98: Chapter 98 System Continuous Upgrades

Tiger Armor Ant Soldiers are fast and numerous, capable of besieging enemies.

Blood Fiend Ant Soldiers can act as assassins, delivering a fatal blow in one strike.

Chi Anlin felt that he still needed a control-type Ant Soldier and one that used poison.

Fire Poison was now starting to fall behind the rhythm; it just so happened that he had encountered many poisonous demon beasts recently, so he could fuse their genes.

No matter what kind of poison it was, as long as it was accumulated, he could create the most toxic Ant Soldier.

In addition, Chi Anlin felt that the next time he went back, he could buy some things like bombs to fuse into an Explosion Ant Soldier.

For a control-type Ant Soldier, the first choice would be spider-type genes, and that plant gene from before could also be utilized.

However, what made it a bit difficult for Chi Anlin was that such an Ant Soldier would not only control enemies but also control teammates; after all, spider silk is very sticky and could easily entangle the Tiger Armor Ant Soldiers as well.

But after thinking it over carefully, it seemed that dealing with these demon beasts didn't really require much stickiness right now.

Even if a demon beast was stuck to the ground, it could just tear the topsoil right off with enough force, so stickiness wasn't very useful. At most, it would just get some stuff stuck all over the demon beasts.

What he needed more was something with toughness that could prevent demon beasts from snapping it.

Chi Anlin continued his operations. After removing the sticky substances, he added some genes to increase toughness, such as the Glimmering Spider web gene, the Ghost Vine gene, the Mountain-Hammering Ox tendon gene, and so on.

As for why he added the ox tendon gene... it was because when Chi Anlin ate the tendons of that Mountain-Hammering Ox before, he almost chewed until he wanted to vomit without being able to break them down...

As for the final sticky substances, Chi Anlin concentrated them all together; these sticky substances could be sprayed into a demon beast's eyes at the end, which might have a miraculous effect.

Chi Anlin began molding the new Ant Soldier with his hands. Eventually, an Ant Soldier that looked like a spider with a tail resembling a cannon barrel appeared.

"I'll call you the Sky Net Ant Soldier."

After molding the Sky Net Ant Soldier, Chi Anlin selected several relatively strong toxin genes and fused them into the body of another new Ant Soldier.

Creating a poison-using Ant Soldier was relatively simple. Finally, after fusing the tail stinger gene of an Armor-Piercing Bee, he successfully finished molding this Ant Soldier.

"A poison-using Ant Soldier... let's call it the Datura Ant Soldier."

After creating two types of soldiers in a row, Chi Anlin had the Ant Queen produce a few for experimentation.

The production speed of a First Realm, First Stage Sky Net Ant Soldier was 60 per day, and the required nutrition was three times that of a Tiger Armor Ant Soldier.

The Sky Net Ant Soldier could restrain a Blood Fiend Ant Soldier, and the silk it spat out could also block the Blood Fiend Ant Soldier's slashes. Its toughness was very strong, though the silk itself wasn't very thick; under the violent struggling of a demon beast of the same stage, it could still be snapped.

But that wasn't an issue; as long as the numbers were sufficient, it would work.

The Datura Ant Soldier appeared in a daunting deep green. The production speed of a First Realm, First Stage Ant Soldier was 5 per day. Chi Anlin had the Ant Soldiers capture a few demon beasts to bring back; a mortal rank first stage Datura Ant Soldier could actually poison to death a demon beast two or three stages higher than itself.

However, this referred to the effect after the demon beast ate it. Once the demon beast's volume became large, the venom's effect would be a bit slower, but it was still highly toxic.

The toxins of the Datura Ant Soldier could continue to stack, so its upper limit was quite high.

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"Ding, system upgrade successful. Appraisal function upgraded, Synthesis function upgraded, Weak Point Analysis unlocked."

"Congratulations to the host for successfully upgrading the system. The rewards obtained are as follows:"

Bloodthirsty Spirit Sword: Spirit Rank Middle Grade. It has the function of slowing wound healing, and the blade can absorb blood to become sharper.

Mystic Cloud Array Book: Mystic Rank Middle Grade. It contains various arrays and methods for setting them up.

peashooter: Spirit Rank Low Grade, First Realm, Third Stage, Wood Attribute. A demonic plant that needs to be planted in soil and can fire pea bullets.

Flower Wood Spirit Egg: Spirit Rank Middle Grade, Wood Attribute, elemental affinity, possesses certain healing abilities.

Heavenly Dao Illusion Book: Mystic Rank Low Grade, mental cultivation technique, capable of charming others and entering an illusion realm.

A series of rewards popped up. Chi Anlin had seen much of the world recently, so naturally, he wasn't too shocked... but putting everything else aside, what was up with this peashooter?

The rewards appeared on the ground. Chi Anlin looked at that familiar plant, feeling a bit dazed.

Is it really a freaking peashooter?

Suppressing the urge to complain in his heart, Chi Anlin put the rewards into his space ring and threw the Flower Wood Spirit Egg to the Ant Queen.

"Xiao Yi, go hatch this egg. I want to see its attributes." Since the system sent a healing demon beast, he didn't have to look for one himself. Once it was born, he could synthesize it well and use it as his fourth royal beast.

As for this peashooter... he felt he could go back and buy a machine gun to see if it would turn into a Gatling Pea.

The upgrade to the Appraisal system should mean he could appraise higher-level demon beasts and cultivators, or perhaps the Appraisal function would be more accurate.

Chi Anlin opened the system synthesis options. After thinking for a bit, he took out the Bloodthirsty Spirit Sword and aimed it at Xiao Yue.

[Please select the Fusion part]

A light appeared, and Chi Anlin discovered that the current Fusion could be done point-to-point. Of course, full-body Fusion was also possible, but it certainly wouldn't be as targeted as point-to-point Fusion.

"Synthesis part: Claws."

"Ding, do you wish to fuse [Polar Ice Lunar Wolf] and [Bloodthirsty Spirit Sword]?"

blood energy required: 32 million

Fusion success rate: 35% (Can be increased by consuming blood energy)

Fusion time: 3 hours (Can be reduced by consuming blood energy)

"Huh??" Chi Anlin's eyes widened. How was this system becoming more and more like some unscrupulous pay-to-win game?

But this new function was great!

He tried clicking to increase the success rate, but after a moment, Chi Anlin closed it with a dark expression.

1.5 million blood energy to increase it by one percent? Why don't you just go rob someone?

Increasing the success rate by twenty percent would cost as much blood energy as the original synthesis required.

It was outrageously expensive.

Since he still had quite a bit of blood energy, Chi Anlin painfully increased it by twenty percent and then directly chose to synthesize.

Xiao Yue's attack power was too weak. After synthesizing with this sword, it should be able to inherit the attributes of the Bloodthirsty Spirit Sword.

After setting up the synthesis for Xiao Yue, Chi Anlin checked the final Weak Point Analysis.

This function was easy to understand; it allowed him to see the weak points of his royal beasts.

Chi Anlin opened Xiao Yue's panel. Xiao Yue's own weak points were attack power and defense, and its resistance to elements was also relatively weak. As for speed and control, they were quite high; training would have to start from those weak aspects.

As for Xiao Xing's panel, it was nothing but weak points. For a moment, Chi Anlin couldn't bear to look directly; even the system's evaluation included "cowardly, low combat power, low quality, recommended to restart," and so on.

As for the Ant Queen, her IQ was almost a negative number.

More detailed weak points had to be unlocked with blood energy. Chi Anlin felt he didn't need them for now; he should fill other holes first.

After updating the new system, Chi Anlin entered the Blood Energy Space. He hadn't yet practiced those two King-grade cultivation techniques the school had given him; it was the perfect time during this blood energy expansion period to take them out and have a look.