Evolution! Yellow Springs Tiger Demon (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

In the night, Yuan Zhu sprinted through the deserted streets. His body, enhanced by the uniform, was brimming with physical energy, and he ran wildly without feeling tired at all.

"Why did you suddenly want me to leave the group? It would be so much fun to raid the temple together, and there are beauties to accompany us. If we encounter danger, the investigators will cover our retreat. As long as I run faster than the other girls, danger will never catch up to me!"

Yuan Zhu's calculations were meticulous. If he acted with the three girls, the danger would be shared by four people, reducing the pressure to 25%. Leaving aside his trump card, the [Immortal Scripture], running fast enough would be sufficient for safety. He might not outrun Meng Xiyue, but could he not outrun Mai Lili?

The Little Elf explained, "There's a reason why I'm having you act alone. As a kitty, it's time to learn how to cough up hairballs."

"???!"

Yuan Zhu stumbled, almost falling. "What nonsense are you talking about again? I don't lick my fur, what hairball am I supposed to cough up!"

"Alright, just teasing you. There are two reasons for having you act alone. First, the [Boss Template]'s stored Shadow spiritual energy has dropped too much, falling below the warning level. So you need to find a place where no one is around, activate the [Tiger Demon] form, and replenish a round of Shadow power."

As a game sprite, reminding the user that [Battery is low, please recharge in time] is also a necessary duty.

Yuan Zhu was puzzled. "That's not right, is it? I remember that I closed the [Boss Template] after replenishing my mana bar. This template has been on standby the whole time, and hasn't been used much. How could it be low on energy?"

Suddenly, he thought of something and became alert. "Damn it! Could it be the [Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture] stealing power? Is it playing dead? How could it wake up so quickly? I have to find a way to kill it completely! Otherwise, I won't be able to sleep or eat in peace."

The Little Elf quickly reassured him, "Boss, don't panic! The old geezer is lying still and can't threaten us. The energy depletion is your own problem."

"Impossible! After I restored my human form, I couldn't control any Shadow power at all. How could it be depleted?"

Little Elf: "It's the [Universe Within the Belly]. The Universe Within the Belly is suppressing and containing dozens of Aberrant demonic creatures with different pollution attributes. Just suppressing them is a consumption. What's more, the [Universe Within the Belly] is still slowly polluting, eroding, assimilating, and transforming them, trying to create new Chang Gui, which is what you understand as an 'abnormally power-consuming program'!"

"I see. What's the progress? Are these demonic creatures completely dead? Have they been refined?" Yuan Zhu felt a little expectation in his heart. Am I going to herd my own Chang Gui?

Little Elf: "It's only been more than 30 hours, far from it. You're too greedy, swallowing more than 40 in one go. Each of them carries unique pollution characteristics. Shadow power has neither attribute suppression nor can it analyze their pollution essence to find weaknesses to overcome. It can only be brutally and rigidly erased, which is very inefficient. You are now out of demonic power, like having indigestion. Either continue to replenish demonic power and continue to wear them down inefficiently, or I suggest you simply spit them all out and free up your stomach to eat new food!"

Yuan Zhu suddenly understood. "Is that what you mean by coughing up hairballs?"

"Doesn't it sound like it? Both are felines, both have eaten indigestible dirty things, and choose to spit them out. This is the ultimate truth of heaven and earth. You are the King of Meow Meow!"

To activate the Tiger Demon form, he really needed to act alone, find a shady place, and slowly replenish Shadow power.

"So what's the other reason? Why did you have to choose this direction?"

He looked at the route pointed out by the Little Elf. The more he ran in this direction, the more suppressed his senses became. It was a rejection and hostility towards all living things, it was the aura of the [Yellow Springs], it was where the Vajra Temple was located.

Little Elf: "This is also related to the [BOSS Template] and the indigestion of the [Chang Gui]. Through the data feedback from the [Immortal Scripture], I judged that the 'Yellow Springs death energy' has a replenishing effect on the Tiger Demon Spiritual Root."

Yuan Zhu understood the mystery at the speed of light: "Chang Gui, Yellow Springs?"

"That's right. To be precise, the death energy emanating from the [Yellow Springs] is nutritious and valuable to the Aberrant Spiritual Root. The Tiger Demon's natal divine power, [Tiger Chang], is closely related to the underworld. Even your final ultimate divine power, [Mountain Lord Ghost Domain], is to occupy a mountain as king in the human world, drive Chang Gui to communicate with the Yin and Yang realms, and build your own ghost domain in the Yang world. At that time, you will not only be the Mountain Lord of the Yang world, but also the ghost god of the Yin world, eating from both Yin and Yang. If you privately establish a City God Temple, you can enjoy incense offerings in both the Yin and Yang realms, confer small demon god positions to your subordinates, and create a segregated small team of Yin gods."

"Sounds like Black Mountain Old Demon." Yuan Zhu was attracted by the scene described by the Little Elf. Would he take a few stunning female ghosts as concubines to highlight the Mountain Lord's status? Little Elf: "But here comes the problem. We didn't travel to a cultivation universe. The bloodline data recorded by the [Aberrant Spiritual Root] is not compatible with the Du Ling world rules. Even if the [Tiger Demon Template] has been initially whitewashed by the [Shadow Power], even if it is polluted, it will gradually adapt to the current universe. But it's not enough!"

"The bloodline divine power driven by [Shadow Power] has a large number of unknown mutations and deficiencies. For example, for the most complete [Chang Gui], you can only strip out the prey's soul and preserve it with Shadow shaping. But how to bind it to concepts such as 'death, underworld, and netherworld', absorb death energy to grow, and gain access to the underworld... These are all in a state of deficiency, your [Chang Gui Divine Power] can't do it. Therefore, you need to ingest more 'pollution power' to complete the divine power and bloodline."

Yuan Zhu nodded to show his understanding.

Understood, his [BOSS Template] currently retains the function of killing prey, refining Tiger Chang, and creating 'Shadow Chang Gui' with Shadow as the carrier.

But this Shadow Chang Gui is very different from the original Chang Gui. The [ghost] content is seriously insufficient, it is just an alternative soul body, and has no connection with the underworld. And the ultimate divine power of the [Tiger Demon] is closely related to the 'underworld concept' of the Immortal Dao Universe, which is obviously a classic villain route.

Therefore, the current [Pollution Aberrant Version. Tiger Demon] must also explore and complete in this direction to conform to the desire deep in the bloodline, which is also his correct evolution method.

Originally, the Little Elf planned to collect more different types of 'pollution energy', investigate their background stories, analyze their characteristics and attributes, and choose a type that is biased towards the 'underworld' to complete it.

But now there is no need. The [Yellow Springs death energy] that emerged in this bubble world perfectly meets her vision and pursuit of underworld attributes.

The Little Elf sighed, "I didn't expect that this world would also have [Yellow Springs]. It's so lucky, so Xianxia! Perhaps the cultivation system of this world can share the underlying rules with the [Immortal Scripture]. Great, we are saved!"

Yuan Zhu: "As far as I know, any system in the Du Ling world corresponds to a source of pollution. Once selected, it is difficult to change. The Tiger Demon is now deeply integrated with [Shadow] pollution. If we rashly provoke [Yellow Springs] again, will it cause a mental split? What if another 'Little Elf No. 2' is born with [Yellow Springs] pollution as the core and competes with you for fatherly love?"

"???!" The Little Elf crashed for a moment.

I treat you as a brother, but you want to be my dad?

"Don't worry, this level is far from absorbing a second type of pollution. We are just rubbing against the death energy on the periphery of the [Yellow Springs]. We use this pollution power to perform 5%, 10%, 15% controllable pollution rendering on the [Chang Gui Divine Power] to achieve completion. It's like the uniform on your body, which is clearly the power bestowed by the [Mao Mao King], doesn't it also need to absorb other pollution energy to condense a unique seed? Is the [Mao Mao King] afraid that her uniform will be covered by other small pollutions? No, she is not afraid, she wants to control other pollutions!"

Yuan Zhu praised, "I didn't expect that I could also be like the [Mao Mao King], digesting and absorbing other pollution energy."

The Little Elf quickly praised + encouraged, "That's right, you are the best!"

After confirming that the distance he had run was far enough, Yuan Zhu's pace gradually slowed down, from sprinting to walking... His figure gradually disappeared into the shadows cast by the houses, and the darkness under his feet was like boiling water, showing irregular tumbling.

His figure was gradually elongated... becoming taller and larger... from initially walking upright to gradually crawling on all fours... before he knew it, a massive black tiger with fierce, upturned eyes leisurely began walking towards Vajra Temple.

Kaka Kaka Kaka!

The white skeletal snake tail shook its body, emitting strange sounds of bone joints colliding, twisting its body and standing on the Tiger Demon's back, its ruby eyes curiously looking around, sharing its vision with the main body.

The original 'Mao Mao King Uniform' was not torn or ripped, but instead, accompanied by the Tiger Demon's transformation, it voluntarily peeled off from the surface of its body. Shrinking into a ball, it weaved itself into a bow tie, hanging it around the neck of the white jade-colored skeletal snake tail.

In the Tiger Demon form, the uniform's enhancement effect on Yuan Zhu was 0. Restraining it would only be a hindrance, so it was rejected by the power of Shadow. The miserably rejected uniform decisively threw itself into the arms of the bony Little Elf.

The King of Meow Meow had a gorgeous fur coat, but the snake tail was completely naked, how unfair! So the Little Elf inherited the uniform, put on a bow tie for itself, and also hung a bow tie on the Tiger Demon's tail. Becoming a delicate King of Meow Meow.

All of this was the subconscious thought of the second host, so the uniform chose to follow.

After switching to the Tiger Demon form, Yuan Zhu's sensory system was completely renewed. Not only did he gain night vision and thermal vision, but he also possessed unique Shadow vision, allowing him to see the hidden cracks in the ground's shadows, those unique pores connecting to the 'Shadow Plane (Dimension)' of this bubble world.

With just a glance, he observed that this bubble world, seemingly independent, closed, and stable, was actually riddled with holes.

Not only above the firmament, did Starlight penetrate the barrier and drill into the world; the earth's fetal membrane below was also eroded and riddled with holes by the Yellow Springs, with endless death energy seeping in.

At this moment, he walked in the darkness, the Shadow World, separated from the present world by a thin film, was also exposed before his eyes, riddled with holes. He only needed to exert a little force to pry open the gaps in the Shadow, escape into it, and shuttle and jump within the Shadow.

Yuan Zhu slightly activated Shadow Manipulation, fiddling with the seemingly pitch-black mass in front of him, which was actually a precisely structured shadow woven from multiple layers. Then, its Tiger Demon body began to change, wrapped and entangled by the Shadow, twisting and deforming, eventually turning into a pool of black liquid, spreading out on the ground, then merging and seeping in, disappearing.

As everyone knows, cats are made of water. Now, he transformed into liquid Shadow, merging into another world.

Entering the world of Shadow, there were no bright colors in sight, only different degrees of black, white, and gray light and shadow, like an abstract, distorted comic world. Everything in the present world had strange projections, interwoven and stacked without any logic.

Clearly, outside was the neatly built Na Ye Buddhist Kingdom, but within the Shadow Plane, it was like a sharp Shadow jungle growing on architectural ruins.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew. In the air, some floating, hazy, light blue mist suddenly appeared. Because it had color, it was particularly eye-catching and unique.

This ball of blue mist, slightly twisting, sometimes gathering and sometimes dispersing, conveyed information such as coldness, deathly stillness, tranquility, and soul... This feeling was somewhat familiar, where had he seen it before?

"Yellow Springs! This is the water vapor emanating from the Yellow Springs! I recognize this smell, quickly absorb it! Don't let it float away!"

The snake tail suddenly screamed, impatiently wanting to pounce on it, but was firmly controlled by the Tiger Demon's body, preventing the tail from running around out of control.

Yuan Zhu retreated slightly, not allowing his body to come into contact with the seemingly beautiful and harmless mist, while asking: "How are you sure it's Yellow Springs water vapor? I didn't know you recognized it? This water mist does have some similarities to the pollution emitted by those Corpse Ghosts."

Yuan Zhu thought of the fleeting glimpse of the blood Kasaya Ghost face, and the Buddha Corpse Ghost he brushed past. The Buddhist Sect death energy on them had about 20% similarity to this blue mist.

It was hard to imagine that this blue mist was the source of their Yellow Springs power.

Little Elf: "That's because your human body is too weak, and your perception is not as good as the Immortal Scripture firewall. The blood-colored Kasaya Ghost and the Five-Armed Buddha Corpse Ghost both have a strong Yellow Springs death energy, but they are different. They take the Yellow Springs as their foundation, integrate their respective Buddhist Sect systems, and evolve a unique new Yellow Springs death energy, all of which have been recorded by me. Just compare them, and you can be sure that this is a purer, more primitive Yellow Springs aura. I didn't expect it to not be yellow! Why is it called Yellow Springs? Is it the fault of ancient time-travelers again?"

"Are you sure it's okay for me to directly absorb this?"

The Tiger Demon stared intently at the hazy blue mist, and manipulated a mass of Shadow to weave a hollow palm, gently stroking it. The mist constantly changed, not bringing him any threat, but instead arousing a greedy desire.

As the Little Elf said, his Tiger Demon body really wanted to devour and absorb the mist. His intuition told him that this thing was very nutritious and healthy. Eating it would help with digestion (Chang Gui).

"Don't worry, this level of Yellow Springs aura will definitely not pollute you, but rather your Shadow Tiger Demon will pollute it! Talking about pollution without considering the dosage is just being a hooligan. Devouring and absorbing it will add a new death micro-attribute to your Power of Shadow."

The more he looked at the mist, the more he couldn't suppress the desire in his heart: "Let's do it!"

Huff... inhale...! The Tiger Demon exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, raised its head, aimed its nostrils at the blue mist, and took a deep breath, an epic lungful.

As soon as the Yellow Springs mist entered his body, it was instantly captured and absorbed by the threads protruding from the Aberrant Spiritual Root. A little pollution could not shake the firewall at all. It was neither purified nor expelled, but instead digested and absorbed by the Chang Gui Divine Power as food.

In Yuan Zhu's mind, a data prompt of [Completion Progress 1.3%] also popped up.

"I need more!"

As the first mouthful of Yellow Springs mist was absorbed, he confirmed that his Pollution Degree had not increased even by 0.001%, and only then did he relax.

At the same time, the Tiger Demon's perception of the Yellow Springs also became clearer and more acute. Yellow Springs death energy also became the second transcendent energy recognized and accepted by the Immortal Scripture after Shadow, rather than pollution.

The Tiger Demon's intuition told him that when the concentration of Yellow Springs Pollution did not exceed a certain limit, not only would he not be polluted and eroded, but he could also absorb a small amount of this thin Yellow Springs aura, converting it to improve the quality of his demon power.

But once the Yellow Springs Pollution exceeded the critical point, he would still, like the 'Kasaya Ghost, Buddha Corpse Ghost', gradually distort and pollute from the Tiger Demon, eventually deviating into a Yellow Springs ghost. Taking another kind of pollution as its foundation, completely dying.

"Roar!"

Deep in the Shadow World, with no threats around, he controlled his Shadow to spread in all directions, scanning and searching like a radar for those pure and thin Yellow Springs mists, and soon captured the second, third...

The Tiger pounced, the Shadow leaped, his body disappeared from one end of the Shadow World, and then emerged from the other. The Little Snake Snake attacked violently, swallowing the mist in one gulp, and the Tiger Demon's completion progress increased again to 3.4%.

As it continued to collect and absorb the Yellow Springs aura, the power of Shadow, which had originally fallen below the warning line, was also rapidly increasing and recovering.

Yuan Zhu discovered that when he (in Tiger Demon form) was in the darkness, within the range of shadows, without actively doing anything, his Aberrant Spiritual Root could passively draw 'Shadow Power' from the shadows to replenish his mana bar.

If he were to enter the Shadow World, the recovery speed would skyrocket, with shadows from all directions actively pouring into the Tiger Demon's body, offering it Shadow Power.

Moreover, if he stayed here for a long time, the upper limit of his [Boss Template] value would also slowly increase. This meant...

Little Elf: "This is your potential. The Aberrant Spiritual Root is like a compressed package that has been drained of moisture, only carrying the core bloodline data. You need to constantly absorb external nutrients (Shadow Power, Yellow Springs aura) to regrow and develop, constantly breaking through the upper limit. We don't need to actively cultivate; we can easily and comfortably become stronger just by sleeping! Because you are recovering, returning to your peak."

"Sounds like this Bubble World is a treasure land. The shattered Shadow World has no creatures competing with me for resources, and the endless shadows pour in... At this rate, how long will it take for me to return to my peak?"

Little Elf: "According to the [Immortal Scripture Database] records, at the current rate of Shadow absorption, you will need to occupy this place in Tiger Demon form for another 15-16 years. But there is a problem: the Tiger Demon only controls and manipulates shadows, it is not a Shadow creature, which corresponds to the mana bar. So you still need to eat, hunt prey to absorb nutrients, which corresponds to the health bar. This Bubble World is flooded with mad beasts and tomato monks... Can you bring yourself to eat them? Also, if the Yellow Springs aura can drift into the Shadow World, then can't the Yellow Springs Ghosts enter? Perhaps they find it too barren here, which is why they haven't entered."

"15 years? That's too long!"

Upon hearing this, Yuan Zhu completely dispelled the idea of ​​retreating in the Bubble Layer. The Bubble World has a Shadow Plane, so there's no reason why the real world wouldn't have one. Perhaps the Shadow Power is even stronger? After returning to the real world, he can find a chance to try it out.

"Forget it, let's continue collecting Yellow Springs aura to improve the Tiger Demon Spiritual Root."

Snake Tail: "Go in this direction, this side corresponds to the Vajra Temple, and the Yellow Springs death energy is more concentrated over there. We are now considered 0.01 Yellow Springs lifeforms, with a firewall + Shadow shell + Yellow Springs affinity triple protection, we can go to high-concentration areas to extract a richer aura."

"Let's go!"

The Tiger Demon's body twisted abstractly again, stretched into Shadow lines in a pouncing posture, and merged into the mottled shadows, moving quickly.

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