Peerless: Auspicious Beast's Star Revival Plan

Chapter 158: Hundred-Eyed Monster

"Pick the one you like as your second soul ring." Wen Qiang said behind Huo Yuqing.

No... I don't like this! Huo Yuqing screamed in her heart.

For a moment, the other three teenagers present looked at her with sympathy.

Although all soul rings look the same, this thing looks so disgusting!
“What the hell is this?” Huo Yuqing couldn’t help but take two steps back in horror.

To be fair, this thing doesn't look like it can produce spirit rings... Even if it does, it obviously requires a very strong mental quality to absorb its spirit rings.

"It's a pest." An Wen raised his gun and poked the big eyeball sullenly. The huge eye burst open, and juice splashed everywhere, landing on the churning black mud. It immediately turned into more small eyeballs that were spinning around, making Huo Yuqing feel sick. "This thing is disgusting and hard to kill... I wasted my vacation on it."

Huo Yuqing suddenly felt a slight sense of nausea and dizziness.

"I'm two months." The strange boy said gloomily. He held three bright green crabapple flowers in his hands. The nine stamens at the center of the crabapple flowers were a gorgeous deep purple. When these two colors came together, they looked extremely poisonous.

He waved his hand, and a faint green light fell on the rolling eyeballs. In an instant, the black mud wrapped around the eyeballs rolled violently, and the surface of the eyeballs twisted and grew dense bulges, turning into smaller eyeballs, and then exploded one by one.

"I've been here for three months...testing soul guides." He Caitou numbly raised the barrel of the gun and fired a shot at the pile of new little eyeballs, quietly killing the competition.

"Less nonsense, more work, that's the hard truth." Wen Qiang said lazily, "Exercising down here helps increase your mental strength. Most people don't have the chance to come here yet."

After hearing this, Huo Yuqing, who was originally feeling disgusted, suddenly brightened up her eyes.

In fact, these rolling eyeballs cannot be considered as living things in the general sense.

Just as ice elemental creatures are born in the Far North where ice elements are abundant, and eventually give rise to the Snow Girl clan after a series of changes, dark elemental creatures will also be born in anthills deep underground that are filled with dark elements.

Although elemental creatures are called living things, they do not need to eat and cannot reproduce. Except for those special individuals, it will take at least hundreds of millions of years for them to develop a clear self-awareness. Before that, they will only wander around the place where they were born, or until they combine with external spiritual power - for example, the soul of a human who died in the severe cold combines with an ice elemental creature to become a snow girl. So to some extent, an ordinary snow girl can also be regarded as a kind of undead creature.

This pile of wriggling black mud filled with eyeballs is the product of the combination of the newly born dark elemental creature larvae and the spiritual power left over from the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord.

After the alliance between Xingdou and the Demon Forest, Wang Rui once invited the Evil Emperor to go to Xingdou Forest to assist in the construction of ant nests. He used its time and space attributes to reinforce and expand some important planting rooms, and left behind a magic array that could accelerate the maturity of crops.

The time and space attributes are really useful.jpg
Wang Rui wanted to keep the Evil Emperor living in Xingdou permanently, but unfortunately the Evil Emperor couldn't let go of his evil sons and grandsons, so the two conducted some evil py deals in exchange for the Evil Emperor to reinforce the structure at regular intervals, which we will not discuss here for the time being.

After that, the places in the ant nest where the evil emperor's spiritual power remained began to grow eyeballs and black mud one after another.

Therefore, this combination of eyeballs and black mud - the soul beast named Shadow Hundred-Eyed Monster - is also a kind of evil descendant in a sense.

This is hell.

Evil eyes are soul beasts from another world. They have a strange characteristic, that is, a large amount of spiritual power radiation unique to evil eyes can transform very weak biological cubs into monsters with a hundred eyes.

In the Evil Emperor's lair, the Evil Forest, there is often a special spiritual power left over from the Evil Eye that gives birth to hundred-eyed monsters. However, those hundred-eyed monsters can practice and reproduce normally, so it is not wrong to say that they are the companion race of the Evil Eye.

However, on Xingdou's side, although these dark elemental hundred-eyed monsters underground have a preliminary consciousness, perhaps because they were awakened by only a little bit of the evil emperor's remaining spiritual power, they are inherently incomplete and cannot truly become independent individuals. Although they have consciousness, it is very simple and their wisdom will not grow. No matter how powerful the shadow hundred-eyed monster is, it can only do two things: attack and eat.

They cannot communicate or think, and are even more endless than leeks. Once you kill one batch, another will pop up again, endangering underground food security. They are more annoying than locust soul beasts.

Unless all the power left by the Evil Emperor is removed, the Shadow Hundred-Eyed Monster will continue to appear and devour the crops that the ants have worked so hard to grow.

However, the crops produced in the anthills have to supply the humans and soul beasts in several cities, and it is impossible to leave the power of time and space left by the Evil Emperor. Therefore, killing insects has become an important task every year.

Fortunately, the rules of the Douluo World also count these shadow hundred-eyed monsters as soul beasts, and they can also produce high-quality soul rings.

Although this thing looks disgusting, the spirit ring also has powerful spiritual attributes, which is very suitable for Huo Yuqing to absorb...but it is not easy to kill.

Didn’t you see so many attacks falling on that shadow hundred-eyed monster, but didn’t this thing have any soul rings exploded?

"You young people, work hard. I won't get in the way here. Once the planting rooms between 300 and 400 are cleaned up, you can go upstairs." Wen Qiang waved his hand and left the planting room leisurely.

"There are still forty rooms to go...Come on, brothers." He Caitou tried hard to cheer everyone up, but to little avail.

The supervisor has left, and it's time to slack off.

The young man whom Huo Yuqing didn't recognize retracted his martial spirit, picked up a broom and swept the black mud and slime left by the Hundred-Eyed Monster to the side, then sat down against the wall, staring at the ceiling of the cave with his eyes wide open.

An Wen also retracted her martial spirit, and in a very ungraceful manner, she dragged Huo Yuqing to sit down and started to slack off.

He Caitou sighed deeply, conjured up a few cigars and distributed them to everyone.

"The ability of the Hundred-Eyed Monster is quite special. We are all exhausted." He explained while puffing out smoke. "You are a spiritual person, so you may not feel anything. But we feel a lot of pressure standing here."

Huo Yuqing recalled the feeling of nausea and dizziness that had not gone away since she entered the room, and suddenly realized something.

An Wen squirmed on the ground in a very unpresentable manner. "This is Huo Yuhao." She patted Huo Yuqing's shoulder, poked the strange boy, and introduced him hastily, "This is Dugu Shuke. Okay, you two know each other now."

Huo Yuqing suddenly realized whose facial features he resembled.

"I know you." Dugu Shuke tilted his head and looked at Huo Yuqing. "Although you are my aunt's apprentice, we are on our own. I am two years older than you, so you have to call me brother."

His facial features were very similar to Lu Mingyou's facial features that were obscured by a birthmark, but for some reason, Huo Yuqing suddenly thought of a certain white-haired chatterbox - she didn't know that Wang Rui was next to her, and she was forced to be super senior.

"Okay, Brother Dugu." Huo Yuqing nodded.

Dugu Shuke looked quite satisfied.

"Hey, is the Far North interesting?" An Wen poked Huo Yuqing's ribs again, "Come to think of it, I haven't been to the Far North yet. By the way, show me your second martial spirit!"

(End of this chapter)