Chapter 260: Death Energy Awakening
After that, it had unexpectedly grown longer in violation of all known rules.
What is going on?
Fu Young looked at the suddenly disconnected communication jade and killing intent began to gathered in his eyes.
He turned toward the endless tide of the giant race that was charging at him.
With a single step on the mountain of corpses beneath his feet, he rose into the air.
Eight types of spells formed behind him without any incantation or hand seals, carrying overwhelming power as they blasted toward the incoming horde of primordial beasts.
After verifying it, Xiao Shou discovered that his spiritual power could indeed grow rapidly on this black island by absorbing the black particles.
He was extremely pleasantly surprised.
During this period, matters such as the heavenly tribulation, stabilizing the Eternal Prosperity Mountain Range, and the full restoration of the Sunfall Domain had constantly been consuming his bloodline divine ability, yet he rarely had time to replenish his spiritual power.
As a result, every time he used his ability, he had to carefully calculate how much power he would spend.
Now that he had encountered such a naturally favorable environment, if he missed it, he would truly be foolish.
So he immediately began actively absorbing the black particles.
Through absorption, Xiao Shou also discovered that within this 500 meters wide island covered in black particles, every hundred square meters of these particles could increase his spiritual power by one unit, which also meant one meter of black hair.
Although long hair was somewhat cumbersome, opportunities to rapidly increase spiritual power were extremely rare.
Xiao Shou endured the inconvenience and continued absorbing them.
When he reached the sixth round of absorption, he suddenly noticed that the surrounding soil and rocks had gradually regained their original color.
It seemed that by absorbing these black particles, he was restoring the land itself.
If he continued a few more times, this entire island might even recover.
When he realized this, a sudden flash of insight struck him.
Before the island fully recovered, he should first figure out what these black particles actually were.
Otherwise, next time he wanted to gather spiritual power, he would have to wait for them to regenerate naturally.
But how could he determine their composition?
This question made him instinctively look at his hand.
Then his eyes lit up.
His Absolute Fusion ability.
Any object formed through his ability would allow him to instantly understand its properties.
Then these black particles should be no exception.
Thinking of this, Xiao Shou immediately acted.
He gathered all black particles within a hundred meter radius without absorbing the and then used his ability to envelop them.
In an instant, the fusion was complete.
A black crystal the size of a sugar cube appeared in his hand.
He then picked it up.
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[ Death Energy Gem ]
Grade: Tier 1
Description: It was formed from death energy within the earth. It can be used for ghost cultivator cultivation, artifact forging, and can also be absorbed by special bloodlines attuned to death energy.
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"Special bloodlines attuned to death energy..."
Xiao Shou felt as if a hammer had struck his head.
He froze completely for a moment.
He was a proper Dao cultivator, so how had he become something similar to a ghost cultivator, even able to absorb death energy?
No, that was not right.
The one absorbing death energy was his bloodline divine ability, not him as a person.
It was because of the terrestrial fox bloodline.
As for what exactly this bloodline was, he knew almost nothing.
If he wanted to understand why he could absorb death energy from the earth, he needed to study this bloodline in more detail.
Xiao Shou was no longer a child.
Even though complex matters were hard to understand, a simple truth was very clear to him.
So he immediately began searching through the storage ring given to him by Tushan Qing.
He took out all the jade slips and examined them.
There were simply too many of them, so Xiao Shou first skimmed through the titles, filtering out those unrelated to the fox clan.
Then he began searching for answers.
By the time the sunset appeared, he finally found the answer.
It turned out that what was called the earth manipulation by the terrestrial fox lineage was very different from what he had originally understood as a simple controlling earth element.
One could say that earth control for the terrestrial fox bloodline was an innate ability.
The only difference is that in the strength, it was depending on bloodline purity and talent.
However, the more precious ability of the terrestrial fox lineage was its pure vital essence that was free from the contamination of absorbing others’ cultivation through dual cultivation or similar methods.
It could absorb the death energy within the earth.
After entering the pure terrestrial fox bloodline body, this death energy would automatically transform into the vitality of the land.
This was the ultimate ability of the terrestrial fox lineage.
Since the creation of heaven and earth and the rise of countless races, only the terrestrial fox bloodline possessed this ability to transform death energy into life force and reviving land that had already died.
It was a power unique among billions.
However, although this ability was powerful, the terrestrial fox lineage was often bound by its own nature.
Many of them tended toward harmful paths, preferring shortcuts and dual cultivation.
Cultivation and techniques gained in such ways contained mixed and impure spiritual energy.
Worse still, their abilities would reverse on their own, turning into a force that absorbed the earth’s vitality and converted it into death energy and corrupt energy, bringing disaster to the surroundings.
The latter part of the text was a warning, urging members of the terrestrial fox bloodline to restrain their hearts and nature and to walk the righteous path.
Although Xiao Shou did not feel any inclination toward evil or the so-called "nature of the terrestrial fox," at least he now understood the reason he could absorb death energy.
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