Joining the Blood Sea System, Choosing the Mental Evolution Route, Evolving into a Blue-Veined Starfish

After sensing that he had evolved into a thousand-year Starfish, Lin Tian clearly felt the bloodline energy that had been lying dormant inside him suddenly come to life.

A warm, gentle energy flowed through his entire body before finally returning to the space between his brows. It became four points of light, floating in his consciousness.

As it turned out, his cultivation had broken through to the thousand-year level, allowing him to evolve.

And because the Starfish he possessed at that moment was his Martial Soul, and shared the same origin as the Blood Sea Martial Soul, he had also been assimilated by the Blood Sea's rules and inherited the attribute system of the Blood Sea Cell Monsters.

To evolve his bloodline, he now needed to choose one attribute to upgrade.

The four orbs of light in his consciousness each represented a different attribute: the life attribute of Red Blood Cell Monsters, the defense attribute of White Blood Cell Monsters, the attack attribute of purple lymphocytes, and the mental attribute of Platelet cells.

Only then did he realize that Platelets not only had powerful healing abilities, but also possessed a mental attribute.

Lin Tian immersed his consciousness in his sea of awareness and studied the four points of light for a while. Then he finally figured it out.

Since he was going to the Spirit Pagoda next, choosing mental power was clearly the best option.

Besides, in the era of Legend of the Dragon King, mental power was the real hard currency.

Whether absorbing Soul Spirits, increasing their age, or creating Battle Armor and piloting mechs in the future, mental power was essential.

Life, defense, and attack were all useful, but mental power was more practical.

Mental, then.

Lin Tian didn't hesitate any longer. He immediately locked onto the blue orb of light.

As soon as he made his choice, the other points of light vanished.

Right after, all the energy accumulated in his bloodline surged toward the blue orb.

The blue orb instantly turned into a streak of light and shot into his Starfish body.

The moment it entered, Lin Tian felt a refreshing coolness spread through him. The stiffness caused by his earlier growth spurt disappeared completely.

His soul and body fit together perfectly.

At that moment, faint blue markings began to appear across the surface of his Starfish body, like veins.

They ran along each of his arms, then converged in the center, where a five-sided, translucent Blue Crystal appeared.

The crystal flashed on and off as if it were breathing, ready to release blue light at any moment.

Lin Tian could sense that all his mental power was now stored inside the blue gem on his chest.

And now, his evolution was complete. He had transformed into a Starfish with an attribute: a Mental Starfish.

A Blue-Veined Starfish!

This Martial Soul of his was completely different from his former useless one.

It not only possessed a wicked ability to devour, but also had a mental attribute.

His cultivation had now stabilized at the thousand-year level, and his mental power had surged.

His previously vague senses had become remarkably clear.

He could see the currents of the Blood Sea and all the plankton floating in it—in other words, the microorganisms—as clearly as day.

His five eyes had also been strengthened, so he no longer saw double.

Feeling the surging mental power inside him, Lin Tian was overjoyed.

He wasn't going to limit himself to seeing with his eyes. He began trying to control the Spirit Gem in his chest.

Under his mental perception, the crystal in his chest lit up and resonated with him.

Then an invisible wave of mental power spread out like a tide, instantly covering the waters several hundred meters around him.

He could clearly perceive anything within a radius of several hundred meters. That was the benefit mental power brought.

He was different from those Blood Sea Monsters without any cultivation.

Take the Platelet Blood Sea Monsters there, for example. Since they had no cultivation, they could only use the most basic healing ability. They couldn't even release mental power, and had no supernatural energy whatsoever.

But now that he was a thousand-year Soul Beast, he could wield supernatural power and had been able to choose the mental attribute early.

Lin Tian could also be sure that once these Blood Sea Monsters, such as Platelet Monsters, reached the thousand-year level, they would gain the same ability as him.

This ability was just too amazing.

Within a radius of several hundred meters, nothing could escape his perception—not the flow of the blood, not a single thing floating in it, not even low-level Blood Worms hiding in crevices.

This was incredible. The mental attribute was practically tailor-made for detection.

Huo Yuhao's all-around Spiritual Detection was a million-year Soul Skill, but Lin Tian had gotten it right away.

Lin Tian excitedly waved his arms.

A thousand-year Starfish's body wasn't all that strong, but it had terrifying healing abilities. Combined with mental detection far beyond others at the same level, it was enough for him to avoid most dangers ahead of time.

In other words, as long as he didn't take stupid risks, he could basically roam the Blood Sea unchallenged.

At this point, Lin Tian began to think things over.

He had completely absorbed both Soul Bones. Other than his corpse, Blood Shadow Douluo had nothing left that could help him.

Wait. Lin Tian instinctively looked up and saw that Blood Shadow Douluo's corpse had long since rotted away, leaving only a section of dry bones.

He really had eaten Blood Shadow Douluo clean down to the bone. What a sin.

He had finished absorbing the Soul Bones, and the energy in the corpses throughout this area had nearly run out. Devouring them now wouldn't offer him any significant gains.

If he wanted to level up and evolve quickly, he had to find living prey—especially Platelet Blood Sea Monsters. By devouring their mental attribute, he could evolve into a more powerful Starfish.

He was currently the most basic kind of Spirit Blue-Veined Starfish. He was eager to see what even stronger form he would evolve into next, so he had to start hunting.

He already had the best possible start. He didn't need to begin as some lowly ordinary Soul Beast; he had started at the thousand-year level.

And with his powerful mental attribute and undying strength, as long as he developed cautiously and didn't take stupid risks, he could soon rule the entire Blood Sea.

So Lin Tian immediately left this area of corpses and prepared to swim farther upward.

Lin Tian was in high spirits, his body swaying a little.

But just then, right as he was about to leave, a dense wave of energy fluctuations came from the distance.

Lin Tian's heart tightened. He immediately unleashed his full mental power.

The next second, his face turned deathly pale. All the delight had vanished, leaving only utter despair.

Several hundred meters away, countless black shadows were surging toward him, like a moving Black Tide.

Lin Tian swept the area with his mental power. There were tens of thousands of them, all kinds of Cell Monsters.

Normally, a proper group of blood cell monsters numbered in the hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions.

A Blood Sea Monster group with only ten thousand individuals was extremely rare.

The only explanation was that they had lost a battle. But even this many were enough to make his scalp go numb.

Why were there so many?

My luck couldn't really be this bad, could it, heavens?