At the same time he fell, Meng Chao turned 180 degrees and activated the spirit meridians in his right arm. He created the spirit energy magnetic field for the upgraded version of Demon Subduing Pole, which Battle God Lei Zongchao had taught him.
As spirit energy gushed out, the vambrace of the totemic armor seemed to have fused perfectly with his right arm. At the same time, it swelled up by several times.
The profound and complicated spirit tattoos that should have appeared on his skin also appeared on the vambrace, which was several times thicker than before. It caused Meng Chao's right arm to turn into a demon subduing pole that could support the heavens and earth.
At the instant the ox warrior's warhammer missed, Meng Chao's demon subduing pole moved up.
But Meng Chao's Demon Subduing Pole went up from the bottom. It grazed the guy's chest and hit his chin.
The ox warrior's chest was covered in normal armor, but the armor exploded as if it had been cut by a two-handed greatsword.
A red mark so deep that bones could be seen instantly appeared on his chest, which was sturdier than metal.
Before the blood could spurt out, his chin was completely shattered with a thunderous crack.
Even his huge body, which weighed half a ton, flew high into the air before it landed heavily on the ruins like a pile of mud.
When Meng Chao walked over to take a look, the armor shards that originally wrapped around the ox warrior's legs had already shattered on their own. They left the unconscious "master" who had completely lost his fighting strength.
The ice storm told Meng Chao that it would be best if he did not strengthen and upgrade the totemic armor on the battlefield.
After all, fusing with the totemic armor involved a lot of risk and time. If he was the slightest bit careless, the ancestral spirit would turn on him, and he would easily be beaten up.
It was just like how a python would become lazy and stupid after eating a large prey. It would have to find a place to hide and slowly digest the prey.
However, if it only ate small fish, prawns, frogs, or other prey, it would not matter.
There were good and bad totemic armors too.
The clan warriors who were fighting next to the slums were just second-rate and third-rate "battalion-level experts".
Based on Dragon City's standards, they were just Earth Realm superhumans who had not even become three-star superhumans.
None of them were powerful enough to gather a complete totemic armor.
It was easy to imagine just what sort of armor shards they had on them were.
Meng Chao might have just recovered the fighting strength of someone at the peak of Earth Realm.
After all, he had the fighting will of someone at the peak of Heaven Realm.
He had also been tempered by the Doomsday Flames, and his mental fortitude was comparable to that of a Godly State Expert.
Moreover, he had already seen through the tricks of the Totem Armor's operating system.
It was naturally not a problem for him to fuse with the lowest grade of armor fragments.
Thus, a brand new armor fragment covered his legs evenly.
His legs, which were as powerful as rocket propellers, seemed even thicker and more robust, filled with explosive power.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Heavy footsteps could be heard behind him.
There was also an unusually sharp whistling sound.
It was a giant wild boar warrior with a partial bloodline of the Barbarian Elephant Clan and was more than four meters tall.
He brandished a meteor hammer with a diameter of nearly half a meter and was covered with spikes.
He did not see Meng Chao defeat the Ox-head Warrior.
Then, she saw the highly abstract bull's head on Meng Chao's chest.
Of course, apart from the two large horns that rose into the sky, the current bull head pattern could not be seen to have a close relationship with the Tauren.
The problem was that this pattern seemed to be even more distant from the wild boar people.
After all, only bulls had horns, and the wild boar people were famous for their mighty and domineering fangs.
Hence, the huge wild boar warrior immediately treated Meng Chao as an enemy. The meteor hammer tore through the dust and stirred up a destructive storm that came crashing down on Meng Chao's head.
The cuneiform words in Meng Chao's field of vision instantly exploded like a shattered kaleidoscope.
Meng Chao quickly calculated the ever-changing speed, angle, accuracy, and strength of the attack against the meteor hammer that came charging at him.
Of course, even without the help of the totem armor, Meng Chao still had more than ten ways to avoid the meteor hammer that was as slow as a snail to him.
But he still chose not to dodge. He crossed his arms and received the attack head on.
'Next, I'll test the defense of the totem armor!'
Boom!
The powerful and heavy meteor hammer crashed into the spot where Meng Chao's arms crossed.
Meng Chao felt as if a rocket launcher had been fired at his face from a close distance.
His arms instantly felt stabbing pain.
His fingers were a little numb, and he could barely hold anything.
His shoulder blades were also burning, as if someone had stuck more than ten burning steel needles into his bones.
In order to maintain a motionless posture, his spine was under great pressure, and it made "Ka Ka Ka Ka" explosive sounds.
However, after a few seconds, the pain and discomfort subsided.
He exercised his fingers. His muscle fibers, blood vessels, tendons, and neural networks were all unobstructed. They were not affected by the heavy attack.
But the price was a large number of red cuneiform words jumping in front of his eyes. They flashed as a warning.
The vambrace of the life-like totem armor in his field of vision had turned dark red, which represented danger. Many of the numbers had arrows pointing downward.
A series of flashes appeared behind them. Each time they flashed, the numbers would shrink a little.
It was as if they were counting down.
Meng Chao thought about it for a while. This was probably a reminder that after the vambrace was heavily damaged, it was damaged, and its performance was temporarily reduced. It needed some time to repair itself.
Of course, based on the principle of conservation of mass and energy, repairing the totem armor required a lot of spirit energy.
Meng Chao felt that most of the high-calorie candies he had just eaten had been used up in an instant.
He now had an idea.
"The Wild Boar Warrior's Morningstar Hammer attack is roughly the same as Dragon City's mass-produced rocket launchers. It can hit its target from a distance of around fifty meters.
'The low-grade totem armor that normal warriors are equipped with should be able to withstand one to two rocket launchers.
'But they need a certain amount of time to repair themselves, and they also need a lot of spirit energy.
'This means that the totem armor isn't immune to rocket launchers and other individual heavy weapons.
'A low-grade warrior won't be able to enter Dragon City's steel army as if there's no one there once he puts on the totem armor.
'By the same logic, even if they don't have rocket launchers, as long as they have enough heavy machine guns, hand grenades, and semi-automatic rifles to form a dense barrage, they can still whittle down a high-grade orc with totem armor.'
This was very important.
It was not just related to how Earthlings and high-grade orcs could form an effective balance.
It was also related to whether Dragon City could use rocket launchers, hand grenades, grenade launchers, and semi-automatic rifles to open up the blue ocean market in Turanze.
Individual firearms would not be able to break the totem armor's defense.
Then, how could they sell it?
By the looks of it, there were a lot of secrets in the totem armor that Earth's technology could not decipher for the time being.
At the very least, it was not a divine weapon that was invulnerable and had endless ammo and energy.
While Meng Chao thought about it, the boar warrior put away his morningstar and swung it at his chest again.
Meng Chao gritted his teeth. This time, he loosened his arms and used his breastplate to receive the attack.
Bang!
The morningstar crashed violently against the breastplate, and a dazzling fireball flew out. The breastplate, along with the picture of a bull's head, caved in. Meng Chao's sternum let out cracking sounds, and he started showing signs of cracking. His heart also felt as if it had been squeezed by an invisible hand. He was in so much pain that he saw stars, and he practically could not breathe.
However, such a test was necessary.
At the very least, Meng Chao now knew how much damage the most normal totem armor could withstand.
Also, while the Totem Armor was absorbing spiritual energy from his body crazily to repair his breastplate, it was also injecting a cluster of amazing strength into his brain through his spinal cord and central nerves.
Meng Chao instantly felt as if a clear spring had appeared in his head.
The spring water turned into a sweet and refreshing stream that surged into his organs and limbs. It was especially so for his arms and chest, which had been struck repeatedly.
The wounds that had been hurting him to the bone just now felt a strange … pleasure as the "stream" entered his body.
'This is … dopamine, norepinephrine, endorphin, and oxytocin?'
Meng Chao split 10% of his attention to handle the boar warrior's frenzied attacks.
The other 90% of his attention was focused on analyzing the subtle changes in his body, mainly in his cerebral cortex and nervous system.
He noticed that under the stimulation of the totem armor, his body was secreting all sorts of happy hormones.
Regardless of whether it was dopamine, norepinephrine, endorphins, or the hormone oxytocin, which was secreted by both men and women, could maintain the normal physiological activities of the human body, allowing people to maintain a sense of comfort, pleasure, and happiness.
Hence, they were collectively known as happy hormones.
When secreted normally, happy hormones could help a person fight against the effects of pain and maintain a positive mental state. They were important hormones that the human body could not lack.
But if they secreted too much, they might destroy the normal stimulation and restraining mechanism of happy hormones in the human body. The threshold for happy stimulation would be continuously increased, and a person would sink into a long period of depression, depression, and pain.
This was the so-called withdrawal reaction, or in other words, "addiction."
When superhumans cultivated, due to spirit energy stimulating their central nervous system and endocrine system, they usually secreted more than ten times the happy hormones of a normal person. They would experience a pleasure that was one hundred times more intense than all the pleasures in the mortal world.
Before Earthlings built their spirit energy cultivation theories, many superhumans did not know how to control the excessive secretion of happy hormones.
They were immersed in the pleasure brought by cultivation and could not free themselves from it. Hence, the more they cultivated, the crazier they became. Gradually, they went through spirit energy deviation and lost all their humanity. From superhumans, they turned into lost people.
In the past, Blood Alliance committed all sorts of insane crimes. Aside from the expansion of their ambitions, the lack of order, and the ancient summoning, the reason why they lost control of their dopamine and endorphins was also an important reason.
Fortunately, as Battle God Lei Zongchao and the other pioneers continued exploring, humans finally realized the problem of addiction in cultivation. They developed all sorts of physical and psychological therapies, including mind techniques that could suppress the excessive secretion of happy hormones so that they could control their desire for endless pleasure.
But Meng Chao noticed that the totem armor, which was equipped with advanced technology, did not show any signs of suppressing the large secretion of happy hormones.
On the contrary, it was stimulating his body, releasing an endless stream of 'happiness' that surpassed his limits without restraint!
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