Chapter 98: Ch 98- Devour Talent
Soon, Mo Yuan was completely covered by the Mutated Slime’s tentacles.
Dozens of sticky tentacles wrapped around his arms, legs, chest and even his head. The slime kept tightening its grip, trying to crush him.
However, Mo Yuan wasn’t worried.
’These things can’t even hurt me.’
His defensive talent was strong enough to block the force of the tentacles. Even though he was completely surrounded, he didn’t feel any real danger.
What was more important was that his soul attack was already working.
His soul power had entered the body of the Mutated Slime and was directly attacking its soul.
Mo Yuan found the process extremely strange.
He had never used his soul power like this before.
He didn’t even understand much about souls. Until recently, he had only known that a cultivator’s soul would become stronger as their cultivation realm increased but now, he could clearly sense another soul inside the slime.
It was very weak.
His soul power was like a large wave crashing against a small pond. The difference between them was simply too great.
’So this is what happens when soul power overwhelms another person’s soul.’
Mo Yuan carefully continued pushing his soul power forward.
The Mutated Slime struggled harder.
Its dozens of tentacles twisted around Mo Yuan’s body but its movements were becoming weaker and weaker.
Mo Yuan could clearly feel its soul slowly weakening.
At first, it was still resisting, then its resistance became weaker.
Until finally, there was almost nothing left.
Five minutes later, Mo Yuan suddenly felt the connection disappear.
The slime’s soul was gone.
At the same time, the tentacles wrapped around his body suddenly became loose.
One after another, they fell away and returned to the main body of the slime.
Mo Yuan stood there for a moment before letting out a sigh of relief.
"Finally."
He looked at the slime lying motionless in front of him. Its body was still almost completely intact.
There were no major wounds on it and not even a single tentacle had been cut off.
’Perfect.’
Mo Yuan immediately took out his Storage Space and stored the entire Mutated Slime inside.
’Now I just need to wait for the cooldown.’
He looked at himself and frowned, then he smelled his clothes.
His expression immediately changed.
"Ugh."
His clothes were covered in slime.
’First, I need to take a bath.’
Mo Yuan quickly left the area and found a clean water source nearby.
He took out soap and some clean clothes from his Storage Space before washing himself.
After spending some time cleaning the slime off his body, he finally changed into fresh clothes.
"Much better."
Mo Yuan looked at the muddy clothes he had taken off and shook his head.
’I really hope I never have to fight another slime like that.’
He checked the time.
There were still several days before his Copy and Paste Talent could be used again.
’I’ll just wait.’
Mo Yuan found a suitable cave nearby and made sure there were no dangerous beasts around.
Then he sat down cross-legged.
’Once the cooldown is over, the first thing I’ll copy is the Devour Talent.’
His eyes became excited when he thought about it.
A Superior Grade Devour Talent.
He had no idea what kind of ability it would give him after he copied it.
’If it’s as useful as I think it is, my strength might increase again.’
With that thought, Mo Yuan closed his eyes.
He began circulating the Primordial Qi through his body and entered a state of cultivation.
Seven days later.
Inside the cave, Mo Yuan slowly opened his eyes.
After seven days of uninterrupted cultivation, his strength had improved once again.
His base strength had reached around 990,000 jin, which was already extremely close to the limit of the Origin Sea Realm.
His speed had also increased.
1,714 m/s.
With his Ultimate Grade Speed Talent, his maximum speed was already close to five Mach.
His Origin Sense had improved as well and had now reached around 100 meters.
Mo Yuan clenched his fist and felt the powerful strength inside his body.
"Not bad."
However, he didn’t pay much attention to his strength right now as there was something much more important.
’The cooldown is finally over.’
A smile appeared on Mo Yuan’s face.
’Time to copy the Devour Talent.’
He immediately took out the body of the Mutated Slime from his Storage Space.
Even after seven days, the body was still perfectly preserved, Mo Yuan activated his Copy and Paste Talent.
Copy Devour Talent?
"Yes."
Paste?
"Yes."
The moment he confirmed it, a strange energy suddenly entered his body.
Mo Yuan’s expression changed slightly.
This feeling was different from when he had copied ordinary talents. A strange warm current spread throughout his body, slowly merging with his flesh and organs.
He sat quietly and waited.
Five minutes later, the strange feeling finally disappeared.
Mo Yuan opened his eyes.
’So this is the Devour Talent.’
He immediately tried to activate it.
A strange feeling appeared inside his body and soon information about the talent appeared in his mind.
Mo Yuan carefully read through it.
After a moment, his expression became slightly disappointed.
"Ah."
"It’s not bad but it’s not as crazy as I expected."
The Devour Talent wasn’t some terrifying ability that could instantly swallow anything and turn it into strength.
Instead, it was more like a cheat for cultivation.
Normally, when a cultivator consumed Beast Blood, spirit herbs, pills or other treasures, they couldn’t absorb all the energy contained inside them.
A large amount of energy would be wasted because the body simply couldn’t absorb it completely.
The Devour Talent changed this.
It could greatly improve the body’s ability to absorb energy, allowing Mo Yuan to absorb around 70% of the energy contained in a resource.
For ordinary cultivators, this would already be an extremely valuable ability.
After all, cultivation resources were expensive and wasting a large portion of their energy was unavoidable but Mo Yuan had expected something much more powerful.
’Unfortunately, it still can’t break the limit of my Cultivation Talent.’
His expression became thoughtful.
His Ultimate Grade Cultivation Talent could help him cultivate much faster than ordinary cultivators but it also had a limit.
According to what he knew, Ultimate Grade Cultivation Talent could normally allow someone to reach the Origin Lord Realm.
Beyond that, breaking through to the Sovereign Realm was extremely difficult.
There were almost no chances without some extraordinary opportunity.
Simply devouring more energy wouldn’t allow him to break through that natural limit.
’Still, this is pretty useful.’
Mo Yuan smiled again.
’At least I can cultivate much faster now.’
With the Devour Talent, he could make much better use of his Beast Blood and other cultivation resources.
Instead of wasting most of the energy, he could absorb a much larger portion.
’Let’s reach the Origin Soul Realm first.’
Mo Yuan looked at the remaining Beast Blood in his Storage Space.
’It should take around another week.’
He put the Mutated Slime’s body back into his Storage Space and then he took out a large container filled with Peak Grade Beast Blood.
Without wasting any more time, Mo Yuan began cultivating again.
The rich energy inside the Beast Blood entered his body and at the same time, the Devour Talent activated.
Compared to before, the amount of energy he could absorb was clearly much higher.
Mo Yuan’s eyes slowly closed.
’This time, let’s see how fast I can break through.’