Chapter 4 - Devourer Sutra

It didn't take long for Han Sen to find what he was looking for. Deep in his memory, there was a martial technique that his first teacher had taught him a long time ago.

In the ancient cultivation world, the first steps towards becoming powerful were always physical cultivation, followed by spiritual cultivation. As there was no spiritual energy on this planet, Han Sen knew his spiritual techniques would be useless. But physical techniques, on the other hand, would be effective.

Anyway, as the first step to become powerful, the first thing that practitioners needed to do was something extremely painful and uncomfortable. And it's not the strenuous exercises or even the infernal meditations they went through. It was eating!

To have a strong physique that was as powerful as possible, food intake was also the most important. As the first things to be improved were the muscles, skin, and other parts of the body, with the organs being almost the last, many could not keep up with the intake of food that was necessary to sustain the body. Technology tried to keep up by producing highly caloric foods, but not everyone could afford it. Yu Tang was one of those people, and so had to go through other means to climb to the top of society.

[Devourer Sutra] was the name of the technique that Han Sen found in his memory. It was a high-class technique that would greatly accelerate the digestion process and absorb as much nutrients as possible.

"Thank goodness the genetic points are absorbed immediately..." Han Sen looked at the mountain of food in front of him and the bathroom available in his room. The suffering will be great, but necessary for sure.

With extraordinary physical control, Han Sen began to perform a series of actions inside the organism, mixed with a strange but powerful breathing. He could feel the large amount of black beetle meat being pushed into the stomach and being quickly digested, soon turning into a nutrient cake that was absorbed.

Going through the whole digestive process, it took about two hours for him to rush to the bathroom.

Floosh!

With the sound of the flush, Han Sen left the bathroom and sat in front of the meat bag. Taking about 5kg, he grabbed a frying pan he had bought in some trades and placed it over the fire he had in the fireplace. Frying all the meat, he added nothing but salt and began to eat the still hot meat. Heat was something he could easily ignore, as long as it wasn't the fire itself.

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• Raging Horned Lamb Meat Eaten •

• One Ordinary Gene Point gained •

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• Raging Horned Lamb Meat Eaten •

• One Ordinary Gene Point gained •

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• Raging Horned Lamb Meat Eaten •

• One Ordinary Gene Point gained •

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After consuming that lamb meat, Han Sen began to gain more gene points and felt stronger. After consuming the 5kg, he stopped everything he was doing and went to bed. The technique could only be used once a day and needed to be used to the fullest, only once. He imagined that he should have eaten at least 3kg of beetle meat before returning to the shelter, and now he had eaten another 5kg.

"My stomach is almost bursting. I hate this feeling." Han Sen lay down on the uncomfortable bed and closed his eyes. Now he just had to rely on the natural digestive process to get rid of all that meat in his stomach. And he also needed to sleep, after such a full day.

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Five days later, Han Sen ate the last piece of meat he had in his backpack. He had turned some of the meat into jerky for when he left the shelter for a while. The meat had great durability, but would eventually spoil at room temperature. However, there was only a little bit of jerky, about 7kg.

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⌠Status⌡

│Han Sen│

│State: Unevolved│

│Life Span: 200 Years│

⌠Evolution⌡

∫ Ordinary Gene = 45 Genetic Points ∫

∫ Primitive Gene = 0 Genetic Points ∫

∫ Mutant Gene = 0 Genetic Points ∫

∫ Sacred Blood Gene = 0 Genetic Points ∫

∫ Super Gene = 0 Genetic Points ∫

│Evolve: 100 Genetic Points│

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Sitting on his bed in the room, Han Sen was happy with this increase of 30 points. He felt much stronger and more energetic.

But that wasn't all he did. Hearing about the beginner hunting grounds, he reserved a day to see them all. If he found a creature too difficult to kill, he would return to the cave of the black beetles and continue to gain EXP more easily. Genetic points were no longer a problem, after all, there was still meat to eat.

But the results of these five days were very good. Of the five hunting fields he went to, three were suitable enough for him to maintain a better EXP flow. Not to mention that it's not all about winning, but the excitement of battle was also very good.

That's what he was left with after five days of training and eating well.

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⌠Upgrade System⌡

˃ ∫Hyper-Gene Art Upgrade∫

˅ ∫Beast Soul Upgrade∫

  ↓| Black Beetle Ordinary Tier = 100EXP |

    » ⟩ Black Beetle Level 1 = 100EXP ⟨

  ↓| Sharp Mandible Ant Ordinary Tier = 100EXP |

    » ⟩ Sharp Mandible Ant Level 1 = 100EXP ⟨

  ↓| Big Tail Scorpion Ordinary Tier = 100EXP |

    » ⟩ Big Tail Scorpion Level 1 = 100EXP ⟨

  ↓| Blue Wing Chicken Ordinary Tier = 100EXP |

    » ⟩ Blue Wing Chicken Level 1 = 100EXP ⟨

˅ ∫Skills Upgrade∫

  → | New Martial Arts Level 1 = 100EXP |

  → | Cooking Level 1 = 100EXP |

  → | Short Blade Skill Level 1 = 100EXP |

˃ ∫Equipment Upgrade∫

Total EXP: 508 Points

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⌠Beast Soul⌡

≡ Black Beetle  ≡

Ѻ Tier: Ordinary Ѻ

Ѻ Type: Armor Ѻ

Ѻ Level: 0 Ѻ

≡ Sharp Mandible Ant ≡

Ѻ Tier: Ordinary Ѻ

Ѻ Type: Weapon Ѻ

Ѻ Level: 0 Ѻ

≡ Big Tail Scorpion ≡

Ѻ Tier: Ordinary Ѻ

Ѻ Type: Weapon Ѻ

Ѻ Level: 0 Ѻ

≡ Blue Wing Chicken  ≡

Ѻ Tier: Ordinary Ѻ

Ѻ Type: Wings Ѻ

Ѻ Level: 0 Ѻ

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The three new beast souls he had acquired were the most interesting. The Sharp Mandible Ant was a dagger-shaped beast soul made of sharp copper with a very interesting and deadly design. It was much better than his combat knife, which he had already stored in a secure box and placed in his room at home. The Big Tail Scorpion was the same, a dagger with little difference in size and a blue-copper color (the same color as copper sulfate). Its design was different, as it seemed more suitable for penetrating than for cutting. He was using both daggers simultaneously without any problem.

As for the Blue Wing Chicken Beast Soul... It was a bit funny to comment on, but Han Sen couldn't do anything about how things worked in this God's Sanctuary. In the form of two small blue wings on his back, if he put a halo above his head he would look like a little angel. That is to say, useless for battle as it was. Even if it was a quite rare Beast Soul, an ordinary one would not serve anything other than decoration.

During these days, he avoided spending the points so he could get used to the strength increments he gained, while also learning again the true battle of being weak as hell. If compared to his previous life, this body would die with the wind produced by his blows.

"I have 5 improvements with the points I earned, and I must choose wisely between my abilities." Han Sen spent all this time looking at which skills he would invest in and which he wouldn't, or even waiting to see if any new skills would appear, since Short Blade Skill appeared. But nothing else came after that.

Determined to seek more strength, he simply invested all the points in skills that directly improved his power. He wasn't sure how much he would gain from it, but he hoped it would be a lot. After all, it was the equivalent of several days of work.

Spending all the points, he felt an influx of information and power that he didn't expect. For the first time, he felt the effects of this system affecting his body, and his soul seemed to resonate with it.

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⌠Upgrade System⌡

˃ ∫Hyper-Gene Art Upgrade∫

˅ ∫Beast Soul Upgrade∫

  ↓| Black Beetle Primitive Tier = 250EXP | [↑]

    » ⟩ Black Beetle Level 1 = 100EXP ⟨

  ↓| Sharp Mandible Ant Primitive Tier = 250EXP | [↑]

    » ⟩ Sharp Mandible Ant Level 1 = 100EXP ⟨

  ↓| Big Tail Scorpion Primitive Tier = 250EXP | [↑]

    » ⟩ Big Tail Scorpion Level 1 = 100EXP ⟨

  ↓| Blue Wing Chicken Ordinary Tier = 100EXP |

    » ⟩ Blue Wing Chicken Level 1 = 100EXP ⟨

˅ ∫Skills Upgrade∫

  → | New Martial Arts Level 2 = 200EXP | [↑]

  → | Cooking Level 1 = 100EXP |

  → | Short Blade Skill Level 2 = 200EXP | [↑]

˃ ∫Equipment Upgrade∫

Total EXP: 008 Points

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After some time, Han Sen calmly got up from bed and shook his head to get rid of the slight pain he felt. Despite his soul being more powerful, it seemed to have its negative effects of instinctively resisting the dump of information. Fortunately, he was able to control it to some extent and "released the access".

Well, let's see what has changed. Besides the two most obvious points, which would be his martial arts that have greatly improved and his knife manipulation that has made him faster and deadlier, he was interested in what happened to his Beast Souls. After all, it changed from Ordinary to the same Ordinary, spending a good amount on it. He wanted to know what the difference was.

Using everything at once, he saw those different energy balls appear in front of him and merge into his body. The black metal ball began to cover the surface of his clothes, reaching a larger margin than before. It not only protected some points, but almost his entire body. It still had a long way to go to become a complete armor, but it was no longer a light armor. His defense seemed to have remained the same, so only the size must have changed.

For the two daggers, their colors became even more reflective and the edges sharper, as well as more deadly. They grew very little, at most one centimeter, and seemed to have only increased in quality. Still, it was a good benefit.

"I can't expect you to kill Gods just by being Ordinary, right..." Han Sen was content with that and, overall, was satisfied with the changes that were brought by the System. They were good enough for him to go hunting without any issues now.

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Taking the maglev train, Han Sen was calmly listening to the music on his earplugs and enjoying the landscape that was impossible to be seen due to the speed.

When the train stopped at a specific station, he started walking towards a neighborhood in the mega city that wasn't well seen. Pulling a type of bandana, he covered his nose and mouth and entered a certain establishment after a while.

Today he wouldn't be going home, but rather earning some money.