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This time, Amon was reborn as a magical beast.
"Worm of Spirit," is the name of the race he now belongs to. This race did not originally exist in the Dou Qi Continent, but was brought about by the power of the world that Amon exchanged for the sacrifice of his original self.
Based on the insect egg of a magical beast called "Ink Feather Butterfly," nurtured by the power of the world, and then infused with Amon's information, a completely new magical beast was formed... This race consists of only Amon himself.
It can be said that he is a mutation, or that he was born naturally, nurtured by heaven and earth. Moreover, he was not nurtured by the Doupo small plane alone, but by the entire Doupo series universe.
As a special magical beast created by heaven and earth, the Worm of Spirit is born with various incredible innate skills.
These innate skills are "localized" based on Amon's original traits. They are divided into explicit talents and implicit talents.
Among them, explicit talents are those that are possessed from birth and can be used, while implicit talents require reaching a certain level of cultivation or fulfilling certain special conditions to be activated.
The explicit talents are: Splitting, Convergence, Parasitism, Soul Devouring, and Concealment.
Amon can autonomously split into many different individuals, each with a body size not exceeding one-tenth of the main body, and a total body size not exceeding one hundred times the main body. "Body size" is calculated comprehensively based on physical body, Dou Qi, and soul. If the main body dies, the will of the main body will be resurrected in a certain split body, and the split body will become the new main body.
Worms of Spirit can aggregate with each other, with the main body absorbing the split bodies. This cannot directly improve cultivation or physical body, but it can enhance the soul. The sum of the will of the main body Amon and the will of all "pure Amons" is the same.
Worms of Spirit can directly "eat" the souls of others to strengthen themselves, but this will cause their own souls to be affected, polluted, and become mottled and "impure."
The connection between the main body and the split bodies, and between the split bodies, is through soul power. If the distance is too far, they will lose contact, and only the main body can vaguely sense the state of the other split bodies.
Worms of Spirit can parasitize other creatures, with parasitism divided into shallow and deep.
Shallow parasitism is parasitism in the physical body, which can only perceive what the host sees, hears, smells, tastes, touches, and what the soul receives. It can guide and influence the host's thinking, but cannot control the host or read the host's thoughts.
Deep parasitism is parasitism on the soul. Based on shallow parasitism, it can forcibly control the host's behavior and read the host's thoughts in real time. The deep parasitism state will cause the host's strength to stagnate due to the interference of Amon, a foreign object.
Worms of Spirit have extremely strong concealment abilities, making them difficult to be sensed by soul power.
In addition to these explicit talents, Amon also has implicit talents such as time and space.
After sorting out the abilities he now possessed and resting for a day to recover his state, Amon began to act.
When Amon was first born, he had just reached the second-order magical beast level, but after splitting into a hundred split bodies, his level dropped, and he had reached the lowest level of the first-order. His split bodies, on the other hand, did not even reach the first-order, and were only equivalent to the level of a human's first stage of Dou Qi.
After he hatched, the other Ink Feather Butterfly larvae also began to emerge from their eggs one after another. Those larvae that were parasitized by Amon's split bodies launched attacks on the unparasitized larvae at the first moment, killing and devouring them. Then, these hundred larvae dispersed to guard the surrounding area for the main body.
He is currently located on a protruding platform on a deep mountain cliff. The Ink Feather Butterfly larvae would originally grow and live here, feeding on the magical beast corpse, until they reached adulthood, pupated into cocoons, and then flew away from the platform.
But Amon will not waste his time here. The Ink Feather Butterfly larvae have good climbing abilities, so he sent a few larvae to climb upwards to scout the way.
Through the perspective of the larvae, Amon's main body saw the vast white mist, the uneven rocks on the cliff wall, and the gaps in the rocks that could provide a place to rest. After climbing for a whole day, the split body finally reached the top of the cliff.
What came into view was a lush forest, with towering trees and dense branches and leaves, blocking the sunlight. The forest was somewhat dark and humid. Looking into the distance, the mountains were filled with a faint mist, revealing a sense of mystery.
More and more Worms of Spirit came to the top of the cliff. They spread out in a semi-circular pattern to scout the surrounding area. After confirming that it was safe, the main body parasitized an Ink Feather Butterfly larva and slowly climbed upwards.
Amon left a larva in the corpse on the protruding platform, living off the energy remaining in the heart of the corpse. This was a backup plan. Since the Ink Feather Butterfly would lay its eggs in this kind of place, it meant that it was relatively safe here, at least safer than the main body venturing into the forest.
After the main body climbed onto the cliff, the Worm of Spirit split bodies quickly devoured their hosts... The bodies of these Ink Feather Butterfly larvae were no longer useful. They were parasitized before because the Worms of Spirit were not good at climbing and needed to use their climbing abilities to climb the steep cliff.
Before obtaining more self-protection power, Amon did not plan to go too far. He now planned to first rely on hunting ordinary insects, birds, and other weak creatures to grow.
The "body size" of the split body cannot exceed one-tenth of the main body, but "body size" is a comprehensive measure of soul, physical body, and Dou Qi cultivation. Amon can specialize in one of these aspects as appropriate, while weakening the other two.
While maintaining a certain "body size," he can make the split body more prominent in a certain aspect, so that it can play a more significant role in specific situations.
The first stage of Dou Qi is the lowest level of existence in this Dou Qi Continent. In an environment like the Dou Qi Continent, even the most ordinary people will generally have one or two stages of Dou Qi.
Only some low-level small animals may not even have a single stage of Dou Qi. And the targets that Amon's Worm of Spirit split bodies want to hunt are precisely these lowest-level small animals.
Hunting them can not only be used as food to fill hunger, but also can devour their souls, allowing the soul to grow rapidly, specializing in this aspect.
Although devouring souls will make one's own soul mottled, it is only a split body, so it is not a big problem... The main body will not be affected as long as it does not aggregate and assimilate these split bodies.
Moreover, the main body's body size still accounts for a considerable proportion of the entire Amon's body size, enough to suppress the split bodies and ensure that the entire Amon's will does not deviate too much from the main body.
The Amons, in the form of worms, went out to hunt everywhere, hunting small mice, cockroaches, mantises, birds, and other creatures around them.
Gnawing on their flesh and blood, eating their souls.
Under efficient hunting, the souls of the Worm of Spirit split bodies began to grow rapidly. After the soul was strengthened, it became somewhat chaotic due to the mixing of too many impurities, but it still maintained the minimum level of stability.
If the soul of a person on the Dou Qi Continent fell into this state, it could basically be said that the person was already crazy... But for a visitor from the Mysterious, especially Amon, this was just normal.
A soul network composed of Worms of Spirit spread out, their sensitivity was greatly improved, and their ability to perceive danger was further enhanced.
The effective reconnaissance provided by the split bodies made the main body's situation safer, and Amon gradually gained a foothold.
The Amons had not yet reached the upper limit of their total body size, but they could not continue to expand, because the proportion of the main body's body size had dropped to a very dangerous level...
If the souls of the split bodies were very pure and their mental state was stable, then the proportion of the main body could be lower...
However, in order to develop himself as quickly as possible, the split bodies devoured souls without restraint, and their mental state was too chaotic. At this time, the weight of the main body must be maintained at a higher level, otherwise the chaotic split bodies may backfire on the main body.
It is like managing a group of people. The more unified the will of the managed and the manager, the less pressure the manager will have, and the more people they can manage. If the managed are all undisciplined and disobedient troublemakers, then the greater the pressure the manager will bear, and the fewer people they can manage.
The way of developing by devouring the souls of ordinary small animals such as mice, cockroaches, and ants is no longer suitable for Amon.
If he wants to continue to improve, he needs to find more powerful and more dangerous creatures to parasitize them, so as to obtain preliminary combat power.
The Worms of Spirit carefully avoided those overly powerful predators that they could not match at the moment, and searched for weak objects in the forest that could be parasitized.
Using soul power for exploration can be regarded as a very high-end method of perception, which is extremely rare among low-level existences, so the Amons have a great advantage in this regard.
In addition, the Worms of Spirit are small and good at concealing their aura. They did not encounter too much danger, and only two unlucky Worms of Spirit were discovered by passing magical beasts and eaten.
After a long search, a Worm of Spirit found its target. Although the opponent in its complete state was not something that Amon could covet now, he felt that if he waited, there might be an opportunity.
So he hid on a branch of a shrub and watched the front closely.
In front, two magical beasts were fighting. Judging from the energy fluctuations they emitted, both of them were first-order magical beasts, and they were also the weaker ones in the first-order.
One of them was a magical beast with black legs and a white back, with fangs in its mouth, looking like a honey badger.
The other was a colorful snake.
The honey badger's fur stood on end, making itself look a circle larger. These hairs are also a kind of protection. If it dodges in time, the snake may bite a mouthful of hair instead of injecting venom.
It walked around the colorful snake on its four short legs, making false attacks from time to time.
The colorful snake coiled its body and made a hissing threat. It obviously did not want to fight this strong enemy, but the other party did not seem to want to let it go, so it could only fight helplessly.
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