My stats are higher than yours!!

"The familiar recipe, the familiar taste..."

Bai Shuodong closed his eyes, slowly opened his arms, making a gesture similar to embracing, and his life force dropped drastically, down to a near-death level of 100.

If it were someone else, with their life force absorbed to such a low level, they would probably already be in a dying state, unable to even perform normal actions.

But he was different. He was already used to this feeling. Even with extremely low vitality, Bai Shuodong could still move normally. Being unable to move when near death is an excuse for the weak.

He is a true powerhouse.

"What is this...?"

"That armor is absorbing his life force!"

"Cursed... Cursed equipment!"

Suddenly, the crowd below erupted into chaos. Many of the psionicists at the Psionic Academy were familiar with cursed equipment and knew just how dangerous it was.

When they witnessed the Blood Demon Armor absorbing life force with their own eyes, and Bai Shuodong accepted it with a smile, they instantly felt relieved.

Oh!

So he was a forbidden traveler!

Disrespect, disrespect!

[Note: A significant decrease in vitality has been detected, triggering a short-term adaptation effect.]

[Hint: Self-healing ability enhanced]

The spirit world notification sounded again, and a new round of absorption began. As long as he maintained enough absorption time, Bai Shuodong could continue to increase his stats. [Adaptive Evolution] was great; it was unparalleled in terms of increasing stats.

He walked off the stage with a smile.

Xia Yanxin's expression was serious. She took the initiative to step forward and asked, "Are you... alright? This thing seems to have absorbed a lot of life force, and it seems to be still absorbing?"

"It's nothing, just a little bit of wind and frost."

Bai Shuodong waved his hand dismissively.

The Blood Demon Armor definitely needs to continuously absorb life force, otherwise how can I farm its attributes? It keeps absorbing and stimulating, so my life force recovery speed keeps increasing! Only then can it trigger adaptive evolution and permanently upgrade my stats!

Others may not know, but only I, as the owner, know.

The Blood Demon Armor is actually not dangerous. After its quality is upgraded, it will not actively absorb his life force and will even resist it. Its danger level is very low.

"..."

Xia Yanxin didn't say anything, she just kept staring at him as the Blood Demon Armor absorbed it.

Although she didn't have professional testing equipment, she could still tell just how terrifying the thing's efficiency in absorbing life force was and how dangerous the process was simply by observing the changes in Bai Shuodong's life force.

in addition...

How could he recover so quickly? Can a normal person's vitality recover that fast?

Oh, he's a Forbidden Walker, so he must have used [All Things in the Universe] to create some kind of skill that quickly restores his life force, right?

Forbidden Walkers, after all, possess all things in the universe, so it's not surprising that they use or reveal any abilities.

After all, their skills refresh every 24 hours.

The skills you need may vary every day.

"You, hang in there, try to live as long as you can, I believe in you." Xia Yanxin sighed and patted Bai Shuodong on the shoulder.

"You're talking like I'm about to die."

"Isn't that right?"

"Of course not, I'm doing just fine! After the arena battle, I'm going back to training. The skill books should have arrived by now! I'm off!"

"Ah."

Xia Yanxin watched Bai Shuodong leave, her eyes gradually changing, and finally she sighed inwardly.

He was a perfectly fine person.

Why did they choose the Taboo Walker?

What a pity.

.....

Private training room

After Bai Shuodong returned, he immediately closed the door to check the changes in the attributes of the Blood Demon Armor.

Blood Demon Armor

Level: first level

Quality: [Bronze → Silver]

Equipment type: Armor

Defense: [18→24] (Only applies to armor-covered areas)

Durability: ∞

Equipment requirements: None

Equipment effect: [Strength +4, Agility +4, Constitution +4, Max HP +200 → Strength +6, Agility +6, Constitution +6, Max HP +300]

Equipment characteristics:

① Blood Repulsion: After prolonged contact, the Blood Demon Armor's spirituality increased again, and its aversion to absorbing life force intensified. It only hoped to absorb as little as possible and did not want to continue to hold out like this.

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 special spirituality, allowing it to cast curses through blood. (Spirituality increases, curse strength increases)

Because it had been required to absorb too much life force, it dared not refuse its host's request to remove its armor. After being abandoned, it would not trigger the [Blood Demon Curse], but would only remember the host's existence and secretly curse the host 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.

Curse Mastery (New Passive): When Blood Armor uses curse-type abilities, it will ignore 10 points of the enemy's curse resistance.

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 Blood Protection: The Blood Demon Armor is a special piece of equipment formed by combining the strongest blood and armor. When the user is injured, the Blood Demon Armor will automatically release [Demonic Blood] to the wound, keeping the wound in a [normal] state so that the user can fight normally.

If a disability or injury occurs, the Blood Demon Armor will automatically generate limbs using [Demonic Blood] to replace the injury.

【Demonic Blood】 will protect wounds and damaged flesh. When injured, it will reduce damage by 15%-30% → 20%-30%, depending on the type of injury.

If life force is injected into the area covered by [Demonic Blood], it will enter a [High-Speed ​​Regeneration] state.

[Demon Blood]: 2455

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.

"A good improvement."

Bai Shuodong commented with a smile.

First, after the Blood Demon Armor is upgraded to Silver level, its armor defense reaches 24 points, far exceeding the strength of armor of the same level.

Not only that, it also boasts a 18-point attribute boost and an additional 300 health. Normal silver-grade armor is already considered good if it adds 5 points to its attributes, since armor is primarily used to enhance defensive properties rather than attribute values.

The items that can truly increase stats significantly are accessories, such as necklaces, rings, bracelets, capes, and earrings. Silver-grade accessories can increase stats by about 8 points, while high-quality ones can increase them by close to 10 points. In addition, they also have special effects.

The Blood Demon Armor's high stats are likely due to the fact that while it resembles and can be used as armor, its true nature is that of a special life form with independent life, making it far different from normal armor.

It is more like a symbiotic armor, a special symbiotic armor that can synchronize with the host and greatly enhance the host's attributes across all types.

"The Blood Demon Armor is really useful. Not to mention the silver armor of the same level, even the gold armor of a higher level may not have such a high value. The growth potential of these things is definitely very high."

"Its original level must have been quite high, otherwise the promotion would definitely have involved some special transformation process... That's really good."

As he spoke, Bai Shuodong couldn't help but feel an unbearable sense of weakness.

He gently held his forehead with one hand and quickly realized that his energy had been drained. The essence of vitality is life energy, which can be transformed from other energies in the body.

[Adaptive Evolution] can indeed increase the recovery speed, but the energy consumption for recovery still has to be borne by Bai Shuodong himself. The amount of energy stored in his body directly determines how much he can recover. He is weak now because his storage has been depleted.

We need to find something to eat!

Bai Shuodong looked into his storage space, casually took out a few pieces of roasted mutton and some sheep milk wine, chewed them heartily, and drank them with great relish.

"Ah~ I'm alive again~"

"I still need to eat more!"

Bai Shuodong felt much better, but his recovery was still slow because the energy he got from food needed time to be absorbed and converted; it didn't turn into energy immediately after he ate it.

How can I increase my digestion speed?

The answer is simple.

喫！

Eat like there's no tomorrow!

Simply stuff your stomach with a huge amount of food! Put your body into an overload state, and this will trigger short-term adaptation. Over time, it will trigger adaptive evolution, and then there will be no problem!

"Ding!"

The doorbell rang, and Bai Shuodong put down the food in his hand and opened the door to the training room.

Standing behind the door was a young man in a blue courier uniform. He handed over a black package and said, "This is the skill book you ordered yesterday. Please check it."

"Oh."

Bai Shuodong opened the packaging box.

[Hint: Skill book obtained, Basic - Strength]

"no problem."

Bai Shuodong nodded and then confirmed receipt on the store app.

The courier nodded and left.

learn!

[Hint: Confirm whether to use the skill book Basic - Strength?]

Yes.

[Successfully used]

You have gained the following universal skill: Basic - Strength.

[Current general skill slots: 1/7]

Basic - Strength (Passive)

Level: ★★★

Level: 1

Effects: Physical potential +1, explosive power +5%, endurance +5%.

Is this what they call fundamental passivity?

Bai Shuodong shook hands, feeling that his strength had indeed increased.

In terms of physical potential, the physical sensation is not obvious, after all, it only increased by 1 point, and physical potential is not like the attribute of strength and agility that directly increases strength, so the senses are not clear.

Although there is only 1 point now, as the skill level increases, the physical potential provided by [Basic - Strength] will increase, and its effect will become greater and greater, with better results in the later stages.

...

After training in the training room for a while, Bai Shuodong went out to the Chamber of Commerce.

The goal is to purchase food from the spirit world.