第162章 预感，再临弱水

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凶兽最主要的特点，就是体型庞大，性情凶恶，身躯强韧，它们就是依靠身躯来狩猎，来生存，普通凶兽与异血凶兽都是这般。
However, the strange blood ferocious beast is different.
The so-called 'strange blood' refers to the condensation of a certain kind of magical and strange blood or even bloodline in its body.
The strange blood ferocious beast is able to exhibit extraordinary abilities through this.
This giant lion is unable to harm Qiming with its physical body, so it decides to unleash its mystical powers within its body. A drop of thick blood quietly dilutes in its enormous heart and merges with every part of its body. With the activation of this power, it opens its mouth and roars fiercely towards Qiming. The roar is like a thunderous explosion, and visible sound waves rush towards Qiming.
The trees, mountains, and rocks along the way all exploded.
Qiming tried to dodge, but he simply couldn't react in time. When he finally realized it, the attack was already about to reach him.
All he could do was to try his best to resist!
The sound waves arrive, layer by layer, shattering the water film.
Qi Ming ignites his spiritual essence, releasing a tremendous amount of spiritual light, repairing and continuing the condensation of the water film!
Finally, the power of the sound waves is exhausted.
But there are still many layers of water film that have not been breached.
Just as Qi Ming was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the giant lion followed this roar and attacked again, its ferocious mouth biting down as if to swallow him whole, its front paws tightly locking Qi Ming's position, not allowing him to escape. Its colossal body brought extreme pressure, even more fierce than before!
But at this moment, his spiritual essence had almost vanished.
"It seems like it's time to run away..."
With the enormous lion's paw pressed against his back, Qi Ming conjured a pair of wind wings, and then he soared high into the sky.
Toward daytime, I had already observed a backup resting spot nearby. It is a concealed tree hole on the green wood, appearing extremely hidden and inconspicuous.
The lion exerted great effort to capture Qiming.
It even used a drop of unusual blood.
At this moment, it could only watch helplessly as Qiming soared high in the sky, causing boundless rage.
Qiming looked down and saw...
A gigantic lion, about twenty meters high and up to eight stories tall, roars on the ground, knocking down trees one after another. Large areas of the forest are cleared, and countless fierce beasts attracted by the Qi of the Sacred Light are affected, either being corroded or killed by the strong and violent yin energy emanating from this lion.
Entering the tree hole and covering it up at the entrance, Qiming entered the dragon's nest.
This can be said to be an extremely safe place where he can finally relax and reflect on tonight's events.
The cause was the flesh of the king beast.
It contained incredibly abundant energy and substance that he couldn't digest.
He intended to find several ferocious beasts to fight and release the energy, but unexpectedly attracted a mutated bloodthirsty beast. He fought against the mutated bloodthirsty beast, but accidentally turned the abundant energy and nutrients in his body into blood and merged with the totemic illusion, transforming into a mermaid-like form. Afterward, they fought and he even discovered the method of integrating witchcraft with the totemic illusion.
"Although I eventually managed to escape, I gained a lot!"
"Besides, facing the ferocious beasts of strange blood, how can you call it 'escaping'? It's a tactical retreat!"
Qiming murmured.
At this moment, the little one is still sleeping. Seeing that Qi Ming is fine, he stores away the meat of this king-level beast... Let's eat the meat of the three ferocious beasts with strange blood first, and save the king-level beast for later consideration.
He doesn't plan to sleep tonight.
Taking advantage of the recent battle just ended and the lingering insights, he wants to try to master the two different changes related to the totem illusion.
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On the second morning.
Qiming woke up from a state of enlightenment.
He gained significant insights, and had a better grasp on how to use totemic illusions at a higher level. Witchcraft and totems were two different paths of growth: "But they are not mutually exclusive!"
Qiming seemed to have some understanding.
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In the following time, Qiming continued to visit each clan and tribe to trade.
Most clans and tribes revered him.
However, it is apparent that Kerning Ming recognizes the strength of the Blackrock Clan and their potential for the future. As a newly promoted high-level clan, the Blackrock Clan is expected to prosper and develop in the foreseeable future. In this wilderness, surviving clans naturally comprehend the survival law of "the strong prevail over the weak, strength is respected." [Translation:
Some powerful tribes and clans, in front of Qiming, are not too cautious, and trade with Qiming with a friendly attitude.
As for Qiming's attitude.
As cold and decisive as always.
After that, Qiming went to Yu She tribe, Tengmu clan, You Ling clan, and many other small tribes and clans.
Although these small tribes and clans didn't offer much, their specialties had unique uses, and Qiming accepted them all. What they needed mainly was some animal meat and other food.
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In the fourth month since leaving the tribes, Qiming has finally visited almost all these tribes and clans.
He is also about to return to his tribe.
Qiming is currently on the edge of the Taohuang Mountains.
Only a day's journey away from his location is the source of the Xiaowu River, where all rivers converge.
Suddenly, Qiming no longer plans to return directly to the tribe: "The power of the Xiaowu River cannot confine me. Since I happen to be passing by, it would be a pity not to explore it again."
Qi Ming is a witch, although he is still just an apprentice, he also possesses the qualities of a witch.
He has also studied divination.
At this moment, he has a mysterious premonition that if he goes to the Weak Water, something advantageous to him may happen... Both his body and mind are inclined to make a trip to the source of the Weak Water.
Wu's premonition is very mysterious.
Since Qi Ming has a resonance, it is natural to go there.
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Along a river, he walked downstream, and on the second day, he arrived at the banks of this weak water.
Weak water immerses everything.
So as far as the eye can see, it is clear.
All things in the weak water, even the smallest dust that cannot be seen, sink to the bottom.
Around this weak water, all the miracles are suppressed and become lazy, whether it is evil qi or divine power, which also leads to the plants and organisms living around it having robust physical bodies, and all the energy resides in the flesh, seeking survival through pure physical form.
However, Qiming was not restricted.
In fact, he even leaped into it, jumping directly into this weak water.
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In Qiming's eyes, the source of this weak water was not as described in tribal records - a place filled with highly toxic and absolute desolation.
From what he saw, the weak water was also flowing. When the hidden currents surged, Qiming dared not participate. There were also creatures that adapted to the power of the weak water, even possessing unique divinity. At the bottom of the weak water, there were countless treasures.
"So, what does this intuition of mine mean?"
Even though Qi Ming has arrived at the source of the Weak River, he has encountered the events indicated by this intuition.
"Since I have no clue..."
"Then let's go scavenge first!"
Qiming now has an Eye Ball Spirit, and its several characteristics are extremely suitable for searching for valuable things in this vast underwater world.
Without going hunting first, he went directly to a spot close to the water's surface.
He no longer needed to breathe, or rather, through the embryonic breath properties of the dragon egg totem, he had transformed from breathing air to breathing the essence of heaven and earth. Weak water couldn't harm him, instead it became nourishment for his survival.
The spiritual awakening has long been restored.
Spirituality is burning, his shamanic true iris trait, along with the integration of 'information recording' fire, has all been stimulated.
Underwater, flames ignited in his eyes.
In his eyes, the whole world suddenly appeared in new colors, energy, aura, and flavor, all of which appeared in his eyes, but these colors were too complicated for Qingming to adapt to, and his brain was unable to process this information.
Fortunately, this is not the first time.
Blinking, various colors fade away, and only a few scattered stars appear in his field of vision.
The stars emit a faint light, indicating their own existence.
The intensities of the twinkling stars vary.
At this moment, the initial information collection and processing have been completed, greatly reducing the consumption. As long as Qingming does not suddenly come to unfamiliar areas, he will not need to consume spiritual power to maintain the consumption of magical spirits like just now, he only needs the natural radiance emitted by the magical spirits.
And at this moment, he can also perform other actions.
His gaze converges on a star point, as more spiritual light is expended, the following information appears before his eyes.
【Item Name: Conch Shell】
【Summary: Unknown origin conch shell, soaked in Weak Water for countless years, has already deteriorated. Removing it from the source of Weak Water can restore its mystical properties.】
This is just a very faint star point in front of him.
With a slight smile on his lips, Qi Ming muttered to himself,
"Sure enough, being able to see these magical things directly underwater, but the star point is a bit weak..."
By directly using the abilities of the diviner, some information about things can be glimpsed, which consumes a moderate amount of spiritual light. Judging from the current intensity of the spiritual light illuminated by the diviner, it is enough to support him in glimpsing information about one thing every three seconds.
Although not all can be seen at a glance.
"But it's enough..."
Afterwards, Qingming searched under the water.
All the bones of beasts that had not been eroded by the weak water were collected by him and stored into the Dragon's Nest.
All those seashells, coral, and underwater minerals were also carefully placed into the Dragon's Nest by Qiming. It can be said that anything easily excavated within his line of sight was all stored in the Dragon's Nest - after all, since the Dragon's Nest underwent metamorphosis, its virtual reality has had an enormous capacity.
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In the depths of this weak water source, there is a kind of sand with a mysterious aura. In Qiming's field of vision, although this sand is sparsely distributed, it is everywhere.
Qiming peeks into its information:
【Item Name: Earth Essence】
【Description: As the weak water erodes the wild land, the remaining essence of the earth condenses under the influence of weak water, forming the essence of the earth.】
There is a slight difference in information between this extraordinary sand and ordinary gravel:
【Item Name: Sands of the Weak Water】
【Description: The Weak Water erodes the barren land and all things, and the remnants of digestion solidify under the action of the Weak Water.】
When Qiming picked up all kinds of strange things, he also casually picked up some earth spirits. However, after a few days, when Qiming counted his harvest, he suddenly discovered that most of the earth spirits he brought into the Dragon's Nest had disappeared, and even some disappeared under his careful attention.
He focused his mind to sense...
The Earth Spirit has been transported to the real space of the Dragon's Nest.
"Huh, something's still not right!"
"According to reason, without my control, nothing should be able to enter this real space of the Dragon's Nest, even things from the virtual realm!"
"Never before has this happened!"
Qiming felt that something was off, at the same time, a mysterious premonition arrived.
He furrowed his brow, sensing the earth essence.
This earth essence, carrying miraculous sand particles, directly merged into the soil once it arrived in the real space, disappearing without a trace. Qiming carefully perceived and discovered that the soil in the dragon's nest space increased, and even this dragon's nest space expanded!
"This is..."
With his eyes wide open, he scanned his surroundings and felt a surge of spirituality burning within him. He could glimpse an infinite number of earth spirits scattered throughout the sea floor.
Qiming's heart raced, and a wave of joy overflowed from his face.
I have discovered the function of earth spirits. In the subsequent search, Qingming focused on, even primarily, searching for these earth spirits and using them to expand the dragon's lair space.
Qiming also discovered that with the integration of the earth spirits, not only did the space expand, but it also became more harmonious. A kind of divine aura also merged into this Dragon's Nest space... He tried to use the animal bones and other things he harvested from the sea floor to expand the Dragon's Nest space, and the land within the Dragon's Nest also expanded accordingly.
"This is really a great thing!"
Qiming took the time to return to the shore. He contacted Caiyun through his earring and asked her to pass on a message to Zhu.
"It's a blessing from the spirits. I may not be able to come back for a while. I have encountered something here at the source of the Weak Water that will greatly benefit my growth. I'll explain the details when I return."
Afterwards, he plunged into a crazy search for the Earth Spirit.
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The bottom of the source of the Weak Water can be considered a great treasure trove.
There are various exotic creatures among them.
There are also numerous treasures containing divine power buried deep within.
Qiming occasionally comes to the bank of the Weak Water, and has a conversation with Caiyun through an earring. At other times, he is constantly searching for earth spirits in the sea to help the Dragon's Nest grow and expand.
Tu Jing are scattered and distributed.
Qi Ming is swaying across the sea floor, so it is impossible for him to only dig and search for Tu Jing. He also searched for many precious materials and treasures.
For example, a stone that emits spontaneous coldness, like icy jade.
【Item Name: Cold Stone】
【Brief Description: The essence of late-stage cold ice, formed under the pressure and erosion of weak water, continuously emitting a cold aura.】
When Qiming discovered this cold stone and approached it, he almost froze in place near the cold stone. The freezing temperature could already be considered supernatural - after all, this was under the suppression of weak water. Even so, it still exuded such a powerful icy presence.
Qiming has also found many mineral mothers.
【物名：铜矿母】
【简述：无数铜矿被弱水侵蚀冲刷，其中的铜矿精华凝聚而出，落地即可成为矿脉。】
There are also minerals such as iron ore, brass ore, and fluorite ore.
As for how to handle these mineral ores...
Some mineral ores are only one piece, so he keeps them temporarily and plans to bring them back to the tribe. As for the duplicated mineral ores, he incorporates them into the expanding dragon den space.
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