Chapter 30 Devouring Ability
As Shi Yi and Zhao Wuji went deeper, they found that spider webs were occasionally hung on the trees around them. It was obvious that Xiao Yi had not found the wrong place.
Suddenly, a strange sound attracted their attention.
The rustling sound was like someone changing clothes, or the rubbing of leaves. The two of them became alert, and even Xiao Yi showed human anxiety.
Then, they saw the originator of the sound.
The black spider, the main body diameter is more than 1.5 meters, and the eight spear-like legs are more than 3 meters long. The whole body is black and shiny, and the front end of the long legs is slender. Every step forward silently pierces the ground, showing how sharp it is.
It was Shi Yi who looked at this size, barely breaking through the level of two thousand years, and it was the human-faced demon spider he had been thinking about day and night.
"Teacher Zhao, it's up to you. This thing can launch three spider webs that are ten times larger than its own size and carry toxins. It is very troublesome. Try to suppress it directly with gravity control." Shi Yi whispered to Zhao Wuji.
Zhao Wuji nodded slightly, and a golden light shone all over his body. With the fifth ring lighting up, the powerful gravity instantly suppressed the human-faced demon spider, and it stuck to the ground tightly.
Feeling Zhao Wuji's power, the suppressed human-faced demon spider instantly spit out a huge spider web towards the two of them. However, under the situation of being suppressed, the aim was not very good, and the two were in the jungle. At the moment of spitting out the spider web, Zhao Wuji grabbed Shi Yi's shoulder and instantly dodged behind a big tree. At this moment, Shi Yi also recalled the little ant back into his body.
Looking at the gradually corroded tree, Zhao Wuji was also a little surprised that the corrosive power of the toxin of this human-faced demon spider seemed to be a little too strong. The extraordinary intelligence of this human-faced demon spider also surprised Zhao Wuji.
"This beast is quite smart. It wants to use the spider web to force us back, causing the distance between us and it to increase so that it can try to break free." Zhao Wuji said with some surprise.
Shi Yi nodded in agreement, thinking to himself, "It is indeed not much different from what I guessed. Even soul beasts have their own talents. The blood of this human-faced demon spider is extremely powerful."
The human-faced demon spider is actually not a simple soul beast. Not only does it have the extremely advanced ability of devouring life, but the ten thousand year level human-faced demon spider also has a special skill of hiding. In the process of cultivation, the human-faced demon spider will also awaken an extremely powerful innate ability, the spider god possession: an extremely simple comprehensive instant increase, which consumes one year of cultivation for every second.
These three not-so-simple abilities all demonstrate the extraordinary blood inherited by the human-faced demon spider.
"Teacher Zhao, you came from the sky." Shi Yi chuckled and handed Zhao Wuji a mushroom sausage.
Zhao Wuji's eyes lit up when he heard this. The thing he was least good at was speed. If he acted rashly, he would definitely be blocked by the spider web. Although he could actually solve it with his martial soul body, he felt that it was a bit of a waste of talent.
Compared with attack skills, he has more control skills. The reason is that in battle, it is most important for a soul master like him to hit the opponent.
"You are well prepared. You even thought of this." Zhao Wuji couldn't help but marvel at Shi Yi's good brain. Just by watching him attack a few times, he knew the shortcomings of his ability.
As a soul saint, he can fly, but his speed is certainly far less than Oscar's mushroom.
As Zhao Wuji ascended into the air at a high speed, the suppressed human-faced demon spider also discovered this. It raised its head with difficulty and wanted to shoot out the spider web. Zhao Wuji raised his hand and lightly tapped in the void. In just a moment, the golden light that suppressed the human-faced demon spider became stronger.
"You still want to raise your head?" Zhao Wuji said casually, and a golden light appeared in his hand. Then Shi Yi saw that the golden light fell from the sky. It was Zhao Wuji's second soul skill, the powerful diamond palm.
"I have trained you a different version of the Tathagata Palm." Shi Yi smiled and slowly walked towards the direction of the human-faced demon spider.
"Hiss..." A shrill cry filled with piercing sharpness sounded particularly clear.
With a loud bang, the Human-Faced Demon Spider, which had been hit hard by the Soul Saint in its non-real body state, was now only breathing its last breath. In the gravity field released by Zhao Wuji, it could not move at all, and even had no strength to spit out spider webs. The carapace on its back was basically shattered by Zhao Wuji. Its eight eyes flashed with human-like resentment, and even Zhao Wuji was amazed.
"You are really good at picking. Apart from your martial soul, I have only seen such intelligence in ten thousand year-level soul beasts." Zhao Wuji said to Shi Yi.
Shi Yi smiled and said nothing, but summoned his martial soul.
"Little ant, eat it." Shi Yi whispered to the little ant.
Seeing the little ant appear, it seemed that the resentment in the eyes of the Human-Faced Demon Spider was even stronger. Perhaps it never thought that one day it would die in the hands of the Qianjun Ant that it caught and killed at will.
As the mood of the Human-Faced Demon Spider changed, the Human-Faced Demon Spider also emitted a violent fluctuation of soul power.
"Oh, you can still breathe?" Zhao Wuji was a little surprised.
Shi Yi understood that this was the power of the bloodline. To die in Xiao Yi's hands might be more humiliating than to die in Tang San's hands.
Xiao Yi also felt the terror from the bloodline of its natural enemy at this time, and dared not to step forward.
"Xiao Yi, go ahead, believe me, it's okay." Shi Yi comforted Xiao Yi softly, and gently touched Xiao Yi's exoskeleton shell. Humanized ridicule appeared in the eyes of the human-faced demon spider at this time.
Under Shi Yi's comfort, Xiao Yi began to eat the human-faced demon spider.
This process was very long, and even the human-faced demon spider itself could clearly feel it. The roar and resentful eyes were accompanied by strong soul power fluctuations. As the process of eating, Xiao Yi also felt this strong bloodline power, and the speed of eating continued to increase, and Shi Yi also felt Xiao Yi's desire for this bloodline power.
This bloodline power was now turning into nutrients and entering Xiao Yi's body bit by bit.
As the little ant was gnawing, Shi Yi was surprised to find that the soul power in his body was growing little by little.
"What is this?" Shi Yi immediately set his eyes on the little ant. At this time, the little ant also began to gradually show some changes. The saber-toothed forelimbs seemed to become sharper, and there were more dark purple in the shell. Shi
Yi suppressed his surprise. Obviously, in the constant gnawing, the little ant had begun to awaken the ability to devour life. This power was also feeding back to Shi Yi, his brother.
"It seems that this time it went smoothly, and there were even 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 to mimic the 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 Great Forest. The second is eating. The bloodline is always the survival of the fittest.
With the loss of bloodline power, the human-faced demon spider had already died, but the little ant's gnawing did not explode the soul ring like Shi Yi and other humans killed it.
"The rules set by the gods, the blood power that humans cannot directly absorb will be directly transformed into spirit rings and spirit bones, but Xiao Yi can change it by using the same eating method as spirit beasts, and no spirit rings are produced." Shi Yi thought to himself.
Suddenly, many terrible conjectures appeared in Shi Yi's mind. Why are the martial spirits of some beast soul masters the same as existing spirit beasts?
Why can spirit rings bring significant changes to martial spirits? Is this considered mutual adaptation between different bloodlines?
Or is it that beast martial spirits originally come from...soul beasts? A hundred thousand year soul beasts are reborn as humans, and their offspring are not beast soul masters?
"What are you thinking about?" Zhao Wuji's voice brought Shi Yi back to reality.
Shi Yi slowly came back to his senses and saw that Xiao Yi had eaten up the flesh and blood of the human-faced demon spider, and his own soul power had actually reached the 29th level, and he was only one step away from the soul master.
"Nothing, Mr. Zhao, I just thought of an interesting question." Shi Yi shook his head slightly. Those questions that were essentially fundamental were actually not very meaningful to explore, because Shi Yi understood that at that level, the answers to these questions would naturally appear in front of him.
"You guys really can't stay idle for a moment, and your mind is always thinking about all sorts of things." Zhao Wuji said helplessly.
"Sure enough, the soul beast that can explode the external soul bone has not only brought great changes to Xiao Yi, but also brought me a level and a half of cultivation. This soul power increase is not much different from absorbing soul rings, and the ability of the external soul bone should also be reflected in Xiao Yi." Shi Yi said secretly in his heart.
"Let's go, Mr. Zhao, let's continue." Shi Yi chuckled.
Zhao Wuji smiled at Shi Yi and said, "How are you going to thank me, old Zhao? I felt that your soul power had increased just now. You have made a breakthrough again, right?"
Shi Yi smiled and nodded, "Not much, only one and a half levels. Now you are only one step away from level 30. I will give you a treasure in a few days."
Zhao Wuji said with disbelief, "What 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 Qianjun ants. Your task is to help me dig out the queen ant and help me catch a 1,800-year-old soldier ant. I want to take this opportunity to directly break through to level 30." Shi Yi smiled at Zhao Wuji.
"Then old Zhao will be waiting." Zhao Wuji said with some anticipation.
"Little ant, let's go." Shi Yi instructed the little ant. Hearing what Shi Yi just said, the little ant's face showed human joy.
Shi Yi had wanted to dig out the nest of the Thousand Jun Ants for a long time, but he didn't have a big thigh. A Thousand Jun Ant nest is no joke. Although the Thousand Jun Ants have no attacking soul skills except for their great strength, a nest represents a tribe. More ants can kill an elephant. At least Shi Yi didn't dare to dig out the nest alone. He could kill the Thousand Jun Ants easily, but he couldn't fight a hundred alone.
Soon, a golden giant bear appeared somewhere in the forest, constantly digging on the ground, with a large number of Thousand Jun Ant corpses behind it. After an unknown period of time, the huge martial spirit finally took out a huge Thousand Jun Ant from the cave.
This Thousand Jun Ant looked quite extraordinary. There was a faint golden line pattern on the carapace of the exoskeleton. This golden line pattern represented the royal bloodline no matter what soul beast it was on. This was the Thousand Jun Ant Queen that Shi Yi was looking for.
Zhao Wuji, in the state of his spirit body, flicked the Thousand-pound Queen Ant with his huge bear paw, and then threw the Queen Ant in front of Shi Yi.
Without waiting for Shi Yi to speak, Xiao Yi ran up happily.
It didn't take long for Xiao Yi to eat the Queen Ant until there was nothing left. Shi Yi also re-evaluated the devouring ability of the Human-faced Demon Spider in his heart.
This time, Shi Yi barely broke through the threshold of level 30, but this Thousand-pound Queen Ant was a nearly 4,000-year-old soul beast. Obviously, the feedback from Xiao Yi's devouring ability depended on the size of its bloodline power. Although this Thousand-pound Ant had a higher cultivation level than the Human-faced Demon Spider, it was obvious that the power contained in its bloodline was too small.
If the Human-faced Demon Spider was regarded as a genius like Tang San, then this Queen Ant was at most a direct disciple who had awakened the Clear Sky Hammer but had average talent. As for the pile of Thousand-pound Ant corpses not far away, Xiao Yi didn't even look at them.
"As expected, if you eat too much good food, you will naturally look down on simple food. No wonder San Pao doesn't even eat a thousand-year-old dragon. The blood of the golden holy dragon can't be awakened by eating some dragons. Even if you eat it, it's probably useless. It's better to eat carrots and bullets." Shi Yi thought secretly in his heart.
Yu Xiaogang's problem is not to improve his blood, but to awaken his blood. Generally speaking, the blood ability is too high, and the soul master's talent is too poor, which leads to the inability to awaken the blood.
Tang San's random ninth-grade purple mushroom has improved Yu Xiaogang's personal talent to a certain extent. The burst of blood power naturally broke the original limit.
After the little ant finished eating, Zhao Wuji helped Shi Yi find a Qianjun ant of the right age to start absorbing. Everything went very smoothly under Shi Yi's plan.
After absorbing the soul ring, Shi Yi also reached the thirty-first level. At this point, Shi Yi also completed the feat of four levels in one day under Zhao Wuji's amazement. Zhao Wuji has 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 have been thinking about these things for a long time, right?" Zhao Wuji said to Shi Yi.
Shi Yi nodded and said, "Of course, the significance of soul masters learning theory is to guide their own practice, use their own theory to continuously optimize their own practice, and make reasonable plans for their own martial souls. This is the significance of the existence of theory."
At this moment, Zhao Wuji also had a deep understanding of Shi Yi. Shi Yi was not like those theoretical masters he had seen before, but a person who dared to explore and take action for it.
"This kid is a natural teacher." Zhao Wuji sighed in his heart.
"Let's go, it's almost time to go back." Shi Yi said to Zhao Wuji.
"Why don't you pay a few more? If you miss this opportunity, you will miss it." Zhao Wuji said to Shi Yi meaningfully.
"Teacher Zhao, Xiaoyi is still a martial spirit, not a soul beast. Martial spirits and soul masters need to develop in a balanced way. If I only rely on Xiaoyi to continuously devour me, I may grow very fast in a short period of time, but the road ahead will be more difficult. However, if I cultivate to the appropriate level every time like now, and then find a suitable object for Xiaoyi to devour, it will be much easier for me to break through the bottleneck than ordinary soul masters. This is the correct way to promote each other and make progress together." Shi Yi smiled at Zhao Wuji.
Zhao Wuji grinned and said, "I was worried that you would not be able to resist the temptation of soul power improvement. It was me, Old Zhao, who thought too much."
The two smiled at each other and headed towards the direction of the town.
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(End of this chapter)