Volume 3 Chapter 31 Awakening (I)

Shi Leiyin came to his senses with a tingling sensation. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info was in a trance for a while before he began to figure out his condition.

First of all, he should have fallen into a coma-like state after the clone that retained the main consciousness and the instinctual body reunited. And this state doesn't seem to last for a short time, at least Shi Leiyin didn't realize that there was a thirty-seven existence by his side. At that time, when he fused himself, he asked No. 37 to observe the situation on the side, and in case of a problem, he needed No. 37 to interrupt the fusion process between his clone and the body. Now that his own fusion has been completed, No. 37 is no longer around, obviously because he has been fused for too long, and it is relatively stable, which has caused No. 37 to have been arranged by the library to do other things. However, how much time did it take for him to fuse this time, Shi Leiyin couldn't get a correct concept, and the surrounding plants didn't change much when they began to merge with himself, in fact, even if there were, Shi Leiyin didn't have the careful memory to distinguish it. But since he is fine, as long as he returns to the residence of the secret realm, he will naturally be able to know how much time he has spent.

Putting aside the first question, Shi Leiyin turned her attention back to herself. Then he frowned, and there was a ripple in the large blue slime sphere. His body didn't seem to shrink as expected. Shi Leiyin's original body was also compressed from a huge slime body state, and through a long period of habitual compression, Shi Leiyin successfully kept his body automatically in a basketball-sized volume without needing his own attention. As a price, Shi Leiyin's energy ceiling was limited to a relatively low level. The advantage of this is that Shi Lei Yin can maintain a relatively flexible state, and can concentrate the energy in the body to the greatest extent, so that he has extremely high explosive power at the same level. The disadvantage is that the overall amount of energy is low, especially after Shi Leiyin has been upgraded several times, the energy intensity is invincible at the same level, but the total amount is small enough to be crushed by the opponent's amount, which is why Shi Leiyin often chooses to avoid when encountering enemies of the same level. Taking the Boom Dragon who chased Shi Leiyin for several months as an example, if Shi Leiyin fights to the death, then it is possible to kill the Boom Dragon in an instant, but as long as there is a little mistake that causes the attack to fail to hit the Boom Dragon, Shi Leiyin will lose the ability to kill the Boom Dragon because of his inability to follow, and he can't even leave the strength to escape. And with an ancient wurm of the level of the Booming Dragon, the strong vitality and recovery power are enough to maintain an extremely long-lasting combat ability before taking fatal damage.

This time, Shi Leiyin took the risk of instinctive liberation, and one of his plans was to solve the problem of his own quality but quantity. The huge number of slimes on the fifth layer of the labyrinth, especially a large number of high-level slimes, is enough to provide a massive amount of energy reserves for Shi Leiyin. However, how to ensure that his body will not become huge while having huge energy is a big problem that Shi Leiyin has to face. Among the creatures that Shi Leiyin had encountered before, only the inhabitants of the Demon Realm like Ku and Thirty-Seven possessed magical powers that were not commensurate with their size. However, the inhabitants of the Demon Realm can only be regarded as people from another world, not the natives of the Extreme Continent. And although Shi Leiyin has the same 'otherworldly' soul, his body is undoubtedly a native slime - a blue variety, low-level, common, and delicious.

The previous process of compressing Shi Leiyin's own energy was first self-coagulation, which is the inherent ability of the slime, not so much compressing energy, but an innate ability to make the body stronger and more elastic. After that, he gained the ability to compress his own energy through the inheritance of the Fruit of Original Sin, but as mentioned before, the inherited ability can only allow Shi Leiyin to maintain his previous body size at a lower energy total, and he must increase his body size if he wants to increase his energy total.

Now, what Shi Leiyin needs is a more advanced means of compression, which Shi Leiyin did not find before the instinctive liberation. But Shi Leiyin is gambling, betting on the infinite possibilities of slimes. As the most common and diverse monster on the continent, one of the slimes' most powerful abilities is adaptive evolution, with the help of this ability, slimes can be said to have achieved the feat of occupying the entire continent in a real sense, as long as it is not a forbidden land of life, there will definitely be slimes that adapt to the environment. Shi Leiyin bets that in the environment of the fifth layer, there will be slimes with the ability to strongly compress their own energy. Of course, if not, Shi Leiyin already has an alternative.

Judging from the fact that his body was so huge, Shi Leiyin naturally thought that there was no slime on the fifth layer at the first time. However, before carefully examining his body and preparing to implement the alternatives, Shi Leiyin found that he seemed to have made a bet.

The reason why the body remains in a huge state is that the body's instincts still retain a part of its self-defense capacity until consciousness is fully restored. The enormous size can effectively prevent a large number of external attacks, and it can also ensure that the attack does not cause serious damage. After all, except for the few aquatic giant wurms that survived in the fifth layer, it was difficult for other creatures to pose a threat to Shi Leiyin's giant sphere with a diameter of hundreds of meters, and Shi Leiyin could crush them even if he squirmed.

After Shi Leiyin regained consciousness, his body had begun to contract gradually, but the contraction of the hundreds of meters high sphere was easy to detect from a distance, but it was not so obvious from a close distance. As the way of compressing energy in his own contraction and inheritance was exhausted, Shi Leiyin's body had shrunk from a size of several hundred meters to a diameter of about seventy meters. Although the diameter has been reduced by more than a fifth, this size is still a behemoth. Moreover, because it was compressed rather than reduced, the density of Shi Leiyin's body increased greatly, and the ground that had been flattened and able to withstand the huge size was once again pressed out of a small pit by the shrunken Shi Leiyin.

"The next step is to try this hyper-compression," Shi Leiyin mentally reviewed the compression method obtained from the rare slime. That's right, Shi Leiyin still won the bet, in the case of the extreme flood of fifth-layer slimes, there are indeed slimes that have evolved a rare variety that compresses their own energy and size to the limit. Slimes call them parasitic slimes, and these slimes share similar living conditions to many parasitic creatures. However, this slime is much more vicious than most parasites. The body of the parasitic slime is only the size of a pine nut, and this extremely small size causes the parasitic slime to easily become the prey object of low-level or small magical beasts, and a squirrel can easily eat it, which is an extremely unsuitable form for survival, but it is obvious that the parasitic slime has never left the host from the evolution until it was fused and devoured by Shi Leiyin mixed in the slime, otherwise it would not be Shi Leiyin's turn to fuse it.

The reason why it is called vicious by Shi Leiyin is because the parasitic slime has two abilities that even Shi Leiyin feels strong, one of which is naturally the ability to compress the energy and body size of the limit where Shi Leiyin's target is located, if it is said that in the slime inheritance memory obtained by Shi Leiyin, the compression body size can reach one-fifth (the greater the energy, the weaker the effect, but it can also be compressed to at least one-fifth of the original body size), then the degree of parasitic slime compression is less than one thousandth, although the efficiency will also decrease due to the total amount of energy, but at least, the parasitic slime fused by Shi Leiyin is close to the previous Shi Leiyin in terms of total energy, and its size is probably less than one percent of Shi Leiyin's basketball. This means that if Shi Leiyin had obtained this ability before, he could turn himself into a full-sized mosquito.