It was not like what Zhang Mu had imagined, that the Obsidian would use its agility to dodge. There was no sign of its speed being slowed down. Within just five seconds, all the mutant beasts it came into contact with were either cut in half by its iron-like wings or torn into pieces.
Occasionally, a few fish that escaped the net would rush into the range of 50 meters from Zhang Mu and be easily sucked into mummies by the Blood Vine Lotus. However, since it could only watch the Obsidian Worm kill, it seemed a little impatient.
However, its body grew in Zhang Mu's arm and could not extend out at all. It could only watch the obsidian worm kill to its heart's content and then enjoy the mutant beasts and their beast cores of different flavors.
Zhang Mu felt relieved when he saw this. It seemed that he had underestimated the lethality of the Obsidian Worm after it was upgraded. It was not only powerful in the state just now.
At this moment, Zhang Mu had already quietly eaten ten soul crystals, and he suddenly felt an inexplicable throbbing in his heart.
Is it finally here? The opportunity to advance to the second level!
His soul, which had been tempered for such a long time, felt a little numb, but now the opportunity for advancement had finally come. He suddenly perked up and felt every bit of change in his body.
All of a sudden, he felt that every cell in his body was calling for energy. It was a hungry feeling, wanting to absorb energy from the inside out, greedily peeling it off from the air.
Zhang Mu knew that this was a natural reaction when his perception of ability had reached a bottleneck and his body needed to advance. A person's awakening ability was like water, and his body was a container. When the water was saturated, if the container did not increase its volume, it would explode like a dam breaking.
This is also the reason why those who advance through awakening abilities are so much stronger than those who advance normally, because the volume required at the moment of advancement is far greater than normal.
Therefore, advancement is an extremely dangerous thing, but Zhang Mu is confident enough. The energy in the air is naturally scarce, and is far from enough for advancing from the first level to the second level.
However, he now has tens of thousands of first-level crystals stored in his Epoch Merchant Ring!
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Under normal circumstances, a first-order evolver only needs about one thousand first-order crystals to succeed when advancing directly, and when evolving to the second order through awakening ability, at least three thousand crystals are needed, and there is no upper limit.
Because the amount of Yuan Crystal energy required for each person's ability is different, it doesn't necessarily mean that the more you need, the stronger your ability will be, but it is always better to have some extra prepared.
He put the few remaining soul crystals on the ground into the Epoch Merchant Ring. He probably wouldn't need them this time, so he could give them to Yuan Rui after he completed his advancement. Even if the number was not enough for Yuan Rui to comprehend a new additional ability, it was enough to make up for the mental loss she suffered from the nightmare worm this time.
Moreover, Zhang Mu felt that these soul crystals could at least enhance Yuan Jing's mental defense to the point where he could ignore the dreams created by the nightmare bugs just now.
After collecting the soul crystals, Zhang Mu directly counted out 10,000 Yuan Crystals from the Epoch Merchant's ring this time, and immersed himself in the ocean of Yuan Crystals. Even the position of the Blood Vine Lotus was squeezed out by the ocean of Yuan Crystals.
The moment Zhang Mu summoned the Yuan Crystal, his body sensed the source of energy and frantically absorbed energy from the Yuan Crystal like a whale swallowing water.
The layer of Yuan Crystal that was closest to Zhang Mu's body instantly turned into powder, and then new Yuan Crystals kept sticking to Zhang Mu involuntarily and being absorbed.
Every meridian of his was now saturated with the most original energy, which was being digested by his hungry body in big gulps. Now his mental strength no longer had any fluctuations, and Zhang Mu was waiting for his body to be saturated.
In the blink of an eye, the 3,000 Yuan Crystals needed for the evolutionary ability were completely absorbed by Zhang Mu, and he could clearly sense that these were far from enough. The Yuan Crystal ocean around him was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
His whole body was swollen and full of strength, even though it didn't belong to him yet.
As time passed, Zhang Mu felt that he had almost reached his limit. He opened his eyes and looked around, and found that his surroundings had turned into white powder, with only about a thousand intact Yuan Crystals left.
Lying quietly in the white powder.
Zhang Mu felt sad that he had used nearly nine thousand Yuan Crystals in the process of advancing from the first stage to the second stage. However, this also proved the domineering nature of using the spiritual awakening ability to advance.
Now is the time to make the final push. Zhang Mu closed his eyes again.
The mental power accumulated in his brain and the energy accumulated in his body have now reached the bottleneck of what he can contain, so he began to struggle to mobilize this energies that were about to overflow.
Crack, his brain seemed to split open. This kind of pain is not something that ordinary people can endure.
Even though Zhang Mu had been tempered for a long time, his brain was really bursting open. The feeling was like an explosion, but Zhang Mu knew that this was the last step in his breakthrough and he had to hold back.
His expression, which had not shown any emotion just now, now slowly began to show a hint of ferocity, but he could only silently grit his teeth and not relax. If he relaxed now, all his efforts would be in vain and he would be doomed.
Fortunately, Zhang Mu had received a lot of training in his mental strength in the past period of time. First it was Zero, then the nightmare worm, and finally the energy of more than a dozen soul crystals just now. He managed to withstand this breakthrough.
Having withstood the most violent wave, he felt completely relaxed, feeling his mental power slowly merging into the expanded brain area, feeling his meridians being stimulated to absorb the energy just stored and becoming stronger and tougher. He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it was really not easy.
He could now understand the pain that the Obsidian Worm had felt when it was advancing, and he really didn't want to go through it a second time.
After everything in his body settled down, Zhang Mu stood up suddenly. He looked at his hands. Although there seemed to be no changes, he could sense the explosive power hidden in them.
However, the changes in the body's functions were not the most important thing. Zhang Mu immediately wanted to know what kind of mental abilities he had comprehended during this advancement?
He began to mobilize the huge mental power stored in his brain and released it to the outside world.
It’s actually this?
(End of this chapter)