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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 800

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:02:19 AM


Chapter 800: Five Stars

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Chapter 800: Five Stars

In the Universe Ring, Sage had set up a workroom for each of his professions and was training his body and senses to equal the level of skill that hed already mastered on the Inner World. Before going into seclusion this time hed already copied down the profession libraries available to four star professionals and on the Inner World hed already reached the standard of five stars with every skill. It was only after hed reached this level did he start using metamorphosis to incorporate the three eggs.

It took him a full year to advance his professions to such a degree, which worked out to nearly fifty years per profession on the Inner World. His body in the Universe Ring could not really keep up, but it took only a couple months for him to try out a hundred different bodies and reach a final result. At that point, he stopped practicing his professions and went out of the central building of the Universe Ring and went out to an open area where he merged with an egg from the Inner World. It was definitely some sort of weird inbreeding, passing these genes back and forth, but there was no risk of defects or abnormalities because he could control the whole process. Even so, he was pretty sure if there was any actual physical mating required for this stuff it was very likely he would be far more resistant to making any changes at all.

In the year that he was in metamorphosis in the Universe Ring, he spent hundreds of years on the Inner World adapting the Lang Clans techniques to work with his new body. He tested out the various paths that his descendants had forged and tried out the three methods of body transformation. The first being Spirit Jade, just like the insect theyd gained the ability from, the Spirit Jade Beetle. By consuming a certain combination of specific minerals, their whole body became a medium to store more Qi. This was the tried and true method that the majority of the Lang Clan used, giving them a way to exhibit an explosive burst of power. This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

Two of his children had started down alternative paths, which they called Tyrant Jade and Prove Your Metal. The latter was created by Xingwang, his third son, who had tears in his eyes every other night of training, but he never uttered a word of complaint. He was the first to start truly experimenting with his body and failed over and over again. His body became like stone and while tough and strong it dulled his senses and emotions. Even so, he never gave up and eventually found a way to get a metallic body. He took disciples in the following generations and they improved upon his methods, but they all ended up requiring a certain amount of self torture to reach success.

Is this actually a method that was devised to subvert the inherent limits on a beasts bloodline quality?

Sage had not used his linked insects in direct combat in some time. While they were far less resource intensive than cultivators they still followed the same curve. The resources invested had diminishing returns and to make a single rank five was equivalent to thousands of rank fours or tens of thousands of rank threes. Facing this problem he let them grow naturally on the Inner World, but even so there hadnt yet been the birth of a tier six over thousands of years. That was why he chose to use the, comparatively, more intelligent Dragoons with equipment to boost their strength. He also had the Purple Mist Sect, but they were something of a unique existence that had been hidden away for tens of thousands of years.

It was only now that he realized what the Lang Clans Colossal Iron Mantis was used for. While it wasnt much in the way of special abilities or talents, it could keep growing to match its master. Even if it wasnt the most impressive, it would be a reliable fighting partner they could always fall back on. As he saw with the Chong Clans factions, they had all developed their linked creatures to be powerful tools, but that really only applied to Core Formation Cultivators. The Nascent Souls he saw in battle had all developed their own unique methods, which he guessed was because they had to come up with new ways to push their bugs to higher levels. In comparison, the Colossal Iron Mantis would just keep getting bigger and the linked Lang Clansmen could focus their improvement efforts on themselves.

Its actually sort of funny. The Insect Immortal Index is a technique that can lead to endless variation and improvement, but the Lang Clan chose the path of simplicity. Then again, maybe the Chong Clan forced them into that route when they deposed them?




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