Becoming a Saint by Touching Corpses - Chapter 697 - 621: Malicious Provocation (Merged - )
Chapter 697: Chapter 621: Malicious Provocation (Merged Chapter)
The description of this taunting skill has changed ’enemy’ to ’target’ when it comes to provoking anger in one’s heart, clearly making its scope much larger than before.
’It seems that it’s no longer restricted to humans or demons?’
Lou Yi stepped out of the cave.
The thick gray fog filled the world outside, making it really difficult to find a living creature in Tianyuan.
“Detect.”
Lou Yi immediately activated the detection skill, with invisible waves emanating from him as the center, rapidly spreading throughout the outer space.
The lumpy red-brown warm ground full of holes, trivial cracks behind the gray fog, black and white smoke drifting in the air…
All this information appeared in Lou Yi’s mind with startling accuracy, forming a clear 3D stereoscopic color map.
One mile, two miles, three miles… five miles.
Meanwhile, the Gang Qi within Lou Yi was being consumed at an extremely terrifying rate.
After more than ten breaths, Lou Yi mentally commanded the detection skill to stop.
Simultaneously, his figure ’whooshed’ and disappeared from the spot, and in the next moment, he appeared in front of an inconspicuous small cave over five miles away.
The small cave was about the size of a fist, at its entrance a little black insect cautiously poked its head out.
It had an inverted triangular head, black eyes that were hollow and dazed, and two long gray antennae waving back and forth, seemingly probing the air for something.
Due to the harsh environment in Tianyuan, insects are rare, but not absent; it just takes time to find them.
Lou Yi’s detection skill significantly shortened this process.
Lou Yi stared at the clearly unintelligent insect and launched the ’taunt’ skill towards it.
He sensed an invisible ripple leaving his body, spreading to the black insect.
The black insect’s body instantly tensed, then suddenly turned to look at Lou Yi, a spark appeared in its previously empty eyes.
’Whoosh!’
The black insect, which was previously probing its surroundings, suddenly jumped out from the cave entrance, flapping its translucent wings as it charged towards Lou Yi with a death-defying rush.
However, Lou Yi wasn’t interested in its life.
With a flick of his finger, he accurately flicked the black insect back into the cave.
The black insect finally realized what had just happened, ’rustling’ back to the depths underground.
“To affect an insect’s mind, it shows that the taunting skill’s power is quite decent.” Lou Yi nodded contentedly, then turned and walked towards the cave’s location.
On the way, he passed a row of uniquely shaped rock trees.
Three feet tall, trunk as thick as a thigh, completely gray-white, seemingly made entirely of stone, even the leaves were inches thick, looking extremely sturdy.
Rock trees are one of Tianyuan’s most common plants.
Lou Yi, out of curiosity, had dismantled one before and found that its hard stone-like exterior had a softer heart inside, with a kind of astringent milky white liquid flowing through the middle.
Just as Lou Yi’s figure was about to sweep past these rock trees, he suddenly felt a stir in his heart and launched the taunting skill at them.
In the next moment, these previously languid rock trees had their crooked branches all straightening, each one stiffly pointing towards Lou Yi.
’Sizzle.’
Some stone leaves fell off the branches, attempting to shoot towards Lou Yi.
But due to insufficient strength, they only flew more than a foot away before falling to the ground.
“Not bad, this skill’s range of application is broader than I imagined.”
Having figured out the taunting skill’s effect and range, Lou Yi had mastered a new skill once again.
He vaguely felt in his heart that this skill was not simple; perhaps it might have its moment of glory someday.
…
On the third day after the taunting skill advanced to the mastery level.
Lou Yi discovered a nest of spiritual creatures larger in scale than any before.
The strongest spiritual creature within it seemed to have reached the cultivation of the Fourth Layer of the Spirit Platform.
When Lou Yi relayed this news back to the team, they were all delighted.
Spiritual creatures generally have low intelligence, even if their aura seems strong, cultivators with lower cultivation can wear them down using a variety of methods.
But spiritual creatures of the Fourth Layer of the Spirit Platform are extremely rare.
The spiritual material they contain, both in quality and quantity, greatly surpasses that of ordinary spiritual creatures.
“Shiniang’s cultivation has now reached the peak, only lacking the final step,” Elder Gui suggested, “How about we lend all the spiritual materials to Shiniang this time, and she can return them next time?”
“Good!”
“No problem!”
“No big deal!”
Everyone agreed with nods, without any objections.
Lin Xuan’s team had deep feelings for each other, and each member’s character had been tested, not knowing how long they would continue to work together.
The team shared a win-win, lose-lose relationship.
Ding Shiniang becoming stronger was beneficial to everyone in the team.
Upon hearing everyone’s agreement, Ding Shiniang laughed like flowers swaying in the wind, her bare chest undulating with joy: “With everyone’s support, I’ll definitely break through to the Fourth Layer of the Spirit Platform this time!”
Then, under Lou Yi’s lead, everyone arrived at a blue lake surrounded by a circle of small hills.
The lake covered an area of four to five acres, with waves of visible icy cold vapor sweeping towards them.
In the extremely hot environment of Tianyuan, even the rocks underfoot are constantly steaming.
This lake was so cold that the cultivators present felt a chill, clearly knowing it wasn’t simple.
