Light Spring Murmur
Chapter 276: Variegated Islands
Shi Yu didn't know if this counted as a hint from the Sea Ruin.
But if the reincarnation of the Sea Sprite had fallen so far as to be reborn as a slime, that would be too tragic…
[Name]: Water Slime
[Attribute]: Water
[Race Level]: Mid-level Transcendent
[Race Skills]: Multiplication, Bubble
[Introduction]: A low-level water elemental creature formed from water elements. It is slow-moving, has low intelligence, has a single attack pattern, and an extremely unstable life form. Contracting is not recommended.
Shi Yu: "…"
Shi Yu was dazed when he thought of the Beast Tamers' evaluation of Water Slimes.
Indeed.
The Slime race, how should he put it?
Let's just say that even though it possesses a high-level skill, even against a novice Beast Tamer, as long as that Beast Tamer is experienced, it's difficult for the Slime to cause much trouble.
For example, Shi Yu had once easily defeated an Electric Slime above his level and copied Multiplication using insulated rubber gloves in a certain place.
They are too slow, only able to hop around. Any normal person is more agile than them.
Their intelligence is also low, similar to a Blue Silkworm. They basically have no chance of developing their race skills to a high level on their own.
In addition, their life form is extremely unstable. Before mastering the most Bug-like race ability of elemental lifeforms, "Elementalization," they will decompose into the corresponding element and die upon suffering a heavy blow. Their lives are extremely fragile. This is the reason they are rated as a Transcendent race.
Anyway, Shi Yu found it hard to imagine how a Slime could rely on a strong will to grow all the way to the Overlord level.
It wasn't impossible, but it was too difficult, less than a one in a hundred million chance.
No wonder the reincarnation of the Sea Sprite had fallen to this race… it hadn't been able to meet the inheritance conditions of the Sea Ruin.
Judging from the historical fragments, the minimum standard for receiving the Sea Sprite's ability inheritance should be the Overlord level. This was understandable. The Sea Sprite's ability must be very Bug-like. Just like Eleven and the others and Shi Yu couldn't withstand the teaching of super skills, if their strength and will were not enough, the reincarnation of the Sea Sprite might also find it difficult to withstand the inheritance of the Sea Sprite's race ability.
However, these were not things Shi Yu cared about at this time.
Since it was the reincarnation of the Sea Sprite's will, it meant that the reincarnated Slime should have a very high-level will.
That meant it could have super skills added to it.
With this evidence, what did it matter if the race was low? Infinite Devour was arranged, and a terrifying Slime Great Demon King would be born immediately.
To take a step back, even if it didn't have the will of an Overlord and wasn't the reincarnation of the Sea Sprite, because he had cultivated Eleven, Chong Chong, and Ginseng Baby, Shi Yu was confident that he could cultivate an ordinary Slime to be very Unscientific Beast Taming.
In short, he had a very strong confidence that he could help the reincarnation of the Sea Sprite reach the Overlord level. This was just the lowest achievement. With the skill index and the will of an Overlord, even cultivating the Sea Sprite into a Mythical level and letting it get rid of the shackles of infinite reincarnation, Shi Yu felt that it might not be impossible.
"Leave it to me."
Shi Yu drew a big cake for the Sea Ruin.
"But the problem is… there aren't 10 billion Water Slimes in this world, but there must be at least 1 billion. Where… where am I going to find them?"
The imagination was beautiful, but the reality made Shi Yu depressed.
Even if he could use the skill index to detect the will level of every Water Slime to determine if it was the reincarnation of the Sea Sprite, even if all the Slimes in the world lined up for him to test, he would have to test until the year of the monkey…
Moreover, it was impossible for them to really line up for him to test.
Shi Yu could only slowly search around the world, searching on dangerous ocean archipelagos. Not to mention the safety issue, the time spent would be a huge number. If the reincarnated Slime accidentally kicked the bucket during this period and was reborn into another race, Shi Yu would be even more tragic.
"Can you… give me another hint."
Buzz!
Perhaps it was Shi Yu's strong confidence that caused some changes in the Sea Ruin.
Outside.
Shi Yu quickly retreated from the historical observation state. Eleven and the others were staying on Shi Yu's body and hadn't reacted yet when they saw Shi Yu suddenly sucked into the Sea Ruin by a huge suction force.
"Damn…"
Shi Yu also didn't react. He only felt that this thing's suction was more ferocious than the Mutant Kun. Taking Eleven and the others with him, his body directly plunged into a huge pool of water.
Splash—
Countless streams of water rushed towards him.
Shi Yu felt a little suffocated.
When Shi Yu reacted again, he had already been ejected from the Sea Ruin.
"Ying!" "Wu!" "Yi!" "Mi!!"
Shi Yu hadn't found anything yet. He rubbed his eyes and spat out water, but at this time, the pets on Shi Yu's body screamed in surprise.
"What?"
He understood what Eleven and the others meant and couldn't help but open his eyes and look around. Before him was still the same Sea Ruin, but…
The location he was in was completely different from Clearspring Island!
Shi Yu was now located directly in a strange rainforest. The unfamiliarity of the surrounding environment made Shi Yu a little stunned.
Where was this?
Shi Yu used both the Archaeological Index and the Breeding Index to locate his current position, but found that he was no longer within the scope of Dong Huang's map. He couldn't judge where he was at all…
"Space teleportation?"
Shi Yu quickly looked at the Sea Ruin, his mouth slightly open.
"So, every Sea Ruin is really a projection of the internal ruin space…"
It was said that whether it was the Sea Ruin in Dragon Palace City or the countless Sea Ruins in various parts of the ocean, they were all projections of the internal Sea Mirage, all materialized mirages. There was only one real ruin, which was the internal space these water cubes led to.
This statement was recorded in the Archaeological Index, but Shi Yu didn't expect that the Sea Ruin could also be used as a teleportation point, allowing living beings to freely shuttle between various ruins.
However, Shi Yu was only stunned for a moment before quickly regaining his composure.
This wasn't anything beyond his understanding.
During the era of Emperor Kong, Emperor Kong had established space teleportation arrays all over the world. Although most of these space teleportation arrays were abandoned due to the inability to replenish energy after Emperor Kong's death, space teleportation arrays were real during a specific period of time, such as when a space-type legendary Beast Tamer existed.
The Sea Sprite's level was higher than that of a demigod. It knew many ocean totems and created a Sea Ruin that could be used as a space teleportation array. It didn't seem impossible.
"The Sea Ruin, has it teleported us to the location of this reincarnation… or has it teleported us to the place closest to the Sea Sprite's reincarnation?"
Shi Yu was slightly stunned. If this was the case, the difficulty of finding the Sea Sprite's reincarnation had indeed decreased a lot.
After all, he still remembered the general environment of the island just now. In addition, limiting the race to Slime made it much easier to find.
"Wonderful!!!"
Thinking of this, Shi Yu smiled.
"Yi Ya!!!" However, Ginseng Baby nervously reminded Shi Yu.
Except for the territory of the Seven Nations, other places were totem areas, the territory of totem-level creatures and overlord-level creatures.
Now, Ice Dragon Mom wasn't here, nor was Rich Woman Cat. Just a few rookies like them, was it really okay…
Could this Sea Ruin still smoothly teleport them back to Dragon Palace City?
"…"
Ginseng Baby's reminder made Shi Yu turn his head to look at the Sea Ruin with a subtle expression.
"I've already marked and located this place. Can you teleport us back first? We'll call some people and then come together to find the reincarnation."
"Hello? Hello!"
"Say something…"
Shi Yu: "…"
Why was this Sea Ruin suddenly unintelligent again?
Shi Yu thought that this guy was quite intelligent. He knew that the reincarnation was about to die and prepared to find someone to help, but now, it was shut down again?
Shi Yu tried to use the index to dial Senior Lu's phone… but… there was no signal.
This was very annoying!
Exploring the ruins was a dangerous activity. The ancients were right.
It directly teleported him from a very safe place to this inexplicable ghost place!!!!
"Forget it, since we're here, we'll take it easy. Now we don't have no strength at all. As long as we don't encounter a totem, we're not afraid of ordinary monarchs. If we encounter an overlord, we may not be able to escape. Just be careful, and go find the Sea Sprite's reincarnation first," Shi Yu said.
After speaking, he put the hesitant Ginseng Baby back into the Beast Taming Space.
"Stay there obediently. Don't come out during this period, lest you cause trouble for us."
[Ginseng Baby: ???]
"Ao!" "Wu!" "Mi!" Eleven, Chong Chong, and Chi Tong couldn't help but agree.
There might not have been any danger in the first place, but if they were wandering around with Ginseng Baby, there would definitely be danger.
"Chong Chong, I'll leave the reconnaissance work to you. First, see if there are any creatures on this island," Shi Yu said, "Be careful, don't use mental power to detect, use phantoms."
"Wu~~" Shi Yu gave the order, and Chong Chong immediately understood. In an instant, it created hundreds of small flying insects that were invisible to the naked eye with Illusory Phantom and began to fly in all directions.
At the same time, Shi Yu let Little Chi Tong obediently drill into his body and dye the thing red.
And he put Eleven on his shoulder, so he would feel safe.
Shi Yu also chatted with the Sea Ruin in place for a few minutes.
He was very worried now and didn't know how Dragon Palace City would react after discovering that he was missing.
The appearance of a Poison Dragon Totem was probably enough to give them a headache, and if he was lost again…
"I hope we can figure out where this is and find a way back as soon as possible," Shi Yu said silently in his heart.
However, since he had come, he still had to prioritize finding that fated Slime. Shi Yu had already decided that this guy was his fifth pet!
…
This island was not without any creatures.
However, the creatures on the island were very special.
While Chong Chong's reconnaissance insects were flying, they saw many colorful poisonous frogs, poisonous mushrooms, and poisonous insects living on the island.
It was as if this island was a paradise for poison-type creatures.
But fortunately, Chong Chong discovered that the growth level of these poisons was not high, and basically none of them exceeded the commander level. This was a good thing, so the chances of Shi Yu and the others encountering danger here were much lower.
"Wu (Little Snake)!!!"
The strongest creature that the phantom reconnaissance insects created by Chong Chong found after flying around the island was nothing more than a monarch-level Myriad Poison Python.
In the dense rainforest, in a damp cave, a colorful giant python that was more than ten meters long narrowed its eyes, as if it was resting.
Myriad Poison Python, a monarch-level poison-type creature. It was said that its body contained more than 10,000 kinds of toxins.
At this time, this Myriad Poison Python was indeed sleeping. Taking advantage of this good opportunity, the phantom insects created by Chong Chong drilled into its body together, and the Dream Stealing skill was activated.
"How long will it take?" Far away from the Myriad Poison Python, Shi Yu turned to ask Chong Chong.
"Wu!!" Chong Chong said ten minutes.
Chong Chong was an all-purpose tool pet. In addition to being able to transform into various means of transportation, it was also very proficient in various professional skills.
For example, no one was faster than it when it came to cleaning the house, and no skill was better than the Empty Thought Domain when it came to training pets as a teacher.
It could also guest star as a chef, a photographer, and even Ginseng Baby's gardener.
Right now, it was obvious that the Intelligence Officer Chong Chong was online.
It directly used the Illusory Phantom as a medium to use the Dream Stealing skill to invade the Myriad Poison Python's dream and attempted to steal valuable memories from its fragile dream's subconscious.
Dream Stealing, which had been maxed out, could even steal super skills from ancient fossils and give them to dream phantoms, not to mention the memories of a Myriad Poison Python.
The information that Shi Yu and the others wanted to know from the Myriad Poison Python this time was also very simple, which was the surrounding environmental information…
This Myriad Poison Python, as the strongest transcendent creature on this island, should know more about the surrounding geographical environment…
Generally speaking, after transcendent creatures reached the monarch level, as long as they weren't those extremely special races, their IQs were not inferior to humans.
This Myriad Poison Python was nearly a hundred years old and should have ruled this area for a long time. It should know everything it needed to know.
"Wu~~" After a moment, Chong Chong sent a message to Shi Yu.
"Wu~~"
First of all, this area was called the Mottled Islands, which was a no-man's land with a total of 29 islands.
The reason why it was a no-man's land was because there had been a forbidden weapon war here during the last totem war, which caused the surrounding sea area to be completely polluted. Basically no high-level creatures occupied this place as their territory.
The Mottled Islands also got their name at that time, because the seawater at that time was basically mottled in color and belonged to a biological forbidden area.
Although the pollution had naturally faded a lot after hundreds of years, it was still a no-man's land. The strongest was only monarch-level lifeforms. These monarch-level lifeforms each occupied an island as their territory, and then these islands formed the entire archipelago.
And this island was called Poison Fang Island, which was the territory of the Myriad Poison Python.
"Mottled Islands?" Shi Yu fell into deep thought.
He hadn't heard of it, but there were indeed many polluted places born because of forbidden weapons. The most important thing was that they were rarely mentioned…
In the early stage of the development of the mechanical system, the research and development of forbidden weapons was not yet mature. Compared with the current various pollution-free special forbidden weapons that could trigger natural energy, the forbidden weapons at that time usually liked to add some toxic substances.
In this way, cooperating with self-destruction could give the most serious damage to those overlords and totems after hurting them.
However, in this way, the pollution to the environment was also difficult to eradicate.
The poison system was still very Bug. As long as the opponent didn't have detoxification abilities, poison-type creatures were also small experts at fighting beyond their level. It was too common for low-level creatures to kill high-level creatures.
"Wu~~" Chong Chong continued to steal the Myriad Poison Python's dream information.
Although this was a no-man's land, there seemed to be traces of human activity. Pirate ships would occasionally pass through the Mottled Islands and stop on some islands. However, those who had fallen to the point of becoming pirates were not very strong, at most master-level. They basically wouldn't have conflicts with these island kings, and everyone had been living in peace.
But unfortunately, the Myriad Poison Python didn't know which force these pirates came from.
"Does it know Dragon Palace City??" Shi Yu asked.
Chong Chong searched for a moment and then revealed a happy expression.
"Wu!!"
This long worm actually knew.
Because 50 years ago, a Overlord-level Poisonous Flood Dragon was born in the Mottled Islands and unified the Mottled Islands. In order to improve its bloodline, it hoped to lead the Mottled Islands to join Dragon Palace City and obtain the protection of Dragon Palace City, so it went to Dragon Palace City.
But unfortunately, after that overlord went… it never came back.
The monarchs of the Mottled Islands all guessed that if that overlord didn't die on the way, it was because the environment of the Mottled Islands was too bad and Dragon Palace City didn't accept it. However, the overlord wanted to join Dragon Palace City to find an opportunity to improve its bloodline, so it stayed in Dragon Palace City and gave up the islands.
"Overlord-level Poisonous Flood Dragon… I haven't heard of it either, but since Dragon Palace City can still manage this place, it means that this place shouldn't be very far from Dragon Palace City."
Shi Yu suddenly became happy.
"What about the slime, are there any islands with slimes!"
"Wu!!" Chong Chong nodded heavily, it also had this.
Most of the islands in the Mottled Islands were occupied by poison-type creatures, but there was one island that was very special.
The island king was a water-type elemental lifeform, the monarch-level Clearspring Sprite King, which had only risen in the past decade.
Under its jurisdiction and purification, that island was different from other islands. The environment was quite beautiful.
Among them, many water elemental creatures lived on that island. There were a large number of Water Slimes, all of whom were the Clearspring Sprite King's people.
But the problem was that the Clearspring Sprite King was constantly in conflict with other island kings, probably because the individual was too special, and the lives of the island and other islands often collided…
"It should be this island. Let's go." After getting the information, Shi Yu took a deep breath, and his body slowly floated up, saying, "Chong Chong, you lead the way."
"You've made the greatest contribution to finding the Sea Sprite's reincarnation so quickly this time! I'll reward you with double the training when we get back and strive to develop the will of an overlord as soon as possible!"
Chong Chong: ???
Although striving to develop the will of an overlord as soon as possible was what it wanted, why did this reward sound so wrong?
"Ying." An envious voice came from Shi Yu's shoulder.
Chong Chong: ???
Damn it, it's too competitive…