Chapter 240: Devouring Dragon Hearts, Physique Explodes!

Three days of time, passed in a flash!

Still at Qingshan Martial Arts University.

Inside Wangxing Pavilion No. 38.

Ye Bai sat cross-legged on the bedroom floor, holding a martial technique in one hand, completely immersed in it.

"More, not enough, a bit more..."

This was because of the thought transmitted once again by the God-Slaying Spear.

His other hand subconsciously reached into his storage space, but when he failed to pull out any new Battle Soldiers, he snapped back to his senses.

"Have they all been devoured?"

The time it takes for the God-Slaying Spear to devour a Battle Soldier increases as the grade of the devoured Battle Soldier rises.

Added to this was the truly staggering amount of Merit Points Ye Bai had spent this time, purchasing a massive quantity of Battle Soldiers, wanting to raise the God-Slaying Spear directly to Flood-tier Top Grade.

Therefore, for the past three days, he had stayed inside Wangxing Pavilion, repeating the action of feeding it!

During this time, he had poured all his attention into the study of a brand-new Martial Technique!

"However, the grade of the God-Slaying Spear actually only rose to Flood-tier Middle Grade..."

He looked up at the God-Slaying Spear hovering in front of him.

Ye Bai's mouth twitched.

He had long known that for this growth-type Battle Soldier, as its grade increased, the number of Battle Soldiers it needed to devour also increased.

From Yellow Grade Top Grade to Mysterious Grade Low Tier, it required twenty Mysterious Grade Low Tier ones, then twenty-five, then thirty.

From Mysterious Grade Top Grade to Earth Grade Low-Tier, it required forty Earth Grade Low-Tier ones.

From Earth Grade to Heaven Tier, it was even sixty.

That was already quite staggering, right?

Ye Bai had been mentally prepared for this.

Three days ago, he had placed an order at the Martial Artist Association for eighty Desolate-tier Low-Tier, eighty-five Desolate-tier Middle Grade, and ninety Desolate-tier Top Grade Battle Soldiers.

As for Flood-tier Battle Soldiers, Ye Bai bought even more!

Even though Flood-tier Battle Soldiers were suited for Grandmaster powerhouses, the price had nearly increased tenfold.

He ordered a total of one hundred Flood-tier Low-Tier, one hundred Middle Grade, and one hundred Top Grade!

The inventory of the Shanghai Martial Arts Association wasn't enough, requiring them to pull stock from all over the country; Ye Bai had only taken away a portion of the Flood-tier Battle Soldiers at the time.

The Desolate-tier Battle Soldiers had only cost Ye Bai a little over one hundred thousand Merit Points in total.

The Flood-tier ones that followed, however, had cost Ye Bai over one million three hundred thousand Merit Points!

The only reason it cost this much was because, looking across the entire Great Xia, the number of Grandmaster Realm powerhouses was more than a hundred times fewer than Fifth-grade Martial Artists, and they could serve as the lord of a city in many places.

Plus, Merit Points were hard to obtain, and not every Grandmaster had the ability to earn the money to buy Flood-tier Battle Soldiers.

Therefore, the market for Flood-tier Battle Soldiers was not large, and every Flood-tier Battle Soldier took a long time from being forged to being sold.

Which meant, they were all inventory stock!

Ye Bai was the first person in history to purchase a massive quantity of Flood-tier Battle Soldiers at once.

And he only cared about the quality of the Battle Soldiers, not caring about other aspects.

Even those that had problems during forging, such as those that would cause mental confusion or similar side effects if carried by the user for a long time, he accepted them all.

Therefore, the high-level executive at the Shanghai Martial Arts Association who appeared to handle the transaction with Ye Bai—who was said to be a friend of Sima Kong—was shocked while also grinning from ear to ear, waving a hand to give Ye Bai, this god of wealth, a super discount!

The original price of five thousand for a Flood-tier Low-Tier Battle Soldier was averaged down to just over three thousand in the end.

A single Flood-tier Top Grade was also marked down to just over five thousand Merit Points.

However, when Ye Bai officially began upgrading the God-Slaying Spear, he discovered it wasn't enough, far from enough!

Ye Bai had originally thought he had completely figured out the conditions for the God-Slaying Spear's promotion.

But he discovered that the number of Desolate-tier Low-Tier Battle Soldiers required for the God-Slaying Spear to rise from Heaven Tier Top Grade to Desolate-tier was one hundred! Twenty more than estimated!

For the God-Slaying Spear to rise from Desolate-tier Low-Tier to Middle Grade, it devoured most of Ye Bai's remaining Desolate-tier Battle Soldiers, roughly equivalent to one hundred and twenty Desolate-tier Middle Grade ones!

At that time, Ye Bai felt a sense of foreboding and urgently contacted the Shanghai Martial Arts Association.

He bought yet another batch of Battle Soldiers!

The result did not exceed Ye Bai's expectations.

The God-Slaying Spear had finally managed to rise to Desolate-tier Top Grade.

Then Ye Bai discovered that to rise to Flood-tier Low-Tier.

The number of Flood-tier Low-Tier Battle Soldiers required was one hundred and sixty...

If it weren't for the fact that Ye Bai had contacted the Martial Artist Association halfway through and said he would use all his remaining Merit Points to buy Flood-tier Battle Soldiers, making the Shanghai Martial Arts Association pull more stock again.

And that the Battle Soldiers obtained from the two Hidden Mode runs of the Tongtian Tower, including even one Universe Tier, had all been fed to the God-Slaying Spear.

Right now, the God-Slaying Spear might only just barely be at Flood-tier Middle Grade!

"Merit Points: 250"

If one were to open Ye Bai's Martial Artist Association app account to take a look at this moment.

One would see that his current Merit Points were now down to a mere 250!

Back to square one in one fell swoop!

"And if I haven't calculated wrong, to truly raise the God-Slaying Spear to Flood-tier Top Grade, I will need to invest at least another million Merit Points..."

Poor.

This was the only thought that popped into his mind after Ye Bai completely came to his senses.

He had thought the wave of Merit Points gifted by Magic City Martial Arts University would allow him to have financial freedom for a short time.

With the God-Slaying Spear at Flood-tier Top Grade, which would be enough to use for a long time, the remaining money would allow him to continuously purchase various Martial Techniques to grow stronger, living a prosperous life.

Who would have thought that the God-Slaying Spear's ability to devour gold would be even more outrageous than imagined?

Although Ye Bai had returned to square one, he had gifted Li Qingqing and the others one hundred thousand Merit Points each.

And there was also the reason for gifting a massive amount of Merit Points to Qingshan Martial Arts University.

However, not to mention that all these Merit Points were on him, at most, he could only have upgraded the God-Slaying Spear to the Flood-grade Top Grade.

He looked up at the panel again.

【Martial Technique: Mental Storm (Major Achievement Level 0/), Thought Power Piercing (Minor Achievement Level/), Roaming Dragon Cloud Step (Minor Achievement Level), God-Defying Spear Technique (Minor Achievement Level), Dragon-Slaying Spear Technique (Minor Achievement Level), Star-Moon Spear Technique (Minor Achievement Level)】

【Domain: Destruction Domain (7.3%)】

This was the updated section on his panel, nearly four days after the battle at Magic City Martial Arts University!

Because of his extraordinary talent in martial techniques, he had already mastered seven of the ten Flood-grade Martial Skills he had purchased back then!

Only the last three remained!

This meant that Ye Bai would soon need to purchase new martial techniques again!

In particular, the progress of comprehending the Destruction Domain had temporarily stopped three days ago after he started feeding the God-Slaying Spear, because he had mastered a brand-new Flood-grade Martial Skill at that time.

And for a Flood-grade Martial Skill, it only took ten thousand proficiency points to go from entry-level to proficient.

From proficient to Minor Achievement only took another twenty thousand points.

Ye Bai therefore felt that prioritizing the improvement of martial technique proficiency and bringing the proficiency of all Flood-grade Martial Skills to the Minor Achievement level would be best.

Combat power improvement could be maximized.

Then, after he mastered a Mental Power Technique, he experimented with its power.

Well, the kind used on himself; having 【Reset】 makes one willful.

Ye Bai discovered that because attacks from Mental Power cannot be defended against by conventional defensive means.

The power of a Mental Power Technique was even more terrifying than imagined!

With his five million Mental Power, anyway, if he were hit by any random Mental Power Technique, he would bleed from his seven orifices on the spot! He would be hard-controlled in place for one second!

Don't underestimate one second.

If used in battle...

If he, having reached the Minor Achievement level in two Mental Power Techniques, were to fight Ye Sanjian again.

Even if the latter were in the Half-Step Martial King Realm, he wouldn't need to wait for Ye Sanjian to unleash three strikes; he could crush him head-on!

After Ye Sanjian turned into a seventh-grade monster, his will became chaotic; Ye Bai wouldn't even need to activate the Battle Saint Body, he could defeat Ye Sanjian with just two Mental Power Techniques!

In other words, the improvement in Ye Bai's combat power from Mental Power Techniques was very, very large!

Ye Bai therefore decided to prioritize upgrading the two Mental Power Techniques to Major Achievement, and he also wanted to purchase more Mental Power Techniques.

And a Flood-grade Top Grade Mental Power Technique cost fifty thousand Merit Points...

Poor, too poor!

"Make money, must make money!"

Ye Bai took another deep breath; anyway, he decided that since the upgrade of the God-Slaying Spear was temporarily suspended.

Then it was time for him to officially begin the plan he had long since decided upon!

To fight for, to snatch the resources that originally belonged to the God Creation Society's Di Li and the other prodigies!

"Click!" He pushed open the door to his room.

"Master, you've come out of seclusion?!"

However, upon stepping out, it was beyond Ye Bai's expectations.

Not only was Qin Churan staying in the villa, but Guogaitou was here too.

And they were actually not playing games.

Instead, they were in the kitchen with Qin Churan, busy with something unknown.

It was the kind where they only poked their heads over after hearing the sound of the door opening!

"How are you here!?" Ye Bai was even stunned for a moment.

After Wang Xiaopang also became Ye Bai's apprentice and hit it off with Guogaitou.

In order to stop this pair of troublemakers from bothering him, he had taken advantage of the time they were playing games to roughly tell them how to position themselves in the game.

This was the real reason why Guogaitou hadn't appeared since then!

He had been staying over at Wang Xiaopang's place, the two of them dominating the canyon, practicing their miraculous positioning skills!

He had thought that with the latter's abstract gaming talent, they wouldn't come to bother him for a long time.

He didn't expect them to have learned it in such a long time?

"Master, don't misunderstand, I haven't slacked off on practicing my ultimate move!

I just arrived! Before this, I had been practicing positioning and One Second Five Slashes!"

"On the contrary, it was the second junior brother; he was just dragged by me to play games for two days and two nights, and then he said he wouldn't play anything anymore and ran off to sleep!"

Seeing Ye Bai's gaze, Guogaitou thought Ye Bai was reproaching him for not working hard on learning game techniques, so he hurriedly said seriously.

Ye Bai's mouth twitched.

Alright, he had overestimated Guogaitou.

It was also hard on Wang Xiaopang.

His intuition told him that the two days and two nights Guogaitou mentioned were definitely the kind that fully added up to forty-eight hours!

Forcibly dragging Wang Xiaopang to play games for two days and two nights; during that time, with Wang Xiaopang's talent, he probably would have been sleepy long ago, no matter how much he loved playing games.

"Keep up the good work, I have something to go out for."

Ye Bai didn't know how to evaluate Guogaitou.

The top priority was still to officially start the plan to snatch... earn Merit Points!

"Master, wait!"

However, seeing this, Guogaitou grew anxious again and called out to Ye Bai.

"What is it? Haven't you finished learning the footwork yet?" Ye Bai assumed Guogaitou wanted to pester him to learn new techniques again.

"Master, you've misunderstood. I know the principle that trying to chew too much leads to indigestion. Before I have thoroughly mastered the footwork ability, I won't let you teach me any more ultimate moves!"

Guogaitou said.

At the same time, a look of hesitation flashed across his eyes.

"Then what is it?" Ye Bai was even more puzzled.

"Umm, Master, how should I put this..."

Guogaitou's eyes lit up; he had an idea.

"Everything I've learned since becoming your disciple, Master, has been a miraculous ultimate move.

And since you didn't charge me tuition, Master, I know you must feel that talking about money with a genius like me is too vulgar!"

"But I can't let down your kindness, Master, so I have prepared a master-apprentice gift to give to you today!

A dish, one I made with my own hands!"

"I was just in the kitchen, letting the Mistress teach me how to prepare the ingredients!"

Ye Bai finally understood why Guogaitou had uncharacteristically not been playing games.

But in truth, he still wanted to leave.

It remained the same: Guogaitou had recognized him as his master because of a game, and it wouldn't last; he didn't want to owe the other party anything.

"Xiaobai, why don't you stay a while longer and taste little Changsheng's cooking first.

It is, after all, the child's heartfelt intention, isn't it?"

However, Qin Churan came out of the kitchen at this moment and smiled.

"Alright." Ye Bai didn't know how to explain Wu Zhangsheng's identity to Qin Churan, so he had to agree.

Until.

"Master, the dish is here~"

Not long after, Wu Zhangsheng arrived in front of Ye Bai, carrying a basin of food!

Ye Bai suddenly noticed that Qin Churan was standing in the kitchen with a look of utter disbelief on her face!

Then Ye Bai looked at the dish Wu Zhangsheng had brought up, and his entire person immediately fell silent.

He regretted staying a little.

Black.

Charred!

It was purely a plate of charcoal!

Ye Bai couldn't tell at all what raw materials Wu Zhangsheng had used to make this dish, or what seasonings he had added.

At this moment, he only wanted to say one thing to Wu Zhangsheng: why don't you just pay the tuition instead?

Although I don't want to owe you a favor, it would still be better than making me eat this dish, right?

"Master, want to try it?"

"This is the first dish I've ever made in my life!" Wu Zhangsheng looked at Ye Bai with anticipation.

"Alright." Ye Bai felt Wu Zhangsheng's burning gaze and thought it best not to dampen his enthusiasm; besides, he had 【Reset】, so he wasn't afraid of this dish being poisonous.

However.

Once again, contrary to Ye Bai's expectations...

When he picked up a chopstick of the food and put it into his mouth.

"Hm?!"

His eyes lit up instantly!

It melted in his mouth!

And even though it had clearly been turned into charcoal by Wu Zhangsheng.

Ye Bai instantly felt a sense of the most primitive tenderness and fragrance, which most likely came from the ingredients themselves!

Most importantly, as the dish entered his mouth, a warm current flowed through his entire body in an instant!

The first five grades of a Martial Artist are all about enhancing one's physical strength.

Crossing past the Fifth Grade also means that a Martial Artist's physical body has been tempered a thousand times over, and it would not lose in the slightest to an ordinary Alien Beast of the same rank.

At this very moment, Ye Bai clearly perceived that his physical body was undergoing a transformation, and his physique was growing!

From a level that could only rival an ordinary Fifth Grade Alien Beast, it was racing toward a Fifth Grade Royal bloodline!

"What kind of meat is this!?" After the warm current from the first bite faded, Ye Bai clearly perceived that his physique had improved by at least ten percent over its original foundation!

He couldn't help but ask!

After regaining his senses, he added: "It must be very precious, right?"

"Psh, it's not precious, it can't compare to the ultimate moves you've taught me at all!

It's just a Dragon Emperor Heart, that's all!"

Wu Zhangsheng said nonchalantly.

"Dragon, Dragon Emperor Heart?!"