Chapter 81: Breath Concealment Technique
Chapter 81: Breath Concealment Technique
Green Caterpillar shook its head wildly, opposing the new name.
It was not good at all!
Its original name was the best!
Wang Che chuckled a few times, as he wasn’t seriously giving Green Caterpillar that name.
He was just teasing.
Over the next few days, Wang Che had Green Caterpillar focus on practicing the use of Martial Spirit Armament.
By controlling the concentration of its Soul Power, it could change its own color.
After some experimentation, Green Caterpillar became quite skilled at altering this move within a week.
It no longer just performed Martial Spirit Armament as it had before.
In the training room at the club.
“Martial Spirit Armament!”
With Wang Che’s command, Green Caterpillar instantly turned black all over.
“Good. Now, switch to the deep blue form of Martial Spirit Armament!”
Wang Che commanded again.
In fact, as the Life Soul Pact deepened between a Soul Pet and its Soul Pact Master, they could communicate through telepathy.
That was why many Soul Pact Masters didn’t need to learn the language of their Soul Pets to understand what they were saying.
Of course, for students at this stage, that was still out of reach.
“Sii wuu!”
Under Wang Che’s command, Green Caterpillar’s color immediately began to change.
It steadily shifted from black to deep blue.
“That took two seconds. Still too long!”
Wang Che said.
Soul Skills required practice.
Martial Spirit Armament was not an ordinary Soul Skill. Strictly speaking, it was a type of auxiliary, comprehensive Soul Skill.
It provided significant enhancements to the Soul Pet.
In this world, there were similar Soul Skills, but their effects were not as good.
Normally, it was impossible to change the effects of a Soul Skill.
Most people couldn’t even imagine it.
Under Wang Che’s guidance, Green Caterpillar spent a week learning to fully control the Soul Power flow of Martial Spirit Armament.
But achieving rapid transformation was more difficult.
Moreover, it couldn’t directly enter the deep blue form from the start.
It had to activate Martial Spirit Armament first, then Green Caterpillar had to change forms by adjusting its Soul Power concentration to gain the enhancement.
Otherwise, there would be no improvement—only a change in body color.
“Move! Aim from all directions at the central boulder and use Silk Spitting!”
Through testing, the deep blue form was found to optimize speed enhancement.
At this point, Green Caterpillar’s speed reached its peak, plus it had trained extensively in Floating Forest.
Its speed was as fast as lightning now.
Adapting to this state required gradual practice for Green Caterpillar.
Of course, its strength decreased.
But possessing such speed was terrifying for enemies.
Using Silk Spitting with such incredible speed was simply an art form!
Green Caterpillar circled the center, continuously spitting countless silk strands from its mouth.
Often, before it finished spitting one strand, it had already moved to the next position and continued spitting silk.
Due to its extreme speed, it could spit over a dozen silk strands in an extremely short time, forming a strong and effective silk web!
It looked very spectacular.
In the blink of an eye, the central boulder was wrapped in the silk web.
In the deep blue form, although strength decreased, the advantage of high speed made it hard for opponents to dodge Green Caterpillar’s Silk Spitting Soul Skill.
It could immobilize the enemy.
“Good. Now switch to the Crimson Form!”
The Crimson Form was tested to provide the greatest strength enhancement.
In this form, strength reached a very frightening level, while speed decreased.
Green Caterpillar took another two seconds to gradually turn deep red all over.
It gave off a sense of power.
“Aim at the target and use Rattler Tail Strike!”
Feeling immensely powerful, the deep red Green Caterpillar twisted its body and launched a Rattler Tail Strike at the central boulder.
Boom!
The boulder shattered, the entire ground shook, and the room seemed like it might collapse.
“That’s at least three times the power of a normal Rattler Tail Strike…”
Wang Che nodded slightly.
Martial Spirit Armament, in its initial black form, boosted strength by one level.
After transforming into the Crimson Form, strength increased by another level.
The Rattler Tail Strike performed was over three times more powerful.
That level of power was already very frightening.
“Come back.”
Wang Che waved his hand. This move couldn’t last long; even with Green Caterpillar’s 330-plus years of Soul Power Cultivation, it couldn’t sustain it for too long.
“Martial Spirit Armament has been trained quite well now.”
Wang Che took a towel and wiped the dust and stone fragments off Green Caterpillar.
Then he rinsed it with clean water.
“Sii wuu~”
Green Caterpillar narrowed its eyes and let out a contented sound.
“Next, we can try training Insect Concealment,” Wang Che said. “We practiced Martial Spirit Armament to learn Insect Concealment. The first stage of Insect Concealment involves changing body color to hide in various environments.”
“The principle is similar to Martial Spirit Armament’s method of altering Soul Power concentration.”
“However, you don’t need to enter the Martial Spirit Armament state.”
“Let’s try a forest environment first.”
Wang Che walked over to the controller on the side and pressed a switch.
The arena quickly changed.
Trees began to fill the arena.
The trees were not too big, mostly around six to seven meters tall.
“Don’t use Martial Spirit Armament now. Just circulate Soul Power and cover your body surface. Look at the color of these trees and try to change your body’s color to match them.”
Because it had practiced shape-changing with Martial Spirit Armament,
Green Caterpillar performed very smoothly. It observed the color of the trees.
Then it climbed onto a tree. Because of its large size, it looked like a small dog climbing a tree.
But soon, its body color slowly began to change.
Although it couldn’t blend completely with the trees, it managed to get pretty close in color.
With a few more training sessions, it would succeed.
“Good, the first step is a success.”
Wang Che observed the Soul Power Circuit inside Green Caterpillar and nodded.
But this alone was not enough.
Insect Concealment was a Soul Skill, and Soul Skills required special Soul Power Circuits!
When using concealment, it wasn’t just about changing body color. Your aura also had to be somewhat hidden.
Otherwise, with a Soul Pet’s senses, just changing color alone could still be detected easily.
So…
“Next, I’ll teach you a technique called Breath Concealment Technique,”
Wang Che said slowly.
Green Caterpillar: “…”
Breath Concealment Technique was a basic spell.
It was widely used by Cultivators of all levels.
Its function was actually quite simple: to hide one’s aura.
It was one of the must-have spells for many Cultivators trying to show off…
Of course, the higher the level of Cultivator, the more advanced the Breath Concealment Technique used.
And there were many types of Breath Concealment Techniques.
Some Breath Concealment Techniques were extremely powerful, making the user blend with nature, undetectable even by Immortals.
But that kind of Breath Concealment Technique went beyond simple concealment, approaching the level of universal principles.
It was highly sought after by many “survivalist” Cultivators.
The Breath Concealment Technique Wang Che planned to teach Green Caterpillar was the low-level one used by Qi Refining stage Cultivators in the Cultivation World.
It could prevent detection by Cultivators up to three small stages higher than the user.
Once learned, a Qi Refining third layer Cultivator couldn’t be detected by anyone below Qi Refining sixth layer or higher.
The principles of spells were somewhat similar to the principles of Soul Skills.
And the principles of techniques were similar to Soul Guiding Art.
So, even without the Insect Concealment Soul Skill Engraving, it wasn’t hard for Wang Che to teach Green Caterpillar.
Wang Che made some small adjustments to the Breath Concealment Technique and slowly explained it to Green Caterpillar.
These were all relatively low-level spells.
Like Beast Origin Art and Gold-Devouring Art, they were also quite basic techniques.
After adjustments and explanation, Green Caterpillar, with its current Spiritual Intelligence, could understand Wang Che’s explanation.
The higher a Soul Pet’s Spiritual Intelligence, the more it could learn stronger and more complex Soul Skills and Soul Guiding Art.
Many Thousand-Year Soul Skills and Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skills required high Spiritual Intelligence. If a Soul Pet’s Spiritual Intelligence was too low, even if it had the Soul Skill in its Soul Skill Sequence and its Cultivation was sufficient, it would be very hard to understand or train.
“Once you learn Breath Concealment Technique and combine it with changing your body color, you can achieve the first stage of Insect Concealment.”
Wang Che rubbed his chin. “And because of the Breath Concealment Technique, unless someone’s Soul Power Cultivation is three hundred years higher than yours, they probably won’t sense you. That’s even stronger than the normal Insect Concealment Soul Skill!”
“The second stage is speeding up your Soul Power circulation and building it up.”
“As for how to build it up…”
Wang Che paused here.
Green Caterpillar listened very carefully.
Wang Che suddenly flicked Green Caterpillar on the head.
Green Caterpillar was stunned, then immediately got angry:
“Ssu wu! Ssu wu!”
Why did you hit me all of a sudden?
“Exactly this—very angry, wanting to attack me,” Wang Che said. “In a state of extreme anger, your Soul Power circulation speeds up, but since you don’t dare attack me, the Soul Power builds up. When you use a Soul Skill to attack, your power will increase by one level. Of course, right now you can’t reach that level of extreme anger.”
“The second stage’s build-up is similar to this.”
Green Caterpillar: “…”
“After entering the first stage, the enemy doesn’t notice you.”
“Then there’s a time gap. During this gap, you need to quickly circulate your Soul Power but can’t attack, so the Soul Power builds up. Reach a certain point, and your next Rattler Tail Strike will be much stronger than normal.”
“If you build up enough Soul Power, the power can jump a whole level. That means you’ve officially mastered the Insect Concealment Soul Skill.”
“Got it?”
Wang Che rubbed his hands together. “If you don’t, I can help you try that state again.”
Green Caterpillar: “…”
Green Caterpillar quickly nodded.
Got it! Got it!