Supreme Electromagnetic Tyrant-Chapter 356 - 256 Fourth Level Spiritual Energy

[Spiritual Origin Ability +1050]

Ji Xinghuo saw the information prompt, confirming that the Thousand-legged Ice Worm had died completely.

The ice surface returned to calm, and the enveloping cold that surrounded them also vanished. He landed from the air and looked at the worm corpse, severed into two sections.

Only then did he have the time to observe this enormous monster seriously.

The Thousand-legged Ice Worm’s appearance resembled the "centipede" of Earth, but it had fin-like wings on both sides of its front half that could spread out like a cobra’s hood. Its numerous fine legs were even longer, and just the main body measured thirty meters, nearly fifty meters including the legs.

Even though it was dead, standing beside it, one could still feel a chill of extreme low temperature as if in a place fifty degrees below zero.

Qing Hong came running over excitedly, shrinking into its mount form.

The wounds on its body were healing quickly, and the scales torn by the Thousand-legged Ice Worm were slowly regrowing.

"Well done!"

Ji Xinghuo reached out and patted Qing Hong’s head.

Then, he placed his hand on the corpse of the Thousand-legged Ice Worm, and the interface with the Alien Species information popped up in front of him.

[Monster: Thousand-legged Ice Worm]

[Level: Catastrophe - Bright]

[Alien Species: Extreme Cold Breath, Ice Formation, Cold Blooded, Carnivore, High Tenacity, Ice Sealed Absolute Prison, Ice Sleep, Puncture, Cave Micro Touch, Thousand Spirit Limbs, Limb Regeneration]

A total of 11 Alien Species.

All of the Thousand-legged Ice Worm’s Abilities were awakened, and all could be collected. As a Bright Level monster, it had five fewer Alien Species than the Flood Level Nile River Giant Lizard, but this was the normal amount.

After Ji Xinghuo scrutinized the list, a smile appeared on his face.

"Three Transcendent Species!"

Ice Sealed Absolute Prison, Limb Regeneration and Thousand Spirit Limbs, all three were Transcendent Species.

The first, Ice Sealed Absolute Prison, was one of the Abilities that Mutants of the ice category most coveted. He had just experienced its power, unfolding an ultra-low temperature domain that froze all enemies within its range. However, Ice Sealed Absolute Prison needed to be combined with Spiritual Energy to achieve its fullest effect.

If that Legendary Ice Master had possessed Ice Sealed Absolute Prison, it would have increased the difficulty of slaying him by at least half!

Limb Regeneration needed no further explanation, a powerful recovery-type Ability.

What surprised Ji Xinghuo was "Thousand Spirit Limbs," an advanced version of the Thousand Spirit Skillful Hand. No wonder the hundreds of fine legs of the Thousand-legged Ice Worm were so flexible and versatile.

However, his own Thousand Spirit Skillful Hand was already at the Fifth Level.

With another upgrade, it should evolve as well.

The Thousand-legged Ice Worm had several other rare Species, including the Superior Level "Carnivore," which allowed for rapid recovery of physical strength and Star Power by consuming fresh flesh and blood, replenishing blood and healing wounds. Moreover, if the consumed flesh contained Star Power, it could accelerate strength growth.

Cave Micro Touch, another Superior Ability.

It gave the Thousand-legged Ice Worm an extremely acute sense of touch, sensitive to vibrations and sound waves. With this heightened touch, it could detect the slightest movements nearby, replacing the need for vision and hearing.

Such perception abilities were rare.

If used together with "Sound Form," the effect would be even more exceptional!

Fortunately, the Thousand-legged Ice Worm didn’t have the Ability of Sound Form; otherwise, Qing Hong might have been discovered as soon as it entered its lair.

Another was "Ice Sleep," a Superior Ability allowing hibernation in a cold environment, reducing bodily functions to the lowest level, slowly healing injuries, and slightly accelerating Star Power growth. A fairly good Ability for monsters, but somewhat useless for Mutants.

"Ice Formation" and "Cold Blooded" were both part of the Bing Feng’s Professional Templates.

Extreme Cold Breath wasn’t in the template but could be sold to Bing Feng Mutants, as well as High Tenacity; both these Abilities were quite valuable.

"Worthy of being a Bright Level monster!"

Ji Xinghuo sighed.

Out of the eleven Alien Species produced by the Thousand-legged Ice Worm, not one was useless.

He immediately took out the Ice Veiner’s Axe, cleaved open the massive monster’s corpse, quickly collected all the Species and placed them in the Dimension Stomach.

Then he looked towards Qing Hong and smiled, "How about cutting a few pieces of worm meat to take away? It might taste good."

He had no intention of letting Qing Hong consume the corpse of the Thousand-legged Ice Worm.

Qing Hong’s gene recombination allowed it to only consume one target at each evolutionary Rank.

Having swallowed the Nile River Giant Lizard last time, it had not yet evolved. Even if it ate the meat now, it wouldn’t cause the genes to recombine again. It would have to wait until it evolved to the rank of a Flood Level Spiritual Object before it could consume another target and that would also take up an opportunity to merge an Alien Species.

Moreover, the Thousand-legged Ice Worm’s corpse was too large for Qing Hong to eat.

Although the Thousand-legged Ice Worm was powerful, its potential was still lacking in Ji Xinghuo’s eyes.

Qing Hong immediately shook its head, its eyes showing disdain.

It had no interest in the Thousand-legged Ice Worm’s corpse. The taste was not so good either, chewing it felt like eating ice chunks, not only prickly to the mouth but also with a rank smell.

"Never mind then."

Ji Xinghuo laughed.

He reached out his hand, and Qing Hong shrank into a mini form to jump up onto it, placing it in the pouch by his waist to rest.

He turned his head to survey the icy lake that surrounded them, then flew up, leaving the Thousand-legged Ice Worm’s corpse on the ice surface, quickly moving away.

But he didn’t fly too far before he landed again.

Controlling the magnetic field for flying consumed quite a bit of Star Power, and additionally, the flying speed wasn’t very fast. Being in the sky made one an easy target, prone to accidents.

Ji Xinghuo took out the map given by Bai Mang and saw that he was over a hundred kilometers away from where the Gale Beast had last been seen.

He shook his head.

After a delay of three to four days, the likelihood of finding the Gale Beast had become even more remote.

He had searched the Ice Finger Mountain Range for an entire day, with electromagnetic induction never ceasing for a moment; until nightfall, he hadn’t caught a trace of the Gale Beast.

Come nightfall, Ji Xinghuo found a cave to camp in.

After dinner and having fed Qing Hong, he sat in the tent and opened the interface of Wanxiang Star Pupil.

[Spiritual Origin Ability: 5712]

More than 3800 points of that were obtained from killing those five people yesterday, the Thousand-legged Ice Worm gave over a thousand points, and on his way to the Cangye Tribe and in search of the Gale Beast, he had also killed some monsters, accumulating more than 5700 points of Spiritual Origin Ability, just enough to upgrade an ability.

Ji Xinghuo’s gaze fell upon the interface.

[Ability: Spiritual Energy (Third Level 4444/10009)]

This was the progress he had made the last time he merged abilities. These days, he had already experienced the formidable power of Spiritual Energy, which greatly increased his strength, allowing him to effortlessly kill adversaries of a higher rank and even Legendary ones!

"Spiritual Energy can be upgraded, it definitely should be priority."

Without hesitation, Ji Xinghuo immediately invested Spiritual Origin Ability into Spiritual Energy. Instantly, he felt the range of his Spiritual Energy expanding step by step.

When he was past the halfway mark of Third Level, the operating radius of Spiritual Energy reached about 120 meters.

However, afterwards, the growth of the radius markedly slowed down.

Ji Xinghuo knew what was going on, a simple calculation showed that with every meter increase in radius, the corresponding spherical volume space expanded exponentially. He didn’t stop pouring in Spiritual Origin Ability, and quickly, his Spiritual Energy finally reached (Third Level 10009/10009).

The information about Spiritual Energy on the interface blurred for a moment and then the upgrade was completed.

[Ability: Spiritual Energy (Fourth Level 1/100999)]

"Damn!"

Ji Xinghuo couldn’t help but blurt out a curse, "This is just too absurd."

He had originally thought that, according to the pattern, the next upgrade of Spiritual Energy would require three to four times the amount of Spiritual Origin Ability, but it had skyrocketed by a factor of ten!

100,000 points of Spiritual Origin Ability!

Even if he had that much Spiritual Origin Ability, he wouldn’t want to invest it all into Spiritual Energy, as his other abilities were all waiting to be upgraded as well.

Ji Xinghuo closed his eyes to sense it, and the operating radius of Fourth Level Spiritual Energy was about 150 meters. The efficiency of transforming Star Power had clearly improved, and when combined with the electromagnetic field, all aspects of his abilities were correspondingly enhanced—electric current, magnetic field, electromagnetic pulses, metal manipulation, and more—making them even more intuitive to use.

With a thought, the Spirit Sword Bracelet on his wrist was activated.

Four beams of sword light lit up.

Under Ji Xinghuo’s control, the blue, red, purple, and silver sword lights flew out of the tent. Within the not-so-spacious cave, they swiftly flew, creating a spectacle of radiant colors, tearing through the air with sharp whistles.

After a dozen seconds, the sword lights faded and flew back to Ji Xinghuo’s hand, reverting to a bracelet.

He nodded slightly.

"Fourth Level Spiritual Energy, the kill radius has also reached 150 meters, a fifty percent increase from when it was Third Level. The control is stronger, and the burst power is greater, but it also consumes more Star Power."

"However, it’s going to be difficult to upgrade again."

Looking at the requirement of 100,000 points of Spiritual Origin Ability to upgrade, Ji Xinghuo felt a massive headache.

As his abilities improved, in the future, most abilities would require tens of thousands of points of Spiritual Origin Ability to upgrade.

Killing an elite monster only yielded a dozen points of Spiritual Origin Ability.

If it weren’t for the followers of the Red Emperor, he wondered when he would have enough Spiritual Origin Ability.

But then again, he could use the absorption of Spiritual Origin Ability to directly increase the level of his abilities; others without Wanxiang Star Pupil had to laboriously train their abilities.

Just the process of upgrading Spiritual Energy from First Level to Fourth Level would take who knows how many years and how much effort, not to mention how tedious and dull it would be.

Zhao Manying had been mastering Spiritual Energy for two years now.

Having sparred with her multiple times, Ji Xinghuo knew her Spiritual Energy radius was approximately 45 meters, still at First Level, definitely not reaching Second Level. This was after diligent daily training, plus the use of the best auxiliary drugs and training teams, barely nearing Second Level.

In comparison, he should be content.

He looked at the information on the interface.

"Next time I’ve accumulated enough Spiritual Origin Energy, I’ll have to choose between Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood and Alien Coexistence to upgrade an ability."

[Ability: Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood (Third Level 120/7639)]

[Ability: Alien Coexistence (Second Level 67/10799)]

One more upgrade to Titanium Cobalt Dragon Blood would increase strength and defense, and he might gain a new ability; whereas upgrading Alien Coexistence to Third Level would definitely allow him to share an ability with Qing Hong.

Ji Xinghuo deliberated for a long time.

"Forget it, I’ll decide once I have the Spiritual Origin Ability."

After resting in the cave for the night, the next morning, Ji Xinghuo got up to find the outside world blanketed in white. It had snowed heavily last night, and the mountain ranges were covered with thick snow while a cold wind was still blowing, significantly lowering visibility.

But this didn’t affect his search for the Gale Beast.

In the days that followed, Ji Xinghuo continued to search the Ice Finger Mountain Range. He searched the area of several thousand square kilometers around the location Bai Mang had given, casually killing numerous monsters, including several Thousand-legged Ice Worms, obtaining both Alien Species and Spiritual Origin Ability.

However, he just couldn’t find any trace of the Gale Beast.

"It’s really not easy to find."

Ji Xinghuo felt helpless inside, remembering what Xia Qingyu had said—the Gale Beasts in the Bloody Plateau are elusive, their discovery based purely on luck.

He didn’t continue to waste time and left the Ice Finger Mountain Range, continuing westward.