Wilderness: I Tame Beasts to Survive

Chapter 398: Chapter 274: Lying in Wait (Part 2)

Protected by the Starlight Armor, Han Ning found his vision gradually sharpening. The world of colorful light clusters transformed back into normal human sight.

Below him, Grey’s enormous Body, large enough to occupy nearly an entire street, came into clear view, along with the scattered figures of his companions in the distance.

Unlike his normal sight, the various Spiritual Lights emanating from them hadn’t vanished. Instead, they just seemed a bit more ethereal.

It was a bit like the panel’s Authentication view.

’This ability, similar to Soul Emergence, isn’t just for fun. It has a very important strategic purpose.’

Han Ning’s consciousness sank into his Spiritual World. In the sky above, the Stars representing his few Contracted Soul Beasts twinkled brightly.

He selected the Star representing Egg Pancake and focused his will!

In the next instant, his vision changed completely.

The scene before him was like looking through a wide-angle lens, revealing angles completely invisible to the human eye, all in perfect clarity.

Moreover, the void was filled with an abundance of free-floating Fire and Earth Elemental Particles.

The moment he focused on a single particle, his perspective magnified at lightning speed. His vision was completely filled by the particle’s internal structure: several electron-like substances revolving at high speed around a nucleus-like core.

At the same time, what was happening outside his direct line of sight was displayed in extremely narrow insets on either side of his main view, ensuring he didn’t lose track of his surroundings.

"How incredible..." Han Ning muttered instinctively.

ROAR~

And within the vast, empty Fire Element Hall, a deep, powerful dragon’s roar echoed.

CHIRP~ ’Master, how did you get inside my head?’ The thought, tinged with confusion, came from Egg Pancake.

’I’ve taken over Egg Pancake’s Body, and there’s no rejection at all. If I ever lose my physical body in an accident, I could take refuge inside my own Soul Beast... But it’s not without its limits. Egg Pancake’s Spiritual Power is draining rapidly. If I stay too long, I’ll start to strain its Divine Soul.’

"I was just popping in for a visit. You can continue your Cultivation, Egg Pancake. I won’t disturb you."

Having experienced Egg Pancake’s perspective for the first time and gained some valuable "possession" experience, Han Ning chose to return to his own Body.

CHIRP~ ’I’ve been working really hard! I wasn’t thinking about lava ice cream at all!’ Egg Pancake explained earnestly.

"Alright, alright, I get it. When we get back to the Jade Forest, I’ll have the chefs make some for you."

His Spiritual Body returned to his own. Han Ning stretched comfortably, a grin spreading across his face as he replied to Egg Pancake.

This so-called "lava ice cream" was actually a food that resembled ice cream, made by mixing the Insect Continent’s ferociously hot spices with various Fire Type Spiritual Plants. It had started as a small sample developed by the Soul Beast development team, but Egg Pancake had taken an unexpected and immense liking to it.

’I’m Tier Four... It seems I can help my Soul Beasts master Divine Will faster.’

An Insect Master with Tier Four Spiritual Power, like Cang Fei, would have Contracted Soul Beasts with the strength of an Upper Monarch. As for Han Ning... He opened his panel and quickly scanned the information on himself and his Soul Beasts.

Since most of the materials had to be allocated to increasing Grey’s strength, his other Soul Beasts had spent the last six months relying entirely on the Cosmic Light Tower left by the Alataku People for their power-ups.

The Cosmic Light Tower truly was a high-end device reserved for elite Alatak Beast Masters. With almost no Attribute Points assigned from his panel, Yin Yi had advanced from Lord II to Lord III and was now approaching IV.

Egg Pancake and the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm had also broken through to Lord III, though their progress varied.

Improving their physical strength was one part of it. The other was deepening their comprehension of Spiritual Energy, compressing it further to reach the critical point for understanding Divine Will.

The Spiritual Energy within a Lord Level Soul Beast’s body is compressed multiple times, making further increases in strength extremely slow. At this stage, Soul Beasts transition from their explosive growth period before the War General Level to an accumulation period, waiting for their next breakthrough.

And finally... there was Fei Lin. She had remained at the War General Level, not yet breaking through to Lord.

According to the plan provided by his panel, Fei Lin’s breakthrough from War General to Lord should be accompanied by an evolution. This would allow her to use the immense Energy from the level-up to fully tap into her evolutionary potential. Just like Yin Yi before her, the combined effect would allow her to shoot up to a much higher Level in a single go.

’Fei Lin has been at the War General Level for long enough. It’s time for her to evolve and break through to the Lord Level... Oh, right. Before that, I need to check on the situation in the Jade Forest.’ Using the Elemental Spirit, he teleported to the rest area on the first floor of the Cosmic Light Tower. He leaned against a long stone bench and focused his Spiritual Power, reaching out to one of his Subordinate Insects.

"Aketu, give me a brief report on what’s happened this week."

Due to the Cyan God Armor Tribe’s blockade, all travel between the Jade Forest and Night Nether City had become highly clandestine. Each time a Beast Master needed to get from the Jade Forest to Night Nether City, high-ranking members of the Dragon Blood Race had to personally escort them across the long, blockaded territory to reach the Grudge Abyss.

Fortunately, he had Alien Race Insect Masters planted among the Abyssal Rock Ants and inside the Grudge Abyss to provide support, so nothing especially dangerous had occurred in the past six months.

He had sent Aketu—the first unlucky soul to be infested by a Subordinate Insect—to the Jade Forest to act as a messenger between the two locations.

Once a week, Aketu would gather intelligence from within the Jade Forest, as well as news and rumors from across the Insect Continent, and share it with Han Ning in Night Nether City.

"Yes... Master. According to our spies in the major regions of the Insect Continent, after only a two-month lull, the Five Ancestor Families have once again begun dispatching Insect Masters. They are capturing newly ascended Insect Masters from the various Insect Master Families and taking them to the Queen’s Divine Hall."

"The Red Centipede Tribe has already had seven Insect Masters taken. Other than Clan Leader Fei Ren, only one Insect Master is left guarding the tribe. As for Fei Ren himself, he has completely vanished in the last few days. His whereabouts are unknown."

"Additionally, storms of varying sizes have been brewing in the northern, eastern, and southwestern regions of the Insect Continent. By my initial count, over 20,000 Insect-men have died because of them."

"Within the Jade Forest, as of three days ago, every human in the camp has broken through to Tier One Beastmaster or higher. As for the Dragon Blood Race, 52 members reached Tier One this week, and 32 reached Tier Two for the first time. They are scheduled to be sent to Night Nether City this weekend."

For any of the transmigrated humans, reaching Tier One was just a matter of time. But the leap from Tier One to Tier Two proved to be a barrier for over sixty percent of them.

Because of the explosion in the number of Tier One Beastmasters, Han Ning, Hom, and Sage had decided about five months ago to raise the entry requirement for Night Nether City to Tier Two, thereby improving the quality of the study groups.

"Mm, go on."

"I just heard from Qing Fan that the founders of the Five Ancestor Families all went to the Queen’s Divine Hall a short while ago. They seem to be discussing something major."

’All the signs indicate that the Insect Queen’s awakening is imminent... I have to speed up Grey’s growth.’ As Han Ning considered the events on the Insect Continent that Aketu had reported, a sense of urgency began to well up inside him.

Grey’s power was growing far too slowly!

Four months ago, they had used a massive amount of materials to help it break through to the Lord Level. But ever since, the Spiritual Energy stored in its body had become like a vast ocean. Every time Han Ning allocated points, it felt like tossing pebbles into the sea, trying to fill it. The progress was agonizingly slow.

In four whole months, it had only advanced from Lord I to Lord II. The Lord IV level required by the panel was still nowhere in sight.

The amount of materials consumed would have been enough to get any of his other Soul Beasts to the Monarch level, assuming they didn’t need to comprehend Divine Will.

A large part of the reason for this was that the number of Energy Points Grey required to gain an Attribute Point was different from Yin Yi, Egg Pancake, and the others.

It required a full 10 Energy Points to convert into a single Attribute Point, while Yin Yi and the others only needed 5!

Just as Han Ning was feeling at a complete loss, the panel seemed to sense his frustration. A line of small, light-blue text suddenly materialized before his eyes.

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