Devouring Soul Beasts

After taking a careful look, Mo Bai discovered that a scorpion possessing Soul Power had actually crawled into his little cauldron.

Although it still looked very weak, weak enough that he could stomp it to death with one foot.

But once it possessed Soul Power, no matter how weak it was, it was still a Soul Beast!

And for such a weak Soul Beast, Mo Bai estimated that it did not even have a year's worth of Soul Power. It was very likely a Soul Beast that had only been born recently.

No one would consider killing such a weak Soul Beast to obtain a Soul Ring.

But Mo Bai was different. Mo Bai had long had an idea before: to swallow a Soul Beast alive and kill it inside his own stomach.

By swallowing it alive, he wanted to see whether he could capture the Soul Ring that burst out after the Soul Beast died.

"This little scorpion is extremely suitable!"

"Less than a year old, pitifully weak. It's perfect for an experiment. It can reduce the unknown danger to the minimum!"

Looking at the Soul Beast scorpion in the little cauldron, Mo Bai's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

As for the little Soul Beast scorpion in the cauldron, it was still a Soul Beast in the end, not something ordinary poisonous creatures could compare with. It seemed to sense danger, and actually climbed out of the little cauldron quickly, wanting to flee.

"Little thing? It's too late to leave now. No, you shouldn't have appeared in the first place!"

Seeing this, Mo Bai smiled, then reached out as fast as lightning and grabbed the little scorpion.

When the scorpion was attacked, its tail immediately stung toward Mo Bai's finger.

Ding~

Only, the scorpion's attack could not even break through Mo Bai's skin.

After pinching the scorpion in his hand, Mo Bai first used Jade Hand to absorb the toxins in its body, then pinched the scorpion unconscious.

Holding the scorpion by its tail and bringing it before his eyes, Mo Bai hesitated slightly.

As someone who often dealt with poisonous creatures, he was not afraid of scorpions.

But asking him to swallow a scorpion alive still met with strong resistance deep in his heart. He had never tried this before!

In the end, however, Mo Bai still gritted his teeth, opened his mouth, threw the scorpion in, and swallowed it down whole.

Gulp~

"Fuck!"

After swallowing it with difficulty, Mo Bai could not help cursing. It was not because of anything in particular; he just could not help wanting to curse.

Immediately afterward, Mo Bai forcibly suppressed the feeling of nausea, sat cross-legged, circulated the Soul Power in his body, and gathered it in his stomach.

Bang~

It was only a little scorpion. Very soon, Mo Bai easily crushed it to death inside his stomach with Soul Power.

Buzz~

In less than a moment, Mo Bai indeed sensed a Soul Ring emerging from within his body.

Then, after the other party appeared, it only formed into a tiny Soul Ring less than a few centimeters wide, with no way to continue expanding outward.

An ordinary Soul Ring would slowly spread from small to large, finally forming a Soul Ring about one meter in diameter.

"Good. As expected, it can't escape!"

Seeing this, Mo Bai immediately cheered inwardly.

Since he had already successfully confined it inside his body, what remained was to absorb it.

Mo Bai tried circulating Soul Power to refine it, but the other party was like a stubborn rock, unmoving and immovable.

Only when Mo Bai tried controlling the First Soul Ring inside his body and moved it to loop over that Soul Ring did things change.

Unexpectedly, Mo Bai's First Soul Ring easily looped around the Soul Ring that the little scorpion had released. In the end, it was completely absorbed and vanished.

Boom~

However, just as Mo Bai thought the little scorpion's Soul Ring had been so easily absorbed by his own First Soul Ring, he suddenly felt his First Soul Ring tremble fiercely. It directly appeared automatically around Mo Bai's body, constantly quivering, as if it might collapse at any moment.

Not good!

Mo Bai cried inwardly that this was bad, and for a moment, he had no idea what to do.

He did not know how to stabilize his First Soul Ring!

He had never heard of a Soul Ring seeming about to explode, nor had he ever come into contact with knowledge in this area.

Mo Bai could only use his will to control his First Soul Ring, thinking to stabilize it, stabilize it, but it was useless. The entire First Soul Ring grew more and more out of control, as if it was about to collapse at any moment.

"Damn it, are the consequences this serious?"

"Is my First Soul Ring going to be destroyed?"

Mo Bai was filled with shock and fury. No matter what, he had not expected that a weakest Soul Ring of only one year would actually cause such serious consequences.

He had originally thought that no matter what kind of change appeared, it was only a one-year Soul Ring. What sort of destruction could it cause? Wouldn't he be able to suppress it casually?

Who would have known it would turn out like this?

But now, it was too late to say anything. Almost subconsciously, Mo Bai began to circulate the Jing Yu Secret he cultivated.

However, as Mo Bai circulated the Jing Yu Secret directly, every time it completed one circulation in his body, a trace of special Soul Power flowed out of Mo Bai's body and onto the First Soul Ring.

Gradually, as more and more Soul Power flowed out, Mo Bai's First Soul Ring actually stabilized.

In the end, it no longer trembled and completely calmed down.

"What is going on?"

After successfully stabilizing it, even Mo Bai himself did not understand how he had done it.

Mo Bai only knew that it was his Jing Yu Secret that had stabilized the First Soul Ring that had been about to collapse!

"Could it be because Soul Power circulated in the manner of Inner Force can stabilize Soul Rings?"

Mo Bai felt that his guess should be correct.

As for why his First Soul Ring showed signs of collapse after devouring the little scorpion's Soul Ring.

Now that Mo Bai thought about it carefully, it was as if the original Soul Ring had a barrier layer stabilizing it. After his First Soul Ring looped the little scorpion's Soul Ring inside, the barrier layer suffered damage, which was why it nearly collapsed.

This did not have much to do with the strength or weakness of the devoured Soul Ring.

Otherwise, Mo Bai could not understand why merely devouring a one-year Soul Ring could cause such serious consequences.

Whether that was truly the case would only be known after he continued trying.

"First, let's see what changes I gained after successfully devouring it!"

However, Mo Bai still decided to examine his First Soul Ring first. If there was no change at all after devouring the little scorpion's Soul Ring, then what was the point of continuing to try?

Only, no matter how Mo Bai studied it, he did not discover any changes in his First Soul Ring.

Its age, Soul Skill, and Soul Skill strength were still the same as before.

"It may be because the Soul Ring it devoured was too weak, so I can't see any changes!"

In the end, Mo Bai could only make this judgment.

If there were no changes at all, that would be even more impossible!

"I can only know by trying again. And the age of the Soul Beast I test with can't be too low!"

Mo Bai's expression turned hesitant.

He did not know whether he should continue trying. What if the consequences caused next time were even more serious?

But after discovering a possible method to devour Soul Rings, if Mo Bai did not use it and instead gave it up, he was not willing either.

Mo Bai felt that this was very likely an opportunity for him.