Chapter 48: Gold-Devouring Art! Greatly Increased Strength!
Chapter 48: Gold-Devouring Art! Greatly Increased Strength!
Wang Che stayed at Yuan Xiaole’s place for a while before returning home.
“With less than a week left before the Wild Soul Land expedition… there’s still no progress with Blazing Charge.”
Wang Che murmured to himself.
He had been eating Sun-Crystal Milk Pine Leaf every day… Could it be that he just couldn’t learn it?
He arrived home.
Wang Che kept thinking about this matter, but there was genuinely no solution.
He wasn’t the creator and couldn’t change the life form of the Green Caterpillar.
Life Energy was bound by the rules of this world.
Without Fire-Type Life Energy, even after taking the Gene Capsule, the Green Caterpillar had an impression of Blazing Charge in its soul.
Yet it still couldn’t perform it.
“Son, you’ll be going on a long trip in a few days. Your mom has prepared everything for you. Don’t be afraid when the time comes.”
Father Wang sat on a chair and smiled as Wang Che returned home. “Just treat it as going out for travel and fun.”
At that moment, Mother Wang came in carrying dishes and said,
“I heard from my colleagues that this wilderness expedition is for training, so you mustn’t take it lightly. How is it just travel and fun? Don’t talk nonsense!”
After saying that, she placed the dishes on the table.
When a child is about to go on a long trip, it’s natural for parents to worry.
Having grown up this much, Wang Che had indeed rarely left Tianxin City.
“Is that so… well, we haven’t been either… Hmm, I say, dear wife, why is it braised pork again? We’ve been having lavish meals every day these past few days. How can my body digest and absorb all this?”
“Then don’t move your chopsticks around. I made this for our son. Out in the wild, the food conditions definitely won’t be as good as at home. He’ll eat poorly then, so of course I’m making a few more good meals now.”
Mother Wang used her chopsticks to push Father Wang’s chopsticks aside.
Hearing this, Wang Che suddenly froze.
“Poor digestion and absorption?”
Wang Che glanced at Father Wang.
He quickly finished his meal and hurriedly took the Green Caterpillar back to the training ground.
“Could it just be poor absorption efficiency?”
Wang Che closed his eyes.
He had been considering the laws of the world…
But he overlooked such a trivial and simple factor.
The Green Caterpillar was just a Soul Pet with a Racial Potential under a hundred. Although its physical fitness had greatly improved through later training,
it really wasn’t strong.
The Sun-Crystal Milk Pine Leaf contained a tiny amount of Fire-Type Life Energy.
For it, low absorption efficiency, or even an inability to absorb, was quite normal.
Perhaps ordinary people could easily guess the reason.
“Sigh, I forgot that the current level is too low… No need to consider deeper world rules and such.”
Wang Che shook his head.
Ordinary people might realize the cause but couldn’t change it.
But he was different.
This kind of problem was too simple for him.
Generally, this kind of Milk Pine Leaf contained special Fire-Type Life Energy. After consumption,
it could provide some resistance to fire attribute Soul Skills, and the body would gradually develop some resistance to fire.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t be worth its value.
But the Fire-Type was the natural enemy of the Insect Type!
For an Insect-Type Soul Pet, absorbing Fire Life Energy internally was almost impossible!
This precious leaf food was probably specifically prepared for those rare Soul Pets that possessed both Fire-Type and Insect-Type attributes.
For over half a month, the Green Caterpillar had eaten so much, but aside from a noticeable increase in Soul Power speed, there was no change at all.
Clearly, it hadn’t been absorbed.
Wang Che glanced at the Green Caterpillar. Now that he had found the root of the problem,
something too good was actually difficult for the little guy to absorb.
“I need to find a way to allow this little guy to absorb the Fire-Type Life Energy in the Milk Pine Leaf…”
Wang Che pondered for a moment, then began searching through numerous techniques in his mind.
“Absorbing energy from food… in this regard, the ancient fierce beast, the Glutton, had the most say… that creature ate everything and could turn it all to its own use. Its strength was outrageously strong… I remember I killed a few…”
Wang Che thought, “But the reason the Glutton could absorb was mostly due to its body structure… which isn’t suitable for ordinary beasts… The Beast Origin Art had also passed the basic stage for this child… It was just the right time to switch to another method.”
The Beast Origin Art was only for laying the foundation for beasts.
Given the Green Caterpillar’s current Soul Power Cultivation, its foundation was relatively solid.
This method was gradually becoming less effective.
“That’s right…”
Wang Che seemed to remember something. “The Energy-Devouring Metal insect! An ancient strange insect that could devour all things, possessing almost the same traits as the Glutton. In the Cultivation World, this kind of insect could be said to be extremely abnormal!”
Wang Che’s eyes lit up.
“I remember I raised a bunch of these little things and studied them. Their strength certainly couldn’t compare to the innate fierce beast Glutton. In their early juvenile stage, they needed a long time to grow.”
“In their initial juvenile phase, they could only devour heaven and earth spiritual energy and various metals, turning them to their own use. Later, as they grew stronger, they devoured magical treasures, immortal medicines… nothing they wouldn’t swallow.”
“I even specifically developed a method back then while studying the Energy-Devouring Metal insects—the Gold-Devouring Art—to accelerate their growth…”
“The Gold-Devouring Art! Why didn’t I think of it? Modify it a bit, and for this little thing, absorbing the Sun-Crystal Milk Pine Leaf would be absolutely no problem!”
Wang Che’s idea was clear.
The Gold-Devouring Art wasn’t complicated. Initially, it was just for young Energy-Devouring Metal insects to speed up their devouring efficiency.
It was a technique created by studying the body structure of the Energy-Devouring Metal insects.
The idea was feasible. Wang Che immediately visualized the Green Caterpillar’s body structure in his mind.
Then he started writing and drawing on the training ground.
Soon, the modified Gold-Devouring Art tailored for the Green Caterpillar was completed.
Modifying it based on the original was as easy as eating and drinking for him.
Then, based on this world’s Soul Guiding Art, Wang Che slightly altered the key terms in the method.
The Green Caterpillar, having broken through a hundred years, had much higher Spiritual Intelligence.
Wang Che taught this Gold-Devouring Art as a Soul Guiding Art to the child. It didn’t require drawing pictures and telling stories like when he taught the Beast Origin Art before.
In one night, the child learned this modified Gold-Devouring Art.
And when the Green Caterpillar practiced the Gold-Devouring Art for the first time,
as Wang Che expected, there was a very noticeable change!
First, its body surface temperature changed from cool to gradually becoming hot.
A faint heat mist began to appear around its body.
As if it was in a sauna.
“It’s the Fire-Type Life Energy from the previously consumed Sun-Crystal Milk Pine Leaves. It ate so much but couldn’t absorb it. However, it always remained in its body… If it couldn’t be absorbed for a long time, it would most likely slowly disappear, expelled from the body…”
Wang Che’s eyes sparkled. Sure enough, he was right.
“Now, by practicing the Gold-Devouring Art, the Green Caterpillar can absorb the Fire-Type Life Energy inside its body and make it its own… Next, practicing Blazing Charge won’t be a problem. Besides, the Gold-Devouring Art can also speed up Soul Power absorption… The cultivation speed will increase by another level.”
Having solved the biggest problem,
over the next few days, the Green Caterpillar’s body began to show relatively obvious changes as it slowly absorbed the Fire-Type Life Energy.
The most visible change was the gradual improvement in its resistance and defense against fire.
Fire was an absolute natural enemy for most insects.
Especially attribute Soul Skills; against Insect-Type Soul Pets, if they hit, it was absolutely fatal.
Being able to improve fire resistance meant that if the Green Caterpillar faced a Fire-Type Soul Pet in the future, at least it wouldn’t be too passive.
In the Dawn Cup, Wang Che was quite lucky not to encounter a Fire-Type Soul Pet.
But he would definitely encounter them in the future.
And so…
Finally, on the day before the wilderness expedition, the Green Caterpillar barely managed to learn Blazing Charge…
Its Soul Power Cultivation also broke through two hundred years, reaching two hundred and twenty-five years.
Two months!
It adapted to the Mecha Fall Armor!
It gained a new technique!
Its body developed some resistance to fire!
It learned a rare and powerful hundred-year attribute Soul Skill!
Its Soul Power Cultivation and physical strength greatly increased!
Next, it was time to embark on an expedition to the alluring, mysterious, and dangerous wilderness…