Swallowing the Stars: You Can't Escape, Mountain Dweller

Chapter 327 Mysterious Spores

The bio-pod needed time to complete its work, so Bai Yang simply sat inside the cave to comprehend the demonic energy of the second level.

The first three levels of the abyss are relatively safe areas, with the concentration of demonic energy only slightly higher than that of the first level.

Bai Yang's understanding of the laws of light and his foundation of willpower are both very high, so the effect is just so-so.

However, he would not complain about even the smallest gain.

With a ding sound inside the cave, the preliminary analysis was completed.

Bai Yang stood up, quickly went to the bio-pod, raised his arm and began to receive the acquired data using the quantum computer.

Star Guardian immediately began to help interpret the data, and soon charts and magnified images were projected into the optical brain.

"What is this?"

Bai Yang looked at seven or eight magnified images of different cell tissues, and the images on them puzzled him greatly.

The images depict various types of organisms, including flesh-and-blood creatures, energy-producing organisms, and plant-based organisms.

A strange purple structure appeared in their body tissues, resembling some kind of infection.

"Not only that, but this situation also exists among rock-type and metal-type Half-Prisoners."

However, the degree of infection is much milder.

Xing Shou said from the side, and then enlarged the size of several of the pictures again.

Upon closer inspection, Bai Yang indeed found the same traces, only the degree of erosion was less.

"What is this thing? Can it be analyzed?"

"I have never found anything like this in the database."

I don't know what these purple things are.

If she said she didn't know about the Star Guardian database, given its comprehensiveness, then Bai Yang must have never seen it before.

He pondered for a moment and said:

"Break this structure down into six sections and double-check it."

The screen in front of Bai Yang changed instantly.

The original image was reduced in size and then divided into six parts.

Suddenly another screen appeared on his right, playing content at an incredibly high speed that he couldn't even see clearly.

After a moment, a picture suddenly popped up on the right side of the screen, corresponding to one of the original pictures.

Bai Yang looked at them carefully and found that the two pictures were about 70-80% similar.

"That's right, we'll filter based on this similarity."

With clear standards in place, Star Guardian's progress accelerated significantly.

Three minutes later, each of the original six images had at least three or four new images that could be compared with them.

Bai Yang carefully examined all the pictures and came to a conclusion.

"This is a kind of spore-bearing plant, but it also has the characteristics of both flesh-and-blood plants."

Therefore, it can erode various types of life forms, but its effect on rock and metal is much weaker.

They even have the ability to gradually transform inorganic matter into organic matter.

"It's strange that this type of life exists."

Star Guardian said with great curiosity.

Bai Yang remained expressionless, seemingly unconcerned.

"The universe is full of wonders, this is nothing special."

Similar things do exist, but those with such strong corrosive power are indeed rare.

This might originate from the life force of the Prison Clan; I suspect it would be even less effective against their natural enemy, the Crystal Clan.

After confirming the truth about these half-prisoner cells, Bai Yang took out a set of culture dishes from his ring.

A portion of these special spores were scraped from these cellular tissues, and an attempt was made to allow them to reproduce.

The demonic energy of the Purgatory Abyss was everywhere. Bai Yang carried the petri dish and walked around several places in the cave.

Sure enough, it was discovered that these strange spores were extremely sensitive to the concentration of demonic energy.

This stuff is simply the best nutrient for them; a slightly higher concentration can cause them to multiply rapidly.

Soon, in a petri dish the size of a bowl, the purple spores became visible to the naked eye.

A light layer of purple was spread at the bottom of the vessel.

"A terrifying rate of reproduction."

No wonder the Half-Prison Clan holds an absolute dominant position in the Abyss of Purgatory.

This inexhaustible regenerative power alone is something the indigenous people cannot handle.

Bai Yang opened the glass lid, used his telekinesis to extract a small handful of spores from thin air, and suddenly fed them directly into his mouth.

"what!"

Seeing him like this, Xing Shou shouted anxiously.

As soon as those strange spores entered Bai Yang's body, they immediately began to erode him.

"Hmm? Interesting."

Bai Yang deliberately controlled the activity and counterattack ability of his freak cells, letting them erode first.

But unexpectedly, after successfully eroding some normal cells, they actually released demonic energy into his body!

"Demonic energy is actually a byproduct of these spores!"

It's not that demonic energy nurtures the spores, but rather that the spores generate demonic energy.

No cosmic genius has ever done anything as audacious as him.

They are even less likely to possess the ability to perfectly control their own monstrous bodies.

It can be said that even a realm lord does not have this ability.

Immortal beings, because their soul and body are completely united, become divine power.

On the contrary, there is no chance of being attacked by spores.

Bai Yang's experience can be described as unprecedented.

Inside his body, the spores multiplied rapidly, quickly eroding many normal human cells.

Bai Yang controlled his body, isolating them within a fixed area between his chest and abdomen.

Any spores that exceed this range will immediately be devoured by the monster cells.

Unbeknownst to him, he had acquired a great deal of genetic information about this spore.

"Truly exquisite! I have never seen such a perfect plant genetic structure."

Not just my Ancient Dragon Vine, but also the Cloud-Moving Vine and the Star-Eating Grass, the information contained in their seeds is far inferior to it.

This is absolutely a product of the universe's own creation.

Bai Yang had never seen such a terrifying life form, even though plants and flesh-and-blood life forms are fundamentally different.

But this difference at the genetic level is overwhelming.

"This can be considered a special kind of life form, and a very powerful one at that."

If these spores are already like this, how powerful must the plant itself be?

It must be deeper in the abyss.

If we could obtain a part of its main body…

Bai Yang was already prepared to delve into even deeper levels of the abyss, and now he felt even more excited.

A thought struck him, and he activated the monster's ability.

The eroded part of the body shrank instantly, and the surrounding monster cells launched a counterattack in an instant.

It directly suppressed the area of ​​those spores into an area the size of a mung bean.

Bai Yang then placed all the cell samples in front of him, selected a sample of the eroded flesh and blood, and swallowed it.

This time, he directly used his devouring ability to make the monster cells replicate this change.

In an instant, his skin turned slightly black, mimicking the physique of the Half-Prison Clan.

The surrounding demonic energy instantly gave him a different feeling.

It became incredibly comfortable, and I was no longer under mental stress.

Bai Yang sat cross-legged, preparing to begin to comprehend the laws of light.

Instantly, an unprecedented pain filled his entire body.

"This sensitivity to the laws of light... is amazing!"

It hurts, so it hurts!

(End of this chapter)