Insufficient balance

  As the mantis approached its prey, its sharp claws spread wider, just as it was about to strangle the creature in front of it.

  "Gravity Technique."

  Zheng Feng stood behind Ya's body, calmly and unhurriedly issuing orders.

  A layer of yellow transparent light appeared in a circle with a radius of 5 meters centered on the tooth. As soon as the Blood Shadow Mantis stepped into the light, its speed suddenly slowed down and it gradually stopped in front of the tooth, 2 meters away, falling from mid-air, its whole body trembling non-stop, as if enduring immense pain, unable to get back up again.

  At this time, Xue Ying's mantis thought of escaping, but it was already unable to escape the gravity technique of Ya.

  Without waiting for Zheng Feng's orders, the earth thorns suddenly protruded from under the Blood Shadow Mantis' body one by one. Except for its hard scythe-like forelimbs, the rest of the Blood Shadow Mantis' body had very weak defensive capabilities, especially its large and swollen abdomen.

  Moisture

  The earthworm-like thing inserted into the abdomen of the Blood Shadow Mantis without any obstruction, and a red, unidentifiable liquid splattered out. The Blood Shadow Mantis, who was on the verge of death, knew it couldn't survive and made a final attack, using its last bit of strength to fling its pincer-like forelimb at Zheng Feng. It seemed that even in death, they wanted to find someone to take the fall for them.

  Zheng Feng had already secured his victory, but he didn't completely let his guard down. At this moment, he saw the Blood Shadow Mantis's flying sickles approaching. He ordered: "Ya, Earth Wall!"

  A thick earthen wall about 20 cm wide rose from the ground and stood in front of Zheng Feng, blocking the sickle.

  Standing behind the earth wall, Zheng Feng looked at the sickle that had completely sunk into the earth wall, and from his side, he could see a sharp head poking out. Good heavens! He suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, he had been prepared for unexpected situations and had deliberately left an earth wall in front of him. Still, he hadn't expected that Blood Shadow Mantis's final blow would have such powerful impact force, almost causing him to capsize into the ditch.

  The Soul Beast's desperate blow was incredibly powerful. It seemed that in the future, he couldn't just hold back one hand, but also needed to prepare several insurance measures to be safer, Zheng Feng thought secretly.

  The earth wall is now Ya's only defensive soul skill.

  Gravity Technique is the strongest soul technique discovered by Zheng Feng so far. From the beginning, it could only control a range of one meter around itself to increase gravity by twice, until now it can control a range of five meters around itself to increase gravity by five times. The effect will continue to strengthen with the enhancement of oneself and Ya's strength, and it is a range-type soul technique.

  Don't underestimate the five-fold pressure, an ordinary person can probably only withstand a force of their own weight, and that force is only acting on the outside. However, the tooth's gravity technique does not only act on the outside, but also has an effect on the internal organs and blood. When your blood and organs are affected by twice the gravitational force and cannot function normally, don't mention being crushed to the ground and unable to move, it's likely that you'll be done for in just five minutes.

  Moreover, the flying soul beast that is accustomed to a light body has an even weaker tolerance for gravity. Once the body is affected by gravity, it can't maintain flight status at best, and in severe cases, it's like the Blood Shadow Mantis, falling to the ground and unable to control its movements.

  It seems that Heaven has given the elephant, the king of this earth who cannot fly, a special soul technique to restrain flying soul beasts. This is a principle often mentioned by people. In the East, it's "塞翁失马，焉知非福" (the loss of a horse may turn out to be a blessing in disguise); in the West, it's "when one door closes, another opens".

  Yesterday, when he planned to go help Lin Tianxue and the others, he wanted to use gravity magic to hinder the actions of the sharp-toothed crocodile, so that they would have time to escape. After all, there were too many sharp-toothed crocodiles, and his gravity magic couldn't last for long, fearing that in a few seconds he would exhaust his beast soul power and fall into a deep sleep. The more powerful the soul technique, the more beast soul power it consumes, and the law of conservation of energy applies to any world. Moreover, the sharp-toothed crocodile was an earth-water attribute reptile soul beast, with an absolute resistance to pressure that was stronger than ordinary soul beasts, so Zheng Feng didn't use gravity magic on the group of sharp-toothed crocodiles at first.

  Zheng Feng maintained the gravity technique for only a few seconds before he felt that his beast soul power was almost completely depleted, and he suddenly sat down on the ground, resting.

  Zheng Feng, as long as he wasn't in a state of deep sleep, his beast soul power would recover much faster than an ordinary beast soul master. In less than an hour, he got up to clean up the corpse of the Blood Shadow Mantis.

  Looking at the dark red beast crystal in his hand, he realized that the soul beast just now should be of blood attribute. Some variant attribute beast crystals are much more precious than ordinary attribute beast crystals, and blood attribute is one of them.

  The beast crystal of the Blood Shadow Mantis and the one he obtained from the Sharp-toothed Alligator King were about the same size, so he thought that this Blood Shadow Mantis was also an ordinary magical beast.

  Still that sentence: No culture, how scary!!

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  "Meow! Meow!"

  Seeing Zheng Feng recover, Ya was overjoyed and shouted out loud. Then she bit onto Zheng Feng's white robe and pulled it apart.

  Zheng Feng looked at the teeth and knew that they still refused to give up, so he decided to cross over the fluorescent line. He was also 'curious' and wanted to see what it was that was attracting the teeth.

  Wish big sister take care of herself.

  Dui ya dian le yi xia tou, ya xing fen de zai ci dai qi lu lai.

  English Translation:

  Nodded at Ya, Ya excitedly took the road again.

  Zheng Feng followed Ya as they advanced, and soon they crossed the outer boundary. He felt that Ya was deliberately choosing places without roads to advance, and Ya's small body could easily pass through the thickets. But it was a pity for himself, his clothes were already torn and tattered, and many times he had to use his beast soul power to break through the thickets in order to continue advancing.

  In this dim environment, I don't know how long I've been walking, the sky has already darkened, because originally there was still some light that could pass through the gaps between the leaves, but now this last bit of light has also disappeared, Zheng Feng is still relying on the faint yellow beast soul power on his body to guide him so as not to get lost.

  The teeth finally stopped in front of a cave entrance, and Zheng Feng felt lucky that they hadn't encountered any other soul beasts on their way. It wasn't until now that Zheng Feng noticed the atmosphere around the cave was very eerie, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was that made it feel so strange.

  Until the cat saw itself rushing over, it let out a "meow".

  The cry was exceptionally clear and reached Zheng Feng's ears. He only discovered the strange place was the sound, it was too quiet here, quietly strange.

  The outer periphery was also unusually quiet before, but at that time, there were still birds chirping and insects buzzing. Now, however, this cave is completely silent, without even a single animal or insect making a sound. It seems that the thing that attracts the teeth is inside this cave.

  Zheng Feng stood at the entrance of the cave, but didn't immediately enter. The eerie silence made him consider a question. He recalled that on his way here with Ya, they hadn't encountered any soul beasts either. Was it really just luck? Or was there actually no existence of soul beasts around this cave? Why didn't any soul beasts dare to come or be near here?

  Zheng Feng stared at the pitch-black cave, constantly analyzing in his mind, and finally came to the conclusion that:

  This cave is inhabited by a powerful soul beast, and its surroundings are all his territory, so there are no other soul beasts nearby.

  Secondly, this cave is extremely dangerous and frequently erupts with disasters. Over time, it's only natural that no soul beasts would inhabit the surrounding area.

  Either conclusion implies danger and opportunity.

  Zheng Feng swallowed hard, having already come this far, could he really return empty-handed?! What a joke!! How can you get the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair?!

  Zheng Feng clenched his fists and cautiously followed Ya into the cave.

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  【PS: I wrote "Razor-toothed Crocodile" as earth and water attributes in Chapter 26, which should be ground and water. I have corrected it now. Although it doesn't affect the story, I still want to apologize for that. I know there are many other mistakes that I haven't noticed yet. If you find any errors, please leave a comment and I will correct them as soon as possible. Thank you!】