Viers had eaten so much that he thought his stomach would burst, and yet he could keep going. Every time he thought he had reached the limit, he could manage a few more mouthful of meat. After the seventh serving of meat or so, Viers no longer wanted to puke after each bite he took, he was surprised to the human body's ability to adapt.

Currently Viers was looking at a blue crystal the size of a heart on his hand.

This must be a monster core… it has no use for the current me, just gonna stow it for now.

Viers's feast lasted for about 15 minutes, he didn't know how much he had eaten.

How much meat did I eat? A third of the bull? A fouth? Don't know, don't care. Time's up.

Viers decided it was time for him to leave, the threat of other people who were much more powerful than him, loomed closely like a shadow of death.

I will take the spear, what else I can do to maximize my gain… the bull’s body should be made of high-value material, I should take some. The most precious part is most likely its tail, with the bull’s death, the tail turned into some blue silk-like material. It was so long, I can’t take it all... I will just take some of it, wait! I got an idea, yes, I should take some more.

The tail was shaped like threads of blue colored silk, he had some difficulty cutting the silk-like tail, and it was very tough. Even with the woman’s spear, Viers needed to spend quite a bit of effort.

But the more durable the tail is better it is for my plan. Next is the eyes, both eyes are intact, score two.

After Viers took out the bull’s eyes carefully with his hands, they turned to bluish-stone, sapphire.

Good, what beautiful sapphire! What else… the hide? The hide is too time-consuming to take. The horn?

Viers used the spear to slashed at the horn, it was undamaged, not even a scratch.

Enough, time to get out of here… If possible, I very much like to destroy the evidence of someone scavenged the hell out of this bull and woman… I can’t move them, can’t bury them, should I burn them? Can ordinary fire even damage the bull?

If I burn it, won’t the people who come next know someone already taken the benefits? But even if I don’t burn it people will also know, so it was all the same… let’s just do it. Oh damn, it's wet… what can I do? All the things around me are wet… Urgh, damn it, is there nothing I can do… tsk, forget it, it seems I can only leave them alone.

After decided to abandon his sabotage effort, he quickly checked if the woman’s corpse had anything valuable left. He found some trinkets but most of it was destroyed, there were two cracked rings, two destroyed vials, a hairpin, and a pair of earrings. Only the earrings seemed intact so Viers had taken it.

Enough, it’s really, really time to get out of here, the sky is clearing up. Time to put my plan in motion.

Viers separated the most valuable of his findings from his backpack. The monster core, the spear, the two sapphire, the earrings, the bottle with three healing pills, and the bull’s silk tail. Excluding the spear, Viers bundled them all with the tail and made a makeshift sack.

“I hoped this would do,” Viers muttered, he'd already finished his preparation. He then washed most of the blood, both blue and red from his body at the nearby puddle of water and ran back towards Luxore town. He ran as fast as he could, he needed to have some distance from this place for his plan to work.

The region of Shrub Hill was a mess, like a typhoon went past, uprooted trees and destroyed terrain made his running difficult. After 10 minutes, the sky was getting bright, his pocket watch was broken so he couldn’t measure the time accurately but he guessed it was about 4 o’clock from the sun’s location.

This place will have to do! I must hurry.

Viers picked a spot near a unique shaped boulder, he took a few seconds to memorize the landscape the dug the wet ground with his broken spear. After making a certain depth, he stopped.

I should have done this first before using it for digging dirt…

Using the spear, Viers arranged his clothes and adjusted his appearances, he made scratches all around his body. At some place he made the wounds more deep to give the impression that the blood on his clothes and the damage on his garments seemed natural.

After he was done, he put the makeshift sack containing his loot from his most current near-death experience along with the spear inside the hole. He closed the hole by using his hands to carry the dirt.

Besides the pills, they are all non-perishable… maybe the pills also have no expiry date, isn’t the wuxia novel often have pills thousands of years old? Let’s just hope the pills’ bottle is good enough.

After he was done, he erased the evidence of tampering on the scene as much as he could. All of this only took 5 minutes.

Last part, please make it in time!

Viers ran again to the town direction, soon he found a suitable place, he used all kinds of broken tree parts and medium-sized boulders to half-buried himself in various rubble. He arranged it as best as he could to make as if he was knocked out and was unconscious the whole time, he even bashed his head with a rock to make a bleeding wound on his head. With all his preparation in place, Viers lay down like a dead man, he steadied his breath and used this silent period to arranged his thoughts.

Bashing my own head with a rock voluntarily? On Earth, most people would call it madness. I hope the Play Dead Plan will work, with the destruction enveloped such a wide area, I refuse to believe that I'm the only person involved involuntarily. The town is also quite close…

Hehe, and now I am in another world. Looking at the soft rain above, whilst pretending to be half-dead, I am a long way from home… I should review the consequences of my actions. The trio is dead, all three of them used rare elements, light, lightning, and cloud or wind elements? They are from a faraway land but Guo Song made it clear pursuers will come here in a few years, investigate, and finds out what really happened to them… what ingenious method could do such a feat?

I suspect it’s related to time element… Mmm, maybe I should not call it element anymore, after all, there are some really unique things in this world. How could I call soul or sound as element? I will still use it if it fits the context of course, still... what word could be a good replacement…? Time magic? Time type? Time method? No, no, let’s call it time path. There! Sounds better already, because it’s all part of the Path of Power, like those Dao in xuanhuan or xianxia novels.

Back to the topic, so in a few years, there will be one or a bunch of powerful bald hitmen with barcode behind their heads aiming for my life… that’s not good, not good at all. Next problem, the bull foreshadowed the coming of turbulent times, age of strife… were there any age of war, age of death, and age of fury before that? Hur hur hur.

Viers let out an amusing laugh, he started to relaxed and unwind his tense nerves.

Of course, the world will be full of trouble because someone arrived as a reincarnator, me in this case, and possibly there are others… or is it because of the flower? The bull said something about gift from higher beings, but the definite meaning eludes me.

Once again of course it is, that is his role. Cryptic old guy with mysterious knowledge and strong abilities who will never tell any lies but his words are only true from a certain point of view.

Ah, I almost forgot, the key of the seal that the bull said is in his possession. I don’t think he carried anything resembling a key so it must be something not purely in a physical sense. Was it his core, his bloodline, his soul fingerprint, or was it something else? Well, I have the core and I also ate his flesh and blood, am I the key now? Strong possibility of that for this kind of story pattern but it is not definite and it’s a problem for the future, I have other pressing problems, I shall put this on the queue.

I can only deal with those problems step by step as I grow stronger. Now for the gains, the loot… which I have no idea what to do with it. I may be able to use the spear as a weapon but what about the other things? If people realize I have them, they will know I was the one who scavenged the bull first. They will take my stuff or kill me, possibly both. I hope it can remain hidden until I can decide what to do with it.

And then there’s the most important question, I ate a higher life form, gain nutritious biomass… or I get bacteria and sickness because I ate meat and drink blood raw? I know it’s unsanitary but let’s just hoped for the best here. I ate high-quality biomass, will my healing factor get stronger? When I wounded myself earlier, it did not seem to be stronger, must I give it time to work? Please let there be some changes after I sleep. The worst case scenario for me is… eating monster meat has no effect on the healing factor.

Finally, I have some of the woman’s blood currently stored in my backpack, if eating monster meat is not working for me then I must do… human testing.

I don't want to be a cannibal, I get the logic, I can eat sentient bull why can’t I eat sentient human? They are both sentient and both mammal, what’s the difference? Well, the difference is mister logic, I don’t want to, simple as that… Unless it’s absolutely, absolutely necessary!

Eating the sentient bull took a serious toll on my sanity meter, and sanity is very important for me to not become a man like the guy wearing clown makeup or the emperor who shoots lightning from his hands with a very disturbing laugh… in a way, I walk the path of the S*th so I must be very, VERY careful of the darker side of things.

The deepest compromise I can make is drinking human blood, vampirism for power lies inside my tolerance level. If my healing factor source is a mutation, blood got a bunch of genes and DNA and RNA and whatever else inside it right? I'm not a biologist or a doctor but blood should sufficiently replace human flesh in this scenario… I think.

Sigh, I will drink the blood later tonight, must not wait too long or it will spoil… or will it not? Whatever the case, it doesn’t change the fact I must drink it, so suck it up Viers, and drink your tomato juice. Whether human blood will have any effect on me will remain to be seen.

Since the bull made such a big deal about the flower, it should be something OP. You must not give up unlocking its true potential. Must stay positive Viers... Ah look, the clouds have finally disappeared completely.