[Steal]: When using any object to enhance your body, you can choose to use [Steal] to steal 50% of the effect of the closest object of the same type. This can be done once a day. If it is a spiritual substance, the time limit is two hours.

What the hell?
Zhang Chaoqiang was a little confused at first. This kind of mechanism ability was like the Yu-Gi-Oh cards played by the neighbor’s kid next door... He couldn’t understand the whole mechanism description at all.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chaoqiang could probably understand that in the process of his own cultivation, everything consumed by his own cultivation could be used to steal the effects of others.

Immediately, he thought about how to start testing this ability...

So, he found Tan Yue the next day. Tan Yue was overjoyed, thinking that as school was about to start, Zhang Chaoqiang had finally finished his own things and finally had time to play with her.

After all, this was the first time in less than half a month that Zhang Chaoqiang had taken the initiative to look for her. If she was to say she was depressed, Tan Yue would have felt it more or less. She even counted the number of days that Zhang Chaoqiang had not taken the initiative to look for her, and secretly recorded it in...

In a notebook where she specially recorded unhappy things, every day when Zhang Chaoqiang did not look for him was recorded by her, but on the morning of the third to last day of school.

When Zhang Chaoqiang called her and invited her to his place, the haze in Tan Yue's heart disappeared instantly. When they were about to set off, under the urging of Lao Chen...

While humming a song, he quickly tore up the notebook that contained more than ten days of unhappiness and threw it into the trash can.

This means she is no longer unhappy.

But she didn't quite understand why Zhang Chaoqiang specifically asked her to remember to bring the crystal core...

And I also have to remind Lao Chen to bring it with him. What is going on?

Although Tan Yue's anger towards Zhang Chaoqiang had mostly dissipated, at the moment they met, she was still unhappy about Zhang Chaoqiang's indifference towards her due to his busy schedule these days.

Of course, after Zhang Chaoqiang's sweet praise, Tan Yue returned to her smiling mood.

Zhang Chaoqiang did not tell anyone about this ability, and it was not easy to tell anyone. After all, there are more or less some gray area mechanisms.

In addition, the secret of being able to possess two mechanical abilities at the same time is still very contrary to common sense.

Therefore, in order to test the specific effect of his own ability mechanism, Zhang Chaoqiang also quietly arranged this matter.

He had clearly told Tan Yue before she left that she must remember to bring crystal cores with her, including some different types of crystal cores and some of the most common cultivation crystal cores.

Crystal cores are actually divided into two categories, one is the original monster crystal core, and the other is the artificially synthesized crystal core.

Monster crystal cores are classified into different categories. The power contained in the crystal cores of different types of monsters is different. For example, the crystal cores of some monsters with relatively chaotic spiritual power are not suitable for absorption by warriors who focus on the spiritual level.

Artificially synthesized crystal cores are made by extracting the genetic sequences of crystal cores of different monsters and making them into the same evolved crystal cores that meet the conditions for easy absorption by warriors.

The raw materials are various kinds of monster crystal cores, and the artificially synthesized crystal cores are better in effect than pure monster crystal cores of the same level.

Naturally, the price of artificially synthesized crystal cores is by no means comparable to that of monster crystal cores.

In terms of cost-effectiveness, for some warriors with relatively good abilities, purebred monster crystal cores are their best daily supplementary rations.

After all, monster crystal cores can also derive martial arts, while artificially synthesized crystal cores do not give warriors the ability to derive martial arts, they can only replenish their spiritual power.

The price of artificially synthesized crystal cores is three to five times higher than that of ordinary bloodline-level monster crystal cores of the same level.

Sometimes, the difference between the rich and the poor lies in the type of crystal core used.

Zhang Chaoqiang knew that the consumables that Tan Yue's family had been using to replenish their spiritual power or practice were all synthetic crystal cores, because their family, Dingsheng Group, also had this part of the business and manufacturing.

Some spiritual weapons without attributes, or armor and fighter planes, basically use synthetic crystal cores. Some high-end cutting-edge armor sold in large quantities also use this kind of crystal core.

The Central Kingdom’s military armaments are also constantly being updated.

As for Zhang Chaoqiang, of course he uses ordinary monster crystal cores in his daily life.

The reason why Tan Yue brought this artificial synthetic crystal core is to find the relationship between the control variables, which is an important means to complete mechanism verification.

Therefore, Zhang Chaoqiang attempted to verify it based on the specific description of the mechanism's capabilities.

"When using any object to enhance your body, you can choose to use [Steal] to steal 50% of the effect of the closest object of the same type..."

"Similar objects..." Zhang Chaoqiang pondered.

He first confirmed that Tan Yue had artificial synthetic crystal cores and various other crystal cores, and then he practiced with the artificial crystal cores beside her.

"I'm a little tired. I'll replenish my spiritual power first."

Flying with Tan Yue for a long time just now did give Zhang Chaoqiang an excuse.

Then, while using the spiritual power in the artificial synthetic crystal core to replenish himself and practice, Zhang Chaoqiang began to communicate with the fiery red energy in his body.

Try to use the ability [Steal] for the first time.

"Steal!"

Zhang Chaoqiang was fully focused. As bits of spiritual energy penetrated into his body, the first-level artificial synthetic crystal core in his hand would be completely absorbed by him in a short period of time.

So he didn't hesitate, and immediately used [Steal] on the first-level artificial synthetic crystal core that he was absorbing!
"Ok?"

Zhang Chaoqiang felt so comfortable that he seemed to be energized and couldn't help but make a sound in his throat.

Because at that moment, he felt that the spiritual power flowing into him seemed to have increased in concentration and intensity by 150% than before.

And this intensity does not act directly on him in a fundamental sense.

Instead, it works on the process of him absorbing artificial synthetic crystal cores, obtaining spiritual energy replenishment, and being in a state of body circulation.

In other words, the storage capacity of the crystal core itself did not increase; what increased was only the spiritual power absorbed from this process.

In other words, after he used his stealing ability, the value of the spiritual power he obtained and the speed of absorbing this artificial synthetic crystal core were both increased by a full 50%.

The speed and strength are 150% of the original!

Then, during the process of absorption, the extra spiritual power is probably not for no reason, but it all comes from one's own theft!

After completing that simple first-order artificial synthetic crystal core, Zhang Chaoqiang quickly asked Tan Yue, who was not far away and was waiting for Zhang Chaoqiang to replenish his spiritual power, to take out all his crystal cores from his bag.

Clatter, more than twenty crystal cores appeared, including artificial synthetic crystal cores and various kinds of monster crystal cores.

Among these two major categories, the levels are also different. Especially for the artificial synthetic crystal cores, Zhang Chaoqiang deliberately strengthened the control and comparison, and the artificial synthetic crystal cores from level one to level five were placed together.

Only in this way can we test more gains and results in one go.

"what?"

Before Zhang Chaoqiang could observe carefully, Tan Yue, who was watching carefully beside him, immediately noticed that something seemed to be different...

"I remember when I took it out, the spiritual energy stored in the crystal core was completely full. How come this first-level artificial synthetic crystal core only has a little over 50% of the spiritual energy stored?"

Amid Tan Yue's doubts, Zhang Chaoqiang's heart was shaken...

As expected, he thought to himself.

The so-called similar objects not only refer to things of the same type, but also things of the same level!
Among these more than twenty crystal cores, only one is a first-level artificial synthetic crystal core, which is exactly the same as the one Zhang Chaoqiang just absorbed. This shows that they are of the same type!
Then he wanted to test it again, but found that the number of times had been used up.

Although the ability to increase one's cultivation speed, increase resources and reduce costs is very powerful, it can only be used once a day, and there is also a sense of stealing that is not very good. For a while, Zhang Chaoqiang can more or less only wait until tomorrow to test it again.

The next day, he tested it again and found that when he used [Steal] when absorbing the crystal cores of other monsters, he would only steal the power from the crystal core of the same level of the monster closest to him.

The strengthening effect has an impact on Zhang Chaoqiang's cultivation results, that is to say, it can also enhance Zhang Chaoqiang's cultivation speed.

And this time he also specifically tested the distance. After he used [Steal], the crystal core whose power was successfully stolen was the one closest to him.

"Basically, the ability of this mechanism has been tested!"

It's amazing, not only in terms of the performance of the mechanism, but also in terms of the actual function. Zhang Chaoqiang doesn't know if this can be considered theft in the traditional sense...

But this kind of theft is more silent. As mentioned before, this is a mechanism ability that ignores everything and turns this event into a constant, so no one will find any trace of the crystal core.

Because under Zhang Chaoqiang's observation, the state in which the spiritual power of the crystal core that he stole disappeared was even more terrifying than when he stole the spiritual power from Zhi. It was completely silent and without a trace.

And he ignores the terrain and distance. That is to say, even if they are on both sides of the earth, as long as there is no one closer to Zhang Chaoqiang, he can cross half the distance of the earth and steal it.

“It’s too outrageous…”

Zhang Chaoqiang thought that this mechanism ability could not be used casually like spreading, but had to be used reasonably, otherwise it would cause trouble to others.

It took another day for Zhang Chaoqiang to confirm the entire mechanism of this ability.

On the day before the spring semester of the martial arts school started, Zhang Chaoqiang had already prepared a special potion to moderate the spiritual power of the fourth-level screaming chicken crystal core.

He sat in the living room, with the fourth-order screaming chicken crystal cores placed on the table in front of him. Zhang Chaoqiang took a deep breath and thought to himself:
“I have searched all over the country before, but there are no more Screaming Chicken Crystal Cores.

Statistics show that this kind of thing should exist in large quantities in the monster area."

Zhang Chaoqiang was not sure whether the fourth-level Screaming Chicken Crystal Core could help him fill up the progress bar at once. After all, the progress bar was still about 60% away.

If [Steal] is used as well, the progress bar should definitely be able to be filled... Thinking of this, Zhang Chaoqiang no longer hesitated and absorbed it. Those special potions could help Zhang Chaoqiang absorb the entire crystal core in a short period of time.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhang Chaoqiang spent nearly 200,000 yuan to prepare it.

at the same time…

On the other side of the planet, directly opposite the human area, in the monster area...

This place occupies three-fifths of the entire earth's area, spanning countless seas and continents, with various terrains and landforms, and various kinds of monsters living and growing.

There are also many strange beasts appearing among them.

This area with a total area of ​​over 100 million units belongs to the kingdom of the monsters, so there is no need to worry about humans encircling and suppressing them.

Being in the monster beast area, they absorb the bloodline of divine beasts, become the kings here, and have many powerful monster beast races serving as their subordinates.

Those swimming in the water, flying in the sky, and running on the ground are basically all monsters with hideous and ferocious appearances.

The whole society is divided into ten areas, representing various terrains and climatic conditions. The monsters are different from human society. In their society, the hierarchy is very strict, strength is everything, and there is no morality.

Even blood relatives can kill each other in a moment.

In such a vast area, the mountainous area is about 20,000 kilometers away from the border between monsters and humans...

A sneaky, about one meter tall, skinny long-necked chicken covered with yellow feathers, was holding a white, turbid crystal core in its mouth, carefully, for fear of being seen by other monsters in the mountains and using it to eat...

"Damn it, this is my last fourth-level screaming chicken crystal core. Once I absorb it and break through to the sixth level, all the monsters in this mountain will be turned into endless corpses!"

The sharp voice could only be kept as low as possible for fear of being discovered.

Screaming Chicken is a unique and wonderful creature in the world of monsters.

The screaming chickens are not very strong. They are basically like ordinary people who are powerless and can only make shrill screams. They are basically hated by monsters, beasts, humans and ghosts.

Therefore, even though it is a monster with a rare bloodline level, it is still at the bottom of the monster's biosphere food chain.

Basically any monster can trample it.

You are waste when you are alive and you can't provide any value when you are dead.

This is not only people's view on this type of monster, but also the unanimous opinion of other monsters.

However, when a Screaming Chicken reaches the sixth level, a radical change will occur...

(End of this chapter)