365: The 42nd level of the Demon Blood Secret Code

“Success?” Hu’s eyes widened, filled with an expression of disbelief.

He couldn’t help but exclaim in his heart, “How strange, how strange, he actually managed to cultivate such an abstract cultivation technique…”

“Of course.” Lin Ye’s lips curved slightly upward, revealing a hint of smugness.

It was indeed quite gratifying that he had managed to make a name for himself with a cultivation technique that even the Great Wizard hadn’t succeeded in.

Although it relied on the panel.

But who said the panel wasn’t part of one’s strength?

“Amazing, amazing. I didn’t expect you could actually cultivate this Blood Demon Body. In the future, you’ll save the effort of refining artifacts.”

Once the physique was formed and the flesh was comparable to an artifact, there would be no need to rush around for artifacts.

For Lin Ye, this was incredibly good news.

Where was Lin Ye going to find an artifact that fused five laws?

This was also the reason Lin Ye was determined to cultivate the Blood Demon Body.

For no other reason than poverty.

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With an ample supply of blood essence, Lin Ye’s cultivation speed soared like a rocket. His body continuously absorbed the power within the blood, transforming it into his own strength. Each breakthrough brought about tremendous changes, making him feel an unprecedented power.

Blood Demon Body, second layer.

Blood Demon Body, third layer.

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As time passed, Lin Ye successfully broke through to the fourteenth layer of the Blood Demon Body. However, when he attempted to break through to the fifteenth layer, he encountered unexpected difficulties. The previously smooth cultivation process suddenly stagnated, as if an invisible barrier blocked his path forward.

The Blood Demon Body remnant flesh within his body began to riot, attempting to assimilate his physical body.

Lin Ye realized that if he couldn’t break through this bottleneck, he would face the risk of losing his sanity and becoming an unconscious monster.

But he didn’t panic because of it.

Add points!

Blood Demon Body, fifteenth layer, achieved!

“I didn’t expect that the fifteenth layer would already require point assistance.”

Lin Ye felt a bit emotional.

Since he had spent a large number of points perfecting the Magic Blood Secret Canon earlier, Lin Ye now only had a little over thirteen hundred points stored. Despite this, he was still full of confidence, determined to continue cultivating and see how many layers these points could help him cultivate to.

Lin Ye began cultivating again.

Blood Demon Body, sixteenth layer.

Blood Demon Body, seventeenth layer.

......

Lin Ye’s cultivation progressed exceptionally smoothly, and he broke through all the way to the forty-second layer. However, at this point, he found that his remaining points were no longer sufficient to support him through the next Bloodfiend Reincarnation. Helpless, he had no choice but to stop cultivating.

Looking at the remaining points, Lin Ye couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh, “These points are spent too quickly.”

Of course, it was also because the Magic Blood Secret Canon consumed too many points.

But the Magic Blood Secret Canon was something that had to be improved; otherwise, with its previous state, he probably would have needed point assistance to break through the first layer.

And each Bloodfiend Reincarnation also required more points than it did now.

This was the advantage of perfecting a cultivation technique.

However, compared to the consumption of points, what was consumed even more was blood essence.

The further he went, the more intense the consumption of blood essence became. By the time he reached the forty-second layer, it already required more than thirty bottles of blood essence for assistance.

This single breakthrough alone consumed a full six to seven hundred bottles of blood essence.

No wonder Hu said that taking this path meant future poverty.

“Test the strength.”

Following the previous procedure, Lin Ye conducted a test.

His physical strength increased by a hundredfold, elemental resistance doubled, and energy absorption rate reached forty-two percent.

“It seems the perfect level is the hundredth layer. At that time, the energy absorption rate should reach one hundred percent.”

Lin Ye hadn’t expected that this layer would increase the energy absorption rate by one point.

This point did not increase with the elevation of layers.

After initially possessing the Blood Demon Body, Lin Ye’s strength surged again, surpassing an ordinary two-star Overlord.

If it were the complete Blood Demon Body, his combat power could increase by one star.

This was just combat power; the endurance boosted by the Blood Demon Body was its strongest aspect.

By then, even an existence one layer higher than Lin Ye wouldn’t be able to kill him.

Defense and recovery maxed out!

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“Quickly expand production.”

Lin Ye urged Hu.

“Just expand? Don’t we still have a lot of stock?”

Hu was a bit confused.

After more than a thousand years of operation, they could now produce more than 100,000 bottles of blood essence annually.

The stored blood essence reached a million bottles.

However, the annual expenditure of blood essence was only a little over a hundred bottles.

The sales of potions could no longer keep up with the expansion speed, and with a large inventory, they had stopped expanding.

“Is it that the Blood Demon Body breakthrough requires a lot? No, that’s not right. Didn’t you say it only consumed a few hundred bottles? This stock should be more than enough.” Hu said, puzzled.

Lin Ye said helplessly, “Indeed, the transformation into the Blood Demon Body doesn’t require much, but, Hu, you’ve forgotten a very important point: the Blood Demon’s physical body is incredibly massive.”

Hu suddenly realized.

Indeed.

Blood Demons could enlarge their physical bodies by absorbing various energies.

“How large can it reach now?”

Hu asked.

“One hundred thousand meters!”

When Lin Ye said this number, he himself was astonished.

“One hundred thousand meters?”

Hu couldn’t help but be a little overwhelmed.

Could it be said that it truly lived up to its name as a Blood Demon? Just the initial transformation into the Blood Demon Body had already reached one hundred thousand meters.

This one hundred thousand meters was already the peak for typical giant beasts.

For example, the Goldglaze Vine sacrificed intelligence and other aspects, with its genes fully focused on its physical body, yet its limit was only one hundred thousand meters.

Normally, regular creatures below the Overlord level were no more than three thousand meters.

Only powerful Overlords like the Galaxy Lord could achieve a body of one hundred thousand meters.

Big is beautiful, big is good, big is strong.

The advantage of a physical body in combat is indescribable.

“Then we really need to expand production capacity. Reaching that level, the consumption of blood essence will likely be immeasurable.” Hu couldn’t help but say.

“We need to take some risks and sell more, otherwise, the expansion speed won’t keep up.” Lin Ye said.

He hadn’t expected that their initial estimates were still too conservative.

It wasn’t their fault; who knew the details of the Blood Demon? Even Hu wasn’t clear how massive a peak bloodline could be.

Countless blood essence was teleported by Lin Ye’s clone to his main body.

The main body began to absorb.

If Bloodfiend Reincarnation was about improving quality, then now it was about improving quantity.

Lin Ye’s main body was three thousand meters tall. He originally thought that proportionally, it would require over forty thousand times the previous amount of blood essence, as the calculations indeed suggested. Forty thousand times meant over two million bottles of blood essence, which was why Lin Ye expanded production capacity; his current inventory was only half of what was needed.

However, he hadn’t expected that in the end, it only consumed a little over three hundred thousand bottles of blood essence.

“Perhaps the energy loss during breakthrough was relatively high.”

Growing into a higher-level Life naturally required a lot of energy, while expanding the physical body was merely equivalent to copy-pasting.