Beast Taming: I can evolve indefinitely

Chapter 34 The Souls of the Dead

Bai Qi took out a monocle from his pocket, put it on, glanced at the fiery undead, and relevant information immediately appeared on the lens.

Bai Qi had originally planned to buy a pet encyclopedia first, but unexpectedly, Chairman Qin's secretary sent him one directly, saving him another sum of money.

This design always reminds Bai Qi of a certain ape-man creature that rated human combat strength as five.

【Name】：Hellfire Ghost Fire

[Race]: Undead

[Growth Level]: Tier 1, Level 4

[Bloodline Level]: High Elite

[Racial Skills]: Ignite, Candle Soul, Wailing

[Description]: The spirits living in the land of the dead, whose flames can inflict both physical and mental damage on enemies.

"The first six levels were all ice and undead, and this seventh level is fire and undead. Hmm, that makes perfect sense."

Bai Qi stared blankly at the enemy whose attributes had drastically changed, and said to Alpha, "Alpha, be careful, physical attacks are useless against this guy."

Crackling.

(Yes, Master.)

As a fellow undead being, Alpha naturally knew the special characteristics of the undead.

It has no physical form, only a pure soul form, so ordinary physical attacks can only watch helplessly from the sidelines.

However, he's not only capable of physical attacks.

Alpha glanced at the Hellfire still lingering outside the frozen area, then brandished Frostmourne and charged forward, freezing everything in its path.

The Hellfire Ghost Fire clearly had no intention of directly confronting Alpha. It moved nimbly through the air, constantly dodging Alpha's slashes, while simultaneously seeking opportunities to make contact with Alpha, leaving flame marks all over Alpha's body.

"Is this... ignition?"

[Skill Name]: Ignite

[Skill Introduction]: By leaving a mark on the enemy upon contact, when the energy accumulated by the mark reaches a certain level, it will ignite a ghost fire that burns the enemy.

It's still a delayed skill.

Bai Qi transmitted a series of instructions to Alpha through the soul contract, and Alpha's attack method changed drastically. It completely abandoned defense and launched a full-scale attack on the Hellfire Ghost Flame.

"ah!!!"

Alpha's fierce offensive caught the Hellfire Ghost Flame off guard. A piercing wail suddenly came from within its twisted body, causing Alpha's soul fire to tremble violently and its movements to cease.

The moment Alpha stopped, the ignition mark left by the Hellfire Ghost Fire erupted, and the blue flames instantly enveloped Alpha, gradually condensing into the shape of a candle above its head.

[Skill Name]: Candle Soul

[Skill Introduction]: Use your own soul as nourishment to burn the enemy. The candle will only go out when one side's soul is completely burned.

Holy crap, there's such a suicidal fighting style?

This clearly shows they're confident in their undead advantage.

Bai Qi smacked his lips, inwardly criticizing the monstrous Hellfire Ghost Fire skill, but he made no attempt to command Alpha to resist, allowing the Candle Soul Fire to burn Alpha away bit by bit, leaving not even a trace behind.

Because it was also affected by the Candle Soul, the Hellfire Ghost Fire was much smaller, but it was clear that it was not affected in any way. It floated to the place where Alpha disappeared and looked around with some confusion.

Although the Candle Soul would reduce its own soul, it could still receive some feedback as long as it defeated the enemy. But now there was nothing, which puzzled Hellfire Ghost Fire greatly.

Crackling!

(Behold my Shadow Lotus!)

Just as the Hellfire Ghostfire was puzzled, the ice surface where Alpha had disappeared suddenly broke open, and icy blue bone spikes emerged from the ground, like a blooming flower, surrounding the Hellfire Ghostfire.

Upon seeing this, the Hellfire Ghost Fire immediately tried to escape, but each of these bone spikes was wrapped in a thick layer of ice, from which flowed streams of dark energy, completely ignoring the flames surrounding the Hellfire Ghost Fire and piercing into its body.

ah! ! !

With a sharp cry, the body of the Hellfire Ghost Fire exploded instantly, leaving only a small ball of fire before being frozen by Alpha.

Crackling.

(Master, would you like to try this?)

Alpha quickly returned to normal and carefully dragged the core of the Hellfire Ghost Flame to its front.

"Can you even fight undead?"

Looking at the small ball inside the ice block that seemed ready to go out at any moment, Bai Qi felt a pang of doubt, but he still pressed it down.

Click.

Several more cracks suddenly appeared on the Evolution Egg, and the progress increased again.

The undead can really be masturbated!

[Name]: Evolution Egg (68% of Black Iron Egg)

[Status]: Activated

Previously, when fighting the Ice Ghost Guardian and Ice Swordsman, each gave 5%, and now the Hellfire Ghostfire has given another 10%, so the Evolution Egg has been upgraded by more than half.

Based on the current trend, another upgrade is just around the corner.

Bai Qi released his hand, while Alpha squeezed hard, crushing the core of the Hellfire Ghost Flame. A withered tree branch appeared on the open ground in front of the two of them.

【Name】：Soul-Nourishing Wood

[Description]: The branches of a special plant that can enhance the spiritual power of undead creatures and other beings, but can cause irreversible damage to living beings. Use with caution.

The first-clear reward for the sixth floor was still Ice Spirit Iron. I thought the seventh floor would be some kind of fire-attribute material, but I didn't expect it to be a material of the Undead type.

Upon seeing the introduction, Bai Qi immediately considered taking it for himself, but after seeing the supplementary information at the end of the encyclopedia, he had to give up.

Damaging the physical body to strengthen the soul—this thing is really not for humans; only inanimate undead can withstand it.

However, this would be a good choice for Alpha, since the soul is crucial for both the skeletal and undead types.

Bai Qi put away the Soul-Nourishing Wood, let Alpha rest for a while, and then continued to the next level.

Having received the first-clear rewards for the sixth and seventh floors in a row, Bai Qi felt relieved, since Xia Xuan shouldn't be able to overtake him by taking a shortcut.

Eighth floor, here I come!

……

Beneath the Tower of Lamentation.

The gate burst open, and Xia Xuan and his MetalGreymon appeared at the bottom of the tower. Some burn marks could still be seen on MetalGreymon's body.

The ferocious beast on the seventh floor suddenly transformed into a fire-type undead, which made it very difficult for Xia Xuan, who had specially modified his MetalGreymon to counter ice-type enemies, to fight. He only managed to hold on for a short while before retreating.

Although MetalGreymon's firepower is strong, it is still somewhat at a disadvantage against these incorporeal undead.

"Xia Xuan? Why did you come down? Who's that person up there still challenging the eighth floor?"

Upon seeing Xia Xuan appear, Han Wei glanced at the still-flickering eighth-layer rune with some confusion.

"Hmph! I don't know!"

Upon hearing Han Wei's question, Xia Xuan snorted coldly and walked away without saying another word.

"Could it be him?"

Gao Cheng and Han Wei exchanged a glance, and the image of Bai Qi appeared in their minds at the same time.

"Impossible! That guy is just a skeleton soldier, how could he possibly climb to the eighth floor!"

Lu Yuan, who had always maintained a cool and aloof demeanor and waited to be spoken to, finally couldn't help but speak up after hearing the conversation between the two, leaving Gao Cheng completely bewildered.

"Skeleton soldiers? Isn't Bai Qi's pet Shadow Bone Spike?"

"..."

(End of this chapter)