The world has turned into Hell's Game, why should I stay human? Chapter 1435 - 866: The Dead Are More Generous Than the Living

"This Human Skin Secret Manual was also written by him before his death. There are many mistakes and omissions in the content. If you follow its cultivation, you will soon lose control of flesh and blood and die."

"I despise this skill for being vicious and biased, difficult to attain the stature of elegance, so I haven’t spent the effort to complete it. But seeing that the Marquis of Longevity possesses a unique bloodline, perfectly suited for this skill, I bestow it upon you."

The Heavenly Martial King said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Liu Zheng unfolded the human skin book, which was filled with blood-written characters in tiny script.

The writing was sloppy, with some parts even smudged into an indecipherable mess.

Just as the Heavenly Martial King said, practicing with this is purely courting death.

Thankfully, he has an external assist.

"Name: Heaven and Earth Devouring Technique Fragment (one-time)"

"Type: Tool"

"Quality: Excellent"

"Effect One: Use to randomly receive a skill related to this item; if the player possesses a Taotie Bloodline, they may choose one from three skills."

"Effect Two: Use with a high likelihood of losing control of flesh and blood (permanently reduce strength and constitution by one-third); if the player has a Taotie Bloodline, it changes to suffering massive damage."

"Note: Some things are over, and some are not. Eat, eat, eat, I damn eat, eat, eat!"

"Can it be taken out of the instance: Yes"

"How massive is the damage?"

Liu Zheng asked the system.

The system did not answer.

"Tch~"

Liu Zheng curled his lip.

If you don’t want to say, forget it. Anyway, a mere excellent quality tool shouldn’t be able to kill him.

Besides, the Heavenly Martial King is watching from the side, definitely wouldn’t allow him to die before his eyes.

Liu Zheng clapped his hands, and the Human Skin Secret Manual turned into a stream of white light and merged into his body.

"Heaven and Earth Devouring Technique Fragment (one-time) successfully used, effect settlement in progress..."

"Player possesses Black Mountain Goat Cub Bloodline; effect two changes to massive damage."

As the system prompt sounded, the blood vessels throughout Liu Zheng’s body burst open, and the flesh around the blood vessels erupted together with the blood.

Before he could attempt to rescue himself, the Heavenly Martial King intervened first.

Countless light threads flew out of the coffin, stitching up his exploded blood vessels as if sewing clothes, quickly stopping the bleeding.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Liu Zheng ate a few handfuls of high-energy feed, recuperated, and then expressed his gratitude.

"A mere trifle. How does the Marquis of Longevity consume such livestock feed?"

The Heavenly Martial King asked puzzledly.

With his insight, he could naturally see that Liu Zheng was eating feed.

"There’s no choice. Proper food is too expensive, and there are many expenses. I can only save on food."

Liu Zheng shrugged.

"Living in the Metropolis is indeed not easy."

The Heavenly Martial King sighed.

Back then, he had paid a significant protection fee to relocate to the cemetery.

"Indeed."

Liu Zheng deeply resonated.

"High Priest, allocate one thousand gold taels from my private treasury to the Marquis of Longevity."

The Heavenly Martial King commanded.

"As you command."

The High Priest took out a dragon-shaped dagger from his long sleeves, crouched down, inserted it into the ground, and twisted it, revealing a pitch-black hole.

He reached his hand into the hole, rummaged for a while, and pulled out a large iron box.

Upon opening the box, it was filled with gold coins the size of fists.

One side of the gold coin was smooth, while the other was honeycombed, with the smooth side engraved with the characters "First Year of Tianwu."

"Thank you, Sire. Infinite Heavenly Venerable."

Liu Zheng made a deep bow and then stored the iron box into the Qiankun Ring.

"As long as the Marquis of Longevity is diligent, there will be no shortage of rewards."

The Heavenly Martial King said.

"I will certainly dedicate myself wholeheartedly and not fail Your Majesty’s trust."

He proclaimed his loyalty and then looked at the system prompt.

"Effect three draw completed, please choose one skill from the following."

"Eat Dry and Clean (passive skills): Greatly enhances the player’s ability to absorb food, erasing the link between food and the body (in most cases)."

"Gut Furnace (passive skills): Greatly enhances the player’s appetite and digestion ability, removing negative effects of food (in most cases)."

"Returning Ruins Filling Sea (active skill): After use, absorb all attacks not exceeding the player’s True Qi upper limit and transform them into temporary True Qi, lasting three minutes."

"Amazing."

After reading through the three skills, Liu Zheng couldn’t help but sigh.

Indeed, it’s a Supreme Martial Arts that can cultivate Blood Rebirth; even the skills evolved from the fragment are so formidable.

Each of these three skills is tremendously useful; he wants them all.

"Eat Dry and Clean" needs no explanation; for Liu Zheng, absorption ability equates to recovery speed.

Moreover, it can erase the link between food and the body, which to some extent amounts to a control skill.

Imagine if the enemy’s weapon could be seen as food, he could devour it instantly, leaving them dumbfounded.

"Gut Furnace" is also impressive; enhancing appetite allows Liu Zheng to stockpile more stamina, while enhancing digestion and removing negative food effects dramatically broadens his dietary options.

As for "Returning Ruins Filling Sea," it’s essentially a three-minute invincibility and blue buff combo, extraordinarily powerful.

Unfortunately, Hell’s Game isn’t some roguelike deck-building game with animation pausing, so even quick hands can’t grab everything.

After much thought, Liu Zheng decided to go for "Eat Dry and Clean."

He didn’t choose "Gut Furnace" because his appetite is already substantial, and the Black Mountain Goat Cub Bloodline naturally immunizes a lot of negative food effects.

He didn’t choose "Returning Ruins Filling Sea" because Liu Zheng currently has no True Qi, making the skill irrelevant a long way off.