This isn't a souls-like game at all.

"What kind of insect is a naked insect?"

"This doesn't look like it's for me, it looks more like it belongs to a dung beetle..."

He shook his head and lowered his eyes to look at the bronze ball of light in his chest. Suddenly, a golden light flashed in it, like a cell dividing itself, and a small dark golden ball of light separated from it.

"This should be the life light ball of the naked insect spirit."

He thought in his mind, and then saw the ball of light like ink in water, quickly differentiating into golden light and spreading outward.

In just a blink of an eye, golden light covered every part of his body, dyeing his crystal clear diamond body a brilliant golden color.

Ye Yiyi was stunned and felt it was outrageous.

"No, I haven't planned to use it yet. How did this thing take effect on its own?"

But he soon realized that it was his life essence that automatically decomposed this ball of power, transforming it from a concentrated ball of light into a power essence that was easy to absorb.

That essence was of the same origin as his own, but was more primitive and ancient, without any impurities or dregs, and was extremely pure.

Ye Yiyi could feel that his life was longing for this kind of essence.

As long as he thought about it, he could completely absorb it and make this archetypal power his own, and from then on they would be inseparable.

"That's strange."

He raised an eyebrow.

Why would the power "he" desire be found in the body of a bug?

What's the difference between the Ancient Saint Worm and the Flying Worm mentioned in this description? What does it represent specifically?

Ye Yiyi knew nothing about this. He only knew that this insect seemed to have a great origin. It seemed that like the immortal life, it was an ancient existence born from the prototype of life.

Thinking of this, he looked up at the big cocoon with a subtle expression.

"I took this power, but what was the price?"

After a moment of silence, an intermittent and ethereal voice sounded in his mind.

"...Great hero...use this power to buy freedom..."

free?

He would think of what was said before, and couldn't help showing a look of understanding, probably understanding what Da Jian meant.

"You mean, this is a deal?"

“…It’s not… a transaction…”

Dajian's intermittent answers and his ability to choose words and sentences made Ye Yiyi suspect that it was playing a joke.

"If it's not a deal, what is it?"

Ye Yiyi frowned.

"……friendship……"

After the big cocoon finished speaking, it fell into silence. Ye Yiyi heard its rhythmic breathing again.

The breathing sound seemed to be some kind of image, indicating that the other person had fallen asleep, not that the other person really needed to breathe.

Ye Yiyi thought silently for a moment, and finally decided to accept this gift of friendship.

Since his life craves this power, it is likely that there is no harm in it.

If he could use this to become friends with the other party, there would be no need to fight.

The autumn locust is not necessarily an enemy. There is no fundamental conflict of interest between them. On the contrary, they have a common enemy.

In that case, then accept this power.

As the thought moved, the golden light quietly disappeared into the diamond body.

He looked down, and in amazement, he saw bones and nerves emerging from thin air inside his body, followed by blood vessels and muscles, and internal organs.

These brand new flesh and blood organs emitted a faint golden light and were dazzling. They did not look disgusting at all, but rather like some kind of pure and innocent sacred creation.

Even the cursed frog's sacred organs seemed filthy in comparison.

Soon, white and smooth skin covered the diamond-like body, hiding the sacred organs and bones.

He looked at the void chaos in the distance, and then he realized that the ball of light that he had originally stretched out to isolate the chaos had quietly disappeared.

It was like he had gone from being a ghost that could only float in the palace of impressions to suddenly having a physical body and being able to truly exist here.

"This feeling... is so strange, like floating in water."

He whispered to himself, waved his hands to push away the omnipresent chaos, and watched the waves transformed from chaos rushing towards the distance without stopping.

"So, I have my own body in the Hall of Impressions..."

He looked down at his own white and slender hands, which he couldn't tell whether they were male or female, with a slightly strange expression on his face.

"This hand...why does it look a little weird?"

He looked down again, his eyes widening in disbelief.

"Where's my Niuniu?"

He was stunned for a while, no longer caring about the cocoon in front of him, and quickly reached out to touch it.

But the crotch was smooth and without any marks.

Then he discovered that not only the cows, but even the mouth of the grain cycle used for excretion was gone.

"Don't fuck with me!!"

He was horrified and without thinking, he isolated himself from the spiritual light and returned to reality.

Soon he returned to the Hall of Impressions, his expression relaxed, and he let out a long breath.

He glared at Dajian, then muttered to himself:

"This genderless body seems to be just the embodiment of the soul. Souls don't have the gender of flesh and blood, so it looks like this."

Fortunately, nothing has changed in reality, otherwise he wouldn't want that power and crappy friendship. Today, one of him and Qiu Ke Sui Huang must die!

"In addition to this, a new feature was acquired."

He rolled his eyes to bring up the light screen, opened the personal characteristics column, and scrolled to the bottom to view the newly acquired characteristics.

[Personal Characteristics: Naked Insect Spirit Attribute]: Race remains the prototype human;

Increases the mysterious attribute by 5 points;

Isolate the negative effects caused by soul pollution, heterogeneous pollution, blood pollution, abnormal pollution, and life radiation pollution;

When facing a high-level being, the focus and health consumed are greatly reduced.

"A full four characteristic effects!"

Ye Yiyi looked at the light screen with a complicated expression.

"Compared to cosmic auras or something, this isn't that outrageous. After all, the only outrageous thing about it is... it came from a bug."

For the sake of his mood and brain, he doesn't plan to delve into the secret for the time being.

Next, let's look at the third mysterious characteristic obtained by increasing the mysterious attribute by 5 points and bringing the mysterious attribute of the Intelligence No. 25 to 25.

[Mysterious Characteristic Old Enemy (25)]: Increases luck, slightly increases resistance to all curses, slightly increases resistance to all abnormal states, and slightly increases the damage and cumulative value of abnormal state attacks.

The Mystical attribute provides special corrections to all attacks, increasing damage dealt to all enemies.

"Increases damage to all enemies? So straightforward?"

Ye Yiyi pinched her chin, somewhat confused.

This damage-increasing effect is certainly good, but why is it called "Old Enemy"?

Could it be that it has some special meaning?

It is worth mentioning that his Strength has also reached 20 points with the improvement of the mysterious attribute, gaining the mysterious characteristic of "unpredictable".

Unpredictable mysterious traits can make a person unfathomable, making it impossible for the enemy to judge their strength, read their thoughts, or predict their next move.

Now he can also use the Power to pretend to be a master.

Then he closed the feature interface and looked at the race column.

Originally, the column for his racial attributes read "Human/Unknown Hero".

After acquiring the characteristics of the "naked insect spirit", the race became the "prototype human".

As for what this "prototype human" exactly refers to, Ye Yiyi is not sure.

But what does it mean to delete the “unsung heroes”?

Has he been racially expelled from the "unsung hero" category?

“That’s outrageous.”

He shook his head silently, and his perfect naked body floated towards the big cocoon.

After his race became proto-human, even the breathing sounds in his mind became much clearer.

"I accept your power."

He said softly, "Now, should I accept your friendship?"

The breathing sound gradually stopped, and the originally unclear and ethereal female voice in Ye Yiyi's mind suddenly turned into an asexual voice with an inhuman texture.

"...Great hero...my friend! I will also share another...power with you...in exchange for...glory..."

Share my strength?

Ye Yiyi thought of the bronze ball of light.

The former power is exchanged for freedom, and the latter power is exchanged for glory.

He nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly had a feeling in his heart: this freedom and glory were not given to him, but given to himself by him.

At the same time, he checked the power represented by the bronze ball of light.

【Immortal Glory】

Item Description: A ball of life light given by the Ancient Saint Worm.

One of the unique powers inherited from the archetype of life.

To achieve eternity and immortality.

It is said that the prototype of life decomposed itself at the beginning of the universe and transformed into all spirits.

The immortal life that was born from it thus became the source of all living things.

Some lives have specific forms and spiritual attributes from the very beginning.

They are also said to be unique prototypes of parts of life.

"This……"

After reading the description of the item, Ye Yiyi looked confused, and his expression became strange when he looked at the big cocoon.

If he understood correctly, what this meant was that the autumn locust was actually the source of the locust genus?

Is it the so-called "prototype life"?

"Wow... this is incredible..."

In other words, after using this power, combined with the "naked insect spirit", he became a true "proto-human"?

Wait, doesn’t this mean that the human race actually has a source of life similar to that of the autumn locust?

Ye Yiyi suddenly came to her senses, but then she felt something was not right.

The bordering humans do not seem to come from the "prototype humans", but more like from the lingering vine veins.

After all, the item description of "Ginseng" mentioned:

It is said that the baby's appearance has a unique sacred meaning and is regarded as a symbol of the ancient gods who have long disappeared. It is also said that it is the first offspring of the Lingering Vine.

The baby's shape is the same as that of a human, perhaps that is the earliest origin of the human race.

"So, I, the original human, am not actually of the same race as the neighboring human race?"

"In a way, I am now a kind of 'immortal life' in human form."

Since the King Dragon can evolve into an immortal life, why can't he, Ye Yiyi?