CHAPTER 380 MAKING QUITE A LOT OF IMPROVEMENTS

Since Rocky broke into the first grade of the Heavenly Stage, his strength had been stirred up

tremendously, which also meant that he made a significant leap in strength, compared to his previous

strength at the Earthly Stage. Of course, the most critical reason for such an enhancement was due to

that he got rid of the first layer of the sealing power inside his body, which was employed to seal the

power of the Holy Dragon Bead. After that, he got back a small part of the evil power from the Holy

Dragon Bead. Although it was only a small amount of power of the Bead, it had made his current

strength into the first grade of the Heavenly Stage. What was more, his spiritual power was now

equivalent to the second grade of the Heavenly Stage or even stronger than this level.

However, after another half a month's cultivation, Rocky also confirmed that the evil spiritual power

from the Holy Dragon Bead in his body seemed difficult to be improved through cultivation. When he

hunted in the peripheral forest of the Myriad Beasts Ground recently, relying on the unique sense of the

Rainbow Glow Unicorn, he had harvested a lot of exotic and rare treasures that could enhance a

warrior's spiritual power. After refining and absorbing those treasures as well as the Dark Heaven Eggs

produced by the Dark Heaven Insects he was breeding secretly, he noticed that the evil spiritual power

in his body was yet not enhanced by a lot, or to be more exact, was even not advanced at all. Such a

revelation gave him the hump.

On the other hand, with the same treasures, the spiritual power with the Fire nature inside his body had

been without respite made progress, and it was now tantamount to the third or maybe fourth grade of

the Earthly Stage.

The two utterly different phenomena made Rocky feel rather odd. After all, the two kinds of spiritual

power had existed in his body at the same time. Why did the treasures have no enhancing effect on the

evil spiritual power of the Holy Dragon Bead, but only on the spiritual power with the Fire nature?

Rocky observed for a while and racked his brains for the possible reason, but he couldn't figure out a

piece of information. Somehow, he had a faint sneaking suspicion that this might be related to the

spiritual power nature of the Holy Dragon Bead. He was cognizant that the Holy Dragon Bead's

spiritual power was very evil, which was entirely different from the ordinary spiritual power and spiritual

power with nature.

Every time he put to use the Holy Dragon Bead's evil spiritual power, he could have a sensation of his

changes from inside out. Especially when using such power alone, he would become extraordinarily

cold-blooded, just like he was possessed and bewitched by some kind of resentment and evil thought.

Moreover, he became bloodthirsty. It would be an extremely strenuous task for him to stop killing as

long as he saw a drop of blood as if he had been dragged into hell and became a devil. Once such

power was overused, he felt that he would lose self-control, and then it would control him instead.

Therefore, he surmised that maybe, because the nature of the rare treasures was different from the

nature of the evil spiritual power in the Holy Dragon Bead, the two kinds of things couldn't be fused—

they were like oil and water. This led to the zero improvement of the evil spiritual power inside his body

after he absorbed all those treasures.

Now the mere thing that could make his evil spiritual power grow was the normal cultivation through

taking the magical saliva. Of course, such a rising momentum couldn't be contrasted with that by the

use of the rare treasures. Rocky simply referred to it as the pace of a turtle crawling!

After the recent period of adaptation, Rocky became extremely cautious when using the evil spiritual

power of the Holy Dragon Bead. He gave it his best shot to use it together with the spiritual power with

Fire nature.

What was worth remarking was that after the fusion of the two kinds of power, the power of the fire

Rocky could produce was utterly incredible. It would have stronger penetrating power and combustion

power, which could cause noticeable damage to the wild spirit-manipulated beasts with extreme

defensive power like the Armoured Oogway Bear. The firepower of the spiritual power with Fire nature Content held by .

alone could never do that.

Therefore, he named this new form of fire power as the Evil Flame.

In the past two months, Rocky also cultivated the Demonic Fire Skill, a mental cultivation method in the

Demonic Fire Codex, to the second stage. Now, plus the Evil Flame, he could display amazing spiritual

martial arts. Moreover, the gap between the two spiritual martial arts, the Heavenly Stage and the

Earthly Stage, was very big indeed. For example, one attack launched by a warrior at the ninth grade of

the Earthly Stage might not be powerful enough to execute a wild spirit-manipulated beast at the

second grade of the three-star level. Yet, such a beast could be executed by one attack from a warrior

at the Heavenly Stage in a blink of an eye.

If a warrior put into service the spiritual martial arts at the Earthly Stage in the state of Spirit

Possession, the power would be naturally even more mind-blowing!

Just a few days ago, when Rocky by a twist of fate accidentally met a Trunk Giant whose strength was

at the third grade of the four-star level, he was lingering with bated breath to have an attempt to

execute it. He thought that its strength was only equivalent to that of a warrior at the second or third

grade of the Heavenly Stage. Therefore, he believed that with the assistance of his beasts, Uriah, and

Rubygon, killing it would not have been a hard nut to crack for him. Yet, unexpectedly, afterward, he

was trapped in a very hard-pressed and dangerous battle. Even worse, he looked in a muddle after a

few moments. He couldn't kill it and was at the end of his tether situation until he finally activated the

state of the Spirit Possession with Uriah and killed it.

It was at that battle that he also got keyed up about how to activate the vigorous and combative power

of the spiritual martial arts at the Heavenly Stage by the Evil Flame in the state of Spirit Possession. He

couldn't be more shocked by such power by then.

Of course, the cost of such learning was also high. The side effect of applying the Spirit Possession

was that the stronger power a spirit manipulator activated, the more overloaded power that his body

had to bear. As a result, Rocky was racked with pain, such as muscle aches, soft and feeble limbs.

After the clamor of that day, he couldn't make a move around like an average person for a whole day.

If he didn't have ample bodyguards around him, he in all likelihood had long been swallowed alive by

the wild spirit-manipulated beasts in that forest.

All in all, due to his latest development, Rocky, who had been compelled to stretch his legs hole and

corner in the outer forest of the Myriad Beasts Ground, now could stride openly and boldly in the

woods, like an overbearing crab who moved sideways. A single wild spirit-manipulated beast who was

wandering alone in the forest, if it were at the third grade of the three-star level, would go like a bat out

of hell away from him as fast as possible the moment it spotted Rocky. Even if a group of wild spirit-

manipulated beasts like three or five beasts saw Rocky, they would all either go hell for leather or hide

after seeing the four beasts led by Uriah behind him. Of course, there was some time that they would

always encounter stronger beasts who didn't make a swift exit at the first moment, like the Corrupt

Hounds in front of them now. To survive in the perilous forest, the beasts were all instinctively

acquainted with that they could choose either fight or flight flexibly. Yet, they didn't know that if they

needed to survive from Rocky and his war beasts, their only choice was to run away.

If they didn't, there would be only one miserable ending in store for them!

"Execute them!" Rocky ordered when he saw the seven or eight Hounds who were in their way. He

narrowed his eyes coldly and dashed to them alongside with Uriah and Rubygon.

When the Corrupt Hounds saw such strong rivals, they instantly figured out what was befalling, and

swiftly, they made their getaway into the dense forest at a crazed speed. In the blink of an eye, they

were lost out of Rocky's sight.

"What? You all just beat a hasty retreat like this?" Rocky grumbled. Meanwhile, he shrugged as if he

was acquainted with such a situation. Then, casting his attention on the Rainbow Glow Unicorn and the

little Ghostly Ice Fox-wolf who were watching like hawks behind him, he said, "Let's go." Then, he

proceeded the hunting journey in the forest with his four beasts.

During the more than half a month in the forest, the physical condition of the Dark Heaven Insect

Queen had significantly improved. It felt cozier in the forest. Because of the repeated absorption of

large amounts of estrogen, its ovaries were getting better and better, and its egg breeding process was

also very smooth. Rocky found that its belly was much bigger than before.

Besides, among the three Dark Heaven Insects, the two insects which used to be at the first grade of

the three-star level now had risen to the second grade, which implied that he now had three Dark

Heaven Insects at the second grade. The three insects could produce the medium Dark Heaven Eggs

that were rare enough to make any spirit manipulator covet!

If the queen successfully produced eggs and its egg hatching success rate was advanced, then Rocky

would have at least ten Dark Heaven Insects. By then, even the number of the Dark Heaven Insects in

the Palace City of the Holy Dragon Empire couldn't exceed his. Moreover, as long as he had the

queen, the number of his Dark Heaven Insects would be with no doubts increasing all the time.

Those were not the end of his recent gains. He had also made significant progress in cultivating the

Mysterious Beast Transformation Skill. Now he managed to build a bridge for spiritual power

connection in Rubygon's body. Now he only had to imprint a mark on its spiritual source. If he finished

that, then his Mysterious Beast Transformation Skill could reach the first stage, in which case he would

be qualified to learn the unique secret skill described in the Mysterious Beast Transformation Skill—the

animalization!