Chapter 7: No Need to Cultivate—My Strength Grows on Its Own??

The moment Xiao Xuan saw that, his eyes lit up.

One hundred eighty points. That meant an increase of 1.8 Vitality.

At a nonstop pace over twenty-four hours, he could raise his Vitality by 40 points in a single day!

Forty points—that was already the level of a second-layer Vitality Realm expert.

“If it were the old me, I could never have reached that level in my entire life. But now, I can get there in just one day! This Scavenger trait is truly incredible!”

The moment Xiao Xuan finished calculating, he could not help laughing.

“Supreme Will, can you directly lock onto Essence-Blood Depletion and Weak, and recycle them into Eco Points the moment they appear?”

A thought suddenly occurred to Xiao Xuan.

There was no way he could keep watching the interface every second of every minute.

If he really pushed it to the limit, then the moment he lost focus for even one minute, his pitifully small Vitality reserve would be gone.

And once Vitality was gone, he would die.

But if it could be locked in advance, then he could safely raise the proficiency of the Bloodthirsty Demonic Art.

【Lock complete!】

The Supreme Will responded instantly. The moment he heard that, Xiao Xuan smiled.

He trusted the Supreme Will completely. If even the Supreme Will could make mistakes, then this world would have perished long ago.

With that thought, Xiao Xuan directly activated the cultivation method.

BZZZ!!!

In an instant, the Vitality throughout his body began surging violently.

A scorching current flowed through him.

And the speed at which his essence-blood burned began climbing rapidly.

【Ding... The proficiency of Bloodthirsty Demonic Art has increased to: Proficient! Essence-blood burned per hour: 3 drops!】

【Ding... The proficiency of Bloodthirsty Demonic Art has increased to: Mastered! Essence-blood burned per hour: 10 drops!】

【Ding... The proficiency of Bloodthirsty Demonic Art has increased to: Major Mastery! Essence-blood burned per hour: 30 drops!】

【Ding... The proficiency of Bloodthirsty Demonic Art has increased to: Perfect Completion! Essence-blood burned per hour: 60 drops!Vitality strength bonus increased to: 400%!】

【Ding... Your cultivation method Bloodthirsty Demonic Art has reached Perfect Completion!Passive trait 【Essence-Blood Burning】 has been upgraded to: Blue! Essence-blood lost per hour: 60 points! Vitality strength bonus: 400%!Cultivation speed bonus: ×40!】

After more than three hours of frantic circulation, the cultivation method finally reached Perfect Completion.

The blood throughout Xiao Xuan’s body was evaporating at an astonishing speed into pure power, which flooded every part of his body.

At this moment, once the effect of Strength Enhancement was added in, Xiao Xuan’s 5 points of Vitality could unleash a terrifying 100,000 kilograms of force.

A full twentyfold increase in combat power. That was already comparable to an ordinary holder of a Silver trait.

The only issue was that a burn rate of 60 points per hour had already reached the current limit of Xiao Xuan’s recovery speed.

If it increased any further, his body would begin to fail under the strain.

Still, Xiao Xuan could tell that as long as his body could endure it, increasing the burn rate of his essence-blood would be incredibly easy.

“So it really works. In other words, as long as my body can withstand it, the burn rate can keep increasing without limit. And the rank of this cultivation method can keep skyrocketing too?”

Feeling the terrifying strength of over a hundred thousand kilograms surging through his body, Xiao Xuan could not help smiling.

【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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From then on, prompts announcing the recycling of two traits sounded almost once every minute.

After that, Xiao Xuan ran a few more tests.

Once the amount of essence-blood he had lost reached 2 points—40% of his total—the Essence-Blood Loss trait became 【Essence-Blood Deficiency! White】. One such trait could be exchanged for 4 Eco Points, while Weak remained unchanged.

But when the loss reached 3 points, the trait upgraded again, becoming 【Essence-Blood Depletion! White】.

That one could be recycled for 6 Eco Points.

Weak also changed into 【Overexerted】, which could be directly recycled for 3 Eco Points.

And two more traits appeared as well: 【Dizzy! White】 and 【Delirious! White】.

Both of those could be exchanged for 2 Eco Points each.

Calculated that way, compared to recycling the traits every time he lost only 1 point of essence-blood, in the same three-minute span Xiao Xuan could gain 4 extra Eco Points.

However, at that point, Xiao Xuan’s strength would fall to only forty percent of its original level. It was a drastic drop in combat ability.

Moreover, his Vitality recovery speed was only slightly faster than the rate of loss.

It was like filling one pool while draining another. When the inflow and outflow were nearly the same, it would take a very long time to fill it back up.

Fortunately, the Essence-Blood Loss trait appeared once for every 1 point of essence-blood burned.

Otherwise, if he had to wait until it fully recovered and then dropped to 1 point again before a new trait appeared, then it would not take a single minute. It would take several hours at least.

Although letting himself remain in a weakened state increased the rate at which he gained Eco Points quite a bit, it would be extremely dangerous if some sudden emergency occurred while he lacked strength.

After thinking it through, Xiao Xuan still decided to keep the lock set so that the traits would be recycled the moment Essence-Blood Loss appeared.

Soon, another three hours passed.

Adding that to the previous three hours, Xiao Xuan’s Eco Points reached 1,000.

Without the slightest hesitation, he poured all one thousand points into his Vitality.

BOOM!!!

In an instant, a terrifying power surged into every part of his body.

At that moment, Xiao Xuan’s realm began to rise rapidly.

In only a brief instant, his Vitality soared to 15 points.

That meant a base strength of a full 15,000 kilograms.

And once the twentyfold boost from Strength Enhancement and the Bloodthirsty Demonic Art was included, Xiao Xuan’s strength exploded to 340,000 kilograms!

That overwhelming power filled him with an unprecedented sense of exhilaration.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

He clenched his fists.

At once, he could feel wave after wave of terrifying strength churning through his body.

He casually picked up a metal object and squeezed lightly.

The piece of metal was instantly crushed by his terrifying grip into a little iron ball.

“So this is what strength feels like? It really is exhilarating!”

Xiao Xuan could not help sighing inwardly.

But very soon, he noticed something was wrong.

After his essence-blood loss reached 1 point, the Essence-Blood Loss trait did not appear at all.

“Hm? What is going on?”

Xiao Xuan froze for a moment.

Then he kept waiting. Only after his essence-blood loss reached 3 points did the two traits finally appear together.

“The speed at which the traits appear has changed? Now they only appear once every thirty seconds?”

Xiao Xuan frowned.

Then what about his recovery speed?

If that had not changed, would that not mean the rate at which he earned Eco Points had dropped by three times?

He hurriedly recycled both the Essence-Blood Loss and Weak traits.

【Ding... Congratulations, you recycled the trash 【Essence-Blood Loss! White】 and obtained Eco Points: 4】

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

...

The value of the traits had actually doubled!

And what delighted Xiao Xuan even more was that the speed of his essence-blood recovery had also tripled.

It still took only one minute to recover completely.

But now his total essence-blood reserve was three times what it had been before.

What did that mean?

It meant he could increase the operating speed of the cultivation method by another threefold!

At that point, the time between trait appearances would still be one minute.

But because the value of the traits had increased, it also meant that not only had Xiao Xuan’s rate of gaining Eco Points not dropped, it had actually doubled.

Originally, he had gained 180 points per hour.

Now he could gain 360 per hour!

At the same time, his combat power could continue to rise with the level of the cultivation method.

And as his strength kept increasing, the value of the traits would keep rising too.

Eventually, Xiao Xuan would be able to gain ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or even a million Eco Points per hour!

At the same time, the rank of his cultivation method could continue to soar all the way upward.

“This is invincible. This recycling function is absolutely invincible. Just one extended use of it is enough to let my strength increase without end!”

Xiao Xuan could not help laughing.

He had originally thought he would need four or five days to reach the Innate Realm.

Now it seemed four or five days would not be necessary at all!

“Still, if I have spare Eco Points, I need to raise the ranks of Lightning Control and Strength Enhancement too.”

Xiao Xuan considered the matter carefully.

A mere 10,000 Eco Points—equivalent only to the level of the first layer of the Innate Realm—was enough to exchange for a Purple trait. That price could hardly be called expensive.

A Purple trait guaranteed that its holder would become a Great Grandmaster-level powerhouse above the Grandmaster Realm in the future.

And as long as one worked hard and had the necessary resources and cultivation methods, surpassing even the Great Grandmaster Realm would not be difficult.

And yet such a trait only required strength equal to the first layer of the Innate Realm in exchange.

How was that any different from getting it for free?

“Besides, my other traits are still somewhat lacking. For instance, the four major body-enhancement traits are Strength Enhancement, Speed Enhancement, Defense Enhancement, and Stamina Enhancement.”

Only when all four are gathered together can one truly be called a perfect physical enhancer.

I need to get all of them first.

And beyond that, there are quite a few other traits that can raise combat power.

“Now that I have the invincible Scavenger trait, I need to get my hands on all of those powerful traits as well.”