Lin Qian was heading southeast, actively collecting spirit beasts. He basically collected any beast that wasn't too useless in terms of supernatural abilities or had a bad temperament.
Even so, after more than ten days, only three more spirit beasts appeared: a family of moles, a pair of moles with a small, grayish-white mole.
The family's superpowers are all of the same lineage, all earth-based, possessing the power of earth-遁 (earth-escaping), which is very compatible with their race.
By this time, most of the spirit beasts had already migrated with the ordinary animals. Those that remained behind were mainly due to insufficient strength, deliberately hiding at the back and moving slowly in order to avoid danger.
Little did they know that after dodging wave after wave of beasts, they would be caught by the newcomers, after all, they had waited a long time before daring to set off.
You should know that they had been hiding for a long time to avoid other spirit beasts, and only emerged when they had no food or water and could no longer hold on.
After asking around, Lin Qian learned that this family was also a "timid" and "weak" spirit beast, with characteristics exactly the same as the thrush.
Although I'm not entirely satisfied, there's nothing I can do about it. I'll just have to collect as many as I can for now. The mole family's special ability is quite useful; digging tunnels is definitely a great application.
During this time, Lin Qian thought of the spirit beasts on the Great Snow Mountain more than once, especially the larger ones that they had caught and used as food...
If only I had resisted eating it back then, I could have saved it!
Those are all labor and combat power!
You should know that back then, in order to get a few more bites of meat, their whole family would target and catch large spirit beasts.
There's no going back now, and it's too late for Lin Qian to regret it; those spirit beasts have long since turned into fertilizer.
Inside the vine-covered house, the little mole has also become a regular resident of the air-conditioned room.
Although this little creature joined later, it is the youngest in the team. It is currently only a level one spirit beast, and it has only recently broken through and does not have much spiritual power stored up. It cannot use spiritual power to resist the heat for a long time.
It was precisely because the baby mole was too weak that the mole couple hid with their child, not daring to leave with the migrating herd of beasts. Although their abilities were suitable for escaping and saving their lives, the baby mole would be in danger if they encountered a powerful spirit beast.
The thrush flew with the flock for a while, then quietly landed on the vine-covered house to rest. Its eyes were full of longing as it looked at the house, but it knew it was not worthy.
The thrush is not a little mole; it is capable of traveling on its own, and Lin Qian will not make an exception for it.
While the vine house is wonderful, not every spirit beast can enjoy it.
Bai Teng also disliked its territory being too crowded, and it wouldn't have let the little mole in if it weren't for the little mole's real need.
After all, this is its original structure. Nobody likes to be covered in ornaments. Those who like them can accept it, but those who don't will just want to remove them.
The little mole was very uneasy being separated from its parents and all alone. But despite its fear, it didn't dare to shout or even move much. It huddled in a corner, wishing it could be invisible.
The chipmunk didn't seem to care much about the little mole; although they both had a mouse, it didn't really matter.
Chipmunks belong to the squirrel family, while moles belong to the mole family; they're not even related.
Moles are a collective term for animals belonging to the family Moridae in the order Somatoformes.
Moles are short and stout with dark brown fur and pointed snouts. They have well-developed forelimbs with outward-facing feet and sharp claws, which are well-suited for digging. They live in burrows during the day and come out at night to hunt insects.
Moles have an unusual sense of smell, enabling them to distinguish the scents of different foods in three-dimensional space, making them a mammal with a three-dimensional sense of smell.
Now that the mole family are spirit beasts, their abilities in this area have naturally been enhanced. However, compared to the earth-burrowing ability they awakened from their racial talents, it seems somewhat dispensable.
This is similar to how Lin Qian's claws are now incredibly sharp, but they are not superpowers; rather, they are enhancements to his original body.
This is true for almost all living beings. In addition to superpowers, the originally powerful parts of their bodies are also strengthened, becoming stronger and stronger in the process of evolution.
Of course, intelligence does not seem to fall under the category of physical enhancement. Putting aside the issue of spirit beasts gaining intelligence, Lin Qian did not observe any trend of increased intelligence among human ability users.
Putting everything else aside, the mountain wind is always blowing around, yet this kid's intelligence hasn't changed at all.
Now the mountain wind is moving on its own. It is no longer the weak human boy it once was. After successfully breaking through to the third level of superhuman, it is now able to withstand the heat on its own.
After undergoing breakthrough tempering and evolution, his body has become more than ten times stronger, and now his physical strength and speed are not much worse than those of spirit beasts.
In terms of physical evolution, spirit beasts are naturally stronger than humans. In terms of physical strength alone, ordinary humans are not as good as fierce beasts like tigers and leopards. After evolution, the physical strength of superhumans will naturally not surpass that of spirit beasts of the same level.
Unless one's special abilities and evolutionary direction are biased towards this aspect, or one consciously tempers oneself, like Lin Qian and others who consciously temper their meridians and acupoints, long-term accumulation can lead to changes and enhancements.
Under normal circumstances, humans are one level lower than spirit beasts in terms of physical strength.
For example, Shanfeng, who has just broken through to level three, only has the physical strength of a level two spirit beast.
Three days later, looking at the dried-up riverbed, Lin Qian's eyes showed a trace of regret. He remembered that the great river marked on the map was a famous river in the Xia Kingdom, but it had already dried up.
The spirit beasts looked at the riverbed with a hint of sadness in their eyes, a fear and sorrow they felt as wild animals in the face of natural disasters.
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