Chapter 268: Another Synthesis, the Hope of the Boundless Blood Sea

Synthesis!

As Su Hao's thoughts turned, the Blood Sea Robe on the ground and that drop of scarlet essence blood were instantly wrapped in a golden light, forming a golden sphere.

About five hours later, the golden sphere burst out with dazzling golden light, completing this synthesis.

After the golden light faded, a blood-red robe appeared before Su Hao's eyes.

Compared to before synthesis, if not carefully compared, this robe shows no significant difference.

Su Hao observed for a while before noticing that, in certain parts of the robe, some faint blood-red runes had appeared, and its aura had slightly increased.

However, these changes are not very obvious; it can be confirmed that the Supernatural Grade has not increased.

But these are within Su Hao's expectations; what he truly cares about is whether, after synthesis, the Blood Sea Robe can produce Scarlet Essence Blood of Supernatural Third Rank or even Fourth Rank.

Thinking it useless to ponder further, Su Hao slightly moved his thoughts and applied the Item Appraisal Technique to it.

【Blood Sea Robe】

Supernatural Grade: Fourth Rank

Effect 1—Blood Wolf Swiftness: (omitted)

Effect 2—Blood Robe: (omitted)

Effect 3—Endless Blood Sea: By consuming energy or spirit power, it can produce Scarlet Essence Blood of various ranks, up to fourth-rank Scarlet Essence Blood, storing it in the robe and keeping it permanently active.

Moreover, if other blood is used as an auxiliary medium, spirit power consumption can be reduced and the speed at which the Blood Sea Robe produces Scarlet Essence Blood can be increased.

The more blood stored, the stronger the Blood Sea Robe's defense, the higher the blood element concentration, and the better the effects of blood magic skills.

Furthermore, the blood stored in the Blood Sea Robe can be released to alter the surroundings or attack enemies.

The higher the Supernatural Grade of the stored blood, the larger the storage space, with no upper limit.

……

"Nice! This synthesis result can be called perfect!"

Looking at the content displayed on the appraisal result, Su Hao vigorously swung his arm, his face showing excitement.

The core ability of the Blood Sea Robe is to increase one's defense and blood element concentration based on the quantity and Supernatural Grade of the supernatural blood stored within.

The more blood stored and the higher the Supernatural Grade, the stronger the Blood Sea Robe's defense and the higher the blood element concentration.

The benefits of increased defense need no further explanation.

Even if the Blood Sea Robe's Supernatural Grade does not increase, storing enough third- and fourth-rank Scarlet Essence Blood can still significantly boost its defense.

When no blood is stored, the Blood Sea Robe can already resist most third-rank attacks.

Then, after storing a certain amount of blood, it is estimated that all third-rank attacks cannot break his defense, and even some fourth-rank Supernatural attacks can be resisted.

Increasing blood element concentration can enhance the power of blood magic.

The same blood magic, when cast in a blood-element-deficient environment versus a place with extremely high blood element concentration, can differ in power by several times.

As the stored third- and fourth-rank Scarlet Essence Blood in the Blood Sea Robe gradually increases, its blood element concentration will also rise; blood magics such as Bloodthirsty Soul Fire and Scarlet Touch will thus have increased power.

Before synthesis, the space inside the Blood Sea Robe was limited, meaning both defense and blood element concentration had an upper limit.

But after synthesis, perhaps this limit still exists, but it has been greatly increased.

Now, the higher the Supernatural Grade of blood stored in the Blood Sea Robe, the larger its internal storage space becomes, and there is no limit.

This means that the current Blood Sea Robe not only can its defense and blood element concentration grow, but also its storage space for blood has growth potential.

Theoretically, as long as enough high-rank blood is stored, the storage space inside the Blood Sea Robe can continually increase.

And as storage space increases, it can store even more high-rank blood.

Under the interaction of both, as long as Su Hao has sufficient spirit power and continually produces Scarlet Essence Blood, the robe's space can reach infinity.

However, there is still a precondition: the storage space increase from storing a drop of Scarlet Essence Blood must be greater than the volume of that drop itself, in order for the robe's storage space to become infinite.

Afterwards, Su Hao slightly moved his thoughts, and in the Blood Sea Cannon, he successively produced one hundred drops of first-rank Scarlet Essence Blood.

Su Hao is after all not a robot; trying to observe the storage space increase from a single drop of fresh essence blood is clearly impossible.

But a hundred drops are different; he can faintly feel that the robe's storage space has increased slightly, about the volume of five to ten drops of Scarlet Essence Blood.

Increasing this tiny volume obviously cannot make the storage space infinite.

But this result is also within Su Hao's expectations, after all this is only first-rank Scarlet Essence Blood, the volume it can increase is definitely extremely limited.

Just for the rigor of the experiment, he first used first-rank Scarlet Essence Blood for the test.

Next, Su Hao used the same method to produce one hundred drops each of second-, third-, and fourth-rank Scarlet Essence Blood for comparative experiments; the higher the Supernatural Grade, the greater the volume increase.

The bad news is that even fourth-rank Scarlet Essence Blood, the increase in storage space cannot compare to the volume of the blood itself.

The good news is that although a hundred drops of fourth-rank Scarlet Essence Blood cannot increase storage space of equal volume.

However, a hundred drops of fourth-rank Scarlet Essence Blood can approximately increase storage space equivalent to seventy to eighty drops of Scarlet Essence Blood.

This means that whenever the Blood Sea Robe stores an additional hundred drops of fourth-rank Scarlet Essence Blood, it can increase storage space by seventy to eighty drops.

Although fourth-rank Scarlet Essence Blood still cannot make the Blood Sea Robe's storage space infinite.

But each hundred drops of Scarlet Essence Blood can increase storage space by seventy to eighty drops; once that seventy to eighty drops of storage space is filled, one can again increase storage space by several tens of drops of Scarlet Essence Blood.

Roughly calculated, that's equivalent to increasing space by seven to eight times!

Even if it's unlikely that increasing space by seven to eight times would directly increase the robe's defense and blood element concentration by seven to eight times, this is still a huge improvement.

If nothing unexpected happens, filling the Blood Sea Robe completely with fourth-rank Scarlet Essence Blood would make all third-rank Supernatural attacks unable to break its defense.

Even some fourth-rank Supernatural attacks would be ineffective against it.

Besides the increase in defense and blood element concentration, the quantity of blood itself is also a huge boost for Su Hao.

As long as Su Hao has enough blood around him, his survivability can be greatly increased; although he currently cannot be like the Scarlet Nest, where as long as there is a drop of blood around, even if his body is completely destroyed he can be reborn, but as long as there remains a drop of his own blood nearby, he cannot die.

If the surrounding blood is only a small bottle, enemies wanting to destroy it is just a trivial matter.

If there is a whole barrel, spreading it around, destroying all that blood would require some effort.

If Su Hao's surroundings have a lake of blood, and he mixes some of his own blood into that blood sea, then even if he encounters an enemy capable of destroying his flesh...

Wanting to find and destroy all of his blood in this blood lake is also absolutely not an easy thing.

If all the blood in this blood lake is Supernatural Fourth Rank scarlet essence blood.

Perhaps the opponent hasn't yet found a few drops of Su Hao's blood left in the blood sea, and Su Hao, by first absorbing the energy within the scarlet essence blood, restores his body, delivering an unexpected strike to the opponent, thereby changing the battle's outcome.

As long as he can store full Supernatural Fourth Rank scarlet essence blood within the Blood Sea Robe, even if Su Hao's survivability cannot compare to that of the bloody octopus, wanting to kill him completely is not that easy.

"Once I fill the Blood Sea Robe with Supernatural Fourth Rank scarlet essence blood and raise my supernatural sequence to Third Tier, I reckon even a Supernatural Fifth Rank would find it hard to kill me."

Su Hao nodded satisfied, put on the Blood Sea Robe, and walked toward the cave's exterior.

Now the bloody octopus's heart is in hand, the aggregated Stitching Monster has also been captured; it's time to leave the Disaster Marsh, return to the shelter to restrict and synthesize potions, preparing to advance to Third Tier.

Su Hao greatly anticipates this advancement; his supernatural sequence at Second Tier already possessed the mental power and physique of a Supernatural Fourth Rank, so if his supernatural sequence advances to Third Tier…

Thinking of this, Su Hao couldn't help but show a hint of anticipation; his heartbeat speed noticeably increased a bit.

However, before leaving, he still needs to make a trip to the blood lake.

The scarlet hive possesses such terrifying vitality because it was infected by the scarlet divine power within the Scarlet Source Pearl.

Thus Su Hao pays great attention to the Scarlet Source Pearl; even if it no longer contains scarlet divine power, the pearl itself is still a fine supernatural item.

The Blood Sea Robe and the Tome of Omniscience that Su Hao holds are both synthesized from supernatural items that once contained divine power; if he could find the Scarlet Source Pearl, perhaps he could add a fine weapon.

However, speaking of which, if the Scarlet Source Pearl still contains scarlet power, then this thing Su Hao would rather not take.

Joking aside, divine power such as this could even cause a Supernatural Fourth Rank to suffer irreversible corruption from its erosion; Su Hao wouldn't dare take away a supernatural item imbued with divine power. The mechanical transport ship's speed is great; before long it carried Su Hao above the blood lake.

During this process, Su Hao used up all four remaining synthesis opportunities of fourth rank or higher for today, using them to synthesize Supernatural Fourth Rank energy crystals.

Now his combat power and survivability, even among Supernatural Fourth Rank, are top-tier; continuing to use synthesis counts to boost his strength is not really necessary.

According to his long-standing plan, it is first to strengthen himself, ensuring he has self-preservation power in the apocalypse.

This goal has basically been achieved; among Supernatural Fourth Rank, it's not hard to find those who can defeat him, but basically none can kill him.

Once his supernatural sequence advances, even a Supernatural Fifth Rank would likely find it hard to kill him.

Moreover, within his territory, there is also not a lack of Supernatural Fifth Rank combat power.

Since his own strength is already sufficient, he must now realize the next goal.

That is to use his own strength to forge a powerful force, providing a better living environment for those who follow him.

Although this matter has already been underway for some time.

But these are still not enough; for Su Hao alone, occupying such a large territory is naturally sufficient.

Yet he is not satisfied with this; in his previous life, he had no shelter, was not a supernatural being, and could be said to be the lowest stratum of survivors, understanding how harsh apocalyptic life is.

Although he has no interest in being a savior, this life he has the ability, and he still intends, within his capacity, to let more survivors' lives improve a little.

Of course, his intention is not to say he wants to help those survivors for free; it is a mutually beneficial exchange.

He provides these survivors with a better living environment; then the beneficiaries, naturally, need to give him corresponding benefits.

Just like the relationship between the dwarven tribe and Su Hao: the dwarves work for Su Hao, Su Hao enhances the dwarves' strength, gives them protection, letting them have a safer living environment.

Two benefits at once, mutually beneficial.

To the dwarves, they feel they have profited.

But for Su Hao, he himself has profited.

Su Hao only needs to dispatch some undead creatures, both to protect these dwarves and to supervise them.

Furthermore, with some rapidly producible supernatural fruits, he can obtain a group to mine for him and craft supernatural equipment for him; this arrangement is simply extremely cost-effective.

And wanting to possess more colonies…

Ah, wrong, it's partners!

To have more partners, one must further strengthen the territory's facilities.

Whether these facilities remain in the territory for personal use or are rented to partners to increase their work efficiency, energy crystals are a necessary item.

Basically, every kind of equipment, whether mundane or supernatural, consumes energy.

And energy is precisely the resource Su Hao currently lacks most, and will continue to be so in the future.

Although in the future, as partners increase, there will be more people to help him mine.

But as partners increase, the energy required will also increase.

Thus overall, even if energy crystals won't be as tense as now, there won't be much surplus.

Therefore, energy crystals that can increase energy utilization have become a necessity.

As long as there are enough energy crystals to equip all facilities, even if the number of energy crystals doesn't increase, energy crystal consumption can be greatly alleviated, effectively increasing the amount of energy crystals.

Unfortunately, the number of crystal cores from the stone monsters is limited; in just a few days they'll all be synthesized, making Su Hao feel quite regretful—had he known, he would have kept a few to raise.

But since it's come to this, regret is useless; now he can only hope to find new stone monsters elsewhere.

During this process, besides synthesizing energy crystals, Su Hao also summoned many pale bone dragons.

The Disaster Marsh is a highly dangerous place for others, but for Su Hao it is also a treasure land, able to bring him many benefits.

When he summoned sixty-five pale ancient dragons, the airship arrived above the blood lake. (End of chapter)