Crab started familiarizing himself with his new skills. He realized that his poison attack was at level 0 because he couldn't produce higher-level poison yet, and he didn't know how to improve it. With regret he said: the poison attack was almost useless unless he bite creatures directly, pretty difficult. Smashing them with his powerful claws was far more effective. The only benefit was the additional layer of protection his new skin provided.
After a few days of getting used to his new abilities, he noticed the advantage of his evolved breathing technique: **Venomous Shadow Shell Technique**. It had the potential to increase his poison levels and the remaining part has the same benefits as before.
Not much had changed, except that his breathing skills had evolved to the next level.
Now, he needed to fix his next species target. It was clear that targeting high-level beings like dragons, merfolk, or kraken would be most beneficial. Crab thought, *If only I could get their bodies... They have bloodlines strong enough to go above the Golden Core stage. *Once one reaches the Nascent Soul stage, bloodline limitations become irrelevant. Heaven and Earth themselves forge a new body for you as long as you pass heavenly tribulation and start the path of soul cultivation. At this level, one can even take over other bodies.*
His plan became clear: capture one individual from each species. But how to accomplish this still needed careful thought. Staring at his weird teeth and tail, he decided to break them off. He knew they would grow back, but he could block their regrowth with his spiritual energy, ensuring they would only return in emergency situations, when he is using his spiritual energy elsewhere.
Crab knew that dragons, merfolk, and krakens were already fighting, with various species constantly clashing over resources. He could use this ongoing conflict to his advantage.
But as he was walking in his lair, thinking of his plan, how to initiate a fight between these creatures, he stumbled upon a human corpse, which had successfully undergone a bloodline change. This sparked an idea: use these transformed humans to initiate the conflict between human and Demonic beast.
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His plan was set. First, he needed to capture a human and transfer strong species' bloodline into it. Half a year had passed as he worked on his plan.
He waited patiently, and finally, he caught a Golden Horn Fish of level 5. Then, another month later, he managed to catch a level 7 human.
One day later, in a happy mood, he said, Finally, I successfully transferred the bloodline of a powerful dragon into a Qi Refining level 7 human. This human he had selected specially had a very strong body. The Golden Horn Fish species he caught had a Golden Core-level bloodline and was not easy to capture, as the high level species rarely ventured outside of Golden Horn City. Especially those with a Golden Core bloodline. Failure was not an option.
Though it wasn't true dragon blood, this species still possessed a dragon bloodline, as they also come under dragons rule.
Now, he observed the human's skin, which had turned golden. Sharp horns had appeared from his head, making it clear that the dragon and golden fish bloodline was present in him. These golden scales were evidence of the dragon bloodline within him.
Crab then killed the human, slicing him into two pieces, and placed the body into a storage bag to preserve it. This was not the storage bag he had acquired from Crab City, but one that had belonged to the Golden Horn Fish he had killed. The storage bags could hold anything, even living beings, but the problem was it allowed them to come out whenever they wanted. He sometimes used it as a hiding spot tool too.
He now planned to throw this storage bag near the lair of the Golden Serpent Fish city, leaving a message inside the storage bag along with a human corpse.
He pondered for a moment on what to write, and after some time, wrote a made up story. He then placed this note into the storage bag above the human corpse.
*This should stir up enough trouble to make them fight one another, he thought and Once they start fighting, I can swoop in and collect their bodies easily.*
With a sense of excitement, he set off towards the Golden Horn Fish city, his mind fixed on the chaos he was about to unleash.
It took Crab almost 1 month to arrive near the Golden Horn Fish city. He secretly hid nearby, carefully observing the bustling activity outside the city. When the moment was right, he threw the storage bag at high speed towards the city gates and quickly retreated into hiding.
The storage bag moved at fast speed through the water, it eventually began to slow down and descend. A group of people, who were about to enter the city, spotted the falling bag. Recognizing it as a storage bag, they immediately knew it belonged to someone from the Golden Serpent Horn city due to the markings on it.
The bag was caught by a guard stationed at the gate, he said. "What are you all doing? Don't you want to enter the city?" he shouted.
Curious whispers filled the air and the guard went inside and opened the storage bag. Inside, he found a dead body along with several items. The body was that of a human, transformed with the golden skin and horns characteristic of the Golden horn bloodline.
The guard's eyes widened as he pulled out a note from the bag. He read it quickly, his expression growing more serious with each passing second. Without wasting any time, he turned and headed towards the city center, where the city head resided, to deliver the message.