Chapter 161: Hunting for Soul Rings
Due to the appearance of Ditian, Amon had previously ordered his clones to evacuate the Star Forest immediately out of caution. Although the effort was in vain, he was not upset.
If you do useless work, you will do useless work. Anyway, it will not bring much loss. If you are lucky, you may be defeated in one go, and the accumulation of several years will be wasted.
Only about one-third of Amon's clones have reached level 50. To raise them all to the limit, a lot of soul rings are needed.
Although he decided to take action against the auspicious beast after three years, it did not mean that he would do nothing during these three years.
Sending a large number of clones into the Star Dou Forest is risky and goes against Amon's principle of caution, but the loss of a small number of clones is still within his acceptable range.
So he let the Time Insect clones who were less than level 50 enter the Star Dou Forest in batches. One was to hunt for soul rings to increase their level. The other was to observe the Star Dou Forest's reaction to him and see how they would respond.
The number of people who go each time is not large, so even if they encounter an irresistible danger, the loss will not be too great.
An aggregated Amon with five Time Insects on his body was walking slowly outside the Great Star Forest. He did not carry the "Invincible Golden Body" and "teleport" on him.
"Teleportation" and "Invincible Golden Body" are the core skills of Amon's combat power, and they are also important guarantees for his future hunting of the three-eyed golden beast. If they are lost, they have to be stolen back.
But the original owner of the skill, Xiao Wu, is now deep in the Star Dou Forest. It is difficult for Amon, who is wary and hostile by the ferocious beasts, to find an opportunity, so he must be careful not to lose it.
Currently, these two skills are carried by the main body and the Time Insect attached to the main body.
Amon, who entered the Great Star Forest, only brought "Eternal Creation" and "Soul Power Ejection" with him. The latter was something he stole from Yan Jin not long ago.
The original owners of these two skills are in Wuhun City. Even if the Amon clone with the skills is killed and the skills are returned, Amon can easily steal them back.
Bibi Dong's one might take some trouble, but as for Yan Jin's one, isn't it always on call?
There were already a lot fewer soul beasts in the edge area near Wuhun City. The three crows who were conducting reconnaissance in the air searched for a long time before they found a century-old soul beast.
In order to prevent his ability to control less intelligent creatures such as crows from being discovered, Amon did not let the insect of time in the crow's body attack directly. Instead, he passed the information through an invisible spiritual connection to the person who appeared and transformed into Amon The worm of time that comes out of the body.
This century-old spirit beast is a forest wolf, a close relative of the direwolf. This adult male forest wolf has wounds all over his body, caused by bites from his own species.
He was probably injured in the battle for the Wolf King... Amon guessed that as soon as he saw it, he launched a "deception" on it.
Even though the soul power carried by the clone was only the smallest amount, not even half of it, several insects of time exerted their power at the same time and controlled it in an instant.
An "air bullet" was shot from its eyeball and exploded in its head. The Timber Wolf's body was shaken and he fell to the ground.
Countless yellow light spots slowly emerged from the corpse, converging into a yellow halo in the air.
Amon reached out and made a move, and the soul ring merged into his body along with the soul power. With his current physical condition, he could absorb a hundred-year-old soul ring without any pressure, and the absorption was completed in an instant.
Feeling the increase in soul power in his body, Amon clicked his tongue and said to himself: "The hundred-year-old is still a bit low, and it hasn't even increased by one level."
After slightly adapting to the increased soul power, he continued walking deeper.
Not long after, another scouting crow saw a thousand-year-old soul beast, a black "funeral ape".
This kind of soul beast has unique habits. They will put the newborn mortuary ape into a coffin and bury it underground.
If the newborn soul beast can break through the pipe and climb out, it means that it is healthy and qualified to live. If it doesn't climb out, it can only blame itself for its own weakness.
In extremely rare circumstances, a dead funeral ape buried in a coffin may undergo a "corpse transformation" and become a "funeral ape". Each funeral ape is the king of the funeral ape group and has extremely powerful powers. combat effectiveness.
This funeral ape was left alone due to unknown circumstances, so Amon didn't have to worry about being besieged.
He walked over with a smile on his face, ready to give it a try. This kind of soul beast with higher intelligence and full of emotions is the most suitable target.
When it saw a human coming, the funeral ape immediately let out a warning howl, and its turbid eyes that exuded a strong and sinister aura stared at Amon.
"You're so irritable, please calm down." Amon snapped his fingers, and the funeral ape's eyes became dull.
This sluggish state did not last long before it recovered, with a bit more fear and fear in its eyes.
Amon sensed its uneasiness through "mind reading" and smiled slightly.
He kept walking forward, getting closer.
The funeral ape finally couldn't hold back anymore and launched an attack. Its claws glowed with black light, exuding a faint coldness.
A spherical barrier formed by the condensed soul power blocked its attack and bounced it away.
After absorbing four soul bones that were more than ten thousand years old, and whose quality exceeded one hundred thousand years, Amon's soul power became much tougher after it materialized.
It only takes a small amount of consumption to create a high-strength defense, instead of relying on insufficient quality and quantity to forcibly increase the defense power with the help of huge soul power output.
The funeral ape's attack failed to break through the soul barrier for a long time, so he began to think about retreating.
It stared at Amon while slowly retreating, but after taking a few steps, it turned back and continued to attack.
Amon stole its idea of escaping!
After attacking for a while, it found that it was ineffective, and the intention of retreating rose again.
Amon stretched out his right hand, grabbed it, and stole its idea again.
Just as it turned around and wanted to attack, Amon returned all the stolen ideas of "escape".
The return of a large number of ideas caused confusion in the mind of the funeral ape. The strong idea of "escape" almost destroyed its rationality, making it start to run away in a panic and hit a tree.
The pain made it calm down a little, and then turned around... Attack Amon... Amon stole its idea of escaping again!
The funeral ape felt that its brain was almost not its own, it was so strange, and it was not in line with its normal behavior at all!
After a short thought, it realized that the human in front of it was the initiator and the root of all its abnormal behavior. It looked at Amon with fear.
Amon stole its fear and kept repeating the above behavior.
After an hour of torture, the funeral ape was lying on the ground with weak limbs and a dull look. It was about to be driven crazy by this demon!
Amon reached out and stole all its negative emotions. The funeral ape became lively and fierce again.
Not long after, it fell to the ground again. This time, no matter how Amon tried to steal its thoughts, it would not get up. It seemed that its spirit was on the verge of collapse.
Amon condensed a long sword with soul power and stabbed it at its heart. At the same time, he returned all the fear stolen from the funeral ape.
At this moment, extreme fear overwhelmed the spirit of this poor soul beast. Its eyes were round and it made a sharp cry.
Then, its body twitched and there was no sound.
A purple soul ring emerged. Amon did not think much and absorbed it directly. Then, he began to check the body of the soul beast and cut it into pieces with the soul power sword.
After a careful inspection, he finally found what he wanted in the body, a piece of bone with a shiny luster.
This is a left leg bone. Because the soul beast is not old, it is badly damaged and only has a small section. But this made Amon more certain about his guess.
The appearance of soul bones is related to the emotional state of the soul beast before death. If the soul beast is actively sacrificed, then soul bones will definitely appear.
If the soul beast has strong mental fluctuations before death and dies in extreme fear and hatred, the probability of soul bones appearing will also be greatly increased.
Under normal circumstances, the conditions for both are very difficult to achieve. Soul beasts will not take the initiative to die for humans. If humans forcibly kill soul beasts, it is also difficult for the other party's emotions to reach the threshold that can produce soul bones.
But Amon can!
He uses the ability of "stealing thoughts" to continuously steal the other party's "fear" and "hatred", accumulate them, and return them at the moment of killing it.
In this way, the emotions of the soul beast before death will be at a very intense level, and the probability of the birth of soul bones will be greatly increased.
One example is not enough to prove it. Amon needs to try a few more times to be sure.
He continued to search for prey in the forest. After killing dozens of soul beasts, the several time clones on his body all reached level 50.
Amon also confirmed his guess that his method of accumulating "fear and hatred" by "stealing thoughts" is indeed feasible.
The higher the target's intelligence, the more "fear" or "hatred" stolen, and the higher the explosion rate of soul bones.
Generally speaking, since the intelligence of a hundred-year soul beast is too low, even if Amon spends more time accumulating "fear", it is difficult for the opponent to explode soul bones.
The probability of a thousand-year soul beast with higher intelligence is much higher. Amon killed more than 30 thousand-year soul beasts in total and exploded six soul bones!
In addition to the two pieces harvested from the hundred-year soul beast, he got eight soul bones in just a few days!
Amon raised his right hand, pinched the upper and lower edges of his monocle with his index finger and thumb, and whispered to himself:
"Tsk... maybe I can take over the soul bone proxy business, and kill on demand."
The bright starlight lit up, and three streams of light flew out of the aggregated Amon's body, transforming into a man in a black robe in front of him.
He gave all the soul bones on his body to the separated time clone, and asked him to take them back to the original body.
The original Amon continued to walk deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest. He looked a little sad, but he was determined, with a tragic and heroic look of "the hero will never return".
He muttered as he walked:
"The ruthless original body will squeeze the clone, I feel I am dead."
