Chapter 238: Scary Discovery

Zhang Mu let Yuan Rui explore her new awakening ability on her own. Yuan Rui has truly become a dual evolver now, although not the most typical type because her mental attribute can be added later in life according to later generations.

However, even so, due to its rarity, Yuan Rui made a big profit.

Being a dual ability holder doesn’t mean the abilities are evenly distributed. His two different abilities are independent yet inclusive. All dual evolvers aim towards merging abilities and creating new ones.

Yuan Rui’s newly awakened life activation and soul flame abilities are both very rare among powerful evolvers that Zhang Mu had heard of in later generations. Additionally, Yuan Rui’s mental attack ability is different from what Zhang Mu had encountered before. Zhang Mu had only heard faint rumors about it and it seemed like those powerful beings were very envious.

Zhang Mu didn’t dwell on it much. He could help Yuan Rui in many ways, but the understanding of abilities is unique to each individual, not reproducible or interfered with. So, he went out to play with Obsidian Beetle for a while.

As for the mutated wolfhound, it was already fiercely engaged with Thunder, who stayed back at the camp. This was because of the bag of pure earth crystals that Zhang Mu had given it earlier, allowing Zhang Mu’s wolfdog to dominate Thunder directly in the confrontation.

Among the mutated beasts, strength is respected. After Thunder was defeated, he felt submissive to the mutated wolfhound and they fell in love. Thunder was fine; trained as a military dog, he at least remembered Li Hu’s command to guard the area and not leave. As for Zhang Mu’s mutated wolfhound, it had already forgotten him, wherever it went.

Zhang Mu passed the time fighting with Obsidian Beetle at a second-rate level. Time passed quickly. Suddenly, Obsidian Beetle stopped attacking Zhang Mu and transmitted a message, “They’re back. I hear footsteps on the ground, about half of them have returned, each step is heavy. They must be bringing back the bodies of mutated beasts.”

Zhang Mu looked at Obsidian Beetle with surprise and said, “I can’t believe it! You, a wind-type mutated beast, could capture the information coming from the ground so clearly. Their group should still be some distance away from Shan Xi City. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have sensed anyone approaching.”

“It’s probably because the military camp itself is inside Shan Xi City. They’re still about ten kilometers away from the city walls,” Obsidian Beetle said quietly, looking up at Zhang Mu.

“Wow, that’s amazing! No wonder I couldn’t sense them. We still have over twenty kilometers to go,” exclaimed Zhang Mu.

Zhang Mu’s expression towards Obsidian Beetle became increasingly curious, as if he had discovered a new world.

With a condescending look, Obsidian Beetle said to Zhang Mu, “It’s all thanks to you. If you hadn’t fed me so many different types of beast cores before, I wouldn’t have reached this stage. I seem to have gained a variety of abilities, especially from the earth-type beast cores, which I consumed the most.”

“I treat you differently from that foolish dog, don’t I? Its diet has been solely earth-type beast cores from start to finish.”

Zhang Mu casually replied, “Didn’t we know before that it could be dangerous for mutated beasts to consume cores of different attributes? I had no experience raising mutated beasts before you. The mutated wolfhound came after you, so I had learned by then.”

“Besides, I haven’t seen any negative effects from feeding you those cores.”

But as Zhang Mu spoke, he suddenly stopped, looking slightly terrified at Obsidian Beetle. The gaze he gave her made Obsidian Beetle take two steps back, and the giant insect stared at Zhang Mu warily, asking, “What are you looking at? What do you want?”

Zhang Mu took a long time to speak up about something he had just noticed, “Using beast cores with different attributes on other mutated beasts might temporarily increase energy and strength rapidly, but it won’t help with future potential development. Overeating them can lead to confusion in the body’s attributes, making advancement very difficult, hard to break through that barrier.

But you, on the contrary, except for a brief loss of control right after consuming, the clash of chaotic attributes triggers the most primitive aggression. But now there is no issue, advancing to second-rank can be directly solved by using a wind-type beast core, and after consuming a lot of wind-type beast cores, the influence of other attributes on your advancement will be minimal.

Now the earth-type abilities are slowly showing on you. This is because you have absorbed the most earth-type beast cores. Is there a possibility that by continuing to absorb other types of beast cores, you could possess abilities from various attributes at the same time?”

As soon as he said this, Zhang Mu was shocked by his words. The behavior of the Obsidian Beetle is indeed unique, and if it could absorb energy from different attributes and convert it for use, it would be terrifying.

Now the Obsidian Beetle fell silent, then spoke to Zhang Mu in an uncertain tone, “I also don’t know exactly what’s going on with my body. I do feel a bit resistant to consuming energy from other attributes, but my current performance is proving that I have some abilities of earth-type mutated beasts.

And didn’t another consciousness get activated inside me before? Even though I don’t know where it has hidden now, I feel like there are too many secrets hidden within me.”

When it came to the ancient will within Obsidian Beetle, Zhang Mu recalled with some fear. If it hadn’t appeared in a critical moment and, with its own strength, broke through the mental defenses of those nightmare insects and resisted their united attack, perhaps by now their group would have turned into a pile of earth.

However, the current focus is not on that mysterious will but on the extraordinary characteristics on the Obsidian Beetle.

Zhang Mu had an astonishing guess. He lowered his voice and said to the Obsidian Beetle, “Do you think this unique trait of your body can continue to absorb beast cores of other attributes?

Is it better to focus on the wind element as the main attribute and develop other attributes from there, or should it be more balanced? Also, how many types and amounts of additional attributes can be absorbed roughly?”

The Obsidian Beetle shook its head, not knowing the answer. Zhang Mu thought he would have to wait until the army collected all the beast cores and then slowly experiment with various possibilities.

In any case, the Obsidian Beetle could eat anything without harm. If such a strong and resilient little white rat wasn’t being used, wouldn’t it be a waste? What if it succeeded?

Zhang Mu thought of the most terrifying possibility: what if the Obsidian Beetle could endlessly increase additional attribute abilities after eating various beast cores?

It may sound like a fairy tale, but there’s always a slight possibility.

All of this will be verified in the future.

Of course, Zhang Mu couldn’t tell the Obsidian Beetle about his thoughts, or else they would have to fight. He could only subtly encourage it to try to enhance its own strength.

The path of evolution is already full of dangers. Even if you only gain an additional earth ability, it would be a huge profit.

A dual-type mutant beast evolved naturally?

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