My stats are higher than yours!!

I only injected it with over 10,000 life force in half an hour, and it couldn't withstand that?

You're a growth item! You're the infamous Cursed Item! Although your current quality is only bronze, and you normally only absorb 200 life points per hour, which is equivalent to eating several days' worth of food in half an hour... so what! You're not satisfied with absorbing more? Do you think anyone else will give you that chance to absorb?

really...

This growth equipment isn't working either!

At the same time, Bai Shuodong also clearly understood a very crucial issue.

That is, although his various abilities can increase the speed of life recovery, the energy stored in his body has an absolute limit, which is only about a hundred times the upper limit of life. In order to replenish it later, he must eat new food.

Otherwise, even if he had various abilities to restore life, his energy would not be enough to support the restoration of vitality.

Reality isn't a game; you can't have unlimited health regeneration. It depends on your condition.

in addition...

After the contract was completed, the description of the Blood Demon Armor also changed.

Blood Demon Armor

Level: first level

Quality: Bronze (can grow)

Equipment type: Armor

Defense: 18 (applies only to armor-covered areas)

Durability: ∞

Equipment requirements: None

Equipment effect: Strength +4, Agility +4, Constitution +4, Maximum Health +200

Equipment characteristics:

① Blood Rejection: The Blood Demon Armor no longer craves blood and begs its host not to pour life force into it so recklessly. It has developed a certain fear of absorbing life force and feels like it is about to burst.

Additional information: As the Blood Demon Armor grows, the maximum amount of life force it can absorb will also increase.

② Blood Curse: The Blood Demon Armor possesses a special spirituality, but because it was required to absorb too much life force in a short period of time, it dares not refuse you to take off the armor. After being abandoned, it will not trigger the [Blood Demon Curse], but will only remember your existence and secretly curse you in its heart.

[Blood Demon Curse]: Blood Demon Armor will use the blood inside the armor as a medium to cast a curse. The cursed unit will suffer 10 [instant death] judgments per second for one hour.

③ Blood Sorrow: The Blood Demon Armor craves an eternal host. When it appears, it will automatically bind to the nearest high-quality unit as quickly as possible and actively enter the equipped state immediately.

Additional information: You have been blacklisted.

If the host is killed by the enemy, the Blood Demon Armor will use the indiscriminate [Blood Demon Curse] on all targets within a very large surrounding area, consuming all blood energy, and its quality will automatically drop to Black Iron grade.

Additional information: This passive effect applies to you.

④ Protection of Blood: Omitted. (No changes)

[Demon Blood]: 945

Replenishment ①: It can consume blood to replenish, and the effect is better with the user's own blood.

Supplement 2: At this moment, the Blood Demon Armor has absorbed too much life force and needs time to transform into demon blood.

⑤ Growth through Blood: The Blood Demon Armor can grow by consuming blood, thus improving its quality.

Brief introduction: It has had countless owners, but has never been truly owned by anyone. Now, it seems to have met a special person, someone it may remember for a lifetime.

The Blood Demon Armor can indeed rapidly improve its quality by absorbing life force, and advancement is indeed not difficult. However, this does not mean that the Blood Demon Armor can absorb life force infinitely in a short period of time.

Countless people died on the battlefield, but the Blood Demon Armor didn't actively absorb much of it. It wasn't because it couldn't absorb it, but because absorbing too much in a short time might affect its digestive efficiency.

Just like how eating too much can stretch the stomach and affect digestion, so too can overeating the Blood Demon Armor.

The Blood Demon Armor has an ∞ durability because it is a life form created from blood and qi, completely different from normal equipment. It has no basic materials; its absorption and capacity depend entirely on the strength of its core. The quality directly determines the absorption efficiency and upper limit.

so...

Rather than calling the Blood Demon Armor an equipment, it's more accurate to describe it as a special life form that resembles and can be used as equipment.

It really does get full!

“You’re really useless. Even black Hakimi lasts longer than you,” Bai Shuodong sighed.

"Whoosh..."

Under the table, the black cat emitted a wheezing sound like an engine, its head gradually becoming rounder, and its face turning fierce, as if it had completed some kind of special transformation.

"Hey, hey, there are people here. Cat Bro, just bear with it for a bit, let's go back and play hide-and-seek again." Bai Shuodong laughed without a care, and even bent down to reach out and stroke the cat's head with one hand.

"what!!"

The black cat hissed, and the cat's head nimbly dodged, then swung its paw and scratched his hand.

Bai Shuodong didn't care and still had that smiling look on his face, but he just put his hand back.

"Clap!"

Not far away, the sound of something falling to the ground rang out.

Bai Shuodong turned his head to look.

Xia Yanxin stood not far away, her plate falling to the ground. Her expression changed from joy to blankness, then to shock, and finally settled into heavy disappointment and sorrow.

"Ugh!"

She sighed deeply and said, "So you're this kind of cat behind the scenes? I thought you were different. I thought you were smart, gentle, and cute, the best cat in the world."

"I never expected this... I never expected this..."

“You’re like this without me around. I thought you were different.”

"Meow!!"

The black cat got anxious, meowed, and waved its little paws wildly in the air.

Bai Shuodong could even see human-like anxiety on its face, as well as an explanatory posture, but Xia Yanxin didn't believe it; she felt like she had been deceived.

This little black cat is acting.

The more human-like its actions are at this moment, the more it proves its intelligence, and it's more likely that it's trying to trick people into thinking it's delicious.

Chapter Eighty-Eight: The True World of Psionicists!

Bai Shuodong tilted his head, pointed, and smiled, thinking to himself: It's getting anxious! It's getting anxious!

Hey!

Black Hakimi is still too young!

Although I might be a bit of a dog, is Xia Yanxin some kind of good thing?

True rivals are often able to sense each other's habits, personality, and inner thoughts during battle. Therefore, Bai Shuodong knew very well what kind of person Xia Yanxin was.

The guy just said that, it's definitely not because she's sad, but because she thinks her trick is really fun and she's getting playful.

She's probably secretly laughing to herself right now!

"Cough cough!"

Bai Shuodong coughed twice and casually wiped his hand. The crimson wound was covered by a layer of blood. It was the mark of the repair by the [Demon Blood]. However, since Black Hakimi usually didn't kill him, he was too lazy to waste the [Demon Blood] repairing his injuries.

After all, the [Blood Demon Unrivaled] form requires a continuous consumption of [Demonic Blood] to maintain!

Don't waste it!

"This little injury is nothing to me, it'll heal quickly, that's why it's like this, don't worry about it," Bai Shuodong explained with a smile.

"So... you're used to it already?"

Xia Yanxin took two steps back, and her gaze towards the black cat changed again, filled with sorrow and heartache.

"Meow!!"

Seeing this, the black cat became even more anxious. He felt as if his world had turned dark, with heavy snow falling from the sky and the north wind howling.

The light in its eyes has faded.

Let's not talk about that now.

Bai Shuodong proactively changed the subject, gesturing for the student to proceed. He then handed his meal card to a passing student, smiling as he said, "Excuse me, could you order the best meal and bring it over? I'll treat you to a meal. Oh, and by the way, please contact the cleaning service later."

"Okay, thank you!"

The student smiled, took the card, turned around, and left, clearly in a good mood.

Xia Yanxin sat down as well, leaning back slightly and crossing her legs, and said with a smile, "Oh my, when did you learn this trick? Looks like you've made quite a bit of progress."

"It's nothing. Once you have a lot of money left, you just learn it on your own," Bai Shuodong replied.

People used to say that money supports people.

He didn't believe it at the time, after all, money is just a number. Only when money is transformed into something can it truly support people; money itself cannot support people.

Now, he has become a psionicist, and a legendary one at that, with psionic points.

That's when I experienced what it feels like to be rich.

Even if this was only relative wealth compared to ordinary people, it still gave him an intangible sense of confidence.

It was a special feeling, one that couldn't be described in words. He felt confident in everything he did, and there was an indescribable sense of peace in his heart, as if his entire mindset had undergone a complete transformation.

If Bai Shuodong converted his psionic points and the resources in his storage space into money, he would be a multi-millionaire now, a dragon among men among ordinary people, but in the realm of psionicists... he would just be an ordinary person on the side of the road.

He used to not understand why those people would spend so much money to cultivate, since they were all going to become psionicists. Wouldn't it be a problem to even break even in the future?

Now he understands.

It was because my vision was too limited in the past.

Psionicists and ordinary people live in completely different worlds, separated by a vast chasm that is difficult for ordinary people to cross.

"Is there too much left over?"

Xia Yanxin was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter, laughing so hard that tears streamed down her face. Finally, she slapped the table, laughing so hard she almost choked.

She looked up again, meeting Bai Shuodong's blank expression, and asked, "Then let me ask you, do you have a family? Do you have money now? Do you know how much it costs after officially becoming a psychic?"

"More...how much."

Bai Shuodong suddenly felt a pang of unease, a sense of foreboding washing over him.

"Well..."

Xia Yanxin counted on her fingers, speaking with utmost seriousness: "First of all, when we go out to fight, we need at least some equipment, right? And the equipment level can't be too low, right? At least we need to have something at the silver level, right? What good stuff can that low-level trial you went to give you? Will you be able to use it all the time?"

"You'll need a headgear, and three kinds of accessories: ring, necklace, and bracelet, right? You'll also need a five-piece set: armor, arm guards, leg guards, shoes, and a cloak, right? And weapons are the most important thing; you can't be careless with them. These basic items add up to ten pieces of equipment. How can it not cost you over 100,000 spirit points?"

"That equipment is just basic. After you have the equipment, do you have the skills? Do you know how expensive top-tier skill books are? They're all incredibly expensive. And you actually think you're rich?"

"..."

The smile on Bai Shuodong's face disappeared. He looked at his remaining psionic points and instantly felt that he had returned to his original miserable state.

"Oh, right, I've told you so much, but I haven't told you about the most basic attributes yet. Based on years of practical experience, maxing out your attribute points before exploring the spirit world yields the greatest benefits. So, using drugs to improve your basic attributes is also very important."

"However, for normal people, drug resistance and drug toxicity are problems. Normally, people only need to take the drug once every two days to increase their basic attributes by 1 point each time. And one attribute point costs about 500 spirit points. So, at least 7500 spirit points will be consumed every month until the attribute is fully stacked."

Xia Yanxin's smile grew even wider, her voice like a devil's whisper. She moved a little closer to Bai Shuodong and continued, "I see that your basic physical potential is not low, and your attribute limit should also be high. This expense must be tens of thousands, right? And after the level increases, your basic physical potential will also increase, so you'll have to continue spending money then."

"Stop nagging! Master, stop nagging! My head hurts so much! Ahh!" Bai Shuodong covered his head, his eyes were red and he looked extremely painful.

"Ah~"

Xia Yan sighed and said, "Don't be too sad. After all, I'm not some kind of devil. You just need to remember that you need to spend spirit points to upgrade each skill level. It costs 1,000 for level 1, 2,000 for level 2, and so on. It won't cost you much money."

"For a typical psionicist, five skills would only cost you around 200,000. And that doesn't include weapon enhancement. You can't enhance your main weapon to a lower level, right? If you can't win a weapon duel, then in actual combat, I can only say you know what will happen, hehehe."

"Ahhhhh!!"

Bai Shuodong lowered his head and groaned, his expression contorting. He felt weak, pitiful, and helpless, good for nothing except fighting.

How sad! How sad!

Xia Yanxin walked over and sat down next to Bai Shuodong, putting her arm around his shoulder and gently patting his back. She continued, "Don't be sad. You need money to cultivate normally, right?"

"Eating costs money, right? Maintaining equipment costs money, right? After your spirit realm level increases, you'll need to consider changing your equipment, right? When you're looking for opportunities, you'll need to spend money to buy information, right? You don't think you can be like the protagonist in a novel, where opportunities just appear wherever you go, do you?"

"Well!"