Chapter 74 Space System - Gluttony
Chapter 74 Space System - Gluttony
"Is he really the legendary Taotie, capable of devouring the heavens and the earth? How come he's so small?"
A demon named Xuanli stood to the side pointing and gesturing. The reason was simple: as a Taotie, Fang Xiu seemed a bit too small, only about the size of a human head.
"Because he was just born."
Exhaling a puff of smoke, Lao Jun put down his pipe, his expression enigmatic. Although its appearance differed from the previous Taotie, as one of the participants in sealing the Taotie, Lao Jun was certain that this was a newly born Taotie.
"This is really unexpected."
Normally, the prototypes of fairies are all different, and the possibility of two fairies being born with the same prototype is extremely small. This is true for ordinary fairies, and it is even rarer for strange beasts like Taotie. In all these years, Laozi never thought that he would actually see a second Taotie.
Lao Jun originally came because he sensed that a newborn demon was gathering spirits nearby. He was thinking of sending it to an old friend, since Xuan Li was already enough to raise the child.
When they arrived, they found that the newborn fairy was actually a gluttonous beast. What to do? All plans were ruined, and the only option was to take it back and raise it.
Taotie is no ordinary demon, and it is definitely not acceptable to leave it alone. Even if this is a newly born Taotie, Laozi never doubts its destructive power. Among the four ferocious beasts, Taotie may not be the strongest in combat, but the damage it causes is the most direct and the greatest.
The Taotie is insatiable in its gluttony, devouring everything, whether dead or alive, fairies or humans, mountains or lakes... Faced with anything known or unknown, the Taotie's attitude is simply, "What is this? Let's take a bite and see."
The last Taotie was sealed by the gods, and then died by eating itself in the empty seal.
Let this newly born Taotie grow freely. What if it grows into the same kind as the previous one? With the lessons of the past still fresh in mind, Laozi has to think twice.
As for killing the newly born Taotie to prevent future troubles?
That option was never considered by Laozi. The sin was caused by the previous Taotie, what does it have to do with this newborn demon?
Therefore, Laozi made his choice after only a brief consideration. He brought the newborn Taotie back to Lanxi Town, intending to take it as his disciple and teach it carefully.
With a blink of an eye, Fang Xiu arrived in Lanxi Town, which was Laozi's spiritual space, and began his life as a demon.
Fang Xiu arrived in Lanxi Town before Li Qingning. Nearly a year after Fang Xiu arrived in Lanxi Town, he heard from Xuan Li that Lao Jun had taken on another disciple, and that the disciple was a healer.
However, before Fang Xiu could even see his junior sister, he inexplicably entered the gray mist space.
The addition of the two new members further expanded the species diversity of Fangxiu, making an indelible contribution to the species diversity of Fangxiu.
"Welcome, expert!"
Fang Xiu from Twilight City transformed into the atmosphere-setter, with the seals clapping.
Both newcomers have high potential, whether in the Dragon Clan world or the Luo Xiaohei world. The vitality of the dragons in the Dragon Clan world is so great that it's not an exaggeration to say they are immortal, and the same is true in the Luo Xiaohei world.
With Fang Xiu advancing to the Qingxu level on the Divine Spirit Ranking, along with two newcomers, the power of Fang Xiu and his group should not be underestimated.
Fang Xiu, a member of the Bronze and Fire King lineage, is skilled in fire and alchemy. Although he is a third-generation dragon, he is still a pure-blooded dragon, neither the best nor the worst.
The alchemy of the Dragon World is extraordinary. The highest achievements in alchemy are called the Seven Kingdoms, namely Elemental Replacement, Spirit Reforging, Conceptual Armament, Time Reversal, Space Creation, Life Creation, and Causal Separation.
It can only be said that while Dragon Race may seem like an urban fantasy at first glance, it has actually already crossed the threshold into the realm of fantasy. The seven kingdoms of alchemy are top-tier in any world.
Although Fang Xiu of the Dragon Clan has not yet gained control of any of the seven kingdoms, he believes this is only temporary. Bread will come, milk will come, and so will the seven kingdoms.
The Dragon Clan possesses alchemy and the power of words, and the abilities brought by Fang Xiu from Luo Xiaohei's world are equally impressive.
In Luo Xiaohei's world, Fang Xiu's true form is a Taotie. With Lao Jun's help, Fang Xiu unearthed the power within his body in just over a year.
In Luo Xiaohei's world, talents can be divided into six major systems, including the Life System, Space System, Creation System, Spirit Control System, Locking System, and Mind System.
As a member of the same clan as the previous Taotie, Fang Xiu also possesses the same talent: Space-type Gluttony.
Among the six major types of abilities, spatial abilities are extremely special because they are entirely based on the characteristics of spiritual space. They either exist or they don't, and a single spiritual space can only have one type of spatial ability.
The Spiritual Space is possessed by everyone in Luo Xiaohei's world; it is the core space that stores the spiritual essence and material spirit of all living beings. Living beings that lose their Spiritual Space will die due to the exhaustion of their spiritual essence, a process that is irreversible.
Space-type Gluttony is quite similar in appearance to Space-type Devouring, but what is devoured by Gluttony becomes nourishment for the Gluttonous Spirit Space and is partially strengthened by Fang Xiu. The more it devours, the stronger the strengthening becomes.
The Taotie's devouring process is divided into several stages. Initially, it could only be done through its mouth, but later it could be done through any limb contact. Now, in just one year since its birth, Fang Xiu has mastered the ability called the Taotie's Mouth, which allows it to bite anywhere within a ten-meter radius of itself.
Moreover, this is only part of it. Fang Xiu's speed in mastering the art of devouring once made Lao Jun suspect that Fang Xiu might be the rebirth of the Taotie from back then.
After all, it took the last Taotie at least several hundred years to go from devouring tangible things to devouring intangible things, while Fang Xiu did it in just one year. Although Laozi's guidance helped Fang Xiu avoid detours, such rapid progress was still astonishing.
However, Laozi also sees this as a good thing, as it would allow Fang Xiu to become an immortal much earlier.
In Luo Xiaohei's world, the condition for becoming an immortal is to open the spiritual space, and Fang Xiu is special, or rather, his spiritual space is special.
Space-type Gluttony is a manifestation of the spiritual space, which gives Fang Xiu an insatiable appetite. If he cannot satisfy his appetite, he will eventually follow the same path as the previous Glutton. The only way is to become an immortal and open the spiritual space to control it himself.
This is also the motivation for Fang Xiu's hard work in cultivation. Taotie is very powerful, but it is undoubtedly a double-edged sword. While it can hurt others, it can also hurt itself if one is not careful.
Besides the Space-type Gluttony, Fang Xiu also has two other abilities, one of which is the Spirit-type Darkness.
Although the Spirit Control system is the most common and easiest ability system to cultivate, every life form can cultivate Spirit Control abilities, and usually can cultivate multiple systems, but cannot cultivate opposing systems at the same time (unless they possess a dual-spirit space).
However, this does not mean that the Spirit Control system is weak. In Luo Xiaohei's world, there are no weak abilities; it all depends on individual performance.
The Spirit Control system mainly involves the control of material spirits, and is divided into several categories: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Of course, in addition to these categories, there are also various rare but real classifications, such as wind, thunder, and Fang Xiu's darkness.
In addition, after transforming into human form, Fang Xiu also mastered certain creation-type abilities, namely Creation-type Clone, which allows him to create a spiritual clone using spiritual power.
The above three are the abilities that Fang Xiu, the gluttonous beast, possessed before entering the gray fog space. Of course, according to Lao Jun, Fang Xiu's potential is not limited to these.
Fang Xiu possesses an extremely rare dual-spiritual space, just like Brother Gou Xuan Li, but his spiritual space has a slight problem.
Normally, two spiritual spaces should be independent of each other, but Fang Xiu's situation is special. His two spiritual spaces overlap, like a ring toss, with a large circle inside a small circle.
The spiritual space representing the Taotie's abilities forcibly pulled back another spiritual space, enveloping it. Even Laozi could only see that Fang Xiu had another spiritual space, but could not determine its abilities.
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