Douluo: Ant Power Breaks the Sky

Chapter 30 Swallowing Ability
As Shi Yi and Zhao Wuji went deeper, they found that the surrounding trees were occasionally covered with spider webs, which clearly showed that the little ant had not found the wrong place.

Suddenly, a strange sound attracted their attention.

The rustling sound was like someone changing clothes, or the rubbing of leaves. The two of them became alert, and even Xiao Yi showed human-like uneasiness.

Then, they saw the originator of the sound.

The black spider was over 1.5 meters in diameter, with eight spear-like legs over 3 meters long. Its entire body was black and shiny, and its long legs were slender at the front, piercing the ground silently with every step it took, showing how sharp they were.

Shi Yi looked at this body size, which had just broken through the level of two thousand years. It was exactly the human-faced demon spider that he had been thinking about day and night.

"Teacher Zhao, it's up to you. This thing can launch three spider webs that are ten times larger than its own size and carry toxins. It is very troublesome. Try to suppress it directly with gravity control." Shi Yi whispered to Zhao Wuji.

Zhao Wuji nodded slightly and golden light shone all over his body. As the fifth ring lit up, the powerful gravity instantly suppressed the human-faced demon spider and stuck it to the ground.

Feeling Zhao Wuji's power, the suppressed human-faced demon spider instantly spit out a huge spider web towards the two of them. However, its accuracy was not very good due to being suppressed, and the two of them were in the jungle. At the moment of spitting out the spider web, Zhao Wuji grabbed Shi Yi's shoulder and instantly dodged behind a big tree. At this moment, Shi Yi also summoned the little ant back into his body.

Looking at the tree that was gradually being corroded, Zhao Wuji was a little surprised that the corrosive power of the toxin of this human-faced demon spider seemed to be a little too strong. The extraordinary intelligence of this human-faced demon spider also surprised Zhao Wuji.

"This beast is quite smart. It wants to use the spider web to force us back, causing the distance between us to increase so that it can try to break free." Zhao Wuji said with some surprise.

Shi Yi nodded in agreement, thinking to himself, "It is indeed not much different from what I speculated. Even soul beasts have their own talents. The bloodline of this human-faced demon spider is extremely powerful."

The human-faced demon spider is actually not a simple soul beast. Not only does it possess the extremely advanced ability of devouring lives, the ten thousand year level human-faced demon spider also has a special skill of concealment. In the process of cultivation, the human-faced demon spider will also awaken an extremely powerful innate ability, Spider God Possession: an extremely simple comprehensive instant amplification, which consumes one year of cultivation to maintain for one second.

These three extraordinary abilities all demonstrate the extraordinary bloodline inherited by the human-faced demon spider.

"Teacher Zhao, it came from the sky." Shi Yi chuckled and handed a mushroom sausage to Zhao Wuji.

Zhao Wuji's eyes lit up when he heard that. His worst quality was speed. If he acted rashly he would definitely be blocked by the spider web. Although he could actually solve the problem with his martial soul's true body, he felt it was a bit of a waste of talent.

Compared with attack skills, he has more control skills. The reason is that in battle, the most important thing for a soul master like him is to hit the opponent.

"You kid have been prepared for this. You even thought of this." Zhao Wuji couldn't help but marvel at Shi Yi's clever brain. Just by watching him take action a few times, he knew the shortcomings of his abilities.

As a Soul Saint, he can fly, but his speed is certainly not as fast as Oscar's mushroom.

As Zhao Wuji rose into the air at a high speed, the suppressed human-faced demon spider also discovered this and raised its head with difficulty, trying to shoot out a spider web. However, Zhao Wuji raised his hand and lightly tapped the air. In just a moment, the golden light that suppressed the human-faced demon spider became stronger.

"You still want to look up?" Zhao Wuji said casually, with a golden light appearing in his hand. Then Shi Yi saw the golden light falling from the sky. It was Zhao Wuji's second soul skill, the Vajra Palm.

"I have practiced an alien version of the Tathagata Palm for you." Shi Yi smiled and slowly walked towards the direction of the human-faced demon spider.

"Hiss..." A shrill cry full of piercing sharpness sounded particularly clear.

With a loud bang, the human-faced demon spider, which had been hit hard by the Soul Saint's full-strength attack in its non-true form, was now only breathing its last breath. It was unable to move in the gravity field released by Zhao Wuji, and it didn't even have the strength to open its mouth to spit out spider webs. The shell on its back was basically shattered by Zhao Wuji, and its eight eyes flashed with human-like resentment, which even Zhao Wuji was amazed at.

"You are quite good at picking. Apart from your martial soul, I have only seen such intelligence in soul beasts of ten thousand year level." Zhao Wuji said to Shi Yi.

Shi Yi smiled and said nothing, but summoned his martial spirit.

"Little ant, eat." Shi Yi whispered to the little ant.

Seeing the little ant appear, the hatred in the eyes of the human-faced demon spider seemed to become even stronger. Perhaps it never thought that one day it would die at the hands of the Qianjun ant that it killed at will.

As the human-faced demon spider's emotions changed, violent fluctuations of soul power emanated from its body.

"Wow, you can still breathe?" Zhao Wuji said in surprise.

Shi Yi understood, however, that this was the power of his blood. To die at the hands of Xiao Yi might be even more shameful than to die at the hands of Tang San.

At this moment, the little ant also felt the terror from the blood of its natural enemy, and immediately did not dare to move forward.

"Little Yi, go, believe me, it's okay." Shi Yi comforted him softly and gently touched the little ant's exoskeleton shell. At this time, humane ridicule appeared in the eyes of the human-faced demon spider.

Under Shi Yi's comfort, Xiao Yi began to eat the human-faced demon spider.

This process was very long, and even the human-faced demon spider itself could feel it clearly. The roars and resentful eyes were accompanied by strong fluctuations of soul power. As the gnaw process progressed, the little ant also felt this powerful blood power. The gnawing speed continued to increase, and Shi Yi also felt the little ant's desire for this blood power.

This blood power is now turning into nutrients and entering the little ant's body bit by bit.

As the little ants gnawed, Shi Yi was surprised to find that the soul power in his body was increasing little by little.

"What is this?" Shi Yi immediately set his sights on the little ant. At this time, the little ant began to gradually show some changes. Its saber-toothed forelimbs seemed to become sharper, and there was more dark purple in its shell.

Shi Yi suppressed his inner surprise. It was obvious that as the little ant continued to eat, it had begun to awaken its ability to devour lives. This power was also benefiting its brother Shi Yi.

"It seems that this time it went smoothly, and we even made some new discoveries."

The cultivation method of soul beasts is much simpler and cruder than that of humans. The first is the environment. Just like humans need a simulated cultivation environment, soul beasts also need a place full of energy from heaven and earth, such as the Lake of Life at the core of the Star Dou Great Forest. The second thing is eating, as bloodlines will always be a matter of survival of the fittest.

With the loss of blood power, the human-faced demon spider had already died, but the little ant's eating did not produce soul rings like the humans like Shi Yi killed it. "The rules set by the gods, the blood power that humans cannot directly absorb will directly turn into soul rings and soul bones, but the little ant can use the same eating method as soul beasts to produce changes, and no soul rings are produced." Shi Yi thought secretly in his heart.

Suddenly, many terrible guesses appeared in Shi Yi's mind. Why are the martial souls of some beast soul masters the same as the existing soul beasts?
Why can spirit rings bring significant changes to martial spirits? Is this considered a mutual adaptation between different bloodlines?

Or maybe beast martial spirits originally come from... soul beasts? If a 100,000-year-old soul beast were to be reborn as a human, wouldn't the offspring be beast soul masters?

"What are you thinking about, kid?" Zhao Wuji's voice brought Shi Yi back to reality.

Shi Yi slowly came back to his senses and saw that the little ant had already eaten up all the flesh and blood of the human-faced demon spider. His own soul power had actually reached level 29, and he was only one step away from becoming a soul master.

"Nothing, Teacher Zhao, I just thought of an interesting question." Shi Yi shook his head slightly. Those questions that came down to the essence actually didn't make much sense to explore, because when Shi Yi understood that level, the answers to these questions would naturally appear in front of him.

"You guys really can't sit still for a moment. You think about all sorts of things all day long." Zhao Wuji said helplessly.

"Sure enough, the soul beast that can explode external soul bones not only brought tremendous changes to Xiao Yi, but also brought me a level and a half of cultivation. This increase in soul power is not much different from absorbing soul rings, and the ability of the external soul bones should also be reflected in Xiao Yi." Shi Yi said secretly in his heart.

"Let's go, Teacher Zhao, let's continue." Shi Yi chuckled.

Zhao Wuji smiled at Shi Yi and said, "How are you going to thank me, old Zhao? I felt that your soul power was increasing. You must have made another breakthrough."

Shi Yi smiled and nodded, "Not much, only an increase of one and a half levels. Now you are only one step away from level 30. I will give you a treasure in a few days."

Zhao Wuji said in disbelief: "What treasure can you come up with?"

"I promise you won't be disappointed. Let's go. This time we are going to dig out the nest of the Qianjun ants. Your task is to help me dig out the queen ant and then help me catch an eighteen-hundred-year-old soldier ant. I want to take this opportunity to directly break through to level thirty." Shi Yi chuckled at Zhao Wuji.

"Then Old Zhao will be waiting." Zhao Wuji said with some anticipation.

"Xiao Yi, let's go." Shi Yi instructed Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi's face showed human joy when he heard what Shi Yi said.

Shi Yi had wanted to dig out the nest of the Thousand Jun Ants for a long time, but he didn't have strong legs. A nest of Thousand Jun Ants was no joke. Although the Thousand Jun Ants had no attacking skills except for their great strength, a nest represented a colony, and a large number of ants could kill an elephant. At least Shi Yi didn't dare to dig out the nest alone. It was easy for him to kill a Thousand Jun Ant alone, but he couldn't take on a hundred alone.

Soon, a giant golden bear appeared somewhere in the forest, digging in the ground. Behind it were a large number of Thousand Jun Ant corpses. After an unknown amount of time, the huge martial spirit's true body finally dug out a huge Thousand Jun Ant from the cave.

This Qianjun ant looked quite extraordinary. There was a faint golden line pattern on the shell of its exoskeleton. This golden line pattern represented the royal bloodline no matter which soul beast it was on. This was exactly the Qianjun ant queen that Shi Yi was looking for.

In the state of martial soul true body, Zhao Wuji used his huge bear paw to flick the Thousand Jun Ant Queen lightly, knocking her unconscious. Then Zhao Wuji threw the Queen Ant in front of Shi Yi.

Without waiting for Shi Yi to say anything, the little ant ran up happily.

It didn't take long for the little ants to eat up all the food of the queen ant. Shi Yi also re-evaluated the devouring ability of the human-faced demon spider in his heart.

This time, after eating Shi Yi, it was able to break through the threshold of level 30. However, this Thousand Jun Ant Queen is a soul beast of nearly 4,000 years old. Obviously, the feedback brought by the small ant's devouring ability depends on the size of its bloodline power. Although the cultivation level of this Thousand Jun Ant is higher than that of the human-faced demon spider, it is obvious that the power contained in its bloodline is too small.

If the human-faced demon spider was regarded as a genius like Tang San, then this queen ant could at most be regarded as a direct disciple who had awakened the Clear Sky Hammer but had average talent. As for the corpses of the Thousand Jun Ants piled up not far away, the little ant didn't even look at them.

"Sure enough, if you eat too much good food, you will naturally look down on simple meals. No wonder Sanpao doesn't even eat a thousand-year-old sub-dragon. The bloodline of the Golden Holy Dragon cannot be awakened by eating any sub-dragon. Even if you eat it, it will probably be of no use. It's better to eat radishes with bullets." Shi Yi said secretly in his heart.

Yu Xiaogang's problem is not in improving his bloodline, but in awakening it. Generally speaking, his bloodline is too powerful, but his soul master's talent is too poor, which results in his bloodline being unable to awaken.

Tang San just picked up a ninth-grade purple ganoderma to improve Yu Xiaogang's personal talent to a certain extent, and the power of his bloodline naturally broke the original limitations.

After the little ant finished eating, Zhao Wuji helped Shi Yi find a Qianjun ant of the right age to start absorbing. Everything went smoothly according to Shi Yi's plan.

After absorbing the soul ring, Shi Yi also reached the thirty-first level. At this point, Shi Yi completed the feat of jumping four levels in one day, which amazed Zhao Wuji. Zhao Wuji had never seen Shi Yi practice like this before. The so-called innate soul power seemed to become a joke in front of Shi Yi.

"You've been thinking about these things for a long time, right?" Zhao Wuji said to Shi Yi.

Shi Yi nodded and said, "Of course, the significance of soul masters learning theory is to guide their own practice, use their own theory to continuously optimize their own practice, and make reasonable plans for their own martial souls. This is the significance of the existence of theory."

At this moment, Zhao Wuji also had a deep understanding of Shi Yi. Shi Yi was not like those theoretical masters he had met, but a person who dared to explore and take action for it.

"This kid is a natural teacher." Zhao Wuji sighed in his heart.

"Let's go, it's almost time to go back." Shi Yi said to Zhao Wuji.

"Why don't you pay a little more? You'll miss this opportunity again if you miss it." Zhao Wuji said to Shi Yi meaningfully.

“Teacher Zhao, Little Ant is ultimately a martial soul rather than a soul beast. Martial souls and soul masters must develop in a balanced manner. If I rely solely on Little Ant to continuously devour, perhaps in a short period of time, I can grow very fast, but the road ahead will be more difficult. However, if I cultivate to the appropriate level every time like I am doing now, and then find suitable objects for Little Ant to devour, it will be much easier for me to break through the bottleneck than for ordinary soul masters. This is the correct way to promote each other and make progress together.” Shi Yi smiled at Zhao Wuji.

Zhao Wuji grinned and said, "I was worried that you wouldn't be able to resist the temptation of increasing your soul power, but I, Old Zhao, was overthinking it."

The two smiled at each other and headed towards the town.

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(End of this chapter)