Era of Magic and Martial Arts-Chapter 280 - 264: The Fifth Health Bar?!!

The next time I open the treasure chest, the inheritance level needs to reach 15%.

There's a 4% difference from now.

Simply increasing it by causing trouble isn't easy to measure accurately. However, when calculated through promotion, the gap between captain, division chief, prison chief, and warden becomes clear. It instantly feels like the path ahead is illuminated.

"So, just killing one or two like Chang Wei and Tian Tao isn't nearly enough. For young people to progress quickly, the most effective way seems to be sending those elders into retirement."

Feng Mu doesn't enjoy fighting and killing, but the rules of society operate this way; it's the "metabolism" that forced him onto a path of no return.

Can you blame him?

He just wants to advance; what wrong has he done!

Feng Mu shook his head, pulling back his scattered thoughts and refocusing on the rewards in front of him.

"1 Basic Skill Point, 1 Special Skill Point. This way, my Basic Skill Points and Special Skill Points have accumulated to 4 points each."

"General Skill Proficiency increased by 10,000 points; the current proficiency level has reached 13,730 points."

Feng Mu silently calculated in his heart:

"Recently, I've been in prison, with almost no time to practice martial arts, so my martial arts level hasn't significantly improved.

Therefore, I can invest skill proficiency into [Turtle Armor Skin Changing Skill], and depending on whether I can cultivate this martial art to perfection, I will decide whether to use Basic Skill Points to attempt a limit-breaking."

"And then, it's..."

Feng Mu opened his panel, his vision constantly moving downward, shifting to the section of Secret Techniques.

Marriage Death Twins Lv1 『0/5』, Tongue Root Death Curse Lv1 『0/2』, Deputy's Blessing Lv1 『0/3』, Blood Bar Deceit Eye Lv1 『0/3』.

"[Deputy's Blessing] and [Blood Bar Deceit Eye] both meet the upgrade conditions, and [Marriage Death Twins] is just one step away." Feng Mu slightly frowned, appearing somewhat hesitant.

Originally, he planned to accumulate all his Special Skill Points to prioritize upgrading [Marriage Death Twins], but after experiencing the baton switch and food poisoning, he found [Blood Bar Deceit Eye] to be quite useful.

"If I can see more critical information through the blood bar, that seems like a good choice too."

A thought stirred in Feng Mu's heart, but deep down, what he most longed to enhance was still...

Feng Mu squinted slightly, his gaze subtly moved up to the Iron-Eating section, where two virtual frames for adding points appeared.

Wrought Iron (Green) 『0/2』

Nine Nether Evil Iron (Red) 『0/9』

"9 points, it's really unaffordable." Feng Mu's inner fantasy was completely shattered.

9 special skill points, might as well honestly eat iron, once the [Octagonal Cage Beast Fighting Arena] rolls out, directly eat to your fill.

Feng Mu walked alone on the streets at night, the light atop his head had already extinguished, and there were few vehicles and pedestrians on the road.

He walked indifferently, a faint blood-red line lurking in the depths of his dark pupils, like a strange little snake residing in his eyes.

Then, at a certain moment, that little snake suddenly split and copied itself, turning into two small snakes.

The two small snakes twisted and coiled, revolving silently around his pupils, spinning faster and faster, vaguely forming into two crimson hook jade pieces.

[Blood Bar Deceit Eye Upgraded!]

[Blood Bar Deceit Eye Lv2]: Activate this secret technique, and you can see the opponent's blood bar. The cost is that you and your opponent will be datafied during the secret technique's duration, immune to all fatal attacks, and only by emptying the blood bar will result in death.

Ps: In this state, if you attack and fail to break the opponent's defense, you will forcibly strip away a sliver of their life force (1 hit point).

The above seems unchanged, just as Feng Mu was slightly disappointed, a line of new, ephemeral characters appeared, slowly coalescing:

When you gaze into the opponent's heart, you can randomly glimpse one of their abilities, and choose whether to copy it. The copied ability cannot exceed your current power rank.

Ps:

1. A person can only be glimpsed once in a lifetime.

2. A copied ability can only be used once a day.

3. The heart cannot stop beating for more than 1 hour.

Feng Mu's mouth slightly opened, his eyes revealing incredulous brilliance, all the words in his heart condensed into one word—"Sharingan?!!!"

Though not exactly the same, there's a familiar vibe to it.

Feng Mu couldn't help stopping, rapidly pulling out his phone and turning on the selfie mode.

On the phone screen, the two rotating, crimson hook jade pieces reflected in his pupils made his heart race, intensifying a peculiar sense of familiarity.

And deep in Feng Mu's heart, a strong premonition suddenly arose:

"[Blood Bar Deceit Eye Lv2] corresponds to the Two-Pronged Jade, then if it reaches Lv3, wouldn't it correspond to the Three-Pronged Jade, and when it reaches Lv4, wouldn't it correspond to the Kaleidoscope?"

And as everyone knows, the Kaleidoscope is the true Sharingan. It's not that the previous Sharingan was weak, but the Kaleidoscope is so overpowered, that it creates an insurmountable gap.

From this, Feng Mu, through a series of associations, arrived at a constructive hypothesis:

"So, if the Blood Bar Deceit Eye can be upgraded to Lv4, an unimaginable evolution might occur in these eyes!"

Feng Mu's pupils glowed with a fiery intensity, the two hook jade pieces under the stimulus of his emotions becoming increasingly crimson and enchanting, adding a sinister allure to his appearance.

"No, perhaps I'm overthinking it. Sharingan is Sharingan, Blood Bar Deceit Eye is Blood Bar Deceit Eye, they cannot be conflated."

Feng Mu violently shook his head, halting the delusions in his mind, fearing that if he continued to think deeply, he wouldn't be able to control his legs, walking towards his home.

"Thinking about it, I haven't visited my parents for a long time, which is somewhat unfilial." Feng Mu suddenly felt a nostalgic longing for the original family of this body.

After all, the system only hinted at accumulating special skill points for the upgrade of [Blood Bar Deceit Eye], yet it never prevented the exploration of other upgrade paths.

In the past, Feng Mu was bewildered, having no leads, but now, a cunning shortcut idea quietly surfaced in his mind.

"Looking at it this way, not being an orphan after traveling time does come with hidden benefits. At least in life, there will always be a fallback path your parents have left you!" Feng Mu understood clearly in his heart.

Yet, relying on his inner kindness, Feng Mu forcefully snuffed out the budding sin in his pupils, for how could he be such a ruthless person?

He realized that perhaps he was already subtly influenced by [Blood Bar Deceit Eye]. Just as the Sharingan magnifies the darkness within a person's heart, [Blood Bar Deceit Eye] seems similarly susceptible to such side effects.

Fortunately, Feng Mu's resistance to evil is extremely high, not because of an inclination toward the bright, but purely because... his threshold for repelling evil has been fully honed.

Feng Mu looked at the screen of his phone, at the one, two, three, four blood bars floating above his head, and he calmly murmured to himself:

"Don't hide, come out and greet your seniors."

As his voice fell, the outline of a fifth blood bar coyly emerged.

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