"Is that an exaggeration...... Pandas are just ordinary animals, is it because the world I used to live in didn't have soul power, so it couldn't show real power? Or is the legend of the iron-eating beast not made up, and the great god Chiyou once really rode a panda to fight with the Yellow Emperor who controlled Yinglong? ”

Ye Xi listened to the evaluation of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, and couldn't help but be a little confused.

But he didn't find anything special about him other than devouring and absorbing.

"Click, click......"

He pondered the inexplicable question as he devoured all the gray crusts scattered around the cave.

These rock crusts have been abandoned for an unknown amount of time, and the soul power contained in them has long since escaped to a negligible amount, but in addition to satisfying his appetite, they still have a special effect.

It can enhance the rock attribute he just obtained from the flesh of the limestone boar!

"Petrified skin!"

Ye Xi's heart moved, and he used this skill.

In an instant, his skin and hair were a misty gray, and even the rough texture of the rock appeared, making him feel like he was wearing a rugged heavy armor made of stubborn stone.

Although the Scaly Beast was stronger than the petrified skin of a soul beast of the same rank with its flesh and blood alone, there was no doubt that the ability of the petrified skin was more suitable for Ye Xi's body structure, and the increase provided to him in terms of defense was not inferior to that of the Scaly Beast.

"Now that I'm not much worse than a scaly beast of the same level, my defense power shouldn't be much worse!"

Ye Xi secretly estimated to himself.

However, he was not satisfied with this, and at this moment he suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and an idea came to him.

He activated the fire attribute in his body and used the skill he had acquired from the Flame Lion, the Body of Flame, while still maintaining his petrified skin.

Due to the barrier of this "rock armor", the fire did not escape from his body smoothly, but unexpectedly produced a magical mutation.

Cha!

The rock-gray skin and hair around Ye Xi's body suddenly turned dark red at this moment, mixed with crack-like black and bright red, and there was a faint tendency to slowly blend and flow, like magma!

Of course, this is not real magma, and the temperature is far from it, but it is already quite terrifyingly high for living things, causing the small circle of air around it to distort slightly.

This made Ye Xi at this time look like a lava beast crawling out of a volcano!

However, its actual effect is not as exaggerated as it seems, in this state, Ye Xi's defense is actually not as strong as the original petrified skin, and the temperature of the bursting flame is not as high as the original flame body.

But it has a contaminating quality!

When Ye Xi tried to stroke his bear paw on the rock wall beside him, he found that some of the "magma" remained on the stone wall, which lasted for a long time.

It is conceivable that if the stone wall were replaced with the fur of a tree or a soul beast, it would have a continuous burning effect.

"This ability is much more reliable than the Flame Body combined with the wind attribute, and the forced grid is much higher than the thousand-year-old killing and flirting claw, etc., it should be regarded as my first successful transformation skill!"

Ye Xi thought excitedly, this made him feel quite accomplished.

"Yes, this is very similar to a skill called 'Lava Body', the power is considerable, but it is extremely rare, only a few mutated fire attribute soul beasts have a chance to have it, I didn't expect you to be able to use it through a combination of different attribute skills!"

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm also sighed in admiration.

Ye Xi didn't indulge in the joy of successfully creating a skill for too long, and after a while, he lifted the effect of the lava body, gathered his chaotic thoughts, and walked quickly towards the outside of the cave.

He was going to immediately go to another region that was suspected to be infested with thousand-year-old soul beasts, and try to plunder more heavenly and earthly treasures!

But when he reached the entrance of the cave, he stopped in surprise.

He found that there were actually four hundred-year-old soul beasts with different years of cultivation and race outside the cave, all staring at the entrance of the cave with fierce eyes, their hair all over their bodies and their muscles tense, as if they were about to rush towards the entrance of the cave at any time and launch an attack!

What's even stranger is that there are also some things on display on the ground in front of them, such as soul beast flesh and blood, strange insects, plant rhizomes, and so on.

The first time Ye Xi discovered these soul beasts, they also saw Ye Xi's figure.

In the face of this stupid and cute fat bear that seemed to be vulnerable, the four-headed soul beast suddenly became fierce, its fangs bared angrily, and it was ready to attack it in groups.

But the next moment, they stopped in fear!

"Woo......"

They noticed Ye Xi's bright soul light that was yellow and purple, and felt his infinite soul power fluctuations that were close to a thousand years, which made them all restrain their fierce appearance as quickly as possible, and hurriedly prostrate their bodies to the ground, pursed their lips and roared as they arched the items displayed in front of them.

"What does that mean?"

Ye Xi couldn't help but be a little stunned for a while, but soon, he faintly understood.

Although he couldn't understand the beast language, with the help of his spiritual power, he could feel the submission conveyed by these soul beasts to him, and with the items they offered, it was likely that he was making an alternative "tribute" to himself!

The Heavenly Ice Silkworm popped up at the right time and explained, "They are indeed paying you some of their prey in order to beg you not to harm them in exchange for your protection.

If my guess is correct, they should have surrendered to the thousand-year-old greystone boar soul beast in the past, and even the nest is likely to be located in this territory, and when the graystone boar is killed, they will turn to you as the killer to show their surrender, which is a very common thing in the soul beast world. ”

"So easily betrayed the original owner and became a second or fifth boy?" Ye Xi glanced at these soul beasts and said in surprise.

He was not only surprised by the betrayal of these soul beasts, but also surprised that there was such a systematic relationship between the soul beasts that was very similar to that of human society.

Facing Ye Xi's question, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm smiled bitterly:

"Hehe, although there are countless soul beasts that maintain alliances or submission relationships, due to racial barriers and survival problems, there are not many that can be maintained for a long time, as far as I know, there are a few relatively kind existences in the core area who have supported each other from the weak period to 100,000 years, and it is estimated that this is the only case in this world.

For most soul beasts under 100,000 years, there is no betrayal of this concept, just to survive, even if it is a 10,000-year soul beast, survival is the whole of their life, no different from a thousand-year, hundred-year, or even ten-year soul beast.

These hundred-year-old soul beasts are willing to surrender to you, and it is also because you, the killer, are strong enough, if your cultivation age is lower, the four soul beasts in front of you are likely to think that you are a gray rock boar that you killed by a lucky sneak attack, or judge that you are not the killer, so they attack you and eat you! ”