togophonebook Chapter 13 Crimson Flame Mosquitoes!
Chapter 13 Crimson Flame Mosquitoes!
Boom!
Inside Blackwater Manor, Meng De's spiritual energy surged through a special node within his body, converging at his fingertips. The air temperature began to rise, and a fireball the size of a fist appeared out of thin air. Then, with a flick of his finger, the fireball transformed into a fireball at an extremely fast speed, shooting directly at a swarm of mosquitoes with red flame patterns in mid-air!
Fireball!
With a whoosh, the fireball struck the swarm of red-striped mosquitoes instantly, and scorching flames rose up immediately, igniting a huge fireball with a diameter of over one meter within the swarm! The fireball was extremely hot, and even Mengde, ten meters away, could still feel a wave of intense heat.
Within the area covered by the flames, the swarm of red-striped mosquitoes all turned into black ash. However, outside the burning area, the swarm of red-striped mosquitoes unfolded their transparent, flame-spotted wings—a biological miracle—amidst the high-temperature airwaves. They not only ignored the surrounding temperature of over 100 degrees Celsius, but even in this high temperature, the thumb-sized swarms of red-striped mosquitoes swelled, the flame-spotted patterns on their bodies became brighter, and their activity increased!
Bloodline Catalogue: Mosquitoes
【Blood Mosquito】
[Spirit Level: Common Mosquito]
[Talents: Sharp Mouthparts, Resilient Body, Super Reproduction, Super Growth, Super Absorption]
[Branch - Crimson Flame Mosquito]
[Spirit Level: Common Mosquito]
[Special Talent: 'High Temperature Absorption']
"It can actually absorb heat... This is beyond expectations..." Meng De watched as his fireball spell caused tens of thousands of Crimson Flame Mosquitoes in mid-air to become even more excited in the high-temperature environment, except for the swarms that directly faced the fireball spell and were burned to ashes. A hint of surprise flashed deep in his dark eyes.
Mengde never imagined that these Crimson Flame Mosquitoes, which were still just ordinary mosquitoes, could withstand the fireball spell, because that was extremely unrealistic.
Although the Fireball spell is only a basic spell, a fully unleashed Fireball spell by a Qi Refining Realm cultivator can already incinerate a mortal to death in one hit. Meng De was already satisfied that the Crimson Flame Mosquito could resist the high temperatures generated by the Fireball spell. Moreover, the Crimson Flame Mosquito has now evolved an ability that surprised and delighted Meng De—high-temperature absorption!
This is simply a miracle created by the chaotic mixing of biology and materials science!
Because in Mengde's experiment, the Crimson Flame Mosquito, which possesses the genetic talent of "high temperature absorption", not only has the ability to resist extreme high temperatures, but can also absorb energy from thermal radiation!
Hmm... the term "absorbing heat radiation" seems a bit out of place in this cultivation world. To put it another way, under Mengde's "enlightenment," the Crimson Flame Mosquito successfully evolved a special gene that absorbs fire energy!
"High-temperature absorption... the Crimson Flame Mosquito is extremely well adapted to the volcanic environment..." After completing a series of other experiments, Meng De collected all the remaining Crimson Flame Mosquitoes and placed them in a separate room in Blackwater Manor, preparing to let them continue to be upgraded.
"It's been half a year since I entered Qingling Peak." After dealing with the Crimson Flame Mosquitoes, Meng De returned to his room and looked at the newly revised "Source Blood Record" in his hand, sighing slightly.
In the new "Original Blood Record", Mengde abandoned the division of "generations" because when the number of mosquitoes exceeded a certain level, even Mengde himself did not know how many generations they had reproduced.
Therefore, Mengde is now focusing all his attention on the field of "gene capacity pool".
For example, if the Crimson Flame Mosquito successfully evolves and develops the genetic talent of "High Temperature Absorption", then Mengde will retain the Crimson Flame Mosquito's genetic seed and classify it as a separate subspecies.
As for how many generations the Crimson Flame Mosquitoes went through to successfully develop the [High Temperature Absorption] gene, Meng De didn't care; he only cared about the result.
"Originally, I wanted the Crimson Flame Mosquito to continue evolving and developing other resistances... but now I suddenly have a completely new idea." Meng De looked at the "Blood Source Catalogue" in his hand, his eyes flickering slightly.
Mengde's original idea was to let the Source Blood Mosquito stabilize one genetic talent and then start to evolve more genetic talents, but later, Mengde suddenly changed his mind.
Because Mengde discovered in his experiments that if the Crimson Flame Mosquitoes were allowed to improve their "water resistance", the resulting genetic traits would be very unstable, and some of the Crimson Flame Mosquitoes would even lose their "high temperature absorption" genetic ability.
An individual's energy is limited. Mengde does not object to the fact that in his experiments, there were indeed lucky individuals who, while retaining the genetic talent of "high-temperature absorption," also gained a slight increase in "water resistance." However, such lucky individuals are extremely rare.
After calculation, Mengde discovered that the resources and time required to cultivate the Red Flame Mosquito with water-based genetic abilities could be several times, or even more, than the cost of cultivating a new 'water mosquito'.
After realizing this problem, Mengde began to build his own "source blood gene bank".
In Mengde's "Source Blood Gene Bank" project, whether it is the "fire mosquito" like the Crimson Flame Flying Mosquito, or the future "water mosquito" and "thunder mosquito", they are all gene seeds, external gene equipment, and gene accessories.
The main body of Mengde's mosquito swarm was still the source blood flying mosquitoes that Yunxi and the others used as food for spirit insects.
When Mengde needs a large number of "special flying mosquitoes", the subspecies of flying mosquitoes will directly fuse with the original blood flying mosquitoes. After only two or three generations of reproduction, Mengde can obtain a large number of "special flying mosquitoes".
In this way, Mengde was able to obtain more types and more quantities of source blood mosquitoes with the most limited resources and time.
Of course, if resources are plentiful in the future, the primary blood-eating mosquito may be able to devour the gene pools of all subspecies and complete its ultimate super transformation.
"If we could find a volcanic environment...wouldn't that allow for the automatic iteration and upgrading of fire mosquitoes?" Meng De suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but feel a little tempted.
"As a beast-taming sect, the relationships between disciples at Spirit Beast Mountain are actually quite simple; it's basically a matter of getting paid to do something..." After half a year of getting along, Meng De discovered that the other cultivators on Azure Spirit Peak were more like laborers. They worked to earn spirit stones, used the spirit stones to exchange for cultivation resources, and then worked to earn more spirit stones... and so on.
Are there any events like sect competitions within Spirit Beast Mountain? Very few, extremely few.
Because fighting easily results in injuries and deaths, the death of a spirit beast that one has painstakingly nurtured is tantamount to the collapse of the heavens for the beast tamer. And for the insect cultivators of Qingling Peak, fighting is even more meaningless.
Because the battles of insect cultivators can be summed up in one word: burning money.
If the rewards for battle cannot make up for the losses, then the battle is meaningless.
Of course, the fact that there are fewer battles within Spirit Beast Mountain does not mean that there is no fighting there.
The peace of Spirit Beast Mountain is only internal; its external forces are extremely brutal.