Chapter 117: Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat

After Meng Yifan performed Lingbo Microsteps, his movements were extremely fast, continuously harvesting the blood-red giant rats within the trench, while chanting the count in his mouth. Once the Ghost Head Blade had devoured forty, he said impatiently: "You have already devoured forty giant rats; hurry up and control one giant rat for me."

After the Ghost Head Blade devoured forty blood-red giant rats, winding Runes appeared all over the blade's body. Those Runes flickered with blood-red light, brightening and dimming in rhythm with Meng Yifan's breathing, looking awe-inspiring to anyone who saw them.

Not only that, even without Meng Yifan's activation, the blade of the Ghost Head Blade was shrouded in a layer of persistent blood mist, with the faint sound of Ghost Crying Wolf Howling lingering around it. Timid people who approached the Ghost Head Blade would be frightened pale and tremble all over.

It was obvious that the Ghost Head Blade had gained immense benefits from devouring these blood-red giant rats.

It still wanted to continue devouring blood-red giant rats, but as it had agreed with Meng Yifan in advance, it could only vibrate reluctantly, promising to help Meng Yifan control the next giant rat.

Meng Yifan tapped his toes, his body surged forward again, appearing in front of another blood-red giant rat, and he pointed the Ghost Head Blade forward.

"Hum!" The Ghost Head Blade vibrated violently, and strands of red blood mist spread out, enveloping the giant rat, causing a miraculous change in the giant rat.

Inside the red blood mist, the giant rat first expanded violently, its body growing two or three times larger as if it were about to explode, scaring Meng Yifan into hurriedly holding up a Shield, wanting to block it at the critical moment.

After a while, as if squeezed by something, the giant rat's expanded body shrank rapidly, shrinking to the size of a palm in the blink of an eye.

Just like when it first appeared from the large sphere, during this process, its body surface also secreted a lot of pitch-black impurities.

Just like this, it expanded, compressed, expanded again, and compressed again, repeating the cycle three times.

That blood-red giant rat looked as if it had been tempered three times, its body becoming refined and extraordinary.

The Ghost Head Blade seemed to have consumed a lot of energy; the blood mist outside the blade, which was originally quite thick, became faint and flickering, as if a gust of wind could blow it away.

It vibrated somewhat reluctantly, and the blood-red Runes on the blade shone brightly, gathering at the tip of the blade into a dazzling red dot.

"Swish!" The red dot left the Ghost Head Blade and drilled into the center of the blood-red giant rat's brow like lightning. Immediately after, the blood-red giant rat twitched all over, wailing in pain, and even used its head to strike the ground, wanting to use this to alleviate the pain in its head.

After more than ten seconds, the blood-red giant rat stopped, and a blood-red diamond-shaped Rune emerged on the center of its brow. The structure of this Rune was very special, very much like the oracle bone script character for "slave."

The Ghost Head Blade vibrated again, and the control method for the blood-red giant rat, as well as some information about the blood-red giant rat, appeared in Meng Yifan's mind.

"Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat, a special creature condensed from the soul of a rat demon, a Demon Core, and the Blood Essence of a great demon. A newborn Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat is First Grade, only slightly stronger than an ordinary human, but after it is killed, it will explode violently, and the explosion power can easily kill a First Grade Martial Artist."

"The Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat can devour the flesh and blood of living beings to evolve rapidly, growing sturdy scales on its body, with sharper claws and teeth. After entering Second Grade, its physical strength, speed, and defense are all comparable to a Second Grade Martial Artist. At this time, the energy within its body is more abundant; if killed, the explosion power can easily kill a Second Grade Martial Artist, and even a Third Grade Martial Artist will be injured."

"The Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat can evolve up to Third Grade by devouring flesh and blood. Its physical strength, speed, and defense are all comparable to a Third Grade Martial Artist, and its explosion power is immense, capable of easily killing a Third Grade Martial Artist and even severely injuring a Fourth-Grade Martial Artist."

Meng Yifan was overjoyed. As long as a Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat is provided with a large amount of flesh and blood, it can evolve rapidly to become an existence comparable to a Third Grade Martial Artist, and it can also explode before death to perish with the enemy. This is too awesome.

"Hum!" The Ghost Head Blade vibrated again, transmitting a piece of information to Meng Yifan's mind: "The life structure of the Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat is very special. Under normal circumstances, although it can evolve rapidly to Third Grade by devouring flesh and blood, when it enters Third Grade, it can only maintain it for ten minutes before automatically exploding. Therefore, in the hands of the Divine Machine Battalion, these Bloodthirsty Ghost Rats are only one-time weapons."

After reading this information, Meng Yifan was a little disappointed. He had thought that with this Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat, he would soon have a pet comparable to a Third Grade Martial Artist; he didn't expect it could only survive for ten minutes, which was a slight flaw.

The Artifact Spirit of the Ghost Head Blade said smugly: "However, this Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat of yours has undergone my special tempering, and its life structure has undergone a fundamental change. Even if it evolves to Third Grade, after ten minutes of combat, I can absorb a portion of its energy to make it regress back to the peak of Second Grade. This way, it can survive for a long time."

"If you need it to enter Third Grade for combat, you only need to feed it another piece of flesh and blood containing energy."

"Haha, it can be like this? I didn't see that coming; you really are a genius." Meng Yifan was overjoyed. In this way, this Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat could be used over and over again.

The Ghost Head Blade vibrated again and said to Meng Yifan: "According to our agreement, I only needed to control one ordinary Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat for you. Now that I have consumed a large amount of energy to modify a Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat that can exist for a long time for you, you must help me catch the remaining Bloodthirsty Ghost Rats as compensation for me."

Meng Yifan nodded. Of course, he also wanted to control more Bloodthirsty Ghost Rats, but the special shell fired by the Divine Machine Battalion only contained a total of seventy-plus Bloodthirsty Ghost Rats, and so far, more than a dozen had already perished with Meng Yifan's soldiers.

Even if Meng Yifan caught all the remaining Bloodthirsty Ghost Rats, he wouldn't be able to make up forty. So, seeing that the Ghost Head Blade had worked so hard to modify the Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat, Meng Yifan was uncharacteristically generous and helped the Ghost Head Blade capture the remaining Bloodthirsty Ghost Rats.

"The Divine Machine Battalion fires one special shell, and I can control one Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat. If they fire a few more, wouldn't I be able to get a few more special Bloodthirsty Ghost Rats?" Meng Yifan's eyes flickered, looking forward to the Divine Machine Battalion firing a few more special shells.

These special Bloodthirsty Ghost Rats can quickly grow into combat power comparable to a Third Grade Martial Artist, and they can also explode, enough to kill a Third Grade Martial Artist.

Of course, Meng Yifan wanted to possess more of such sharp and lethal weapons.