Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 4 New Form (2)
After we agreed on the terms, I put away the "Millennium Fire Lotus" and rushed to the "Blood Pool" with Qingwu Feiyang, summoning the blood lich Temur to perform the "First Embrace" on her. The third-ranked "Blood Transformation" ability can also last for 25 minutes, but it is slightly inferior to the second-ranked one in terms of the effect of improving basic mental strength. Qingwu Feiyang never mentioned the specific improvement ratio, so I naturally had no way of knowing. As for the fourth-ranked "First Embrace" right, she hasn't decided on a target yet, and I'm not in a hurry to use it anyway, so I'll let her "deposit" it with me for the time being and save it for later use.
After bidding farewell to Qingwu Feiyang, the next step is to determine the candidate who will absorb the energy of the "Millennium Fire Lotus" to cope with the upcoming "Immersion Qualification Challenge". Khufu, who has already evolved into a pharaoh, naturally does not need to add icing on the cake. The lucky winner will be among Taotao, Hader, Daxiu and Guben. The strongest among them should be the necromancer Hader, but the one with the most development potential is none other than the fire-winged ghost horse Taotao. As a "super pet" given by the dead old man , it has a relatively rare dual-attribute physique. The reason why it is relatively lagging in development and has entered a "bottleneck" state and has been unable to start the fourth evolution is mainly because I am unwilling to absorb too much soul energy of dark-attribute undead creatures at the cost of weakening the fire attribute to achieve evolution for the purpose of balanced development of the two attributes of darkness and fire. According to the dead old man's suggestion, this will benefit for a while, but it will affect the strength after evolving into the ultimate form. Because of many restrictions on the "Hell Volcano", the absorption of fire attribute energy is not enough, so Taotao's development has been delayed, which is not up to its reputation as a "super pet".
With Hader and Taotao's current state, if they can absorb the energy of the "Millennium Fire Lotus", they should be able to start evolving immediately. Although Hader's strength may be higher after evolution, Taotao has the advantage of being a pet. Considering the long-term, it should be allowed to evolve. Time is running out, and I dare not delay any longer. I hurriedly summoned Taotao, opened my mouth and bit the "Millennium Fire Lotus", and began to absorb the energy contained in it. Waves of red light flowed, and it could be seen faintly that it was flowing into Taotao's mouth. Gradually, the whole body also emitted more and more intense red light.
This continued for seven or eight hours. Taotao suddenly slowed down the speed of absorption and turned around to rush towards the "Hell Volcano". The energy accumulated in its body had reached the critical point. Once it absorbed all the energy in the "Millennium Fire Lotus", it would soon begin to evolve. According to its nature, it made the most favorable choice - immersing in the "Hell Magma Pool" to evolve, so as to achieve the best evolution effect. Although as a dual-attribute undead creature, Taotao does not have to rely on the "Hell Magma Pool" to continuously provide energy like Khufu and Hader to ensure the successful completion of the evolution, but in order to enhance its strength as much as possible to cope with the June immersion qualification challenge, I did not stop its actions - Taotao is not a native volcanic undead, nor is it going to evolve to the top form. It also has a close relationship with the Nether Dragon Clan. Hades cannot deliberately "harm" it. It can't be too obvious, like last time with Khufu, and "transfer" it to the "magma cave entrance"?
At the top of the "Hell Volcano", after another five or six hours, Taotao finally absorbed all the energy from the "Millennium Fire Lotus" and immediately jumped into the "Hell Magma Pool" to begin evolving. Naturally, I continued to take on the responsibility of providing it with a steady stream of spiritual power. Being in the Terror Knight area, I took the time to subdue the Terror Earth Dragon Knight while urging the "Touch of Death" to replenish spiritual power. Of course, in order to prevent "emergencies" like the last time, I still dispatched 5,000 Terror Knights to the vicinity of the "Hell Volcano" in advance, so that I could immediately withdraw and rush over when the situation required it.
Regardless of the considerations, as I expected, this time Hades, the Dark Dragon King, did not "send" Taotao to the dangerous "magma cave" for evolution, so that I did not have to endure the test of "forgetting food and sleep" again. Of course, he would not let me off so easily, and still made some adjustments. According to Taotao's judgment, at least 20% of the magma energy was "withheld", so that I still had to provide more mental power than usual to ensure that Taotao completed the evolution successfully.
During this period, Qingwu Feiyang found me and used the fourth-ranked "First Embrace Right". The beneficiary was as I expected, a dwarf wizard who was not the best in strength but was conscientious and "helpful". He was ambitious and wanted to win over this guy who was quite popular my territory to explore secrets, but they also secretly "monitored" my actions. Moreover, their "scouts" were very active, and they should be targeting the vampire bats. At the same time, through Xiaobai's reconnaissance in the sky, a blood wizard's habitat was also found in a rather secret place not far from Tianxing's territory. However, in order to preserve his strength to cope with the expedition to the "Valley of the Wind" that was about to begin according to the agreement, he did not act rashly, but mainly focused on reconnaissance and surveillance. At the same time, he always arranged undead wizards to patrol nearby, probably to prevent other forces from getting involved.
It took fourteen days. Apart from deducting energy from the beginning to the end, Hades did not use any other means to interfere. Under my full protection, Taotao finally completed the fourth evolution. I personally came to the foot of the "Hell Volcano" to welcome its "new life". At this time, it finally got rid of the "horse shape" it had always maintained and grew into another kind of strange existence. The body is still made entirely of bones, and the whole body is fiery red. Although the height is still about two meters and five, the proportion of the body has increased. The head is big and the body is fat. The four legs have become shorter, appearing more sturdy and powerful. The bones in the claws are sharp and can be stretched freely, which obviously has a strong aggressiveness. A pair of fiery red bone wings and the conical bone spur on the head are still preserved, but the bone wings look more solid. When they are waved casually, a layer of fine flames is faintly lingering. The two-foot-long bone spur on the forehead has changed from white to fiery red. In it, one can clearly see a long dragon that looks very much like the one in Eastern mythology and legends circling and dancing in the raging flames, as if it may break out of the body at any time.
