Kapitel 25: The Illusory Cloud Clams
Redakteur: Atlas Studios
"It looks like a folding fan. Its shell is grayish-white with blue-black stripes. The flesh of the clam is red, like a human tongue. It can generate fog that cannot be blown away by the wind, with innate spells…"
"Yes, this should be the Illusory Cloud Clam that Old Fu mentioned before!"
On the treetop, Wang Ping looked at the giant clams in the bay from afar. After observing their appearance and characteristics in detail, he recalled the clam-type demon beasts that he had heard of before and quickly locked onto one of the clam demons known as the "Illusory Cloud Clam."
There were countless types of demon beasts in the sea. No one dared to say that they could recognize all of them.
However, the itinerant cultivators of Golden Pearl Island often hunted demon beasts in the surrounding seas, so they knew the various types of low-level demon beasts that roamed there.
The "Illusory Cloud Clam" that Wang Ping saw was one of the more common demon clams that appeared in the nearby seas.
This type of demon clam was actually very weak in combat. Other than being able to jointly cast the innate spell "Fog Creation" to create a foggy region, their other innate spells that could be awakened were mostly illusions that did not have direct offensive capabilities.
However, although the demon clam's attack power wasn't strong, its defensive power was outstanding. Its shell was a natural Dharma artifact, and its defensive power wasn't inferior to a turtle demon's shell of the same level. In fact, it was even better.
According to what Wang Ping knew, the "Illusory Cloud Clam" had a very high growth rate. It was said that someone had once seen a tier-2 "Illusory Cloud Clam" with a shell width of 30 feet.
Whether a tier-2 Illusory Cloud Clam really existed remained a mystery. Apart from the cultivator who had spread this information, no one else on Golden Pearl Island had seen it.
However, cultivators had seen high-grade Tier-1 Illusory Cloud Clams more than once, so the rumor was most likely true.
And now, in the group of Illusory Cloud Clams that Wang Ping saw, although he didn't see any high-grade Tier-1 clams, there were two mid-grade Tier-1 Illusory Cloud Clams that were more than 30 feet wide.
There were also 19 low-grade Tier-1 adult Illusory Cloud Clams with a width of 10 feet, and at least 100 underaged Illusory Cloud Clams that hadn't awakened any innate spells.
To the cultivators, these demon clams were good stuff.
First, the demon clams were not good at attacking, which meant that the cultivators attacking them were safe.
Second, all demon clams would produce clam pearls that contained spiritual force.
These clam pearls had been nurtured by the demon clams for a long time. The spiritual force inside was pure and had many uses. In the cultivation world, it was a hard currency that was even stronger than spiritual stones.
Lastly, the demon clam's clamshell was an excellent material for refining defensive Dharma artifacts. Two clamshells could be used as two pieces of materials, doubling their value.
However, it was hard for demon clams to grow, coupled with the fact that they were also often captured and killed by the cultivators. As a result, it was harder and harder to find traces of these demon clams on the large Golden Pearl Island.
Wang Ping was truly lucky to be able to discover this group of Illusory Cloud Clams.
However, although the opportunity had appeared, whether or not he could grasp it depended on his own ability.
"The situation is a little difficult to handle!"
"There are so many Illusory Cloud Clams. Even if they are not good at attacking, Xiao Feng and I will not be able to capture all of them in one fell swoop. We might even scare them away before we can kill one or two of them."
"Are we going to have to find other cultivators to help us?"
"No, we can't do that. If we find helpers, let's not talk about how the benefits should be distributed later on, even if I'm willing to take less, it's hard to ensure that no one will be greedy and will want to keep everything for themselves!"
On the treetop, Wang Ping shook his head and quickly dismissed the idea of finding help.
If it was just one or two clams, it wouldn't be a problem if he couldn't deal with them and found someone to help.
But there were so many clams, and the benefits involved were so great that it was enough for people to take the risk and kill others to seize their treasures.
Wang Ping would rather not gain anything than get himself into such trouble.
"We have to think about this carefully."
A thought flashed through his mind, and he made a hand gesture to Xiao Feng, who was on guard below, indicating that he could rest first. After that, he continued to observe the situation in the bay, hoping to discover something advantageous to him.
Time passed bit by bit and the night grew darker and darker. When it was midnight, the demon clams that had not moved much finally showed some changes.
The demon clams that were originally scattered around, looking for food, suddenly moved to the beach on the shore, forming an irregular oval with two mid-grade Tier-1 demon clams in the center.
After that, the adult clams that had awakened their innate spells tried their best to fully open their clamshells, and move the largest clam pearls they had bred to the edge of the shells.
As a result of the actions of these demon clams, balls of white light instantly rose from the dark beach.
Gulp gulp!
On the treetop, Wang Ping looked at the sparkling white spiritual beads, his throat couldn't help but convulse, releasing a light gulping sound.
These spiritual beads were truly the ultimate good stuff!
Especially for a cultivator with a water-elemental cultivation technique like him, these spiritual beads conformed to his own element. He could directly absorb and refine the spiritual force within it to improve his cultivation.
If he could capture all of the spiritual pearls nurtured by the demon clams in one go, Wang Ping estimated that just by refining the spiritual force contained in those spiritual pearls, he would be able to advance to the middle-stage of Qi Refinement.
How could he not be tempted by this? How could he not covet it?
At the same time, what he saw reminded him of a legend.
"Legend has it that the spiritual beads bred by the demon clams can attract the power of the moon at night to help temper their blood flow and improve their cultivation, as well as enhance the quality of the spiritual beads. Looking at the current situation, the legend should be true."
When Wang Ping thought of this, he could not help but raise his head to look at the crescent moon in the sky. Then, he lowered his head to look at the clam pearls that seemed to be getting brighter and brighter. He felt that there might really be a connection between the two.
Then, his heart skipped a beat as a genuine smile appeared on his face.
He had thought of a way to deal with these clam demons!
Of course, this was just an idea. He had to carry out more observations to see if it would work.
For the remainder of the night, Wang Ping did not rest.
He watched the entire process clearly; how the demon clams spat out pearls in the middle of the night to receive the power of the moon. He also clearly saw them retract their pearls when the tide receded in the morning before crawling back into the sea. Then, they cast their innate spell, "Fog Creation," producing a large white fog that sealed the bay.
As the demon clams returned to the bay to rest, Wang Ping, who had been up and watching for an entire night, also returned to the "Heaven and Earth Shell" to catch up on his sleep.
He had more or less observed the situation. Now, he needed to rest and recharge for a day to prepare for tomorrow's battle.
-- Geschenk
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