Evolving infinitely from ground zero

Chapter 269: 178, The Fox-Eared Girl Who Appears Like a Ghost_2

The next instant, dozens upon dozens of towering ancient trees uprooted themselves, swinging their countless vines towards Yuan Dongzhi.

It was as if all the gods and Buddhas had descended from the heavens, creating an immensely shocking spectacle.

In that time, the entire coastal forest shook and trembled, with soil flying and stones splitting apart.

Birds and beasts, as if driven mad, fled outwards in a frenzy.

For a moment, it felt as though the end of the world had arrived.

When immortals clash, the mortals suffer.

Lin Zichen saw the situation turning bad and immediately turned to run, afraid of being caught in the crossfire of the battle between the two rare-level fighters.

But before he had run a few steps, he suddenly remembered the pile of flesh on the ground that he hadn’t devoured yet.

So he quickly turned back, reached out to the flesh, and thought: Devour!

[You have devoured a large amount of the “Wood Spirit’s” life essence.]

[Wood Spirit Album: 100%]

[You have devoured a large amount of the “Nine-Turned Soul Worm’s” life essence.]

[Nine-Turned Soul Worm Album: 100%]

After devouring it all, Lin Zichen immediately got up and dashed away with all his strength, putting distance between himself and the battlefield.

He was just an ordinary-level ant.

The two rare-level fighters in the sky were unleashing their full firepower, and even a strand of their residual force could grievously injure or even kill him.

If he didn’t hurry, he might truly die without knowing how it happened.

As he was sprinting away, the void slowly revealed a scene.

A green-skinned humanoid creature, less than a meter tall with four wings on its back, hovered ten meters above the ground, controlling a several meters tall vine-like exotic plant to shoot out a mass of spiky tendrils wildly toward the surrounding exotic beasts.

In just a moment, all the exotic beasts within several miles suffered a brutal fate.

Their bodies were ensnared by the poisonous tendrils and mercilessly dragged towards the exotic plant.

As Lin Zichen ran, he glanced at the beasts entangled by the vines.

To his surprise, he found they were all exotic beasts from the albums he had opened.

The Ghost Squid with the luck of the waters.

The Ferocious Great Eagle with the eye of the skies.

The Stealth Dragon with its natural camouflage.

The Void Eel with its danger perception.

The Living Dead Slugs with their rapid self-healing.

The Ten Thousand Poison Mongoose with its immunity to a hundred poisons.

All six exotic beasts were now dragged under that exotic plant.

As the tendrils tightened fiercely, they all perished on the spot, becoming fresh corpses.

Soon enough.

At the top of the exotic plant, a bright red floral bud sprouted.

The bud grew rapidly, becoming larger and more mature before one’s eyes.

As the bud increased in size,

The six exotic beast corpses wrapped by the tendrils rapidly shriveled up.

Within moments, they turned into skeletal remains, covered only by their dry skin.

And by now, the floral bud at the top of the exotic plant had fully blossomed into a flower.

It was a bizarre and enchanting flower.

The petals were as red as blood, covered with wriggling blood vessels.

The center of the flower looked like a fleshy grape, emitting a vile and salty scent.

It made one feel slightly uneasy to look at it.

Seeing the flower fully matured, the humanoid creature’s eyes brimmed with greed as it reached out to pluck it and devoured it whole.

Shortly after, the four wings on its back were instantly filled with blood-vessel-like patterns that pulsated with the throbbing of life.

At the same time, its body became stronger.

Its muscles bulged slightly, filled with explosive power.

After it left,

A black worm crawled out of the earth and onto the shriveled corpses of the exotic beasts.

Then, extending a needle-like proboscis, it accurately pierced the brow of a corpse, sucking the spiritual power left within the skull.

When the worm was deeply absorbed in its feast,

The humanoid creature returned, discovering the worm’s presence.

With a mere thought, it shot its tendrils at the insect on the corpse, intending to kill it and use it as nourishment for the exotic plant to bloom.

However, just as the tendrils were about to strike the worm, they suddenly halted mid-air.

Then, quite unexpectedly, they turned and attacked the humanoid creature instead.

It was the worm releasing spiritual power, forcibly seizing control of the tendrils from the humanoid, instantly reversing the situation.

The scene unfolding in the void came to this point and quickly dissipated.

In its place, four pieces of information appeared in the void.

[You have successfully opened the Wood Spirit Album and gained the Biometric Attribute—Forest Lord.]

[Forest Lord: You can control the surrounding plants by consuming spiritual power.]

[You have successfully opened the Nine-Turned Soul Worm Album and gained the Biometric Attribute—Advanced Spirit.]

[Advanced Spirit: Your spiritual power receives a significant boost.]

A Forest Lord who can control plants?

An Advanced Spirit that can strengthen the mind?

Both attributes seemed to complement each other.

And both leaned towards a mage’s attributes.

Thinking this, Lin Zichen couldn’t help but feel a bit relieved.

The reason he had been able to kill the man in the mask across six levels without injury wasn’t just because his own strength was defying the heavens; another important factor was that the man was a mage-type Genetic Integrator with no remarkable physicality.

Otherwise, instead of an uninjured cross-level solo kill, a crash and burn would have been possible.

But then again, luck is also a part of strength, nothing more to say.

“Buzz—”

Suddenly, a buzzing sound of rapid motion came from not far off.

Lin Zichen’s heart sank, and he immediately used the skill of the Eye of the Sky to look in the direction of the noise.

And what he saw was an unexpected figure.

It was the instructor Lu Tianrong!

On the other side, Lu Tianrong had also spotted him and immediately sped up to approach, looking to rendezvous with him.

Lin Zichen tensed up and burst forth with Qi-Blood, swiftly distancing himself from Lu Tianrong, not letting him get close.