Chapter 93: The Mysterious Zhu Huanren
Su Hao began his daily routine of cultivation, avoiding going out as much as possible during the day and obediently staying in his hiding spot at night.
Soon, two months passed by.
The cold wind howled, and snowflakes began to fall from the sky, covering the earth with a thin white blanket.
Su Hao's little hideout was tightly sealed, with only two vents, which surprisingly kept it warm.
"The elite blood qi has been replenished! I can start inscribing runes and advance to the Master level. Although I'm still young, Zhu Huanren's physical constitution is much stronger than that of the human race in my previous life, so advancing now shouldn't be a problem."
Su Hao's consciousness entered the bullet-time space, and his manifested body lazily lay on the sofa, contemplating the issue of advancing to the Master level.
"What rune should I inscribe?"
Su Hao's choice remained the same: the Perception Rune. This rune was incredibly beneficial to him.
It allowed him to sense life energy in advance, giving him a high level of self-defense and the ability to prepare in advance and take the initiative in any situation.
He had two main points of hesitation.
First, he could use the Array Disk to construct other runes with special functions. As long as he desired it, he could find a way to achieve it, or at least obtain a similar effect. This was actually a very suitable method that allowed him to freely configure his own innate talent.
Second, rune effects could be stacked, but that didn't mean that more complex runes were better. Runes with too many functions and excessive complexity would accelerate blood qi consumption and reduce overall effectiveness.
For example, he could enhance the healing effect on the Perception Rune, which seemed powerful, but it would increase the daily blood qi consumption, weaken combat endurance, and reduce the controllable range of perception while also diminishing the healing ability.
The advantage of this choice was the diversification of innate talents, while the drawback was that it would squeeze the strength of a single function.
After careful consideration, Su Hao ultimately chose the single rune "Perception." He was accustomed to being able to control his surroundings at any time and place and remain calm in any situation.
As for other functions, he could draw them whenever needed.
As long as he had Perception, if he needed to fight, he would have enough time to draw the runes, make thorough preparations.
He just didn't know if this world had golden thread worms or similar creatures. If they did exist, he could inscribe the runes on weapons and armor.
Su Hao was unsure about the difference between inscribing beast patterns inside the body and Array Disk runes. In the spirit of scientific research, he unhesitatingly chose the Array Disk runes.
In his previous life, he had inscribed beast patterns in his body, so in this life, he would inscribe Array Disk runes to make a better comparison and determine which was better, the beast patterns or Array Disk runes, or if they were equally effective.
Once he had set his target, Su Hao immediately took action, attempting to inscribe the Array Disk runes, coordinating the energy throughout his body and striving for a perfect inscription.
The body in this world was slightly different from his previous life, but the method of inscription remained the same. As long as he controlled the eight control rods of the Array Disk and slowly searched for the pathways of blood qi energy, connecting them, he could establish a new network of blood qi throughout his body.
Five days later, Su Hao looked at the Array Disk runes that seemed to merge with his body in the bullet-time space, knowing that he had succeeded in adjusting. As long as he followed the paths of the runes, he could immediately advance to the Master level.
"Initiate the inscription task!"
Without hesitation, Su Hao gave the order to Xiaoguang, then exited the bullet-time space and quickly calmed himself. He began to channel the elite blood qi to draw the runes along Xiaoguang's guidance.
It didn't take long for him to successfully inscribe the runes.
"Solidify! Brand!"
Using the same method as before, he only needed to fill the opened pathways of the runes with blood qi, solidify them for a few days, and thoroughly fix the runes, allowing his body to gradually adapt.
Within a maximum of three months, Su Hao would regain his high-level Master status!
Su Hao, like an outsider in this city, had only brief encounters with the city. Besides obtaining food and daily necessities, he spent the rest of his time in seclusion, slowly transforming his blood qi and improving his strength.
Three months later, the ice and snow gradually melted, and everything began to revive.
Su Hao, now over four years old, had grown a bit taller, and his body was no longer weak. His skin radiated a healthy glow.
He appeared in excellent spirits.
Su Hao emerged from his hiding place.
He had finally returned to the high-level Master stage.
At the same time, the familiar radar reappeared in his consciousness. Although it currently had a range of only four hundred meters, it still provided Su Hao with great peace of mind.
"Now I can once again experience that long-lost sense of security. It feels truly reassuring!"
However, compared to the Masters of his previous life, he was much weaker.
He didn't even possess one-tenth of the blood qi intensity from his previous life.
In his previous life, he had auxiliary functions such as "Muscle Reinforcement" and "Bone Reinforcement," which, after nearly ten years of time, had already made his body incredibly sturdy and robust, far beyond what this weak child's body could compare to.
But Su Hao had confidence that as this body grew, his blood qi intensity would gradually increase, eventually surpassing the strength of his previous life.
The next step required him to study various "enhancement functions" of this body, in order to quickly strengthen its physical abilities. This search would take approximately one year.
And time was something Su Hao had in abundance.
As for the Grandmaster level, it was just a small regret.
But for Su Hao, the power of the Grandmaster level was basically unnecessary.
Firstly, the human race itself was unable to automatically generate an energy core and could only obtain it by hunting Grandmaster-level savage beasts, extracting it from their bodies, and establishing a connection with their bodies through a special method to successfully advance to the Grandmaster level.
It was an expedient way to gain power.
For Su Hao, it held little value because once he switched worlds and lost the original core, he would no longer be able to smoothly advance to the Grandmaster level.
If he had enough time in this world, he could consider researching the Grandmaster level.
However, Su Hao didn't hold much hope for it. Who knew when unexpected circumstances would arise?
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(translated by begs)