Weird Survival: I can devour thousands of talents

Chapter 213 212: Alchemy Doll? The Earth is a Formation!
In the Bone-Eating Apes' cave, there were only their remains and the bone residue left over from earlier meals.

Ling Xiao scratched the ground.

I wasn't too disappointed after not finding any unexpected treasure chests or other gains.

It seems that the biggest gain of this trip is the talent of the entire Bone-Eating Spirit Ape tribe.

Theoretically speaking.

As long as the upper limit of this talent reaches [Excellence], there is clear room for improvement.

In addition to the talent-enhancing potion formula, Ling Xiao's own unique mechanism can create another way to achieve the transition.

Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.

But this amount...

It’s not a small amount…

This group of bone-eating apes did not produce any strong enough individuals, so although their racial talent could reach the upper limit of [Excellent], there was not even one [Excellent] one.

Almost all of them are [Ordinary] grade, and there are even lower [Inferior] grades.

With only levels but no powerful talents, it's no wonder that Ling Xiao could easily kill them with just a slight move.

The effect of [Bone-biting Enhancement] is very simple.

Devour bones and strengthen your own bones.

Although he had accumulated more than ten points of free attributes to deal with emergencies, Ling Xiao still felt that there was no such thing as too many ways to strengthen himself.

Aren’t these corpses all over the ground now good materials for him to devour and evolve?
Grabbing a grayish-white wreckage, Ling Xiao's fingers lit up with the same grayish-white halo.

Refined instantly!

rustling rustling-

Thanks to the huge gap in strength, the corpse of this leader-level bone-eating spirit ape is quite intact.

In less than a few seconds, the corpse, starting from the legs and feet, turned into fine ashes until it was completely reduced to ashes.

Ling Xiao stretched his muscles and found that the degree of strengthening was minimal.

It seems like it’s another slow process…

call--

A wind as strong as ever blew in the cave!
Ling Xiao casually waved the ashes that had lost their spiritual essence on the ground and sent them into the deepest pile.

This group of bone-eating apes left corpses and bones all over the ground.

The final improvement brought to Ling Xiao was not ideal, but fortunately the trend was positive.

Moreover, the effect of bone strengthening is not good, but the improvement brought by continuous use of [Bone-eating Strengthening] is quite good.

When Ling Xiao fed all the "nutrients" to other talents, [Bone-eating Strengthening] successfully broke through to [Excellent] just by refining the corpses on the ground.

Click, click, click——

He clenched his fists together.

With the sound of his knuckles cracking, Ling Xiao walked away.

……

bake--

A cluster of blazing fire flashed by.

Ling Xiao walked out of the smoke and dust, and a huge monster with its upper half missing fell from the sky.

"Tsk... Another rubbish talent..."

The Death Valley, which is a forbidden area for everyone in Yalan Town, is just a monster spawning cage in Ling Xiao's eyes.

After your experience reaches its limit and cannot be increased any further, the rest of your time will basically be spent on brushing up on your talents.

In fact, Ling Xiao’s current talent tree is already luxurious enough.

However, the "fear of insufficient firepower" also applies to this. Ling Xiao always feels that there are some shortcomings and can be further improved.

"Huh? This is..."

He noticed an unusual fluctuation.

It's very strange, yet seems somewhat familiar.

Ling Xiao walked closer and took a closer look, and discovered that it was actually a magic circle sunken in the rocks.

Floating Island!
Is there a floating island in Death Valley?

[A floating island of a relatively high overall level, possibly containing monsters and treasures...]

Ling Xiao looked at the runes of the magic circle.

They are not exactly the same, but the runes are somewhat similar.

He squatted down and reached out to touch it.

A tiny amount of spiritual power was transmitted, and a weak reaction began to appear.

He was pleasantly surprised to find that the teleportation array of this floating island was also a rune teleportation!
"The two floating islands we encountered were both teleported by rune stones. Could it be that the other floating islands are also accessed by teleportation arrays?"

Ling Xiao suppressed his curiosity.

"The overall level is high... It seems that the monsters on this floating island should be stronger than the LV30 twisted tree spirit..."

Ling Xiao thought for a moment before sending a text message back to Qi Heng and others.

Is the risk factor greater?

So what?!

In principle, you should act prudently.

But to a certain extent, I have already become a principle!
The runes of the teleportation array under his feet lit up, outlining a mysterious magic circle.

The space around him vibrated.

Teleportation enabled!
Ling Xiao immersed himself in his thoughts and grasped their understanding.

Possess an alchemy codex.

The power that I never dared to imagine before can now be exerted as much as possible.

Anyway, there is such a top tutor for private tutoring.

Ling Xiao can make progress just by working hard, and he might even get something for free!
It’s much easier than studying hard by doing exercises in the past!
The familiar feeling of weightlessness disappeared, Ling Xiao walked out of the teleportation array, and arrived on the floating island again.

But surprisingly, this time he didn't need to explore carefully.

The enemy was standing clearly in the distance.

The cliff where the teleportation array is located behind him forms a circle, just surrounding this floating island.

There are no woods or swamps in the middle, only flat land.

After a quick observation, this floating island is simply a natural duel arena!

The Eye of Secrets!

LV30 Knoss [Alchemy Doll]

Individual Talents:
Solid as a rock (reduces physical damage taken by 40%; immune to 50% of normal control effects)

Elemental proliferation (each injury will increase the concentration of earth element)

Mercury-Silver Cycle (For every 8% HP lost, an alchemical repair is triggered, restoring 2% of maximum HP)
Transmutation Intuition (Limited: When analyzing or using alchemy, intuitive reactions to alternative solutions for related materials are generated; accelerates alchemy learning; proficiency increases more easily with practice)

Individual skills:
Rock Slam (Granite's right arm slams the ground, triggering a ranged ground spike attack that applies the [Bone Tremor] debuff to enemies in the path)
Alchemical Siphon (Magnetized copper tendrils extend from the rift, binding the target and draining 1% of the target's maximum health per second, converting it into 2% of the target's rock armor strength)

Mercury and silver poison miasma (Enemy contacted will be stacked with 1 layer of [Heavy Metal Poisoning] per second)
Equivalent Fission (When receiving elemental damage, there is a 10% chance to convert 20% of the damage into self-energy; when triggered, alchemical patterns appear on the body surface, and the next attack will be accompanied by a crystallized explosion of the element's attributes)

【个体属性：力量32/敏捷24/体质30；灵性31/感知26/精神32】

[Individual Description: Professor Knoss is a veteran scholar in the field of alchemy. His aging body, weakened by age and the ever-approaching aura of death, has left him utterly terrified. After a fortuitous encounter, Professor Knoss was introduced to forbidden knowledge such as human alchemy. Seeking immortality, he transformed into this strange life form. In a sense, however, Professor Knoss has succeeded...]

"hiss……"

Good news, I have come across a rare target related to alchemy.

Bad news, what the hell is this guy! ?
Turn yourself into a puppet?
This is a really cruel person...

There was a hint of solemnity in Ling Xiao's eyes.

He wasn't afraid of crazy enemies, but facing this Frankenstein who had a certain "brain" but was actually extremely crazy, Ling Xiao was really troubled.

However, the opponent's talents are all excellent.

After Ling Xiao saw the more detailed results, he was determined to win this battle.

Since it can reveal information, it is equivalent to having a health bar.

There is a health bar...what are you afraid of?
As Ling Xiao looked at it, the alchemy doll's head tilted slightly.

The left half of the face retains the contours of old features, and the skin is covered with cracked clay lines.

Liquid metal flowed in the cracks, and a faint light flashed from time to time.

The right half of his face was eroded by the power of the earth, turning into an angular stone head. A rotating amber alchemical core was embedded in the eye socket, and the pupils reflected the light and shadow of the never-ending alchemical formation.

The rest of the puppet's body is consistent with the head, mostly occupied by rich earth elements and alchemy respectively.

Seeing Ling Xiao, a living person with flesh and blood, Knos's alchemical core started to run rapidly, as if scanning all kinds of information about the intruder.

"Professor Knoss?"

Ling Xiao took a few steps forward and suddenly stopped.

The puppet's tilted head tilted slightly downwards, looking at the ground in front of Ling Xiao.

"This alchemical formation covers such a large area. Although I don't understand alchemy, the dangerous aura hidden underground cannot be hidden..."

Ling Xiao casually picked up several ice spears, which appeared and shot towards certain corners of the ground without stopping.

The puppet finally has new moves.

Facing Ling Xiao's sudden attack, Knoss calmly raised his arm, and a miniature alchemical circle appeared on his palm, and the earth shook!

Do not!
It's not the earth shaking!

But something hidden underground is "moving"!
Knoss's mercury and silver poisonous miasma suddenly exploded!

Ling Xiao pushed his [Rapid Dodge] to the extreme.

He scurried past the rock wall, the soles of his boots creating blue sparks on the raised ground.

That was a fierce collision between the alchemy array that emerged from the ground and the protective qi!
The poisonous miasma that followed corroded the entire stone wall into a honeycomb shape.

boom!
The moment the granite punch smashed the rock wall, Ling Xiao's long sword suddenly ignited with blood-red flames.

[Burning Soul Blood Blade] drew a crescent trajectory, and the energy ripples that erupted when the blade cut into the joint of Knos's right arm actually made the three-meter-tall alchemical puppet stagger half a step.

"The elemental proliferation has reached the fourth level!"

[Eye of Secrets] captured the ochre halo floating on Knos's body. Ling Xiao spun around to avoid the sweeping magnetized copper whiskers, and the ice crystal powder that popped out from the secret compartment of the knife handle exploded in the air.

The moment the [Ice Crystal Shield] was formed, Knos's [Rock Crash] spikes just broke out of the ground, and the mist stirred up by the collision of ice crystals and rock spikes obscured the entire battlefield!
Ling Xiao suddenly put away his knife, and several shadows of fighting spirits emerged from between his eyebrows and attacked Knoss, tearing with sharp claws and biting with fangs!

When the puppet turned around and swung its arms, Ling Xiao had already stepped on the falling rock fragments and soared into the air. The wind-marked sword energy of [Wild Wind and Shadow Sword Technique] poured down like a rainstorm - but it was a fake move!
The real killer move is hidden under the sword shadow.

[Thousands of Cold Lights] descended from the sky and enveloped everything below.

The magnetite inlay on Knoss's left knee shattered.

Ling Xiao took the opportunity to rush forward, tapping the ground to gain leverage and leaping up. His agile movements allowed him to shoot straight at the core like an arrow from a bow.

Knoss's mercury and silver poison miasma suddenly boiled over!

The crystallization explosion triggered by [Equivalent Fission] forced Ling Xiao to retreat.

When Ling Xiao flipped backwards and landed on the ground, he suddenly spurted out [Flames in Bloom], which collided with the powerful earth element emitted by the puppet, and suddenly the [Spear of Extreme Cold] pierced out from the evaporating white mist!
The ice spear pierced through Knos' right shoulder!
Ling Xiao's pupils suddenly shrank - the purple mucus wriggling in the wound was transforming the ice element into a growth layer of earth element.

Calming down his slightly accelerated internal breath, Ling Xiao dodged on the splashing mercury and silver, and casually set up several [Ice Spike Traps]!
They all exploded in one second! ?
An unbelievable scene came to my perception!
Earth!

On the rise! ?

Ling Xiao immediately realized that the alchemy array hidden underground had been activated.

How to fight?

His choice is hard steel!
At this moment, the earth was rolling, and the alchemy formation made the originally solid land roll up like waves!

In an instant, Ling Xiao thought of a way to deal with it.

It's still a dual field.

It's still ice below and fire above!
【Ice Soul Field】

Blazing Field

Both of them showed their power together!
The waves of the earth that were originally chasing Lingxiao were frozen and stagnant by the sweeping cold.

Although it is still rolling relentlessly, its momentum has become much "gentler".

Ling Xiao raised his left hand to the sky, and a dark red halo flashed with circles of patterns.

That was the extremely rich fire element continuing to condense under the constraints of the domain!
At last……

Exploded with a bang!

The Flame Realm is coming!

The core of the alchemy doll flashed with a faint light, and the terrifying earth element was absorbed by it.

The elemental storms suddenly collided!

The ice, which only had a delaying effect, was instantly crushed and melted.

Ling Xiao stood suspended in the air, while the violent wind was as docile as a lamb around him.

He looked down at the floating island, and the alchemy doll named Knos also raised his head and looked at him.

"You... are very strong..."

"Are you willing to talk?"

Ling Xiao slowly descended, but the wind around him showed no sign of subsiding; instead, it grew stronger.

"You are indeed very strong,"

The puppet's voice is both harsh and mellow, which is really uncomfortable to listen to.

"But your strength is not what I care about,"

The puppet paused, then continued, "You actually control the domain?"

"Why? Is it incredible that humans can master domains?"

Ling Xiao wanted to ask something from the puppet without leaving any trace.

"No, humans can also master domains. I'm surprised that you were able to comprehend the domain when you were so weak, and even developed domain skills..."

Knoss seemed to have returned to his former scholarly identity, his strange eyes full of inquiry.

"You have secrets, and they are secrets that are fundamentally different from those of other people."

Ling Xiao couldn't help but admire this guy's vision.

As expected of a former alchemist, he always grasps the key points when looking at problems...

"Everyone has secrets, and you're still able to retain your consciousness. This is not something an alchemy doll can do."

Ling Xiao said calmly, "What kind of forbidden knowledge have you researched? This is comparable to being resurrected from the dead."

"I didn't expect that after all these years, I could still meet such an interesting little guy like you!"

A convulsive laugh erupted from the alchemy puppet.

"Taboo? What is taboo!?"

"I just don't want to die, and there's a way, one I can do! Monster? Taboo!?"

"That's just mediocre people throwing mud at the powerful! They, you! Have you ever seen true power?!"

The puppet spoke faster and faster, and the elemental glow floating around it became increasingly unstable.

"You're amazing! Your mind and body are absolutely first-rate materials! Transform you! No! Eat you!"

"Merge into me and achieve eternal life with me!"

"Alas...what's wrong with this continent...why is there another lunatic with a mental problem..."

A flash of sword descended from the sky, as fast as heavenly fire!

(End of this chapter)