Chapter 83: Blood Pills and Soul Pills

This bloodthirsty flying sword turned out to be quite valuable. Selling it to the system fetched a price of 50 grams of spirit stones, while buying it would cost 120 grams. After selling the bloodthirsty flying sword, Li Yunfei turned his gaze to the second item that dropped from the green zombie.

It was a blood-red orb, about the size of a longan. With a thought, the orb vanished from where it lay and appeared instantly in Li Yunfei’s hand. Ever since he had gained spiritual sense, he no longer needed to pick up items one by one. Spiritual sense was akin to telekinesis, an extension of his will just like his arm; he could move objects at a distance and collect them with ease. Anything within the range of his spiritual sense could be instantly stored in his system inventory.

As Li Yunfei pinched the orb between his fingers, its information surfaced in his mind.

Blood Pill: Consuming this will permanently increase constitution by 20 points. Each person can take up to 5 pills; taking more has no effect.

Li Yunfei drew in a sharp breath. It was the first time he had obtained a medicine that could permanently boost one of the four main attributes. To permanently increase constitution by 20 points—what did that mean? If an ordinary person took just one, their constitution would immediately triple. Their stamina would be three times that of a normal person, their cellular activity threefold, their immunity three times stronger...

If they took five, that would be an elevenfold increase in constitution—wouldn’t that make them immune to all disease? Furthermore, should they be injured, the speed at which their wounds healed would be greatly enhanced, and they could run hundreds of kilometers without tiring. In some sense, this would make them a superhuman.

In other words, the blood pill could directly create a superhuman with eleven times the constitution of an ordinary person, almost on par with those who had awakened constitution-based abilities.

Overjoyed, Li Yunfei placed the blood pill in the system shop’s sell column and eagerly pressed "sell." As expected of a divine pill capable of directly creating superhumans, its selling price was 250 grams of spirit stones, and the purchase price, 800 grams.

Without hesitation, Li Yunfei spent 8,000 grams of spirit stones to buy ten blood pills. He separated five, handing them to the little fox at his side, grinning widely. “Honghong, try these treats.”

Whatever her master offered, the little fox accepted without hesitation, swallowing the pills one by one. Li Yunfei did the same.

He then opened his attribute panel, which now read: Level 33, Experience: 32.5%. Attributes: Strength 76 (10), Agility 69 (8), Constitution 191 (10), Spirit 81 (7).

His constitution had reached nineteen times that of a normal person. Li Yunfei took out a machete and stabbed it at his forearm, only to find that it couldn’t even pierce his skin.

He raised the blade high and brought it down hard. Still, his skin remained unbroken, though his forearm bent slightly before snapping back to straightness.

This was because earlier, after taking the Spirit Snake Pill, his bones had become as tough as a serpent’s body. The razor-sharp machete felt no different from a blunt weapon to him, and thanks to the flexibility of his bones, it could not be broken—only bent.

Failing to test the limits of his constitution, Li Yunfei switched to a serrated curved blade, infused it with spiritual power, and gathered a blade aura before gently slicing his forearm. This time, he managed to cut open the flesh, but before blood could even flow, the wound had already healed.

Li Yunfei put away the curved blade and laughed aloud. “Haha... Honghong, now we both have an ‘Invincible Body’!”

The so-called Invincible Body, a concept borrowed from Ge Xiaolun in “Super God Academy,” essentially referred to being as hard to kill as a cockroach—ordinary weapons could no longer harm him.

Suddenly, Li Yunfei recalled a joke: a man mastered a technique that made him impervious to blades and bullets, but when he fell ill and went to the hospital for surgery, the doctors couldn’t cut him open and he died of his illness.

He was now in a similar state, though the joke was, after all, just a joke. With nineteen times normal constitution, how could he possibly get sick?

After a surge of excitement, Li Yunfei suddenly remembered there was another orb on the field, similar in shape to the blood pill but black in color. He spun around and found a black pill, retrieving it with a thought.

Another pleasant surprise awaited him: this too was a divine pill that permanently increased one of the four main attributes.

Soul Pill: Consuming this will permanently increase spirit by 7 points. Each person can take up to 10 pills; taking more has no effect.

What was there to hesitate about? Down the hatch.

The Soul Pill could be sold to the system shop for 150 grams of spirit stones, with a purchase price of 500 grams. It was a bit lower in class than the blood pill, but in practice, you needed more of them. This item was likely dropped by vengeful spirits and malevolent ghosts, whose level was lower than that of green zombies.

He spent 10,000 grams of spirit stones to buy twenty, and took ten himself, giving the other ten to the little fox.

With his spirit attribute surging by 70 points, his current spirit—also known as soul power—was now more than twenty-one times that of a normal person.

Just then, Li Yunfei felt a strange stirring in his spiritual palace; his spiritual sense, which had been spread outside his body, suddenly retracted involuntarily.

His vision blurred.

A buzzing sounded in his mind, and though his body remained motionless, a phantom silhouette floated out from within him.

The phantom was a vague, misty shape, but as soul power and spiritual sense poured in, it gradually took on human form: first limbs, then a head, though the face was still a blank haze.

“What... is happening?” The phantom muttered in confusion, as if just awakening from a long sleep.

Soon, facial features and clothing formed. In the blink of an eye, the phantom had assumed Li Yunfei’s appearance, identical to his physical body standing motionless on the ground.

After taking ten soul pills, his cultivation was still at level 33—Early Lingdong Realm—but his soul power had reached the threshold for forming a Yin Spirit.

Tenfold spirit would awaken spiritual sense; twentyfold spirit was the threshold for condensing a Yin Spirit.

With the Yin Spirit formed, the body was housed outside, the spirit within; spiritual sense evolved into divine sense. Divine sense, when extended, perceived everything as clearly as if experienced personally, even more minutely detailed than the naked eye.

A newly formed Yin Spirit was extremely fragile, akin to an ordinary wandering ghost, afraid of sunlight and those or things with abundant yang energy. Thus, in the early Yin Spirit stage, one could only emerge at night—the so-called “Night Roaming Stage.” As soul power grew, the Yin Spirit would slowly become unafraid of yang energy, even sunlight, at which point it entered the “Day Roaming Stage.” Reaching the Day Roaming Stage meant that forming a Golden Core was not far off.

Li Yunfei floated a foot above the ground, turned to look at the little fox, and saw that her physical body, eyes closed, was accompanied by her tiny Yin Spirit hovering before it.

“Yip?”

The little fox’s Yin Spirit seemed puzzled too, tilting her head as she looked from her body to Li Yunfei.

Li Yunfei grinned, and with a thought, his spirit body spun and soared through the air.

It was his first time experiencing flight on his own. Though he felt weightless and sensed no wind, it was wonderfully novel.

The little fox, seeing this, also soared around excitedly. Man and fox danced freely for a while, and when the novelty wore off, Li Yunfei called the little fox to return to their bodies.

Once reunited with his body, Li Yunfei had a sudden idea and bought back the bloodthirsty flying sword he had just sold to the system shop.

Enveloping the flying sword with his divine sense, he controlled its flight effortlessly in midair. Spiritual power flowed smoothly into the blade, channeled through his divine sense.

Blood-red sword-light shimmered on the blade as he sent it crashing toward the Iron Rampart Array he had set up himself.

With a muffled bang, the flying sword was unable to breach the wall; the phantom ramparts of the array blocked it firmly.

Li Yunfei poured his spiritual power into the sword, the blood aura blazing as it clashed against the rampart’s phantom wall, trembling and sparking with each impact.

At last, after channeling eighty percent of his spiritual power into the sword, there was a thunderous boom—the flying sword burst through the wall.

The copper and iron wires of the Iron Rampart Array sparked and snapped one by one, the red cords and attached talismans all catching fire and burning to ash. With brute force, Li Yunfei had shattered the Iron Rampart Array.