Chapter 211

Ah! Looks like for now I still have to rely on eating blood!

Su Hao shook his head and let out a helpless sigh.

The dark forest is not a small place; even if the pink thatched cottage is highly recognizable, finding it will take at least several days.

Moreover, even if everything goes smoothly, in this thatched cottage one can obtain a third‑rank blood mage and another third‑rank supernatural sequence potion formula.

To brew these two potions also takes some time.

So, to raise one's mental power to fourth rank in a short time, one can only hope for supernatural items like scarlet essence blood.

According to the experience of taking second‑rank and third‑rank scarlet essence blood, if enough fourth‑rank scarlet essence blood is consumed, Su Hao's mental power and physique have a good chance of rising to Supernatural Fourth Rank.

The gap between Supernatural Third Rank and Supernatural Fourth Rank is huge; even if Su Hao takes fourth‑rank scarlet essence blood each time, he can clearly feel his mental power and physique improving.

But by now Su Hao has already taken twenty‑odd drops of scarlet essence blood, yet his mental power and physique remain at third‑rank level; to reach fourth rank he likely needs to consume hundreds of drops of fourth‑rank scarlet essence blood.

Moreover, if large amounts of scarlet essence blood are taken consecutively in a short time, the boost to mental power and physique will be slightly reduced.

That is to say, if Su Hao wants to rely solely on taking fourth‑rank scarlet essence blood to raise his mental power and physique to Supernatural Fourth Rank, he estimates it will take about one or two weeks.

However, a Supernatural Second Rank being who consumes supernatural blood can already bring his mental power and physique up to Supernatural Fourth Rank.

Let alone one or two weeks; even one or two months, or one or two years, would be extremely exaggerated.

Moreover, for Su Hao to raise his mental power and physique to fourth rank before his Supernatural Grade rises, it is not the only way to rely on scarlet essence blood.

Supernatural Fourth Rank hateful essence blood, Supernatural Fourth Rank swollen muscles, as well as Supernatural Fifth Rank black dragon heart and black dragon refined bones, can all enhance Su Hao's mental power and physique.

Once the swollen muscles, hateful essence blood, and black dragon heart are available, they can be replicated using Infinite Cell Replication.

Furthermore, when Su Hao's Synthesis Heart proficiency reaches perfection, his mental power and physique can instantly rise to Supernatural Fourth Rank.

However, replicating these items and raising the Synthesis Heart's proficiency still requires some time.

According to Su Hao's experience of bringing Item Refining Technique to perfection, and his experience these days of synthesizing fourth‑rank supernatural items and skills.

The higher the Supernatural Grade of the item refined or synthesized, the faster the proficiency increases.

If there are enough third‑rank or fourth‑rank supernatural items, proficiency should reach perfection in another two or three days.

But today's synthesis quota is exhausted; to increase proficiency one must wait until tomorrow to continue.

However, the coming time cannot be idle; with these potential death‑system divine enemies, Su Hao dare not relax for a moment.

If their strength completely overwhelms the Goddess of Death and Night, then this divine chosen one might have to face a host of death‑system divinities alone; to avoid that, Su Hao must quickly expand the scale of death‑type creatures in his territory.

Fortunately, Su Hao has the skill to summon skeleton warriors and can also use the Hellish Demonic Trio set to create hellish demons that likewise possess the undead attribute.

Even though the Death Tombstone's current effect is limited, Su Hao can still increase the number of undead creatures in his territory through his own abilities.

According to Su Hao's speculation, the more undead creatures in his territory, the greater the feedback to the Death Tombstone, and the stronger the awakening power of the Goddess of Death and Night.

The stronger the awakening power of the Goddess of Death and Night, the wider the area the Death Tombstone can affect; if its influence can cover dozens or even hundreds of kilometers, Su Hao can dispatch armies to conquer all around.

Slay all visible enemies, increase the number of undead creatures in his territory, and further advance the awakening progress of the Goddess of Death and Night.

Most importantly, the greater the awakening power of the Goddess of Death and Night, the more divine power the death‑system divinities must expend to suppress her, thereby increasing Su Hao's safety.

As long as no divinities intervene directly, even if the opposition sends Supernatural Fifth Rank undead creatures, Su Hao feels no fear.

Moreover, as Su Hao's strength grows, he should soon be able to contend with Supernatural Sixth Rank beings.

Thereafter, Su Hao stopped thinking further, took out the Blood‑Red Magic Book, and summoned four pale bone claws.

In previous battles, Su Hao had not refined those pale bone claws, but according to his observation, these corporeal bone claws also possess the potential for refinement.

Thereafter, following the experience of refining scarlet tentacles, Su Hao severed the mental link with the pale bone claws and, while they had not yet dissipated, applied Item Refining Technique to them.

"Phew! Just as I expected."

Seeing the crimson light sphere wrapped around the four bone claws, Su Hao involuntarily let out a breath of relief and a faint smile appeared on his face.

As long as he can refine second‑rank withered bone essence from the pale bone claws, Su Hao can not only enhance his bone-element affinity and bone strength by consuming that essence.

but also use that essence to summon skeleton warriors.

Although skeleton warriors summoned from his own bones are not much weaker.

But being able to use withered bone essence to lighten his own burden—how could Su Hao refuse such a thing?

As time passed, the crimson light sphere enveloping the four bone claws suddenly burst into an extremely dazzling radiance.

Dozens of bone spheres the size of infant heads, pale in color, fell from the air, struck the ground, and rolled outward, with a few rolling to Su Hao's feet.

"This size doesn't look right?"

Su Hao picked up a bone sphere and couldn't help but frown slightly.

Su Hao has seen first‑rank and second‑rank withered bone essence before; their size is nowhere near comparable.

Moreover, the aura emitted by these bone spheres is completely different from that of second‑rank withered bone essence.

Could it be that…

Could it be that the pale bone claws synthesized from second‑rank withered bone essence and a third‑rank mage's hand, after refinement, yield not second‑rank withered bone essence but a higher‑rank one?

Thinking this, Su Hao felt a stir of anticipation in his heart.

The higher the Supernatural Grade of withered bone essence, the better its effects naturally are; thus Su Hao's mind moved slightly, and he applied Item Appraisal Technique to the bone sphere in his hand.

(End of chapter)