382: Strange uses of "paji"

Chen Heng reviewed his Optimization branches and found that he could currently only see the results of the first six Optimizations.

The results after the sixth Optimization were just three question marks.

The results of the first six Optimizations were quite simple and clear: Physical Body +1, +2, +3... "What the hell is this..."

Chen Heng frowned but still clicked the Optimization above his head.

[Optimization successful, Optimization count -1]

[Physical Body (Limit) → (Limit +1)]

Instantly, Chen Heng felt a tearing sensation and intense pain all over his body, but after an internal examination, he found no injuries.

"No, there's a change..."

Chen Heng extended his right hand and noticed that his muscle density seemed to have increased again.

At the same time, his bone density and Qi and Blood concentration also increased significantly.

"So, this Optimization isn't the same as the self-Optimization of my Bloodline from before."

"And it only used one Optimization count, which is quite cost-effective."

Indeed, although this Optimization only increased Chen Heng's overall physical strength and power by about 10%, this was only a small percentage increase.

To describe it more specifically, this single Optimization was equivalent to increasing the strength and physical toughness of five Wu Leis.

The increase was quite terrifying.

"According to the pattern of Optimization count consumption, the next one should be two Optimization counts."

Chen Heng looked at the word "Optimization" above his head, still shimmering.

Clicking the optimization button again, the Optimization count, as expected, consumed two.

[Optimization successful, Physical Body (Limit +1) → Physical Body (Limit +2)]

"Ugh!" Another tearing sensation and intense pain came, but this time Chen Heng had more or less gotten used to it.

Feeling his physical strength and power increase again, this long-lost surge of power felt really good!

"Again!"

[Optimization successful, (Physical Body +2) → (Physical Body +3)]

After the third Optimization was completed, the optimization button above Chen Heng's head dimmed, indicating that his Optimization count was insufficient.

Three Optimizations had increased Chen Heng's physical strength and power by about 50%, which was comparable to gaining a thousand years of Cultivation or a top-tier Bloodline.

Most external martial arts were of little use to Chen Heng now; he could basically learn them with just a glance.

This terrifying learning ability was one of the abilities granted to him by the Heaven and Earth Martial Scripture.

The Heaven and Earth Martial Scripture encompassed everything; other martial arts were merely variations of a small part of the Heaven and Earth Martial Scripture.

However, this Cultivation Technique also had considerable drawbacks.

The benefit was that Chen Heng's learning of all martial arts became exceptionally simple, but the drawback was that those martial arts, apart from their Moves, offered almost no physical enhancement.

After all, the Heaven and Earth Martial Scripture had already strengthened Chen Heng's Physical Body to its limit; further Breakthroughs were extremely difficult.

Including Realm and Cultivation, the improvements for Chen Heng were very minimal at this point.

But the fully activated System provided Chen Heng with a new path: to forcefully accumulate strength through Optimization.

As long as the Optimization count was sufficient, Chen Heng's body could continue to grow stronger until the Optimization count was depleted.

"It seems I need to go harvest another wave of 'leeks'..."

Chen Heng licked his lips, looking forward to what branches would appear after +6.

But before that, he needed to make a trip to the Eastern Demon Alliance to see what was going on there.

Why was there a sudden sleeping sickness? It was truly inexplicable... Tonight, apart from Chen Heng, everyone else was not calm.

Luo Shuo was excited because it was his first time away from home for so long, and he was about to return home.

Wu Man was happy because he had recognized a good big brother, and his big brother was taking him out.

Muwu, however, had always felt uneasy. Although she was a savage, she was still a woman, unlike Wu Man, who was carefree.

Compared to Wu Man, Muwu considered more things.

Besides herself, there was the safety of another female savage and several young savages.

There were also Wu Ming and Wu Yue, the two little ones, who were so excited they couldn't sleep, like elementary school students going on a spring outing.

The two little ones huddled in their blankets, packing up all their 'possessions.'

Well, specifically, it was two sets of clothes, two steel knives, a copy of the Indestructible Vajra Divine Art and the Nine Revolutions Longevity Art, and nothing else.

These two little ones were practically penniless before they became Chen Heng's disciples.

All their current 'possessions' were given to them by Chen Heng.

As for Bai Jun, the old man was frantically drawing death-substitution talismans in his room.

Ever since his Realm improved, the death-substitution talismans he used in the Golden Core Realm became ineffective, and he had given them all to Wu Ming and Wu Yue.

Enough for the two little ones to 'die' five or six hundred times.

"Ah ah ah ah! Why are Nascent Soul Realm death-substitution talismans so difficult to make!"

Bai Jun scratched his bird's nest-like hair, his eyeballs almost falling onto the talisman paper.

He spoke thoughtlessly; Golden Core Realm death-substitution talismans and Nascent Soul Realm ones were completely different.

The difficulty was like heaven and earth.

"No, eight death-substitution talismans are still too few, at least twenty..."

Bai Jun knew how high the danger factor was when going out with Chen Heng, so self-preservation had to be taken seriously.

"Slime, Slime?"

Just as Bai Jun was sweating profusely drawing death-substitution talismans, Slime emerged from his clothes.

"What do you mean?"

Bai Jun looked at the eager Slime and asked with some confusion.

"Slime, Slime!"

Slime pointed at the talisman paper on Bai Jun's table, then pointed at the death-substitution talisman that had already been drawn and infused with spiritual power.

"What, can you do it?"

Bai Jun tentatively handed his talisman brush to Slime.

Slime decisively took Bai Jun's talisman brush and began to draw a death-substitution talisman on the talisman paper.

In less than half a minute, a nearly perfect death-substitution talisman appeared before Bai Jun.

"You can do it, Slime!" Bai Jun stroked Slime's soft body.

"But just being able to draw it isn't enough; you also need to infuse spiritual power while drawing."

"Slime, Slime!" Slime wiggled its body a few times, seemingly expressing something.

"You mean you can use the spiritual power within my body?"

Bai Jun's eyes darted around. If Slime could really draw death-substitution talismans, wouldn't that save him a lot of trouble?

"Come, come, try it..."

As he spoke, the tiangang bead on Bai Jun's body glowed faintly, resonating with Slime's core.

"Slime!"

...Early the next morning, a refreshed Chen Heng walked out of his room.

"Everyone ready? Let's go!"

Chen Heng stretched and looked at the group in front of him.

The team has grown quite a bit...?

"Last night... did something happen that I don't know about?"

Chen Heng asked, looking at the extremely haggard Bai Jun, who seemed on the verge of sudden death.

The others either had strong Physiques or demonic power, so staying up late was nothing to them.

Even the weakest siblings, Wu Ming and Wu Yue, were in good spirits.

But Bai Jun's appearance was not right; why did he look like he had been completely drained?