Chapter 6: Sunflower Manual! Can Your Manhood Grow Back Even If It Is Cut Off?

Seeing that even a single [Weak] trait on her was Silver, Xiao Xuan finally understood. Mu Xiying truly did not think much of a mere Blue Aptitude Pill.

Although he had no use for it either, Xiao Xuan could hardly refuse.

Seeing Xiao Xuan smile, as though he no longer feared her, Mu Xiying was pleased.

He was only an eighteen-year-old boy. Reining him in would be effortless.

“All right. If there’s anything you don’t understand in your cultivation, just come ask me!Also, stay at home tonight. Don’t go out! And keep this with you at all times. Don’t lose it!”

Mu Xiying suddenly spoke in a very serious tone.

As she finished, she tossed him a piece of jade.

Xiao Xuan caught it in one hand.

“This thing... could it be some sort of legendary protective talisman?”

Thinking back on what Mu Xiying had just said, Xiao Xuan grew curious.

He did not know what was going on.

But now that he knew she was no ordinary person, Xiao Xuan nodded seriously.

“I generally don’t go out at night anyway.”

Xiao Xuan replied.

“Ying’er, come help carry the dishes! Your father won’t be back until later tonight, so let’s eat first.”

Just then, Su Qian’s voice came from the kitchen.

“I’ll do it!”

The moment Xiao Xuan heard that, he hurried over to help before Mu Xiying could even stand up.

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After dinner, Mu Xiying returned to her room early.

As for Xiao Xuan, he also went back to his own room.

Looking at the pill in his hand, he thought for a moment, then swallowed it in one gulp.

BOOM!!

In an instant, a warm surge of power poured into Xiao Xuan’s body.

That force then began to transform his entire body.

Xiao Xuan could clearly feel that his speed of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had increased by at least tenfold.

【Ding... You have awakened the trait 【Constitution Enhancement! Blue】 Cultivation Speed ×500, cannot stack with other aptitude-type traits!】

A prompt sounded immediately afterward.

But that prompt left Xiao Xuan stunned.

“Constitution Enhancement? Why isn’t it an aptitude-type trait?”

Xiao Xuan was baffled.

He immediately used his smartwatch to look up the difference between Constitution Enhancement and Aptitude Enhancement traits, and in an instant, he understood.

“So aptitude-type traits include both Constitution Enhancement and Comprehension Enhancement. Those are innate traits that cannot be improved through pills or similar methods!”

Aptitude pills can only improve cultivation speed. They can’t improve one’s comprehension!

In other words, an aptitude-type trait doesn’t just give five hundred times the cultivation speed, it also gives five hundred times the comprehension. That makes mastering cultivation methods and martial skills much faster.

“No wonder Mu Xiying only gave me Green cultivation methods and martial skills. She was afraid I wouldn’t be able to learn anything better!”

Xiao Xuan smiled helplessly. Damn it. He had actually been looked down on by a woman.

“There are pills corresponding to Comprehension Enhancement too, but any pill that boosts comprehension only works temporarily. It seems this is the sort of thing you either have from birth or you never will!”

At that thought, Xiao Xuan did not hesitate. He directly moved the cursor.

【Ding... Congratulations, you recycled the trash 【Constitution Enhancement! Blue】 and obtained Eco Points: 500】

A prompt came very quickly.

Xiao Xuan directly spent 300 of those Eco Points on his aptitude, then put all the rest into his Vitality.

BOOM!!!

In an instant, Xiao Xuan felt his strength begin to skyrocket again.

In only a short time, his Vitality reached 5, which meant a base strength of a full 5,000 kilograms. And if his [Strength Enhancement] was factored in, then his explosive power had already reached 25,000 kilograms.

Even ordinary Vitality Realm martial artists did not possess such terrifying strength.

“At last, I finally have at least some real strength. So... maybe I can go take a look at the ferocious beast zone now!”

A gleam flashed through Xiao Xuan’s eyes.

The ferocious beast zone meant the world outside the city.

Beyond the city walls, ferocious beasts ran rampant everywhere.

One careless mistake was enough to get someone torn apart by them.

But then Xiao Xuan suddenly remembered that injuries also counted as negative traits. If he really recycled those traits, would his injuries heal quickly as well?

Of course, it was not as though he had some taste for pain. He simply wanted to test it out.

With that thought in mind, he wasted no time and took down a titanium alloy saber hanging on the wall.

It was a keepsake left behind by his father, and its grade was fairly decent as well: Green, High Grade.

Back in his day, his old man had been a peak Vitality Realm expert too.

PFFT!!!

Without hesitation, Xiao Xuan went into the bathroom and cut his finger open.

Then he looked expectantly at his trait panel.

What happened next left him speechless.

Nothing changed at all.

“There’s nothing? Don’t tell me the wound is too minor?”

The corner of Xiao Xuan’s mouth twitched.

Still, he gritted his teeth and slashed his arm again, carving a ten-centimeter gash into it.

The pain made him suck in a sharp breath.

“Damn it, I’m risking this much. If this turns out to be useless, I’ll have lost big!”

Xiao Xuan cursed inwardly.

Sure enough, at that moment, two new traits appeared on his panel: [Injured! White] and [Pain! White].

Xiao Xuan immediately let out a breath of relief.

There was actually an extra trait too.

He quickly recycled them both.

【Ding... Congratulations, you recycled the trash 【Injured! White】 and obtained Eco Points: 2】

【Ding... Congratulations, you recycled the trash 【Pain! White】 and obtained Eco Points: 2】

A prompt followed at once.

BZZZ!!!

In the next instant, something astonishing happened.

The wound on his arm instantly stopped bleeding, then began healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And the pain vanished at once.

“What the hell, that fast?”

Xiao Xuan was stunned.

In less than three seconds, his wound had already healed completely.

That speed was probably even faster than the healing speed of some people who had awakened recovery-type traits.

At the very least, it was definitely faster than ordinary Blue healing-type traits.

“I wonder... if I pick up a healing-type trait and stack it together with this, will I heal even faster?”

Xiao Xuan raised a brow at the thought.

“Since it doesn’t hurt anyway, should I try a few more times?”

Suddenly, he found himself wanting to continue.

“If I want to grow stronger, I have to be ruthless with myself!”

The moment that thought crossed his mind, Xiao Xuan grit his teeth and brought the blade down again, carving another cut into himself.

PFFT! PFFT! PFFT!!

Blood immediately sprayed everywhere.

Fortunately, the water was running, so the blood was washed away at once.

The pain flared up instantly, and Xiao Xuan hurriedly recycled the [Pain] trait. Sure enough, the pain disappeared immediately.

The [Injured] trait also appeared right on cue.

This time, however, there was one more trait as well.

[Blood Loss! White]

Looking at the bathroom that had already been stained red, Xiao Xuan’s mouth twitched.

In the mirror, even his lips had turned pale.

He quickly recycled both traits.

Very soon, a wave of relief washed through him.

The weakness he had just felt also vanished quickly. That had been caused by the blood loss.

If he had let it continue a little longer, another [Weak] trait would probably have appeared too.

As the injury disappeared, the pallor in Xiao Xuan’s face, reflected in the mirror, quickly gave way to a healthy flush again.

And after only a few seconds, his injuries had fully recovered.

Even the blood loss seemed to have been made up for.

“I call this training method self-mutilation.”

Xiao Xuan could not help sighing.

“I wonder whether this world has any cultivation methods that revolve around self-harm. If there are, I won’t have to keep wrecking my own body every day.”

Xiao Xuan felt rather helpless.

“Right. Forums sometimes post cultivation methods and martial skills with severe flaws. Maybe I should search for some?”

Xiao Xuan’s eyes immediately lit up.

The control over cultivation methods in this world was extremely strict. If someone spread one without permission and got caught, the consequences were severe.

Incomplete cultivation methods, however, were another matter entirely.

Because they were so incomplete that they could not be cultivated at all, hardly anyone cared about them.

Many had even been posted online.

If someone could repair them, so much the better, and they would even receive a reward.

And if no one could repair them, that was fine too.

After all, they could not be cultivated anyway.

Xiao Xuan directly opened one of those forums.

Then he entered a search term.

“Causes severe damage to the body after cultivation!”

He clicked search.

A huge number of cultivation methods appeared instantly.

The hottest result left Xiao Xuan speechless at once.

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Cultivation Method: Sunflower Manual

Rank: Fourth Rank, Lower Grade

Description: To practice this art, one must first castrate oneself!

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“Damn it, even this exists? What lunatic came up with something like this?”

Xiao Xuan was speechless.

This certainly counted as a self-harm cultivation method.

Unfortunately, even if Xiao Xuan were an idiot, he would never practice it.

If that thing could not be restored afterward, would he not end up a eunuch for the rest of his life?

And even if it could recover, how many men could really bring themselves to make that cut?

So he continued browsing the rest of the methods.

Before long, however, one particular technique immediately caught his eye.

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Cultivation Method: Bloodthirsty Demonic Art

Rank: Fourth Rank, Peak Grade

Description: A demonic art created by a powerhouse who possessed a recovery-type Silver trait. It is a powerful demonic art that uses one’s own essence-blood as fuel to increase strength.

Take note: it uses essence-blood, not ordinary blood!

Once one’s essence-blood is damaged, all kinds of negative effects will appear, such as weakness, blood loss, listlessness, and other negative traits!

Moreover, essence-blood is extremely difficult to replenish! Cultivate it with caution!

However, if one can continue cultivating it, this method is also extremely powerful, comparable to an ordinary Fifth Rank, Peak Grade cultivation method!

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This was already the highest-grade cultivation method one could find on the public network.

Anything above this, even if defective, would still be cataloged and strictly managed.

Still, a Fifth Rank, Peak Grade method was more than enough.

Fifth Rank already corresponded to the Great Grandmaster Realm.

And among the tens of millions of people in Blackwater City, there was not a single Great Grandmaster.

The strongest person was merely the city lord, who had only just entered the Grandmaster Realm.

A Fifth Rank, Peak Grade cultivation method was something that even ordinary Grandmasters were not qualified to practice.

“Let’s first see how difficult it is to cultivate.”

Xiao Xuan directly downloaded the complete cultivation instructions.

Very soon, he discovered that the cultivation difficulty of this method was astonishingly low, yet its effects were incredibly powerful.

Just reaching Entry was enough to increase one’s physical combat power by 200%.

And essence-blood was determined by one’s Vitality value.

One point of Vitality equaled one drop of essence-blood!

At Entry, the consumption rate was one drop of essence-blood burned per hour!

At the Proficient level, the boost rose to 250%, but the cost jumped straight to 3 drops per hour!

At Mastered, it became 300%, with 10 drops of essence-blood burned per hour!

At Major Mastery: 350%, 30 drops per hour!

And if one could reach Perfect Completion, combat power would directly rise to 400%!

But at that level, the consumption of essence-blood would also soar to 100 drops per hour!

As for its cultivation speed, that increase was even more terrifying. It was ten times the combat-power bonus.

That was right, ten times.

In other words, cultivating this method was a full ten times faster than cultivating other methods of the same rank.

But the price was simply too great.

Even if one possessed a recovery-type trait, one still had to make sure not to suffer any serious injuries.

Otherwise, if the injuries overlapped with the speed at which the essence-blood was burning, and that surpassed the recovery limit of the healing trait, then the person cultivating the method would almost certainly die.

And the higher the proficiency, the faster the essence-blood burned.

Worse yet, its proficiency rose extremely easily. It all depended on how quickly one could burn essence-blood.

As long as the body could endure it, once one had mastered the method of burning essence-blood, the cultivation method could be pushed all the way to Perfect Completion.

But once it was raised, the burning speed could never be reduced again!

In other words, once the burning rate had been increased to a certain level, one’s essence-blood would henceforth have to burn at that same rate every second of every day.

The speed could only rise. It could never fall.

“Wait a moment! The reason this cultivation method is only Fourth Rank, Peak Grade... seems to be because that recovery-type Silver-trait ability user could only sustain a consumption speed of 100 drops.

In other words, if my recovery speed can keep up, then could I raise it to one thousand, or even ten thousand drops per hour?

And the rank of the cultivation method would rise right along with it?”

At that thought, Xiao Xuan raised a brow.

“Should I test it first? With my healing speed, I can definitely endure one drop per hour.”

With that thought, Xiao Xuan sat down on the bed and began studying the method.

Improved aptitude truly was a blessing. Combined with the fact that the method itself was not especially difficult, Xiao Xuan managed to grasp the trick to burning Vitality after only a few hours of study.

“Let’s try it first!”

Xiao Xuan did not hesitate. He directly closed his eyes and began circulating his Vitality frantically according to the cultivation method.

In an instant, his entire body began to heat up.

At that moment, his essence-blood slowly began to ignite.

At the same time, he could clearly feel his strength double as soon as the burning began.

His original 25,000 kilograms of strength surged straight to 50,000!

A twofold boost in power. Even ordinary Third Rank cultivation methods only reached that level after being trained to Mastered.

And Third Rank methods generally could only be practiced once one reached the Innate Realm.

As for the burning rate of essence-blood, however, it was not especially fast.

【Ding... Your cultivation method 【Bloodthirsty Demonic Art】 has reached Entry! Passive trait obtained: 【Essence-Blood Burning! White】 Essence-blood lost per hour: 1 point! Vitality power bonus: 200%! Cultivation speed bonus: ×20!】

Very soon, the moment the Bloodthirsty Demonic Art reached Entry, the prompt of the Supreme Will sounded.

“So there really is a negative trait.

Still, this doesn’t count as a purely negative trait.

But as long as it’s a trait, then it’s easy to deal with.

As long as I drag that blood-burning trait into my Recycle Bin, the burning of my essence-blood will stop instantly!

Which means even if I raise the Bloodthirsty Demonic Art to its highest level later on, I won’t have to worry about getting injured during battle.”

Thinking that through, Xiao Xuan smiled in satisfaction.

“That said, with it only burning one drop an hour, who knows how long it’ll take before I actually feel the effects of essence-blood depletion.”

Xiao Xuan frowned slightly.

Still, he did not rush to raise the burn rate.

Who knew whether, once essence-blood depletion really set in, removing the negative traits would heal him quickly enough to outpace the loss?

At present, with 5 points of Vitality, he could be considered a cultivator possessing five drops of essence-blood.

He estimated that once a single drop was consumed, he would probably feel something was wrong.

With that in mind, he began to wait patiently.

Sure enough, once an hour had passed, one drop of Xiao Xuan’s essence-blood had been completely burned away.

A sense of weakness washed over him.

At once, Xiao Xuan discovered that two new traits had appeared.

[Essence-Blood Loss! White] [Weak! White]

The moment those two traits appeared, Xiao Xuan raised a brow.

Then he directly recycled both of them.

BZZZ!!!

In an instant, Xiao Xuan felt his weakness rapidly disappear.

At the same time, he could also feel that the one drop of essence-blood he had lost was recovering at an astonishing speed.

The loss of essence-blood had temporarily lowered his strength by quite a bit.

Although essence-blood could recover, it was intimately tied to one’s overall strength.

So as his strength returned, Xiao Xuan could indirectly sense his essence-blood recovering as well.

And the recovery speed was astonishingly fast.

In only one minute, his first drop of essence-blood had fully recovered.

【Ding... Congratulations, you recycled the trash 【Essence-Blood Loss! White】 and obtained Eco Points: 2】

【Ding... Congratulations, you recycled the trash 【Weak! White】 and obtained Eco Points: 1】

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