The big yellow dog’s eyes lit up right away. It stuck out its tongue and fixed its gaze on the bag.
Ou Yangming sighed. The powerhouses would stare at his interspatial bag if he did the same thing because they knew how valuable it was. Even if he were to pull out a magic tool from it, it would not attract them at all.
On the contrary, for the big yellow dog, the Earthly Dragon Beast’s flesh was more attractive than the interspatial bag. The young fellow did not know if he should call the dog an idiot or if he should envy its unhidden nature.
All of a sudden, Ou Yangming felt a tug. When he turned to look, he realized that Big Yellow had gripped one of the bag’s corners with its teeth and was staring at him to say, ‘Mine, it’s
mine!
Ou Yangming was not going to show weakness. He glared at the dog and said, “Don’t be in such a hurry, we’ll get half of the portion each.”
‘Mine, this is mine, it’s all mine!’
“Stop pulling it… No, stop biting it!” ‘Mine, this is mine!’
Much to Ou Yangming’s surprise, the big yellow dog was unusually determined. After all, it was not as eager and as stubborn about the big multicolored tiger’s carcass back then.
Feeling helpless, Ou Yangming gave in. “Big Yellow, this one’s for you, but the rest is mine!”
The dog instantly nodded and cast a flattering look at him. ‘As long as you give this bag to me, I’ll listen to anything you say.’
Once Ou Yangming let go of the bag, the big yellow dog took it far away, as though it was avoiding him on purpose.
“You brute…” Ou Yangming cursed, but he did not know whether to cry or laugh.
The big yellow dog seemed to know it was in the wrong. It widened its mouth at Ou Yangming and wagged its tail to fawn over him, then it spat out a paw gauntlet.
After it put on the piece of equipment, it stabbed it into the bag without any hesitation.
The Devouring attribute was unleashed at that moment, and the bag flattened in a flash. Big Yellow closed its eyes with pleasure as if it enjoyed the process very much. Moreover, its aura underwent an odd change.
Ou Yangming focused on the dog and was shocked.
He had an uncommonly deep relationship with the big yellow dog as there was a mysterious spiritual connection between them. Therefore, he knew very well that the dog had improved.
The Devouring attribute was so wonderful that one’s abilities could be enhanced without the need to cultivate through hard work. Nevertheless, it came with a hidden danger and was extremely limited. The upgrade could not be done endlessly, and half of the essence absorbed from the flesh and blood would be wasted. According to Ou Yangming’s estimation, the flesh and blood in the bag could only provide the big yellow dog a limited gain.
Despite that, Ou Yangming knew at this moment he was wrong-terribly wrong.
Unbeknownst to him, the Earthly Dragon Beast’s flesh and blood seemed to contain mysterious powers, which were evidently effective toward the big yellow dog.
The margin of increase turned out to be far beyond Ou Yangming’s imagination. He wondered, ‘What exactly is the big yellow dog’s background?’
Ou Yangming had seen many great-ancestor-level half-spirit beasts, but they were normally valiant in terms of physical powers. Even if they had powers similar to the big yellow dog’s Breathing Skill, the powers only played supporting roles. On the opposite, the situation was entirely different for the big dog. Its physical power was great, it could at least bully ordinary, equal-ranked humans without magic tools.
However, the big yellow dog’s true strengths were its Breathing Skill and its seemingly bottomless stomach.
It killed the simulated big multicolored tiger with one breath and swallowed a full equipment set into its stomach.
They were clear examples of the big yellow dog’s peculiarity.
Seeing as it quickly improved when it absorbed the energies from the Earthly Dragon Beast’s flesh and blood, Ou Yangming had a strange thought.
‘Is Big Yellow not a creature from this world? Or perhaps the blood meridian that it inherited isn’t limited to this world.’
Just as Ou Yangming was guessing, the big yellow dog had finished devouring the Earthly Dragon Beast’s flesh and blood. The bag had completely shrunken, anyone who opened it would see that there was no trace of flesh or blood at all.
The big yellow dog had cleaned up everything, and it felt more refreshed than if it had licked them instead.
Big Yellow stuck out its tongue at Ou Yangming. Even a fool could notice the flattering look on its face.
Ou Yangming was amazed. He was exceptionally alert when the big yellow dog absorbed the energies because it showed signs of nearly being obsessed when it previously absorbed similar energies.
This time, everything was normal instead. Not to mention being obsessed, the big yellow dog did not burp at all.
“Big Yellow, are you satisfied now?” Ou Yangming nodded and asked.
The big yellow dog nodded to express its satisfaction.
Ou Yangming flashed a bright smile and said, “Then the rest will be mine.”
“Woof!” The big yellow dog barked loudly, making it seem generous.
With that, Ou Yangming nodded and brushed his hand across his interspatial bag.
Next, an equal-sized bag was placed on the floor. Following that, a second one, a third one…
The big yellow dog, who was initially wagging its tail, stopped at once. It widened its eyes so much that its eyeballs were about to fall out, and it widened its mouth and salivated. After a brief moment, the big dog blinked its huge eyes and pretended to look pitiful. On top of that, it also wagged its tail as if it was a propeller and ran toward Ou Yangming. Ou Yangming grinned and said, “Mine, they’re mine!”
Big Yellow staggered and wagged its tail faster. ‘Mine, they’re mine!!
The big yellow dog stared at Ou Yangming, who could not help but beam at the eager look on its face.
At last, Ou Yangming could not help but laugh out loud. “Okay, they’re yours, they’re yours.” Big Yellow barked excitedly, but it tilted its head to ponder and decided to split the bags into two portions. Subsequently, it stood beside the bigger portion and barked at Ou Yangming.
Ou Yangming shook his head and responded, “I’m full now, so I don’t need them for the time being. You can devour all of them if you’re able to.”
Indeed, the young fellow’s cultivation base directly upgraded from Yang Grade Class One to the peak of Yang Grade in the imperial family’s secret realm. He did not need to absorb energies from flesh and blood at the moment because he needed to slowly temper himself and to cultivate so that he could get ready to enter Extreme Grade. In actuality, based on his control over his body and his mental power, it would be relatively easy for him to become a Supreme Great Ancestor.
That said, it would cause him unnecessary troubles and hidden problems in the future. Hence, he had been restraining himself to take one step at a time. Nonetheless, the big yellow dog kept shaking its head this time and barked again. It seemed like it was trying to tell him something else. Ou Yangming was stunned because he sensed what Big Yellow wanted him to do. He turned his wrist after some thought and retrieved a dagger.
Since the big yellow dog was so persistent, he figured that there must be something else.
After removing the bag’s string, Ou Yangming stabbed his dagger into the flesh. The Earthly Dragon Beast’s skin was incredibly tough and could not be pierced by an ordinary dagger, but its flesh was not as tough. Attached with the Devouring attribute, the dagger unleashed the might as soon as it penetrated the flesh.
Weird yet powerful energies gushed into ou Yangming’s body through the dagger. The young fellow was moved, and his face took on a strange expression.
The flesh and blood contained surprisingly enormous powers, but that was not the main point. What truly made Ou Yangming feel different was how dissimilar the energies were.
He suddenly
had a feeling that he could transfer the energies into his spiritual world. Ou Yangming’s body had arrived at the bottleneck, but he must stop to temper it for his future development. Even so, his mental power had not arrived at its limit. Having said that, mental power cultivation seemed to be very much constrained in this world. No matter how Ou Yangming cultivated, his progress was despairing. This was also the biggest reason he had only met very few powerhouses who were adept in mental power.
The Earthly Dragon Beast’s flesh and blood carried a unique type of energy. In a way, there was a huge disparity between that energy and the ones in this world.
When the energies were devoured, they could somehow be completely converted into mental power as Ou Yangming wished.
Ou Yangming’s eyelids twitched, and he was agitated.
He guided the energies into his sea of consciousness, where his mental power transformed into surging waves to envelop them. Afterward, the energies were easily converted into his mental power, which was steadily improved.
Furthermore, there were no abnormalities throughout the process, and his Qi and blood remained stable as well. The hot temper that was a result of the Devouring attribute, billowing Qi and blood, as well as other negative impacts seemed to have disappeared at this moment.
Chapter 378 - You Have Me
Vast energies gushed into Ou Yangming’s body and into his sea of consciousness, where they were converted into the most ordinary mental power.
Ou Yangming’s heart was pounding. Although he vaguely understood that the conversion was certainly unordinary, given the substantial benefit and the quick improvement of his strength, he naturally cast aside his concerns.
Needless to say, he was still on guard. If anything felt inappropriate to him, he would forcefully cut off the process.
Nonetheless, it was soon proven that his worries were baseless.
When Ou Yangming finished digesting the flesh and blood, he opened his eyes, which gleamed for a split second.
He hesitated for a while before he rubbed his hands to release the Appraisal Light on himself.
[Race: Human]
(Equivalent Rank: Ordinary Human, Yang Grade, Class Five]
[Power: 15] [Agility: 15] (Physique: 19 (15+4)] [Mental Power: 55 (53+2]
[Skills: Martial art skills, Military Fire Smithing Art, appraisal art, Precious Stone Embedding Art, Blood Flight, Substitution (Passive), Runes Formation, Space Slicing, small fireball]
(State: Integration of Heaven and man, thoroughly meticulous]
Ou Yangming was surprised and overjoyed. Putting aside the other properties, what truly moved him was that his mental power had increased by 2 points.
In actual fact, after absorbing energies from a bag of flesh and blood, Ou Yangming’s mental power increased by 1 point only. The other point was what he gained from cultivating attentively for several months, making an improvement in martial arts, performing the Simulated Spiritual Fist, as well as smithing magic tools.
Nevertheless, this was exactly the reason Ou Yangming was elated.
The fact that months of hard work was equivalent to absorbing energies from a bag of flesh and blood was so tempting that it was indescribable.
Ou Yangming trembled a little because he finally understood why the big yellow dog was so keen on the Earthly Dragon Beast’s flesh and blood. It turned out that they were extremely advantageous. The young fellow looked up and immediately saw the big yellow dog doing its best to absorb its portion of Earthly Dragon Beast flesh and blood with the Devouring ability. He quietly observed for some time and finally confirmed that the energies would not give the dog negative effects like how those from ordinary flesh and blood would.
Even though Ou Yangming could not understand it, he would be foolish to not utilize this discovery.
Therefore, in the ravine, the human and the dog kept stabbing their weapons into the Earthly Dragon Beast’s flesh and blood to absorb their energies. Ou Yangming turned the energies into his mental power, but he did not know what the big yellow dog turned them into.
It took half a day for them to finish the bags brought by Ou Yangming.
Big Yellow cultivated for half a day, but it did not look exhausted at all. Instead, it was in high spirits. The big yellow dog barked excitedly at Ou Yangming as it could not hide its happiness, whereas the young fellow simply nodded. His mental power foundation was so solid that he surpassed the 60-points mark and achieved a total of 63 points, if he took into account his Blood Flight waist sash’s Unique Attribute, which gave a 5% mental power increment.
The actual mental power increment for Ou Yangming from the bags was at least 8 points, which was an unbelievable amount.
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It was worth noting that as one’s cultivation increased, one’s physique and mental power would slowly approach a limit. The closer they were to it, the harder it would be to upgrade them, which was why there were several times more Force Grade cultivators in this world than there were Supreme Great Ancestors.
A martial artist’s cultivation was always in the form of a pyramid.
Despite that, Ou Yangming did not sense the limit when he converted the Earthly Dragon Beast’s energies.
In other words, the benefits from the dragon beast had not arrived at a limit because the flesh and blood had greater benefits to be uncovered.
Ou Yangming curbed his thought and stuffed the bags into his interspatial bag. He later retrieved some specially-made powder and sprinkled them in the air to mask and neutralize the bloody smell in the air.
He pondered for a while and vaguely realized that while Earthly Dragon Beast flesh and blood had endless wonderful uses, he could not enjoy the benefits without equipment attached with the Devouring attribute.
Moreover, given that there were no negative effects and limitations when he absorbed the flesh and blood, he figured that it was because of their source.
‘What exactly is the upper realm like?’ Ou Yangming was incredibly curious.
He patted the big yellow dog’s head, and the dog wagged its tail obediently. After receiving some perks from the young fellow, it became truly loyal to him.
“Big Yellow, don’t be in such a hurry. I have more flesh and blood, so I’ll bring them again and we can absorb them together,” Ou Yangming noted with a smile.
The big yellow dog stared at Ou Yangming and kept sniffing his body as if it wanted to find his secret storage. The young fellow pushed it away snappily and said, “Stop playing around; they’re not with me. Quickly bring me to go meet Elder Sister Ying.”
Big Yellow glanced at Ou Yangming’s interspatial bag reluctantly, but it turned around in the end. Instead of leading the way, it shook its body.
Ou Yangming was stunned for a while before he jumped onto the big yellow dog’s back. He asked in shock, “Big Yellow, why have you grown fatter? Shouldn’t you lose some weight?” The big yellow dog turned to glare at him furiously. Just as Ou Yangming wondered if the fellow would throw him to the ground, the big dog 'swooshed” away and turned into a yellow light as it entered the Chaos Cave. After absorbing plenty of the Earthly Dragon Beast’s flesh and blood, Ou Yangming’s mental power went past the 60-points mark, whereas the big yellow dog grew slightly bigger again.
That said, the big yellow dog was not small in the first place, it’s size could be compared with large carnivorous creatures. Hence, even if it grew slightly bigger, it would not seem too abrupt.
Riding on Big Yellow, Ou Yangming could sense that it had not only grown bigger but had also become faster.
Having a huge physique and being nimble had always been contradictory. Even so, it was perfectly resolved for the big yellow dog because its speed and agility did not seem to have reduced because of its size. In fact, its maximum speed actually seemed to have improved.
Before long, when the big yellow dog stopped, they had already entered the Ni family’s secret realm.
Ou Yangming looked around and lamented. As compared to when he first came
, he and the big yellow dog had undergone enormous changes.
He fixed his gaze on the cottage at once because he could sense that the graceful figure, whom he had worried deeply about, was inside.
The big yellow dog barked proudly as though it was proud of its speed, but Ou Yangming could not be bothered about it at the moment. He jumped off the dog and swiftly approached the cottage, then he turned around and instructed softly, “Big Yellow, go on and play on your own. Don’t disturb us.”
Before his voice died away, he had entered the cottage and closed the door conveniently.
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Big Yellow stared at the cottage dumbfoundedly and gritted its teeth for some time. It made a few rounds on the spot before its eyes lit up, then it discreetly made its way to one of the cottage’s corners. Over there, the big yellow dog pricked up its ears and listened carefully.
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Ou Yangming seemed fast as he hurried into the cottage, but he moved so gently that he did not make a sound at all.
Inside the cottage, Ni Yinghong was seen sitting quietly on the bed. She wore a loose white robe, and a faint blush was seen on her beautiful face. A peculiar aura kept lingering around her, so much so that she was wrapped in thin, white mist, making her look like a celestial being
The young fellow curled his lips into a smile. He sat beside Ni Yinghong and watched quietly.
He calmed himself down at the sight of her charming face, to the extent that his mental power, which was previously upgraded in his sea of consciousness, became tame as well.
Time seemed to have stopped completely at this moment, as if he could stay like this forever.
After an unknown period, Ni Yinghong, who was sitting quietly, twitched her little nose as though she sensed Ou Yangming looking at him. She slowly curbed the white mist around her by drawing it back into her body, then she opened her eyes.
She was instantly greeted by a familiar face, one that had been imprinted on her mind.
Ni Yinghong’s vision went blurry. She kept blinking her eyes, afraid that she was only seeing an illusion, which would disappear at any time.
Ou Yangming felt sorry for her. He gently leaned forward to embrace her.
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