Dragon's Origin

Chapter 72: Splitting the Nascent Soul (Part 1)

The giant wolf couldn't climb up and reach Wang Sheng, which gave Wang Sheng some temporary relief. With his life not immediately threatened, Wang Sheng could safely analyze the situation.

There was only one giant wolf under the tree. Wang Sheng used infrared binoculars to check, and indeed there were no others. He couldn't see any infrared signatures as large as the giant wolf's even hundreds of meters away.

A lone wolf. Wang Sheng suddenly smiled. His nickname on Earth was Lone Wolf. It was because he always carried out dangerous missions alone that his comrades called him that. Wang Sheng had also specifically learned about the habits of wolves for the needs of wilderness survival and certain missions.

Precisely because of this, Wang Sheng knew better than anyone how terrifying a lone wolf could be. Regardless of the reason for leaving the pack, lone wolves generally become exceptionally cunning due to the lack of cooperation from their companions.

That was just an ordinary wolf on Earth. In this world, in this place, a lone wolf with at least Fifth Level strength would likely be more than a match for even Tang Ao, Song Ming, and Shi Chong combined.

Now, Wang Sheng had to face such a ferocious beast. Moreover, this beast could hide its aura and its strength, which meant that this lone wolf was even more sinister than ordinary beasts.

Staying in the tree, Wang Sheng could say that he was temporarily out of danger. The lone wolf wouldn't waste its energy and spiritual power to chop down such a large tree, but Wang Sheng couldn't get down either. Over time, Wang Sheng might not be able to outlast the lone wolf.

Use a sniper rifle? Wang Sheng thought about it and decided to hold off for now. Firing a shot here would definitely attract a large number of ferocious beasts. The small nest he had just made would have to be abandoned again, and the recuperation plan and Nascent Soul upgrade plan would all be interrupted, making it not worth the cost. Wang Sheng wouldn't use the sniper rifle easily unless it was absolutely necessary.

Looking at the cold, indifferent gaze of the lone wolf staring at its food, Wang Sheng knew that this guy had already regarded him as a delicious meal and would never give up easily.

When waiting for an opportunity to hunt, lone wolves have patience and tolerance that ordinary people cannot imagine. This guy could definitely stay put with Wang Sheng for days and nights.

Wang Sheng realized that he was really lucky. Even though he was targeted by a ferocious lone wolf in his sleep, he didn't lose his life in a daze. Although this guy was incredibly strong, it couldn't jump this high, nor could it chop down the big tree. This was really Wang Sheng's luck.

Just keep holding out like this? After pondering for a while, Wang Sheng suddenly realized that this might be a very good opportunity.

The lone wolf under the tree constantly put pressure of death on him, but it wouldn't threaten his life in the short term. However, it could drive away some other beasts that might pose a threat to him, or at least fight with other beasts and allow him to profit as a fisherman. It seemed like a very good bodyguard.

With its protection, Wang Sheng could temporarily stay safely in the tree to figure out the changes in his Nascent Soul, and also take the opportunity to recuperate his body. When replenishing water and food yesterday, Wang Sheng had already replenished his consumption again. Staying in the tree and not going down, Wang Sheng could last at least three days.

No sooner said than done, Wang Sheng crawled back into the tree house and half-lying down, entered a state of cultivation.

This wasn't the Hunyuan Stance(Hunyuan Stance: 混元桩), but it was the most comfortable posture for Wang Sheng, and also the most free posture for the Nascent Soul space.

The battle awareness little man had stopped pondering the Over Heaven Sutra(Over Heaven Sutra: 傲天决). That坑爹: disappointing cultivation method was far from something Wang Sheng could touch now, but it had caused the battle awareness little man to lose his vigilance. However, the battle awareness little man wasn't something Wang Sheng could directly control, so it was excusable to make such a low-level mistake.

The Chiwen(Chiwen: 螭吻) Nascent Soul was now very large, at least several zhang(zhang: 丈, a unit of length) in length, otherwise it wouldn't have been able to swallow the smallest piece of giant rock. However, its current size was still far from the remaining two pieces of giant rock. If it still wanted to swallow them in one gulp as before, the Chiwen Nascent Soul would have to be at least ten times larger than it was now to touch the second piece of giant rock. As for the third piece, let's talk about it after it grows a hundred times larger.

Splitting the Nascent Soul, if this idea were known to the natives of this world, they would definitely scold Wang Sheng for being whimsical, forgetting his ancestors, and being rebellious. Can the Nascent Soul be split? Should the Nascent Soul be split? This is simply heresy, okay?

For Wang Sheng, none of this was a problem at all. He could even skip the dragon gate and give thirteen changes to the Magikarp(Magikarp: 鲤鱼) that they thought couldn't be upgraded. What was the problem with splitting into multiple tiny Nascent Souls at a certain stage?

Before splitting, Wang Sheng first tried to see if the current Nascent Soul could gnaw at the two huge stones. Anyway, they were constructed from spiritual energy. If it could, then he would just slowly gnaw at them with the Chiwen Nascent Soul of this size.

Unsurprisingly, after reaching this size, the Chiwen's gnawing power couldn't do anything to the giant rocks. But when Wang Sheng only targeted a particularly small corner, he found that the Chiwen Nascent Soul could leave traces.

The big mouth couldn't concentrate its power on a small area, so it couldn't do anything to the giant rocks. But as long as the mouth was small enough, it wasn't impossible to gnaw off a piece. In other words, Wang Sheng's guess was correct.

Next, naturally, he had to think about how to split the Chiwen apart. Just this process would be a major hurdle for the cultivators of this world to think about. Cultivators would never be able to imagine how to separate a complete Nascent Soul into two halves.

It was a problem for the natives, but it wasn't something unimaginable for Wang Sheng. In the end, the Nascent Soul was just a manifestation of spiritual energy. Since it was condensed from spiritual energy, what was wrong with dividing it into two halves?

Moreover, Wang Sheng had countless real animal divisions on Earth to refer to in his mind. For example, earthworms. Cut them into two segments, and each segment can grow into a new earthworm. Another example is cell division.

The earthworm example was a bit complicated, and Wang Sheng didn't want to refer to it. Cells were the simplest, just divide them directly. Wang Sheng just had to imagine his Chiwen Nascent Soul as a cell composed of spiritual energy, and directly and rudely control its division.

The battle awareness little man was obviously frightened by Wang Sheng's idea. He curled up in a corner of the Nascent Soul space, not moving, staring at the Chiwen Nascent Soul in a daze.

If someone could see Wang Sheng's Nascent Soul space now, they would definitely be terrified. The originally complete Nascent Soul was slowly thinning in the middle, the connection between the dragon head and the fish body was becoming thinner and thinner, gradually reaching the point where only a little was left. Finally, this little bit was no longer connected, and it was directly broken into two pieces.

Then, the dragon head and the fish body began to change separately. One grew a head, and the other grew a body. Under Wang Sheng's control, one Chiwen Nascent Soul became two identical Chiwen Nascent Souls that were only half the size.

The two acupoints(acupoints: 窍穴) of the Nascent Soul didn't increase. There were still two, and they didn't change with the division of the Nascent Soul. Instead, they each occupied the dantian(dantian: 丹田) and chest areas of the body, absorbing spiritual energy on their own. The only thing that changed was the Nascent Soul itself.