0p0 Chapter 231 The Robe! My Robe!
Chapter 231 The Robe! My Robe!
Ding-ling-ling!
With the help of the third spatial gate opened by the little sable, Cang Nian landed smoothly, then suddenly turned around to look in the direction of the fat monk!
However, the expected snapping sound did not occur; instead, a series of crisp cracking sounds came!
Zhizhi~!
At the same time, the little sable behind Cangnian leaned back and rolled to the ground with a pitiful scream.
"It suffered a backlash?!"
Upon seeing this, Cang Nian was first taken aback, then suddenly shocked!
There are only two possibilities for the little sable to behave this way.
One possibility is that they were subjected to a psychological attack.
One was that his spatial skills were forcibly broken, resulting in a backlash!
But now, the little sable's condition is clearly the latter!
Does that mean the portal failed to cut the fat monk in two?
Phew~!
The next second, a whooshing sound came, interrupting Cang Nian's thoughts.
He quickly picked up the little sable and dodged to the side!
Boom~!
A tremor and a familiar golden light appeared where Cangnian and the little sable had been, creating a large crater with spiderweb-like cracks spreading in all directions!
It's that golden Zen staff!
"My cassock...you beasts, how dare you!"
"You've ruined my robes, I'll make you pay with your lives!"
Cang Nian looked back and saw the fat monk standing on the lotus platform, floating in mid-air. His usually calm eyes were now filled with rage.
His once embroidered cassock was now tattered and torn, with only a few scraps remaining.
A gruesome wound encircled his chest cavity, oozing crimson blood.
His robe was tattered, his upper body was almost naked, his skin was loose and wrinkled, and covered with age spots.
"Sure enough, that robe is the source of his terrifying defensive power..."
Seeing this, Cang Nian was not too surprised.
The physical bodies of human evolved beings are inherently quite different from those of evolved beasts.
Moreover, with the system's support and long-term self-discipline, my overall qualities are stronger than those of other evolved beings.
Previously, when Cang Nian saw that the other party easily controlled Tiger Dad and the others, and was so fearless, he subconsciously thought that the fat monk's evolution level must be very high, at least fourth-order, and possibly even fifth-order.
But this brief exchange, combined with some previously connected clues, led him to discover a logical fallacy.
This fat monk is neither a fourth-order nor a fifth-order monk!
Otherwise, what's the point of him raising this insect queen?
His disciples were only at the mid-stage of the third rank.
The Queen has the entire Zerg race's supply and can seize all the nutrients and evolutionary factors from the vast land.
But it must also follow the laws of evolution!
Previously, when the insects arrived in Kangcheng, the naturally evolved second-tier creatures had only just appeared.
The fact that the queen was able to evolve to the third tier is likely due to the accumulation of massive amounts of nutrients and first-tier evolutionary factors, which spurred the emergence of the second-tier insect race.
Next, the Queen began feeding on second-tier Zerg, propelling herself towards the third tier.
This is not just Cangnian's wild guess; the remains of a second-tier Zerg were indeed found in the digestive tract of the Queen's corpse.
After fighting the fat monk for so long, and seeing the battle between the young monks and Yi Chen and his group, Cang Nian discovered a problem!
They don't have any superpowers!
not a single one!
If the fat monk had previously been toying with me like a cat playing with a mouse, then this was a different story.
The young monks formed a battle formation, and their attack on Yi Chen and the others seemed evenly matched.
In a one-on-one situation, apart from Yichen, Pipi, Qin Changyi, Zhang Fan, and Bai Jue, none of the monks from Kangcheng could match them.
This is precisely why Kangcheng, despite having more people, was constantly entangled by the enemy, and the battle reached a fever pitch.
In fact, after such a long battle, both sides have suffered casualties.
Even so, the monks did not display any special abilities; instead, they all had the same thing: their bodies glowed with golden light, which seemed to be a way to enhance their defense.
The reason they were able to hold their own against Kangcheng with fewer people was not only because they progressed further at the third-tier evolutionary level, but also because their combat skills were superior to those of Kangcheng's evolved beings!
Under these circumstances, Cangnian made a bold guess.
These monks evolved in a way that was different from other evolved beings and evolved creatures on the night of the spiritual energy revival tide!
Perhaps, their daily chanting of scriptures and Buddhist prayers before the spiritual revival was itself a form of spiritual practice!
However, before the revival of spiritual energy, there was no spiritual energy. Therefore, such cultivation had no other effects besides nourishing the mind and regulating the body.
But on the night of the spiritual energy revival tide, the global spiritual energy revived and reappeared in the world. Their past cultivation accumulation was then released, transforming from simple cultivation of mind and temperament into "cultivation", that is, the level of evolution!
Otherwise, Cang Nian could hardly imagine how an ordinary person who did not awaken superpowers or reach the evolutionary level on the night of the spiritual energy revival could so quickly surpass him in the evolutionary level without the nourishment of a powerful medicine like the Queen Insect.
However, it cannot be ruled out that their temple may have left behind some ancient elixir that, if consumed, would allow one to ascend to immortality.
This is not just wild speculation.
After all, that purple-gold alms bowl, that golden staff, that embroidered kasaya, and the floating lotus platform beneath the fat monk—so many treasures…
If such power could be displayed before the revival of spiritual energy, what chance would ordinary people have?
Clearly, they were extraordinary to begin with, but after their spiritual energy was depleted, they turned into ordinary things. When the spiritual energy was restored, they regained their vitality.
Cang Nian felt that this was probably very close to the truth.
He even speculated that these monks probably didn't know that their previous cultivation would yield such abundant results after the spiritual energy revival.
Otherwise, it would mean that many ascetics like them, who were practicing before the spiritual energy revival, had already foreseen the revival of spiritual energy and the arrival of this disaster for humanity.
If that's the case, it's impossible that the Chinese government wouldn't have such a person, nor would it be completely unaware of it.
If the Dragon Kingdom's government knew in advance about the coming of the spiritual energy resurgence, not only did it fail to take any countermeasures, but it didn't even notify a city like Kangcheng with a population of over three million so that Kangcheng could prepare.
That's way too dark.
However, Cangnian knew that now was not the time to explore these questions.
Boom boom boom~!
"Run! Let's see how long you, you beast, can escape!"
The fat monk, perched high in the air on his lotus platform, wielded his golden staff, relentlessly striking the old man.
Because he just used the second-level overlimit burst, Cang Nian's strength, speed, and defense attributes are now only 70% of their original values!
Now, with his current speed, it's simply impossible for him to dodge the blows of the staff.
Therefore, he could only move the Strength attribute to the Speed attribute to barely avoid being hit.
Now, the most important question is how to meet the other person.