Although he was currently dominating the Mottled Toads, Yang Yu remained cautious.
The Mottled Toads had a speed of 6 points, while Yang Yu's speed was only 5 points, making them 1 meter per second faster than him.
Yet, after 10 seconds, Yang Yu noticed that there was still nearly a 10-meter gap between him and the Mottled Toads!
In those 10 seconds, the Mottled Toads had only closed the distance by 5 meters!
Yang Yu was momentarily stunned.
He quickly realized the reason behind this.
His Bloodfiend Poison Body not only inflicted continuous bleeding but also caused debuffs like weakness, dizziness, and slowness!
Although the Mottled Toads didn't show much change on the surface, their speed had actually dropped from 6 points to around 5.5.
They were only slightly faster than Yang Yu.
However, the Mottled Toads had a Long Tongue Strike, and Yang Yu wasn't sure how far their tongues could reach.
To be safe.
Yang Yu stopped applying poison to the other four Mottled Toads and focused his attacks on the first one.
He used the bushes in the terrain to slightly hinder the Mottled Toads' pursuit.
He decided to take down one or two Mottled Toads first!
As long as the number of Mottled Toads didn't exceed three, Yang Yu was confident he could kill them without taking damage!
"-14"
"-1......"
With an average of one shot every two seconds, he could reduce the Mottled Toads' health by 15 points.
And with the first round of shooting plus poison damage, Yang Yu had already taken 24 health points from the first Mottled Toad.
After just five more shots, it collapsed!
[Ding!]
[Congratulations on successfully slaying a level 1 Mottled Toad, gaining 5 experience points, currently (5/100)!]
[Ding!]
[Your Bloodfiend Poison Body has grown, increasing poison true damage to 2 points/second.]
[Ding!]
[Your body has undergone Blood Poison Tempering, increasing Constitution by 0.1, currently 5.1! (Less than 1 point does not increase physical defense.)]
The poison true damage increased to 2 points/second!
This meant that Yang Yu's single attack on a Mottled Toad could now deal up to 34 points of total damage!
His health also increased by 1 point due to the growth in Constitution, reaching 51 points.
Though it seemed minor, every little bit counts.
Soon, Yang Yu would overcome the weakness of his initial attributes!
Suppressing his joy, Yang Yu repeated his strategy, immediately targeting the second Mottled Toad.
"-14"
"-1..."
Hmm?
"Why is the poison damage still 1 point/second?"
Yang Yu was momentarily puzzled, but quickly understood the key.
Although his Bloodfiend Poison Body had grown, the urine in the Void Quiver was excreted earlier.
The growth of internal poison naturally couldn't affect the poison outside his body.
Understanding this, Yang Yu didn't hesitate further and continued shooting at the second Mottled Toad!
Another ten seconds passed, and the second Mottled Toad died!
[Ding!]
[Congratulations on successfully slaying a level 1 Mottled Toad, gaining 5 experience points, currently level 1 (10/100)!]
[Ding!]
[Your Bloodfiend Poison Body has grown, increasing poison true damage to 3 points/second.]
[Ding!]
[Your body has undergone Blood Poison Tempering, increasing Constitution by 0.1, currently 5.2!]
Health rose to 52 points!
Most importantly, the poison damage increased again!
With only three Mottled Toads left, Yang Yu switched back to his initial shooting mode, alternating shots between the three Mottled Toads.
"-14"
"-1......"
Six seconds later, Yang Yu had poisoned all three Mottled Toads again.
But by this time, the nearest Mottled Toad was only three meters away from Yang Yu!
The Mottled Toad seized the opportunity, suddenly extending its long tongue towards Yang Yu!
Yang Yu saw it clearly.
While dodging to the side with agility.
He raised his bow and shot at the long tongue in the air!
"-28"
"-1..."
A critical hit on a weak point, doubling the damage!
With one arrow, he sent the Mottled Toad's long tongue flying back!
Yang Yu had previously speculated that, given the realism of the Heavenly Dao game, attacking a monster's weak point could likely result in a critical hit.
Yang Yu wasn't sure where the Mottled Toad's weak point was.
He had instinctively tried to deflect the toad's attack.
Unexpectedly.
The long tongue was not only the Mottled Toad's weapon but also its weak point!
With one strike, he took 28 health points from the third Mottled Toad, and with the previous two rounds of damage, this Mottled Toad's health was already below 30 points!
Yang Yu seized the moment and shot another arrow at the Mottled Toad's long tongue!
The third Mottled Toad fell dead!
Yang Yu repeated the process, deliberately allowing another Mottled Toad to close the distance and launch a Long Tongue Strike.
"-28"
"-1..."
Leaving one Mottled Toad, Yang Yu deliberately refrained from attacking.
He wanted to test the feeling of being attacked by a Mottled Toad and see if he could truly be immune to its poison damage.
But now wasn't the time; he needed to wait until the other toad was down before conducting the experiment.
Soon, the fourth Mottled Toad fell!
[Ding!]
[Congratulations on successfully slaying a level 1 Mottled Toad, gaining 5 experience points, currently level 1 (20/100)!]
[Ding!]
[Your Bloodfiend Poison Body has grown, increasing poison true damage to 5 points/second.]
[Ding!]
[Your body has undergone Blood Poison Tempering, increasing Constitution by 0.1, currently 5.4!]
With only one Mottled Toad left, Yang Yu felt relaxed.
He deliberately slowed his pace, casually shooting an arrow at the Mottled Toad's back to renew the poison effect.
The Mottled Toad seized the opportunity and launched a Long Tongue Strike at Yang Yu's calf!
"-5"
[Poison Immunity...]
Yang Yu's calf was hit, leaving a small dent, and a smear of blood was licked by the Mottled Toad and retracted back into its body.
Yang Yu should have suffered 4 points/second of poison damage for 10 seconds, but it was indeed negated by the Bloodfiend Poison Body!
He even faintly felt that the poison carried by the Mottled Toad's tongue was absorbed by his body, though the amount was too small to have a noticeable enhancement effect.
But in the next second.
Yang Yu was shocked by the damage numbers appearing above the Mottled Toad's head!
"-5"
"-5..."
The original 1 point/second poison damage suddenly became 5 points/second!
Not only that.
The Mottled Toad's speed decreased once more!
It was now even slower than Yang Yu, unable to catch up with him!
"What is going on?"
Yang Yu retreated while avoiding the Mottled Toad's desperate attacks, recalling the previous scene.
"Could it be..."
Suddenly thinking of something, Yang Yu looked at the not fully healed wound on his calf.
"Could it be because the Mottled Toad's long tongue was tainted with my blood?"
Thinking of this hypothesis, Yang Yu involuntarily swallowed.
Because the Mottled Toad's attack was tainted with his blood, the new poison overrode the old one, causing the Mottled Toad's poison damage to increase from 1 point/second to 5 points/second.
The slowing, weakening, and other negative effects also became more pronounced.
Thinking of this, Yang Yu was thrilled!
Because he suddenly realized that even if he stood still, others might not be able to kill him!
He was poison; whoever touched him would die!
Especially monsters using physical attacks, even more so!
Players' armor and swords might block the penetration of Poison Blood, perhaps with little effect.
But most monsters used physical attacks, some even directly with their mouths!
"I'm truly overpowered..."
Coming back to his senses.
Yang Yu looked at the weak and helpless Mottled Toad, casually shooting an arrow to take its last bit of health!
[Ding!]
[Congratulations on successfully slaying a level 1 Mottled Toad, gaining 5 experience points, currently level 1 (25/100)!]
[Ding!]
[Your Bloodfiend Poison Body has grown, increasing poison true damage to 6 points/second.]
[Ding!]
[Your body has undergone Blood Poison Tempering, increasing Constitution by 0.1, currently 5.5!]
"Whew!"
The battle seemed long, but it actually took Yang Yu only about a minute.
Killing five Mottled Toads in a minute, if other players knew about this output efficiency, they would be astounded.
Taking a deep breath.
Yang Yu walked towards the nearest Mottled Toad's corpse.
His Bloodfiend Poison Body could absorb other creatures' toxins to grow, but Yang Yu wasn't sure how to absorb them.
Yang Yu tentatively extended his right hand, covering the colorful back of the Mottled Toad.
A suction force came from within!
[Ding!]
[You successfully absorbed all the toxins from a level 1 Mottled Toad, Bloodfiend Poison Body has grown, increasing poison attack to 7 points/second!]
[Ding!]
[Your body has undergone Blood Poison Tempering, increasing Constitution by 0.1, currently 5.6!]
"It really works!"
Yang Yu looked at the Mottled Toad, its colorful skin faded, and its body became like a dried corpse.
It seemed that even its vitality had been absorbed by Yang Yu.
Checking his character panel, Yang Yu found that his body's Satiety had also increased by 2 points.
In the Heavenly Dao world, players must replenish food and water when Satiety falls below 10 points, or they will experience negative states like weakness, dizziness, and fatigue, unable to act normally.
Since absorbing biological toxins could also absorb the opponent's life force to replenish Satiety, it saved Yang Yu from food anxiety.
Suppressing his excitement.
Yang Yu continued to approach the remaining Mottled Toad corpses.
[Ding!]
[You successfully absorbed all the toxins from a level 1 Mottled Toad, Bloodfiend Poison Body has grown, increasing poison attack to 8 points/second!]
[Ding!]
[Your body has undergone Blood Poison Tempering, increasing Constitution by 0.1, currently 5.7!]
[Ding!]
[You successfully absorbed the toxins from a level 1 Mottled Toad...]
All five Mottled Toad corpses were absorbed.
The drop rate in the Heavenly Dao game was very low, and since the Mottled Toads were level 1 monsters, they didn't drop anything for Yang Yu.
But for Yang Yu, the harvest was substantial!
Although Yang Yu hadn't leveled up, his Constitution had increased by 1 point, finally raising his health to 60 points, barely catching up with most players' health.
Physical defense also increased from 7 points to 8 points.
Of course.
The biggest gain was the poison damage, which increased from 1 point/second to 11 points/second!
A single round of poison damage could take away 110 health points!
And the Mottled Toads had only 100 health points in total.
This meant Yang Yu only needed one arrow to kill a Mottled Toad!
Looking at the puddle not far away, Yang Yu pondered.
The urine in the Void Quiver was now somewhat redundant for Yang Yu.
But Yang Yu didn't want to waste this precious urine, as he had promised the Void Quiver that this would be the only time he used it to hold urine, and next time he must use blood.
Even though the Void Quiver couldn't resist, Yang Yu didn't want to go back on his word.
Looking at the urine in the quiver, Yang Yu decided to conduct an experiment!
Since arrows coated with urine had a poison effect.
What if he let the frogs drink or soak in it directly, would the effect be even more potent?