Immortality and Cultivation: I Have Too Many Talents

Chapter 249 Devouring All Things (Seeking Subscriptions)

In the practice room.

A mysterious jade talisman flashed with golden light between Shen Xuan's brows.

In the basin in front of them, three juvenile blue-striped octopuses, having lost their life force, floated limply to the surface.

Like the Shadow Octopus.

The blue-striped octopus is also a treasure trove of talent.

[Plunderable Talents: Pufferfish Poison, Concealing Breath, Disguise, Water Escape, Size Control, Innate Intelligence, Super Memory, Life Regeneration, Three Hearts and Nine Brains, and Mysterious Eight Arms].

Shen Xuan drooled over the ten bloodline talents that could be plundered.

Shen Xuan scrutinized him repeatedly.

His gaze swept over each of the Shadow Octopus's ten bloodline talents.

In the end, he chose the Blue-striped Octopus's strongest and most unique talent: [Pufferfish Poison].

the reason is simple.

There's still a chance to steal the remaining talents from the octopus-like water sprites.

The pufferfish is highly poisonous, but only the blue-striped octopus possesses this toxicity.

Shen Xuan had witnessed its toxicity firsthand.

It is superior to his silver hook snake venom and stonefish venom.

Qi Wanqing tempered it onto the Soul-Devouring Needle.

Combat capabilities have achieved a qualitative leap.

It can poison a Foundation Establishment cultivator in just a few breaths.

Its toxicity is self-evident.

[Talent: Pufferfish Poison (12/100)]

Shen Xuan mentally estimated the number of juvenile blue-striped octopuses.

Fortunately, that should be enough.

【Daoyun: 1368】

Looking at the Daoist points again, they have increased by 300 points.

It's much better than the three-legged toad.

Three months later.

Shen Xuan successfully plundered the Blue-striped Octopus's unique talent of deadly poison.

[Talent: Proficient in Pufferfish Poisoning (8/200)]

【Daoyun: 4288】

Unfortunately, the water elemental root aptitude remains unchanged at 80 points.

This also confirmed Shen Xuan's guess.

Second-tier mid-grade water fairy blood cannot improve one's Heavenly Spiritual Root aptitude.

In the days that followed, Shen Xuan practiced the [Pufferfish Poison Talisman] in his spare time from arduous training.

He wrote a letter to Qi Wanqing.

Ask her to help collect some small blue-striped octopuses.

Extract its essence and blood, refine it into cinnabar, and create the [Pufferfish Poison Talisman].

This poison talisman is significantly more powerful than the [Silver Hook Snake Poison Talisman] and [Stone Fish Poison Talisman].

If all three types of high-quality poison talismans are activated simultaneously, even if the opponent has a top-grade antidote pill, they will not be able to detoxify in time.

Compared to thunder talismans, making poison talismans requires far less spiritual energy.

The success rate of obtaining the symbol has increased much faster.

After resting for a while.

Wait until the cooldown period of the Mysterious Jade Talisman is over.

Shen Xuan began to plunder the essence and blood of the Bloodthirsty Mosquito King.

Compared to other mid-grade second-tier demonic beasts, a single Bloodthirsty Mosquito King has a smaller body and limited essence blood.

In fact, the bloodthirsty mosquito king should be a demonic insect.

Fortunately, Shen Xuan had killed three bloodthirsty mosquito kings at that time.

There is still enough essence and blood.

[Plunderable talents: Thousands of illusions, thunderous voice, devouring all things, sharp needle-like mouth].

Despite having only four bloodline talents, Shen Xuan was in a dilemma.

Those with a thunderous voice or a sharp, needle-like mouth should be discarded immediately.

But amidst countless illusory bodies and the absorption of life essence, Shen Xuan wavered.

The ancestor of the Bloodthirsty Mosquito King was the Primordial Beast Black-winged Blood Mosquito.

Its most powerful supernatural ability is its ability to create countless illusory bodies and devour all things.

Legend has it that the black-winged blood mosquito can devour innate spiritual treasures.

The Thousand Illusions can conjure up thousands of blood mosquitoes; as long as one of them survives, its true spirit will remain indestructible.

Shen Xuan wanted to possess both of these supernatural abilities.

After comparing them repeatedly, Shen Xuan finally chose to devour everything.

After all, there are many ways to escape.

A supernatural ability that can devour innate spiritual treasures is extremely rare.

From sharp teeth and claws to devouring everything, I hope I don't become a ferocious beast!

Having made his choice, Shen Xuan no longer hesitated.

After the mysterious jade talisman flashed with golden light...

[Talent: Devouring All Things (8/100)]

Only eight points were gained from one-fifth of the bloodthirsty mosquito king's essence!

Fortunately, Shen Xuan had three Bloodthirsty Mosquito Kings.

Otherwise, one wouldn't even be able to get to the basics of this [devouring all things] bloodline talent.

【Daoyun: 4698】

The Daoist points were very high, exceeding four hundred points in one go.

This made Shen Xuan feel quite gratified.

The higher the Daoist Rhyme Points, the higher the grade of the bloodline talent.

While Shen Xuan was in seclusion, he was cultivating diligently.

The conflict between the Daoists and the Demons in Qingyang Prefecture has reached a fever pitch.

After Xiao Keyuan returned to the sect with three cultivators.

He Zhengming made a big show of it, revealing his identity as a direct disciple of the Qingyun Sect's True Person, and raised the banner of wiping out the demonic cultivators of Qingyang Prefecture, aiming his sword at the Wu family of Chiyan Forest.

This time, the scale and momentum were immense.

The Zhao family of Tiger Ridge, the Zhou family of Ten Thousand Beasts Valley, and the Su family of Flying Cloud Mountain all expressed their support unequivocally, and each dispatched their best troops to Tiger Ridge.

After the war broke out, Shen Xuan's thunder and poison talismans became strategic resources.

As consumables, talismans have a short activation time and consume little spiritual power, making them particularly effective in the chaotic situation of the war between the Dao and the Demons.

In particular, the second-tier lightning talisman is not only powerful and reasonably priced, but also has a multiplied effect on demonic cultivators.

He Zhengming used the thunder talisman provided by Shen Xuan as a reward, giving priority to distributing it to cultivators with outstanding battle achievements to win over their hearts.

In the war between the Dao and the Demon, second-tier thunder talismans are rare commodities that cannot be bought even with spirit stones.

It's not just Shen Xuan.

Master Lin Dan and Master Dai Qi of Feiyun Mountain also worked overtime, day and night.

For them, this is also a rare opportunity to earn spirit stones and improve their skills.

Shen Xuan had an idea and began to promote his corpse-refining gold powder to the Zhou family, who were skilled in beast taming.

He asked Fairy Bailian and Lü Zhengying to purchase spiritual herbs and concoct corpse-refining gold powder, which could also be used on the Taiyin Corpse Beast.

Shen Xuan tried it.

It can increase the attack and defense of the Taiyin Corpse Beast by 30% to 50%.

This is equivalent to advancing one level in strength.

Back then, Shen Xuan sold the corpses of monsters such as the fanged shark and the purple dragon electric eel to the Zhou family through the White Lotus Fairy.

There was also a successfully crafted Silverwing Teng Snake.

The White Lotus Fairy possesses a powerful water ape.

The Zhou family later also crafted several Taiyin Corpse Beasts on their own.

This time, Shen Xuan did not teach the [Golden Body Corpse Refining Technique] to Fairy Bai Lian. Even if one knew which spiritual herbs were used, without a specific formula and method, it was impossible to produce the Corpse Refining Gold Powder.

Shen Xuan invited the White Lotus Fairy to Tingyu Pavilion.

Before her, the Shadow Octopus revealed its power after transforming into a golden queen.

The originally translucent shadow octopus now radiates golden light, as if it were covered with a metal shell.

With a wave of its eight tentacles, a massive, solid boulder, tens of feet tall, was snapped in half.

The White Lotus Fairy's eyes sparkled.

"Shen Lang, what did you add to it? Was it some spiritual medicine that Bai Lian collected for you?"

"A kind of corpse-refining gold powder can be prepared using spiritual herbs to strengthen the physical body of the corpse beast."

Shen Xuan smiled and said, "You want it?"

"Ok!"

Bai Lian nodded emphatically.

"The relationship between us is extraordinary. I'll give you a portion to use on Popeye the Water Ape."

Shen Xuan pondered for a moment before speaking.

Transforming the Taiyin Corpse Beast into a golden body is equivalent to having an extra top-tier helper, which can greatly enhance a cultivator's combat power and share the risks.

Like the powerful water ape of the White Lotus Fairy.

His strength is comparable to that of a top cultivator in the early stages of Foundation Establishment.

After achieving the Golden Body, one is equivalent to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

Their bodies are hard, their strength is immense, and they are fearless in the face of death.

Even a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator would not gain the upper hand in a fight against it.

"Thank you, Shen Lang!"

The White Lotus Fairy beamed with joy.

She will remain in charge of the Zhou family in the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts and will not participate in the war between the Dao and the Demons.

But in such a chaotic situation, no one can guarantee safety.

This is also why Shen Xuan gave her the corpse-refining gold powder.

We're roommates, after all.

In many things, the White Lotus Fairy can help him.

Such as acquiring water spirit blood, refining corpse elixirs, and selling monster corpses.

Moreover, since they wanted to sell large quantities of corpse-refining gold powder to the Zhou family, they needed an example to serve as a demonstration.

The powerful water ape of the White Lotus Fairy is a great promotional tactic.

for the next three months.

Shen Xuan was diligently cultivating in Tingyuxuan.

When the third bloodthirsty mosquito king's essence blood was half used up.

I finally managed to plunder the [Gnaw on All Things] bloodline talent.

[Talent: Beginner's Guide to Devouring All Things (2/100)]

Looking at the golden light on the mysterious jade talisman, Shen Xuan seemed to be deep in thought.

The water elemental root aptitude remains unchanged.

【Daoyun: 8668】

Shen Xuan has been plundering the talents of demonic beasts for a long time, and hasn't had any at the beginner level.

This is the first time he has appeared in recent years.

He took out a broken magical artifact.

Use the [Gnaw on Everything] skill.

Suddenly, the teeth became sharp and pointed.

The broken magic weapon was brought to his lips, and with a gentle bite, a small piece was bitten off.

Shen Xuan spat out the fragments of the magic weapon.

He had no intention of eating this stuff.

If it's the essence of a demon beast or the roots of a spiritual plant, then it's worth a try.

I acted on my impulse.

Shen Xuan took out the essence blood of the third bloodthirsty mosquito king.

Use the [Gnaw on Everything] skill directly.

Sure enough, after the bloodthirsty mosquito king's essence blood was absorbed into its belly, it was refined into a wisp of pure spiritual power and integrated into the spiritual sea foundation of its dantian.

"Is this okay?"

Shen Xuan was both surprised and delighted.

Soon, I felt heartbroken again.

The essence blood of those bloodthirsty mosquito kings did indeed increase a wisp of Dao foundation spiritual power.

However, besides increasing the proficiency of innate skills, the plundering of the mysterious jade talisman also grants Daoist points.

Using the [Gnaw All Things] skill directly to devour and absorb the essence of water-type monsters seems like a bad trade-off.

"Actually, this skill can be used to refine the meat of monsters with other attributes!"

Shen Xuan thought to himself.

He concealed his appearance and went to Qingyang Market to buy some second-tier demon beast meat.

After returning to the training room, use the [Gnaw All Things] skill to devour it.

As he expected, the meat of these second-tier demon beasts could also be refined into a wisp of spiritual power, which could then be integrated into his dantian spiritual sea foundation.

Its effects are much stronger than those of regular consumption.

"【Gnawing on All Things】is only the entry-level skill. There is still room for improvement in the quantity and effect of refining demon beast meat."

Shen Xuan looked at the Daoist points on the mysterious jade talisman.

【Daoyun: 8668】

Without a doubt, the talent skill 【Gnawing on All Things】 has the highest rank.

This also means that improvement is the most difficult part.

Shen Xuan used this technique so many times, using the essence of the Bloodthirsty Mosquito King and more than ten kilograms of monster meat.

The proficiency level remained unchanged, without increasing at all.

"If we can increase the original spiritual power of the Dao foundation, we can not only shorten the cultivation time, but also improve the quality of the Dao foundation."

"Now, I have many means of protection, and cultivators of the same realm are not to be feared."

"The most urgent task is to improve our cultivation level as soon as possible."

Shen Xuan pondered repeatedly.

Finally, I decided to focus all my efforts on improving the [Gnawing on All Things] skill.

After all, this was the first bloodline talent of a primordial beast that he had obtained.

Its quality and effectiveness are beyond question.

Relying on him to improve by eating second-tier monster meat every day, who knows when he'll ever get to that level!
"Jade Talisman, add some!"

Shen Xuan made up his mind.

The number of Taoist charm points gradually decreased.

I've already spent 3,000 points just at the beginner stage.

[Talent: Proficient in Devouring All Things (3/200)]

"continue!"

【Daoyun: 0】

[Talent: Proficient in Devouring All Things (188/200)]

Looking at his Daoist Points that had dropped to zero, Shen Xuan sighed inwardly.

Upgrading this [Gnawing on Everything] skill is just too difficult!

However, Shen Xuan still had some blood essence from the bloodthirsty mosquito king.

At least it will increase some Daoist points and the proficiency of [Gnawing on All Things].

In addition, he also had a portion of blood from an unknown water spirit, a gift from the True Immortal Wuchen.

Although it is unknown what kind of water demon it is, since it was given by a real person, it is very likely to be a second-tier high-grade item!

This stirred a sense of anticipation in Shen Xuan's heart.

(End of this chapter)