Chapter 102: Ch 102- One More Talent
One week later.
Mo Yuan stood inside a small cave and looked at the enormous pile of beast corpses stored inside his storage space.
There were High Grade beasts and Peak Grade beasts of different shapes and sizes. Some were huge snakes, some were wolves, bears, rats and other strange beasts he had never seen before.
Looking at the number of corpses, Mo Yuan nodded with satisfaction.
"This should be enough for me to cultivate for at least two months."
This was the result of his continuous hunting for the past week.
During this period, Mo Yuan had traveled deeper into the Inner Area and hunted almost every High Grade and Peak Grade beast that crossed his path.
For ordinary cultivators, hunting Peak Grade beasts was an extremely dangerous task.
For Mo Yuan, however, it was completely different.
With his Ultimate Grade Speed Talent, Peak Grade Strength Talent and Boundless Saber Art, most Peak Grade beasts couldn’t even react before being killed.
Of course, there were some powerful beasts that Mo Yuan avoided.
After all, the Cang Wilderness was enormous and he couldn’t guarantee that every Peak Grade beast he encountered would be weak.
Fortunately, his Space Talent gave him an enormous storage space.
It was roughly 1 kilometer long, 1 kilometer wide and 1 kilometer high.
The space was so large that even after storing all the beast corpses he had collected during the past week, they hadn’t even occupied five percent of it.
Mo Yuan couldn’t help but wonder about this.
’My Space Talent is only Secondary Grade. How can the storage space be this huge?’
He had thought about it several times but he couldn’t find a proper answer.
Eventually, he could only think of one possibility.
’It must be because of the Void Cat.’
The Void Cat had an extremely special bloodline and possessed a Space Talent.
’Maybe the bloodline of the Void Cat is naturally connected to storage space. That’s probably why my Space Talent is so much stronger than it should be.’
Since he had no way to confirm it, Mo Yuan decided not to think about it anymore.
He turned his attention to another matter.
’My Copy and Paste Talent’s cooldown is finally over.’
Mo Yuan’s eyes narrowed slightly.
During the past week, he had encountered countless beasts.
Unfortunately, despite hunting so many High Grade and Peak Grade beasts, he hadn’t found a single useful Ultimate Grade talent.
Most of the beasts he encountered only had Superior Grade talents.
’It’s actually quite difficult to find Ultimate Grade talents.’
Mo Yuan sighed.
Then he thought about it from another perspective.
’Actually, most of these beasts already have Superior Grade talents.’
He had noticed something interesting during his hunting.
Almost eighty percent of the beasts he had encountered possessed at least one Superior Grade special talent.
On the other hand, most cultivators at the Origin Lord realm didn’t even possess a Superior Grade special talent.
’No wonder beasts are generally considered stronger than humans at the same realm.’
Beasts had naturally strong bodies, powerful bloodlines and special talents.
A human cultivator might have to spend years cultivating to reach the same level of physical strength that a beast was born with.
Mo Yuan shook his head.
’Forget it. Since I couldn’t find anything better, I’ll just copy the Kinetic Energy Absorption Talent.’
He had already decided to make use of every useful talent he could find, then he took out the body of the Mutated Slime from his storage space.
The strange body of the slime appeared in front of him.
Mo Yuan activated his Copy and Paste Talent.
Copy Kinetic Energy Absorption Talent?
"Yes."
Paste?
"Yes."
The familiar strange energy immediately entered his body.
Mo Yuan sat down and quietly waited.
Five minutes later, the energy completely disappeared.
"The process is over."
He immediately focused on the newly acquired talent and large amount of information entered his mind.
"So that’s how it works."
Mo Yuan’s expression became thoughtful.
The Kinetic Energy Absorption Talent allowed him to absorb kinetic energy that entered his body.
For example, if an opponent punched him, the force from that punch would normally travel through his body and cause damage but with this talent, Mo Yuan could absorb part of that kinetic energy before it caused damage.
He could then redirect the absorbed energy somewhere else.
For example, he could send it into the ground.
If someone punched him with a huge amount of force, he could absorb the impact and transfer most of that energy into the ground beneath his feet.
"That’s actually pretty useful."
Mo Yuan nodded.
It wasn’t an offensive talent like his Strength Talent, nor was it a movement talent like his Speed Talent but it gave him another defensive method.
However, there was one major limitation.
The amount of kinetic energy he could absorb depended on how much his body could handle.
If the incoming force exceeded the limit of his body, he wouldn’t be able to absorb all of it.
The excess energy would still enter his body and could cause serious injuries and if he tried to forcefully absorb more energy than his body could handle, the result could be even worse.
His body could be severely damaged or even explode from the excessive energy.
’So I can’t just absorb every attack.’
Mo Yuan rubbed his chin.
’But if I use it properly, it can still reduce a lot of the damage I receive.’
He looked at his hands and smiled.
"Not bad."
"It is better than having nothing."
Mo Yuan thought for a moment before making his decision.
’I should cultivate for now. As for my next talent, I’ll think about it when I find something useful.’
Since he had already collected a large number of High Grade and Peak Grade beast corpses, he didn’t need to worry about cultivation resources for the time being.
Mo Yuan quickly made a large pit inside the cave and began taking out the beast corpses from his storage space.
One after another, the corpses fell into the pit and soon, the pit was filled with Beast Blood.
Mo Yuan looked at the huge amount of blood and nodded in satisfaction.
’This should keep me busy for a while.’
He removed his clothes and stepped into the pit before sitting down cross-legged.
Then he activated his Body Morphing Talent.
The skin across his body began to move.
One mouth after another appeared across his body until his entire body was covered with countless mouths.
The scene looked strange and somewhat creepy but Mo Yuan had already gotten used to it.
He then activated his Devour Talent.
The effect was immediate.
The countless mouths began absorbing the Beast Blood at an even faster rate. The energy inside the blood surged into his body and was rapidly refined by his cultivation technique.
’The combination of these two talents is really useful.’
With Body Morphing Talent, he could absorb Beast Blood through countless mouths at the same time.
With Devour Talent, his body could absorb a much larger portion of the energy instead of wasting most of it.
This made his cultivation speed much faster than before.
Mo Yuan closed his eyes and began circulating the Primordial Qi through his first two major meridians.
The energy flowed through his body like a river, strengthening his flesh, bones and organs while slowly tempering his meridians.
He completely focused on cultivation.
Time slowly passed.
For Mo Yuan, the outside world no longer mattered.
Right now, his only goal was to become stronger.