NABC Chapter 58 Follow-up Planning
Chapter 58 Follow-up Planning
Although the nine-headed dragon-snake beast is expected to enter a new molting period in the next few years, the hiding place of the soul beast is as if hidden in the mist, unknown to everyone.
Therefore, Dugu Bo made a decisive move, activating his network of contacts to gather relevant information, while also asking Wu Heyi if there was a second plan.
Regardless of other factors, the soul beast mentioned by Wu Heyi is merely a mysterious soul beast recorded in unofficial history, whose existence is uncertain.
If this soul beast has already been killed by others and has not left any offspring, then Wu Heyi's second plan becomes crucial.
However, Wu Heyi gave an affirmative answer without hesitation, and also indicated that the nine-headed dragon-serpent beast was the most ideal solution.
If this soul beast is lost, the effectiveness of finding other soul beasts as materials for advancing one's martial soul will be greatly reduced.
In truth, Wu Heyi was genuinely unsure of himself. He had only discovered records about this kind of soul beast by chance in the academy's library. The reason he remembered it so vividly was mainly because the soul beast's form was extremely similar to Xiang Liu from the world he came from before his transmigration.
Moreover, back then he was also obsessed with mythological novels and movies, as if every world contained a giant monster with eight or nine heads.
Just like the legendary Yamata no Orochi, it was a colossal serpent with eight heads.
When asked if there were any alternatives, the first thing that came to Wu Heyi's mind was the nine-headed bat beneath the City of Slaughter.
Unfortunately, that guy has already possessed Tang Chen's body, and the strength he has unleashed is close to that of a demigod. Hunting him down will probably be even more difficult than hunting the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent Beast!
However, these are not the issues that Wu Heyi needs to consider right now.
After resolving Dugu Yan's problem of body tempering and poison control, Wu Heyi should return to the academy with Dean Sen.
However, Wu Heyi did not expect that the body-refining path he chose for Dugu Yan would have an effect that exceeded his expectations.
Originally, the plan was merely to use a few rare immortal herbs to create a relatively strong physical body for Dugu Yan. With this foundation, the subsequent evolution of her martial soul would avoid causing her body to self-destruct due to absorbing an overly powerful soul ring.
Unexpectedly, her martial soul was so unique that after absorbing those two rare immortal herbs, her body tempering results were vastly different from Tang San's.
In the original novel, Tang San's body-refining achievement was immunity to both ice and fire, and he was also immune to all poisons.
Since Dugu Yan's martial soul is inherently poisonous, the ability to be immune to all poisons is absolutely impossible for her.
This caused some peculiar changes in her body. Her basic immunity to both ice and fire remained, but due to the special nature of her martial soul, all poisonous substances, when combined with her immunity to all poisons, would be absorbed by her immediately.
After a certain period of refinement, it can become Dugu Yan's own treasure.
However, just as Wu Heyi had predicted, her body seemed to have become a poison tank. Because her physical strength had been greatly enhanced, the amount of poison that her body could store had also increased significantly, but there was still an upper limit.
If this limit is ever broken, then Dugu Yan will become a mobile poison gas canister.
The original solution was to stop Dugu Yan from cultivating soul power, find a suitable soul beast as soon as possible to evolve her martial soul, thereby increasing the amount of poison stored in her body, and also adding some ways to use her poison attribute attacks.
The problem now is that Dugu Yan is alarmed to find that as her soul power increases, the amount of poison stored in her body also increases. It seems that whether she can store more poison elements depends on the level of her soul power.
Moreover, once one's soul power cultivation stagnates, the toxins in the body will begin to erode the soul power within the body. At that time, the soul power will be expelled by the toxins, and sooner or later one will find it difficult to suppress.
This situation was quite different from Wu Heyi's initial prediction, which led Dugu Yan to come and ask for advice on what kind of soul beast should be hunted for the third soul ring.
This really stumped Wu Heyi.
His original plans were almost all based on his general understanding of the situation, and his suggestions to others were also based on some of his own insights.
Although most of these findings can be found in the knowledge available in this world, some degree of deviation is inevitable.
However, Wu Heyi had not expected that she would suddenly be able to cultivate this skill. But now that the problem had surfaced, it needed to be solved.
After pondering for a long time, Wu Heyi asked Dean Sen and Dugu Bo for some books about soul beasts.
After studying for several days in Dugu Bo's medicine valley, he finally came up with a series of directions.
Considering that it was highly unlikely that the Nine-Headed Dragon Serpent Beast could be found, Wu Heyi devised a new hunting route for the sake of Dugu Yan's future development.
One of the spirit beasts is the key to this direction.
However, those are matters for later. The most important thing right now is to determine which spirit beast Dugu Yan's third spirit ring should be based on.
Wu Heyi sketched the general outline of a soul beast on a piece of white paper. Since most of the books given by Dean Sen and Dugu Bo were incomplete, many pages only had one picture of the soul beast, with an explanation of its characteristics next to the picture, and some even lacked a name.
This also made it impossible for Wu Heyi to determine the exact names of certain soul beasts, so he could only draw the picture.
Dugu Bo picked it up and looked at it, then suddenly shouted loudly.
"Isn't this the Mirror Image Poisonous Python?!"
The most striking feature of this soul beast is that its entire body is as clear and translucent as crystal, but its poison is colorless and odorless. Its most distinctive characteristic is that its poison is released as a mist from its tail.
When its prey inhales its poison, they fall into a hallucination, experiencing different illusions, and ultimately die miserably in the abyss of despair of those hallucinations.
These spirit beasts are usually solitary creatures. Although they are not a rare snake species, they are among the most dangerous to hunt.
Wu Heyi chose this soul beast for two reasons. First, Dugu Yan always presented herself as a control-type soul master, and the soul skills carried by this soul beast must be illusions or something similar, which could prolong the control time.
Secondly, based on the first reason, once she releases her illusion, and the enemy is unable to launch an attack against her, Dugu Yan's physical strength becomes as solid as an impenetrable wall, comparable to some powerful offensive Soul Masters of the same level.
However, there was one more thing Wu Heyi hadn't mentioned: he longed to know what kind of wondrous chemical reaction would occur when the fire poison, the cold poison, and the illusion poison met.