Chapter 30 Swallowing Ability
As Shi Yi and Zhao Wuji went deeper and deeper, they found that the surrounding trees were occasionally hung with spider webs. Apparently, the little ants had not found the wrong place.
Suddenly, a strange sound attracted their attention.
The rustling sound sounded like someone was changing clothes, or like the scraping of leaves. The two of them also became vigilant, and even Xiao Yi showed human uneasiness.
Then, they saw the originator of the sound.
The black spider has a body diameter of more than one and a half meters, and its eight spear-like legs exceed three meters. The whole body is black and the carapace is shiny, and the front ends of the long legs are slender. Every step forward, they pierce the ground silently, showing their sharpness.
It was Shi Yi who looked at such a body shape, which was worthy of breaking through the level of two thousand years. It was the human-faced demon spider that he thought about day and night.
"Teacher Zhao, it's up to you. This thing can launch spider webs ten times larger than itself three times and carries toxins. It's very troublesome. Try to suppress it directly with gravity control." Shi Yi whispered towards Zhao Wuji.
Zhao Wuji nodded slightly, a golden light glowed all over his body, and as the fifth ring lit up, the powerful gravity instantly suppressed the Man-Faced Demon Spider, clinging to the ground.
Feeling the power of Zhao Wuji, the suppressed Man-Faced Demon Spider instantly spit out a huge spider web towards the two of them. However, the accuracy was not very good despite being suppressed, and the two of them were in the jungle and were spitting out the spider web. In an instant, Zhao Wuji grabbed Shi Yi's shoulder and instantly ducked behind a big tree. At this moment, Shi Yi also recalled the little ant into his body.
Looking at the gradually corroded tree, Zhao Wuji was also a little surprised that the corrosive power of the poison of the Man-Faced Demon Spider seemed to be too strong. The extraordinary intelligence of the Man-Faced Demon Spider also surprised Zhao Wuji.
"This beast is quite smart. It wants to use its spider web to push us back, causing the distance between us and it to become longer so that we can try to break free." Zhao Wuji said with some surprise.
Shi Yi nodded in agreement and said in his heart: "It is indeed not much different from what I guessed. Even the soul beast has its own talents. The blood of this human-faced demon spider is extremely powerful."
The Man-Faced Demon Spider is actually not a simple soul beast. Not only does it have the extremely advanced ability to swallow life, but the Ten Thousand Years-level Man-Faced Demon Spider also has special hidden skills, and in the process of cultivation, the Man-Faced Demon Spider An extremely powerful innate ability will also be awakened in the game, Spider God Possession: a very simple comprehensive instantaneous increase, which requires one year of cultivation for each second of maintenance.
These three extraordinary abilities all demonstrate the extraordinary bloodline inherited by the Man-Faced Demon Spider.
"Teacher Zhao, it came from the sky." Shi Yi chuckled and handed out a mushroom sausage towards Zhao Wuji.
Hearing this, Zhao Wuji's eyes lit up. What he, Old Zhao, was not good at was speed. If he acted rashly, he would still be blocked by the spider web. Although he could actually solve it with his martial spirit avatar, he felt that he was overqualified.
Compared with attack skills, he has more control skills. For no reason, in battle, the most important thing for a soul master like him to hit the opponent.
"You kid have been prepared for a long time. You have even thought of this." Zhao Wuji couldn't help but marvel at Shi Yi's handy mind. He knew the shortcomings of his abilities after just seeing him take action a few times.
The Soul Saint can fly, but of course his speed is far inferior to Oscar's mushroom.
As Zhao Wuji quickly rose into the air, the suppressed Man-Faced Demon Spider also discovered this. He raised his head with difficulty and wanted to shoot out the spider web. However, Zhao Wuji raised his hand and tapped lightly in the void. In just a moment, the Man-Faced Demon Spider's golden light transformation was suppressed. is more intense.
"Do you still want to raise your head?" Zhao Wuji said casually, a golden light glowed in his hand, and then Shi Yi saw that golden light falling from the sky, it was Zhao Wuji's second soul skill, the Powerful Vajra Palm.
"I have trained you with the otherworldly version of the Tathagata Palm." Shi Yi smiled and walked slowly towards the direction of the Man-Faced Demon Spider.
"Hiss..." A shrill cry was full of harsh and sharp sounds, which sounded particularly clear.
Accompanied by a loud noise, the Man-Faced Demon Spider, which had received a full blow from the Soul Saint in its non-real form, had only one breath left, and could not move at all in the gravity field released by Zhao Wuji. , even the strength to open his mouth to spit out cobwebs was gone. The carapace on his back was basically shattered by Zhao Wuji. His eight eyes flashed with humanized resentment. Even Zhao Wuji was amazed when he saw it.
"You're a good boy. Apart from your martial soul, I've only seen this kind of intelligence in ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts." Zhao Wuji said to Shi Yi.
Shi Yi smiled and said nothing, just summoned his martial spirit.
"Xiao Yi, eat." Shi Yi whispered towards Xiao Yi.
Seeing the appearance of the ants, it seemed that the hatred in the eyes of the Man-Faced Demon Spider was even greater. Perhaps it never thought that one day it would die at the hands of the ants it randomly hunted.
Along with the emotional changes of the Man-Faced Demon Spider, the Man-Faced Demon Spider also emitted violent fluctuations in soul power.
"Hey, can you still breathe?" Zhao Wuji said in surprise.
Shi Yi understood, however, that this was a power that belonged to the bloodline, and dying in Xiao Yi's hands might be even more humiliating for it than dying in Tang San's hands.
At this time, Xiao Yi also felt the terror coming from the blood of the natural enemy, and immediately did not dare to step forward.
"Little ant, go ahead, believe me, it's okay." Shi Yi comforted him softly, and gently touched the ant's exoskeleton carapace. Humanized mockery also appeared in the eyes of the Man-Faced Demon Spider. .
Under Shi Yi's comfort, the little ant began to eat the human-faced devil spider.
This process is very long, and even the Man-Faced Demon Spider itself can clearly feel it. The roaring and resentful eyes are accompanied by strong soul power fluctuations. Along with the process of eating, the little ants also feel the powerful blood power and eat. The speed continued to increase, and Shi Yi also felt Xiao Yi's desire for this bloodline power.
This bloodline power is now turning into nutrients bit by bit and entering the little ant's body.
As the ants gnawed, Shi Yi was surprised to find that the soul power in his body was growing little by little.
"Is this?" Shi Yi immediately cast his gaze on the little ant. At this time, the little ant also began to gradually undergo some changes. The saber-toothed forelimbs seemed to become sharper, and there was more dark purple in the carapace
Shi Yi suppressed the surprise in his heart. It was obvious that through constant gnawing, the little ants had begun to awaken the ability to devour life. This power was also feeding back to his brother Shi Yi.
"It seems that this time it went well, and we even made new discoveries."
The cultivation method of soul beasts is much simpler and cruder than that of humans. The first is the environment. Just like humans need a mimetic cultivation environment, soul beasts also need a place full of energy from heaven and earth, such as the Lake of Life at the core of the Star Dou Forest. The second is After eating, the bloodline will always be the survival of the fittest.
With the loss of bloodline power, the Human-Faced Demon Spider has long since expired, but the ants' bites did not produce soul rings like those killed by humans like Shi Yi. "It is a rule set by God that the bloodline power that humans cannot directly absorb will be directly transformed into soul rings and soul bones, but the little ants can use the normal eating method of soul beasts to produce changes, and no soul rings are produced." Shi. B thought secretly.
Suddenly, many terrible conjectures appeared in Shi Yi's mind. Why are the spirits of some beast spirit masters the same as those of existing spirit beasts?
Why can soul rings bring significant changes to martial souls? Is this considered a mutual adaptation between different bloodlines?
Or maybe things like beast martial souls originally come from...soul beasts? After a hundred thousand years of soul beasts reshape themselves into humans, wouldn't they be beast soul masters if they give birth to offspring?
"What are you thinking about?" Zhao Wuji's voice brought Shi Yi back to reality.
Shi Yi slowly came back to his senses only to see that the little ants had eaten up all the flesh and blood of the Human-Faced Demon Spider, and his own soul power had actually reached level twenty-nine, and he was only one step away from the Soul Master.
"Nothing, Teacher Zhao, I thought of a more interesting question." Shi Yi shook his head slightly. Those questions that are attributable to the essence are actually of little significance to explore, because Shi Yi understands that at that level, the answers to these questions will come naturally. Appear in front of yourself.
"You guys really can't sit still for a while, you are thinking about all kinds of things all day long." Zhao Wuji said helplessly.
"Sure enough, the soul beast that can explode the soul bone attached to the outside has not only brought huge changes to Xiaoyi, but also brought me a level and a half of cultivation. Such an increase in soul power is worse than absorbing a soul ring. Not much more, and the ability to possess the soul bone should also be reflected in Xiao Yi's body," Shi Yi thought secretly.
"Let's go, Teacher Zhao, let's continue." Shi Yi chuckled.
Zhao Wuji smiled at Shi Yi and said: "How can you thank Lao Zhao? I can feel it. You just had a surge in soul power. You must have broken through again."
Shi Yi smiled and nodded: "Not much, just one and a half levels. Now we are only one step away from level 30. I will give you a treasure in a few days."
Zhao Wuji looked in disbelief: "What kind of treasure can you come up with?"
"I promise you won't be disappointed. Let's go. This time we are going to dig out the nest of the giant ant. Your task is to help me dig out the queen ant, and then help me catch an eighteen-year-old soldier ant. I I want to take advantage of this time to break through to level 30." Shi Yi chuckled at Zhao Wuji.
"Then Lao Zhao will be waiting." Zhao Wuji said expectantly.
"Xiao Yi, let's go." Shi Yi ordered Xiao Yi. Hearing what Shi Yi just said, Xiao Yi's face showed humanistic joy.
Digging out the ants' nests, Shi Yi has wanted to do this for a long time, but he has no legs. A nest of ants is no joke. Although the ants have no offensive skills except for their strength, a nest represents In a group, if there are too many ants, they can kill an elephant. At least Shi Yi doesn't dare to dig out the nest alone. He can easily kill a thousand ants alone, but he can't kill one for a hundred.
Soon, a giant golden bear appeared somewhere in the forest. It kept digging on the ground, with a large number of corpses of Jun ants behind it. After an unknown amount of time, the huge martial spirit avatar finally took out a body from the hole. Huge giant ant.
This Thousand Jun Ant looks quite extraordinary. There is a faint golden thread pattern on the carapace of the exoskeleton. This golden thread pattern represents the royal bloodline no matter what soul beast it is. This is exactly what Shi Yi is looking for. The Great Ant Queen.
In the state of his martial spirit avatar, Zhao Wuji used his huge bear paw to flick the queen ant unconscious, and then Zhao Wuji threw the queen in front of Shi Yi.
Before Shi Yi could say anything, Xiao Yi happily ran up on his own.
It didn't take long for the little ants to eat all the dregs eaten by the queen, and Shi Yi also re-evaluated the devouring ability from the Man-Faced Demon Spider in his heart.
This time Shi Yi only managed to break through the threshold of level 30 by eating Shi Yi, but this Thousand Jun Ant Queen is actually a soul beast with a level of nearly 4,000 years. Obviously, the feedback brought by the ant's devouring ability depends on the power of its bloodline. The size of this Thousand Jun Ant is higher than that of the Man-Faced Demon Spider, but obviously the power contained in its bloodline is too small.
If the Man-Faced Demon Spider is regarded as a genius like Tang San, then this queen ant can at best be regarded as a direct disciple who has awakened the Clear Sky Hammer but has average talent. As for the corpses of the Thousand Jun Ants piled up not far away , Xiao Yi didn’t even look at it.
"Sure enough, if you eat too much of the good ones, you will naturally look down on the ordinary food. No wonder Sanpao won't even eat the thousand-year level Yalong. The bloodline of the Golden Holy Dragon cannot be awakened by just eating some Yalong. Even if you eat it, I guess It’s useless, it’s better to eat carrots and load them with bullets,” Shi Yi thought to himself.
Yu Xiaogang's problem is not to improve his bloodline, but to awaken his bloodline. Generally speaking, his bloodline ability is too high, and the soul master's talent is too poor, which means that his bloodline cannot be awakened.
Tang San's random ninth-grade purple mushroom gave Yu Xiaogang a certain improvement in his talent. The burst of bloodline power naturally broke the original limitations.
After the little ants finished eating, Zhao Wuji helped Shi Yixun touch a Thousand-Jun ant of the right year and start absorbing it. Everything went smoothly according to Shi Yi's plan.
After absorbing the soul ring, Shi Yi also reached the thirty-level level. At this point, Shi Yi also completed the feat of four consecutive jumps in one day under the amazement of Zhao Wuji. Zhao Wuji had never seen Shi Yi practice like this. , the so-called innate soul power seems to have become a joke in front of Shi Yi.
"You kid have been thinking about these things for a long time." Zhao Wuji said to Shi Yi.
Shi Yi nodded and said: "Of course, the significance of a soul master learning theory is to guide his own cultivation, use his own theory to continuously optimize his own cultivation, and make reasonable plans for his own martial soul. This is the meaning of the existence of theory. .”
At this moment, Zhao Wuji also had a deep understanding of Shi Yi. Shi Yi was not like the theoretical masters he had seen before, but a person who dared to explore and take action for it.
"This boy is a born teacher." Zhao Wuji sighed in his heart.
"Let's go, it's almost time, it's time to go back." Shi Yi said towards Zhao Wuji.
"You guys don't want to pay more? There is no shop like this after passing this village." Zhao Wuji said meaningfully to Shi Yi.
"Teacher Zhao, after all, the little ant is still a martial spirit, not a soul beast. The martial soul and the soul master must develop in a balanced way. If I only rely on the little ants to keep devouring me, I can grow very fast in a short period of time, but the road ahead will be more difficult. , but if I practice to the right level every time like now, and then find a suitable target for the little ants to devour, the difficulty for me to break through the bottleneck will be much less than that of ordinary soul masters. This is the correct mutual promotion and cooperation. Come in." Shi Yi smiled at Zhao Wuji.
Zhao Wuji grinned when he heard this and said: "I was worried that you kid would not be able to resist the temptation of increasing your soul power, but I, Old Zhao, have overthought it."
The two smiled at each other and headed towards the town.
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(End of chapter)