Chapter 663: The Road to Physical Strengthening

"So the key lies in this insect shell."

As the price of replacing the energy of an entire biological body, this insect shell is not completely useless.

Mu You tried to click on the "insect exuviae" entry.

Unfortunately, no specific instructions appeared, only an ambiguous prompt popped up: unknown item, eating it may cause some changes to your body. Then asked him if he wanted to eat it?

"Eat it directly?"

Mu You didn't expect this thing to be used so simply and crudely. After hesitating for a while, he chose "yes".

[You put the insect exuviae into your mouth, and the insect shell melted in your mouth, turning into a strange airflow, pouring into your body, and after transforming your body, it disappeared without a trace. ]

[Your energy value limit has been reduced by 1 point (can be restored by taking a large amount of divine crystals)]

"???"

Mu You was shocked when he saw the first line of words. He didn't expect this thing to have side effects and reduce his energy limit!

The energy limit is a very precious thing, equivalent to the "blue bar" under the divine system. Basically all divine arts and divine props consume energy, and the value is far less exaggerated than magic. It is directly linked to the intelligence value. How much intelligence there is, how much energy there is.

Mu You has now merged four divine bones. After the attribute value has increased many times, the current energy limit is only 297 points. Every point is very important.

This made him subconsciously want to go back.

But then he noticed the words in the brackets behind: It is not a permanent reduction, it can be restored, and he was relieved. It's good to be able to recover.

Moreover, something so difficult to obtain is certainly not completely useless.

Two harvest prompts popped up in succession.

[You have obtained 1 restricted attribute point, which can be added to other attributes except intelligence. ]

[You have obtained 0.1% of the divine system resistance. 】

Limited attribute points, this is the first time Mu You has seen this term. The description is not much different from free attribute points. Both of them increase the value of an attribute by choosing one. The only difference is that this attribute point excludes intelligence alone, and can only be selected from strength, agility, and constitution.

You should know that intelligence is directly linked to energy, and energy is the embodiment of the divinity reserve in a person's body.

Combined with the previous deduction of the energy limit, the purpose of this reward is very clear: this is to reduce the divinity reserve in his body and convert it into direct physical strength.

As for the second reward, divine system resistance, it is also an unfamiliar term, but Mu You understood it at a glance. Resistance to the entire divine system, isn't this the characteristic of savages?

Savages are born with more than 90% divine resistance, plus they are thick-skinned and have amazing defense, so they can take the slash of the god with their bodies.

In other words, these three physical changes after eating the insect shell are actually transforming his physique towards the direction of savages.

However, there is no divine energy in the body of the savage, but the energy loss caused by this insect exuvia can be restored.

In other words, if he continues to take a large amount of this insect exuvia, while his physical strength is close to that of the savage, he does not need to abandon the divine system like the savage. He only needs to pay some price and can still use the power of divinity as usual.

What is the concept of combining the abnormal physique of the savage and the powerful supernatural power of the divinity?

At least in the history that Mu You knows so far, no one has achieved this fusion.

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief and fully realized the value of this insect exuvia.

The next step is to determine the "cost" of restoring energy.

Mu You glanced at the panel.

Strength: 99

Agility: 198

Intelligence: 297

Constitution: 61

Restricted attribute points: 1

Real life: 3836/3836

Energy value: 11/296 (-1)

Sure enough, the energy value column, which was supposed to be an upper limit of 297, became 296, and there was a red mark of '-1' at the end, representing the upper limit temporarily deducted by the insect exuvia.

Mu You took out a bag of divine crystals in reality and threw them into his mouth one by one like eating candy beans.

This thing is actually a pure energy body, which will be directly digested when it enters the mouth, and you will not feel full no matter how much you eat.

After eating ten in a row, there was no movement on the panel.

Mu You was not too surprised and continued to swallow.

However, after eating a hundred in a row, there was still no change on the panel.

Mu You couldn't help frowning a little, but still didn't say anything and continued to eat beans.

Next, two hundred...

three hundred...

five hundred...

The panel was still indifferent.

Mu You's eyelids began to twitch. Could it be that this little upper limit really requires thousands of divine powers to recover?

There was no other way. He had already poured 500 into it. Even if this was really a bottomless pit, he could only continue to invest.

Fortunately, when Mu You took 1,000 pills, the panel finally changed.

The energy limit jumped back to 297, and the (-1) behind it also disappeared quietly.

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief. 1,000 divine powers restored a little energy limit, and this price was still within his acceptable range.

Then Mu You hurriedly went to hunt a few creatures nearby and got six or seven insect molts. He took them one by one and experimented to explore the rules.

These insect sloughs are big and small, and their quality varies. Not every insect slough can directly reduce his energy by 1 point. The specific value depends on the strength of the hunted creature. The stronger the creature, the higher the quality of the insect slough generated, and the better the effect after taking it.

These six or seven insect sloughs just reduced Mu You's energy limit by two points. Now his energy value is: 295 (-2).

However, Mu You also found that not every time the energy limit is reduced, he can get attribute and resistance rewards. This time when the upper limit is reduced to 296, no more rewards are given, and only when it reaches 295.

In other words, for every 1 point of energy, attribute rewards will be given only when it is reduced for the first time. After that, even if the upper limit is restored by divinity and deducted by insect slough again, the reward will not be repeated.

This directly makes Mu You's plan to card a bug fail: it is impossible to use divinity crystals to exchange attributes and resistances infinitely.

And his current energy limit is only 297 points, which means that he can only get 297 extra attributes and 29.7% of the divinity system resistance at most.

"Less than 30%..."

Mu You exhaled. Nearly one-third of the divine resistance is naturally far inferior to the physique of the wild man, but in the battle of the divinity system, it is enough to change many battle situations.

"It takes 1,000 crystals to restore each point of the upper limit. 297 points means nearly 300,000 divinities..."

This number is absolutely astronomical for ordinary players, but it is not a big deal for Mu You.

He now has a balance of more than 200,000 divinities. Moreover, in this battle in the City of Order, he killed seven gods in a row, all of whom were gods above 11 stars. There are as many as 1.2 million divinities condensed from them.

This part belongs to Mu You's private spoils and does not need to be shared with others.

At the same time, as the biggest contributor to this battle, he can also get a considerable amount of divinity dividends in the distribution of all spoils. There are a few hundred thousand. Together with his own assets, it is not a problem for the final divinity stock to exceed two million.

This number is enough to ensure that he can be promoted to a ten-star god, and there will be about 700,000 left.

Take out 300,000 of this to brush attributes and resistance, which is definitely worth it.

Of course, in order to avoid repeated investment, it is best to take a large amount of insect exude at one time, deduct the energy directly to zero, and then eat it all at once to restore the divinity completely.

Therefore, Mu You plans to collect the insect exude that he will get next, and when there are enough, eat it all at once.

This will minimize the impact on his combat power.

With this idea in mind, Mu You continued on the road, paying attention to picking up the insect exude dropped by nearby creatures at any time along the way, especially high-quality insect exude. One high-level insect exude is equivalent to hundreds of low-level insect exude.

With the hope of improvement, this journey is no longer a simple adventure and land reclamation, but also a way to strengthen oneself. Mu You is suddenly full of motivation.

[… You killed a nine-winged beast with difficulty and picked up a high-quality insect exude from its corpse. 】

【Continuous battles have exhausted your energy and put you in a weak state...】

【A large number of poisonous insect monsters suddenly emerged around you, and dense gray-white small and medium-sized creatures surrounded you from all directions. 】

【You hurriedly held the knife and launched another slash, trying to break out. 】

【These creatures suddenly no longer fear your slashes, and they rushed towards you with violent killing intent, instantly drowning you...】

【You were bitten to death by thousands of small creatures...】

【You are dead! 】

【Your soul was led back by the soul-guiding lamp and returned to the green lamp in the bushes. 】

【You were resurrected under the soul-guiding lamp, and cracks appeared on the resurrection stone in your hand...】

“Emmm...”

Mu You was at a loss. What did he do? Why did the creatures suddenly riot?

Could it be that the nine-winged beast he killed was the leader of these creatures? Not really. According to his observations along the way, the creatures here don’t seem to have the concept of forming gangs.

Mu You couldn't figure it out for a moment, and could only think that it was bad luck and he just happened to trigger some lightning point.

After waiting for a day outside the Ring Forest, when the resurrection stone was formed, Mu You set out again.

This time he deliberately changed a route.

As a result...

[... The creatures around you suddenly rioted, and you were overwhelmed by a large number of poisonous insects and beasts, and died tragically on the spot. ]

[You are dead! The soul returned to the green lamp...]

"..."

The first time could be a coincidence, but if it happened twice in a row, there would be a problem.

Moreover, the locations of the two beast riots seemed to be similar, and they all broke out suddenly after he went a certain distance into the forest.

Mu You frowned and continued on his way in disbelief.

This time he was much more careful. When he approached the distance of the previous two deaths, he slowed down his speed significantly, and at the same time communicated with the pocket watch in his mind, ready to go back at any time.

[... As you stepped over a certain distance, the surrounding biological community began to riot again, and dense poisonous insects and beasts rushed towards you...]

Mu You hurriedly went back in time and controlled the character to retreat at the same time.

Sure enough, the small creatures stopped rioting, stopped chasing him desperately, and gradually dispersed.

Now Mu You has confirmed the pattern: as long as he goes deep into the Ring Forest to a certain distance, the surrounding creatures will riot, either drive him out or bite him to death on the spot, anyway, they will never allow him to step into that distance.

"Are the creatures here so exclusive?" Mu You looked strange.

He had asked the savage about the precautions of the Ring Forest before, and the savage told him a simple strategy: the creatures in the first few layers are very weak, just stride in, and only in the later layers do you need to slowly pay attention to the threats of some higher creatures.

As a result, this strategy is completely unsuitable for outsiders. Who would have thought that he, a person with six kinds of divine power, could not even enter the door of the Ring Forest.

But then again, if the creatures here are really so exclusive, how did the original mechanics and the previous fool ancestors get in?

Mu You felt that he should have overlooked something.

Next, he relied on his backtracking and controlled the character to repeatedly explore and wander along the edge of the biological riot.

Along the way, all the biological communities in the jungle emerged and stared at him covetously. Fortunately, Mu You never stepped over the cordon, and these creatures were just alert and did not pounce directly.

["Metal equipment was retrieved under the boulder 30 meters away on the left."]

Ava's report suddenly came out.

Mu You controlled the character to move forward, pushed the boulder away, and dug.

[You dug out a scrapped combat robot head from under the soil. The broken end of this mechanical head had some traces of piercing by sharp teeth, as if the neck was bitten off by some giant creature. ]

[The chameleon helmet covered the mechanical head. After some debugging, the head soon opened and a familiar voice came out. ]

["Damn, it's you guys again..."]

["...You have destroyed eighty of my robots. How long are you going to stop me..."]

This robot head is obviously the work of the mechanic, and the recording in it should also be his experience when he first came to the Ring Forest.

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that it was not only him who encountered obstacles, but also the mechanic, who was blocked at the door for a long time.

So how did he get in afterwards?

Ava continued to debug the robot's memory circuit, and soon, the key content was played out,

["I should have thought of it earlier. It was the divine energy in my body that caused these creatures to riot..."]

["These creatures, no, this forest itself, has autonomous consciousness. It refuses creatures with too high divine energy to enter..."]

["If you want to go in, you must first make yourself less conspicuous..."]

["Insect exuviae! That kind of insect exuviae is this forest, specially prepared as a stepping stone for outsiders..."]

"So that's it..."

Mu You also suddenly realized after reading it.

This ring forest has a stronger and stronger repulsion to divinity from the outside to the inside, so the further you go, the less divinity you have on your body. If the content of divinity in your body is obviously higher than the local species by one level, it will become a 'conspicuous bag' in the eyes of other creatures and be attacked by the surrounding creatures.

After thinking this through, Mu You naturally understood the way to go deep into the ring forest: eat insect exuviae!

His previous idea of ​​collecting a large number of insect sloughs and eating them all at once was not feasible. Here, he had to eat while going deeper, so that the energy in his body would slowly decrease, so that he could not be rejected by the local creatures here while ensuring his combat effectiveness as much as possible.

Moreover, until he found the savage chief, completed his goal, and left the Ring Forest, he could not consume divine power to restore his energy limit.

"I just hope that the God Devourer will not attack the city during this period..."

Mu You muttered to himself. Before the energy limit is restored, his combat effectiveness will remain at a very low level. If the God Devourer attacks during this period, he will have to spend a lot of divine power to restore his energy first in order to meet the enemy, and then he will have to start all over again, which means that this part of the divine power will be wasted.

Shaking his head, Mu You ate all the bag of insect sloughs he collected along the way.

[Your energy limit has been reduced by 46 points, currently: 249 (-48)]

[You have gained 46 restricted attribute points, which can be added to other attributes except intelligence. ]

[You have gained 4.6% divine system resistance. 】

"It should be almost done."

After eating all the insect molts at hand, Mu You tried to go deeper into the forest again.

As expected, he was not attacked again this time.

[Amid the watchful eyes of countless local creatures around you, you carefully stepped across the cordon. ]

[The creatures around you did not go into a riot, but just curiously watched you and watched you gradually walk away...]