Chapter 73 - 70: Forget It! Accept Your Fate!

Chapter 73: Chapter 70: Forget It! Accept Your Fate!

Although the bile of the Vajra Beast was not poisonous, it was incredibly bitter and carried a foul, fishy stench. Ordinary people could not swallow it at all; it was the kind of thing not even dogs would eat.

In his previous life, whether it was Liu Zimo or other Demon Hunting Teams, when they hunted and dissected Vajra Beasts, things like the gallbladder were generally thrown away at will, just like the rest of the offal. No one would bear to taint the most precious tenderloin of the Vajra Beast with even a tiny bit of the incredibly bitter, dark green bile.

Therefore, the combination method Yao Lingling just mentioned had naturally never been discovered by anyone.

To verify if this combination method was effective, Liu Zimo carefully extracted a drop of dark green bile from the Vajra Beast’s gallbladder and gently smeared it on a piece of roasted meat on his plate.

SWISH!

As soon as the bile touched the roasted meat, they instantly fused together. A touch of delicate emerald green was added to the golden surface of the meat, shimmering with green light and overflowing with Spiritual Qi.

It was as if this piece of roasted meat had been activated by something in an instant. The Qi Blood Energy inside surged and overflowed, making it even more tempting!

Liu Zimo released his Divine Thought, carefully inspecting the entire piece of roasted meat with the unique crisis perception of the Spirit Sea Realm, and sensed nothing wrong with it. Afterward, just in case, he casually cut off a piece the size of a fingernail, tentatively placed it into his mouth, and chewed it finely.

Soon, a unique, refreshing fragrance, mixed with extremely rich Qi Blood Energy, slowly spread and diffused within his mouth. It was non-toxic, had no off-flavor, and was completely harmless to the human body. More importantly, the life essence within the roasted meat had actually surged by more than double!

He thought, "That little bug is indeed telling the truth!

"The Vajra Beast’s tenderloin paired with its bile is truly an exquisite match!

"Moreover, its taste is not as unpalatable as imagined. The aroma of the meat is mixed with a trace of vegetable fragrance, and the original bitterness of the bile has been completely masked!

"I really didn’t expect that this is the best way to consume the Vajra Beast’s tenderloin!"

Liu Zimo could not help but praise it in his heart.

However, this was not what made Liu Zimo the most delighted. Compared to discovering the best way to eat the Vajra Beast’s tenderloin, Liu Zimo cared more about the fact that he seemed to have inadvertently discovered the true value of this little bug in his Sea of Consciousness!

This was not just a natural-born "Demon Traitor," but also a "Master of All Things" who deeply understood both the Demon Race and the human race of the Illusion Demon Realm!

He had originally only thought of using it to discover the traces of other Soul-Devouring Insects, merely treating it as a living detector. That approach was ultimately somewhat one-sided and severely underestimated the practical value of this Proud Heaven Insect!

Yao Lingling thought, "Huh?

"This perverted human actually discovered the correct way to eat the Vajra Beast’s tenderloin so quickly. He doesn’t seem too stupid!"

At this time, Yao Lingling seemed to have seen Liu Zimo’s actions outside, and its thoughts began to race again: "But so what if he found out?

"It’s just the tenderloin of a Regiment Level Vajra Beast. No matter how strong its effect is, there’s a limit!

"Who in the entire Illusion Demon Realm doesn’t know that the Vajra Beast is merely a low-tier herd Race at the very bottom of the Demon Race? Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been sent down as cannon fodder by the Demon Lord so early on!

"Their existence is merely to scout ahead for our noble Soul-Devouring Insect Race and distract the human race’s attention..."

Hearing Yao Lingling’s muttering, Liu Zimo raised an eyebrow slightly. As expected, the Soul-Devouring Insect Race were the true main characters initiating the second wave of the Demon Calamity.

Judging from the Federation’s thirty years of development in his previous life, the human race seemed to have never noticed the existence of these bizarre insects from beginning to end. They were hidden far too deeply! Even Saint Level Martial Artists of the human race fell for their tricks and became puppets under the control of their Spirit Net, let alone anyone else.

In this life, it was only because he had awakened the "Heaven-Stealing" Superpower early and his Sea of Consciousness Space was infinitely expanded. Otherwise, the moment he encountered this kind of Soul-Devouring Insect, he would have unknowingly become their puppet as well!

Liu Zimo shook his head slightly. For now, he could only focus on the present and prioritize hunting down and killing the few Soul-Devouring Insects that had descended near Luozhou City. As for the other cities outside of Luozhou City, he could only leave them to fate for the time being.

Fortunately, the true purpose of these Soul-Devouring Insects was merely control, not extinction. As long as the people were still alive, there would always be opportunities in the future.

"Sisi, use this bile as a sauce and distribute it to everyone present!" Retracting his thoughts, Liu Zimo ate all the roasted meat radiating an emerald light on his plate in one bite. He then softly gave out an instruction to Yang Sisi, who was still holding the Vajra Beast’s gallbladder.

A moment later, a touch of green began to linger at the barbecue tables across the entire Celestial Terrace.

The crowd did not dare to refuse Liu Zimo’s "great hospitality." After closing their eyes and taking their first bite of this strange dish, they simply could not stop. Their eyes lit up once more as they initiated a crazy feasting mode.

No one was a fool, and no one could reject this Treasure Medicine Level ingredient that could exponentially increase their Martial Arts Power! To them, the taste of the roasted meat was secondary. As long as they were certain that its effects were extraordinary and that it could help them improve their cultivation strength and break through to higher realms, they would not despise it in the slightest—let alone if the taste merely became a bit inferior; they would eat it even if it were a pile of mud!

At this time, those Martial Artists who had just broken through to the Iron Bone Realm were in dire need of Qi Blood Energy to replenish their consumption and consolidate their cultivation. Both their food capacity and appetite were unprecedentedly high. When they discovered that the efficacy of the roasted meat smeared with bile was actually stronger, their eyes gleamed. They scrambled like starving ghosts, stuffing the roasted meat in front of them into their mouths.

The other few who were already Iron Bone Realm Martial Artists to begin with, such as Yang Sisi, Ye Feihong, Cai Jianghong, and Liu Guangsheng, did not have such a great appetite. After each person ate about a hundred pounds of roasted meat, they sensed that the Qi Blood in their bodies was abundant and overflowing, making them unable to eat anymore.

They had already reached their limit!

The Qi Blood and Inner Breath in their bodies had all reached the peak state of their current Cultivation Realm. The few of them all unconsciously stopped eating, sat cross-legged in Meditation on the spot, and circulated their Breathing Technique to begin charging toward a higher Martial Dao realm.

Lou Yuchen, on the other hand, had a stomach like a bottomless pit. He had already downed several hundred pounds of roasted meat beside him, yet he was still continuously feasting. It wasn’t until he had eaten almost two thousand pounds that a golden light suddenly appeared on his body, indicating he had also reached his digestive limit.

Just like the others, after stopping his meal, he immediately sat cross-legged in Meditation and began his breakthrough toward the intermediate stage of the Golden Body Realm!

It could be said without exaggeration that this piece of Regiment Level Vajra Beast tenderloin had fattened up a large group of people right before his eyes!

As for Liu Zimo himself, although he hadn’t eaten much—merely taking his time to roast a few pieces to satisfy his cravings, amounting to only three or four pounds—there was no doubt that he was the one who benefited the most out of everyone present.

Among these dozens of Martial Artists in front of him, no matter which one broke through their realm and improved their cultivation, Liu Zimo would leech off half of their cultivation increase!

Others relied on their own Martial Arts Talent, refining Qi Blood bit by bit to improve their cultivation. However, Liu Zimo won by sheer volume. Relying on this group of "Good Brothers" and "besties" in front of him, he obtained power and improved his cultivation batch by batch.

Perhaps half a cultivation increase contributed by a single person wasn’t very conspicuous. But when these dozens of Martial Dao geniuses and prodigies spared no effort in collectively providing cultivation power for him, the accumulated Martial Arts Cultivation and Spiritual Power were extremely considerable!

Following the successive breakthroughs of Iron Bone Realm Martial Artists like Yang Sisi, Ye Feihong, Cai Jianghong, Wei Yuanbin, and Liu Guangsheng, as well as Lou Yuchen, who was already in the Golden Body Realm, Liu Zimo ushered in another massive wave of Martial Arts Cultivation and Spiritual Power increments!

[Your bestie Yang Sisi cultivated the ’Guiding Breathing Method’, gained enlightenment in her heart, erupted with Qi, and broke through to the intermediate stage of the Iron Bone Realm in one fell swoop... Martial Arts Cultivation +15, Spiritual Power +5, Lifespan +10.]

[Your Good Brother Lou Yuchen cultivated the ’Guiding Breathing Method’, gained enlightenment in his heart, erupted with Qi, and broke through to the intermediate stage of the Golden Body Realm in one fell swoop... Martial Arts Cultivation +30, Martial Arts Talent +5, Spiritual Power +10, Lifespan +20.]

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Within half an hour, Liu Zimo sat leisurely at the barbecue table, eating roasted meat and drinking the small cup of wine handed to him by Liang Luojun, while his cultivation strength skyrocketed!

As for Yao Lingling in his Sea of Consciousness, seeing the waves rise again as the Sea of Consciousness began to expand rapidly outward once more, it was already somewhat numb from the blow. It lay flat in the confinement space like it had completely given up, lacking even a fraction of the motivation to complain.

It thought, "Comparing myself to a pervert is completely asking for humiliation!

"Forget it!

"I’ll just accept my fate!"

It had finally figured it out: unless the ancestor of their Soul-Devouring Insect Race personally descended right now, it could forget about ever escaping this pervert’s Sea of Consciousness Space in this lifetime!