The rapid consumption of energy left Shi Feng's stamina in a constant state of decline. He had no time to dwell on what was happening. Striding directly to the refrigerated storage unit, he pulled out a Life Potion without a word and chugged it down in a single gulp.
As the Life Potion washed down his throat, a warm current spread outward from his stomach, and his mind regained some measure of clarity. Once the warmth had flowed through every part of his body, his cells devoured the energy like ravenous wolves — the life energy that should have taken three to five days to fully digest was consumed at a astonishing pace.
After a full ten-plus minutes, Shi Feng finally felt alive again, though the Life Potion's energy had been completely spent.
If any other peak Dark Force experts had witnessed this scene, they would have been struck speechless.
The energy contained in a Life Potion was terrifyingly vast. Even peak Dark Force experts whose bodies had been pushed to their absolute limits would need at least three full days to absorb it all, and only through relentless, grueling exercise in the process. Yet Shi Feng had absorbed every last drop in just over ten minutes — and he even felt a vague sense that it wasn't quite enough.
"The Life Potion really is something special," Shi Feng muttered to himself, looking at the now-empty vial with a twinge of heartache. "Otherwise, I'd have needed three or five bottles of S-rank nutrient potions just to recover."
Even though he had been as frugal as possible, his consumption of the Life Potion had exceeded his projections. He was down to his last bottle now. If he used it up, the rate at which his body and brain improved would almost certainly plummet.
The fact that he had been able to break through the one-hundred-percent skill restriction so quickly — the Life Potion deserved no small share of the credit.
Now that he had recovered, Shi Feng took in his surroundings and suddenly felt a completely different sensation wash over him, as though everything was fresh and new, as if he had stepped into an entirely different world.
"What's going on?" Shi Feng marveled inwardly at the transformation.
It wasn't just the world around him that felt different — every cell in his body seemed to have grown stronger by a whole tier. A casual punch carried the force of several hundred kilograms. And the changes weren't limited to raw physical power; his reaction speed had improved dramatically as well.
These shifts had elevated his control over his own body by an enormous margin.
Physical strength control and reaction speed had long been problems that plagued Shi Feng. He had never expected that breaking through would address them so decisively — and the improvement was immense.
In the Divine Realm, the body could become extraordinarily powerful, and reaction speed could push the brain to its absolute limits, far surpassing anything achievable in the real world. That was why players could pull off feats in the Divine Realm that were simply impossible in reality. With his physical attributes and reaction speed having undergone such a dramatic leap, there was no question that he could now unleash far greater power.
Moreover, Shi Feng could sense that his current physical condition was not yet at its ceiling. After the brain had broken through some kind of threshold, the hormones and secretions it produced had increased sharply, continuously and subtly altering and enhancing his physique.
"Could the training in the Four Gods' Tower have pushed me through to the Grandmaster realm?" As Shi Feng surveyed his current condition, the more he considered it, the more likely it seemed.
Nothing else could explain what was happening before him.
His current superhuman physique and reaction speed had already left the peak Dark Force experts far behind. If Wang Zong Quan were to appear in front of him right now, he wouldn't need any technique at all — a single punch to the face would be more than enough.
At the thought of this, Shi Feng felt an urgent desire to head straight to the training room and put his current physical state to the test.
After all, breaking through the one-hundred-percent skill restriction by passing the Four Gods' Tower trial had yielded these kinds of results. There was so much worth investigating. If breaking the one-hundred-percent restriction could provide such a benefit, then with the two teleportation stones still in his possession — four spots total — he could absolutely send some of the guild's most promising experts to give it a try.
Currently, the Tiandou Training Center had Master Lei Bao overseeing operations, and the strength of Huo Wu and the others was nothing to scoff at. But Lu Xingluo was no pushover either. Wang Zong Quan's earlier appearance had been nothing more than a probe on Lu Xingluo's part. In a shadow conflict, the tactics and schemes involved were nearly impossible to guard against. Master Lei Bao, with his extensive experience, could manage well enough, but someone like Huo Wu was a different story altogether.