At the beginning, I traveled through the wilderness, and I controlled the beasts to survive.

The requirements for the shadow form are the same as those for other evolutionary branches, except that the attribute crystal is replaced by dark.

Although the dark attribute crystals have been absorbed, there is no shortage of soul beasts with this attribute on the Insect Continent.

In fact, according to the description on the panel, there is no requirement that the crystal stone and the flesh and blood essence come from the same soul beast.

It's not impossible to find soul beast crystals with other attributes.

But Han Ning considered that the owner of the heart is a dark attribute soul beast, and there may be some dark attribute spiritual energy left in the blood. It is best to find matching dark attribute crystals. It is always a bit awkward to find ones with other attributes.

"The essence of flesh and blood, isn't the heart the essence of flesh and blood... It just so happens that I still have a huge winged demon heart that I haven't used yet."

Han Ning looked at the heart that was wrapped in layers of vines, emitting a faint red light and was larger than his head, and thought to himself.

There is no more precious flesh and blood than the heart.

In this way, all you need to do is find an extraordinary level dark attribute crystal.

For a moment, he regretted that he would have known better before upgrading the Vientiane Spiritual Silkworm.

However, there was no regret in buying the medicine in the world, and the inner need to go to the Di Yan Forbidden Land became more and more urgent.

The Insect Continent is full of Insect Masters’ territories. Most extraordinary-level insects are raised by Insect Masters. If you want to kill them, you must bear the Insect Master’s wrath.

With his current strength, he can't even take on the weakest insect master. Going to the insect master's territory to hunt extraordinary insects is naturally not a wise choice. It's just an old man eating arsenic to rest - he is impatient with life.

"Let's discuss it with Dean Wu and the others tomorrow. It just so happens that the college is in the development stage of cultivating insect swarms these days, so I won't be needed for the time being. I'll take advantage of these days to go to the Di Yan Forbidden Land."

Having made up his mind, Han Ning stopped worrying and continued to focus on the nearly 100 soul-nurturing grasses he had just obtained in the afternoon.

He divided one-third of the soul-nourishing grass collected from the Greystone Valley and gave it to the academy's research team for use in developing the spirit-concentrating liquid.

Compared with the importance that most insect masters attach to the concentration liquid, Han Ning feels that his need for this spiritual potion is not very urgent.

All this is because the system can absorb all the energy in the raw materials of the concentration liquid.

"Is this equivalent to being able to achieve the effect of the concentration liquid without having to make the raw materials into finished products?"

"Perhaps, through various combinations and arrangements, as well as some production steps, wonderful chemical reactions can occur between these raw materials, which will provide more spiritual power than the raw material stage."

Han Ning doesn't know about this yet.

After collecting the materials needed for the Ningshen Liquid and making it, I don’t know how long it took for me to do so.

He couldn't wait until the concentration liquid was produced and then absorb the mental energy in it.

So... Han Ning plans to absorb dozens of soul-nurturing grasses first to see the effect.

He first took out a soul-nurturing grass from his waist bag, absorbed the spiritual energy inside, and spoke lightly.

[Spiritual energy +0.05]

"The spiritual energy is less than half that of the worm. After all, it is a auxiliary material, so we can't expect too much."

Han Ning shook his head, absorbed all the spiritual energy from the more than 70 soul-nurturing grasses on hand, replaced them with attribute points, and added them to his own panel.

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Mental power level: Level 1 (67%)

Current mental strength: 20

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…

The next morning, Han Ning opened his eyes from his meditative state.

The faint fluorescent light flashing on his body disappeared in an instant.

"Relying on the 'Spirit Melting' method, I can absorb about 10 points of energy in one night... not bad."

He carefully felt the changes in his body.

In addition to gaining a total of 10 points of energy, the elemental affinity of the three soul beasts has been slightly improved by 0.1-0.15.

This spirit-melting method can not only help the soul beasts in the soul beast space absorb spiritual energy, but also the human body's long-term bathing in spiritual energy will gradually increase its sensitivity to various elements.

"10 points of energy a day, an average of 0.1 affinity, and more than 300 points in a month. Each element's affinity can be increased by more than 3 points. It is only a matter of time before the soul beast breaks through to the warrior level."

This is only the first level. When it reaches the second level, it is estimated that more energy will be absorbed.

"Sisi~"

The Vientiane Spiritual Silkworm in the body also woke up after a night of slumber.

However, its intelligence still seems to be very low, and it only emits some emotions based on instinct.

To his surprise, the Vientiane Spiritual Silkworm, which had advanced to the limit of awakening, did not comprehend any new soul skills.

Although I haven't comprehended soul skills, but...

Han Ning lowered his head and stared at his palms, listening to the fluctuations of mental power coming from all the spiritual silkworms in his mind, and his thoughts moved.

Monstery blood veins spread all over the palm of the hand, and at the tips of the five fingers of the right hand, five pale bone spurs with a cold forest-white light and extremely sharp surfaces quickly grew!

"Bone? The awakened-level Vientiane Spiritual Silkworm can actually grow bones?"

Han Ning brought the skeleton closer and looked at it carefully for a while, and found that it was not the human skeleton he imagined, but something similar to insect arthropods.

Because there are brightly colored wrinkles on it.

The arthropods of insects can actually be thought of as limbs composed of their exoskeleton, some muscles, and carapace.

Put your palm forward and grasp it in a very neutral way.

The veins in the palm of the hand glowed with strange blood, and the faint blood intertwined, slowly condensing into a diamond-shaped pale armor shield.

Immediately afterwards, the surface of the armor shield began to be covered with flesh and blood, wrapping the jointed limbs inside.

And on the surface of the flesh and blood, like a spider web, a thin red vein spreads out.

"New ability, growth of joints and limbs? But only when the blood energy burst state is turned on, the speed of condensation is barely enough to see..."

Han Ning stared at the 30-centimeter square armor shield in front of him, and said to Egg Cake, who was sticking his butt out and washing his face with a towel: "Egg Cake, use your flaming claws on this armor shield, be careful not to Burn other furniture."

"Chiji~"

Omelet responded and put the towel on his forehead. The tips of his claws burned with a blazing crimson fire, and with a swish, they hit the surface of the armor and shield.

Boom~

The big claws hit the armor shield, and a low explosion sounded.

The armor shield wrapped in flesh and blood exploded immediately, revealing the armor shield with cracks all over the interior.

The aftermath of the explosion was wrapped in the flesh and blood controlled by Han Ning, and was limited to a small area.

After the fire light dissipated, the blood-colored armor shield was already in a state of burning flames. It resisted for nearly 2 seconds before turning into red light spots all over the sky and disappearing.

"It can resist soul skills of the same level for up to 2 seconds."

In fact, this is not even a soul skill. It can block the soul skill of the egg cake - Flame Claw, which is already considered good.

It's just that the Vientiane Spirit Silkworm currently lacks offensive capabilities. It can only turn its jointed limbs into spikes and constantly "inject" the opponent.

The Vientiane Silkworm is a special kind of soul beast. Han Ning has never trained it at all. In addition to eating, it usually falls into a deep sleep. Yesterday, he ate two hearts and was able to break through to the awakening level. Coupled with these amazing joints and limbs The ability to grow is already an unexpected surprise, and he is quite satisfied.

After all, its advantage lies in its weird auxiliary ability. In terms of combat, it is supported by Yinyi and Egg Pancake, which is enough.

In addition, Han Ning also thought that the Vientiane Spirit Silkworm hidden in his body is not actually the strongest fighting form. If it enters Egg Cake's body and displays various auxiliary abilities, it will definitely be even more powerful for Egg Cake and can explode. Shows terrifying fighting ability.

However, generally, to ensure his own safety, he would keep it inside his body.

…

After washing up and having breakfast, Han Ning walked out of the dormitory. At the door of the dormitory building downstairs, he found Dean Wu who was already directing the construction of the insect nest. He told him that he wanted to explore the Forbidden Land. he.

Nowadays, only crystal stones awakened to the extraordinary level can help Yin Yi improve his strength. If he wants to become stronger, he can only go to the insect master's territory or forbidden areas to find more powerful soul beasts.

The insect masters and the others couldn't afford to offend him for the time being, so they had no choice but to go to the forbidden area to find the spirit beasts.

"The Di Yan Forbidden Area... is too dangerous." Dean Wu frowned involuntarily when he heard Han Ning's plan.

But he did not stop Han Ning from going. Instead, he thought about it and said, "Come with me. Let's go to Mr. Lajechika's place to get a set of communication equipment."

"Communication equipment? Doesn't it mean that communication can only be carried out within dozens of kilometers without a transfer station? What's the use of having it?" Han Ning was confused.

Dean Wu smiled:

"If there is no transfer station, we will build it. Didn't you say before that the ant nest in the Diyan Forbidden Area can be used as a backup shelter? Taking advantage of this opportunity, I asked Mr. Lajechika to take a few people to build a transfer station in the north. If you encounter any danger at that time, you can notify us in time and we will find a way to rescue you. "

"This...that's okay."

Seeing that Dean Wu's tone was unquestionable, Han Ning didn't say anything more.

Communicating through the walkie-talkie, the two found Lajechika who was assembling a piece of equipment in a proposed workshop on the second floor of Building A.

Hearing Dean Wu's description, he took out a notebook-sized device from the messy equipment on the table in front of him. It looked like a square device made of various parts spliced ​​together. He pushed it in front of Han Ning and said:

"Brother Han Ning, take this communication device first. When you set off, remember to turn on the power. This device has been specially modified by me and can remain in standby mode for at least 7 days. Once our transfer station is established, can contact you through a special radio frequency band.”

With that said, Lajechika began to introduce the operation method of this equipment to Han Ning.

They were both highly educated people and beast control masters with first-level mental power. They had quick thinking. Han Ning understood the general method of use after just one glance.

This communication device is not light, weighing about 20 kilograms, but for a beast master, carrying this weight is a piece of cake.

After saying goodbye to Lajechika, Dean Wu led Han Ning to find the room where Lena was.

Various animal skin volumes are placed on rows of bookshelves.

When the two of them pushed the door open, Lena was holding her son in her arms and talking to Niya.

Niya grabbed the toast bread collected from the college convenience store in one hand and pure milk in the other, eating it in small sips. Except for the bug-like features on her palms and head, this scene really looked like a human girl being happy. Have breakfast on the ground.

Seeing the two people arriving, she gave them a faint smile.

"Okay, I haven't seen you for two days, and Niya's mental state has improved a lot."

Han Ning smiled and nodded with Niya, and said to Liena.

Niya looked at Han Ning, organized her words, and said word by word with a strange tone of voice:

"Brother Han Ning, please come in early."

Listening to this tactful and strange voice, Han Ning smiled even more:

"Oh? Are you teaching Niyaxia Mandarin? It seems that I have to hurry up and learn the insect language."

"Taught some simple daily expressions, but it is not considered formal learning."

Lena brought two chairs, placed them in front of them, and said,

"You two are both busy people, and you won't come to me if you have anything to do."

"Haha, I can't hide it from Ms. Liena." Han Ning explained without Dean Wu's help.

"I want to go to the Diyan Forbidden Land and collect some crystal stones of powerful soul beasts. Ms. Liena, I want to ask you if there is any more detailed information about the Diyan Forbidden Land in the inheritance of the Insek tribe. description of?"

Hearing this, Liena said, "What kind of soul beast are you looking for?"

"It would be best if it is a dark soul beast that is not too strong and the leader of the group is around the extraordinary level. Then I need some relevant information about the Hellfire Crocodile." Han Ning answered.

Lena did not immediately go to look at the animal skin scroll at the back, but muttered to Niya in Insect language.

Niya thought for a while, picked up the pen and paper on the table, found a blank A4 paper, and started writing lines of distorted fonts on it.

While Liena was reading, she also took out a piece of paper and translated and wrote simultaneously.

Niya didn't stop writing until she had written about half the size of an A4 paper.

"Niya said that she didn't know much about the Diyan Forbidden Area. She wrote down some safe routes she knew, as well as several types of dark-type soul beasts, as well as their distribution locations."

"As for the Hellfire Crocodile, she only knows that this kind of spirit beast usually lives near the crater of a volcano, deep underground about 10 kilometers above the ground. It is filled with magma flowing out of the volcano. It is the favorite of many underground fire-type spirit beasts. Habitat."

"The only record of the Insek tribe discovering traces of the Hellfire Crocodile was underground in an extinct volcano called 'Ailil' on the west side of the Emerald Forest."

Liena finished writing the last line of translated text, then opened the drawer, took a small stack of A4 papers, and handed them all to Han Ning.

"These are some vocabulary, simple grammar, and pronunciation tables that I have summarized about insect characters and Xia Guowen. You can take a look at it during your break."

Han Ning took the paper, flipped it over, and nodded to the two ladies, "Thank you both."

"Have a nice trip." "媣~"

…

After coming out of Liena and the others, Han Ning did not stay. He left Shadow Mantis, who was still recovering from his injuries, to Lu Xiuning to temporarily raise. Then he said goodbye to Lu Xiuning, his two roommates, and Dayan at the door, and packed up. Pack your bags and go directly to the north gate of the college.

He was the only one on this trip.

Buzz buzz~

A total of 5 bloody insects of different shapes were flying in the sky.

At Awakening IV, Vientiane Silkworm can use the simulation mark to simulate 5 insects whose strength is slightly lower than Awakening IV, or 2 insects whose strength is slightly higher than its own level.

Among the flying insects, there are 4 electric cannon bugs and 1 bloody bee, all of which are around Awakening III level.

The Vientiane Spiritual Silkworm originally dug out a soul skill called "Thunder Flash" from that electric cannon insect.

Thunderbolt, the Electric Cannon Bug uses the electric sac on its tail to release an electric ball with paralyzing and explosive properties.

After testing, it was found that the launch speed of this soul skill is very fast, a little faster than Yin Yi's ice crystal blast.

By comparing the simple map of the Insek tribe's exploration of the Di Yan forbidden area with Niya's description, Han Ning decided to enter the underground through a route opened by the Insek tribe.

He had two routes to the underground.

One is the route of the Inseq people, which is relatively safe.

The other is the fire ant family, which is the route where Xiaohong and his family are stationed. They may be more familiar with the Diyan Forbidden Land than the Insek family.

But considering that he and Xiaohong didn't understand the language and it was not convenient to lead the way, he still chose the first route.

The entrance to the Insek tribe is not in the Mushroom Forest, but is located northwest of the north gate of the college, about 760 kilometers away, in a place called the "Trembling Forest".

The Trembling Forest is actually the translated name of the "Airil" volcano, which is called the Trembling Mountain. The area covering hundreds of kilometers around the extinct volcano is called the Trembling Forest by the insect masters.

After flying for more than two hours on the Bloody Bee towards the destination, Han Ning arrived near a stone forest with densely packed and towering stone pillars.

The criss-crossing stone pillars form a natural barrier, blocking the wind blowing from a distance.

This is the gray stone forest located to the west of the Trembling Forest. The reason why we come here is because there is a soul beast called the "Dark Blood Demon" living in it.

This is an ugly, bloodthirsty and violent dark attribute soul beast.

Before entering the Forbidden Land of Earth to look for the Hellfire Crocodile, Han Ning planned to successfully evolve the Vientiane Spirit Silkworm and kill some brutal and murderous spirit beasts along the way to provide Yinyi with the energy needed to upgrade.

Wait for Yin Yi to break through to the warrior level, and then gradually go deeper into the ground.

This is the safest way.

The stone pillars here are each about 5 meters high and seem to have been formed by long-term crosswinds.

They are bathed in white mist, like guards hidden in the mist, standing silently on the grass.

When he arrived here, Han Ning took an egg cake instead. Five puppet insects were hidden among the surrounding stone pillars, responsible for investigating the nearby situation.

Yinyi sat on the egg cake's head, and even though there were five puppets investigating, a pair of flaming eyes were still observing the surroundings.

Han Ning signaled Omelette to keep going forward, and he looked at the watch on his wrist.

32℃.

Entering the stone forest from the outside, there is no breeze blowing here, so the temperature is difficult to disperse, and the heat accumulates, causing the temperature to rise.

While letting Egg Pan walk deeper into the stone forest, he observed the surrounding terrain.

As we gradually go deeper into the stone forest, the stone pillars on both sides become wider, and the light cast by the sky becomes dimmer. It is obviously still close to noon, and the quiet stone forest is like dark night, with only some penetrating sounds coming from a certain direction.

A few minutes later, Han Ning found an excellent hunting spot.

An open meadow backed by boulders.

He chose this place because he could hide next to the big rock later. He didn't have to worry about enemies coming from behind. He only had to pay attention to the spirit beasts in the other three directions.

Walking to the center of the grass, Han Ning asked Omelette to dig a small pit dozens of centimeters deep and one meter square on the spot.

Then lay some branches and grass blades over the small pit as a cover.

Finally, put a piece of Winged Demon heart meat that smelled of blood into the tunnel.

He used some resources to get this heart from Lu Xiuning. He had no other Winged Demon hearts in his hands.

Darkin blood demons like the smell of blood. They are good at sneaking up on their prey in the dark and torturing them until they are on the verge of death. They then eat the prey completely when their despair is at its strongest.

The reason why we chose the blood demon clan is that their qualifications are relatively low among the dark soul beasts, their growth limit is not high, they have a bad temper, and they are not smart enough. If they encounter a small clan, they can still fight.

Then, he took the egg cake and retreated to the stone a few meters away, entered the mimicry state, and quietly waited for the spirit beast to arrive.

About twenty minutes later, Han Ning's ears twitched slightly and he heard the sound of soft stroking of limbs.

"Here it comes!" Han Ning held his breath and looked in the direction of the flesh and blood.

On the surface of the rock pillar in the front right, three soul beasts with three pairs of six holes and leathery wings were climbing silently.

The main body in the middle of their wings is covered with black scales, reflecting a cold and hard luster in Han Ning's field of vision.

It has a huge, ferocious mouth that stretches almost up to its eyes, and is filled with sharp teeth.

Continuous saliva flowed down the corners of his mouth.

There are two hollows at the ears, the eyes are large, turbid and yellow, and there are two curved sharp horns growing on the forehead.

A pair of skinny and slender arms covered with sinister fascia and sharp nails.

Gah!

The ugly blood demon on the left couldn't stand the smell of flesh and blood. He couldn't help but open his mouth and reveal his slender tongue. His saliva overflowed. Drops of fishy saliva dripped to the ground, corroding a piece of green grass and raising white... cigarette.

"Three awakening-level blood monsters..." He looked at these two ugly monsters, and the Insek tribe's judgment of their strength emerged in his mind.

Awakening-level blood monsters will not exceed 3 meters in size, and the three largest ones are only about 2.9 meters.

Generally speaking, the best way to judge the strength of non-psychic soul beasts that take the physical route of flesh and blood before they reach the lord level is to observe their size.

The bigger the body, the more graceful and powerful the muscles are.

These are soul beasts of the same race and different types, and it is difficult to judge based on their size.

Many insects are very large, but most of them have carapace inside, so they may not be able to defeat the two-meter-tall blood demon.

On the contrary, soul beasts with denser flesh and blood will be relatively smaller in size.

"Hiss~~"

When the three blood demons saw the flesh and blood placed in front of them, they did not immediately step forward. Instead, they observed the surrounding environment and began to sniff around the flesh and blood.

The heart of the Winged Demon, which is rich in nutrients, is a fatal temptation for them.

Finally, one of the blood demons couldn't help it, and ran to the flesh and blood while the other two companions were not paying attention.

Its companions also quickly discovered this guy's stealing behavior, and they all screamed strangely and ran over.

While waiting for the three blood demons to get close to each other, approaching the flesh and blood, and preparing to bite them for food, Han Ning, who was hiding in the dark, used his mental power to say to Yin Yi:

"Deal with them!"

Thanks to Lantian Baiyun jiange for the 666 starting coins.