Chapter 3162: Rebuilding the Second Dantian
With an idea in mind, Lu Xiaotian began experimenting. What surprised him was that, despite trying over and over, he failed each time almost as soon as he started.
"Hey, if I really tell you, will you let me out?" The Netherwing Ant, whose own repeated attempts had also come to nothing, spoke up again.
"Of course. You and I have no grudge between us," Lu Xiaotian said. "If you answer my questions, there's no reason I can't let you out. You did provoke me back then, but I don't feel like holding it against you."
"You were the one who provoked me first," the Netherwing Ant protested.
"You burrowed into my friend's body and nearly killed him. Then you attacked me. And I was the one who provoked you?" Lu Xiaotian sneered.
"Fine, what do you want to ask?" The Netherwing Ant sounded a little less sure of itself after Lu Xiaotian's question and quickly changed the subject.
"What's that sudden extra power inside your body?" Lu Xiaotian asked.
"It's an innate divine ability of the Netherwing Ant race. We seem to have it from birth. Every time we cultivate, some of our demonic essence enters it, but it builds up very slowly. After we use it all, it takes a long time to accumulate again," the Netherwing Ant explained.
Lu Xiaotian asked a few more questions about this second-dantian-like organ. The Netherwing Ant answered some, but stammered through others, only saying that the Netherwing Ant race had rules forbidding them from revealing such things to outsiders. Still, at Lu Xiaotian's level of cultivation, he had derived many cultivation arts on his own. By probing from different angles, he could still glean some crucial information.
"Is your Netherwing Ant race large? How many