Chapter 310 310: Human Demon
"Thump! Roar!"
Yoze watched the Serpent demon's green oppressive spiritual energy slam into the skin and sink into the thousands of layers. As quickly as the situation changed, the outer layers of his skin fused and formed metal scales that resembled the Serpent demon's scales.
These scales were black and shone with a green light that released a pressure that made every being feel as if they were insignificant. At the same time, his slightest movements would generate gusts of wind that scratched the earth around his body.
Unfortunately, before the Serpent demon could celebrate its successful transformation, the Armor Elephant demon and the Three-Headed Fox demon took action. They quickly slammed their spiritual energies into the transformed skin and destroyed the Serpent demon's masterpiece.
With the three types of spiritual energies fused and transforming his skin, Yoze noticed that it became an amalgamation of the three. His skin had become leathery, the metal scales became patches of armor, and a thin layer of fur concealed everything.
Knowing that the Slug demon and the Leopard demon hadn't taken action, Yoze watched with interest as he turned his attention to his lower body.
He saw that the Serpent demon and Slug demon were working together to fight over influence over what form his legs would take. These two demons wanted to fuse his two legs to form a type of tail. In contrast, the Leopard demon, Armored Elephant demon, and Three-Headed Fox demon wanted to keep his legs separated.
The rapid infusion of spiritual energy caused his legs to expand and shrink from the constant back and forth while crisp sounds of bones breaking reached his ears. This same situation played out all over his body as the various forces tried their best to get as much influence before the arrival of the Life Spiritual Energy.
They all knew that once the Life Spiritual Energy arrived, they would all have to focus on devouring as much as they could instead of transforming his body. If they lost this opportunity to grow stronger rapidly for some minor gains, they knew they would be overpowered, and those changes would be erased later on.
Yoze knew this was the case as well since he had always wanted to create a perfect balance between his demon spiritual energies using his human spiritual energy. Due to a combination of his human spiritual body cultivation talent being of low grade and it being Yoze's original spiritual energy, it had a lot less independence than the others.
This had pros and cons, but Yoze felt that this situation was enough for him. Even though his body was rapidly transforming and mutating, he didn't care after his initial panic.
It wasn't because he didn't care about being human anymore but because, with all these transformations, his physical body was rapidly becoming stronger in all aspects. The constant infusion of different spiritual energies into his flesh, bones, and organs made them much stronger.
His body was always growing stronger due to some of the spiritual energies always fusing into his body. Still, it was too slow for his liking. His physical body was becoming stronger much faster than any other demon, and it was much more stable and constant. However, it was too slow compared to the progress he made from training.
If he could, he would have liked his body to become as strong or even stronger than the demons he had encountered. With the Demon Summit quickly arriving, he didn't want to hold himself back like he did in the Immortal Sect.
And if he wanted to hunt demons, he needed to be much stronger. The stronger the demons he killed, the more benefits would come from eating their flesh. In any case, even if he lost his human form, he didn't feel that it was that terrible.
From how quickly his other spiritual energies were able to transform his body, he should be capable of doing the same with his human spiritual energy so Yoze didn't feel too worried about becoming a disgusting monster.
"Okay, that's enough playing for your five. The life spiritual energy is here to absorb it and become stronger." Yoze whispered as he saw the sea of white life spiritual energy rushing toward him.
The refreshing scent had become extremely intense as Yoze robbed every lick of life spiritual energy away from the ten demon eggs leaving nothing for them. When he had stolen the Serpent demon's spiritual energy, he had taken more than 99 percent of it. Leaving the Serpent demon to have to absorb the last 1 percent to continue its growth regardless of how small.
Now that was no longer the case. Not only was he stronger, but he also had six hungry spiritual monsters inside his body to feed. So regardless of the amount of life spiritual energy, they were all attracted away from the proper owners and became his food.
Using the second he had become the huge sea of life spiritual energy arrived, Yoze quickly dug up a large room around him so that he could practice some of his body cultivation while he absorbed the life spiritual energy. In particular, he wanted to improve his Blood Weapon Handler and his new and improved Iron Colossus body cultivation method.
As he completed forming his temporary training space, Yoze felt his muscles begin to unconsciously relax, a thick wave of life Spiritual energy entering his body. As soon as the life spiritual energy entered his body, it was surrounded by his starving six monsters and swiftly devoured.
Watching his six spiritual energies growing slowly, Yoze realized he had greatly overestimated the effectiveness of life spiritual energy and felt deeply disappointed. Even though he was disappointed, he could recognize why his spiritual energies were growing at a snail's pace.
He came to two conclusions: the first was that life spiritual energy was very good for younger demons, especially demons that haven't been born yet. This was because life spiritual energy was most likely the easiest type of spiritual energy that most demons could absorb and transform into other types of spiritual energy.
It was also the most easily accessible form of spiritual energy for demons that hadn't been born yet since all living creatures would produce or have life spiritual energy during their development. With life spiritual energy being the most accessible and easily obtained spiritual energy, it was extremely valued and desired by demons.
Even his own spiritual energies deeply desired life spiritual energy since they didn't need to do much for it to transform into their type of spiritual energy and fuse with their current pool.
The second reason Yoze felt that it wasn't up to par with his high expectations was that for both his first experience with life spiritual energy and the demon eggs, most of the life spiritual energy was used to strengthen their bodies to inhuman levels.
Spiritual body cultivation could also strengthen the body, but this was more gradual since only a few strands would fuse with the body at a time. This slow process wasn't something adult demons concerned themselves about since they would never die from old age. As long as they continued to grow their spiritual energy, their bodies would continue to grow stronger.
However, for newborn demons, this wasn't an option they could take. They were in their weakest state when they were just born and would become prey for wild creatures and, most importantly, humans if they were weaker.
After doing some research on his own, Yoze found that it was rare for Martial Grandmasters to come across freshly newborn demons, which was why every battle was life and death for them. But if they were lucky to encounter the Serpent demon who had faced Yoze, it wasn't a question that they could kill it in an instant.
In this dangerous environment, newborn demons cared more about strengthening their bodies now than placed more importance on its other useful functions. After figuring out that he needed to allow the life spiritual energy to penetrate and be absorbed into his body, Yoze immediately took action.
He quickly controlled his human spiritual energy to interrupt his other spiritual energies' absorption. He also forcefully controlled his demon spiritual energies to return to their original path instead of absorbing the life spiritual energy.
"Roar!"
"Roarr!!"
"Roar!!!"
"Roar!!!!"
Regardless of how much Yoze's demon spiritual energies wanted to continue their absorption of the life spiritual energy, they found that they could no longer do it. Even though they were highly autonomous in the end, they were still Yoze's spiritual energy, so he had a decent level of control over them.
This became even more true when Yoze was able to manipulate his human spiritual energy to disrupt their absorption process, making it impossible for them to continue devouring the life spiritual energy. With great reluctance, they could only fall back to their pathways and pray that some of the life spiritual energy made it over to them.