Chapter 120: Refining the Ferocious Devil Bull!

After arriving at the crude underground laboratory beside the Meat Mountain, Su Hao sat on a chair, first taking out the Bone Spur skill scroll and affixing it to his forehead.

The next moment.

The text on the scroll emitted a pale light, floating up from the parchment.

It formed a pale rune in the air, flew toward Su Hao's forehead, penetrated his mind, and appeared deep within his soul.

【You have learned the skill—Bone Spur!】

【Bone Spur】

Proficiency: Entry-level Supernatural Grade, First Rank.

Effect: Consumes mental power to summon a white bone-made spike around the user.

The greater the mental power, the farther the casting range, and the harder and sharper the summoned bone spur becomes.

……

"Just so-so."

Su Hao glanced at it and casually closed the Bone Spur skill panel.

For necromancers and bone mages among supernaturals, Bone Spur is like an arcane missile—a basic skill.

Casting speed is very fast; once proficiency reaches mastery, it can be cast instantly, but its power is relatively small.

From start to finish, Su Hao never expected this skill to unleash any great power.

The reason he chose to learn this skill was to use it for synthesis.

He has long had the idea of testing whether skills can be combined with each other and what changes would result.

But he currently has few skills, so he is reluctant to use them for synthesis.

Now that he has Bone Spur, a skill of little use, he can try it.

As for the synthesis target, Su Hao has an idea: the Summon Skeleton Warrior skill.

One is a minor Bone Spur summon, the other is Summon Skeleton Warrior; even if the fusion outcome is unsatisfactory, the skeleton warrior effect likely remains, so it's not much of a loss.

"We'll know after trying it the day after tomorrow."

Subsequently, Su Hao took another scroll, did the same, affixed it to his forehead, and as a skill rune appeared in his mind, he learned the skill written on it.

【You have learned the skill—Refine Stitching Monster!】

【Refine Stitching Monster】

Proficiency: Entry-level Supernatural Grade, First Rank.

Effect: After using this skill, one can refine a Stitching Monster and control its related devices.

……

"After waiting so many days, I've finally learned this skill!"

Su Hao's face broke into a bright smile; he had been waiting a long time for this day.

Next, we should start refining hellish devils!

Su Hao stepped aside, dumped all the cyclopean giant ox and giant guard corpses from his storage bag, and applied the Item Refining Technique to two of the corpses.

When the bloody crimson fusion golden light faded, the corpses of the cyclopean giant ox and giant guard had vanished.

On the ground remained only a huge ox head, a living heart, and two masses of blood floating in midair.

According to the appraisal, that mass of blood is the essence blood of the cyclopean giant ox and giant guard, having no special effect, merely a decent alchemy material.

For others, it only works in the hands of an apothecary.

But for Su Hao, even consuming this blood directly gives him a noticeable boost, at least raising the physique and mental total of a First Rank supernatural by one level; the issue should still be minor.

Moreover, there are at least a hundred drops of this essence blood, so the increase will be even greater.

The remaining ox head and heart are the two main materials for refining a Minotaur Stitching Monster.

【Giant Guard's Heart】

Supernatural Grade: First Rank.

Effect: Using special means, the heart completely excised from a giant guard retains great vitality.

When transplanted into an ordinary species by the Supernatural Sequence—Doctor, it grants the recipient the physique the giant guard had in life.

……

"Doctor?"

Su Hao stroked his chin, wearing a thoughtful expression.

In his previous life, he had once heard of this profession.

Besides healing wounds and curing illness, the Doctor is a profession that can perform special bodily modifications on living beings, an enhanced version of the Refine Stitching Monster skill.

It is said that if this sequence advances to high rank, it gains lifespan extension, even enabling immortality! It was Su Hao's favorite profession in his previous life.

"If I could obtain a Third Tier Doctor's magic potion, that would be a fine advancement option."

Besides bodily modification and lifespan extension, the Doctor also has wound-healing ability, which combined with the Crimson Bone Demon's powerful regeneration...

If he could obtain the Doctor's abilities, after reaching Third Tier, Su Hao would find it hard to die even if he wanted to.

"I just advanced to Second Rank, why am I already thinking about Third Tier?"

Su Hao gave a self‑mocking laugh, then turned his gaze to the huge ox head.

【Cyclopean Giant Ox's Head】

Supernatural Grade: First Rank.

Effect: By special means, the head taken from a cyclopean giant ox is the main material for refining a First Rank Minotaur Warrior.

……

"Oh ho! I didn't expect this could also be used to brew magic potions—a nice extra gain."

However, Su Hao lacks the formula for a Minotaur Warrior's magic potion and cannot use this to brew one.

Afterwards, Su Hao casually closed the appraisal interface and refined all the remaining corpses on the ground.

In the process, Su Hao opened Grandpa Andrew's experimental notes and once again confirmed the recipe for the Minotaur Stitching Monster.

【Recipe for Crafting the Minotaur Stitching Monster】

Main materials: one cyclopean ox's head (or corpse) + one guard giant's heart (or corpse) + 500 meters of suturing thread

Auxiliary materials: 1,500 kg of fresh flesh; if the main materials are all corpses, the fresh flesh can be reduced to 500 kg.

……

"Suturing thread..."

Su Hao frowned slightly; after the suturing thread manufacturing device merged into the 【Hell Furnace—Hellish Monster Adhesive Manufacturing Device】, he could no longer produce suturing thread, and now could only produce hellish monster adhesive.

He also couldn't be sure whether using hellish monster adhesive could replace suturing thread, according to the 【Minotaur Stitching Monster Crafting Recipe】, for crafting the Minotaur Stitching Monster.

"Let's try one first."

After a moment's thought, to reduce losses, Su Hao gave up the idea of mass production.

Immediately, the blood-sucking demon vine delivered 5,000 kg of infected flesh; he cut off 1,000 kg and placed it into the hellish monster adhesive manufacturing device.

Next, he took out 1,000 energy crystals and another 1,000 kg of infected flesh from his Storage Bag and placed them into the energy box of the Hell Energy Conversion Device.

"Ah right, I also need fascia; this is troublesome……"

The infected flesh only has meat, no fascia; extracting fascia from monster corpses, Su Hao again worried it would affect the refining effect.

"No choice, this is the only way!"

After serious contemplation, Su Hao sighed helplessly, took out a sharp First Rank short blade from his Storage Bag, aimed at his own arm, and swung down forcefully.

Since he was unwilling to obtain materials from monster corpses, he could only use his own body.

Clang! However, Su Hao's powerful heavy blow not only failed to sever his arm, but left a huge notch on the First Rank short blade.

"... Are my bones really this hard?"

Staring at the notch on the short blade, Su Hao remained silent for a while.

Since his advancement, he hasn't fought any enemies; for training he sought a Third Tier physique Da Xiong Mao.

Today, wielding a First Rank short blade against himself, he realized his bones were actually sturdier than a Supernatural Grade First Rank weapon.

"My bones now should also count as a Supernatural Grade item, right."

Su Hao stroked his chin, looking thoughtful; as long as it belongs to bone, it can serve as a medium to summon skeleton warriors, so does that mean……

"Let's try another day; first let's get the hellish monster crafted."

Su Hao stopped pondering, took out the Gravity Rock Axe, and chopped down at his own arm.

Clang——! Clang——! After two consecutive axe swings, Su Hao finally succeeded in cutting off his arm.

However, he didn't stop there; after drinking a mouthful of the cyclopean ox's essence blood and regrowing his severed arm, he swung two more axe blows at his left hand. In this way, Su Hao drank nine-tenths of the cyclopean ox's essence blood and the guard giant's essence blood, plus all his scarlet blood, and in over half an hour he chopped off a pile of arms stacked in the corner.

Afterward, he took out a boning knife, scraped off the fascia from those arms, and set it aside for later use.

After all the fascia had been scraped off the arms, Su Hao used the Blood Flame Technique to burn away the remaining flesh on the arms, leaving only black bones, which he stored in his Storage Bag.

"These should be enough for a while."

Su Hao wiped the blood from his face, grabbed a handful of fascia, tossed it into the adhesive manufacturing device's meat pot, and casually put the lid on.

Next, he dragged the two pipelines from above the Energy Conversion Device and connected them to the Hellish Monster Adhesive Manufacturing Device.

"Refine!"

The next moment.

The dark red heart-shaped energy conversion device began to rapidly expand—contract, beating violently.

With each expansion of the heart, large amounts of energy and blood qi flowed from the energy box into the heart's interior.

After the heart rapidly contracted, this energy and blood qi turned into a special mixed energy, flowing along the pipelines and surging into the Hellish Monster Adhesive Manufacturing Device.

Immediately after.

Beneath the adhesive manufacturing device, dark red flames ignited; in the large pot composed of dark red flesh, low rumbling sounds emerged as a violent unknown reaction occurred.

This continued for about an hour; the dark red heart stopped beating, the flames beneath the adhesive manufacturing device went out, and the mixture in the pot gradually calmed.

After opening the pot lid, the 1,000 kg of infected flesh and Su Hao's fascia had vanished, leaving only about 1,000 milliliters of a viscous dark red liquid, like glue, suspended in the meat pot.

【Hellish Monster Adhesive】

Supernatural Grade: Second Tier

Effect: Using hellish monster adhesive allows the crafted hellish monster to undergo a special change.

……

"I never expected that 1,000 kg of infected flesh plus a bit of fascia would yield a second-tier adhesive; I wonder how long 1,000 ml will last."

Su Hao poured the 1,000 ml of dark red liquid from the meat pot into a glass bottle.

Along the way, he picked up a cyclopean ox's head and a guard giant's heart from the ground and went to the side of the Hellish Monster Construction Device.

After opening the upper material slot, he placed the 1,000 ml of hellish monster adhesive, the cyclopean ox's head, the guard giant's heart, and 1,500 kg of infected flesh inside, one by one.

"Huh? This material slot seems to come with its own storage space."

When Su Hao poured the 1,000 ml of adhesive in, he hadn't noticed this yet.

But when he put the remaining materials in, he found that the items he had just placed suddenly shrank to fist size.

"Does this mean the material slot can hold several batches of materials, allowing simultaneous crafting of several hellish monsters?"

Su Hao stroked his chin; if that were truly the case, the crafting efficiency of the Hellish Monster Construction Device would be somewhat terrifying.

The internal space of this material slot is not small; holding one or two hundred batches of Minotaur Stitching Monster materials is no problem.

However, this all hinges on one premise: following Grandpa Andrew's recipe, we must be able to successfully craft hellish monsters.

"Success or failure hinges on this one move!"

Su Hao took a deep breath and placed all the remaining infected flesh into the energy box of the Energy Conversion Device.

Afterwards, he mobilized his spiritual power, communicated with the skill rune for crafting the Stitching Monster located deep within his soul, and activated the Hell Monster Construction Device.

The next moment.

The energy conversion device began to run at high speed.

As it expanded and contracted, the infected flesh and energy crystals inside the energy box were transformed into a mixture of blood and energy, which flowed along the energy conduit into the Hell Monster Construction Device.

Immediately after.

The dark red flesh on the surface of the Hell Monster Construction Device also began to violently expand and contract, each contraction releasing a thick dark red mist.

Before long, the entire underground laboratory was filled with smoke, visibility dropping below one meter.

This was because the underground laboratory had not yet been roofed; otherwise, the concentration of this smoke would be even more terrifying.

"Cough, cough, I need to hurry up and prepare the exhaust system."

Su Hao sat speechlessly in the smoke; once he left here or his spiritual power was cut off, the Hell Monster Construction Device would stop running, and all the previous materials and energy would be wasted.

After about six hours of continuous operation, the energy device suddenly stopped running, and the Hell Monster Construction Device ceased spraying the blood‑red mist.

After a brief calm of about ten seconds, a piece of dark red flesh on the pillar suddenly swelled violently, becoming an irregular mass roughly five meters in length, width, and height, detached from the device's surface and crashed heavily to the ground.

Immediately after.

The missing part instantly grew new dark red flesh.

At the same time, the lump of flesh that had fallen to the ground suddenly "popped" and burst open.

From within emerged a huge black ox about 2.5 meters tall, its muscles wrapped in black mist, appearing before Su Hao's eyes.

"Moo!"

The giant ox let out a low roar, slightly lowered its head toward Su Hao, indicating submission.

"This aura… feels beyond what an ordinary first‑rank Supernatural being could possess."

Feeling the aura emanating from this giant ox, Su Hao raised his eyebrows slightly; this ox gave him a feeling far superior to that of the stone men.

Su Hao then moved his thoughts slightly and opened the ox's information panel.

This ox was crafted by Su Hao using the Stitching Monster skill together with the Hell Furnace three‑piece set.

Just like Xiao Anni's mutated plants, it is a permanent special summon, so Su Hao can naturally view its information panel.

【Hell Monster — Violent Devil Ox】

Supernatural Grade: Second Rank

……

"Supernatural Second Rank!!"

Just after seeing the second line of the appraisal result, Su Hao couldn't help but exclaim, his face showing surprise and joy.

Not long ago he was thinking that, with the Hell Monster adhesive and Hell Monster Construction Device working together, perhaps the original first‑rank formula could be refined into a second‑rank Hell Monster.

He never expected that, among the materials used this time, aside from the second‑rank adhesive, everything else was Supernatural Grade first‑rank materials, yet they actually refined a Supernatural Grade second‑rank Hell Monster.

This is a special summon that can exist permanently; the cost of summoning it is merely 1000 milliliters of second‑rank adhesive, 1500 kilograms of infected flesh, plus the brain of a one‑eyed giant ox and the heart of a giant guardian.

"No, no, the 1000 milliliters of adhesive hasn't been used up yet."

Just as Su Hao was observing the Violent Devil Ox, the material slot of the Hell Monster Construction Device suddenly opened automatically, ejecting a mass of dark red viscous liquid.

This is precisely the second‑rank Hell Monster adhesive; visually estimated, there are still about five

In other words, to refine a Supernatural Grade second‑rank Violent Devil Ox, only 450 milliliters of second‑rank adhesive, 1500 kilograms of infected flesh, the brain of a one‑eyed giant ox, and the heart of a giant guardian are needed.

Plus ten energy crystals and about one hundred kilograms of infected flesh as energy.

Most importantly, with the proliferative flesh chunks, infected flesh, and infected cells, aside from the energy crystals, all other materials in these resources are renewable!

"Whoosh—!"

"This is damn cheap!"

Su Hao grinned, then turned his gaze back to the appraisal result.

【Talent: Hell Monster】

【Skill: Bull Rush, Frenzy】

Description: Using the anti‑monster adhesive and produced by the Hell Monster Construction Device, this special Hell Monster has a robust physique, tireless, and the feature of near‑death hibernation.

"Near‑death hibernation?"

After reading the Violent Devil Ox's description, Su Hao's brows furrowed slightly.

As for the other traits of robust physique and tirelessness, Su Hao understood them well.

It's just this near‑death hibernation that he doesn't quite understand what it means.

However, this trait is either unrelated to the Violent Devil Ox's two skills, or it stems from its talent.

First, the Bull Rush and Frenzy skills can basically be ruled out.

After opening the skill panel, the facts indeed matched what Su Hao thought.

Bull Rush is a skill similar to a berserk charge that greatly increases speed and launches a forward rush.

Frenzy causes the Violent Devil Ox's physique to swell in a short time, then fall into a prolonged weakened state.

The effects of these two skills have nothing to do with near‑death hibernation, so the trait must come from its talent.

Immediately, Su Hao moved his thoughts slightly and opened the Violent Devil Ox's talent interface.

(End of Chapter)