Grew Long Tentacles, Heh

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Before making his move, Huo Yuhao first settled Bei Bei to one side and renewed his Sleep Well Gift Pack.

Only then did he begin acting with peace of mind.

To obtain the Mutated Frost Centipede's bloodline, Huo Yuhao first needed to come into contact with its flesh and blood.

There was no helping it. He had no time to cultivate those advanced methods for seizing bloodlines, so he could not pull off any fancy tricks. He could only choose the simplest and most direct method—eating!

More precisely, a method called "Flesh Devouring."

This was a means of seizing bloodlines in the Demon Cultivation Method, an instinctive technique found in the bloodline inheritances of many demon cultivators.

There was no need to learn it; one naturally knew how to use it.

It was not even a technique, merely a method.

That was why Huo Yuhao could use it directly.

The principle was not complicated. Humans could use it too; it simply was not very elegant.

First, Huo Yuhao climbed onto the Mutated Frost Centipede's corpse and entered its body through its mouth.

The two-hundred-meter-long Mutated Frost Centipede corpse naturally had a large mouth, more than enough for Huo Yuhao to crawl all the way inside.

As soon as he began crawling in, Huo Yuhao felt somewhat squeezed. Its esophagus had unexpectedly not completely lost its elasticity, giving Huo Yuhao a strong sense of being tightly wrapped.

"Ugh, ah~" Huo Yuhao could not help letting out a moan.

"Brother Hao, don't make weird noises. You're making me very embarrassed," Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could not help saying.

"Shut up! Why don't you try it?" Huo Yuhao snapped irritably.

It was just the sound of the air in his body being squeezed out involuntarily, alright?

He really did not know what Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was thinking about all day long.

Huo Yuhao continued making his way deeper, forcing through the tight esophagus. At last, he successfully reached the Mutated Frost Centipede corpse's stomach.

There was quite a bit of space here. After carefully inspecting it, Huo Yuhao discovered a large amount of frozen liquid in the Mutated Frost Centipede's stomach, along with a small number of biological remains within it.

As expected, the frozen liquid was the Mutated Frost Centipede's gastric fluid, though it had now lost its effectiveness.

Unfortunately, only biological remains were left in the Mutated Frost Centipede's gastric fluid. There were no pleasant little surprises like Soul Bones.

Even as a corpse, the Mutated Frost Centipede's shell was extremely hard, but its frozen flesh inside was not. Huo Yuhao tested it in the corpse's stomach and confirmed that the White Tiger Dagger could cut through the frozen flesh.

Very quickly, Huo Yuhao used the White Tiger Dagger to cut off a finger-sized piece of flesh.

"Hoo~" Huo Yuhao let out a breath and mentally prepared himself.

After confirming that the piece of flesh was not large enough to choke him, Huo Yuhao closed his eyes and put the frozen meat into his mouth.

The frozen-solid flesh was too hard for Huo Yuhao to bite through, so he could only swallow it whole.

Gulp~

Huo Yuhao's throat bobbed as he swallowed the frozen meat.

Swallowing in a manner different from his usual way of eating made Huo Yuhao feel somewhat uncomfortable, but he endured it. The instant the frozen meat entered his stomach, he began circulating the Demon Buddha Method and refining the Bloodline Power within the flesh.

It was only because Huo Yuhao now possessed a special physique, had the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus with him, and possessed cultivation that he dared to swallow frozen meat like this without worrying that the hard frozen meat would puncture his stomach.

The principle behind Flesh Devouring in the Demon Cultivation Method was very simple. One swallowed flesh into one's stomach, refined the Bloodline Power contained within it using one's own Demon Qi, and slowly integrated the Bloodline Power contained in the flesh into one's own bloodline.

The power of the Demon Buddha Method that Huo Yuhao used could likewise refine the Bloodline Power in the flesh, with the same effect.

Naturally, such a low-level method had its drawbacks.

Its efficiency was far too low.

Moreover, obtaining the inheritances hidden within the bloodline was unreliable.

Many times, one could only obtain the bloodline itself and could not obtain the other inheritances contained within it.

Its only advantage was probably that it was simple and convenient.

For Huo Yuhao at this moment, bloodline inheritances were unimportant. It did not matter whether he obtained them or not. What mattered most was obtaining the bloodline and causing his Second Martial Soul to mutate and take form.

A small piece of flesh did not contain much Bloodline Power. Huo Yuhao quickly absorbed it, then moved on to the second piece, the third piece, the fourth piece...

After struggling to eat over a hundred pieces, Huo Yuhao lay blankly atop the frozen meat in the stomach, his lower abdomen unnaturally swollen.

"I-I can't eat anymore, burp~"

At that moment, Huo Yuhao understood what it meant that—humans had limits!

After the Bloodline Power was drained from the frozen meat he swallowed, the remaining flesh would not vanish into thin air. It remained in Huo Yuhao's stomach, waiting to be digested.

Although Huo Yuhao's physique could protect him from the damage caused by the frozen meat, it could not speed up his body's digestion of it.

Huo Yuhao felt as though a pile of ice lumps had accumulated in his stomach.

And even so, Huo Yuhao had only eaten a tiny portion of the Mutated Frost Centipede's flesh. He had not obtained enough Bloodline Power to make his Second Martial Soul mutate.

There was still an entire two-hundred-meter-long Mutated Frost Centipede corpse waiting for Huo Yuhao to "taste."

"Brother Sky Dream, let's go find the Thorn Snow Centipede instead. The Mutated Frost Centipede is more than I can handle," Huo Yuhao declared. He was still just a child; he truly could not handle an activity this intense.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had no better solution and could only console him. "It's okay, Brother Hao. Once we grow stronger, we can come back and take the Mutated Frost Centipede's corpse away. Then we can eat it however we want!"

"That's all we can do."

Huo Yuhao sighed, sat cross-legged inside the Mutated Frost Centipede's stomach, and activated the Demon Buddha Method to accelerate the digestion of the flesh and blood within.

Otherwise, with such a pile of Ice Lumps weighing down his stomach, even walking would be affected.

As the Demon Buddha Method circulated, it concentrated around his stomach, stimulating its contractions while thawing the frozen meat to make it easier for the gastric juices to digest.

But this could only speed up digestion. There was simply no way to rapidly digest flesh and blood with the Demon Buddha Method, nor could it let Huo Yuhao eat without restraint.

As always, the efficiency was far too low.

"This is ultimately a monster's method. Even if humans can use it, that doesn't mean it suits humans. Monsters can swallow huge amounts of flesh and blood in one go. Even plant-type monsters can absorb bloodline power as nourishment through their roots and stems, but humans simply can't do that..."

"Hmm? Wait! Plants?!"

Huo Yuhao abruptly opened his eyes.

"Brother Hao, what's wrong?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked doubtfully.

"Brother Sky Dream, perhaps we still have another way!"

Huo Yuhao looked extremely excited. Without explaining anything to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, he closed his eyes again and began doing something unknown.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could only sense that the power of the Demon Buddha Method had shifted from Huo Yuhao's stomach to his heart.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stared blankly.

Suddenly, Huo Yuhao's skin began to bulge, as though something was about to grow out from inside his body.

Squelch—

The next second, a plant root suddenly burst out from Huo Yuhao's chest.

"Ah! This is terrible! Brother Hao, tentacles are growing out of you!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm clutched his head and screamed in terror.

Huo Yuhao had just been about to look pleased, but Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's shriek left him speechless.

"Brother Sky Dream, stop yelling nonsense. This is a Snow Lotus Root, and it's under my control," Huo Yuhao said helplessly.

To prove it, the root growing from Huo Yuhao's chest formed a heart under his control.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said, "Eye-opening. Truly eye-opening!"

Huo Yuhao had only thought of it on a whim, yet he had never expected it to actually work.

As for being controlled by Huo Yuhao, the Snow Lotus itself showed no resistance or objection whatsoever.

And the root growing from Huo Yuhao's chest seemed not to have caused him any harm.

Naturally, that was due to the Snow Lotus's powerful healing ability.

Not even a drop of blood flowed!

The root growing from his chest was completely under Huo Yuhao's control. Huo Yuhao licked the root that had extended to his mouth.

The corner of his lips curled up as the Dragon King smiled.

"Humans have limits, so—"

"Go, Snow Lotus Root!"

The root shot forward. Though it looked soft, it was sharper than metal and easily pierced into the frozen flesh and blood.

Sigh, he had just gotten out, only to go help his buddy check in again...