Chapter 170: Activating the Ancient Soul Beast Atlas?
Chapter 170: Activating the Ancient Soul Beast Atlas?
The martial skill he just used was not very powerful, the True Martial Thunder Force.
Wang Che had spent most of his time since he started cultivating, raising the Green Caterpillar. Later, when the Magnetic Sword arrived, he was also busy cultivating the Magnetic Sword.
Of course, he had also been cultivating himself.
However, most of it was laying the foundation, which meant cultivating the Myriad Vault Dao Palace Martial Soul and tempering the Hundred-Tempered Soul Force.
Wang Che knew that this was the foundation.
One or two strands of Hundred-Tempered Soul Force was just the beginning.
Having ten strands of Hundred-Tempered Soul Force meant having a small foundation.
Only with a foundation could he do other things.
Just like when he used the Little Caterpillar to refine real pills before, it all required a foundation to perform.
With the foundation, Wang Che used the Myriad Vault Dao Palace to circulate the Soul Force within his body, allowing him to perform some not very powerful martial skills.
Usually, Wang Che couldn’t be bothered to practice these martial skills; they were already deeply ingrained in his soul.
Whenever he wanted to use them, as long as the conditions were met, Wang Che could perform them effortlessly and even improve them at any time.
However, the power would definitely be different.
Take this True Martial Thunder Force, for example. It required cultivating some thunder-attribute martial techniques and condensing thunder power to practice.
After being executed, every move in combat with the enemy contained powerful thunder force that could penetrate the enemy’s body.
When eighty-one strands of thunder force were implanted into the enemy’s body, they would erupt.
The terrifying thunder force would destroy every inch of the enemy’s body. The more thunder force implanted, the greater the damage.
As for thunder power, Wang Che naturally didn’t have any, but the Magnetic Sword did.
By borrowing the Magnetic Sword’s lightning, Wang Che was barely able to perform this move completely in a short time.
Unfortunately, his strength was relatively weak. Though it looked flashy just now, it didn’t actually cause much fatal damage to that Heimi King Kong.
The eruption of thunder force inside its body only left it in a long state of stiffness and weakness.
The special effects were cool, but the damage was low.
An eight-hundred-year Monarch Rank Soul Beast was no joke.
The Heimi King Kong also had very thick health.
Wang Che just wanted to see how much of his combat awareness remained after not fighting personally for so long.
In his previous life, he had mastered many techniques and had also walked the path of a Martial Cultivator.
Both spell combat and martial arts were his strengths.
It just so happened that the Heimi King Kong was a Battle-Type Soul Pet, and close combat was also its forte, so he could test himself.
From the looks of it now, it was just okay.
That Heimi King Kong had strong combat awareness. With the huge gap in strength between them, Wang Che was almost hit several times.
If the Heimi King Kong had over a thousand years of Soul Power Cultivation, Wang Che estimated he would have been hit by one or two moves and suffered a bit.
“Using the Myriad Vault Dao Palace to perform martial skills is just average. From the perspective of the Martial Soul, Tool Martial Souls of the architectural type are more functional than combative.”
The Myriad Vault Dao Palace Martial Soul was strong in assistance and its various functions as an architectural-type Martial Soul.
After all, it wasn’t a true life-bound magic treasure, just a Martial Soul.
“The Hundred-Tempered Soul Force is still not enough… Just using a martial skill casually drained it completely. I almost couldn’t hold on just now…”
“Trying it occasionally is fine, to properly motivate the Little Caterpillar and the Magnetic Sword. It’s best not to fight in the early stages if possible. Just rely on these two little guys.”
Wang Che thought to himself.
At this moment, the Green Caterpillar and the Magnetic Sword, having dealt with the Heimi King Kong, came back.
Their little eyes were full of admiration.
The Green Caterpillar thought there was still so much to learn…
After the Heimi King Kong disappeared, just when Wang Che thought the Illusion Guard Beast would appear,
the Illusion Guard Beast did not appear.
Instead, a point of light appeared where the Heimi King Kong had vanished.
“Oh? Did it drop loot?”
Wang Che was slightly stunned. “It didn’t drop anything before, but it did this time? Is there a chance to get loot by defeating these Ancient Soul Beasts transformed by the Illusion Guard Beasts?”
The principle of monsters dropping loot applied to any world civilization.
“Let’s go take a look.”
As soon as Wang Che walked over, the point of light immediately flew toward him and finally flew into the Ancient Soul Beast Atlas Soul Guiding Device in his hand!
This thing, Wang Che had only activated once before in the Floating Forest with the help of those few Life Source Stones.
After the Green Caterpillar entered it and learned the Inheritance Soul Skill, Rebirth from Mortal Peril, from the image record of the Celestial Mother Earth Worm in the Ancient Soul Beast Atlas, it had never been activated again.
There was no other way; the energy required was too vast, and the activation conditions were too harsh.
Later, it transformed into a bracelet, like a wristwatch, and had been on Wang Che’s wrist all along.
Only the triangular energy symbol in the center was quite unique.
It really looked a bit like a transformation device.
Now, as that point of light entered the Atlas, one small segment of the triangular energy symbol was suddenly lit up.
Wang Che counted; there were five segments in total.
Last time, it took four massive Life Source Stones pouring into it to fully light up the triangular energy symbol.
Only then could he enter it.
And learn the Inheritance Soul Skill.
From the looks of it, did all five segments need to be fully lit?
“That point of light was left behind after defeating the Heimi King Kong. The Heimi King Kong itself is an Ancient Soul Beast… There must be some connection here…”
“Could it be that defeating these Ancient Soul Beasts transformed by the Illusion Guard Beasts and collecting those energy points of light could continue to light up this Ancient Soul Beast Atlas? All five segments need to be fully lit to enter it…”
Wang Che understood. “It’s really not easy to activate this Ancient Soul Beast Atlas. But inside, it holds many mysteries of the Ancient Soul Beasts, left behind by many of them at the time to prevent their extinction. Such harsh activation conditions are probably meant to filter out the Soul Beasts capable of inheriting their legacy…”
Wang Che gained a bit more understanding of the Ancient Soul Beast Atlas.
Inheritance Soul Skills, whether in modern or ancient times, were considered very important.
Naturally, they couldn’t be obtained so easily.
“So it seems fighting these Illusion Guard Beasts is somewhat interesting, even though they don’t always drop those points of light. For now, I’ll light up as many segments as I can.”
Wang Che nodded slightly.
If he could open the Atlas, both the Green Caterpillar and the Magnetic Sword would have the chance to inherit some powerful Soul Skills from the Ancient Soul Beasts.
Even if they couldn’t inherit them, Wang Che himself was very interested in these Ancient Soul Beasts.
Wang Che was interested in civilizations, whether from the Primordial Ancient Era or the Fallen Ancient Era.
After the point of light was absorbed by the Ancient Soul Beast Atlas,
the Illusion Guard Beast appeared again, summoning a spatial passage. A ring of light landed at Wang Che’s feet.
Wang Che took the Green Caterpillar and the Magnetic Sword and walked out.
He still didn’t get to see the Empty God Dragon this time.
However, after learning that he could activate the Ancient Soul Beast Atlas, Wang Che suddenly wasn’t in such a hurry to meet the Empty God Dragon.
Originally, he didn’t want to waste time on these Illusion Guard Beasts, but now they could drop light spots that opened the Ancient Soul Beast Atlas.
That piqued Wang Che’s interest.
“There are a total of four Floating Earth Clods. The spatial nodes are always changing, but in theory, if I go through them in order, the last one should definitely be the node leading to the Empty God Dragon’s space.”
“What if I don’t follow the order and repeatedly enter the same Floating Earth Clod? Would that let me continuously farm the Illusion Guard Beasts and collect those light spots?”
Wang Che thought to himself, “The theory exists, now to put it into practice.”
Next, Wang Che started repeatedly entering the first two Floating Earth Clods he had already visited.
Just as Wang Che expected, entering repeatedly did cause the Illusion Guard Beasts to respawn, and they took on the forms of different Ancient Soul Beasts.
It seemed the theory was correct.
Wang Che felt quite pleased inside.
He immediately started farming like crazy.
Based on Wang Che’s calculations, defeating one Illusion Guard Beast took about five to ten minutes on average.
The time with the boost was close to eight hours. Without the boost, it would take much longer and wouldn’t be worth it.
Considering he still had to face the Empty God Dragon,
Wang Che planned to farm for about two hours to see if he could collect four light spots and activate the Ancient Soul Beast Atlas once.
The idea was good, and the theory was correct.
However…
“The drop rate is way too low!”
Wang Che shook his head.
He had already farmed back and forth over thirty times in more than two hours!
Only the Heimi King Kong had dropped a light spot before.
During these two hours, it dropped one more light spot.
After that, nothing dropped again.
“With this drop rate, if I farm about twenty more times on the third one and it doesn’t drop, I’ll give up. If it drops one, I’ll move on.”
Without hesitation, Wang Che directly entered the third Floating Earth Clod and defeated the Illusion Guard Beast again.
The first time still didn’t drop anything.
Considering he hadn’t farmed the third Floating Earth Clod much,
Wang Che calmed himself down and continued farming steadily until the seventeenth attempt.
It dropped.
He lit up the third slot.
By then, nearly four hours had passed.
“Back and forth, I’ve farmed the Illusion Guard Beasts on the first three Floating Earth Clods over fifty times in total. The fastest time was two and a half minutes. The slowest was eighteen minutes—that Ancient Soul Beast was an Iron Rock Dragon Turtle, which was really good at defense and too tough to beat…”
Wang Che calculated the time and felt it was about enough.
He glanced at the Ancient Soul Beast Atlas, which only had three slots lit up.
Wang Che walked toward the fourth Floating Earth Clod.
After a familiar battle, he defeated the Ancient Soul Beast transformed by the fourth Floating Earth Clod, but it didn’t drop anything the first time.
Wang Che wouldn’t farm it anymore because the spatial passage of the fourth Floating Earth Clod had already appeared.
Still, he wouldn’t have such a good chance to farm like this again.
This place was located in the upper area of the Floating Forest.
If not for the special circumstances this time, where most of the powerful and wild Soul Beasts in the upper area had migrated downward,
it would have taken a group of high-level Soul Pact Masters to even reach this place.
“…I’ll worry about the remaining two slots another time. I need to face the Empty God Dragon now; wasting too much time isn’t worth it.”
Wang Che stepped into the light circle of the last Floating Earth Clod…
Outside the barrier, within the Green Rock Fortress.
“That kid should have cleared at least two Floating Earth Clods by now, right?”
Li Yanming looked worriedly toward the distant Floating Forest. “With good luck, he might even have met the Empty God Dragon.”
“The Ancient Soul Beasts transformed by the Illusion Guard Beasts are extremely strong in combat. Without rich battle experience, one can only struggle and endure. It might take one or two hours just to clear one. It’s extremely draining…”
Zhou Xing from the Ninth Department of Soul Earth Relic Research shook his head slightly. “Even with rich battle experience, the Ancient Soul Beasts transformed by the Illusion Guard Beasts will have cultivation levels one tier higher than the Soul Pets entering the Floating Earth Clods. With a student’s combat skills and abilities, it would take at least a team of five to handle a Soul Pet of the same cultivation level.”
“In three hours, for one student with two Soul Pets, clearing one Floating Earth Clod would already be quite impressive. Based on Student Wang’s performance in the Qihang Cup, if he didn’t meet the Empty God Dragon in the first Floating Earth Clod, he’s most likely stuck on the second one now.”
“Also, his energy should be mostly drained, and he’s probably in a pretty dangerous situation.”
Li Yanming didn’t argue; based on his own judgment, that seemed about right.
“I’ve managed to contact a Heavenly King.”
Suddenly, Zhou Xing said to He Huan. “If all goes well, this Heavenly King is interested in helping out later. He’s willing to take the risk and enter the Empty God Dragon’s Domain Space again.”
“Oh?” He Huan’s eyes lit up. “Who?”
“Lieyang Heavenly King.”
“Great, great!” Li Yanming was stunned for a moment, then laughed. “I didn’t expect Lieyang Heavenly King, who’s usually the most stubborn, to help… Does he know Wang Che?”
“He’s heard of him. Lieyang Heavenly King is originally from the Xiyue Continent. Since someone as talented as Wang Che emerged from Xiyue Continent, he feels it’s his duty to help.”
Zhou Xing nodded slightly.
“Wonderful!” Li Yanming breathed a sigh of relief.
With a Heavenly King’s help, at least Wang Che’s life could be saved.
“When is he coming?” He Huan asked.
As soon as she finished asking,
a rough voice came from outside:
“I’m already here!”