parentshiftbook Chapter 68 Good fortune!
Chapter 68 Good fortune!
"Boss, what... what should we do now?"
Li Tong's voice was a little dry; he was genuinely frightened.
At the mountaintop, the Crimson Glow Spirit Fruit had already been picked by Su Ye. What should have been an end to the struggle continued in a more bloody way. The giant bear was covered in blood, and there were still cuts on its shoulders and neck from Su Ye's golden breath. But it seemed to feel no pain at all, and with its head down, it tore into the body of the black bird piece by piece.
The sound of bones breaking was especially clear in the mountain wind.
Click.
Click.
It first bit open the large bird's skull, then pressed its thick claws against the still slightly twitching head and swallowed the brain inside.
Li Tong's face turned pale, his stomach churned, and he almost vomited on the spot.
The Thunder Centipede wasn't completely dead yet; its mangled body writhed violently in the cracks of the rocks, and occasionally a few arcs of blue-purple electricity would erupt between its shells.
The giant bear turned its head.
It pressed down on the centipede's middle section with one hand, roughly tore open the dark brown carapace, and dragged out a fist-sized fleshy sac from inside.
The fleshy sac was semi-transparent, and inside it seemed to contain a cluster of tiny lightning bolts, with blue-purple arcs of electricity constantly moving across its thin fleshy walls.
The giant bear let out a low growl and opened its mouth to bite down.
boom!
Lightning exploded inside its mouth.
The giant bear's massive body trembled violently, a suppressed roar of pain emanating from its throat, tiny arcs of electricity crackling between its mouth and nose, and the smell of burning instantly filled the air.
It bit the fleshy sac to pieces and swallowed the clump of blood and flesh that shimmered with lightning.
Su Ye remained silent.
He just watched quietly.
The last time I killed that cat demon in the alley, everything happened too fast. That cat demon itself had only just begun to mutate, with abnormal bone density and sharp claws and teeth, but it was far from forming a complete evolutionary structure.
This giant bear is different.
It is powerful, brutal, and savage, and has already completed its first marrow cleansing.
It is using the most primitive method to swallow the substances that have settled in the bodies of the other two evolved organisms into its own.
Su Ye's spiritual power slowly spread out.
The water-elemental golden core trembled slightly, sensing the mountain wind, blood energy, and lightning, which gradually seeped into the giant bear's body.
The next moment, his eyes flickered slightly.
The giant bear's stomach is undergoing changes.
The bird brain and thunderous flesh sac that it swallowed quickly disintegrated in its stomach. Ordinary flesh and blood were crushed, dissolved, and sank deep into the gastric juices. But what was truly preserved were strands of finer, brighter, and more active things.
Those things were like faint sparks peeled from flesh and blood, or like some kind of spiritual fragments that had already taken a direction.
They did not directly disperse into the limbs and bones.
Instead, it first sinks deep into the stomach wall of the giant bear.
Inside the giant bear's stomach, an unusually thick layer of folds was growing, as if the originally rough flesh had been plowed over by spiritual energy, forming a structure more suitable for bearing, grinding, and absorbing.
Su Ye's heart skipped a beat.
This is not an interior view.
It is not the complete evolution of the five internal organs and five elements in human beings.
This is more like a kind of mutated instinctive organ belonging to wild animals.
Giant bears do not have the ability to introspect, nor do they absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth like humans do, using their heart as an engine and their internal organs as a framework.
It will only devour.
To forcibly transform what has already taken shape in other evolved organisms into one's own.
Humans strive for the essence of heaven and earth.
Beasts seize the essence of heaven and earth.
This sentence suddenly popped into Su Ye's mind.
What is a flash of inspiration?
It is not the primordial spiritual energy that wanders between heaven and earth.
After spiritual energy is born, it falls upon all things, prompting them to change. The final result is spiritual energy.
The Crimson Cloud Spirit Fruit is a spiritual opportunity.
The fleshy sac inside the Thunder Centipede that generates lightning is the key.
The mutated structure within that large bird's brain that supports its speed, sense of direction, and aerial hunting instincts is also a source of inspiration.
Even his own water-based golden core is a higher-level and more refined spiritual energy.
For humans, these things can be observed, summarized, and deduced, eventually forming a "supernatural" system.
But for wild beasts, the most direct path is to devour.
Su Ye's eyes gradually brightened.
It turned out to be the case.
He has always viewed the extraordinary through the lens of the human body's structure: kidney water, heart fire, lung metal, spleen earth, liver wood, the five internal organs and the five elements of heaven and earth. This path is stable, clear, and more orderly.
But now the giant bear in front of him is showing a different kind of "extraordinary" approach, which is an eye-opener for Su Ye.
The giant bear suddenly let out a low growl.
Its body began to change drastically. Its already large body swelled up even more, and its shoulders and back became even more exaggerated. Beneath its dark fur, muscles writhed, as if countless thick tendons were rearranging themselves under the skin.
Lightning burst from its mouth and nose, spreading along its neck to its shoulders and back.
Crackling sound.
Tiny arcs of electricity danced among the black fur, slicing the damp mist after the rain into short streaks of light. The sliver of intelligence from the bird's brain sank deep into its skull, giving its originally murky and fierce eyes a clearer look.
This change is chilling.
Flesh and blood are forcibly adapting to the new structure.
The joints lengthen, the fascia tightens, the stomach rumbles, and the blood rushes.
With each breath it took, a low, rumbling sound filled the air, and the rocks beneath its feet trembled gently.
Li Tong subconsciously took a step back.
"Boss, it...it's breaking through?"
"Um."
Su Ye responded with a faint "yes".
"The second marrow cleansing."
Li Tong's lips twitched.
Any one of those three monsters could have crushed him into mincemeat.
Now, this giant bear has evolved again on the spot.
These monsters are terrifying!
"Roar!"
The giant bear also noticed Su Ye's approach.
Its massive body stiffened abruptly, and the ferocity it displayed when it devoured the large bird and centipede vanished completely in that instant. It lowered its head, letting out an uneasy whimper.
A flicker of fear and pleading flashed in those eyes that had gained a touch of intelligence.
Su Ye stopped a short distance in front of it.
My mental power has allowed me to see most of the changes within the giant bear's body.
Su Ye suddenly chuckled.
"Our battle of wits has come to an end, and I have no reason to kill you."
Su Ye looked at it, his tone calm.
"You earned this evolution yourself."
The giant bear stared at him blankly.
A moment later, a hint of gratitude actually appeared in those dark beast eyes.
It let out a low whimper and slowly retreated.
With each step back, the rocks trembled slightly.
The lightning still coiled around its shoulders and back, but the wounds had stopped bleeding. Its massive body appeared oppressive in the mist, like a moving mountain.
Finally, it gave Su Ye a deep look, then turned and disappeared into the forest.
The trees swayed.
Gravel rolled down.
The massive black shadow quickly disappeared into the depths of the night.
The mountaintop fell silent once more.
The smell of blood had not yet dissipated.
Li Tong stood there for a long time before he could find his voice again.
"Boss..."
Su Ye gazed in the direction the giant bear had left, his eyes not filled with killing intent, but rather with a hint of indescribable interest.
"All things in the universe are evolving."
"Everyone has their own path."
"This is really interesting."
Li Tong was silent for two seconds, then let out a long sigh.
"Is it interesting?"
He glanced at the shattered carapace, broken feathers, and bloodstains scattered on the ground, and recalled the image of the giant bear chewing its brains. His face still turned pale.
"I just find it terrifying."
Li Tong smiled wryly.
He finally understood.
What's interesting is that Boss Su has already gone very far down this path; Boss Su is exploring the truth of this world.
For a newcomer like him, who had just begun to understand the basics, there was only one thing he could see.
If the world really becomes like that.
You never know when someone might step on you and kill you.