Merging with Demon Spirits

Chapter 209: Chapter 169: Dragon Fish’s Abilities

Everyone present stared blankly at Lin Feng, their expressions incredibly colorful.

”Is he absorbing a soul skill?” Yu Qiao asked his teammates in amazement.

He watched Lin Feng directly slap that silver-white demon spirit into his chest, which is the position of the Middle Dantian, also known as the Soul Sea.

The teammates were also bewildered; Lin Feng hadn’t refined the demon spirit yet, so where did the idea of absorbing a soul skill come from?

If it’s not absorbing a soul skill, could it be refining a demon spirit?

Refining the lowest-level demon spirit, a First Grade demon spirit?

Even if this carp was chosen from millions of carp and had undergone some dragon transformation, making it a dragon fish, isn’t a dragon fish still a fish?

”Brother Feng?”

Yun Kai was also shocked. Compared to everyone’s guesses, he knew that Lin Feng had not refined a demon spirit before.

This meant Lin Feng wasn’t absorbing a soul skill; he was truly refining a demon spirit.

Refining a First Grade demon spirit?

Even if Lin Feng refined an Earth Chart demon spirit, or even a top ten Earth Chart demon spirit, Yun Kai wouldn’t be surprised.

But why a First Grade demon spirit?

A First Grade demon spirit, also called a wasted demon spirit.

Such a low-level demon spirit not only lacks innate skills but also lacks attribute damage.

On Awakening Day, many people refined a First Grade demon spirit.

But those people, just to get an extra five points on the college entrance exam, and some with extraordinary martial talent, would expel the demon spirit from their Soul Sea after the exam.

As long as the demon spirit is within the body, it absorbs soul power. If soul power isn’t cultivated, it will drain one’s spiritual power, making a person listless.

And a First Grade demon spirit has almost no attack power with no potential for future development; it’s better to give up on it and focus on martial arts training.

In the eyes of many, those who refine a First Grade demon spirit aren’t even qualified to be called a Demon Spirit Master.

”A carp?”

Dong Yunan murmured to herself; she never imagined that among the carp she treated today, one would be refined by Lin Feng.

How could it be a carp?

Dong Yunan had refined an Eighth Grade Sea Demoness, whose combat power in the ocean surpassed even Earth Chart demon spirits, capable of controlling low-level sea demon beasts, making carp a nonissue.

In Little Sister Dong’s eyes, Lin Feng was a demon fiend, whether in martial arts or soul cultivation, he was a monstrously talented genius.

Her father even told her that Lin Feng would undoubtedly become a nationally acclaimed prodigy.

Lin Feng himself claimed to have given up refining the Ninth Grade Purple Qilin on Awakening Day so he could refine an Earth Chart demon spirit!

Becoming the top scorer in the college entrance exam, Lin Feng became a household name as an unparalleled genius, with everyone anticipating when he would refine an Earth Chart demon spirit?

Since obtaining the First Throne in the Throne Challenge, becoming the top rookie on the Newcomer List, and breaking through to a Second Grade martial artist in a spectacular fashion, the hype reached its peak!

Everyone eagerly awaited Lin Feng to refine an Earth Chart demon spirit!

Witnessing the emergence of the nation’s most dazzling genius firsthand.

And now he’s refining a First Grade demon spirit!

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Little Sister Dong glanced at Yun Kai, and both saw the astonishment and deep concern in each other’s eyes.

Next, Lin Feng will inevitably face immense public pressure, likely a storm of ridicule and criticism.

At this moment, Dong Yunan finally understood why Lin Feng signed so many endorsements frantically and even a deal with Juxing before refining the demon spirit.

Clearly, it’s a strategic plan; the goal is likely to make a fortune.

Those advertisement companies, along with the Juxing Club, although they paid the money, surely wouldn’t let Lin Feng off the hook easily.

”Brother Feng has his plans!”

Yun Kai affirmed.

He believed that Lin Feng had a reason for giving up refining the Earth Chart demon spirit and choosing to refine this dragon fish.

This unique dragon fish surely isn’t that simple.

Under everyone’s gaze, Lin Feng quickly opened his eyes, a flash of fluorescence flickering by.

”What, surprised?” Lin Feng asked nonchalantly.

He had already refined that Dragon Fish.

In the past life, on Awakening Day, he couldn’t refine a Demon Spirit, not even a First Grade Demon Spirit.

But now, Lin Feng was already a Second Grade Martial Artist, and over the past six months, he had consumed hundreds of Soul Nourishing Pills. With his current Soul Power, even without using Secret Techniques, refining a First Grade Demon Spirit was not difficult.

”Not just surprised, but very surprised!” Yu Qiao said word by word.

Although he often talked nonsense and had a sharp tongue, Yu Qiao didn’t issue any sarcasm at this moment.

No matter how you put it, Lin Feng’s identity as a Martial Arts Demon Fiend was undeniable. Even if he couldn’t refine a Demon Spirit, becoming a Martial King in the future would not be hard. But without refining a Demon Spirit, he couldn’t become a strong contender of the Same Tier.

In truth, he admired Lin Feng quite a bit. He came from the slums and hadn’t yet refined a Demon Spirit but still climbed to the First Throne.

Although it’s unclear why Lin Feng refined that Dragon Fish, was it because he couldn’t refine a higher-level Demon Spirit, or did that Dragon Fish have something special?

”I can roughly tell from your operation earlier, a carp jumping over the dragon gate. The carp already possesses Dragon Race bloodline. You chose one with Dragon Race bloodline from over a million carps, and it’s rare to find a Thunder-Water Dual Attribute carp. But even so, it’s a First Grade Demon Spirit. Can it have the potential to develop? How many Tiers can it evolve to?”

Yu Qiao was very curious.

The talent of the Soul Sea is ruthless. Many Martial Arts geniuses can’t refine Demon Spirits or can only refine low-level ones. Such examples are too numerous to mention.

As a Martial Arts genius, yet can only refine low-level Demon Spirits, many people are unwilling to accept this. Those with good family backgrounds throw resources at it frantically, hoping to evolve the low-level Demon Spirit.

Even evolving to an Intermediate level is fine. As long as it reaches the Intermediate level and has five or six Soul Skills, that’s more than enough!

Among them, the most famous is someone named Xuan Hao.

This Xuan Hao is the son of the chairman of the Xuanting Conglomerate, which primarily deals in pills. With assets in the trillions, as the sole heir of the conglomerate, Xuan Hao has exceptional martial talent but only refined a First Grade Demon Spirit.

He refined a First Grade Black Armored Bull, whose power increased, but it had no talent skills and no attribute damage.

Unwilling to accept this, he posted on the Martial Artist forum: ’Spending billions, how many grades can a First Grade Demon Spirit evolve to?’ causing a national sensation.

He detailed on the Martial Artist forum how he nurtured the First Grade Black Armored Bull, astonishing countless netizens with the extravagance: apart from the Soul Nourishing Pills, a variety of rare resources were poured in.

From a First Grade Black Armored Bull to a Second Grade Strong Demon Bull, it took him three years and five billion in resources. From a Strong Demon Bull to a Third Grade Profound Iron Bull, it took eight years and eleven billion.

And from the Profound Iron Bull, no matter how many resources were poured in afterward—tens of billions in fact—he could not evolve it to the Fourth Grade. In the end, although he didn’t exhaust the entire billion, Xuan Hao had to give up in resignation.

Low-level Demon Spirits cannot evolve into Intermediate-level ones; this is a rule, with no exceptions.

”Low-level Demon Spirits are indeed very hard to evolve, or perhaps any Demon Spirit is hard to evolve. Compared to high-level Demon Spirits, low-level ones are actually easier in some ways.”

Lin Feng said, ”Advanced Demon Spirits have talent skills and are strong. Refining the same Demon Spirit, due to different attributes and Cultivation Techniques, along with future combat professions, the direction of nurturing varies greatly.”

”But even with different paths, the main route of Demon Spirit cultivation is quite similar. However, First Grade Demon Spirits are different. Being low-level means that as long as the attributes match, theoretically, it can absorb any Soul Skill. Its potential is the strongest, and you can’t predict what it will evolve into!”

Yu Qiao nodded, not arguing: ”Indeed, although I don’t know your plan and can’t predict the future growth and evolution direction of your Dragon Fish, however distinctive, no matter how much potential it has, it cannot become an Intermediate-level Demon Spirit; that’s an indisputable fact.”

Lin Feng was noncommittal and did not intend to explain.

Because even he himself could not predict whether his own ideas were feasible or not.

Today, Bu Zheng told him that the Dragon King’s invincibility was due to his self-created Cultivation Technique ”Fish Dragon Transformation.” At that time, Lin Feng thought, since this Cultivation Technique’s inspiration was watching the process of a carp transforming into a dragon, why couldn’t the refined Demon Spirit be a carp?

Compared to Dragon Race Demon Spirits, might a carp be more suitable?

A Thunder-Water Dual Attribute carp with Dragon Race bloodline and the ”Fish Dragon Transformation” Cultivation Technique—could it produce different results!

At this moment, when Lin Feng operated the ”Fish Dragon Transformation” Cultivation Technique, he could vaguely feel that the silvery-white carp in his Soul Sea was gradually undergoing some changes.

Everything was unknown, but it seemed highly feasible!

Of course, the primary reason Lin Feng chose a low-level Demon Spirit was that his Soul Power talent was too poor. Even if he was given a Dragon Type Demon Spirit, he couldn’t refine it.

Even if he could refine it with Secret Techniques, he wouldn’t choose to do so, because his Soul Power was insufficient. Just one Nightmare had already exhausted all his Soul Power. Consuming large quantities of Soul Nourishing Pills every day, if he added an Advanced Demon Spirit, his Soul Sea might directly collapse.

First Grade Demon Spirits, though low-level, have benefits. Being low-level, they don’t consume too much Soul Power.

Back then, when Ye Qiu refined the Dark Night Elf, even as a Soul Cultivation genius, he couldn’t simultaneously feed a Nightmare and a Ninth Grade Demon Spirit, which very likely hastened his time of death.

”Lin Feng, can you try a Demon Transformation? I’m very curious about the abilities of this carp, or rather this Dragon Fish,” Yu Qiao asked curiously.

First Grade Demon Spirits have no talent skills, but Lin Feng’s Dragon Fish, which used up seventy drops of True Dragon Blood and was selected from over a hundred carps, might have some peculiar abilities.

Not only was Yu Qiao curious, but everyone else was, too.

Under the curious stares of everyone, Lin Feng smiled and said, ”You want to see, then let me show you.”