Shan Hai Jing: Evolution from Mantis

The old man was beaten.

[Your ability 'Tough Will (Passive)' is promoted to 'Will Protection (Passive)'. ]

[Will Protection (Passive): Your soul is strong and your will is firm, which will exempt you from certain impacts on your spirit, will and soul. ]

"Ability promotion?"

Su Chen was slightly stunned, and then a flash of ecstasy flashed in his eyes.

Without hesitation, he turned around and swung the mantis knife to chop it out. With a flash of the knife, another scarlet vine was also cut off.

A thought arose, and strong winds turned into wind blades and condensed, bursting out.

Before the scarlet vines could wriggle and revive, they chopped their bodies into pieces.

In the splattering blood and flesh, Su Chen saw the blood bead at a glance, and raised his hand to chop it again.

With a click, the blood bead shattered.

A blood-colored crystal scattered out.

Su Chen immediately put it into his backpack.

[You have obtained the item: Soul Crystal. ]

"Not bad, another one is in hand."

Looking at the prompt flashing in front of him, Su Chen raised the corner of his mouth and showed an excited smile.

After the two scarlet vines were solved, Su Chen also had time to check his own changes.

"Will protection... Not bad, a very strong ability."

Just by taking a look at the introduction, Su Chen knew the power of this ability.

Although it will not work in normal times.

But in situations like today, this ability can make Su Chen safer.

After all, in comparison, although the kind of fist-to-flesh battle is destructive, it is easy to know how to defend and fight. And attacks on the spirit, will and even the soul like today are hard to defend against.

With this ability in hand, there is no need to worry about this problem in the future.

In addition, Su Chen was more curious about the fact that his tenacious will was promoted after his spirit was upgraded.

What about other abilities?

Su Chen looked at the other abilities in his attribute panel with bright eyes and looked expectant.

"After I log off, I have to go to the forum to learn more about it."

If all abilities can really be upgraded, then he will have to make more preparations for this in the future.

Shaking his head, Su Chen gathered his mind and focused on the present.

Clicked on the backpack and used the soul crystal he had just obtained.

[Your soul power has been improved. ]

[Your spirit +0.5. ]

A cool feeling emerged in his mind.

The spirit power increased again.

"Cool, haha, this is much more than the life embers. I hope to encounter more scarlet vines next time."

Su Chen twisted his neck and couldn't help laughing expectantly.

Then, he walked towards the skeleton with its back against the wall not far away.

This place is underground. Based on the situation and time, Su Chen estimated that this place should be some depth from the ruins.

In such a place, there are skeletons. It seems that the skeleton has been dead for a long time, and only bones are left. Su Chen has to wonder if this skeleton is a winged insect.

After getting closer, Su Chen carefully observed the skeleton, and his brows subconsciously frowned. "This bone... looks a bit human-like, but not. Some bones seem to extend from the back to both sides... Could it be the wings of a winged insect?"

Is this the skeleton of a winged insect?

Su Chen looked at the skeleton in front of him, and his mind roughly emerged the appearance of the creature based on the structure of the skeleton.

A pair of huge wings, with a shell on the back, similar to humans on the front, hands and feet, and skin, but it is not clear, but this appearance, if you don't know, you might think it is a mutant human.

Who would have thought it would be an insect?

"Hey, is this text?"

Suddenly, Su Chen glanced and found a piece of jade under the skeleton, and there seemed to be lines on the jade.

After getting closer, Su Chen realized that this was text.

It was insect writing.

One advantage of the Classic of Mountains and Seas is that any language and text can be understood, even insect writing and insect language.

The insect writing engraved on the jade is not long, only a short sentence:

[Finally... the disaster has come... I can't escape... I hope someone can shut it down in the future...]

"Disaster?"

Su Chen's eyes flashed with thought, and he said. "Could it be the reason for the destruction of the Winged Insect Tribe?"

He had learned from Xiaobudian before that the Winged Insect Tribe seemed to be destroyed overnight for unknown reasons and turned into ruins, and no one knew the reason.

I wonder if this jade

The disaster mentioned on the stone.

Or the words "close it", Su Chen also didn't understand a bit.

But what is certain is that the disaster mentioned here must be related to the pollution source underground.

After all, this winged insect should have wanted to escape from the underground before it died, but for some reason it died here, and left such a message on the jade before it died.

Shaking his head, Su Chen gathered his mind and continued to walk forward.

Next, with the smell of blood, the number of scarlet vines was obviously much more than before.

Basically, one or two scarlet vines will appear after walking a distance.

But these scarlet vines were not Su Chen's opponents before, let alone him after he had the "will protection".

When he encountered the scarlet vines before, he would suffer from mental pollution at the first time, and even with the "tough will", he would be full of discomfort.

Now that ‘Tough Will’ has been upgraded to ‘Will Protection’, whenever there is spiritual pollution, he will feel a sense of clarity and be exempted from it directly.

Therefore, these scarlet vines cannot pose any threat to Su Chen.

With a snort.

At this time, Su Chen faced a scarlet vine, chopped the blood beads in its flesh and blood with a knife, and killed it.

Immediately, a soul crystal was obtained.

“The seventh one, Nice.”

Looking at the soul crystal in the backpack, Su Chen smiled and chose to use it without hesitation.

[Your soul power has been improved. ]

[Your spirit +0.5. ]

“Huh, cool!”

Feeling the clarity and joy in his mind, Su Chen couldn’t help but grin and reveal an excited smile.

Along the way, his spiritual attribute increased by 3.5, resulting in the fact that his incarnation’s spiritual attribute is almost catching up with the basic spiritual attribute.

Unfortunately, even though it has grown so much this time, the ‘will protection’ still shows no sign of being promoted.

“Maybe it needs more spiritual attributes.”

Su Chen murmured.

Shaking his head, he continued to walk forward.

Gradually, Su Chen frowned, and every muscle in his body subconsciously tightened.

The surrounding environment changed again as Su Chen continued to go deeper.

The originally scarlet soil became deeper red, even black, which made people feel weird and terrifying.

Su Chen took a deep breath and moved forward cautiously. His intuition told him that he was about to reach the deepest point.

The smell of blood became thicker and thicker.

The light in front of him became dimmer and dimmer.

A blood-red light came from the front.

Su Chen looked up suddenly, and a ray of light flashed in his eyes.

“Finally, I see the end.”

Not far ahead was the exit of the underground passage, and the blood-red halo shone from it.

Su Chen quickened his pace.

But at this moment, a rustling sound suddenly sounded from the depths of the end...