Chapter 60: Ultimate Group Attack, Corrupt Poison Cloud
Chen Ming did not hesitate. He swallowed the Heavenly King Heart Protecting Pill in one gulp. After waiting for the medicinal power to dissolve within his body and protect his heart Meridians, Chen Ming sat down cross legged and began drawing in that purple spirit ring.
The spirit ring naturally fused into Chen Ming's body, and the spirit power belonging to the Locust Fish King within it was released.
Locusts were low quality creatures, but the Locust Fish King was a genuine top tier Spirit Beast. Not only was the spirit power within it violent and explosive, it also carried three attributes at once: plague, toxin, and desolation. For an ordinary Spirit Master, this was practically a deadly poison.
But for Chen Ming, this spirit ring was perfectly suited to him. In fact, these attributes, which ordinary people found difficult to endure, actually made the absorption easier for him.
Before the medicinal power of the Heavenly King Heart Protecting Pill could fully show its effect, Chen Ming had already begun refining the power within the spirit ring inside his own body.
As the energy circulated through his Meridians again and again, the power within the spirit ring gradually fused with the Origin of his Martial Soul.
The purple spirit ring rose around Chen Ming, and his body began to transform during the absorption process.
Growth in size and expansion were inevitable changes after absorbing a spirit ring, but beyond that, Chen Ming's abdomen began to churn violently, and a strange mark gradually appeared across it.
It was a pattern that resembled a great mouth. Although it was not truly connected to Chen Ming's abdominal cavity, it carried a bizarre sense of life.
When Chen Ming slowly opened his eyes, feeling the power within his body, a trace of satisfaction appeared in them.
"Level twenty three. Just from the energy within the spirit ring, I actually rose three levels in one breath. A top tier Spirit Beast really is extraordinary."
"How do you feel?"
"Teacher, I feel excellent." Chen Ming stood up and patted his stomach.
"My second Spirit Ability is called Corrupt Poison Cloud. It can be released from my abdomen to form a special poisonous cloud. Within the cloud, I can restore my condition and my wounds, while enemies inside will be poisoned and continuously corroded. Once a life dies within its range, it will be rapidly decomposed by the Poison Cloud, and every bit that decomposes can restore part of my own condition."
"Attack, continuous crowd control, utility. It sounds good, but I wonder what the actual results are like." Zhang Peng thought of the poisonous mist from before and quickly understood. "This should be that Spirit Ability similar to a Domain."
"Teacher, I can find a place to test it. Let me put away this Spirit Beast corpse first."
Chen Ming carefully stored the remaining body of the Locust Fish King inside his spirit tool before speaking.
"Good."
Zhang Peng did not waste words. He directly took Chen Ming away, and after traveling an unknown distance, the two arrived at a small Spirit Beast forest.
This was a tiny ecosystem that had managed to survive only because almost no one came here. Resources were scarce, energy was thin, and even the strongest Spirit Beast in the area had only the cultivation of an ordinary thousand year Spirit Beast.
Zhang Peng went straight into the depths of the forest, threw Chen Ming in front of a thousand year bovine Spirit Beast, and then stood aside to watch Chen Ming demonstrate.
"Second Spirit Ability, Corrupt Poison Cloud!"
With his Spirit Avatar active, Chen Ming's second spirit ring lit up. Energy surged through his body, and then his already bloated abdomen expanded even further. The mouth like mark on it emitted a strange light, and the Corrupt Poison Cloud gushed out from his abdomen, spreading around him.
Because it was a Spirit Ability, Chen Ming could control the Poison Cloud to a certain extent so it would not dissipate too easily, and he could slowly guide this poisonous mist to move along with him.
The enraged bovine Spirit Beast lowered its head, scraping its hooves against the ground again and again before charging straight at Chen Ming.
Yet although Chen Ming looked fat and clumsy, his agility was far beyond normal. At the very moment the bovine Spirit Beast charged, he sidestepped and then slammed his shoulder into its flank like an iron mountain, directly knocking the speeding Spirit Beast to the ground.
Even though the recoil scraped away a layer of flesh from Chen Ming's shoulder, under the cover of the Poison Cloud, his wound quickly scabbed over and healed. Meanwhile, the bovine Spirit Beast lying on the ground let out miserable cries as its body remained in constant contact with the Poison Cloud.
Its most vulnerable mouth and nose were the first to be corroded. Then its eyes were invaded by the toxin, rapidly swelling, festering, and rotting. With every breath, the nasal cavity carried the toxin deeper into its body, again and again. Soon, the entire nasal passage turned black, then began to rot away.
The more it wailed and struggled, the more poison it inhaled into its body. Although most of its body remained outwardly intact, the toxin that had entered through the mouth and nose quickly destroyed its internal organs. In only a few breaths, the bovine Spirit Beast grew weak, then collapsed fully to the ground and lost consciousness.
Roughly a minute later, the bovine Spirit Beast lying there died completely. Thick, foul fluid began to seep from its seven orifices. Under the continued erosion of the poison within its body, coupled with the invasion of the Poison Cloud from outside, the giant carcass began to rot and decompose at a visible speed.
Its hide ulcerated, its flesh blackened and melted into viscous liquid, and as for its internal organs, they had long since rotted into an unrecognizable mess.
As the decay continued, most of the bovine Spirit Beast's body transformed into new Poison Cloud, slightly expanding the range covered by Chen Ming's Spirit Ability. At the same time, Chen Ming could clearly feel a weak but solid stream of energy constantly surging into his body.
Although the activation of Corrupt Poison Cloud consumed a considerable amount of spirit power, by the time over half the thousand year Spirit Beast's body had been corroded, Chen Ming discovered that not only had the consumption of the Spirit Ability been fully replenished, but even his spirit power itself had increased slightly.
Feeling this state, Chen Ming was delighted at first, but then deeply alarmed.
"Teacher, the numbers on this Spirit Ability are very good, especially this feedback effect. It is honestly far beyond what I had imagined before."
"The energy fed back after creatures within the Poison Cloud decay can not only expand the Poison Cloud and replenish your spirit power, it can also raise your cultivation. Such a skill is very strong, but also extremely dangerous."
Zhang Peng frowned.
In the history of the continent, there had never been a lack of Spirit Masters who began as ordinary cultivators, but after obtaining a special Spirit Ability or Spirit Bone, gradually walked down an evil path under the temptation of power, eventually spreading disaster across the continent.
Most of those powers shared similar attributes: evil, darkness, devouring, toxin.
These abilities often came with effects that ordinary Spirit Abilities simply did not possess.
Do not be fooled by how little was gained from corroding one thousand year Spirit Beast. Zhang Peng knew very well that if one of those mad Evil Soul Masters within the cult obtained such an ability, the first thing they would think of would be releasing plague in human settlements. By using endless death and decay, they would rapidly strengthen their own cultivation.
One ordinary person might not provide much energy, but if the number was large enough, the total amount gained would be terrifying.
Especially with plague. Once something like that was released, even the one who unleashed it might not be able to control what it eventually became.
Do not underestimate it just because it was only a thousand year Spirit Ability. The nature of this ability alone made it a skill of extraordinary destructive potential.
Within the Holy Spirit Cult, there was an enshrined expert called Sleepy Nightmare Douluo. Strictly speaking, that person was a true native member of the Holy Spirit Cult and should have held the rank of Elder, but because his abilities were too special and his ability to slaughter groups was too strong, he was instead appointed as an enshrined expert.
When he was young, he had slaughtered several villages because of the nature of his Martial Soul. He was a powerhouse who had risen through tormenting countless living beings and absorbing their mental force. Even among Evil Soul Masters, he was considered highly dangerous.
If Chen Ming ever lost control, if he ever crossed his own bottom line and began releasing this skill without restraint, then his future destructive power would only be even more terrifying than Sleepy Nightmare Douluo's.
After all, Sleepy Nightmare Douluo still had to actively control his Spirit Ability in order to kill.
But Chen Ming's plague, once released, could spread and grow on its own like a rolling snowball.
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