Chapter 279: Chapter 248: Black Giant and the Trouble of Getting Lost_2

To expedite the feeding process, the Black Giants continually grabbed white Cloud Monsters with their stout hands from around them and stuffed them into their mouths.

Jeming hovered nearby, seizing the opportunity to casually capture several “clouds” that were trying to escape as biological samples.

After sealing them, he stored them within his internal space.

Observing the actions of the five Black Giants from a distance, Jeming’s expression appeared somewhat peculiar.

After all, seeing black humanoid creatures plucking “clouds” amidst white, cotton-like Cloud Monster swarms inevitably invokes thoughts of some automatic agricultural harvesters.

“Ahem… Hmm… This is not the time to think about that.”

Shaking his head, Jeming began to closely observe the condition of the Black Giants.

He could clearly feel the energy of each Black Giant continually increasing as they devoured.

Especially those four Second Level Black Giants, whose previously stagnant growth rate began to accelerate once again!

The predecessors of the Black Giants—Magma Giants—naturally possessed a unique digestive system unlike ordinary Elemental Creatures.

They could digest the flesh of organisms to provide themselves with energy, accelerating their growth, and even increasing their potential for advancement!

Jeming did not allow the Black Giants to abandon this ability.

In fact, in the design of the Black Giants, this ability became even more critical!

If the “Thermal Absorption Technology” and “Energy Conversion Technology” constituted the “framework” of the Black Giants at the level of Energy Law,

then the “digestive system” of the Magma Giants, providing the “Energy Absorption and Transformation System” through Jeming’s transformation, is the most vital “core” at the Energy Cycle level!

Furthermore, to better utilize this characteristic, Jeming even found a Dharma Gate in the “Great Dao Book Pavilion” within the Cultivation Immortality system, which could strengthen itself through ingesting—”Five Viscera Sacrificial God Skill”.

Using his past experience of transforming the Body Refining Technique, Jeming localized it and applied the relevant technology to the digestive system of the Black Giants.

Making their devouring efficiency reach a new height.

At this moment, a sudden anomaly occurred!

Just as the Black Giants were feasting, a group of “clouds” realized they couldn’t escape and chose the most extreme resistance in terror and anger—self-destruction!

Although the explosions of these creatures didn’t have flaming fire, their pure internal Wind Element exploded instantly, generating intense shockwaves.

Moreover, with a group of Cloud Monsters self-destructing together, it unleashed quite a powerful effect!

In the instant of explosion, a visible white shock wave spread outwards at an astonishing speed!

The surging waves instantly swept away all nearby objects; wherever it passed, whether the remains of “Cloud Monsters” or naturally gathered energy clusters were forcibly compressed and distorted.

Then torn into smaller fragments, flying fast with the violent shock wave.

Some inherently fragile Cloud Monsters shattered instantly under this powerful impact, disappearing into nothingness!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Caught off guard, several Second Level Black Giants, with lower strength levels, couldn’t react and were directly blown away by the shock wave!

Accompanied by intense howls, the four Black Giants rolled away into the distance, swept up by the shock wave’s cloud fog.

Jeming also felt the fierce shock wave coming his way, furrowing his brow as he raised his hand to erect an Energy Protection Shield before him, blocking the residual airflow impact.

In the team, the Third Level Black Giant didn’t seem affected at all.

Even absorbing some energy from part of the “shock wave” improved its strength!

Yet it was also enraged by this unexpected attack.

“Roar!!”

With an angry roar, it spewed flames like a volcanic eruption, rushing toward the group of escaping “clouds” like a meteor, wreaking havoc!

While slaughtering, the Black Giant still remembered to tear them apart and stuff them into its mouth for devouring.

Until those “clouds” scattered and fled, becoming too elusive to catch, did the Black Giant finally stop.

Jeming checked the status of the Black Giants that were blown away.

As Elemental Creatures, the explosion from the “Cloud Monsters” did not cause them significant injury.

Yet they still lost quite a bit of mass and energy, their aura slightly wilted.

Except for the Third Level Black Giant, the other Black Giants could almost be said to have done nothing useful during the devouring process, being all for naught.

No, not completely without gain either.

Under Jeming’s gaze, the aura of several Black Giants around him began to decline.

This represented their internal energy rapidly consuming.

But corresponding to this, a series of clear turquoise patterns began to appear on their bodies.

Though quickly, those turquoise patterns also concealed and merged into the black flames covering their bodies.

But Jeming knew clearly that this did not signify the disappearance of their effects.

Jeming was quite familiar with these patterns because they precisely represented the energy trajectory generated during the operation of the “Body Refining Technique” within the Cultivation Immortality system!

Indeed!

Jeming even implanted his powerful Body Refining Technique, derived from the Cultivation Immortality system, into the Black Giants’ bodies!

Doing so had quite a few downsides.

Firstly, as Elemental Life forms, Black Giants could not fully enjoy all the enhancement effects provided by body refining techniques for flesh bodies.

Their Elemental bodies had very limited improvement in certain aspects.

Secondly, such an approach would drastically increase the energy consumption during the cultivation of Black Giants!

Moreover, during the subsequent growth of Black Giants, the required energy consumption would develop into a terrifying situation!

It could be said that every Black Giant is a bottomless pit of energy!

But its advantages are enough for Jeming to bear these disadvantages—the Black Giant itself gains part of the “adaptive evolution” feature after integrating the core mechanism of the “Body Refining Technique”!

In other words, provided there is no death, a Black Giant will gain corresponding resistance from an attack it has endured once; next time, it will receive immunity from similar attacks!

Not only that, the feedback brought by this “adaptive evolution” also makes the evolution of Black Giants simpler.

A significant issue with Elemental Creatures as a species is that their upper limit is already fixed upon birth.

But the effect of the Body Refining Technique can break this limitation.

Theoretically, as long as a Black Giant lives long enough and devours sufficient energy, it can rise all the way to become Sixth Level Creatures.

“Not bad.”

Jeming nodded in satisfaction, wanting to continue flying.

But then, he glanced around at the vast, featureless white mist, unable to help but frown.

Ultimately, he could only take out his terminal to painstakingly locate the position of the “Ship Plane” used as a reference point.

Then, based on the relative direction between them, determine which way to fly next.

This is the most troublesome part of this plane.

Because there is no gravity, no effective direction can be distinguished at all.

Moreover, since everything in this plane is suspended in the air with no fixed up, down, left, or right.

So, practically, besides the four directions of front, back, left, and right, it’s also necessary to constantly discern the up and down directions that are troubling.

“Fortunately, I’m not flying too far, I can use the terminal to locate the ’Ship Plane’.” Jeming also felt a bit tricky.

“But when in the future, exceeding the terminal’s signal range, there is indeed a risk of getting lost in this dizzying cloud fog.”

“However… the camp there should have already started looking for countermeasures, right?”

Just when Jeming was thinking this, his terminal suddenly emitted a sound.

Seeing the information on it, Jeming showed a kind of smile as if he had anticipated it.

Just as he thought, the camp over there started releasing “mandatory tasks”!

(Today’s a busy day, so only this Chapter available.)

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