Chapter 249

In this peculiar plane filled with boundless white mist and lacking gravity perception.

Jie Ming, carrying his five Black Giants who were currently clumsily piloting temporary flying wizard tools, was galloping and flying towards the distance.

This plane discovered by wizards is simply an unpolished jade.

It has no resistance, as if it were a fat piece of meat waiting to be slaughtered!

It is truly the best place for wizards to collect rare materials, capture high-quality slaves, and fill biological resources.

However, the means of those wizards to search and collect materials were too cruel and efficient, which could be called "not leaving a blade of grass."

Jie Ming's initial action was a bit slow, and as a result, he couldn't even eat the soup behind.

So, he simply gave up that area that had been over-developed, left that area, and flew towards further places, intending to go to a real "undeveloped area" first before carrying out his looting plan.

In fact, it wasn't just Jie Ming; many experienced wizards also had such thoughts.

So soon, all the wizards scattered and separated in different directions assigned to them, covering this plane like spreading a net.

However, facts proved that this method was indeed good!

Flying in a certain direction for more than half a month in a row, Jie Ming had a fruitful harvest along the way.

He captured many types of zero-gravity creatures with strange characteristics, each of which was full of research value.

On this day, during the flight, Jie Ming's eyes moved slightly.

He raised his head and looked in a certain direction on the other side.

Just now, his Five Elements Rainbow Mirror fed back information, using the "Reconnaissance Eye" to detect that there was a large group of flying creatures with a large number drifting slowly passing by several hundred kilometers away.

He immediately changed direction and turned towards that side with the Black Giants.

Soon, he saw a group of huge white "clouds" that blended in with the surrounding environment.

These "clouds" looked very "standard," feeling as if some creator was lazy and batch-copied and pasted them in an animation.

Each "cloud" carried the same faint light halo and approximate drifting trajectory, but these clouds would gather together, entangle with each other, until they formed a large cloud mist, looking like a large cloud from afar.

But if you observe carefully, you will find that this huge cloud mist is actually "solid"!

And occasionally a "cloud" would quietly stretch out cloud-like wings transformed from pure wind elements from both sides of the body of that huge "cloud mist."

These tiny wings flapped gently together, allowing the entire cloud mist to fly forward.

Obviously, these were not real clouds, but a group of "Cloud Monster" biological colonies that looked extremely similar to "clouds"!

Jie Ming's eyes lit up when he saw this scene!

Although the rules in each plane are different, many times, some basic truths are universal.

Just like these "Cloud Monsters" now, since they want to mimic the appearance of "clouds" and are a large group active together in a gathering way.

That shows that they are in a relatively low position in the food chain of this area and belong to the group being preyed upon.

Although generally speaking, "hunting" high-level creatures makes their materials more valuable.

But for Jie Ming, even these low-level creatures have their own uses.

—Especially for Black Giants.

"Go! It's feeding time!"

Jie Ming issued an order to the Black Giants behind him through his soul link.

The Black Giants who received the order immediately erupted with powerful energy, flying out like five wild beasts off the leash, rushing towards that group of "clouds"!

In terms of straight-line advancement, the Black Giants' speed was extremely fast, rushing into the "Cloud Monster" colony in the blink of an eye.

Its massive, iron-like black chest and abdomen actually split open a crack vertically from the top of the head to the abdomen!

This huge vertical crack revealed the internal cavity inside the Black Giant that radiated heat like molten metal.

The most terrifying thing is that the edges of the crack were densely arranged with terrifying black teeth composed of obsidian and quenched refined steel!

This vertical crack is exactly the mouth of the Black Giant after transformation!

And the scene that followed was not a surprise attack at all, but a feast!

"Roar—!"

In a wild roar, the Black Giants rushed into the Cloud Monster group, crazily gnawing on these "clouds" that were fleeing in panic!

Its movements were simple and rough.

The huge body was like a high-speed rotating meat grinder, crashing directly into the Cloud Monster colony.

The Black Giants didn't even bother to launch attacks, and the "giant mouth" that split open on the chest and abdomen kept opening and closing in this process!

Each bite carried cold chill and violent tearing force!

Those slightly smaller "Cloud Monsters" couldn't even wail, and were directly dragged into the oral cavity by the powerful suction force.

Being instantly shredded and swallowed by that scorching internal cavity and sharp teeth!

And those slightly larger "Cloud Monsters" fell into chaos and panic, attempting to counterattack through collision and tearing.

But the power of their resistance was simply not worth mentioning to the Black Giants!

The Black Giant's giant mouth kept chewing and swallowing these creatures, and the black liquid-like flames on its body surface flowed more violently at this moment!

Every time it swallowed, one could see strands of light cyan wind element energy pouring into the Black Giant's body, being quickly absorbed and transformed by its special digestive system.

In order to speed up the feeding progress, the Black Giants' robust hands kept intercepting the white Cloud Monsters from the surroundings and sending them into their mouths.

Jie Ming floated not far away, taking advantage of this opportunity to capture several "clouds" that were trying to escape as biological samples.

After sealing them, he stored them in the space within his body.

Looking at the actions of the five Black Giants not far away, Jie Ming's expression was a bit strange.

After all, seeing black humanoid creatures constantly "picking" clouds in a group of white cotton-like Cloud Monsters would always make people have some associations about some automatic agricultural harvester.

"Cough cough cough—.. hmm—.. now is not the time to think about this."

Shaking his head, Jie Ming began to observe the situation of the Black Giants carefully.

He could clearly feel that the energy of each Black Giant was constantly increasing after swallowing.

Especially those four Tier 2 Black Giants, their growth speed, which was originally somewhat stagnant, also began to accelerate again!

The predecessor of the Black Giant—the Lava Giant itself possesses a special digestive system that is different from ordinary elemental creatures and can be called unique.

They can provide energy for themselves by digesting the flesh and blood of biological bodies, accelerating their growth time, and even increasing the possibility of their promotion!

And Jie Ming did not let the Black Giant give up this ability.

Even in the design of the Black Giant, it became more important!

If "thermal energy absorption technology" and "energy property transformation technology" are the "skeleton" of the Black Giant composed at the energy law level, then the "energy absorption and transformation system" provided by the Lava Giant's "digestive system" after Jie Ming's transformation is the most important "core" of the Black Giant composed at the energy circulation level!

And in order to let the Black Giant better utilize this characteristic, Jie Ming even found a method from the "Great Dao Book Pavilion" in the cultivation system that can strengthen itself through eating and swallowing—"Five Viscera Sacrifice God Technique."

After localizing it with the experience of transforming body-refining methods, Jie Ming applied the relevant technology to the Black Giant's digestive system.

Making its swallowing efficiency reach a new height.

At this moment, an anomaly occurred!

Just when the Black Giants were feasting, a group of "clouds," seeing that they could not escape, chose the most decisive counterattack in panic and anger—self-detonation!

Although the explosion of these creatures had no fire light, the pure wind elements inside were detonated, instantly producing a violent shock wave.

Added to the fact that it was a group of Cloud Monsters detonating together, it exploded with not bad effects!

At the moment of the explosion, a white shock wave visible to the naked eye expanded towards all directions at an astonishing speed!

The surging air waves instantly lifted all things nearby, and wherever it passed, whether it was the remains of "Cloud Monsters" or naturally condensed energy clusters, they were forcibly squeezed and twisted.

Then they were torn into smaller fragments, flying at extreme speed following the violent shock wave.

Some already fragile Cloud Monsters were instantly shattered and disappeared into nothingness under this powerful impact!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Caught off guard, those few Tier 2 Black Giants with relatively low strength couldn't react at all and were directly blown away by this shock wave!

Accompanied by violent wails, four Black Giants rolled all the way towards the distance accompanied by the cloud mist rolled up by the shock wave.

Jie Ming also felt the sharp shock wave coming; he frowned, raised his hand to erect an energy protective shield in front of him, blocking the aftermath of the air current—and in the team, the Tier 3 Black Giant with the highest level was not affected at all.

Even because some of the energy of the "shock wave" was absorbed by it just now, its strength even improved!

But it was also angered by this sudden attack.

"Roar!!"

It roared, directly erupting flames like a volcanic eruption, like a meteor, rushing towards the group of "clouds" trying to escape with a terrifying momentum, slaughtering in all directions!

While slaughtering, the Black Giant still didn't forget to tear them to pieces and stuff them into its mouth for swallowing.

Until those "clouds" fled in all directions and could no longer be caught, only then did this Black Giant stop.

Jie Ming checked the state of the several Black Giants that were blown away.

As elemental creatures, the previous explosion of the "Cloud Monsters" didn't cause them any serious injuries.

But they still lost quite a bit of mass and energy, and their momentum was slightly withered.

So much so that, except for that Tier 3 Black Giant, the rest of the Black Giants could almost be said to have done useless work in the previous swallowing, busy for nothing.

No, it's not that there was no harvest at all.

Under the gaze of Jie Ming's eyes, the aura of the several Black Giants beside him began to drop.

This represents that the energy in their bodies is consuming rapidly.

But corresponding to this, on their bodies, strands of clear cyan patterns began to emerge.

Although very quickly, these cyan-white patterns also faded and merged into the black flames on their body surfaces.

But Jie Ming knew very clearly that this did not mean the effect would disappear.

Jie Ming was very familiar with these patterns, because that was exactly the energy trajectory that would be produced when the "body-refining method" of the cultivation system was running!

That's right!

Jie Ming even transformed the powerful body-refining method he had, which was born from the cultivation system, into the Black Giant!

There are many disadvantages to doing this.

One is that as elemental life forms, Black Giants themselves cannot fully enjoy all the strengthening effects provided by body-refining methods for flesh-and-blood bodies.

The improvement of their elemental bodies in some aspects is quite limited.

Two is that doing so will cause the energy consumed when cultivating Black Giants to increase significantly!

And in the process of Black Giant's subsequent growth, the energy consumption required will also develop into a very terrifying situation!

It can be completely said that every Black Giant is a bottomless pit of energy!

But its advantages are enough for Jie Ming to bear these disadvantages—Black Giants themselves, after integrating the core mechanism of "body-refining method," also obtained a part of the characteristics of "adaptive evolution"!

That is to say, as long as they don't die, Black Giants will gain corresponding resistance after bearing an attack once, and can gain reduction when receiving the same type of attack next time!

Not only that, the feedback brought by this "adaptive evolution" can also make the evolution of Black Giants become simpler.

A big problem with the race of elemental creatures is that their upper limit is already solidified when they are born.

But the effect of the body-refining method can break through this limitation.

Theoretically speaking, as long as a Black Giant lives long enough and swallows enough energy, it can go all the way to Tier 6 living beings.

"Not bad."

Jie Ming nodded with satisfaction and wanted to continue flying.

But immediately, he scanned the vast white mist around him without any reference, and couldn't help but frown.

Finally, he could only take out the terminal and struggle to locate the position of the "ship plane" used as a reference.

Then, according to the relative direction of both sides, he determined which side he should fly towards next.

This is the most troublesome part of this plane.

Because there is no gravity, it is completely impossible to effectively distinguish directions.

And because everything in this plane is suspended in the air, there is no fixed up, down, left, or right.

So in fact, besides the four directions of front, back, left, and right, it is also necessary to distinguish the headache-inducing up and down two-dimensional directions at all times.

"Now I haven't flown very far, so I can use the terminal to locate the 'ship plane'." Jie Ming also felt a bit tricky.

"But later, if it exceeds the signal range of the terminal, I'm afraid that if I'm not careful, I might really get lost in this cloud mist that makes people dizzy."

"However—. On the camp side, they should have started looking for countermeasures, right?"

Just when Jie Ming was thinking this way, his terminal suddenly made a sound.

Glancing at the information on it, Jie Ming revealed a smile that he had expected.

Just as he thought, the camp side started issuing "mandatory tasks"!

(There is only this chapter today, I have something to do.)