Chapter 141: Dismantling the Spiral Turtle! Obtaining the Mountains and Seas Bloodline! [Please Subscribe]-I Can Cast Unlimited Forbidden Spells(Sixteen Demons)

[Spirit of the Spiral Tortoise (S): The soul of the Spiral Tortoise, a mythical beast from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It can be absorbed to obtain the bloodline of the Spiral Tortoise.]

[Breath of the Spiral Tortoise (S): The Spiral Tortoise’s final breath. It can be recorded in the bestiary of the Classic of Mountains and Seas to grant a permanent enhancement.]

The descriptions of the two S-rank items were not particularly long, yet the amount of information they contained was considerable.

First, judging from their literal meaning, it could basically be confirmed that these mythical beasts originated from the legendary Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Second, the fact that absorbing the Spirit of the Spiral Tortoise granted its bloodline came as a slight surprise to Yi Shen.

Bloodlines were things one could encounter only by chance and never seek out deliberately. Up to now, obtaining one required an extraordinary opportunity. Even the top explorers could not necessarily acquire a good bloodline.

Yet there were already twenty or thirty known mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. If killing each of them granted a bloodline, countless explorers would undoubtedly fight desperately to claim them.

What was more, these bloodlines were not obtained directly, but through absorption via an item. In other words, Yi Shen could take the bloodline back and let someone else use it, allowing that person to acquire a bloodline as well!

Of course, Yi Shen also found this point somewhat worthy of complaint. Only someone like him, who had already become stronger than the Spiral Tortoise, could kill it. That ought to mean his own power was superior to the Spiral Tortoise’s bloodline.

Unless bloodlines could be stacked, the item held little significance for Yi Shen.

From the information he had learned through the Bureau of Unified Regulation’s posts during this period, each person could possess only one bloodline. That meant that if the Spirit of the Spiral Tortoise could only replace an existing bloodline rather than coexist with another, it would actually be of limited use to Yi Shen. He would have to test it before reaching a conclusion.

As for the Breath of the Spiral Tortoise, it was said that it could be recorded in the bestiary of the Classic of Mountains and Seas to grant a permanent enhancement.

This was a special S-rank material. In Yi Shen’s hand, it appeared as a strange black-and-red sphere of light.

Unfortunately, Yi Shen did not currently possess the so-called “bestiary of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.”

He therefore could not enjoy any additional benefits from it.

After a brief pause, Yi Shen held the bloodline within the Spirit of the Spiral Tortoise and attempted to use it.

When he had first obtained the Moonlight Bloodline, it had appeared directly on his system panel without his consent. Now, he wanted to know whether he could absorb two different bloodlines simultaneously, and what reaction the Heart of the God of Magic within his body would have to such a thing.

Once he activated it, a transparent soul slowly entered Yi Shen’s body, and he felt a faint warmth spread through him.

The system notification he had imagined did not appear. Nor did any message indicate that his existing bloodline needed to be replaced.

Yi Shen could still use moonlight energy.

He simply possessed an additional, peculiar sense within his body.

It seemed to originate from the soul of the Spiral Tortoise.

[Ding! You have absorbed the soul of the Spiral Tortoise, a mythical beast from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and obtained the bloodline of the Spiral Tortoise.]

[Ding! You have obtained the Spiral Tortoise’s innate skill: Breath Control (B).]

[Ding! You have obtained the Spiral Tortoise’s innate skill: Spatial Folding Barrier (B).]

The process was neither particularly fast nor particularly slow. Before long, Yi Shen heard the system notifications.

He immediately opened his panel, and a faint look of delight crossed his face.

Just as he had expected, the Spiral Tortoise’s bloodline had appeared on his system panel without conflicting with the Moonlight Body!

Moreover, the soul that had entered his body had brought with it the power of the Spiral Tortoise’s bloodline, which was clearly somewhat inferior to that of the Moonlight Body. At least according to Yi Shen’s perception, the power of the Heart of the God of Magic occupied the greatest share within him, followed by the power of moonlight, with this fledgling Spiral Tortoise bloodline coming last.

Of the two innate skills, Breath Control continuously restored Yi Shen’s health. This was probably the Spiral Tortoise’s previous regenerative ability. However, because the innate skill’s rank was not yet high, its basic recovery amounted to only thirty thousand health points.

As for Spatial Folding Barrier, it was the same spatial-folding ability the Spiral Tortoise had used earlier. Yi Shen tried it several times and indeed sensed the surrounding space shift. In other words, he had acquired a special spatial shield.

“Barely acceptable.”

Looking at what he had obtained, Yi Shen finally felt that his efforts throughout the night had not been in vain.

The Spiral Tortoise’s corpse still lay among the mountains. After death, it had lost all signs of life, but its shell and body remained buried beneath the mountain ranges.

Yi Shen’s way of thinking had already become very different from that of the other explorers.

He had begun considering problems from the perspective of energy rather than data. Thus, he slowly approached the Spiral Tortoise’s corpse.

Although this mythical beast from the Classic of Mountains and Seas had possessed a tremendous body, Yi Shen could sense that it was not yet complete—or perhaps it had not yet reached maturity. During the battle, many of its abilities had even been released passively.

Yi Shen gently placed his hand against the Spiral Tortoise’s body and tried to guide the energy within it. The power inside the Spiral Tortoise was similar to the bloodline he had just acquired. Yi Shen wanted to see whether he could extract that power, which would amount to a method of using energy that surpassed the Domain.

However, just as Yi Shen was about to begin guiding the energy, a special notification suddenly appeared on his system panel.

[Ding! You have triggered the special effect of Arcane Research. A special resource suitable for research has been discovered. Would you like to perform an arcane research decomposition?]

[Yes.]

The unusual notification had originated from the Arcane Research effect. As an SSS-branch ability of the Heart of the God of Magic, it had never occurred to Yi Shen that even a corpse could be decomposed.

This opened the door to an entirely new world for him.

It was also the first time Yi Shen had decomposed something beyond the system’s usual classifications, and the experience genuinely stirred his curiosity.

[Ding! You have performed a special decomposition on the target. Through this research, you have obtained: Intelligence +2,831, Endurance +4,882, Spirit +2,930, Special Resource: Power of the Spiral Tortoise.]

Under the system’s decomposition, the Spiral Tortoise’s corpse slowly transformed into motes of fluorescent light and entered Yi Shen’s body.

In an instant, he gained a tremendous number of attribute points. Endurance in particular had increased by nearly five thousand points!

Moreover, after absorbing the Power of the Spiral Tortoise, Yi Shen clearly felt the strength of the Spiral Tortoise bloodline within his body surge dramatically.

The next moment, his system panel lit up once more.

[Ding! You have obtained the special Power of the Spiral Tortoise. Your innate skill rank has increased.]

After the two notifications, Breath Control (B) and Spatial Folding Barrier (B) on Yi Shen’s panel directly transformed into Breath Control (S) and Spatial Folding Barrier (S). Their attribute descriptions also underwent earth-shaking changes!

[Ding! The power of your bloodline has been purified. The Spiral Tortoise Bloodline has advanced into the Mountain-and-Sea Bloodline.]

(End of chapter)