Can I absorb it?
Yu Xian swallowed, and decisively put the Sky Crying Blood Sword into his storage ring.
Although he felt a huge sense of weakness appear in his body the moment the Sky Crying Blood Sword was stored in the ring, his attention was not on himself at all, but on the pool of blood on the ground.
He squatted down and cupped the blood in his hands, feeling as if he was holding a ton of gold.
Since being transported to this world, his nose had been working intermittently; when he cupped the blood, his nose became sensitive again, and he could smell a special scent in the blood.
Through the scent, he could see a scene of a Great Serpent being worshipped as a God by countless people.
"Absorb or not absorb?"
This was the first time Yu Xian had encountered such special blood.
This was probably the highest-level blood he had obtained so far; even Pangu Blood was inferior to this Great Serpent's blood.
After all, the so-called Pangu was actually just a fake created by the forbidden fruit, not the true Great God Pangu from mythology.
After hesitating for a second to show respect, he decisively decided to absorb it.
Heaven had given him an opportunity, so he definitely had to make use of it.
Otherwise, Heaven would press down on his head and curse: "I gave you an opportunity, and you didn't make use of it!"
He opened his mouth, revealed his fangs, gently pierced the Great Serpent's blood bead, and then vigorously sucked the blood.
This blood had no impurities but was terrifyingly viscous; when he sucked it, he actually felt like he was sucking snot.
After the blood bead was completely absorbed, his body shivered, and then dense cracks began to appear on his skin, as if his flesh and blood were about to squeeze out from beneath the skin.
Too full.
This blood was too nutritious, he couldn't handle it!
Suddenly, the skin on his shoulder cracked open, and a tumor grew out of his flesh.
Immediately after, a crack opened in the tumor, and an eye rotated continuously within the crack.
His spine protruded on his back, also splitting open with a crack, and an eye that occupied his entire back grew out.
Just as his flesh and blood were deforming, the Dragon Shield Core within him suddenly began to absorb his blood, and at the same time, the strange power from the Great Serpent was also rapidly devoured by it.
His body quickly returned to its original state.
After a while, he gasped for air, and except for his school uniform being ripped apart, everything that had just happened seemed like an illusion.
"That power... Divine Power?"
Yu Xian touched the spot on his shoulder, thinking with lingering fear.
In fact, the Great Serpent's blood itself was only one or two levels higher than the Perfect Creature's blood, but there was a special power within its blood.
He couldn't digest that power, so it acted on his body, causing him to almost turn into a monster covered in eyes.
Fortunately, while he couldn't digest it, the Dragon Shield Core could.
When this strange power spread to the Dragon Shield Core, the Dragon Shield Core automatically absorbed this power.
The originally red core now looked somewhat ethereal.
With a thought, Yu Xian made scales appear around his body.
The scales, which were originally very real, now seemed both real and illusory, with a layer of hazy mist.
He raised his hand and used his finger to poke the scales, but his finger passed through them as if they didn't exist.
Then he changed his mind, and when he poked again, the scales became real and tangible.
"Deceptive Divine Power!"
"True and false, real and illusory, changing as one wishes, unpredictable."
Yu Xian had an epiphany.
He held a scale in his hand, and suddenly the scale turned into a petal.
Then, with another thought, the petal turned into a gold coin.
He smiled and flicked the gold coin.
The gold coin immediately made a crisp sound, spun rapidly in the air, and finally turned into bubbles and disappeared.
The Great Serpent had a total of two Godheads: the main Godhead was the Fire God Godhead, and the secondary Godhead was the Deceptive Godhead.
The former focused more on attack, and the latter focused more on defense.
In reality, the Martial Extremes Zombie King was unable to truly harm the Great Serpent's main body from beginning to end.
All the scales of the Great Serpent that were shattered were illusory.
After the battle ended, the Great Serpent could automatically refresh them by slightly using its Deceptive Divine Power.
Only Asonis truly touched the Great Serpent's reality and easily controlled it.
Simply put, the Great Serpent's body surface actually had a layer of deceptive outer shell.
Attacks that failed to damage this deceptive outer shell could not reach the Great Serpent's true location, and thus naturally could not cause real damage to the Great Serpent.
Only then did Yu Xian understand the true meaning of 'Only those with firm minds can touch its reality' as described in Skill: Appraisal.
Because the Dragon Shield now also possessed this layer of deceptive outer shell, as long as the enemy's strength could not exceed the upper limit that the Great Serpent's Deceptive Divine Power could withstand, then they simply could not cause real damage to the Dragon Shield or himself.
"Big profit!"
After fully understanding the changes in the Dragon Shield, Yu Xian couldn't suppress the smile on his lips.
If his previous defense was 100, then his current defense was 1000, and 900 of that 1000 was special defense that required specific conditions to be weakened.
If one's mind wasn't firm enough, attacking was pointless.
Indeed, Heaven had fed the food right to his mouth, he had to make use of it.
Yu Xian whistled happily, continuing to search for more of the Great Serpent's blood.
Just now, the Great Serpent spitting blood was like a celestial maiden scattering flowers, so there were definitely more blood beads on this land.
He couldn't get enough of this precious blood; he even wished the Great Serpent had spit out all the blood in its body at that time.
Picking up trash is fun for a while, continuously picking up trash is always fun.
Soon, Yu Xian found another blood bead.
The Great Serpent's blood didn't attract any dust, its mass was astonishingly large, and it wouldn't seep into the ground at all, so it was very conspicuous.
He quickly went forward, cupped the blood, and without a word, opened his mouth and sucked.
So fragrant!
Indeed, Vampires must suck blood.
The next moment, Yu Xian's body began to go berserk, instantly filling with cracks, but he wasn't panicked at all.
He even observed the locations of his body's mutations with interest, for example, an eye grew on his knee this time.
Then the Dragon Shield Core once again absorbed the Great Serpent's Deceptive Divine Power, and the abnormalities in his body quickly disappeared.
He vaguely felt like he grasped something.
With a thought, an illusory power was drawn from the Dragon Shield Core.
He injected this power into his body, and according to his thoughts, his body quickly swelled into a three-meter-tall one-eyed monster.
This was just an illusion.
His body actually didn't change at all.
It was just that the surface was covered with a layer of deceptive outer shell, but as long as one couldn't see through this outer shell, it could also be real.
"So that's how it is.
Belief is the core of this power.
That's why the first body mutation felt the most real.
Just now, the second time, because I had confidence, it actually felt less real."
Yu Xian pinched his face, which only had one eye, and muttered to himself.
Deceptive Divine Power could also be infused with belief.
When belief was strong enough, the fake could be real, and the real could be fake.
It was from the feeling when his body abnormalities disappeared that he perceived another layer of Deceptive Divine Power's attributes.
Obviously, Deceptive Divine Power was even more incredible than he had imagined.
Deceptive Divine Power possessed five attributes: Bizarre, Terror, Dream, Demonic, and Bewitching!
Yu Xian changed back from the monster to his original appearance, then smoothed his hand over his clothes.
The school uniform that had been ripped apart by his body swelling quickly returned to its original state.
He seemed to understand a bit how to use this 'Bizarre' power.
As for the four attributes of Terror, Dream, Demonic, and Bewitching, he still needed to slowly figure them out.