EFB Chapter 1598 Ashmona's True Face
Chapter 1598 Ashmona's True Face
Chapter 1598 Ashmona's True Face
Of course, Dong Rui was also very clear that Cao Wendao was not unaware of the drawbacks, but he had an assessment task on his shoulders and the pressure from the Heavenly Palace was not small. Insects generally have strong reproductive capacity, which means faster iteration, and it is easier to produce data and verify research using them. However, Dong Rui was a free and easy person. He valued quality, and he also wanted to cultivate affinity with the demon puppets, so the number of demon puppets he produced was small.
There are two ideas because of different starting points, but you cannot have your cake and eat it too.
Dong Rui brought a small piece of grapefruit to Chitu's mouth. Cao Wendao might not dare to let the magic pestle leave his body when he sleeps, unlike him, who often shares food with his demon puppet.
The rabbit smelled it and found it fragrant, but did not eat it.
It only eats meat, and it has already eaten three large pieces tonight, so it is not hungry anymore.
"So Cao Wendao specially refined a demon-subduing pestle to control Ashmona. When the pestle broke, Ashmona escaped and immediately attacked back." Dong Rui shook his head. "Ashmona is conscious, and he is different from those insect puppets. Judging from his reaction to Cao Wendao, there is affection between them - the hatred is deep."
Love and hate are both emotions.
Chi Tu nudged Dong Rui's hand, so he had to continue touching it.
He Lingchuan could also see from the side that the little red light beast was full of affection for Dong Rui, probably because he was grateful for his efforts in treating him over the past few years.
"Since this little thing has broken out of its shell, does that mean it has stabilized?" He Lingchuan was very curious. "What did Tiangong originally transform it into?"
"Humanization." Dong Rui did not hide it. "It was twisted into the rudiments of a human, but it is more unable to adapt to this form than other beasts and is always on the verge of collapse. The demon puppet masters of the Heavenly Palace probably thought that since it was a rare young beast, it would be a pity to dispose of it as waste, so it would be better to recycle it."
"So, transform it into a Child-Eating Beast again?" He Lingchuan knew that Child-Eating Beasts were basically disposable demon puppets. After the seal was released, it would compress all its vitality and burst out in a short period of time.
Trade life for power.
"Yes." Dong Rui pinched the rabbit's ears, "But this little thing is smart and refuses to respond to He Jing's call."
This little red glow hyena is very stubborn, but smart enough to know that it will die once it is born.
"By the way, what exactly is Ashmona?" He Lingchuan has been curious about this question for a long time. "Is it a demon?"
When Dong Rui and Cao Wendao were dueling, He Lingchuan watched the live broadcast through the eyeball spider and was very interested in Cao Wendao's main demon puppet.
"No, no!" Dong Rui looked mysterious. "Aren't you the best at deduction? Why don't you try to deduce one?"
"The remains of the young celestial being that the Ghost King Xuanlu gave to Cao Wendao came from the Howling Forest. These remains once caused no grass to grow within a few miles." He Lingchuan stroked his chin, "Master Minghui's cave is in the Howling Forest. This little demon must have escaped from there, right?"
Dong Rui snapped his fingers: "Hit!"
In his suicide note, Minghui mentioned that at the end of the war between immortals and demons, the demon he had collected suddenly gave birth to a child, broke through the cave and escaped. Minghui caught up with him and killed him in the forest.
"When the little demon escaped, Master Minghui knew that the location of his cave had been exposed. After killing it, he probably rushed back to pack his bags and had no time to deal with the little demon's remains. As a result, it polluted the surrounding land, and for many years thereafter, no living creatures were seen, and not a single blade of grass grew."
Dong Rui took out half of the demon-subduing pestle from his storage bag and placed it on the table: "I checked it, it is indeed made from the remains of a young demon, but there is also something mixed in it that you absolutely can't imagine!"
He Lingchuan didn't even blink: "Legacy?"
"I told you that you couldn't guess it... Uh!" Dong Rui was stunned for a moment, and said angrily, "You monster! How did you guess it?"
He Lingchuan took out a large piece of dried meat and circled it in front of Red Rabbit. Although the rabbit was not hungry, the dried meat in front of it was too fragrant, so it smacked its lips and was eager to try it.
He quickly threw the dried meat away to avoid hurting his fingers.
With a whoosh, the jerky disappeared before it even hit the ground, while the rabbit remained where it was, just raising its front paws to wipe its face.
Dong Rui urged: "Hurry up and tell me!"
"It's just like what you thought." He Lingchuan said slowly, "There is no life in that place, but Xuanlu brought out a living creature, which means that thing is probably not a normal creature. Little Sky Demon has been dead for many years, and it can't harm other things. Only the land continues to be polluted."
He concluded:
"So, if the demonic pollution didn't cause biological mutations like the 70-year cicada, then there must be something wrong with the land itself."
The emergence of the 70-year cicada is an extremely rare event. The common consequence of the demons polluting the land is deserts and saline-alkali lands, which are far away from living things.
"You're really good." Dong Rui gave him a thumbs up, "You just figured it out a little later than me."
"This so-called 'living thing' is an earth spirit." Dong Rui shook the broken pestle in his hand. "I guess after the little demon died, there happened to be an earth spirit nearby. This thing was influenced by it over the years and gradually mutated."
He paused and continued, "There are actually more ways to make a demon puppet than just using divine blood to induce mutation. I like to use divine blood because it is easiest to control the amount. After the little demon died, his body was exposed to the wind and sun for a long time. His muscles, bones, blood, and the land eventually merged into one, and also deeply merged with the earth spirit."
"Earth Spirit Demon Puppet?" There are really all kinds of strange things in this world.
"That's right. The Ghost King Xuanlu captured it and gave it to Cao Wendao, who then refined Ashmona." Dong Rui said seriously, "I guess the anger and resentment of the little demon before his death were also left to the Earth Spirit, so it always rebels against Cao Wendao."
"The true form of the Earth Spirit is in this pestle?"
"No, it was in the half of the pestle that Ashmona took away. I guess it was at the handle of the pestle. It successfully attacked Cao Wendao and then became free."
The scene of the demon puppet devouring its master made Dong Rui alert and he must learn from it for the rest of his life.
"What will this thing do when it's free?"
"That's hard to say." Dong Rui spread his hands. "After Xiao An escaped from Honglu and regained her freedom, her subordinates killed many more people. Ashmona is much more cruel than her."
He then added, "By the way, help me get some materials. The snail toad is injured and needs to be repaired."
After that, he took out a snail toad the size of a grapefruit and pointed out its wound to He Lingchuan: "Look, its leg is broken. It also suffered a lot of injuries from fighting with the flip-skin blenny. One of its eyes was bitten off, and its intestines were pulled out."
The size of the flip-skin blenny and the snail toad were similar, and before it was blown to death, it had been beaten all over by the snail toad. How could the snail toad itself be unscathed?