Devouring Ability Shows Its Might

Am I playing Palworld?

Even as she snarked inwardly, Qian Gu Huang Yu did not lower her guard. She silently mobilized the Soul Power within her body. She did not want to inexplicably land and die.

Perhaps sensing Qian Gu Huang Yu's threat, the three Soul Beasts surrounding her immediately scattered.

Qian Gu Huang Yu promptly rose to her feet and entered her Ghidorah Martial Soul Possession state.

As two purple Soul Rings radiating an aura of nobility rose around her, Qian Gu Huang Yu's presence underwent a tremendous change.

If Qian Gu Huang Yu had previously been a gentle yet noble young lady, then she was now an arrogant and brutal monarch.

Two and a half years after awakening her Martial Soul, Qian Gu Huang Yu had already become a two-ring Soul Grandmaster. Her cultivation speed was far ahead of Qian Gu Dong Feng's.

And that was without Qian Gu Huang Yu using her Devouring Ability to aid her cultivation. If she had fully committed to cultivation through her Devouring Ability, her cultivation would only have been even higher.

Although Qian Gu Huang Yu had not used her own devouring talent, one of Ghidorah's talents was cultivation through lightning. Thus, she often endured Bei Gong Li's lightning strikes alongside Thunderclap Nether Vine.

Under Bei Gong Li's lightning strikes, Thunderclap Nether Vine had grown into a Thousand-Year Soul Beast, completing in merely half a year a journey she had failed to complete in nearly a century.

Moreover, after Qian Gu Huang Yu broke through to the second ring, she discovered that her control over the Gate of Babylon had improved again. She could now lend the divine weapons within the Gate of Babylon to others.

Naturally, the other party could only use the corresponding divine weapon with Qian Gu Huang Yu's permission.

What delighted Qian Gu Huang Yu the most was that, as her cultivation improved, the damaged Holy Grail showed signs of recovery. It could already withstand a second Holy Grail Summoning.

Through it, Qian Gu Huang Yu summoned someone even she had never expected to be able to summon.

Looking around, Kun Kun and the sheep had long since fled far away. Only the pink kitten had not run far. Instead, it stood atop a huge boulder with its hands on its hips, looking down at Qian Gu Huang Yu from above with an imposing air.

A trace of amusement flashed through her wine-red eyes as golden lightning danced across Qian Gu Huang Yu's slender, pale fingertips. "Aren't you running?"

Although she knew that this ten-year Soul Beast, which looked remarkably like a Mischievous Cat, could not possibly understand her, Qian Gu Huang Yu still said it for no particular reason.

What Qian Gu Huang Yu did not know was that the pink kitten did not want to stay. Under Ghidorah's aura, it had been frightened too badly to move.

Then, the Mischievous Cat provocatively crooked a finger at Qian Gu Huang Yu, seemingly intending to scare her away.

Seeing this, Qian Gu Huang Yu was immediately intrigued. In a calm tone, she spoke the most terrifying words. "If I had a Pal Sphere right now, I'd definitely catch you before dismembering you."

Seeing that it could not make Qian Gu Huang Yu retreat, determination flashed through the Mischievous Cat's blue eyes.

The Mischievous Cat immediately leaped down from the boulder. Pumping its two short little legs, it charged toward Qian Gu Huang Yu at high speed, extending its claws and wildly swinging its arms.

"What? Instead of running away, you're coming toward me?"

With unstoppable momentum, the Mischievous Cat launched its final desperate attack at Qian Gu Huang Yu!

However, before the Mischievous Cat could touch Qian Gu Huang Yu, the dragon head on her right stretched forward and effortlessly caught it in its jaws. "What a pity. You're just a bundle of data simulated by the Spirit Ascension Platform. Otherwise, I might really have taken you back and raised you."

Qian Gu Huang Yu murmured to herself. Faced with this Pal that she had loved dearly in her previous life, she decided to grant it the greatest respect—

Exterminate it completely.

Ghidorah's Devouring Ability activated. The energy belonging to the Mischievous Cat was continuously absorbed by the dragon head before flowing into every limb and bone of Qian Gu Huang Yu's body.

Feeling its energy rapidly drain away, the Mischievous Cat struggled frantically, but before Qian Gu Huang Yu, all of it was futile.

Soon, after the Mischievous Cat's energy had been completely drained, its body actually dispersed directly!

Under normal circumstances, killing a Soul Beast within the Spirit Ascension Platform awarded a Soul Master one-tenth of the slain Soul Beast's Years of Cultivation, distributed evenly across every Soul Ring. However, the body of the slain Soul Beast would not immediately disappear!

Since the Mischievous Cat's body had vanished directly, there was only one possibility: all the spiritual energy composing the Mischievous Cat had been absorbed by Qian Gu Huang Yu.

Though astonished, Qian Gu Huang Yu immediately checked Di Xuan's condition. The result shocked her even more. Di Xuan's Years of Cultivation had not increased by the usual one year, nor by the ten years Qian Gu Huang Yu had predicted, but by seventeen years!

The Mischievous Cat was a ten-year Soul Beast. Normally, my Years of Cultivation should have increased by one year. Even if I absorbed the entire ten-year Soul Ring, it should only have been ten years. Did it increase by seventeen years because I absorbed even its body?

Now that's truly an end-to-end, quick and efficient process. No middleman taking a cut at all.

Qian Gu Huang Yu's ability to cultivate to level twenty in half a year was inseparable from her nearly one-hundred-percent energy conversion rate. It was simply her first time draining a living creature to death, which was why she was so surprised.

As the Mischievous Cat's body disappeared, two clusters of red wild berries fell to the ground.

Outside the Spirit Ascension Platform, Qian Gu Die Ting stood up in shock. He had watched Qian Gu Huang Yu devour the Mischievous Cat from start to finish, yet after it died, no spiritual energy flowed back to the Spirit Pagoda.

In other words, all the spiritual energy the Spirit Pagoda had used to sustain the Mischievous Cat had been absorbed by Qian Gu Huang Yu.

"Even Underworld King Douluo Ha Luosa's conversion rate wasn't this high, was it? Xiao Yu truly is an Evil Soul Master through and through!"

Inside the Spirit Ascension Platform.

After dealing with the Mischievous Cat, Qian Gu Huang Yu wandered through the Soul Beast Forest while searching for Qian Gu Dong Feng.

Thick trees surrounded Qian Gu Huang Yu, while dense bushes stretched out before her. There was no path at all. It felt as though she had entered a primordial forest.

Having lived in Shrek City ever since she was young, this was Qian Gu Huang Yu's first time seeing a Soul Beast Forest, and it gave her a novel feeling.

Within the Soul Beast Forest, Qian Gu Huang Yu usually only needed to release King Ghidorah's aura to frighten off most Soul Beasts. The occasional stubborn Soul Beast simply became her food.

Just as Qian Gu Huang Yu was leisurely enjoying nature, she suddenly saw trees in the distance falling one after another. A battle was clearly taking place ahead.

The dragon wings on her back flapped together, and Qian Gu Huang Yu immediately chose to take to the air, doing her best to avoid being caught up in the battle.

Just after Qian Gu Huang Yu rose into the air, a tremendous boom rang out. The ground cracked inch by inch, and trees throughout the forest fell in swathes.

At the same time, a figure emerged in a sorry state, gripping a Coiled Dragon Staff. Who else could it be but Qian Gu Dong Feng?

Qian Gu Dong Feng's clothes were somewhat tattered, and bright red blood stained his handsome face. He barely steadied himself, panting heavily.

Just as Qian Gu Dong Feng adjusted his condition, a massive figure crushed the fallen giant trees beneath its feet and walked toward him.

With every step it took, the earth trembled. The scene from moments ago had clearly been its handiwork.