Chapter 469: New Will-O-Wisp
The Land of Death has the deepest darkness. It is the barrier area between the Ancient Universe Country and the center of the Extraterritorial Battlefield. However, except for the Ancient Universe Country and the Extraterritorial Battlefield, which are living areas, there is no light and life in other areas.
Rather than saying that the Land of Death is the dividing line between the two places, it is better to say that, except for the Ancient Universe Kingdom and the extraterritorial battlefield, all the dark borders belong to the Land of Death.
You never know where the boundary of the universe is, just like the darkness in the dead land, without boundaries and endless.
In such a borderless and lifeless place, a golden firebird has been frequently seen in the past year.
It seemed to be searching for something aimlessly in the dead land, but it never found it.
Damn Wu Qi...he actually stole the master's body to a place like the Land of Death!
There seemed to be a hint of the master's scent here, but where was it? Hey, the scent disappeared again... Finally, it raised its head and cried, flapped its wings, and disappeared into this dead place.
Suddenly, a few wisps of ghostly fire emerged from a rotten and black swamp.
There are seven will-o'-the-wisp clusters in total. The three red clusters, which are the size of a fingernail, are the lowest order and have the least energy. The two orange clusters have slightly more energy and are the second order, with a size of two fingernails.
There are two yellow clusters, the largest in size, about the size of two fists. These two clusters of will-o'-the-wisp are like overlords occupying one area each. As soon as they appear, the other five clusters of will-o'-the-wisp seem to be frightened and instantly retreat back to their original positions.
The two yellow ghost fires rushed towards the place where Jinwu had just been. There was fire energy there that attracted them.
The instinct of the will-o'-the-wisp is to absorb energy that can strengthen itself. Wherever the Golden Crow passes, there is rich fire energy. Just by absorbing a little, their bodies can become much stronger.
However, although the fire energy left by the Golden Crow was not the Golden Crow's fire, it also contained the breath of the Sun's true fire. If ordinary will-o'-the-wisp wanted to absorb it, it had to withstand the burning of the Sun's true fire.
The moment two fist-sized yellow will-o'-the-wisp flames rushed towards the fire energy, they melted at the touch. The yellow will-o'-the-wisp flames turned into dozens of smaller will-o'-the-wisp flames, each of which was less than one tenth of the original size.
The five clusters, three red clusters and two orange clusters of will-o'-the-wisp fires, which were originally frightened by the yellow will-o'-the-wisp fire and dared not come out, suddenly emerged from the cracks in the mud.
Survival of the fittest, big fish eat small fish. Although they are not as good as the yellow will-o'-the-wisp in terms of quality, when the yellow will-o'-the-wisp is in a state of complete victory, they can only end up being absorbed as nutrients.
But now it was different. The level of the yellow will-o'-the-wisp remained the same, but its size was much smaller. The five will-o'-the-wisp clusters seemed to have reached a consensus for the first time, and suddenly they all surrounded the smallest cluster of yellow will-o'-the-wisp.
Although the yellow will-o'-the-wisp was less than one-tenth of the original, it was still larger than the red and orange will-o'-the-wisp alone. But if five will-o'-the-wisp groups cooperated to besiege one of them, the outcome would be different.
As long as they can absorb one of the scattered yellow will-o'-the-wisp clusters, their own level can also evolve.
Red turns to orange, and orange turns to yellow.
They have no consciousness, no wisdom. All they have is a strange survival instinct. This is the law of the Dead Land. Survival of the fittest.
Finally, under the siege of five clusters of ghost fires, the smallest cluster of yellow ghost fire was defeated and was refined by the five clusters of ghost fires at the same time.
After the three clusters of red will-o'-the-wisp swallowed and absorbed some of the energy of the yellow will-o'-the-wisp, the red color gradually faded and slowly turned into an orange-yellow body.
However, the original orange-yellow will-o'-the-wisp did not change its level after absorbing the energy of the yellow will-o'-the-wisp, and it remained orange-yellow. It takes more energy for orange-yellow to transform into yellow.
This is far from enough.
But after the yellow will-o'-the-wisp spread out, it gathered again and turned back into the original two clusters of yellow will-o'-the-wisp, but one of them was one tenth smaller than the original one.
The five will-o'-the-wisp fires that had lost their chance hid again in shock. They were lucky to have absorbed a portion of it. If they were greedy, they would be absorbed instead.
It was a huge swamp filled with darkness. The air in the swamp was always full of life. In the swamp there were withered and rotten roots of strange plants, as well as the skeletons of many unknown creatures and animals.
Suddenly, at the edge of the swamp, a cluster of new will-o'-the-wisp fire slowly lit up from the skeleton of an unknown animal.
The newly born will-o'-the-wisp was weak and tiny, much smaller than a fingernail, as if it could be blown out by a breeze.
New will-o'-the-wisp fires had not appeared in this swamp for many years. However, once they appeared, the seven will-o'-the-wisp fires would chase after them and absorb them.
Its appearance was not only the target of the five small will-o'-the-wisp fires, but also the target of the yellow will-o'-the-wisp fire that had just lost one-tenth of its body.
As long as it absorbed it, it would be able to recover part of its body. If its body could not be restored, it would most likely become the target of the slightly larger yellow will-o'-the-wisp.
The newly born will-o'-the-wisp had an extremely faint red smoke. It seemed to smell a fire that excited it. So it jumped out of the skeleton and rushed to the location of the smoke left by the Golden Crow.
It jumped up and down like a firefly dancing in the night, flickering and disappearing. Suddenly, a cluster of orange will-o'-the-wisp twice as big as it suddenly appeared and was about to touch it.
The innate instinct to avoid danger made this new ghost fire immediately accelerate towards the location of fire energy.
However, its speed was not as fast as the orange will-o'-the-wisp, and it was soon caught.
This cluster of orange-yellow will-o'-the-wisp was advanced by absorbing a part of the yellow will-o'-the-wisp. As soon as it touched this cluster of new will-o'-the-wisp, it immediately extended its own will-o'-the-wisp energy into the red new will-o'-the-wisp.
Such pure energy! This new energy fascinated it.
But at this moment, the smaller cluster of yellow will-o'-the-wisp suddenly appeared from nowhere, instantly appeared behind the orange-yellow will-o'-the-wisp, and immediately penetrated into the body of the orange-yellow will-o'-the-wisp.
It was madly absorbing the energy of the orange-yellow will-o'-the-wisp, not even considering the newly born will-o'-the-wisp. Compared to the feast of the orange-yellow will-o'-the-wisp, the energy of the newly born will-o'-the-wisp was not even enough to fill its teeth.
After the new will-o'-the-wisp was rescued, its already weak body became even smaller than a hair. If it weren't for the fact that there was no light in the dead land, its body would have been impossible to be discovered.
The cluster of orange-yellow will-o'-the-wisp was right behind it and was being absorbed by another cluster of yellow will-o'-the-wisp.
Good opportunity!
If you want to survive in this swamp, you must strengthen your body.
So, it looked back and, while the yellow ghost fire was absorbing and devouring, it frantically snatched what it could of the orange-yellow ghost fire energy.
In just a short while, it grew from a will-o'-the-wisp as thin as a hair to gradually grow bigger, and finally its body became the size of a fingernail.
When the yellow will-o'-the-wisp that got a share of the pie found something wrong, the newly born will-o'-the-wisp would rather give up the remaining will-o'-the-wisp energy, and alertly rushed out a long distance in advance, finding a crack in the mud and crawling into it.
This swamp is a real thing, and will-o'-the-wisp cannot penetrate it. Therefore, if you find a place that suits you, you can avoid risks.
On the first day it was born, it knew how to survive.
The yellow will-o'-the-wisp had no choice but to give up chasing the will-o'-the-wisp that was trying to steal its spoils and return to its own home.
Its original size had not yet fully recovered, so it had to be careful to prevent another attack from a yellow will-o'-the-wisp.
After the newly born will-o'-the-wisp absorbed some of the energy of the orange-yellow will-o'-the-wisp, its size became as big as a fingernail, but it was still the weakest cluster in this dark swamp.
If it wants to survive, it must find a chance to become stronger! Surpass the largest yellow will-o'-the-wisp.
There was a familiar fire energy there that kept calling it, but it couldn't go out. It could feel that there was a cluster of energy that was much stronger than it was watching it.
The will-o'-the-wisps here devour each other and grow on their own. The larger the volume, the more energy it has.
Red is the lowest level, slightly higher than orange, and then yellow. The purer the energy, the faster the speed, and the speed will double when devouring the same kind.
The new will-o'-the-wisp was stirring in the black swamp, wanting to get closer to the fire energy and absorb it. For some reason, it always felt that as long as it absorbed the fire energy, its will-o'-the-wisp body would undergo a major change.
But at the same time, it could also clearly feel that there were six clusters of will-o'-the-wisp whose energy volume was much larger than hers, lingering and ambushing nearby.
Especially the two clusters of yellow will-o'-the-wisp. Although it has not come out now, it knows that as soon as it shows its head, it will be caught and swallowed by the yellow will-o'-the-wisp.
Can't take any chances.
There were four orange-yellow will-o'-the-wisp clusters besides the two yellow ones. Although the energy level was not as high as the yellow ones, this newborn was still no match for them.
The remaining fire energy was fierce and overbearing, like a bright light in this dark and silent place, making these energy entities yearn for it, even if it meant throwing themselves into the fire like moths.
The newly born will-o'-the-wisp hid in the mud and waited.
One day, two days, seven days, one month...
The two clusters of yellow will-o'-the-wisp were squatting outside the hiding place of the new will-o'-the-wisp with no sense of time.
Another month has passed.
The dead land is full of death energy, and foreign objects will eventually be assimilated or dispersed by it.
No matter how overbearing and powerful the fire energy left by the Golden Crow was, it began to dissipate.
The new will-o'-the-wisp was the first to feel the change in the fire energy. It was anxious, but so were the six will-o'-the-wisp clusters, including the yellow will-o'-the-wisp.
They have been waiting for thousands of years for a few new will-o'-the-wisp fires, and so far they have only risen to the yellow stage. This fire energy is too precious for them.
The two will-o'-the-wisp fires that were originally waiting patiently for the new will-o'-the-wisp to emerge and want to devour it could no longer hold back.
This swamp is so vast, and the will-o'-the-wisp born here cannot leave this swamp.
Then two clusters of yellow ghost fires appeared again next to the fire energy. With the experience from last time, they did not rush over to absorb it directly this time.
They worked hard to compress their will-o'-the-wisp to the smallest size at the edge of the fire energy, one on each side. This would reduce the consumption of the fire energy, and also allow them to rush into the fire energy more quickly to devour and absorb it.
However, just as they rushed into the fire energy together, the violent fire energy dispersed them again.
But this time, because the fire energy began to dissipate, it did not hit two clusters of will-o'-the-wisp in one blow like last time.
The complete cluster of yellow will-o'-the-wisp sensed something was wrong, and immediately separated part of its body and ran away.
As long as a part of the main body is not dead, the scattered main body can return again.
(End of this chapter)
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