing it had been released, the Blood Touch quickly transformed into a tentacle as thick as a thumb and slithered from the sphere toward Gunie.

When it touched Gunie's palm, it gently rubbed against his hand with its tentacle, docile as a kitten, without any of its previous bloodthirsty frenzy.

"Truly, before blood, mad as a demon; after blood, saintly as a Buddha."

"Come on, enter my blood. From today on, I am your master," Gunie murmured softly.

As if sensing Gunie's intent, the Blood Touch quickly coiled around his hand and then slowly seeped into his blood.

"Huff..."

Feeling the Blood Touch, now stable within his blood, Gunie let out a soft sigh of relief.

"For now, it seems just as the senior said: as long as it's fed enough blood, there shouldn't be any problems."

"You'd better not cause any uncontrollable anomalies, or else I'll have no choice but to erase you."

Both were magical items.

The level of the Fate Gold Coin was clearly higher than that of the Blood Touch.

Back then, when Blood Curse Master Gewu used the Fate Gold Coin, he couldn't have had no magical items on him.

But the result was that Blood Curse Master left nothing behind; evidently, everything he carried was annihilated.

Using the Fate Gold Coin to summon a demon and swallow everything in one gulp.

If the Blood Touch inside Gunie's body misbehaved, it would most likely vanish on the spot.

Of course, if the Blood Touch obediently followed Gunie, he wouldn't let it disappear.

Sensing the Blood Touch within him, Gunie then focused his mind.

Swish!

With a flicker of an afterimage, the Blood Touch instantly shot out from the back of Gunie's left hand, extending a tentacle over five meters long and as thick as a finger.

It was extremely fast.

"Merged into my body, yet able to instantly condense into a tentacle and shoot out—that's a decent magical property."

"Five meters is its limit; that's already a considerable distance. And this material..."

Gunie pondered as he took out a magic copper-grade short blade.

With a burst of force, Gunie swung the blade down hard.

Clang!

The sound of metal clashing rang out in the small chamber, even sparking a few flecks of fire.

A slight dent appeared on the Blood Touch, but then vanished.

Gune's face immediately broke into a smile.

"This... its defensive capabilities are also quite astonishing."

The Blood Touch, which Gune had slashed fiercely, immediately turned around and rubbed back and forth against his right hand holding the blade.

It seemed to be saying: "Why did you cut me for no reason?"

Gune smiled and stroked the Blood Touch, which quickly retracted back into his body.

"Enemies at range have to endure my spell strikes, and up close, they have to endure both my spells and the Blood Touch's attacks."

"Once entangled by the Blood Touch, death is just seconds away."

"The Blood Touch greatly compensates for my lack of close-combat countermeasures."

"Even if some powerful assassin with formidable shield-breaking skills gets close, now that I have the magical item Blood Touch, I don't have to worry too much."

After storing the Blood Touch, Gune opened his system.

First idle slot: Soul-Fixing Divine Ring Incantation (Level 4)

Second idle slot: Sebona Source Pool (Level 5)

Third idle slot: Soul Seal Codex (Level 4)

Fourth idle slot: Demon Blade Cursed Incantation (Level 4)

Fifth idle slot: Blood Pool Codex (Level 4)

Sixth idle slot: 88%.

"The sixth idle slot will open soon; I'll put the Small Thunderflame Incantation in it."

"Once the Soul-Fixing Divine Ring Incantation reaches level five, I'll switch to the Great Thunderflame Incantation. At level five, its pulling effect is already strong enough."

With extensive experience in idle leveling, Gune knew that leveling a spell codex from five to six took a very long time.

Back then, the Bone Element Potion Secret Incantation took two or three months to go from level five to six.

And that was a low-level transcendent codex; this mid-level codex would likely take even longer.

The time it took to go from level five to six was enough for other spell codices to go from zero to four, or even five.

Once the more useful spell codices all reached level five.

Gune would then select core spell codices to continue leveling from five upward.

"At the same time, once the Demon Blade Cursed Incantation reaches level five, the Blood Shield Technique and Blood Shield will also need to be leveled up in rotation."

"Although these two spells are not too powerful now."

"But as my Blood Curse Master awakens for the second and even third time, these blood curses will gradually become powerful."

"And now..."

Gunie turned his gaze to the second AFK slot, the "Cybernetic Source Pool."

The Cybernetic Source Pool, a mid-tier transcendent spell, was clearly falling behind the pace of Gunie's spell tome collection.

This time when purchasing tomes, Gunie bought a Mystic Pattern low-tier Source Pool tome, named "Mystic Pattern · Bona Source Pool."

Indeed.

This thing was the Mystic Pattern-grade tome of the "Tan-Cybernetic" Source Pool series.

Low-tier: Bona.

Mid-tier: Cybernetic.

High-tier: Tan-Cybernetic.

And the Mystic Pattern tomes for low, mid, and high tiers had "Mystic Pattern ·" added in front.

For tomes in the same series, if one cultivated the earlier one, then cultivating the subsequent advanced tome would make progress extremely fast. And that was precisely why Gunie chose "Mystic Pattern · Bona Source Pool."

After the catalyst accepted the "Mystic Pattern · Bona Source Pool" tome,

Gunie replaced the "Cybernetic Source Pool" with it.

Moments later, the experience for "Mystic Pattern · Bona Source Pool" floated up.

Its experience was as high as 48. To think that the mid-tier tome Cybernetic Source Pool at level five only had 27 points of experience.

And this was only at level zero; as the level increased, the experience would be even greater.

"This way, my source pool expansion speed has clearly increased by a large margin. I can open nearly ten source pool units a day, which is about ten times the speed of other casters who are also second-tier spellcasters."

After placing the AFK tome, Gunie flipped his hand and took out a mithril-grade "Disguise Mask," pressing it onto his face.

As the disguise mask writhed slightly, Gunie's appearance rapidly changed.

His complexion became a bit darker, and the angles of his cheeks softened somewhat.

These slight changes had already made Gunie's appearance completely different from before.

Even someone familiar standing in front of Gunie would not recognize him as Gunie.

Then Gunie took out a teleportation scroll.