Chapter 168: The Little Caterpillar Being Carried Along
Chapter 168: The Little Caterpillar Being Carried Along
Let’s talk about a different matter.
Wang Che held the Green Caterpillar and used Silk Spitting to go upward.
Since most of the Soul Beasts in the upper region had moved downward, there was basically no danger.
Along the way, he picked up some stone crystals that contained various energies and some rare herbs. Every time he reached a Floating Earth Clod, he quickly searched it.
He did manage to gather a few resources. Such opportunities were rare.
But Wang Che did not waste too much time searching for resources on other Floating Earth Clods.
He went straight upward. Hurrying to see the Empty God Dragon was the important thing.
This kind of rare encounter was very difficult. He needed to seize the time.
He could not forget his main goal.
Not long after, Wang Che saw the four special Floating Earth Clods.
They were in a square shape, floating in mid-air, slowly rotating.
From the outside, they looked very hazy. The inside could not be seen.
It seemed like an independent space.
“Next, we will face battles.” Wang Che patted the Green Caterpillar’s head. “They are all very simple battles. For you, it shouldn’t be too difficult.”
The Magnetic Sword would not join the battle for now. The Little Caterpillar should be enough.
After hearing Wang Che’s words, the Green Caterpillar was full of confidence!
After seven days of training, the Green Caterpillar felt it had become much stronger.
It just wanted to practice its skills!
Wang Che watched for the right moment and used Silk Spitting to enter the first Floating Earth Clod.
The moment he entered, Wang Che could sense it.
“It really is a different space. The habitat of Spatial-type Soul Beasts is indeed different.”
These four Floating Earth Clods were all special spaces with hidden mysteries.
Once inside, they were trapped. It would not be easy to get out.
The wide ground was different from other Floating Earth Clods. It was crimson red soil.
Creak… creak…
From the white mist, a sound like rusty metal twisting slowly emerged.
“Sii wuu!”
The Green Caterpillar cried out.
It meant it had spotted an enemy.
Wang Che looked.
A strangely shaped Soul Beast walked out.
It was a half-humanoid stone statue, with no head, and a body made entirely of earth clods.
It held a stone spear in one hand and a stone shield in the other.
It looked very ancient.
An Illusion Guard Beast.
It looked very weak.
Especially its body, which was made of cracked earth clods, and the stone spear and shield were all tattered.
It seemed like it had gone through countless years of weathering.
Wang Che scanned it with his Divine Sense, but he could not perceive the cultivation level of this Illusion Guard Beast?
Their seemingly broken bodies hid special spatial patterns, like some kind of ancient Soul Guiding Diagram.
“This is somewhat interesting.”
Wang Che was slightly stunned.
This was an Ancient Soul Beast preserved until now.
Such Soul Beasts did not exist in modern times.
Only in this special Soul Land, in this special location, could such unique Soul Beasts be found.
“Sii wuu sii wuu!”
The Green Caterpillar looked at this Soul Beast and felt that if it charged headfirst, it could smash it to pieces.
Indeed, its Soul Pact Master did not lie to it.
This was an easy battle!
“Sii wuu!”
The Green Caterpillar glanced back at Wang Che.
I’m going!
Wang Che nodded and said, “Go.”
The Green Caterpillar suddenly burst into action, rushing forward like a green flash of light and crashing into the Illusion Guard Beast.
Boom!
The Green Caterpillar passed right through it, smashing the Illusion Guard Beast into pieces.
Countless stone fragments shattered instantly.
It was nothing special!
The Green Caterpillar wriggled its body and walked back, waiting for Wang Che to praise it.
But Wang Che did not speak.
He just looked ahead.
The shattered stone pieces instantly turned into countless stone grains, which began to float, expand in mid-air, and reassemble.
They emitted a brilliant light.
In the blink of an eye, they transformed into a large Ancient Soul Beast!
Its shape was like a standing hippopotamus, but its front limbs had turned into hands, crossed over its chest, and it had two fierce tusks at the corners of its mouth.
The most special feature was the water-blue spiritual conch on top of its head.
As the stone grains combined, its skin gradually became lifelike.
It was very large, at least six or seven meters tall, much bigger than the Green Caterpillar by several levels.
“This Soul Beast…”
Wang Che was slightly startled. “It’s an ancient Soul Beast, the River Spirit King.”
Very few students knew about ancient Soul Beast information. Wang Che was a top student and had some knowledge.
“Based on modern research and discussion, the estimated Racial Potential of this ancient Soul Beast is above Monarch Rank.”
The River Spirit King was a water-type Soul Pet. It could easily control the power of a great river and naturally had strong authority and extraordinary leadership over the Soul Beasts in the river.
It went extinct after the Fallen Ancient Era.
At this moment, the Green Caterpillar, who did not receive praise from Wang Che, felt something was wrong.
Behind it, an extremely dangerous gaze suddenly came!
It instinctively turned around and saw this Soul Beast whose size was several times larger than its normal form!
“Hiss?”
The Green Caterpillar was startled!
What was going on!
Where was that Soul Beast just now?
“Now the real battle begins.”
Wang Che said.
Green Caterpillar: “…”
It felt deceived.
“Roar!”
The River Spirit King, transformed by the Illusion Guard Beast, let out a roar!
A Racial Potential reaching Monarch Rank
meant it had a natural imposing presence!
In the Ancient Era, Soul Beasts of this grade, with over ten thousand years of Soul Power Cultivation, possessed power capable of overturning mountains and rivers.
Wang Che had not encountered even one Monarch Rank Soul Pet during the Qihang Cup.
It showed how difficult it was to raise a Soul Beast of this grade in the early stages.
Unexpectedly, the Illusion Guard Beast transformed into such a powerful Ancient Soul Beast right away.
Unlike modern Soul Pet Battles,
these Ancient Soul Beasts used lethal moves from the start, with no rules to follow. A slight mistake meant real death.
In modern times, due to the era of peace—though there were still brutal battles ordinary people rarely encountered—
most students followed martial virtue and rules in Soul Pet Battles, using lethal moves only when exploring Soul Earth Relics and facing danger.
So dealing with them was extremely challenging.
But for Wang Che, it was nothing.
The roaring River Spirit King suddenly raised a tsunami-like giant wave behind it!
The wave surged over its massive body, rushing toward Wang Che and the Green Caterpillar.
From the power of this Soul Skill, Wang Che sensed that this River Spirit King had over a thousand years of Soul Power Cultivation.
“We can’t waste time here.”
Wang Che said decisively, “Just use Energy Bomb and charge forward.”
Wang Che had a feeling that after meeting the Empty God Dragon, this adventure would truly begin. The process might not be short, and the difficulty would be higher.
So, they shouldn’t waste time at the entrance.
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Che and the Green Caterpillar charged out together.
The giant wave was terrifyingly powerful; avoiding it in this space was impossible.
Resisting it was also impossible.
A lethal move from a Monarch Rank Soul Pet with Millennium Spirit Power Cultivation was normally impossible to withstand.
With the Green Caterpillar’s current strength, unless Wang Che activated his Martial Soul to let the Little Caterpillar enter its true form,
it would be very difficult.
The Green Caterpillar charged out first, the light green patterns on its body glowing.
It was very puzzled by Wang Che’s command.
Although it had a twenty percent boost, Energy Bomb would hardly have any effect against such a massive wave.
But with danger approaching, well, listening to Wang Che was definitely right!
One after another, green Energy Bombs began to emerge from the Green Caterpillar’s body and flew out.
The higher the Proficiency Level of Energy Bomb, the more obvious the power increase wasn’t, but it allowed better control over each Energy Bomb’s tracking effect.
If the Proficiency Level reached S-rank, then Energy Bomb could be controlled perfectly.
One Energy Bomb might not affect the enemy, but if many gathered and exploded together, the power would multiply!
Every Soul Skill’s Proficiency Level, when slowly raised, would become stronger.
But it was hard to train up.
The Green Caterpillar’s Energy Bomb Soul Skill hadn’t reached S-rank Proficiency Level yet.
So after releasing the Energy Bombs, it was hard for it to control their tracking direction, let alone gather them in one spot.
But…
Wang Che was there!
Watching the Energy Bombs fly out from the Green Caterpillar’s body,
Wang Che’s hand changed, his Hundred-Tempered Soul Force condensed like threads, wrapping around all the Energy Bombs that flew out from the Green Caterpillar.
More than a dozen green light spheres, entangled by Wang Che’s Hundred-Tempered Soul Force, were swiftly hurled out!
They exploded with extreme accuracy in the center of the giant wave.
Instantly, they blasted countless water splashes; the intense explosion temporarily created a small hole in the center of the wave.
Green Caterpillar: “???”
Was that my Soul Skill?
Was it really that powerful?
Its mind was a little confused, and it froze.
Clearly, the Little Caterpillar felt very unfamiliar with its first coordinated battle with its Soul Pact Master.
It wasn’t like Wang Che, an experienced veteran.
In competitions, this was a technique used in mid-to-high-level comprehensive Soul Pet Battles.
It was a skill where the Soul Pact Master and Soul Pet fought together.
The Green Caterpillar had never trained in this before and had rarely seen it.
Naturally, it was a bit stunned.
Then Wang Che rushed over, kicked it in the butt, and sent the still-dazed Little Caterpillar into the small hole.
Wang Che also charged through.
“Don’t just stand there; use Energy Bomb again!”
After charging through to the other side of the giant wave, they immediately saw the figure of the River Spirit King.
The River Spirit King seemed not to expect the duo to come through unscathed.
The charging Green Caterpillar, without a word, understood and released Energy Bombs again, aiming at the River Spirit King.
But would the River Spirit King be hit so easily?
It raised a hand, about to use a Soul Skill.
At that moment, Wang Che suddenly swung his hand out, and the Myriad Vault Dao Palace Martial Soul suddenly appeared.
As Wang Che infused it with Soul Power, the Myriad Treasure Dao Palace emitted an overwhelming imposing presence, as if it could shake the heavens.
The River Spirit King was clearly stunned for a second.
In that brief second, its intended Soul Skill was interrupted.
When it came to and tried to use the skill again, more than a dozen Energy Bombs directly hit its face, all striking home.
The vibrations of the explosion kept coming.
As if something had shattered.
“If the Green Caterpillar fought alone, it would be really difficult to defeat this River Spirit King transformed by the Illusion Guard Beast.”
Wang Che shook his head slightly.
With him, it was different.
With Wang Che’s battle experience, having fought countless races across the heavens and reached the pinnacle, if there were no competition rules,
frankly speaking, none of the competitors could last more than one round.
Wang Che could easily take them down with various methods in one encounter.
And it would be certain death.
When the Green Caterpillar fought the Ghost Disciple’s three Soul Pets, Wang Che’s commands had not a single error in the battle’s direction.
Otherwise, relying solely on the Little Caterpillar, it couldn’t have achieved those results.
Boom!
The River Spirit King fell with a thunderous crash. It was merely an illusion and didn’t fully possess all of the River Spirit King’s abilities.
The Green Caterpillar’s Energy Bombs, redirected by Wang Che, all hit vital spots the moment the Myriad Treasure Dao Palace appeared.
Naturally, it couldn’t remain standing.
The Green Caterpillar was somewhat bewildered.
They won just like that?
Something felt off!
Why did it feel like it was being carried by its Soul Pact Master!
It should be stronger than him!
The Little Caterpillar now fell into pondering its caterpillar life.
Its view on caterpillar life was constantly being broken and reshaped…
He Huan said the chance of defeating the Illusion Guard Beast was extremely low, yet Wang Che and the Green Caterpillar had dealt with it so easily, without any effort…
Then, the fallen River Spirit King reverted to the Illusion Guard Beast.
The Illusion Guard Beast used its stone sword and stone shield, slamming them together and imprinting them in the void, as if opening something.
Soon, a ring of light appeared.
“It’s a spatial passage. Let’s go. The chance of meeting the Empty God Dragon in one attempt is small, but two attempts should raise the probability. There are only four Floating Earth Clods.”
Wang Che led the still-thinking Green Caterpillar into the ring of light…