Swallowing the Stars: Time Simulation

Chapter 59 Dragon Blood

That afternoon.

"Beep beep beep..."

The vibration of the communication watch woke Yang Wu, who was cultivating his genetic energy.

"Feed?" Yang Wu answered the phone.

"Hello Mr. Yang Wu! The items you received as a reward from the Extreme Martial Arts Academy will be delivered to your home in Mingyue Community within one hour. Please check your mail!" A pleasant female voice came from inside.

"Within an hour?" Yang Wu's face lit up with joy.

Fifty minutes later, Yang Wu walked alone to the main entrance of Mingyue Residential Area.

"Yang Wu, what are you doing here, kid?" An elderly man with gray hair came out of a room near the main entrance.

"Old Wang!" Yang Wu called out enthusiastically.

This old man was the head of the security force at the entrance of Mingyue Community. He had already become familiar with the old man long before Yang Wu became a quasi-martial artist.

"Are you waiting for someone?" Old Wang said with a smile. "It's not your girlfriend, is it?"

"No, it's just that something came up!" Yang Wu said with a smile.

Seeing that Yang Wu was unwilling to say more, Old Wang didn't ask any further questions, and the two of them stood together and chatted idly.

"drop!"

A loudspeaker blared, and a large bus drove toward the main entrance of Mingyue Residential Area.

The soldiers on guard at the entrance all perked up.

"I didn't receive any notification today?" Old Wang said疑惑地, "I'll go see what this is for?"

"Beep! Clearance!"

Before Old Wang could even step inside, an electronic voice came from the guardhouse at the main entrance, startling the soldiers and other staff present.

Although the main gate of Mingyue Residential Area is controlled by an intelligent system, it is mostly operated by people.

Such a situation, where the door is opened directly by an intelligent system, generally occurs only once every few months.

The main gate has now opened automatically.

A large truck drove in and stopped not far in front of Yang Wu.

Whoosh!

The truck's rear door opened, and a voice called out, "Mr. Yang Wu, please get in!"

"Mr. Wang, I'm off now. Let's have a drink together sometime!"

After saying that, Yang Wu jumped onto the truck.

The elderly man surnamed Wang watched all this in astonishment. He knew perfectly well what it meant that the truck had been allowed to enter the residential area without his approval.

However, he found it hard to believe that this matter involved Yang Wu. After all, in his eyes, Yang Wu was just a newcomer who had only recently become a martial artist. It wasn't until later, when he learned that Yang Wu possessed the strength of a War God, that he suddenly understood.

At this moment, Yang Wu, who had jumped onto the truck, began to survey his surroundings.

The truck was quite luxurious, and there were three people inside, all intently watching Yang Wu.

Just as Yang Wu was surveying his surroundings, two beams of blue light shone on Yang Wu and a large safe next to him.

"Yang Wu's identity confirmed, reward items confirmed." An electronic voice announced, "Mr. Yang Wu, please accept your reward items!"

A tall, burly man inside the car insurance shop stood up and handed over the safe, which Yang Wu quickly stepped forward to take.

"Thank you all!" Yang Wu said goodbye to the three people in the car and quickly got out and returned to his villa.

……

In the underground secret room of Villa No. 201, Mingyue Residential Area.

Yang Wu locked the door to the underground chamber tightly before carefully opening the safe.

Inside the safe were combat uniforms, weapons, and several exquisite wooden boxes.

Yang Wu carefully opened the wooden box labeled "Dragon Blood".

Inside, two transparent test tubes were fixed with foam and sealed with stoppers. The test tubes were filled with a golden liquid, which occupied more than one-third of the volume of the test tubes.

"Dragon blood!" Yang Wu carefully took out a test tube, afraid of breaking it.

Although Yang Wu had used Dragon Blood a few times in the simulator, this was the first time he had ever seen it in real life.

Below the wooden box containing the dragon's blood, there is an instruction manual explaining how to use the dragon's blood.

It's very simple. Just apply the dragon's blood to your body. You don't need to cover your entire body; just apply it to a specific spot.

Dragon blood will naturally seep in and cover the entire body.

The only taboo is that it should never be drunk directly.

"I wonder how much this dragon blood can improve my strength now?" Yang Wu thought to himself.

Someone once posted on the forum of the Limitless Home that after a warrior of the general level uses dragon blood, his physical attributes can generally double.

However, as strength increases, the effects of dragon blood will gradually weaken. While a warrior at the general level might double their strength using dragon blood, a warrior at the god level would likely be less fortunate.

"My current punching power has reached 11 kilograms. I wonder how much it will reach after using the dragon blood?"

In the underground chamber, Yang Wu took off his combat uniform, lay flat on the ground, and then gently pulled out the stopper of the test tube.

Suddenly, a peculiar smell filled the air.

Yang Wu tilted the test tube slightly and poured the dragon blood onto his chest. The dragon blood looked small, but it was extremely viscous, like mercury.

Soon, all the dragon blood in the test tube flowed out.

Yang Wu casually set the test tube aside, then evenly smeared the dragon blood on his upper body and arms.

Soon after, the areas on my body where the dragon's blood had been applied began to heat up.

Yang Wu felt streams of heat flowing along his skin, rapidly penetrating his body and spreading quickly to every part of his body.

Then the heat flow continued to increase!

The temperature keeps rising!

Yang Wu trembled slightly all over, as if a million ants were biting every part of his body, and the pain made his face turn pale.

The simultaneous sensations of tingling and pain are more unbearable than pain alone.

Most people would probably have already fainted by now.

Although Yang Wu's brows were furrowed, his mind remained clear. After all, Yang Wu's mental state had reached an incredible level, and his willpower was extremely strong.

With each wave of pain, the dragon blood coating Yang Wu's body gradually diminished, seeping into his body.

Yang Wu's muscles twitched and convulsed like earthworms, his skin looked as if it were burning red, and the veins on his skin bulged and twisted, which was quite frightening.

Every cell in Yang Wu's body was frantically absorbing this strange energy, undergoing transformation after transformation! It was more than ten thousand times faster than when he was cultivating gene energy normally.

The genetic material within the cells undergoes rapid transformation under the energy of dragon's blood, shedding useless genes and improving and perfecting them.

Some waste cells and impurities were directly eliminated and floated out of Yang Wu's body surface, just like dirt.

Under this transformation that penetrates deep into the cells, Yang Wu's tendons, bones, membranes, muscles, skin, internal organs, and so on are all undergoing astonishing changes. The hardness of his bones is constantly increasing, and the toughness of his periosteum and fascia is also undergoing leaps and leaps in transformation. The energy of the dragon blood is sufficient to supply such transformations!

Everything is happening incredibly fast! Thousands, even tens of thousands of times faster than normal cultivation!

As the energy of the dragon blood was continuously consumed, Yang Wu's physical fitness was also constantly improving.

It seemed like a long time had passed before all the transformations finally stopped. In this quiet underground chamber, Yang Wu lay peacefully on the ground.

At this moment, Yang Wu's entire body was covered in a layer of filth, completely black, even his face was covered in black.

A moment later, in the bathroom on the second floor of the villa.

"Splash splash..."

Hot water was poured over Yang Wu's body, washing away the thick layer of grime on his skin.

Yang Wu then realized that the hideous scar on his face had completely disappeared, and his skin was radiating a metallic luster similar to bronze.

After taking a shower, Yang Wu rushed to the training hall on the sixth floor of the Extreme Club.

It was already evening when Wu Tong, who had just finished instructing his students, saw Yang Wu and quickly followed him.

The news that Yang Wu possessed the strength of a war god spread throughout the day, and quite a few people learned about it.

Wu Tong was a confidant of Zhuge Tao, who was in charge of the department, and also had a close relationship with Yang Wu, so he naturally knew about this news.

"Yang Wu... God of War!" Wu Tong called out, his voice hesitant.

"Uncle Wu! Are you stuttering?" Yang Wu joked with a smile.

"You're the one who's stuttering!" Seeing that Yang Wu was still willing to be close to him, Wu Tong regained his normal tone and asked, "Yang Wu, what are you doing here so late?"

Yang Wu turned on the lights and walked to the punching power testing machine in the corner.

"I've come to test my abilities!"

Yang Wu suddenly threw a punch, without using any special power-generating techniques, simply unleashing all the brute force of his body.

His right fist, like a cannonball, slammed into the punching bag with a sonic boom.

Bang! The punching bag vibrated violently, the sound deep and muffled, as if it were about to break.

"Uncle Wu," Yang Wu said with a smile, "the equipment here needs replacing, otherwise it'll be completely destroyed!"

"You're not short of money, why don't you buy a high-end one for your home? Do you think everyone's as weird as you?"

Wu Tong rarely joked, then looked at the display screen of the punching power testing machine.

Suddenly, Wu Tong's laughter stopped abruptly.

The punch strength testing machine clearly displayed a line of numbers: '142291kg'.

"A mid-level War God?!" Wu Tong looked at Yang Wu in disbelief.

He had previously thought Yang Wu was only at the initial stage of the War God level, but now...

However, Yang Wu, who was standing to the side, was very dissatisfied with the effects of the dragon blood.

"My physical strength was already 110,000 kilograms, and after using a dose of dragon blood, it only increased by less than 30,000 kilograms?"

Although Yang Wu was somewhat prepared, he was still a little disappointed by the result.

"No wonder many warriors improve their physical abilities very slowly. If it's not a critical moment, who can afford to use this dragon blood?" Yang Wu sighed inwardly.

A single dose of dragon blood can increase a person's strength by nearly 30,000 kilograms. For warriors at the general or even warrior level, the increase in strength is absolutely terrifying.

However, for warriors at the God of War level, the effects of dragon blood are greatly reduced.

The minimum requirement for a beginner-level War God is a punching power of 6.4 kilograms. However, the peak requirement for a high-level War God is a punching power of 51.2 kilograms.

With such a large difference, if one simply uses dragon blood to improve it, even if the effect of the dragon blood never weakens, 15 portions of dragon blood would still be needed.

A single dose of dragon blood might be affordable for a War God-level warrior, even with a bit of gritted teeth. But 15 doses of dragon blood, even at the best price in the War God Palace, would probably cost nearly a trillion Chinese yuan! Even those surpassing the War God level probably couldn't come up with that much cash.

I've started a discussion thread in the comments section, and I hope everyone can come and offer their opinions when they have time.

(End of this chapter)