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Reigning Supreme in countless worlds With Beast taming-Chapter 357 - 354: Merging with the Nine-Headed Snake Bloodline, Transforming into a Rock Giant
Chapter 357: Chapter 354: Merging with the Nine-Headed Snake Bloodline, Transforming into a Rock Giant
Qin Feng used the majority of the Dragon Spirit Fruit’s power on his physical body mainly to prepare for merging with the Rock Giant’s Demon Core.
The Rock Giant is an entity capable of contending with a ninth-tier superior Demon Beast, powerful in strength. If Qin Feng’s physical body wasn’t strong enough, let alone transforming into a Rock Giant, he would find it difficult even to accommodate the Demon Core. Forcing a fusion would only result in damage to his body.
Cultivators seek the Dao for longevity, and if one damages the Taoist Body just to obtain some strength, it would be counterproductive.
However, after refining several Dragon Spirit Fruits, his Azure Dragon Daoist Body’s resilience had become barely sufficient to withstand the transformation into a Rock Giant.
Yet Qin Feng did not immediately merge with the Rock Giant’s Demon Core. Firstly, he hadn’t completely erased the Rock Giant’s soul’s rebellious will, and a rash fusion could lead to backlash.
Furthermore, he wished to enhance the strength of the Ruyi Golden Snake first.
Between him and his Lifebound Spiritual Beast, their auras were compatible; as one grew stronger, it would swiftly lead to the strengthening of the other.
Now that he had the aid of the Dragon Spirit Fruit, his strength had increased significantly.
Although it was mainly the physical body that grew stronger, both his True Yuan and comprehension of Daoist teachings had improved significantly. Therefore, Qin Feng spent another month in deep communion with the Ruyi Golden Snake, enhancing its strength.
Once the aura of the Ruyi Golden Snake had also become much stronger, and feeling that the formidable physical body of the Ruyi Golden Snake could bear the Nine-Headed Snake’s bloodline, he began to prepare to integrate the bloodline power of the Nine-Headed Snake into the Ruyi Golden Snake.
This fusion was slow and difficult. After all, a Nine-Headed Snake was a ninth-tier Demon Beast with a mighty bloodline inheritance, and an adult Nine-Headed Snake possessed a trace of Rule Power protection.
To refine the rule of the Nine-Headed Snake and to fully integrate its formidable bloodline and inheritance into the Ruyi Golden Snake, the Demon Refining Pot required a significant amount of time, consuming a vast amount of Demon Crystals—even with Qin Feng’s current fortune, he felt a painful pinch.
This fusion took much longer than any previous one. Perhaps because of the Rule Power contained within the Nine-Headed Snake’s bloodline, it took a full twelve hours to complete.
However, this lengthy fusion process had its benefits. The Ruyi Golden Snake received the Nine-Headed Snake’s bloodline inheritance almost perfectly, inheriting its talent skills such as Water Arrow Technique, Water Gun Technique, and Water Dragon Tornado, as well as its most powerful talent skills like the twelfth-grade Forbidden Curse Magic Overwhelming Waves and the Endless Abyss Vortex.
These two twelfth-grade Forbidden Curse Magics involved the Power of Water Element Principle.
Although the Ruyi Golden Snake currently didn’t have the strength to use them, and even if it merged with Qin Feng, it still fell short of being able to execute these spells, but even without that ability, Qin Feng could seek understanding of the Water Element Principle from them.
Cultivators are different from Demon Beasts. Although Nine-Headed Snakes are born with such powerful inheritances, they only use these inherited skills instinctively and do not delve into the underlying principles.
It’s like how humans can grasp objects and walk without contemplating why they can perform these actions. Thus, unless a Nine-Headed Snake cultivates to the peak of ninth-tier Demon Beasts, it rarely considers how to advance further.
On the other hand, cultivators will do everything possible to understand the Power of Laws, seeking to harness Principle Power, then deriving Magic Divine Powers more suitable to themselves from it. They seek to control and manipulate Principle Power, thereby unleashing even greater might.
Now, Qin Feng was doing just that. Although he could not fully grasp the Principle involved in those two Forbidden Curse Magics right away and needed a considerable amount of time to understand the principles behind their execution, it did not matter. Since these two Forbidden Curses involving Water Element Principle resided within the Ruyi Golden Snake, he could contemplate and seek understanding from them anytime, anywhere.
Once he had fully comprehended them, he would have mastered the Principle Power within.
By then, his strength would surge rapidly, allowing him to ascend to the Purple Mansion Realm in the shortest possible time.
As a True Disciple, once ascended to the Purple Mansion Realm, Qin Feng’s influence within the Sect would increase considerably, much stronger than that of ordinary Inner Sect Elders and second only to the Hall Masters of various halls and the Great Elders of various branches.
Even the influence of those powerful Vice Hall Masters might not surpass his own.
For such a True Disciple signifies immense potential for the future, surely becoming a prominent figure within the Sect, destined to take on the mantle of a Hall Master or the position of a Great Elder.
It’s just that Qin Feng has no desire to become a candidate for Sect Master, otherwise once he could ascend to the Purple Mansion Realm within the span of a few decades, even without the promises from Elder Kongkong and their like, even without the support of individuals like Ning Wuxu, with such talent, he would likely be designated the next Sect Master.
Additionally, there was another important matter: the powerful regeneration ability of the Nine-Headed Snake.
Qin Feng planned to focus on this regeneration ability. As long as he could integrate the power of regeneration into his body, his Azure Dragon Daoist Body could take a step ahead to reach the stage of regrowing limbs.
By that time, the cultivation speed of his Azure Dragon Daoist Body would also become faster.
Because he could cultivate without worrying about injuries; he could always recover. No matter what methods he used to torment himself, as long as he didn’t over-consume the origin of life, he would be able to use all kinds of extreme means to cultivate.
Once Qin Feng had integrated the Nine-Headed Snake’s bloodline into the Ruyi Golden Snake’s body, he planned to set aside the matters of the Ruyi Golden Snake and focus all his efforts on preparing to absorb the Demon Core of the Rock Giant.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to comprehend Forbidden Curse Magic and understand the Water Element Principle and Regeneration Power at the earliest opportunity, but after merging with the Nine-Headed Snake’s bloodline, the Ruyi Golden Snake had fallen into a deep slumber.
He knew this was the Ruyi Golden Snake adapting to the Nine-Headed Snake’s bloodline, fully accepting the Nine-Headed Snake’s inheritance, and hence falling into a deep sleep.
Moreover, Qin Feng could even sense that the Ruyi Golden Snake’s body was slowly growing, enlarging.
This brought him considerable joy.
It seemed that when the Ruyi Golden Snake awakened from its deep sleep, its body would have significantly increased in size, no longer as petite as before.
Furthermore, he also saw two protuberances growing on the sides of the Ruyi Golden Snake’s neck, which would probably extend into two snake heads before long.
This indicated that the bloodline power of the Nine-Headed Snake was taking effect, prompting the growth of more snake heads.
Therefore, Qin Feng decided to wait until the Ruyi Golden Snake was awake before studying Forbidden Curse Magic.
As long as he thoroughly understood the Forbidden Curses, he could imprint those two curses as divine skills onto his Golden Core, becoming one of his divine skills. In this way, when he advanced to the Purple Mansion Realm later on, their power would be further enhanced.
Thus, Qin Feng placed the Ruyi Golden Snake inside the Demon Refining Pot and continually provided it with pure Spiritual Power, slowly infusing it into the Ruyi Golden Snake’s body to provide sufficient energy for its evolution.
After all this was in place, Qin Feng waved his hand and took out the massive Demon Core of the Rock Giant.
Inside the Demon Core, you could faintly hear the resentful roar of the Rock Giant’s soul.
However, this roar was already far weaker than before, the result of Qin Feng taking time each day to erode the will of the Rock Giant’s soul.
Now Qin Feng’s strength had grown tremendously, and he also had the time to combine the Cultivation World’s secret techniques for dealing with Divine Souls with the druids’ spells for eroding the will of the soul, attempting to wear down the opponent’s will in a more potent manner.
After more than ten days of relentless erosion, he finally brought the soul of the Rock Giant into a state of chaos, ready for merging.
At this point, Qin Feng finally began to work on absorbing the demon core.
Given the overwhelming magic power of the rock giant’s demon core, even though Qin Feng’s Azure Dragon Daoist Body had become strong enough to accommodate the demon core, and because of his cultivation of the Ten Thousand Beasts Origin Scripture, his Divine Sense had become much stronger than that of the druid magic guides, yet in terms of realm, his Divine Sense was still inferior to that of Great Druids.
Of course, when it came to the skillful use of Divine Sense, Qin Feng was streets ahead of those Great Druids. After all, in the ingenious use of Divine Sense, the Beast Taming Sect were experts!
Qin Feng’s current situation was such that both the strength of his physical body and Divine Sense had barely reached the point where they could contain a level nine demon core. However, his realm was not there yet, and the quality of his Divine Sense still had room for improvement. This made him extremely cautious during the absorption of the demon core. He did not rush at all, resulting in the merging process taking nearly three months.
This was very different from the time in the Demon Beast Forest, when he had merged with the Silver Winged Pegasus in a very short period.
But there was no helping it, who made the rock giant so strong? Even amongst the level nine demon beasts, the rock giant was amongst the very top.
Of course, the rock giant was not a demon beast; it was a type of elemental life.
After Qin Feng patiently and calmly fully absorbed the demon core into his body, he did feel a slight swelling around his heart and a constant feeling of his body being on the verge of bursting, which was quite discomforting.
However, as he circulated his Azure Dragon Daoist Body, the strong life force continuously repaired the damaged parts of his body, he found that this pressure was actually forcing his Daoist Body to grow faster. His Azure Dragon Daoist Body was constantly improving, gradually adapting to the presence of the demon core.
After practicing like this for more than ten days, once he had completely adapted to the demon core and was able to transform into a rock giant, Qin Feng decided to leave his seclusion.
This was because the Spiritual Energy in the cultivation room was indeed rich, but the space was limited.
The human clan had relatively smaller body sizes, and Ning Wuxu could not possibly make the cultivation room in his palace extremely spacious. Doing so would make it very easy for cultivators to feel a sense of loneliness, hence the space of the cultivation room was simply not enough to accommodate the huge form of the rock giant.
Once he arrived in front of the hall, Qin Feng uttered a shout, touched the demon core within his body, and instantly exhibited the Druid Transformation Technique.
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A huge surge of power radiated outwards, and Qin Feng’s figure suddenly transformed into a rock giant, ten zhang tall.
Immediately, Qin Feng’s entire body was filled with a strong sense of power, making him feel an urge to break apart the heavens and the earth.
Especially when he saw that the once spacious and tall hall now only reached up to his waist, it further inflated his sense of pride.
However, before he could fully appreciate the power of his new form, he suddenly sensed an overwhelming pressure sweeping over, instantly snapping Qin Feng out of the feeling of strength.
“Eh?”
Ning Wuxu uttered a light exclamation, shifting from ethereal to solid form, appearing directly in front of Qin Feng.
With the current level of Qin Feng’s Divine Sense and vision, he could not even see how his master had appeared.
“So this is what the rock giant transformation looks like?”
Ning Wuxu marveled, his eyes emanating a brilliant Spirit Light. His powerful Divine Sense swept over Qin Feng’s entire body, and he could not stop nodding, “Indeed excellent, the druids’ transformation technique has its merits. If I were not aware of your background, I would probably not recognize this as your transformed self. Should you appear outside, most would likely believe you to be an actual rock giant.”
Qin Feng chuckled, and even though he had been intimidated by the burst of power from his master just now, feeling the immense strength within himself, he couldn’t help but ask, “Master, do you think with my current strength, I could defeat an ordinary Purple Mansion Cultivator?”
“Hmm, your strength is quite decent, and you shouldn’t have a problem dealing with the average Purple Mansion Realm cultivator,” Ning Wuxu said with a smile. “However, the Rock Giant’s method of confronting enemies is somewhat simple and brute. It might be suitable for dealing with the Demon Clan Commanders of this world, but you must not rely solely on the Rock Giant’s methods to deal with cultivators in the future, or you will definitely suffer a loss.
“Aren’t you also practicing several Earth Element Divine Powers? If you use both Shrinking Ground to Inch and the Earth Escape Divine Power, not only will you solve the Rock Giant’s weakness of slow movement, but also you will be able to conceal yourself better when deploying the Earth Escape Divine Power.”
“Thank you for the guidance, Master,” Qin Feng replied promptly, his heart filled with joy. Using the Rock Giant’s long legs and the robust Earth Element Power to execute Shrinking Ground to Inch, his speed would become much faster, and he wouldn’t have to worry about the Rock Giant’s slow movement anymore.
“Right, didn’t you say you valued the Rock Giant’s Gravity Technique a lot?” Ning Wuxu continued with a chuckle, “Show me how powerful it is when you cast it?”
“Yes, Master.” Transformed successfully, Qin Feng was also excited. With a light shout, a yellow light flashed on his stony body, and immediately, a powerful force erupted.
This force quickly radiated out, enveloping the entire palace in an instant. Then, one could see that on some of the ornamental Spiritual Trees, some of the fine branches and leaves couldn’t withstand the gravity and began to fall to the ground constantly.
Seeing this, Qin Feng realized he got too excited and quickly reined in the power, concentrating the Gravity Technique solely on the area in front of Ning Wuxu. He was not yet adept at using it, able to cast only according to the Rock Giant’s instincts; once he reached the point where he could cast a targeted Gravity Technique, its power would be even greater.
“Very good, a very nice spell,” Ning Wuxu nodded in approval. “No wonder you specifically chose the Rock Giant. Leaving everything else aside, just this Gravity Technique alone, if used well, can be infinitely useful.
Not only can it be used like a spell similar to a Domain, but if you cultivate this spell to a higher realm, as long as you approach your opponent within a certain distance, they will be greatly affected.
Especially those adept at close-quarters combat, once they are pressed by the gravity that is hundreds or thousands of times heavier, their war power is likely to be drastically weakened.
However, your Gravity Technique can currently only serve as an ordinary Support Magic. After all, at most, it’s only ten times the normal gravity, which is really not much for cultivators like us. Even if we encounter someone who is particularly proficient in the use of Principles, they could directly neutralize your gravity. Therefore, you will need to put more thought into the Gravity Technique in the future.”
“Master’s words are true,” Qin Feng certainly understood the logic in his master’s words. Ten times gravity would be invincible against common opponents, and he would not even need to act against ordinary people, as simply this force would be enough to crush them. However, against cultivators or powerful Demon Clan Commanders, it could only play a supporting role.
Suddenly, an idea struck him, and he said, “Master, I have another spell here. Please give me more guidance.”
No sooner had he spoken than a massive aura of oppression emerged from him again, intimidating all around.