Chapter 1293 - 1393: The Marvelous Use of the Demon Core

In fact, according to Taichu Zhenren's view on this mantis-like creature outside the wall.

This mantis-like creature is not only agile but also possesses sharp attacks, purely an agile warrior.

But the only downside is that, although this mantis-like creature is an agile warrior, agility means weak defense. If its defense is weak, then Taichu Zhenren believes it can continue to fight. Otherwise, if even this mantis-like creature had strong defense, then it would have no weaknesses, making it fundamentally impossible to fight.

In truth, Taichu Zhenren also knows that this mantis-like creature has an exceedingly hard shell, but internally it should be relatively weak.

Moreover, the connections between these hard shells, where the joints of this mantis-like creature are located, are also weaker spots, because those areas are not inherently hard.

If even the joints are extremely rigid, then Taichu Zhenren would have no way to mount effective attacks; similarly, other outside wall creatures wouldn't be able to attack this creature either, meaning this outside wall creature would be invincible.

And the Power of Heaven and Earth cannot create an invincible outside wall creature. After all, although outside wall creatures are somewhat invincible, before Taichu Zhenren discovered a way to counter their Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and other negative auras, he truly had no method to deal with them and could only resist with the Freedom Sword.

And they learned the Freedom Sword could deal with the outside wall creatures through an experiment conducted by an earlier organization using a corpse of such a creature, which led to the breakout of the earlier incident inside the wall, causing significant losses to the cultivators inside the wall.

Moreover, during this time outside the wall, about half of them perished, which already caused the overall strength of the cultivators to decrease by nearly half. Although about half of them inside the cultivation world died, their high-end combat strength remained, while the casualties primarily involved middle and lower-tier fighters, so their combat abilities haven't diminished too much, but looking long-term, they lost their future.

After all, those who died were young and promising, some even being seeds of the sects lost in the previous circumstances.

In such a situation, why do they still remain outside the wall? Don't they know the danger there? They do. The reason they stay is to gain more resources to make up for their losses, and those outside wall resources can enable them to recover in a short time.

Although this "short time" might mean decades or hundreds of years, relative to the lifespan of cultivators, that's already considered a relatively good timeframe.

And most importantly, compared to those demon beasts that take tens of thousands of years each time, they, the cultivators, are truly remarkable.

After all, human cultivation itself takes advantage of time, place, and harmony, allowing their cultivation speed to be much faster than those demon beasts, even faster than the creatures outside the wall, which take thousands to tens of thousands of years to reach such a state, not even to say cultivate to such a state, but devour to such a state.

The human cultivation to this stage merely requires hundreds to thousands of years, and even those with lesser talent only need a few thousand years.

The reason humans can cultivate so quickly lies in humanity's creation, embodying an image closest to heaven and earth.

Even those with the poorest talent surpass the majority of demon beasts in terms of aptitude.

After all, if demon beasts want to cultivate, there's fundamentally no way, because they cultivate their Demon Core and then refine their physique. If any steps in between happen too quickly, or if there's an imbalance in proportions, it may lead to the demon beast's total failure.

Although demon beasts' physique seems much stronger than cultivators', ultimately their main strength lies in their bodies. Even their Demon Core simply increases their Spiritual Power slightly.

Because demon beasts' bodies are extremely robust, and they often use their spiritual energy to refine their bodies, this results in these outside wall creatures being unable to store large amounts of spiritual energy in their bodies.

Thus, they've developed an alternative, researching a kind of Demon Core. Even if their Demon Core is damaged, they won't lose much strength in the short term. In the long run, they just need to condense another one. However, the condensation of a Demon Core not only enhances their strength but also keeps pace with the spiritual energy required for bodily refinement.

If a demon beast loses its Demon Core, it requires a considerable amount of time to re-condense it. During this period, their strength cannot be enhanced.

As a demon beast's strength increases, their physical power increases significantly. If they wish to refine their current physique with spiritual energy, high-density spiritual energy is required for refinement, which means higher quality energy, akin to higher-level spiritual energy in human cultivation.

But in the case of demon beasts, they cannot effectively purify or compress spiritual energy. All they can do is condense a Demon Core and continuously gather and absorb spiritual energy into it, achieving compression through this method.

If a demon beast's Demon Core becomes damaged, it means all the time spent condensing must be repeated.

This is why some demon beasts highly value their Demon Core, as they cannot afford to spend vast amounts of time to re-condense it again, as it would hinder their progress in strength, and not every demon beast is sanguine about it.

After all, a demon beast is still a beast and possesses animalistic instincts.

Even if it's not about the Demon Core but something else, for instance, a demon beast's food, it will retaliate against those who threaten its sustenance.

At this moment, Taichu Zhenren had already decided that if this mantis-like creature outside the wall keeps using ranged Sword Qi, then Taichu Zhenren would use ranged Sword Qi to deplete it, as Taichu Zhenren wields the Freedom Sword, and its Sword Qi is imbued with some Power of Rules.

Thus, Taichu Zhenren's Sword Qi can suppress the Sword Qi unleashed by this mantis-like creature.