Chapter 022: Green Jade Toad
Time flickered, and ten days passed like this.
In the fight with various spirit beasts in Daxu Mountain, Lu Ping'an's combat skills and experience have increased significantly.
Outside the cave that was previously used as a lair by the Kui wolves, Lu Ping'an was eating the raw roasted spirit beast meat.
In the past ten years, the group of wolves have died and fled, and this cave has become his territory.
"The system self-test is completed, but the additional organs are still not equipped, and the rest of the functions are normal.
The system blood value is 112/200. โ
Lu Ping'an's brain echoed with the system's broadcast.
"Hey, hey, it's the tenth day, why hasn't it been repaired yet?"
Lu Ping'an angrily threw aside the half-gnawed beast bones. If he couldn't use the Berserk Armor, his combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced.
The system's voice said in a calm tone: "It can cost 100 blood points to increase the recovery speed by ten percent." โ
"Uh......" Lu Ping'an was completely speechless.
There are 112 blood points in the system, but he has worked hard for several days to save it, and it costs 100 points to only increase the recovery speed by ten percent, which is really a loss.
It's good to devour the system, but if something goes wrong, it's a real headache to maintain.
"By the way, how much bloodline value does it need to unlock the function of returning the bloodline bar?" Lu Ping'an asked again.
The system voice replied in detail: "The three additional functions of the second-level system all require 100 blood points to unlock, and you can also upgrade the system to get a chance to unlock it for free." โ
"Oh. Lu Ping'an nodded slightly, "That, I want to ask, when the system is upgraded to level three, what new function options can be added?"
"I'm sorry, you don't have enough permissions to be told. The system voice replied.
"Hmm...... Well, forget it. Lu Ping'an thought about it and temporarily gave up cultivating the system.
He took out the Spirit Tortoise Shell from his sleeve and prepared to refine the Ancient Demon Core again.
Although the spirit turtle shell has always been carried by him, because he is afraid of being accidentally injured by the anger in it, whether it is fighting Chen Hao or escaping from the pursuit of the Kui wolves, Lu Ping'an has not interrupted to use it to kill and injure the enemy.
"Prepare to devour, start assisting. โ
Lu Ping'an gave instructions to the devouring system, put the demon core in the palm of his hand, and began to absorb the aura in it.
After being promoted to the Seventh Martial Dao Realm, the scale of his Qi Sea expanded again, and if he could successfully refine this demon core, he would definitely be able to fill up the expanded part.
At that time, Lu Ping'an would be able to attack the eightfold martial arts realm.
It's a pity that the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, and the system broadcast that failed to refine came: "The system level is too low to assist the host to devour, please upgrade the system and try again." โ
Although Lu Ping'an insisted on about half a pillar of incense this time, in the end, his connection with the beast core core was interrupted, and the amount of spiritual energy he absorbed was not much.
It seemed that the devouring difficulty of this demon core was far higher than he imagined, and without upgrading the system, he could only wait for his cultivation to improve before trying.
"It's time to get out of here. Lu Ping'an put away the magic core, extinguished the bonfire with the palm wind, and prepared to enter the deeper part of the mountain forest for training.
If the demon core can't be devoured, then replace it with a lower-level beast core, and by the way, you can also accumulate some of the system's bloodline value.
The system is not in a hurry to upgrade first, everything is for the purpose of filling the sea of qi and improving the realm, and how much bloodline value can be saved.
The deeper part of the Daxu Mountains is sparsely wooded and dominated by swamps. Here, the most dangerous spirit beast is the low-grade divine power crocodile.
Lu Ping'an remembered that his father told him that the largest crocodile with divine power can grow to three zhang long, weigh thousands of catties, and can easily bite through half a foot thick iron armor.
Because of the low intelligence of the Divine Power Crocodile, it was rated as a low-grade spirit beast, but in fact, its combat power was not weaker than that of a mid-level Divine Rank, or even a spirit beast of the upper grade of the Xuan Rank.
And if it is a group of divine power crocodiles, then even the spirit beasts of the ground level have to walk around when they see them.
Of course, for the current Lu Ping'an, the divine power crocodile is not something he can help at all.
Lu Ping'an deeply learned the lesson of accidentally breaking into the wolf's den before, and went through the habits of various spirit beasts in his mind before setting off.
It's already mid-April, everything is warming, and the climate in Daxu Mountain is getting hotter and hotter every day. This feeling is even more pronounced once you enter the swampy area.
Lu Ping'an cut a few giant dragon bamboos, made three simple bamboo rafts, and lined up on the swamp.
For safety, he himself stood on the bamboo raft in the middle, and on the two bamboo rafts in front and behind, placed raw spirit animal meat.
In this way, if there is a divine crocodile approaching, he will definitely choose the bamboo raft at both ends to attack first, and Lu Ping'an can have more reaction and escape time.
On the swamp, the warm breeze was blowing, Lu Ping'an couldn't help yawning, and suddenly, he felt something fall on the bamboo raft in front of him.
When he opened his eyes again, Lu Ping'an was surprised to find that the piece of spirit beast meat placed on the bamboo raft in front of him had disappeared!
"Hmm, what's going on!" Lu Ping'an felt a chill behind him.
He never expected that he had just entered the swamp area and was targeted by the spirit beasts here.
Except for the fact that the meat of the spirit beast was gone, the bamboo raft was still intact, and it was obvious that this was not the ghost of a divine crocodile with a simple and crude hunting style.
Lu Ping'an immediately activated his aura and guarded the surroundings carefully.
Coo-goo-goo......
Holding his breath and concentrating, Lu Ping'an vaguely heard the sound of frogs chirping on a huge Wang Lotus leaf in front of the left side of the bamboo raft.
But the strange thing is that in Lu Ping'an's eyes, except for a few dews on the lotus leaf, there is no shadow of a living thing, and there are no extra aquatic plants around the lotus leaf to hide.
"Do you mean ......?"
Lu Ping'an's mind moved, and a conjecture came to mind.
He drew the saber-toothed dagger pinned to his waist, and used the means of qi to control it, controlling it to slowly fly towards the lotus leaf.
When the dagger flew about an arm's length away from the lotus leaf, suddenly, an invisible vortex seemed to appear in the void, and the dagger was quickly sucked into the center of the lotus leaf.
"Oh my God, it's it!"
Seeing this scene, Lu Ping'an couldn't help but exclaim. Ignoring the danger hidden in the swamp, he jumped off the bamboo raft and threw a handful of mud on the lotus leaves as fast as he could.
The next moment, I saw that on top of the huge lotus leaf, a living creature covered in sludge appearedโa green jade toad with stealth ability!