The invisible Yuanshen mechanical warrior used its own holographic projection equipment to lure the sky-reaching black shadow to another battlefield. This alone has verified many problems. The first is that Heiming's intelligence is indeed not high, the second is that Heiming cannot see through the invisibility technology, and the third is that Heiming reacts to the light and shadow moving in his line of sight.
The fact that Heiying is not very intelligent is actually not that surprising. Who said that being powerful means being extremely smart? You must know that this black shadow is actually similar to a resentful ghost. They are both spiritual energy bodies without physical protection. The lack of physical protection means that its own energy body will be in direct contact with various energies from the outside world, and will naturally be subject to certain interference.
Of course, there are also intelligent energy bodies, such as the ghost cultivators in the world of monasticism. However, ghost cultivators often have no choice but to turn to ghost cultivation because they have lost their physical body and do not want to be reincarnated to practice again. The cultivation of ghosts is not like those resentful ghosts who simply rely on swallowing up miscellaneous energy to strengthen themselves, but there is a real theory of cultivation. To put it bluntly, ghost cultivators are also Taoists, and they also take the Tao as their foundation. They have many solutions to their own situations.
This dark shadow in the underworld has no such thing as cultivating the Tao in this world, and the souls of the dead are even less likely to engage in ghost ways. In the Nether World, they are constantly actively or passively devouring other energies, and are constantly being eroded and affected by other energies. That bit of true spirit has long since been extinguished. It can be said that they are like ghost versions of the walking dead. Even if they have powerful energy, they can only rely on instinct to use it.
And then, about the inability to see through the invisible. You know, the invisibility device that Ye Zan equips the Yuanshen mechanical warriors is not just optical invisibility, but can shield spiritual thoughts to a certain extent. The black shadow itself has no intelligence, and naturally cannot have more methods to detect the surrounding situation. Therefore, it is a matter of course that it cannot see through the invisible Yuanshen mechanical warrior.
However, don't think about close-range assassination just because you can become invisible. With the strength of those black shadows, even the self-destruction of the Yuanshen mechanical warriors would not be able to cause particularly serious harm to the opponent. It was impossible for Ye Zan to use all the Yuanshen mechanical warriors in his hands as self-explosion bombs, and there weren't that many of them.
The holographic image's seduction of the shadow shows that the way the shadow observes the surroundings should rely heavily on "light and shadow feedback", or it can be said to be "vision". However, Heiying's "visual" ability is definitely different from that of normal people. At least there is a big difference in sensitivity to light, and the principles are definitely different. After all, the underworld is so dark that it is difficult for ordinary people to see anything clearly, and the black shadow does not have eyes like the physical body.
All in all, regardless of whether this information is useful or not, Ye Zan has learned more about those shadows, at least with this little thing.
Looking at the picture on the display screen again, the seduced black figure chased the holographic image and soon arrived near the battlefield where the fierce battle was taking place. The battle there was quite fierce, with powerful forces constantly bombarding each other, until half of the sky was lit up, and continuous roars resounded across the sky like rolling thunder.
Even though the black shadow before had been weakened a lot, and the Queen of Blades had been strengthened to a certain extent, after all, there was already a huge gap between the two sides, which could not be smoothed out so easily. And another thing is that during the battle, the black shadow seemed to be constantly attracting power from the surrounding space, and its body like a rag was gradually recovering.
Facing the movement coming from the battlefield, the black shadow, attracted by the holographic image, immediately abandoned the holographic image in front of him and turned his attention to the battlefield. After all, even from the perspective of sound and light effects, a mere holographic image cannot be compared with the fierce fighting battlefield over there.
"Brother Ye, that black shadow rushed over, isn't it because he wants to join forces with his kind?" After seeing the black shadow that was seduced, he suddenly sped towards the battlefield. Lin Mumu suddenly said nervously. Although he knew in his heart that those Zerg Dao soldiers were used as cannon fodder, he didn't want to see them really destroyed.
"It seems... wrong! The direction it rushed towards didn't seem to be towards the Taoist soldiers!" Ye Zan originally thought that the two black figures were going to join forces, but when he saw the direction of the black figure behind him, But he found it was different from what he expected.
Originally, when they were still a little further away, Ye Zan and Lin Mumu saw from the surveillance camera that the black figure behind them was rushing towards the battlefield. However, as the black shadow got closer to the battlefield, the real target became more obvious. Its target turned out to be its own kind.
The last black figure was seen, like a black lightning, inserted into the battlefield in an instant, ignoring the Queen of Blades, and rushed towards the previous black figure. As for the previous black figure, when he saw his kind arriving, he was not at all happy. Instead, he seemed a little panicked and even wanted to turn around and run away.
No matter how the former shadow recovers, after all, it was weakened a lot before. It will not fall behind when fighting against the Queen of Blades, but it will be far behind when encountering the same kind in its prime state. As soon as it turned around, the last black figure had already come to it, and directly stretched out its hands to grab it, just like an eagle catching a rabbit. Facing similar attacks, he probably felt that he could not escape, so he had no choice but to turn around and hastily parry.
As a result, the two black shadows started fighting in mid-air, leaving the Queen of Blades aside.
"What is going on? How can they kill each other?" Lin Mumu said in surprise.
"This... cannibalism is probably a way for them to strengthen themselves." Ye Zan said speculatively.
In fact, this kind of situation is not uncommon. For example, those evil souls in the black prison also rely on cannibalism to improve their strength. However, when they reach a certain level, they will gradually open up part of their spiritual intelligence and no longer completely follow instincts to do things.
Of course, those Yinsha evil souls, after reaching a certain level, only know how to judge the situation, and they are not completely immune to cannibalism. If they encounter a similar species that is weaker than themselves, and they judge that they will not pay too much of a price, they will still devour the same species to strengthen themselves.
Therefore, compared with those evil spirits, the behavior of these shadows is not surprising. The only strange thing is that their strength has reached the heaven level, but they still haven't turned on their spiritual intelligence. And this is probably related to the level of this world. After all, this is just a small world in the world of monasticism. Regardless of where the power of this small world comes from, compared with the world of monasticism, it is a secondary world.
"If you put it this way, if that sky-reaching black shadow swallows another sky-reaching black shadow, wouldn't it be..." After hearing Ye Zan's words, Lin Mumu suddenly had a bad idea.
That black shadow is only a Tongtian level, and it is already difficult for Ye Zan and the others to deal with it. If these two Tongtian level are combined into one, wouldn't it be even more difficult to deal with! Although Lin Mumu also knew that the Tongtian level plus the Tongtian level would not equal the Earth Immortal level, it would definitely be more powerful than the original Tongtian level.
"It's not that exaggerated!" Ye Zan shook his head, enlarged the image on a display screen several times, pointed at the screen inside and said: "Look here, the black shadow coming from behind is not trying to swallow it all up. The power of companions, but... seems to be looking for something in the other person's body. "
Sure enough, just as Ye Zan said, in the screen of the display screen, you can see that the subsequent black shadow seems to be tearing apart the previous black shadow. It can be seen from the enlarged picture that as the claws of the black shadow later fell, pieces of black fragments scattered around.
Those black fragments are obviously the power of the black shadow. After all, the black shadow is a pure energy body. If that black shadow wanted to devour its own kind, it should have swallowed up those black fragments instead of scattering them around randomly. Those black fragments that were scattered did not return to the main body, nor were they swallowed up by those who came after them. Instead, they quickly dissipated in the space and were obviously discarded.
Therefore, in Ye Zan's guess, although the black shadow wants to devour the same kind, the target should not be the same kind of energy, but the core of the same kind of body. After all, for energy bodies to be able to condense together, there must be a core existence, just like a ghost needs a true spirit or obsession.
As time went by, probably within a few minutes, the previously weakened shadow was finally torn into pieces by the latter shadow. At the same time, a bright-looking point of light also floated out from the torn black shadow, and it accelerated to escape from here.
However, how could the cannibalistic victor escape with the benefits in hand? He saw the black shadow suddenly rushing forward, grabbing the speck of light in his palm, and then shot it into his body. Sure enough, just as Ye Zan guessed, the reason why the black shadow killed the same kind was because of such a core-like existence.
"This... what changes will happen!" Lin Mumu looked at the display screen and couldn't help but said curiously.
It stands to reason that the black shadow is already at the heaven-level strength. Let alone in this small world, even if it is placed in the outside world of monasticism, it is impossible for him to make any breakthroughs. Therefore, the onlookers Lin Mumu and Ye Zan really couldn't figure out what impact the cores that Black Shadow had plundered from similar people would have on themselves.
"Heh... uh... hiss..." The black shadow that swallowed the same kind of core didn't take much time to digest, and changes quickly appeared on his body. However, its change was not in appearance or energy intensity, but rather beyond Ye Zan and Lin Mumu's expectation, it roared towards the Queen of Blades.
You know, from the moment they came into contact with those black shadows, even if the Queen of Blades fought with the black shadows later, Ye Zan and Lin Mumu did not hear any roar from the black shadows. During the fight between the Black Shadow and the Queen of Blades, the only sound was the bursts of explosive roars caused by the constant collision of the two forces.
"This guy... doesn't want to talk!" Lin Mumu said out of the blue.
"It's really possible!" Ye Zan nodded in agreement, rubbing his chin and said, "Perhaps, the only effect it can have by devouring the core of its kind is to enhance spiritual intelligence."
Language is one of the symbols of wisdom, and shouting is the basic form of language. The rules of shouting with different intonations and tones are summarized, and language was born. In the most primitive period, when there was no written language, humans would point at something and roar a special tone. After this tone became a consensus, it became a word to describe the thing.
Although beasts do not have standardized language like humans, they can still express their thoughts to similar animals through roaring. This can actually be said to be a kind of language. However, beasts do not summarize the rules like humans do, nor do they sit down and reach any consensus on this. Instead, they express their meaning only through the emotions in roaring, but they still need the intermediary of roaring.
Therefore, the black shadow that originally made no sound at all suddenly roared after devouring the core of its companion. It is very possible that the other party's spiritual intelligence has grown, and at least he knows how to express his emotions through roaring. Maybe if he takes a step further, he can actually speak.
"It's a pity that we didn't get the core, otherwise we could have further studied it." Ye Zan said with some regret. But now, facing a powerful black shadow, and the opponent may have gained a little intelligence, it is impossible to defeat the opponent with just Zerg Taoist soldiers.
"What to do with those bugs? Or let them withdraw." Lin Mumu was quite soft-hearted, a little reluctant to let those Zerg Dao soldiers become cannon fodder.
"Well, let's see if the black shadow will let them retreat." Ye Zan nodded and gave the instructions to the brainworms over there to retreat. It's not that he is soft-hearted, it's just that those Zerg Dao soldiers have no point in being cannon fodder. After all, even if they fight with the black shadow, it is impossible to get more information from the other party.
Therefore, under Ye Zan's instructions, although the Zerg Dao soldiers did not disperse their formation, they did not show any intention to attack the black shadow, but slowly moved in the direction of the whirlpool. And as the Zerg Taoist soldiers moved, the condensed illusion of the Queen of Blades naturally moved with it, moving away from the black shadow little by little.
However, seeing the Queen of Blades trying to run away, the black figure suddenly broke out and chased after the Queen of Blades. This was a dark shadow in full condition, not the one that had been weakened many times before. In just a moment, he rushed to the Queen of Blades and smacked her with a wave of his hand.