Douluo: Evolution from the Human-Faced Demon Spider

Chapter 100 Dragon Bone
From the outside, the chimeric jellyfish's nest looks like a half-eggshell that has been broken in the middle, with the opening facing upwards and a sea pit nearly ten meters deep underneath.

Fang Chang led the sea spiders to dive from the edge of the sea pit. From time to time, they could find a few lone chimeric jellyfish in the dark sea water, but they were quickly killed by the angry sea spiders.

Although this sea pit looks quite large, it is not that big compared to Fang Chang and the sea spider queen, who are several meters long.

They just walked a few steps in the pit, turned around, walked a few more steps, and turned around again, and they had already explored the entire sea pit.

At first glance, this nest didn't seem to have anything special. Fang Chang raised one spider leg to his chin and thought about it carefully. His intuition told him that this nest must not be that simple.

"Xiao Jin, how long has the chimeric jellyfish occupied this nest?" Fang Chang established telepathy with the Sea Spider Queen and then began to ask her, hoping to find some useful clues from her.

Xiao Jin was the name he gave to the sea spider queen. There was no such thing as a name in the spider clan, but Fang Chang gave her one for convenience.

Xiao Jin had a thoughtful look in his eyes, "Probably tens of thousands of years."

"As far as I can remember, the chimera jellyfish's nest has always been here. We have fought countless times and driven them away several times, but they always came back in the end."

"Oh..." Fang Chang nodded, thinking quickly in his mind.

He got a very important piece of information from Xiao Jin's words, that is, the chimeric jellyfish have almost always lived here for the past tens of thousands of years, but it was only in the last two years that their strength began to surge.

There are roughly two possibilities for this situation. One is that the reason for their sudden strengthening has nothing to do with this nest; the other is that it was not until two years ago that they accidentally discovered something in the nest that could make their strength soar.

It's a pity that the fused jellyfish monster has been digested in Fang Chang's stomach without leaving any residue, otherwise he could find it and ask it.

Xiao Jin hesitated for a moment, then continued to respond to Fang Chang through telepathy, "The lifespan of chimeric jellyfish is usually very short, and few can live for more than a thousand years. However, in the past two years, some of them have reached a soul power of more than two thousand years."

"This alone is very abnormal, and their numbers are obviously greater than before. We haven't fought a war for more than 30 years, and their numbers have almost doubled."

"It is precisely because of this that our sea spider clan was beaten so badly by them this time." When she said this, her words became noticeably heavier.

Wait... Fang Chang suddenly noticed a key question from her words, "You said you haven't fought a war for more than 30 years?"

"Yeah," Xiao Jin nodded, "They have been much more well-behaved over the past long period of time. They have never dared to enter our territory. During this period, we had no conflicts until a few days ago."

Yes, this is the crux of the problem, Fang Chang reacted immediately.

It's very likely that the number of chimeric jellyfish increased not because of something, but because this short period of peace gave them the opportunity to expand, and they reproduce much faster than the sea spiders.

If the number is large, then...

"Xiao Jin, do you still remember the original size of this nest? Was it as big as it is now?" Fang Chang asked hurriedly, leaving Xiao Jin a little stunned.

"About that..." She looked around the sea pit and added uncertainly, "But it doesn't seem as deep as it is now."

After receiving her reply, Fang Chang immediately ordered her to lead the tribesmen to dig down along the sea pit. He also used his two shield-shaped front legs as a shovel to dig up the silted soil and transported it outside the pit to dump it.

After digging about one meter downwards, Fang Chang suddenly felt a strange and powerful breath.

He turned to Xiao Jin. She had obviously sensed the same aura and was looking at Fang Chang, while the weaker sea spiders had not yet reacted.

Continuing to dig, the two of them looked at each other and got the same answer.

Dozens of spiders continued digging in the pit. After more than two hours, the depth of the pit increased to nearly two meters.

The mysterious aura became stronger and stronger, and Fang Chang and Xiao Jin could even feel the direction it came from.

"Dig this side." While transmitting the message, Fang Chang quickly rushed to the southwest side of the nest, from where the mysterious aura was emanating continuously.

Soon, as the spiders continued to dig, a coiled light golden skeleton about ten meters long gradually appeared in their sight.

The skeleton looked to be about ten meters long, half of which was the body and head, and the other half was a long tail. It had wings on its back, two pairs of short legs under its abdomen, and a narrow and long skull.

Dragon! This name appeared in Fang Chang and Xiao Jin's minds at the same time, making them overjoyed. Who would have thought that under this chimeric jellyfish's nest, there was actually a dragon skeleton hidden.

The dragon is a remarkable creature in the Douluo plane. It is revered as the leader of all soul beasts. Its strength and physique are beyond the reach of other soul beasts.

Moreover, dragons are not only powerful when they are alive, but even after they die, they can have some unique impacts on the environment.

For example, the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire is a special terrain formed after two of the nine dragon kings fell there. It can make plants grow at ten times the speed.

There is actually a dragon skeleton here. It seems that the sudden increase in the strength of the Chimeric Jellyfish is probably due to it.

Fang Chang’s first reaction when he saw this pile of dragon bones was to eat it!

But after a careful inspection, he was disappointed to find that the dragon skeleton had been buried in the ground for who knows how many years and had long since grown into one with the land.

No matter how hard he tried, he could not separate the dragon bone from the earth, and there was still a certain amount of pressure remaining on the dragon bone, which made Fang Chang very uncomfortable.

After several attempts, he decided to temporarily give up the idea of ​​eating the dragon bone and instead study its function.

The first thing that came to his mind was that it might be able to speed up the soul beast's cultivation, just like the chimeric jellyfish.

After more than half a month of experiments, he finally found that this dragon bone did indeed increase the speed of cultivation.

The effect is better for soul beasts with weaker soul power. For example, a sea spider of several decades level can even cultivate five or six times faster near the dragon bone.

As for soul beasts with soul powers ranging from hundreds to less than a thousand years, dragon bones can increase their cultivation speed by about two times.

But as time goes by, the effectiveness of the dragon bones becomes smaller and smaller, especially for soul beasts like Fang Chang and Xiao Jin that are 80,000 to 90,000 years old, it has almost no effect.

At the same time, Fang Chang also made an important discovery, that is, the sea mud near the dragon bones, perhaps due to its long-term influence, carried a trace of spiritual power.

If soul beasts swallow the soil with spiritual power, their strength will also be improved, especially those soul beasts with weak soul power can use this to quickly improve their strength.

I think this is the key reason why those chimeric jellyfish have suddenly increased in strength in the past two years. Because of the thirty years of peace, coupled with their uncontrolled reproduction, their numbers have skyrocketed.

The original nest was not big enough to accommodate so many chimeric jellyfish and became crowded. Some of the chimeric jellyfish began to try to dig and swallow the mud at the bottom of the nest in order to expand the space of the nest.

Soon they found that their soul power was increasing rapidly, attracting more chimeric jellyfish to swallow the silt together, which eventually made their strength suppress the sea spiders.

After understanding this, Fang Chang immediately decided to move the entire nest of the sea spider clan here, and collect the silt near the dragon bones, and distribute it according to factors such as talent, potential and contribution to the clan.

I believe that with the help of this dragon bone, the sea spider clan will rise rapidly in the near future.

(End of this chapter)