Without further ado, Kaxiu took out a bottle of 15 units of holy spring water, which is 0.75 liters. In the past ten days, he not only recovered his strength, but also took Qiangwei to complete several Baiyao-level tasks. They were all team tasks, and should be shared equally by nearly ten people. But Kaxiu was a single person, so he naturally enjoyed it all by himself, so he got a lot of spring water.
It is equivalent to the reward level obtained by Dark Gold Hunter for completing tasks.
As for the badge of honor that Heb gave himself, Kashu had not yet submitted it to the Hunter Association. Therefore, the resources represented by the badge were not taken.
The oil lamp hung on the wall, burning quietly, with a steady light. On the black round wooden table, the power of the secret soul and the holy spring water were placed on both sides.
Under the light, the power of the secret soul appeared to be a pale black color, and a hazy light gray mist emanated from the surface, just like some special ice water.
The water from the holy spring appears much more sacred, as if it were gold that has been completely melted at high temperatures, emitting strange colors and shining brightly on the surface.
Kaxiu took a metal plate and poured about 10 milliliters of holy spring water into it. After a pause, he dripped an equal amount of secret soul power. However, the two liquids in the plate did not react strangely. Instead, they were clearly separated, occupying both sides of the iron plate.
After waiting for a while, there was still no strange phenomenon.
Kaxiu frowned slightly and picked up the iron spoon to stir. After a few minutes, the fusion still failed, just like oil does not dissolve in water.
"Does it have to be absorbed together and enter the body to take effect?"
He hesitated for a moment, then swallowed the 20 milliliters of the mixture of holy spring water and secret soul power. Suddenly, two streams of air, one cold and one hot, flowed down his throat to his stomach. They then spread from the stomach to all directions of the body and traveled through the internal organs. The cold and icy cold alternated with the warm and fiery heat, making every inch of muscle in his body extremely uncomfortable. Kaxiu's limbs were slightly tense, but his mind was paying attention to the changes inside his body.
These two opposite energies dissipated from the inside to the outside, and finally gathered together, spiraling around and piercing the heart in the chest.
“Puff!”
"Wow!"
In the room, Kaxiu suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and opened his eyes.
Fortunately, his body has recovered to the level of a boxer, and the birth of three blood acceleration nodes has greatly improved the toughness of his blood vessels and heart. Otherwise, he might have damaged his heart on the spot, causing internal bleeding. It can be seen how dangerous it was just now.
Of course, high risk means high reward. Kaxiu has basically grasped the key point of the fusion of the power of the secret soul and the holy spring water, which is the blood in the body!
When the two special energies penetrated into his heart, Kaxiu felt that part of his blood was annihilated and then replenished. It felt as if the power of the secret soul and the holy spring water swallowed up part of his heart blood and then converted it into blood.
Integrate into the entire blood circulation system.
Obviously, blood, or heart blood, is the key.
Kaxiu immediately wiped the blood off the table, then went to the bathroom to rinse his mouth. Finally, he brought back an identical metal plate.
One on the left, one on the right. Each one was added with 10 ml of Secret Soul Power and 10 ml of Holy Spring Water, and they were still clearly separated from each other.
Kaxiu waited for a moment and scratched his right index finger with his fingernail.
First, drop some normal blood into the left dish, then control the blood circulation in the body and drop the cardiac blood into the right dish.
Suddenly, violent reactions occurred in both containers.
Human blood seemed to be a catalyst, breaking the inert calmness of the secret soul power and the holy spring water, causing a violent reaction between the two.
A white-gold flame rose and burned on the surface of the plate.
Kaxiu's eyelids twitched. No wonder he vomited blood just now. How could it not be uncomfortable to have a heart roasted by fire? After about two seconds, the flames gradually dissipated.
The power of the secret soul, which was like the cold and icy water of a deep pool, plus the holy spring water, which was like hot liquid gold, finally formed a small dish of blood.
It still looked like sticky scarlet blood, but it was mixed with some white-gold liquid that looked like fluorescent spots.
Kaxiu looked around and found that the two different kinds of blood produced no different results. In other words, as long as it was blood, it would be fine.
He studied it for a while and drank the two stacks of products separately.
This time, it was not so uncomfortable, because what he drank was already a finished product. Last time, it was because of the violent reaction that occurred directly in the body, which caused the abnormal discomfort. Kaxiu felt that part of the blood in his body seemed to have been replaced again, and it was the white-gold liquid substance!
It's about 1.5 ml, a very, very small amount.
Kaxiu pondered for a moment, and suddenly thought of the holy spring water he had drunk before. If he only absorbed the power of the secret soul now, would the two react? Kaxiu took a deep breath and continued the experiment.
Pour out ten milliliters of the secret soul power and drink it directly.
"Wow!"
Another mouthful of blood spurted out, splashing half of the table.
Kaxiu took a deep breath of the bloody air and felt that the force was a bit too strong. After a short pause, he began to vomit blood in batches.
Ten milliliters of secret soul power were used each time, and this was performed many times in total.
It was not until the angina pang reached a severe level that Kaxiu was sweating profusely and his nerves were twitching slightly that the holy spring water was completely reacted.
Under the orange light, Kaxiu's right hand, which was covered with blue veins, was placed on the table. The two golden holy marks on the surface gradually turned into platinum.
Compared with the initial stigmata, it is more mysterious and lustrous.
Half an hour later, the holy spring water was completely consumed, and only half of the high-concentration secret soul power that the demon gave Kaxiu was left. The two platinum holy marks on the back of Kaxiu's hand had now turned into three.
After experiencing it many times, he had a better understanding of what the white-gold liquid that could replace blood was. This thing was very similar to the spiritual blood brewed by the Wisdom Rune! According to its characteristics, it could perhaps be called the blood of life, or the blood of living beings.
Ouroboros, the wisdom rune of the Aoyin civilization!
Could it be that the source of the Holy Spring water and the power of the Secret Soul is also one of the five cornerstone runes of the Aoyin civilization. The Life Rune? The Living Soul Rune
If this is true, the magical power of the Holy Spring and the Secret Soul can be explained. After all, Kaxiu used the Wisdom Rune to create even the strange martial arts of the Golem Secret Weapon.
The ability of the Golem Secret Weapon to absorb life vibration energy is already extremely abnormal, and it feels like it has surpassed the Secret Weapon framework.
But, the Holy Spring water and the Secret Soul Power belong to the Dark Hunter Organization and the Black Rain Villa respectively, how come this is going on? Could it be that the Dark Hunter Organization and the Black Rain Villa each have half of the Life Rune? According to Kaxiu's experiment just now, the Holy Spring water and the Secret Soul Power merged into the platinum-colored Life Blood.
This possibility is not low. It can even be said to be very high.
Because of this somewhat surprising discovery, Kaxiu sat on the sofa and thought for a long time. He recalled the internal information of the Dark Hunter Organization and some secret facts that he had learned from the old hunter Herb these days.
First of all, the stigmata, as the power brought by the holy spring water, is the auxiliary core of the hunters. Why are the hunters of the Dark Hunting Organization different from the ordinary civilian energy users of the empire, and why are the hunters more powerful? They even have high-end combat power comparable to that of fighters. It's all because of the stigmata!
Stigmata are weakened versions of the Blood of the Living Beings. Their core ability is to greatly increase the source energy that the source energy user controls, making it several times or even dozens of times more effective than before. The maximum number of stigmata can be 100, which is the theoretical limit. But in reality, no one has ever been able to fully saturate the stigmata with body cells. Even the most powerful head of the mechanical army only has 79 stigmata, branded on his arms.
The main reason is that the holy spring contains a trace amount of a wild beast toxin that can make people lose their sanity. Every hunter has his own tolerance limit, and once the wild beast poison is too strong, they will fall.
Therefore, every hunter has his own limit on the number of stigmata.
After reaching the limit of the stigmata, it can no longer be improved. At this point, the role of the holy spring water for this hunter is no longer to improve combat power, but to maintain the stability of the energy and number of stigmata. Using stigmata to enhance one's abilities will consume energy. After each battle, hunters need to continue to drink spring water to restore the stigmata ability.
This is why the hunters' loss of sanity and transformation into wild beasts is inevitable. This is the price to pay for maintaining the number of stigmata and maintaining combat effectiveness.
It is said that if someone can reach the theoretical limit of 100 stigmata, then he will not need the holy spring water to maintain the maximum number of stigmata, and the stigmata energy in his body will automatically recover. However, this is destined to be impossible. For thousands of years, no one has ever done it.
The side effects of maintaining the stigmata are very high, but in contrast, the amplification effect is very exaggerated. After half a month of contact with Kaxiu, he found that the various energy sources awakened by these hunters were not very strong. Most of them could not even reach the effect of the third-rate secret martial arts in the secret martial arts world, but only at a second-rate level. After all, it was a single-core development, not as comprehensive and powerful as a triple-core.
However, under the amplification of the stigmata, these energy sources have undergone qualitative changes, and can reach the level of third-rate secret weapons. Some energy sources with high potential and a certain number of stigmata can even be comparable to second-rate secret weapons. As for the No. 1 Shadow Hunter, the Holy Light Hunter, and the head of the Mechanical Legion, their energy sources may have reached the level of first-rate secret weapons.
Although this system requires regular replenishment of stigma energy after battle and has the side effect of turning into a frenzy beast, its combat capability and power limit are undoubtedly strong and have a bright future.
Why do Dark Gold Hunters compete for the position of Shadow Hunter? The power behind them is one factor, but they themselves are a bigger factor. As long as they can become a Shadow Hunter, they can get a chance to bathe in the source of the Holy Spring. This is equivalent to absorbing a large amount of Holy Spring water at one time.
Until they can no longer bear it. Some with strong willpower even directly increase the number of stigmata to the extreme, greatly improving their combat power.
Ten days ago, Kaxiu tried to use the stigmata to amplify the two Nan Dou Fist techniques. There was a little omen-like effect, but not much. He originally thought that the number of stigmata was not enough, and it would only be effective when it reached a certain level. However, after trying it today, it was not the case. Nan Dou Fist techniques were two first-rate ancient secret martial arts, and their rank was too high. No matter how many stigmata there were, it would be useless. After all, stigmata were originally used to amplify the source energy that even third-rate secret martial arts could not reach.
If Kashu wants to amplify the Nan Dou Fist, he needs something on the level of the Blood of Living Beings, which is the platinum stigmata that appears on the back of his hand.
He needs the blessing of two resources: the power of the secret soul and the water of the holy spring.
Now it seems that there are ways to do both. One is to have connections with the ghosts, and the other is to become a shadow hunter and absorb enough from the source.
It is worth mentioning that Kashu may be able to break through the limit of seventy-nine stigmata of the head of the Mechanical Legion, and even completing one hundred stigmata would not be a problem.
Because he discovered that the beast-like toxin in the holy spring water was not really a toxin, but the essence of disaster! No wonder the hunters of the Dark Hunting Organization gradually lost their minds, this was clearly a dark biological transformation.
Although the essence of disaster is tiny, it accumulates in the human body again and again, which will naturally cause erosion and eventually turn into a frenzy.
In contrast, there is also a considerable amount of disaster essence in the power of the secret soul, but it seems to have been absorbed by the mark of the villa during the improvement process.
This is also the reason why the Night Evils, although they have strange and eerie abilities and seem to be more likely to lose their rationality, have never been in trouble.
Kaxiu didn't know why these two powers contained impurities such as the essence of disaster, but he knew that he could filter it out!
Even though the blood of the living creatures formed by the power of the secret soul and the holy spring water has a very high content of disaster essence, it is simply poison to the hunters of the Dark Hunting Organization. However, Kashu has the wisdom rune Ouroboros.
Its function is to absorb the essence of disaster and brew spiritual blood.
Although it was overloaded due to the creation of the Magic Elephant Secret Weapon some time ago, it can still be used in the Sanctuary Tower of the Disaster World as the activation energy for the defense array and the resurrection altar. Kaxiu can also use the essence of the disaster that is poisonous to others and create its due value.
With the Wisdom Rune filtering, he could easily reach a fully saturated state of the Blood of the Living Beings, and even replace all the blood in his body with the Blood of the Living Beings, thereby using the secret weapon amplification effect of the Platinum Stigmata without restriction.
In this way, Kaxiu's short-term goal seems to be clear.
Defeat all competitors and get the only Shadow Hunter spot.
By the way, the ghost is now investigating which force assassinated Kasu through the Shadow Thorn Organization. If nothing unexpected happens, the force must be related to the Lion King Sos, Thorn Solomon, and the Siren Claire. Since one of them is so unruly, Kasu doesn't want to follow the rules either.
Once we find out who it is, we'll kill that idiot.
However, it was late at night, so we had to wait until tomorrow to do anything about it. Kaxiu wanted to try it out now. What would the three platinum stigmata do to the two Nandou boxing techniques? What would the combination of the Death Fang Force + the Echo Force produce