Chapter 130: Section 131: I am a Blade Spider
Zhenjin still couldn’t mutate into a complete Blue Dog Fox Wolf.
Even though he had killed three Blue Dog Fox Wolves one after the other, each of them at Silver Level. Using the Heart Core to absorb and transform the Blue Dog Fox Wolves, there were two complete ones, and while the last one had been dead for a long time and its magic power had almost dissipated, having been dismembered by Zhenjin and dissected by Cang Xu, it was also nearly complete. In general, no parts were missing.
This showed that for the Heart Core, in order to collect a complete mutated form, both quality and quantity were needed.
Quantity is the foundation. The forms of the gun scorpion, green lizard, brown bear, and such that Zhenjin possessed, were all based on absorbing a large number of corresponding magical beasts.
Quality can break through the limits. Zhenjin absorbed many green lizards, but the lack of a Silver Level green lizard meant he never acquired a Silver Green Lizard form.
Quantity and quality are indispensable, and the two must be balanced.
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Enough quality but too little quantity is not good either. Like the Blue Dog Fox Wolves that Zhenjin absorbed, although each one was Silver Level, there were too few of them, preventing him from collecting a complete form of the Blue Dog Fox Wolf.
However, for Zhenjin, whether he had a complete Blue Dog Fox Wolf form didn’t matter anymore; he could now mutate the key organ—the Biological Scent Pouch.
From then on, Zhenjin became a man who could emit a rich body scent!
But he was missing the wolf tail transformation.
The Biological Scent Pouch is the core, but without the accompanying wolf tail, Zhenjin would find it difficult to quickly diffuse his special fragrance.
Zhenjin made many attempts for this purpose.
At first, he used the Heart Core to mutate, connecting the scent sac duct to his sweat glands. After intense exercise, as long as he sweated, every drop of his sweat was fragrant.
From then on, Zhenjin became a man capable of being drenched in fragrant sweat.
Although the first attempt was successful, he found that this method was too slow to take effect.
Therefore, Zhenjin connected the Biological Scent Pouch’s duct to his urinary tract.
That way, the urine that Zhenjin sprayed was now fragrant urine.
Although the second attempt was successful, its practical value was still very low. After all, suddenly urinating in the midst of intense battle was always quite embarrassing. The only advantage might be to catch the opponent off guard—”Look, Zhenjin has been scared to pee by me!”
Zhenjin did not want to become the first Holy Temple Knight who would urinate during combat, even if the urine was fragrant.
The third attempt showed that Zhenjin’s development of the Heart Core had become much more profound than before.
He first mutated into the green lizard form, then removed the green lizard’s poison glands and venom sacs, replacing them with the Biological Scent Pouch.
The attempt was also successful.
As a result, what he spewed from his mouth was no longer Acid Liquid, but… well… fragrant saliva?
During the past few evenings, Zhenjin conducted live combat tests with this method.
His opponents, those wild magical beasts, often got a face full of Zhenjin’s fragrant saliva. Moments later, they surrendered.
Fragrant saliva did have practical combat value.
But, Zhenjin also found a drawback.
That was, he spit too much at once.
Creating fragrance liquid in the Biological Scent Pouch consumed much more magic power than creating the same amount of Corrosive Acid Liquid.
The fragrant saliva could often only target one, and then he’d have to wait for the fragrance to volatilize freely, affecting the surroundings. The subsequent influence was inefficient, which Zhenjin found unsatisfying.
From a cost-effectiveness perspective, the fragrant saliva attack method was too wasteful.
After some thought, Zhenjin made his fourth attempt, which was his current mode.
He paired the Fat Ball Flying Fish with the Biological Scent Pouch.
All along, although Zhenjin could mutate into a complete Fat Ball Flying Fish, this form wasn’t very practical. After practicing it a few times, Zhenjin shelved it.
After many attempts, Zhenjin finally managed to mutate into a Fat Ball Flying Fish that had a Biological Scent Pouch.
The attack method of the Fat Ball Flying Fish, which was to spray rolling water, thus turned into spraying scalding hot fragrance liquid.
The fragrance liquid was hot, which accelerated volatilization, and its impact was even more swift than the Blue Dog Fox Wolf wagging its tail.
Although this form, whether in attack, defense, or moving speed, was far inferior to other forms, as soon as it was created, it immediately became a powerful ace up Zhenjin’s sleeve.
At this moment, the submission of the Blade Spider Group was enough to prove the unusual strength of this form.
“It’s just a pity that the fragrance liquid I create can’t be used as a raw material,” Zhenjin still felt somewhat regretful.
He had experimented.
He deliberately sprayed out a pool of fragrance liquid and sealed it.
It had to be sealed, as fragrance liquid was a highly volatile substance.
However, after sealing it over one night, when Zhenjin checked it the next day, he found that the fragrance liquid inside had turned into a thin layer of carbon powder.
Zhenjin was disappointed but not surprised.
Because earlier on, he had conducted a similar experiment with the green lizard’s Acid Liquid.
After being left out for a while, the Acid Liquid reverted to a small heap of carbon powder.
“The reason I can mutate into various life forms is all because of the Heart Core within me. It’s demon energy that acts as the energy source, bearing the contradictions and pressures between various life forms.”
“Whether it’s Acid Liquid or fragrance liquid, both are part of the body. It’s equivalent to hair, saliva, and so on, just more easily separated from the torso compared to arms or legs.”
Having understood this, Zhenjin also realized why, when he mutated into the green lizard, there was always some poison reserved in the venom sac.
Bat Monkey Zhenjin squatted on the tree branch, with red light surging from the Heart Core and flowing to his head.
The next moment, as the red light faded, he had gained a wolf’s head.
Not only a wolf’s head, but Zhenjin’s vocal cords also changed into the same type as the Blue Dog Fox Wolf.
Watching the Blade Spiders hiding among the layers of leaves, Zhenjin coughed twice and began what was perhaps his nth attempt.
“Woof(^) Woof(ˊ) Woof(ˇ) Woof(ˋ).”
Zhenjin made a dog’s bark, with varied intonations.
The Blade Spiders remained silent.
“Woof(ˋ) Woof(^) Woof(ˇ) Woof(ˊ)?”
Zhenjin barked again, changing the pitch this time.
The Blade Spiders were indifferent.
“Woof(ˇ) Woof(ˋ) Woof(^) Woof(ˊ) Woof(ˋ)!”
Zhenjin barked louder.
The Blade Spiders were like puppets, showing no reaction.
Perhaps attracted by Zhenjin’s sequence of strange sounds, their gaze seemed to change, looking at Zhenjin not only with submission but also with a hint of seeing an idiot.
“You guys aren’t going to move, are you…” Zhenjin heaved a deep sigh.
He found it incredibly hard.
Learning a foreign language was truly not easy. He hadn’t even grasped the basics and had made no progress whatsoever.
“To learn the language of the Blue Dog Fox Wolf, I must capture one alive! It’s nearly impossible to succeed just by fumbling around on my own.”
Zhenjin finally faced up to reality.
Like Zi Di, he also had the idea of capturing a Blue Dog Fox Wolf alive.
The only difference was that the former wanted to extract the fragrance liquid from the Blue Dog Fox Wolf, while he wanted to learn the foreign language from it.
Without the language of the Blue Dog Fox Wolf, Zhenjin couldn’t command the beast herd that had submitted to him.
He had tried, and the only way to get these Magic Beasts to move was for Zhenjin himself to relocate.
When he moved, the man-made magical beasts that had submitted to him would also silently follow him.
This had its advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage was clear: Zhenjin could actively charge into other beast herds, with the man-made magical beasts following him, and when Zhenjin was attacked, the man-made magical beasts that had submitted to him would protect him, launching a counterattack against the attacker.
The downside, however, was that Zhenjin couldn’t quietly build up Magic Beasts.
Because when Zhenjin returned to camp, these Magic Beasts would follow him too. As a result, it would lead to conflicts between the Magic Beasts and people like Zong Ge.
Human ears can’t hear ultrasound, but the human nose can smell unusual fragrances.
Zhenjin had also thought about claiming, in the name of divinity, that the peculiar scent was a miraculous ability bestowed upon him by God.
But that wasn’t reliable.
In the historical records, none of the Divine Graces of the Holy Emperor were of this type. The powers of the Holy Emperor were commonly manifested in the form of light!
If it were the Flower God, Beast God, or some flesh and blood Evil God, then such a bestowal would be quite fitting.
Zhenjin had already taken a big risk by undergoing a Mutation in front of Zong Ge. After the setback of trying to save Huang Zao, he wouldn’t underestimate anyone.
So, the only choice left to Zhenjin was one.
Next, he came to each Blade Spider one by one, using the blade he had mutated to kill them one by one, then, while their bodies were still fresh and warm, he used the Heart Core to absorb and convert them.
The Blade Spiders had submitted to Zhenjin, and although they would struggle a bit before death, they never truly resisted.
Zhenjin couldn’t help but be filled with emotion.
It was too easy!
That’s how he easily wiped out this massive group of spiders. Easier than he had ever imagined.
If someone had told him before that one day these Blade Spiders would just quietly stand in place, practically lining up for Zhenjin to kill, he surely would have thought that person was insane!
But sometimes, reality is even more incredible than imagination.
With the eradication of this Blade Spider Group, the demon energy reserve of Zhenjin’s Heart Core once again rose to a new peak.
At the moment, Zhenjin had not yet discovered the limit of his Heart Core’s demon energy reserve.
Another gain was that he now possessed the complete form of the Blade Spider. Sёarch* The N??eFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
Previously, he could only transform into the Spider Blade.
“Let’s try out the form of the Blade Spider.”
The next moment, red light surged, and Wolf Head Bat Monkey Zhenjin disappeared, replaced by Blade Spider Zhenjin.
In an instant, Zhenjin felt as if he had been stuffed into a wooden box.
Vision, hearing, smell, and so on, all diminished significantly.
This made Zhenjin somewhat uncomfortable.
The visual acuity of the lizard, the auditory ability of the bat monkey, and the olfactory function of the Blue Dog Fox Wolf were all so strong, but it all plummeted to rock bottom with the Blade Spider.
However, as time passed, Zhenjin discovered the most sensitive perception ability of the Blade Spider—tactile sense.
His touch-feet were indeed made of blades, but the upper part of the blade still had a section of the spider’s joint. Whether it was the joints or the surface of the spider’s body, they were covered with a dense and fine layer of down.
As a breeze passed, the down trembled slightly, and Zhenjin immediately “heard” the wind and “smelled” the scent of the forest.
A nightingale flew by nearby, the sound of its wings flapping, and the consequent air vibration, all transmitted to the down on Zhenjin.
Zhenjin instantly sensed a nightingale fluttering in mid-air in that direction!
As the vibrations continuously registered by the down, the flight path of the nightingale was clearly outlined in Zhenjin’s mind.
A strong intuition told Zhenjin that if he shot a web in that direction, he would definitely be able to capture the tiny nightingale.
Thinking so, Zhenjin immediately opened his mouth and sprayed.
The web flew out, at first just a clump, then suddenly expanded in mid-air.
The nightingale happened to fly there, collided with the web, became entangled, and stuck to the tree trunk.
The nightingale screamed continuously, struggled fiercely, but the web on its body tightened further and further.
The Bloodline of the Hundred Needle Family, coupled with any ranged attack method, always complemented each other so well.
A Silver Level Blade Spider could spit out the web. Those below the Silver Level could only weave webs and set traps.
Next, Zhenjin tried spitting silk.
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t called spitting silk. Perhaps calling it “spitting juice” would be more accurate.
Moreover, this didn’t come from the mouthpiece, but was spat out from the silk spinner located at the back of Spider Zhenjin’s abdomen, near where the buttocks would be.
The silk spinner is an organ of the Blade Spider, containing a Textile Gland where the liquid is produced.
This is a milky white, viscous liquid.
After being expelled from the silk spinner and encountering the air, it immediately hardened and transformed into a thread of spider silk.
Spider silk is quite miraculous, tough, delicate, and both sticky and elastic.
“This feeling is very strange.”
“It feels a bit like defecating, and also a bit like urinating.”
“To sum it up, it’s like urinating from the anus.”
Zhenjin earnestly experienced this for a while, then, seeing the tangled mess of spider silk behind his buttocks, the young knight fell silent.
“Weaving a web is also an art, isn’t it!”
Zhenjin was troubled.
Without a lot of practice, he couldn’t master this skill.