Chapter 192: Chapter 165: New Evolutionary Form (Part 2)
"Yin Yi, kill it."
"Ling~"
This Dark Demon Rat wasn’t the same one they had encountered underground; it was only at the Extraordinary Level.
A surprise attack from Yin Yi’s Cyan Wood Radiance instantly blasted it into a bloody mist.
A vine whipped out, snatching back a Crystal Stone swirling with black smoke and a palm-sized piece of flesh.
The moment this piece of flesh came into contact with Yin Yi’s vine, a light blue panel automatically appeared before him.
The panel’s data jumped to the interface for Egg Pancake’s evolution and its required materials.
On the interface, a new evolution path appeared at the very bottom.
7. [Red Lotus Dragon Lizard: Power, Physical Strength, and agility as Primary Attributes, Spiritual Energy as a Support Attribute, Fire, Earth, C+ Talent]
[Blood requirement for evolution: 10g of mixed essence blood from a War General Level, C+ Talent Giant Dragon and Red Lotus Battle Lizard, OR 1g of mixed essence blood from a Lord Level, C+ Talent Giant Dragon and Red Lotus Battle Lizard]
[Current Collection Progress: 3%]
[Auxiliary Materials: 5 Extraordinary Level Fire and Earth Element Soul Crystals...]
[Craft the above materials into a Bloodline Awakening Potion according to the following steps...]
[Ritual: Place the Soul Beast in an underground lava environment, have it consume the Bloodline Awakening Potion, and await the leap in life...]
"This is..."
Han Ning was stunned. Just touching a piece of flesh had triggered a seventh evolution path for Egg Pancake.
’Why didn’t this data appear before?’
He gazed at the data on the panel, lost in thought.
Soon, he understood.
’This evolutionary form is perhaps a more advanced form after Egg Pancake evolves into a Red Lotus Battle Lizard or a Giant Dragon!’
’The panel probably didn’t display it because it calculated the probability of Egg Pancake evolving into this form as infinitely close to zero. If it could be displayed, then wouldn’t the B, A, and S Talent paths all be displayed as well?’
It was undoubtedly this piece of flesh that caused the panel to recalculate the odds of Egg Pancake achieving this particular evolution.
’This flesh... it must be from the Golden Flame Rock Dragon... It seems the Burning Fire Race’s plan has most likely failed.’
At this thought, Han Ning’s expression became extremely complicated.
The Burning Fire Race was doomed to fail. Since he wasn’t a true member of the Netherworld Purple Bee race, the heart he’d concocted was a total fake. There was no way the Burning Fire Race could have succeeded.
At the same time, a part of him had secretly hoped the Burning Fire Race could succeed. He wasn’t one of the Five Ancestor Families, and if the people from his academy were to threaten the interests of the Ancestor Families...
A successful precedent set by the Burning Fire Race could have shown them a path to escaping this continent.
But alas... the Burning Fire Race had failed.
Snapping back to his senses, Han Ning patted Egg Pancake’s head and soothed it, "You can’t eat this now. I’ll let you eat to your heart’s content after we get back."
He pointed in the direction the Dark Demon Rat had come from. "Go over there and see if we can collect more flesh."
"Chirp!" Egg Pancake nodded obediently. Its body turned transparent, inch by inch, and vanished into thin air as it ran in the direction Han Ning had pointed.
Egg Pancake moved quickly. As it headed north under Han Ning’s direction, it snatched up common Soul Beast corpses along the way, taking a quick bite to replenish its Physical Strength before tossing them aside.
After it had run for about two kilometers, a scene of utter carnage unfolded before them.
Puddles and chunks of flesh, large and small, were scattered across the rocks and even on top of other Soul Beast corpses. They stained the area for nearly a kilometer ahead a ghastly red, creating an incredibly eerie sight.
Moreover, some of the Soul Beasts that had survived the battle were like addicts fiending for a fix, frantically fighting over the scattered scraps of meat that had fallen on the stones.
The scene reminded Han Ning of a phenomenon he had once seen on television called a "whale explosion."
A sperm whale just over ten meters long could scatter bits of its flesh all over a beach after a whale explosion, to say nothing of the terrifying, sky-blotting Golden Flame Rock Dragon from before.
Only scattered fragments of flesh remained at the scene; there wasn’t a single reasonably intact part. Han Ning guessed that after the battle, the main Body of the Golden Flame Rock Dragon had been taken by the Insect Masters of the Five Ancestor Families, leaving only these scraps behind.
However... even these scraps they’d looked down on were a supreme tonic for the Soul Beasts wandering here.
Besides the chunks of flesh, massive insect limbs also lay scattered about.
Just like with the Golden Flame Rock Dragon, there were only limbs on the ground, no complete bodies. He figured they too had been hauled away by the people from the Ancestor Families.
Unlike what happened when they consumed the Golden Flame Rock Dragon’s flesh, Han Ning personally witnessed a hideous Blood Demon walk up to a broken, golden mantis limb, intending to devour it.
As a result, just as it bit off the upper half of the limb, wisps of pale golden smoke rose from the Blood Demon’s body. The entire beast instantly melted into a pool of foul-smelling blood and vanished.
’The ancestor insects’ bloodline has this kind of property?’ Han Ning’s scalp tingled at the sight. Without further hesitation, he spotted a piece of flesh surrounded by several squabbling Soul Beasts and had Yin Yi rush over, kill them all, and snatch the flesh.
Current Progress: 7%
’Excellent. At this rate, just collecting the scraps of flesh that fell in this area will be enough to meet Egg Pancake’s evolution requirements.’
He extended his Spiritual Power, carefully observing the surroundings while directing his two Soul Beasts toward more easily accessible pieces of flesh.
After Egg Pancake broke through to the Extraordinary Level, its Mimicry Ability had improved again. Even other Extraordinary Level Soul Beasts might not be able to detect them.
Han Ning fully adhered to the principle of "bullying the weak and fearing the strong." Whenever they encountered a Soul Beast with a powerful aura and immense Spiritual Energy fluctuations, he would temporarily avoid it, focusing instead on killing weaker Soul Beasts.
After all, the amount of flesh from a Golden Flame Rock Dragon over a hundred meters long was staggering after it exploded. Rather than waste time fighting powerful Soul Beasts, it was better to hurry and snatch the pieces that no creature had claimed yet.
Of course, some Soul Beasts did attack them, but they were all counter-killed by Yin Yi and Egg Pancake.
The collected flesh would be placed by Yin Yi into a makeshift basket woven from vines and set on Egg Pancake’s back.
Just like that, they obtained dozens of pieces of the giant dragon’s flesh, both large and small.
The progress indicated on the panel was also rising rapidly.
10%... 14%... 20%...
...
47%... 50%... 56%...
All the way to 99%.
As Egg Pancake’s long tongue touched a piece of flesh wedged in a crevice...
Current Progress reached 100%.
Han Ning glanced around. Nearly a third of the nearby flesh had already been scavenged by the other Soul Beasts.
He didn’t stop, continuing to direct Yin Yi and Egg Pancake to scavenge more.
’This stuff is precious. What if Egg Pancake needs it for future evolutions? I can’t just give up on collecting it.’
By the time all the flesh within a two-kilometer radius had been completely scavenged, Han Ning estimated that they alone had collected about a third of the total amount.
The scattered bits and pieces of flesh added up to several hundred pounds in total.
Meanwhile, a few extremely powerful Soul Beasts at the scene had devoured close to two-thirds of it.
The remaining scraps were eaten by some swift-moving Soul Beasts, who even licked clean the nearly dried blood.
Through the combined efforts of the numerous Soul Beasts, the once blood-drenched rocky area was now as smooth and reflective as if it had been waxed.
With nothing left to eat, most of the Soul Beasts scattered. All that remained were a few pitiful, weaker Soul Beasts that hadn’t managed to snatch much food, now tentatively circling the corpses of the Ancestor Family’s insects.
"Sss sss~"
The All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm inside his body seemed to have sensed the smell of the flesh and was gradually waking from its slumber.
Han Ning took a palm-sized piece of flesh from the vine basket. A sharp tendril extended from his fingertip and stabbed into the chunk of meat.
Even detached from its main body, the flesh of the Golden Flame Rock Dragon was still incredibly tough. After several forceful thrusts from the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm, the spike finally pierced into the flesh and began to suck vigorously.
Just a single piece of flesh was enough to bring the entire All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm back to life. It even raised his Constitution stat on the panel by two points.
"Sss sss~"
Having regained its vitality, the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm seemed to have discovered something. A tendril stretched out from Han Ning’s arm, pointing toward an insect limb lying on the ground not far away.
It was a pair of black limbs that resembled an ant’s hind legs.
"You want to eat that?" Han Ning was taken aback.
