Beast Taming: I can evolve indefinitely

Chapter 619 Dragon Soldiers and Insect Guards

"It doesn't plunder life force, it just extracts the natural power within, having the same effect as my Emerald Breath."

Nicholas shook his head, his gaze toward the cordyceps growing increasingly affectionate.

Although the appearance is somewhat different, the Cordyceps' abilities are becoming increasingly similar to those of the Green Dragon, which makes Nicholas very happy.

"Similar to the breath of jade, meaning it can also grant life?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Qi suddenly realized what was happening and gave the cordyceps a new instruction. The cordyceps immediately understood, and the temperature of the sun overhead suddenly changed, becoming warm in an instant.

At the same time, the plants that had died from being deprived of their vitality gradually regained their life force after being exposed to the green sunlight.

"Excellent! It possesses the effects of both the Great Sun Force Field and the Emerald Breath, and can even forcibly pull people into dreams. This AOE effect is perfect!"

Bai Qi gave Cordyceps a thumbs up. Putting aside Cordyceps' current enormous size, Cang Ri alone already possesses enough deterrent power.

"Since the Azure Sun effect is due to the Awakening Potion, then this Dragon Soldier Insect Guard must have gained its power through the Immortal Insect Molt, right?"

Bai Qi transferred his mental energy to the Dragon Soldier Insect Guard, and relevant data immediately appeared in his mind.

[Skill Name]: Dragon Soldier Insect Guard

[Skill Level]: Extraordinary

[Skill Effect]: Injects an insect egg, which combines the genetic essence of the dragon and insect races, into the parasite's body. The insect egg will transform the parasite into a form that combines insect and dragon.

Note: Quantity 0/9

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"Modifying the parasite...into a single entity, insect and dragon..."

Bai Qi smacked his lips, looked at the transformed cordyceps in front of him, and his expression suddenly became strange.

It seems he has already achieved the goal of the first dean of Cangzhe Academy?

"Epsilon, do you feel any difference between yourself now and before?"

Bai Qi shouted.

"The difference? Aside from becoming a little stronger, I feel like I've developed two completely independent sets of body organs and tissues. Would you call that a difference?"

After carefully sensing it, the cordyceps replied.

"Two sets? Didn't you already have two sets?"

Bai Qi was somewhat puzzled, while Shu Ke activated the scanning system at the opportune moment, scanning out the body structure of the cordyceps.

"Two brains, two hearts, two... everything is two?"

Bai Qi was somewhat taken aback. The two original systems of the Insect Plains came from the Soul-Eating Insect and the Dream Vine, one a plant and the other an insect.

After evolving into the Great Sun Dragon Cicada, although it merged with the other two, it retained two sets of control centers, which is why it could fight while sleeping, just like before.

But now, cordyceps has two sets of organs, including the brain, and they are like twin flowers, independent yet intertwined.

"What's so special about this? Huskies have three souls in one body, while Epsilon has two bodies in one soul?"

Bai Qi scratched his head, looking at his pet beast and its almost alien-like body structure, and suddenly the scene of the Cordyceps's frantic involution flashed into his mind.

Two sets of organs, one responsible for daytime and the other for nighttime, a 24-hour frenzied competition, the boss of 007 is overjoyed!

"You've gone off on a tangent. How do you use this Dragon Soldier Insect Guard, Cordyceps? And... where are the insect eggs?"

Bai Qi shook his head, stopping thinking about those strange things and getting back to the main topic.

"It should be here, right?"

Cordyceps shook its dragon tail, nearly hitting Nicholas, clearly not used to it.

Suddenly transformed from a tiny worm into a giant dragon, Cordyceps was overjoyed, but it still needed some time to adapt.

"Is it injected using a tail needle? It really feels like something out of an alien."

Bai Qi shuddered. Fortunately, the Dragon Soldiers and Insect Guards had an upper limit; otherwise, Bai Qi doubted whether the Cordyceps might one day become something like the Alien Queen.

At that point, things might develop in a direction beyond his control.

First came the undead scourge, then the Zerg invasion; it feels like the direction of his pet's evolution is a bit dangerous.

Soon, Cordyceps adapted to the changes in its body and summoned its parasitic beasts to its front.

"Let me think about it, and it seems like this is how it works..."

After a moment's thought, Cordyceps inserted the long, thin stinger from its tail into the body of its first parasitic king, the Sky-Splitting War Bear.

"Is that all?"

Bai Qi was taken aback when he saw the cordyceps retract its tail needle.

This commotion is far too small.

However, before the cordyceps could recover, a huge change suddenly occurred on the Sky-Splitting War Bear.

Its thick fur fell off, replaced by a chitinous carapace and dragon scales, and it even grew a pair of broad insect wings.

Immediately afterwards, the head of the Sky-Splitting War Bear was also burst open by a huge head, resembling both an insect and a dragon, with sharp mouthparts that made people's hearts tremble.

As for those strong limbs, they were replaced by sharp insect limbs, and even a pair of new ones extended from the abdomen.

When the transformation of the Sky-Splitting War Bear was completely over, what appeared before Bai Qi and the others was a completely new creature that was both insect and dragon.

"My goodness, are you sure this skill isn't called Biochemical Armor?"

Bai Qi looked at the insect guard in front of him in surprise and said, "This thing has absolutely nothing to do with the Sky-Splitting War Bear anymore, right?"

"There is still some connection."

Cordyceps shook its head and sent a command to the Sky-Splitting War Bear, whose body immediately turned into a metallic form.

"Can I use the Tempering skill now?"

Bai Qi was taken aback when he saw this. The parasitic beasts of Cordyceps cannot use skills, which is why he specifically asked Cordyceps to choose a fighting-type pet to maximize their combat power.

But now, it seems this insect guard can use attribute skills?

"That's right. After I transform them into insect guards, their body structure will be modified based on their original bodies. After the modification, I will be able to control them to use attribute skills."

Cordyceps nodded, then suddenly sighed with some regret, saying, "It's a pity that these insect guards still have no souls; they are merely unconditionally obeying my commands."

"Don't worry about the soul. Aren't you researching virtual souls? You can just inject it into the body another day."

Bai Qi waved his hand, looked at the insect guard in front of him with a blank look in his eyes, but who was closely guarding the cordyceps, and the corner of his mouth curled up slightly.

"Now that we can use attribute skills, we can't just choose any of these remaining insect guards."

"Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Thunder, Light, Darkness—we have to give him a set!"

"Is it really possible, Chief?"

Cordyceps was somewhat excited upon hearing this. Finally, his little brother wasn't so stupid anymore. At least compared to the Seven Swords Dragon Riders and the Twelve Zodiac Guardian Beasts, he was somewhat presentable.

"Of course."

Bai Qi nodded, looked at the other parasitic beasts of Cordyceps, and said, "Apart from these few that have their own attributes, the others don't need to be parasitized anymore. Release the control."

"I understand."

The insect guard nodded repeatedly, immediately severing its parasitic relationship with the pets, and then began a new round of parasitism and modification.

Snap snap snap...

(Everyone else has subordinates, and Gamma wants one too...)

Watching the cordyceps working so diligently, Gamma suddenly felt a little envious.

"Gamma, you want a lackey too?"

Bai Qi couldn't help but chuckle upon hearing this, never expecting his pet to develop a competitive mentality in this regard.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Now that Alpha, Husky, and Cordyceps all have servants, it would be a lie to say that the other pets aren't reacting.

Snore!

(Jeta wants one too!)

Seeing that Gamma had spoken, Jetta also made his own request.

"Gamma, you already have the Split skill, so you don't need your underlings anymore. At most, keep an eye out for an opportunity to upgrade your Split skill later. Intermediate Split is indeed a bit lacking."

Bai Qi patted Gamma's head, then looked at Jeta and said, "As for you, Jeta, there's no need for that, otherwise I'm worried your underlings will get killed along with you."

Upon hearing this, Shuangchong suddenly understood and stopped worrying about it.

"Delta, why don't you have any objections? Don't you want a servant?"

Having calmed Gamma and Jetta down, Bai Qi looked at the unmoved Delta with a puzzled expression and asked.

Bubbling.

(Delta himself isn't strong enough, so he won't get distracted.)

Delta shook his head. Although he also wanted to recruit some followers, both his time and space abilities took up a lot of his time.

Therefore, instead of spending energy training servants, it's better to focus on developing one's own bloodline and gaining stronger combat power.

"That's true, your spacetime power works better."

Bai Qi nodded slightly, no longer dwelling on these matters, and began to examine the cordyceps in front of him again.

After evolving, Cordyceps' body length reached a full twenty meters, and it was about ten meters tall when standing still, not much smaller than Nicholas, firmly establishing itself as the largest creature in the team.

"Looks like I'll have another option for my ride when I go out from now on."

Bai Qi nodded in satisfaction. He had been quite obsessed with mounts at first, but gradually gave up after acquiring Delta, an all-around mount.

Unexpectedly, he now has two mounts, one an Eastern dragon and the other a Western dragon. This mount configuration is truly luxurious.

"From now on, I'll ride Epsilon when I go out, and then have Delta shrink down and hide on my body. Mom won't have to worry about me going out anymore."

Bai Qi quickly sketched out his future travel plans and was about to go see the other insect guards transformed by the cordyceps when he saw Alpha suddenly return to the secret realm.

"Why did it take you so long to get back? Has Guan Qing's strength improved a lot?"

Bai Qi checked the time and asked.

Crackling.

(The improvement is indeed significant, but the improvement in combat level is not substantial.)

"Then why did it take you so long to get back?"

Crackling.

(His moonlight attribute seemed to have a certain restraining effect on the power of death, so he fought a few more battles.)

Alpha seemed to want more, and the longsword behind him trembled slightly involuntarily.

"Can it suppress the power of death? That's right, the sun and moon are also stars, so it's not surprising that they can suppress the power of death."

Bai Qi instantly understood the reason and became interested in this moonlight attribute.

Or, we could talk to Guan Qing about cutting a piece of bark off the Crescent Moon Guardian and seeing if we could get the Moonlight attribute too.

(End of this chapter)