Chapter 66: Crimson Blood? Drink It Straight from the Box!

Refining!

Su Hao took a deep breath, feeling anticipatory, and used the Item Refining Technique on the three crimson tentacles.

However, those three crimson tentacles underwent no change at all.

Won't it work?

Su Hao frowned; if he couldn't extract crimson blood from those tentacles,

Then, after combining the Blood Whip Technique and the Fresh Blood Tentacle, all that would be synthesized is the Crimson Touch, a powerful skill, but it would cause Su Hao to lose a steady source of blood.

Huh?! Maybe this would work...

Suddenly, Su Hao had a flash of inspiration and severed the connection between his mental energy and the crimson tentacles.

Immediately after.

The internal energy of the three crimson tentacles began to dissipate at a visible speed, their aura quickly weakening and their color growing paler.

Refining!

Taking advantage of the moment before the three crimson tentacles' internal energy had fully dissipated, Su Hao used the Item Refining Technique on them again.

The next moment.

The three crimson tentacles were enveloped by a scarlet light.

Nice! Looks like I wasn't wrong!

Su Hao excitedly waved his arm; as soon as the refining light appeared, it meant he could refine.

The Item Refining Technique had previously failed because Su Hao's mental energy, via the Crimson Touch's rune, had linked with those three crimson tentacles, giving him control over them.

With the mental link, those three crimson tentacles were equivalent to an extension of Su Hao's body, not objects lacking self-awareness.

However, the precondition for using the Item Refining Technique is that the target must be an object without self-awareness.

That is why, at that time, the Item Refining Technique could not affect those crimson tentacles.

After Su Hao severed the mental connection with the crimson tentacles, they became supernatural items lacking self-awareness, making them eligible for the Item Refining Technique.

After a while, the scarlet light enveloping the three crimson tentacles showed signs of dissipating.

The originally three-meter-tall scarlet tentacles had vanished, and on the ground where they had been, a drop of fresh blood, like jelly, appeared.

It was 【Thick Crimson Blood】!

Hahaha! Divine skill, this really is a damn divine skill!

Su Hao laughed heartily and picked up that drop of crimson blood from the ground.

Although the Crimson Touch consumes a great deal of mental energy, Su Hao can still use it five or six times in a row with his current capacity.

However, as long as he possesses the Crimson Touch skill, it means Su Hao has an inexhaustible, endless supply of crimson blood!

Coincidentally, today at Grandpa Andrew's house, a set of floral-scented sanitary ware he had dismantled; by inhaling the fragrance emitted by these items, his mental energy recovers faster.

The faster his mental energy recovers, the more times he can use the Crimson Touch, summoning more crimson tentacles and refining more crimson blood.

Moreover, after consuming 【Thick Crimson Blood】, Su Hao can also increase his physical and spiritual limits, and further increase the number of times he can use the Crimson Touch.

Hahaha, I feel that before long, even if it's crimson blood, I'll be able to drink it straight from the box!

Su Hao couldn't help laughing again, without hesitation, and immediately tossed that drop of crimson blood into his mouth.

Among the supernatural bloods Su Hao has obtained so far, the effect of crimson blood is the best.

Even though both are second-tier supernatural blood, the effect of 【Thick Crimson Blood】 far surpasses that of 【Essence Blood of the Double-headed Stitching Monster】.

Originally, in the Withered Forest, Su Hao had gulped down two big mouthfuls of 【Essence Blood of the Double-headed Stitching Monster】, but it merely stabilized his injuries, letting the flesh around the wounds begin to heal slowly.

Now, after Su Hao drank the crimson blood, his ferocious wound began to heal at a visible speed.

At the wound, tender sprouts of flesh grew, and as they continuously writhed, they quickly generated flesh, repairing Su Hao's wound.

In the blink of an eye, on Su Hao's body surface, that ferocious, horrible wound showed no trace of injury, as if he had never been hurt.

At the same time, Su Hao's shattered internal organs, under the writhing of those sprouts, recovered just like the surface wounds, quickly returning to their original state.

In less than a moment, the injuries to Su Hao's flesh and blood were completely healed.

Even his fractured bones, as Su Hao absorbed that drop of crimson blood, had their healing speed greatly accelerated.

Although bones cannot heal as quickly as flesh and blood, given the current recovery rate, they should be fully healed by tomorrow evening.

Besides accelerating wound recovery, after consuming that drop of crimson blood, Su Hao also clearly felt a noticeable increase in his physique and spirit.

Hmm? Something's off; it seems the enhancement effect has weakened!

After careful experience, Su Hao clearly found that the increase in physique and spiritual power from consuming this drop of crimson blood was about ten percent less than before.

Could it be that...

That the same blood, each time taken, yields ever‑diminishing gains in physique and spirit?

Su Hao stroked his chin, revealing a thoughtful expression.

Over these past days, Su Hao's understanding of the Flesh and Blood Controller supernal sequence has deepened.

Each time he consumes a drop of clean blood, Su Hao can clearly sense a special energy within the blood that his body absorbs.

This special energy has two effects.

One effect is to increase the regenerative capacity of flesh-and-blood cells, speeding up wound healing.

The other effect is to integrate into the sequence runes of the Flesh and Blood Controller, comprehensively raising the limits of physique and spirit.

Moreover, Su Hao discovered that thin crimson blood, the essence blood of the double-headed Stitching Monster, and thick crimson blood each contain distinctly different special energies.

Combining his current sensations, Su Hao suddenly realized that, although the Flesh and Blood Controller can infinitely draw special energy from blood to increase his physique and spirit limits,

but each different blood imposes a limit on how much the Flesh and Blood Controller's sequence runes can be enhanced, and thus caps the gains in physique and spirit.

The more of the same blood one absorbs, perhaps the weaker the boost to strength and spirit becomes.

For example, now, the second drop of crimson blood Su Hao consumed gives a boost to physique and spirit that is nearly ten percent less than the first.

There are still two drops of crimson blood left; trying them will tell us whether that's the case!

Without any hesitation, anyway, with the Scarlet Touch at hand, there will no longer be a shortage of Scarlet Blood in the future; Su Hao immediately swallowed the remaining two drops of Scarlet Blood one after another.

After swallowing these two drops of Scarlet Blood, the speed of recovery of the broken bones inside Su Hao's body increased noticeably again,

The broken bones inside his body began to recover at a faster speed, and Su Hao felt that he would be fully recovered by tomorrow afternoon.

At the same time, Su Hao also felt that, after absorbing the two drops of Scarlet Blood, the increase in his physique and mental power had become somewhat less.

After absorbing the second drop of Scarlet Blood, the increase in physique and mental power was about eighty percent of that from the first drop, and the third drop left only about seventy-eight percent.

"It seems that's indeed the case; for the same kind of supernatural blood, the more you consume, the worse the effect becomes—perhaps in the end it will have no effect at all."

Su Hao nodded, confirming his speculation.

But upon further thought, this situation is actually reasonable—taking too many medicines can produce resistance, and taking too much blood leads to weakened effects, which is also quite normal!

But he did not feel discouraged; consuming too much of a certain blood merely weakens that blood's effect—it doesn't mean all bloods are unusable. If this blood can't be taken anymore, just switch to another!

With the Synthesis Heart, do we still need to worry about the type of blood?

Don't look down on people, okay!

Moreover, to bring the Scarlet Blood to saturation, we'll probably need another seventy or eighty drops.

By that time, Su Hao felt that his physique and mental power could match those of a Supernatural Second Rank.

After figuring this out, Su Hao, while using the Scarlet Touch to summon, also refined Scarlet Tentacles and refined Scarlet Blood to swallow.

Each time he swallowed Scarlet Blood, Su Hao's mental limit would increase, allowing him to release more Scarlet Touches.

Finally, after releasing the Scarlet Touch fifteen times in succession and refining forty-five drops of Scarlet Blood, his mental power was completely exhausted.

Afterward, Su Hao turned and returned to the shelter, went all the way to the toilet, took a deep breath to begin restoring his mental power, and used up the remaining two synthesis counts.