Chapter 1690: Gluttonous Beast
Zhao Hai looked at the cultivator who was trapped inside the sword formation. The cultivator would never be able to go out of the formation. However, the sword formation couldn’t kill him right away. Therefore, the cultivator would be able to live a little longer.
Zhao Hai s.h.i.+fted his attention to the dead tiger-form biochemical beast. Zhao Hai waved his hand and covered the beast with dark mist. But soon, Zhao Hai knitted his brows. This was because the beast didn’t turn into an Undead.
There’s one important condition for a lifeform to be turned into Undead, and that was the soul. No matter which lifeform, their souls would stay inside their bodies for some time after they died. If you want to turn a dead being into an undead, their souls should be present and have not completely dissipated. Otherwise, it would be impossible to make an Undead.
However, the biochemical beast didn’t become an Undead, which meant that it had no soul.
After thinking about it, Zhao Hai understood. Biochemical beasts were half-machine and weren’t complete lifeforms. Their chips would be their ‘souls’. When the biochemical beast dies, their lifeform chips would also stop functioning, which means that their ‘soul’ has disappeared. Therefore, there’s no way to turn the tiger-form biochemical beast into an Undead.
Zhao Hai sighed. Then inside his brain, he sent a message to Cai’er, “Cai’er, let’s proceed with the plan. See which materials the biochemical beasts could eat and then make lists for its possible varieties. See especially if they can become meat supplies.”
Zhao Hai already sent the tiger-form biochemical beast into the s.p.a.ce. The tiger-form beast looked the same as a real tiger. However, the reason Zhao Hai sent the dead tiger to the s.p.a.ce was for Cai’er to experiment whether its meat was edible or not.
After Zhao Hai took care of this matter, he heard a scream from the cultivator who was trapped inside the sword formation. He turned his head and saw that the cultivator had died. Zhao Hai waved his hand and sent the corpse to the s.p.a.ce. At the same time, Cai’er used the processing machine to disa.s.semble and remake the bronze mirror.
After completing all of these, Zhao Hai left the battlefield and went to the next place. This time, Zhao Hai plans to kill a biochemical beast himself. He wanted to see what the yellow light that they emit when they die was.
The silver needles have already discovered a biochemical beast. But this time, the biochemical beast wasn’t easy to deal with. It was a five-form biochemical beast. A cultivator came upon this beast and was quickly slaughtered.
When the cultivator and the five-form beast fought, the biochemical beast revealed four forms: snake, elephant, tiger, and mouse. Then when the biochemical beast killed the cultivator, it ate the cultivator’s corpse and a.s.sumed their form. Moreover, the copy was very good.
Zhao Hai finally saw why Zhang Feng told him that the foreign trial was dangerous and that he shouldn’t trust anybody. The transformation ability of the biochemical beasts was truly formidable. There were no flaws in their disguise.
As the biochemical beast turned into the cultivator, Zhao Hai appeared in front of it. Then he trapped it inside the sword formation.
The biochemical beast could feel Zhao Hai’s immense strength. It immediately attacked. Surprisingly, the biochemical beast was using the dead cultivator’s artifacts.
Artifacts generally had imprints of their owners. If others want to steal an artifact, they need to remove this imprint. Otherwise, the artifact wouldn’t be easy to use.
But just now, the biochemical beast used the cultivator’s artifact as though it owned it. This can only explain one thing. Not only can the biochemical beast imitate the cultivator’s appearance, it could also imitate the cultivator’s spiritual force. It was too scary to think about.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hai no longer held back and used the full strength of the sword formation to deal with the beast. He discovered that the five-form biochemical beast had the strength of the peak spirit refining realm. And with its transformation ability, it was very hard to fight against.
Although the biochemical beast wasn’t weak, it still fell short against Zhao Hai. With Zhao Hai being serious, the battle ended before long. The biochemical beast has been strangled by the sword formation and was killed.
After the biochemical beast was killed, a yellow light went out of the beast and entered Zhao Hai’s body.
Zhao Hai didn’t resist and allowed the yellow light to enter his body. As soon as the yellow light entered, Zhao Hai immediately felt a strange feeling. He seemed to embody a mouse, then a tiger, then a snake, then an elephant, then another cultivator.
It was a very unusual feeling. It wasn’t like watching a film or a cultivation transmission where the information is imprinted inside the mind. It was a feeling that was akin to gaining experience. It made you feel what being an animal was as well as their movements. In that moment, you were an animal, and that animal was you.
Although this feeling was short, Zhao Hai could feel that it was important for cultivation. This was especially true for people who wanted to condense their dao avatars, it was priceless.
Experience was necessary to condense a dao avatar. Take Zhao Hai for example, for him to condense his 18 Arhat Avatars, he needed to understand the 18 Buddhist Techniques and see their profound meaning. Only in this way can he condense the 18 Dao Avatars.
Naturally, the condensation of these 18 Arhat Avatars required the cooperation of the Buddhist Dharma, which made it difficult to condense. Most cultivators would condense their dao avatars using beast laws. Compared to the Buddhist Dharma, the dao of animals was simpler. However, it takes a long time to observe and a.n.a.lyze an animal. Only when you can embody an animal can you comprehend the dao of beasts.
This comprehension takes a very long time. After all, it was difficult for a person to think of themselves as an animal. Therefore, a lot of animalistic dao avatars come out very inflexible. They only felt the surface of the dao of beasts and haven’t understood its essence.
But in this subs.p.a.ce, the biochemical beasts provided a cultivator a flash of insight towards animal forms. The yellow light allowed a person to feel what it is like to be an animal.
Zhao Hai came back to his senses and he couldn’t help but smile. He was different from other people. Others might feel the effects of the yellow light for a short time, but Zhao Hai has the spiritual cube. The spiritual cube can remember the feeling, which means that Zhao Hai can comprehend the feeling for longer. And since Zhao Hai already has experience condensing a dao avatar, it wouldn’t be long before he could condense an animal avatar.
Compared to the 18 Arhat Avatars and the 12 Zodiac Avatars, the animal avatar was much worse. However, it was still useful for Zhao Hai. When Zhao Hai fights in the future, he would use his animal avatar so that n.o.body would feel threatened by him.
Zhao Hai moved and returned to the s.p.a.ce. When he entered the villa, he found Laura and the others staring at an egg on the ground. The egg wasn’t big, only the size of an ostrich’s egg. It was completely white and had no dirt on it.
Zhao Hai looked at Laura and the others and asked, “What’s this? Where did the egg come from?”
Laura looked at Zhao Hai and said, “Brother Hai, this is a biochemical beast egg. It will hatch soon. We want to see what a newly-born biochemical beast looks like.”
Hearing Laura say this, Zhao Hai was also curious. He wanted to see what it would look like just after getting out of the egg. Before long, the egg began to shake and then crack. Then a little thing crawled out of the sh.e.l.l.
When they saw the little thing, Zhao Hai and the others were stunned. It looked like a little bean. The little thing turned around and ate its eggsh.e.l.l. After eating, it immediately grew about half of its size and became the size of a rabbit. Then the little thing made a squeaking sound like a mouse.
The little thing grew white fur and two round ears, it looked lovely. Laura and the others couldn’t help but pet the little beast. The little beast also lied on the floor with its eyes closed, seemingly enjoying the attention it received.
Looking at the little beast, Zhao Hai couldn’t help but smile as he turned to Meg and said, “Meg, get something for this little thing to eat. I want to see how fast it can grow.”
Meg nodded and went to the kitchen to get a pile of things to eat, both meat and vegetables. Meg also wants to see what things the little beast could eat.
When Meg placed the food on the ground, the little beast immediately charged into it and swallowed them with its big mouth. Whether it be meat or vegetables, everything went into its belly. It didn’t even chew the food. Before long, the pile of food was eaten by the beast. Because of this, it bloated up like a little rubber ball.
After eating, the little beast closed its eyes and lay on the ground as though it was sleeping. But under Zhao Hai and the others’ gaze, the belly of the little beast visibly shrank. In less than one hour, the beast was restored to its normal size. Then it quickly grew. It stopped growing when it was as big as a puppy. Then it opened its eyes.