22: Chapter 22 Serious Injury

"Hiss..." Chi Anlin felt as if his head were splitting. He struggled to sit up, but accidentally pulled at the wounds on his body, causing him to involuntarily gasp in pain.

Patting his head, Chi Anlin stood up shakily as the scene from just a moment ago surfaced in his mind.

At that moment, he felt as if the apocalypse had arrived. The entire space had shattered directly. Although he had activated his protective talisman, he was still sent flying by the rolling black energy. After tumbling for who knows how long, he had fallen directly into a crack.

A lot of people are probably going to die this time, Chi Anlin sighed. This wasn't something he could manage anyway...

What rotten luck.

Looking up into the distance, Chi Anlin was stunned. After experiencing what just happened, shouldn't the world now be devastated and filled with swirling dust?

Instead, he saw thin mist swirling in the distance. Rolling mountains appeared and disappeared within the sea of fog, while thick white clouds in the sky merged with the mountains, drifting leisurely like surging white waves, magnificent and vast.

And he happened to be standing on a plain.

"Did I die again?" Chi Anlin couldn't help but wonder. Could it be that he had transmigrated once more?

He hadn't even become a hegemon in the previous world, and yet he had died again?

"System? Are you still there?"

The next moment, a familiar panel appeared before Chi Anlin's eyes.

【host】: Chi Anlin

【Realm】: Mortal Rank Third Stage

【Occupation】: Beast Tamer, Body Cultivator, Qi Cultivator

【blood energy】: 35400

【Beast Taming】: Fierce Biting Ant Queen (Mortal Rank Sixth Stage), Xiao Yue (Mortal Rank Fourth Stage)

Thank goodness, the system is still here.

Xiao Yue is truly a good kid, secretly leveling up by one stage... Wait, no? Could it be that I haven't transmigrated?

Chi Anlin hurriedly contacted the Fierce Biting Ant Queen.

A faint connection came from his sea of consciousness. The Fierce Biting Ant Queen was still alive, just quite weak. Moreover, based on the contract's feedback, it seemed to be not very far from him.

As long as it's still alive, that's fine, Chi Anlin breathed a sigh of relief. The Fierce Biting Ant Queen was his main source of blood energy; if it were gone, he would face a long period of weakness.

If he hadn't transmigrated, then where had he ended up? Could it be that the natural disaster only affected a small area, and he was lucky enough to be blown to another region?

If only the system had a map.

Checking his injuries, he realized such severe wounds wouldn't heal anytime soon. The priority was to find the Fierce Biting Ant Queen first.

Summoning Xiao Yue, Chi Anlin mounted it and rode toward the direction from which the Fierce Biting Ant Queen was sending signals.

Crossing the plain, Chi Anlin saw many strange demon beasts, including horses with single horns and tall demon beasts that looked like giant suction cups.

Judging by this, he probably wasn't in the Small Insect World anymore, right?

Fortunately, the creatures along the way seemed to be herbivorous demon beasts, so Chi Anlin was not attacked and soon arrived at the Fierce Biting Ant Queen's location.

At this moment, the Fierce Biting Ant Queen looked quite miserable. Several of its legs were broken, its armor was covered in cracks, and it appeared to be on the verge of death.

Feeling heartbroken, Chi Anlin stepped forward and recalled it into his beast taming pouch. The beast taming pouch was a separate space, and the Fierce Biting Ant Queen had some recovery capabilities of its own, so it wouldn't just kick the bucket inside the beast taming space.

It might be difficult to produce more Ant Soldiers, though.

Many of the original Ant Soldiers had already died, and the remaining ones were old, weak, sick, or disabled. Only the original Ant Princess was still alive, and at least it was at the Mortal Rank Eighth Stage.

This unprovoked disaster had directly weakened Chi Anlin's overall strength. As for the other candidates, Chi Anlin felt the probability of their survival was not high.

He had managed to activate his protective talisman in time to resist for a while, and combined with his own good luck, he had avoided death. The other students, relying only on the strength of their physical bodies, were likely in grave danger.

"What is all this..." Chi Anlin rubbed his head, wondering if the few people in his team were still alive.

However, having gone through this disaster, Chi Anlin understood the fragility of life. Although he possessed the system, if he encountered such an emergency, he would definitely have been done for if not for the Fierce Biting Ant Queen's warning.

His injuries were also very severe. Chi Anlin pondered for a moment; perhaps he should synthesize a support-type demon beast that could heal and apply buffs. Otherwise, when faced with injuries like this, it would be difficult to rely on his own recovery.

"Let's heal first, then figure out a way to accumulate some blood energy."

Currently, only Xiao Yue had combat capability, but Chi Anlin did not intend to spend his blood energy on Xiao Yue first. The Fierce Biting Ant Queen's mass-production skill was the fastest way to farm blood energy.

It wasn't easy to capture a healing-type demon beast; at least in Zhao County, he hadn't heard of anyone who had contracted such a beast.

However, Chi Anlin wasn't too worried about the Fierce Biting Ant Queen's injuries. This mutation had granted the Fierce Biting Ant Queen a divine skill—Gene Extraction.

Extracted genes could be integrated into the Fierce Biting Ant Queen's body. In other words, as long as he had enough blood energy, he just needed to have the Fierce Biting Ant Queen acquire self-healing genes.

In this world, animals had evolved into demon beasts due to spiritual energy, and their original self-healing abilities had become even stronger.

As for self-healing genes, Chi Anlin felt he could obtain them from demon beasts capable of regenerating severed limbs.

For example... a gecko?

Geckos had the ability to regrow their tails, but that was limited to tails. The Fierce Biting Ant Queen's injuries were not just to its limbs, but also its carapace and internal organs.

He didn't know if sea cucumbers existed in this world. Those things would voluntarily eject their internal organs for enemies to eat when threatened, and they wouldn't die without them, growing new ones in two weeks.

But when it came to regeneration, earthworms seemed quite impressive. However, that kind of regeneration was different; a cut earthworm could even split into two, with both segments growing new organs to survive independently. He didn't know what kind of complications might arise if this gene were extracted and applied to the Fierce Biting Ant Queen.

After thinking it over, Chi Anlin locked onto an insect in his mind: the stick insect. This magical creature not only had excellent camouflage but also impressive regenerative abilities. Even if all its legs were broken off, leaving it looking like a stick, it would grow them all back before long.

He decided on the stick insect. He hoped the blood energy required for gene extraction wasn't too outrageous; otherwise, given Xiao Yue's efficiency, who knew how long it would take for the Fierce Biting Ant Queen to recover.

Once the Fierce Biting Ant Queen recovered, he could also pass this gene on to the Ant Soldiers, making them unkillable cockroaches.

Chi Anlin looked at the sky. It was still daytime, and his injuries were not recovering well, so he should find a place to recuperate first.

As for the plain he had just come from, Chi Anlin didn't want to go back there. As a paradise for herbivorous demon beasts, who knew what powerful predators might appear.

What he needed was a place to set up camp.

Following Xiao Yue through the forest, Chi Anlin soon spotted a cave.

The cave's location was quite hidden, making it an excellent camp for recovery. However, a demon beast was living inside the cave.

【Name】: Rock Pig

【Attribute】: Earth

【Level】: Mortal Rank Third Stage

【Potential】: Mortal Rank Low Grade

【Description】: The meat is tender and delicious, but its stone armor has extremely strong defense. It is a decent snack for grinding teeth.

Chi Anlin looked at the giant wild boar before him, which was nearly three meters tall, covered in rock, and sported two sharp tusks.

You call this a snack?