My health recovery is incredibly fast.

"In the psychological school of thought, these personality traits that subtly influence your decisions are called 'psychological traits,' and are the most important component of a person's personality structure." (Note: Further reading: The term "root traits" in personality psychology.)

Rexor continued:

"Take the flesh wall for example."

"This thing is filthy and evil, but that's how it is for us humans."

"In the eyes of the Otherworldly Demons, it is a sacred existence."

"The mind seal I created can change the self-identification in the [Mind Trait] from [Human] to [Otherworldly]. In this way, when Blood Element servants receive information from the outside world, they will no longer judge it from the perspective of [Human], but will view it from the perspective of [Otherworldly].

Xia Zuo understood.

In my previous life, as a keyboard warrior who loved browsing Douyin and watching short videos, it was perfectly normal for me to understand some cutting-edge technology, abstract psychology, and philosophy.

He quickly followed Rexor's train of thought and then asked, "If that's the case, then the object of worship for the Otherworldly must be an incomparably revered being from the perspective of the Blood Elemental servants. Will my Blood Elemental servants be disturbed or even break free from my control when they see the Otherworldly object of worship?"

“No, it won’t,” Rexor said firmly.

"【Mind Seal】can alter the upper limit of 【Emotional Intensity】."

"On the mental talisman I created, the upper limit of the emotional intensity of extreme emotions such as [reverence] and [fanaticism] is only one percent of that under normal circumstances."

"Even if your blood element servants face the object of the otherworldly worship, they will only produce simple exclamations like 'Wow, how magnificent!' or 'Wow, how tall!' It is virtually impossible for the blood element servants to go out of control."

Xia Zuo nodded. "Then I'm relieved. The [Mind Seal] spell sounds very useful. Can it help the caster overcome fear?"

“Yes,” Rexor said. “In fact, every member of the Temple army has mastered this spell. The Witcher school is no exception. Many times, we need to go deep into the lair of the Otherworlders, but we cannot tamper with the Self-Positioning in the Mind Trait, otherwise we will accidentally injure others. At this time, adjusting the upper limit of the intensity of negative emotions such as Fear and Cowardice to None is the best emergency measure.”

"Hmm~ After this mission is over, I'll go exchange for some spellbooks to study," Xia Zuo said. "Then I'll go see what the alien demons worship, and then I'll go find the anti-magic field generator."

"Waiting for your good news." Rexol tightened the accelerator and sped up.

Xia Zuo took a deep breath and manipulated his blood element servant to traverse the thick energy pipes, reaching the other side of the pipes and gazing at the center of the large plaza.

A big question mark appeared in Xia Zuo's mind.

He actually saw a section of... a huge blood vessel?

Indeed, the Otherworlders were worshipping a shriveled brown blood vessel that looked like a flattened rubber hose.

This blood vessel, suspended more than 20 meters above the ground and approximately 15 meters long from head to tail, lay horizontally, enjoying the worship of the otherworldly demons. Its body was covered with energy tubes, from which countless amounts of energy were continuously being supplied. The thick energy tubes surrounding the blood element servants also led there.

The hymns of praise from the demons played on repeat.

After each recitation, a strange, pale green orb of light would appear around the shriveled blood vessels. The shriveled blood vessels would twitch slightly, absorbing the pale green orb entirely into their bodies. Their brownish surfaces would swell slightly before collapsing.

When Xia Zuo saw this scene, his expression turned very strange.

Isn't this tender green glow just the life force that drifts into nature after a living thing dies?

Do shriveled blood vessels absorb life force from nature?

"Oh! I remember now!" Xia Zuo clapped his hands, suddenly realizing.

While the infiltration team, disguised as gunmen, was killing the tree-like monster, he noticed something was wrong!

The orbs of life force emanating from the tree-shaped monster after its death were drifting upwards at an alarmingly high speed.

Xia Zuo recalled the scene of hunting monsters in the frozen snowfield.

He was certain that whether it was a caveman, a Yeti, or a Frost Dragon, the life force orbs that appeared after they died flew into the sky at an extremely slow speed.

Seeing the shriveled blood vessels absorbing the life force orb, Xia Zuo immediately realized the reason for the orb's abnormally fast speed.

One fact was laid bare before Xia Zuo:

In addition to his [Vitality Recycling] talent, his shriveled blood vessels can also influence the life force orb.

Judging from the visual results, the shriveled blood vessels are far more efficient at absorbing the life force energy clusters than level 30 [Vitality Recycling].

How much higher exactly… Xia Zuo felt slightly annoyed, rubbed his brows a few times, and released a probing spell on the shriveled blood vessels.

...

[Name] Unknown, tentatively named: Shriveled Veins

[Type] Product of flesh and blood alchemy

[Grade] Unknown

[Quality] Damaged, 20% intact

【characteristic】

1. Damaged Vitality Container: Capable of holding 720 billion vitality points, currently holding 38. The more vitality it holds, the higher its integrity, and the higher its capacity limit.

2. Wide-Area Vitality Recovery: Recharging is initiated after continuous energy injection. Currently, the charging progress is 82%, and it is capable of automatically recovering all life force clusters within a radius of 820 kilometers. Charging is expected to be completed in 36 hours.

3. Energy Delivery: Energy can be delivered to a designated target.

4. Forced Devotion Aura: Forces designated targets within a 3,000-meter radius to develop extreme worship feelings towards it.

5. Vitality Conversion Device: The device uses the devout faith of the worshipper as its primary energy source, but can also use any other energy source as an auxiliary energy source.

Prediction: The Vitality Conversion Device will convert Faith Power into Vitality at a ratio of 10:1. It will also convert Auxiliary Energy into Vitality at a ratio of 100:1 or lower.

6. Mark of the Controller: Can only be controlled by the person holding the Mark of the Controller. The mark holder is immune to the forced piety aura and can freely mobilize the vitality stored in the container.

Other characteristics are unknown.

...

Holy crap... it can store 720 billion vitality points...

Xia Zuo covered his face, inwardly exclaiming, "Holy crap!"

This is the effect when the [Quality] is damaged and the integrity is only 20%.

If the integrity reaches 100%... the vitality capacity of the shriveled blood vessels can reach 3600 billion points.

How fast can it regenerate health?

Xia Zuo calculated it based on his own character template.

3600 billion vitality points... that means a health regeneration rate of 3600 billion points per hour, or 1 million points per second.

this..

Is the health regeneration speed a tiny bit fast?

If Xia Zuo had that kind of healing speed, combined with [Blood Sacrifice Spellcasting], he could probably wipe out everything, even the Holy Temple...

"This is outrageous." Xia Zuo rubbed his face a few times, quickly calming himself down.

He switched to the bald man's perspective and told the other person what he had discovered.

Xia Zuo did not reveal the existence of the life force orb.

He merely mentioned that the energy hub at the church headquarters was concentrating its energy supply to the shriveled blood vessels, and that each time a hymn was sung, the shriveled blood vessels would become slightly more vibrant. This was meant to imply to the bald man that the shriveled blood vessels were slowly reviving in some way.

After reading the description of the red line, Rexor pondered for a few seconds, then his expression changed drastically, and he said in a serious tone:

"Although I don't know what those shriveled blood vessels are, I have a rough idea of ​​what the Church of the Otherworld is up to."

"They are preparing to mass-produce Otherworldly beings."

"Using a transformation ritual to turn humans into the lowest level of alien demons, and then letting them devour their own kind to raise their own level, is just a slow and conventional approach."

"If the Church of the Otherworldly Demons wanted to create 112 million Otherworldly Demons in a short period of time, it obviously wouldn't use such a slow and inefficient method..."

Xia Zuo sensed something was wrong. "Then what other methods are there?"

"If I'm not mistaken, that shriveled blood vessel should be a kind of sinister device that converts various forms of energy into life force. The Church of the Otherworldly Demons encourages all its members to offer their faith to it, which can accelerate the rate at which it accumulates life force. Then, the Otherworldly Demons pour the accumulated life force into the Otherworldly Demon Incubation Chamber, forcibly giving birth to new Otherworldly Demons."

Rexor let out a slow breath and said in a low voice, "When spawning Otherworldly beings, this method wastes at least one-third of their life force during the conversion of life force into blood runes. This is a precise conclusion reached by the Demon Hunter School after in-depth observation of Otherworldly incubation... but I still feel like something's not quite right..."

Rexor said as he pondered:

"I originally thought that the alien demons would adopt a strategy of using war to sustain war. After transforming a batch of alien demons into bone sacs, they would throw these alien demons into the battlefield, harvesting the life force of living beings to supply the incubation chambers in the rear. This would eventually form wave after wave of attacks."

"But they have adopted a different strategy at this time—using the infusion of life force to give birth to the alien demons... Aren't they worried about wasting life force?"

Xia Zuo knew the answer.

The second characteristic of shriveled blood vessels is [wide-area vitality recovery], which can perfectly solve the phenomenon of wasted vitality.

But he couldn't say it... After all, in Rex's eyes, he didn't possess powerful detection spells and couldn't explain how he knew this characteristic.

Fortunately, Rexor did not live for thousands of years in vain.

He quickly came to a guess, and sneered, "Ha! I remember now. The Otherworlders have even invented a blood magic device to remotely recycle the blood of Blood Demons, so creating a device to recycle life force on a large scale must be no problem for them. Perhaps that withered blood vessel has such an ability."

The bald guy was right... Xia Zuo touched his nose...

"So what should I do now?" Xia Zuo asked.

“Hmm… let me think…” Rexor pondered for a moment and asked, “How long do you think it would take to create an army of a million Otherworlders using the method of spawning Otherworlders?”

Since the goal is to build an army, it must primarily consist of otherworldly demons capable of direct combat.

When facing human forces, hybrid mages, who possess the ability to manipulate life force, are the most effective.

Then, some Shadowfiends help the hybrid mages penetrate the defenses, some hopeless assassins assassinate key figures on the temple's side, and there are also logistics personnel such as the Pleasure Specialist who is in charge of breeding otherworldly demons.

With a hybrid mage as the main force, it is easy to calculate the minimum cost and time required to build an army of otherworldly demons.

Xia Zuo pulled up the hybrid mage's stats and, referring to the vitality attribute values ​​of the Converter, Blood Addict, and Blood Demon, as well as the rate at which vitality points in the shriveled blood vessels were increasing, drew a rough conclusion:

It will take at least two years for the Church of the Otherworld to have an army of one million.

This is not reasonable.

According to previous intelligence, Vasaksat would arrive on this planet no later than 16 months and no earlier than 12 months later.

If the Church of the Otherworldly Demons had taken two years to build its army... it might have been crushed by the Temple long ago.

Rexor had also considered this, but due to a lack of information, he didn't have a good idea to explain this anomaly.

He had no choice but to say to the red line, "Xia Zuo, don't go looking for the generator of the anti-magic field yet. Just keep an eye on the ritual site. Since the demons are powerless to deal with the ground, humph, then we'll give them a big gift."

"Master..." Xia Zuo was slightly taken aback, "What do you want to do?"

Rexol sneered, "I'm going to gather my forces and uproot all of the Alien Group's strongholds and destroy the Alien Group's alchemy facilities for manufacturing bone sacs."

"Hiss..." Xia Zuo said, "This is war, Master. You will be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy. The battle will be extremely fierce..."

Xia Zuo was vaguely worried.