Dragon's Origin

Chapter 51: The Conditions for the Gluttonous Transformation

Little Liu wasn't convinced by Old Li's words. Was a mere ordinary person with a divine weapon really worth such caution?

However, seeing the glint of wisdom in Old Li's seemingly dim old eyes, Little Liu wisely said nothing, only nodded.

Being somewhat famous in the Divine Prison and valued by Old Li, coupled with his seemingly competent analysis of the victims' causes of death, Little Liu had a sharp eye and a clever mind. He knew very well when to speak and when not to.

While the Song family was busy making arrangements, Wang Sheng was also recuperating.

After more than a month of being hunted, Wang Sheng's nerves were stretched to the limit. Finally, after the pursuers had suffered considerable losses, the pursuit wasn't as relentless, giving Wang Sheng a chance to relax a little.

The continuous battles allowed Wang Sheng to completely digest and absorb the benefits of the Chiwen transformation. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. No matter how much you learn in theory, it's not as solid as what you learn in practice.

First and foremost was the improvement in physical fitness. Wang Sheng knew very well that no matter how thoroughly spiritual energy nourished the body, physical fitness couldn't be improved overnight. The idea of someone transforming from a scrawny weakling into a muscular Captain America overnight only happened in movies.

To put it bluntly, even muscle fiber growth takes time. Spiritual energy nourishment can provide some improvement in a short period, but it's not the limit. Through effective use and exercise, there's still at least double the room for improvement.

Wang Sheng spent this past month giving his body a thorough workout, running, jumping, climbing, all sorts of ways to effectively temper his entire muscle group.

Wang Sheng could almost do without empty-handed, unequipped exercises. He could do push-ups and sit-ups non-stop for two hours straight without even breaking a sweat. When he occasionally exercised, he would put three thousand gold coins in his backpack as weight, equivalent to carrying three hundred pounds, just to feel something.

Muscle strength, flexibility, reaction speed, and the body's recovery ability, which is the speed of cell metabolism, all saw significant improvements in Wang Sheng. This was the primary factor that made Wang Sheng feel at ease.

Another surprise was Wang Sheng's eyesight. When he first completed the Chiwen transformation, Wang Sheng clearly noticed that he could see further and more clearly in low light, but there was one thing Wang Sheng didn't realize: his ability to distinguish colors.

Back on Earth, and even in this world before the Chiwen transformation, Wang Sheng's color recognition ability was only average, not colorblind or color weak, just normal. But after the Chiwen transformation, everything was different.

He first discovered this when Wang Sheng saw a disguised assassin. The assassin was covered in branches and grass, similar to Wang Sheng's sniper ghillie suit, crawling in a bush next to a large tree. An ordinary person might have overlooked that spot, but Wang Sheng immediately saw the subtle difference between that area and the surrounding environment.

The assassin used local shrubs and weeds for cover, but the broken shrubs and dead weeds, even after only ten minutes, would have a slightly different color than the living ones.

However, this difference was so small that it might only be a difference of plus or minus one in each RGB value on a computer monitor, something that many professional graphic designers couldn't distinguish. But Wang Sheng just casually glanced and saw the difference.

Wang Sheng himself was an expert in disguise, coupled with the excellence of these eyes, he spotted the opponent's location at a glance. He set up a small trap and easily killed the disguised assassin.

Many times since then, Wang Sheng relied on these unique eyes to spot enemies far in advance, allowing him to calmly make arrangements time and time again. The most dangerous time was when Wang Sheng was only a dozen steps away from the assassin when he discovered him.

It just so happened that Wang Sheng was in a tree at the time, and the assassin was hiding under the tree. After a battle of patience, Wang Sheng relied on the sniper's endurance to gain the upper hand and hanged the assassin at the peak of the first level of cultivation with the thin wire inside the military watch. That thin wire was the good thing that Old Li couldn't stop thinking about.

Don't think that Wang Sheng killed a lot of people with traps and mechanisms, Wang Sheng himself suffered a lot. You must know that the weakest of his opponents were stronger than Wang Sheng in terms of cultivation, and there were even experts at the second and third level of cultivation. Wang Sheng being able to retreat unscathed was already a remarkable achievement.

Even so, Wang Sheng was injured. There were several close-range attacks where the enemies launched fierce counterattacks. Fortunately, with the protection of the liquid body armor, the characteristics of the liquid body armor could disperse the attack power across the entire chest and abdomen every time Wang Sheng was attacked, greatly reducing the possibility of Wang Sheng being injured.

Relying on the combat awareness of the little man and Wang Sheng's own combat experience, Wang Sheng was able to successfully find the enemy's weaknesses and attack each time. But this didn't mean he could avoid being attacked at all. It was just that the enemy suffered a fatal wound, while Wang Sheng only suffered minor injuries. In particular, Wang Sheng was very careful to protect his head, wearing not only a helmet but also goggles. Most of the injuries were on his body, and there were basically no external injuries.

The weapons of these assassins could not break through the anti-stab function of the liquid body armor for the time being. However, the spiritual energy attacks contained within were something that Wang Sheng could not avoid, and internal injuries were inevitable.

So, after being injured, Wang Sheng finally discovered what the Chiwen characteristic of gluttony was. The Chiwen Yuan Soul was able to devour the external spiritual energy that attacked his body.

The first injury was not serious, but the Chiwen Yuan Soul seemed to have discovered something greatly nourishing. It directly opened its dragon mouth, and a suction force appeared, directly attracting that wisp of external spiritual energy into the Yuan Soul space, where it was swallowed by Chiwen in one gulp.

The most troublesome thing about internal injuries is the continuous damage caused by the accumulation of spiritual energy. Without the damage from external spiritual energy, Wang Sheng's body's self-healing ability was enough for Wang Sheng to recover quickly from the remaining minor pain.

Later, after being attacked several times, Wang Sheng discovered that the Chiwen Yuan Soul was not able to swallow all the spiritual energy in one gulp, and there was still an upper limit. However, the Chiwen Yuan Soul was not only able to devour once. After digesting one gulp, it could immediately continue to devour. No matter how strong the spiritual energy attack, the Chiwen Yuan Soul could slowly consume it by dividing it into multiple times.

Wang Sheng's own spiritual energy protection plus the liquid body armor could offset some of the spiritual energy attacks. Adding in the Chiwen Yuan Soul's devouring power, Wang Sheng discovered that as long as he wasn't hit solid by an expert at the peak of the second level of cultivation or above, even if Wang Sheng would inevitably be injured, he wouldn't instantly lose his ability to act.

The worst time was when an assassin in the middle of the second level of cultivation launched a counterattack before his death, stabbing Wang Sheng in the heart with a sword. The huge force and powerful attack directly caused Wang Sheng to spit blood. Although the opponent was also slashed in the throat by Wang Sheng, Wang Sheng was still seriously injured. Fortunately, he could still run, staggering hundreds of meters before Chiwen swallowed the second gulp of spiritual energy, which allowed Wang Sheng to catch his breath.

It must be said that the wound medicine Wang Sheng obtained from Lu Wenhou of Yu Baozhai was really good. The devouring of Chiwen plus the treatment of the wound medicine allowed Wang Sheng's internal injuries to recover by 80% in just two days. At this time, Wang Sheng had recovered at least 90% of his combat power.

Surprise! Wang Sheng was really surprised. Who knew that a Chiwen transformation would contain so many benefits? Wang Sheng almost thought that the initial improvement in eyesight and physical fitness was the limit, but he didn't expect there to be more.

The more benefits he discovered, the more Wang Sheng looked forward to the following twelve transformations. More surprises appeared suddenly when Wang Sheng slowed down to recuperate.

The Chiwen transformation was able to happen because the carp Yuan Soul jumped over the Dragon Gate, but Wang Sheng had no idea what conditions needed to be met for the Gluttonous transformation. However, after the Chiwen Yuan Soul continuously devoured so much external spiritual power, the conditions for upgrading suddenly appeared on that cloud path.

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A mountain appeared abruptly in the Yuan Soul space, startling Wang Sheng. To be precise, it wasn't a mountain, but a large mountain plus two small mountains. The large mountain was very large, one of the small mountains was medium-sized, and the other was relatively small.

The three mountains were each a whole, and it wouldn't be wrong to describe them as three giant rocks. However, the smallest one was about the size of the Tiananmen Gate Tower, the medium one was estimated to be the size of the Forbidden City, and the largest one was estimated to be about the size of Beijing. This was just the bottom area, and the height should be about ten zhang, hundred zhang, and thousand zhang.

As soon as these appeared, the Chiwen Yuan Soul became very excited, opened its large dragon mouth, and bit towards the smallest one. Then, click, as expected, it only bit off a small corner and got stuck there, so it could only let go and continue to absorb spiritual energy.

Wang Sheng suddenly understood that the Gluttonous transformation required the Chiwen Yuan Soul to be able to swallow the largest mountain in one gulp to complete it. The more spiritual energy the Yuan Soul absorbed, the larger its mouth could open.

Before, there was no direction to work towards. Even if Wang Sheng kept absorbing spiritual energy with his Yuan Soul, it was just futile absorption. Now he finally had a goal. Even if a three-foot-long Chiwen couldn't possibly swallow the smallest mountain, at least he had a direction.

Before the Yuan Soul carp wanted to jump over the Dragon Gate, it could only jump less than a foot high at first, but the Dragon Gate was ten zhang high. It seemed impossible, but now it has been done, right? Wang Sheng's heart became eager again, and with a goal to strive for, his enthusiasm for cultivation also increased.

Sure enough, many times a qualitative change will only occur in a real battle. This was the case when Wang Sheng killed the Thousand Illusion Poisonous Serpent before, and it is the same now after experiencing more than a month of pursuit. The Yuan Soul is used for battle, so it can only become stronger in battle.

Wang Sheng clearly felt that the intensity of the pursuit had decreased a lot, and Wang Sheng didn't know what happened. But this was a good thing, no one likes to be chased.

Taking advantage of the reduced pursuit, Wang Sheng rested for two days, then calmly plunged into the deep mountains, circled around a few times, left the mountains from a mountain pass hundreds of miles away, and easily blended into the crowd.