Chapter 1561

Xiao Feng tested on the sea surface for a few minutes, using most of the skills from his game.

The difference in power between the skills and those in the game is indeed huge; on one hand, producing such destructive force in the real world is extremely difficult.

On the other hand, he lacks those powerful pieces of equipment to stack his attributes.

Take the Source Needle skill, for example—it's really just a few dozen purple‑gray needles, not that fearsome.

Of course, its lethality is still considerable; killing someone is absolutely no problem, and even people whose physiques have been enhanced cannot withstand a single shot of his Source Needle.

There are hardly any strong beings on the surface of Blue Star, so Xiao Feng couldn't test his limits; after playing a while, he returned home to continue the game.

When he went online, he was still in the Pantheon Tower space; Xiao Feng reviewed his attribute panel, then teleported away.

He returned to the Yuan Su Shen Yu, staying at the guild's headquarters; Da Bai was let out to stroll, while he found a quiet room to enter seclusion.

Calculating by the time of Yuan Su Shen Yu, there are actually still a few days until his appointment with Cai Yi.

He took out the beast bone inscribed with the Taotie Demon Body and quietly contemplated the Dao resonance contained within it.

The Four Gods and Four Fiends are all renowned powerhouses of the Pantheon World; they themselves symbolize the extreme of power and are extraordinarily mighty beings beneath the Dao Ancestor.

These demon bodies and battle bodies, for the beings themselves, are not actually remarkable abilities—merely basic physiques.

It's like humans having two legs and two arms, naturally able to walk upright and wield weapons—something special to other species, but utterly ordinary for humanity itself.

Otherwise, these Secret Arts would not be merely tier 7.

But the strong are strong; each possesses a tier‑9 bloodline, with hardly any kin of their kind, and their rarity is beyond doubt.

For an outsider to mimic their aura and master this physique is extremely difficult.

Just as the gap between cats, dogs, and humans cannot be bridged no matter how hard one tries to open one's palm to grasp things.

Xiao Feng can use Chaos Origin Divine Power to alter his material form, which is the key to learning these Secret Art battle and demon bodies.

Others would find it hard to learn, but if he wants to learn, it's merely a matter of time.

Grasping the Taotie demon bone, he calmly sensed a faint will resisting him.

Perhaps because the Taotie was killed by his sneak attack, feeling unwilling, this bone is especially repellent to him.

But it's fine—it's just a bone, whether it has sentience or not, it's easy to deceive!

Xiao Feng took out the 【Taotie's Blood】 and drank it all in one gulp.

This is tier‑9 quality spiritual essence.

In terms of actual effect, it may not be as miraculous as the 【Dream Treasure Fruit】, but its rarity is no less.

This bottle of beast blood is a pure‑energy substance, hardly different from divine elixir; as soon as he drank it, Xiao Feng felt a fierce blaze throughout his body, as if violent energy were about to tear him apart.

He mobilized his divine power to aid his body in absorbing the beast blood, alleviating the pain.

Gradually, the beast blood softened, turning into a mysterious force that was assimilated by his source‑attribute divine power and merged with him.

Xiao Feng's base life points increased by 100 million, and after conversion, his life point limit became 100 billion.

At the same time, he emitted a special aura—majestic, ferocious, overbearing to an extraordinary degree—enough to make all races feel apprehensive, and those with weak will might even directly bow and submit.

The venerable aura contained in the Taotie demon blood was absorbed by him; his previous virtual realm collapsed, replaced by a greater pressure that even a god‑king would not dare to look down upon.

He picked up the beast bone again.

This time, that resisting will indeed faded, beginning to accept his insight and comprehension.

Xiao Feng closed all chats and devoted himself to comprehending the Secret Art.

The Taotie Demon Body is somewhat simpler than the Xuanwu Battle Body.

The Xuanwu Battle Body ultimately has a threshold of 100 million divine origin power; even after minor success in comprehending the law, he only has over 50 million, still insufficient.

The essence of the Taotie Demon Body lies in the character "devour"—devouring all beings between heaven and earth and turning them to one's own use.

Even the world itself it dares to swallow; like a lower‑tier world such as Zhu Shen Da Lu, it can gulp it down in one bite, then slowly digest the billions of beings within, ultimately absorbing even the land and all energy into itself.

This indiscriminate devouring method actually shares a certain wonderful similarity with the Book of Origins.

The Book of Origins explains the origin of all things, gradually deriving myriad beings from the most fundamental primordial source qi.

Whereas the Taotie's heaven‑swallowing method devours all things, breaking them down into absorbable energy, returning to the origin.

In terms of exquisite subtlety, the Taotie's method is surely inferior; otherwise it would not be merely a venerable but would have become a Dao Ancestor long ago.

Xiao Feng has studied the Book of Origins and can reverse‑engineer the Taotie Demon Body using the evolution of primordial source qi, replicating that devouring power.

Moreover, he can do it even more thoroughly!

No matter how much the Taotie can devour, eventually there will be things it cannot absorb; accumulating bit by bit, they form 【World Essence】.

But primordial source qi has nothing that cannot be digested!

Whether matter, energy, or law, it can be assimilated and decomposed!

After all, the universe itself is composed of primordial source qi.

Xiao Feng immersed himself in the process of analyzing the Secret Art, as if intoxicated.

On the Taotie Demon Body, his comprehension was much faster than on the Xuanwu Battle Body; after just a day of quiet sitting, he found some secrets.

Then, after another three days, the Taotie demon bone turned directly to dust in his hand, which he thoroughly analyzed using the Primordial Origin Method, completely mastering it.

Part of this achievement is due to the Taotie's Blood.

This spiritual essence accelerated Xiao Feng's progress in comprehending the Secret Art, lowering the threshold.

However, his own foundation, aptitude, and effort are also indispensable; had he not fortuitously studied the Book of Origins, even with the Taotie's Blood he would still need at least a month of contemplation to learn it.

Upon mastering the Secret Art, Xiao Feng gained a clear insight in his heart regarding the effects after devouring external things.

He is currently a level 525 lesser god, able to devour only players and monsters of lower level than himself.

The system protects players, so his devouring effect merely insta‑kills them once, with no "plundering" occurring.

But if he devours a wild monster, it converts 5% of the cultivation required for that monster's current level to level up into his own cultivation.

In other words, by eating twenty level‑525 wild monsters, he will level up on the spot!

However, his realm is too low; he cannot endlessly devour, and for monsters of the same realm but lower level, he can devour at most ten per day.

God‑level creatures below one's own realm can be devoured forty at a time; the total cultivation gained is roughly about fifty percent of one's own level.

In other words, as long as he keeps devouring, even without cultivating, he can achieve gaining one level every two days!

This effect will persist until level 1000; after surpassing level 1000, Xiao Feng also doesn't know what will happen, and one must enter a new realm to find out.