133: true alligator snapping turtle

The current Dark Tooth Fish, if the Tiger King of yesteryear hadn't used that special Beast Taming ability, might not have been able to defeat it.

Moreover, the Dark Tooth Fish is now his kin, and even with that Beast Taming ability, Su Yuan felt it might not work.

Counting the creatures Su Yuan had encountered, aside from the two ancient creatures in the Underground Dark Lake and the Big Black Fish, the Dark Tooth Fish's strength was absolutely top-tier.

Su Yuan remembered that cthulhu, whom he had read about in his previous life, had quite a few kin, even an entire race of kin, the Deep Ones.

His first kin now was the Giant Tooth Fish, and its power needed no further explanation.

However, the Giant Tooth Fish is a type of fish from South America, and its numbers in the wild in China are extremely rare.

Although its numbers among players should not be small, players basically keep them in fish tanks.

Such a confined space makes it impossible to breed even slightly larger fish.

A Giant Tooth Fish in a fish tank that reaches one meter in length is already a blessing.

A one-meter-long Giant Tooth Fish is completely insufficient in the current era of spiritual energy resurgence; it's too far behind.

However, if he encounters one, he can still take it in as the most ordinary kin.

And this first Dark Tooth Fish is equivalent to Dagon.

“But a mere single type of kin isn't enough for me!”

Su Yuan remembered that cthulhu's kin were not limited to just one species.

And he didn't want to be the second cthulhu; while the more kin the better, it shouldn't just be a paltry few.

Su Yuan glanced at the sky; it was probably around one in the afternoon.

He continued swimming forward, devouring for evolution while still searching for suitable creatures to convert into kin.

The Dark Tooth Fish was instructed to find a place to recover from its injuries; it had been quite badly hurt by him earlier.

Although its injuries partially healed during the conversion process, they were still not fully recovered.

Moreover, the Dark Tooth Fish's massive size, without any special Camouflage Ability, was not suitable for following Su Yuan on hunts; it would scare away a whole group of fish from a distance.

The Yangtze River is vast, nurturing too many creatures.

Su Yuan swam in the water, his eight invisible tentacles grabbing a large number of creatures along the way and bringing them to his mouth to devour.

Su Yuan even discovered another Yangtze Finless Porpoise, eight meters long, not particularly powerful, with no special abilities, and he directly devoured it.

【You have devoured a Yangtze Finless Porpoise and gained 2400 evolution points.】

After the spiritual energy resurgence, the entire world became increasingly a place where the strong preyed on the weak; former protected animals, if they couldn't adapt to the environment, would eventually be eliminated.

Su Yuan swam along, devouring everything, whether Suckerfish, Grass Carp, Carp, or others.

He also understood now that this was the great era of evolution with spiritual energy resurgence; invasions or not, in this drastic evolutionary reshuffle, they were not worth mentioning at all.

Perhaps, a once tiny and timid minnow, in the Late Stage of evolution, could swallow a former Blue Whale in one gulp.

In the Yangtze River, Su Yuan had already observed a hint of this phenomenon; the proportion of invasive species in the Yangtze River was far less than in smaller rivers and lakes.

These proliferating invasive species generally have high reproductive rates, which has become a biological resource, attracting more and more predators.

In this evolutionary era of spiritual energy resurgence, besides spiritual energy, food is also very important.

Just now, for example, Su Yuan saw mutated Mandarin Fish, as well as Reeves Shad and Big Black Fish, hunting a relatively large group of Scavenger (Fish/Organism).

Even some small Goby, bitterling, yellow catfish, and minnows were hunting smaller Scavenger (Fish/Organism).

The more numerous Tilapia attracted even more predators, mainly Reeves Shad, Big Black Fish, and Mandarin Fish.

Because Tilapia are naturally omnivorous, many have evolved sharp teeth after mutation.

General small predators do not dare to attack them.

As Su Yuan swam along, his terrifying devouring speed, even while camouflaged and unexposed, still scared all the surrounding creatures into frantic flight.

There were also some slightly stronger creatures that did not retreat, but rather, like brown bears whose territory had been invaded, fiercely attacked everything around them.

Ultimately, these powerful Mutated Creatures all entered Su Yuan's belly, becoming part of the great one.

Su Yuan's current idea is to gather his three musketeers, or four Heavenly Kings, before considering converting small soldiers.

That way, when others talk about him later, it will sound more impressive.

For example: “Look, that's one of the four Heavenly Kings under the Evil God, rumored to have the ability to toy with a planet!”

Therefore, Su Yuan currently hasn't converted ordinary creatures.

At the very least, they must possess special abilities and have reached a certain level of strength.

Just then, Su Yuan noticed a five-meter-long Reeves Shad in front, fleeing from the commotion he had just caused.

Suddenly, a huge head burst out from the riverbed mud ahead, biting the Reeves Shad in one go.

The next moment, a massive figure crawled out from the riverbed.

This was an enormous creature, a giant turtle, completely pitch-black, its scales appearing as if cast from black iron, with many sharp protrusions on its carapace, and even serrated protrusions along the edges of its carapace.

Its upper and lower jaws were hooked, indicating an extremely powerful bite force, and its neck also had many spikes.

This was a True Crocodile Turtle, also known as the Alligator Turtle among players.

This one was the ceiling of freshwater aquariums; its bite force surpassed that of brown bears and lions, only slightly less than a tiger's, but considering its hook-like upper and lower jaws, Su Yuan felt that its bite would definitely be even more vicious than a tiger's.

Su Yuan estimated the size of this True Crocodile Turtle to be around twenty meters, and its aura was no less than, if not superior to, the previous Giant Tooth Fish, like a prehistoric giant beast.

Su Yuan was truly surprised; such a large True Crocodile Turtle, not considering skills, would normally have a stronger combat ability than the previous Giant Tooth Fish.

“Then, let me see your strength.”

Su Yuan directly revealed his body, and his massive size immediately put the True Crocodile Turtle on alert.

It had already swallowed the Reeves Shad whole, and now turned its head to look at Su Yuan, its hooked mouth open, its black eyes fixed on Su Yuan, issuing a warning.

Su Yuan was not intimidated; two tentacles shot out like lightning, like two huge whips, lashing towards the True Crocodile Turtle.

The True Crocodile Turtle's attack speed was equally astonishing; it immediately bit at one of the tentacles.

“I've been waiting for you.”

Su Yuan chuckled; the water around the True Crocodile Turtle became strange, pulling at its head and stiffening its movements for a moment.

The next moment, Su Yuan's two tentacles struck the True Crocodile Turtle's shell.

Because he was testing its ability, Su Yuan didn't strike its head, but rather tested its defensive capability.

“Boom!”

The entire river water exploded, the sound muffled like thunder, and the True Crocodile Turtle's massive body was sent flying by Su Yuan's strike.

“Good defense.”

However, Su Yuan found that its carapace had no obvious wounds.

Although his two strikes weren't at full power, they weren't far off, and for ordinary Mutated Creatures, they would definitely not be able to withstand them.

Su Yuan's heart stirred, and all four tentacles wrapped around it, sharp Claws extended, cutting into it.

With Su Yuan's Intermediate Claws, even the True Crocodile Turtle's defense couldn't hold up; it was directly broken through!

“Its defense is not as good as the Big Black Fish's, but it's still very good.”

Su Yuan commented.

The True Crocodile Turtle was now frantically extending its head, trying to bite Su Yuan, while its entire body glowed with a pitch-black light, somewhat similar to Su Yuan's Black Light Shield, supporting itself on the surface of its body, actually blocking Su Yuan's Intermediate Claws.

“A protective skill?”

Su Yuan watched with interest; his other two tentacles extended, erupting with terrifying power, using the Claws as blades, and lashed out.

This time, Su Yuan unleashed his full power, terrifying strength augmenting the Claws, striking the black light screen, causing the entire black light screen to tremble, fluctuate, and finally dissipate.

The True Crocodile Turtle retreated a few steps, letting out a silent roar from its mouth, and then a terrifyingly cold aura permeated the area, instantly turning the surrounding river water into ice.

This cold aura spread towards Su Yuan, freezing all the river water in its path.

Su Yuan frowned, summoning the Fire Dragon Technique; a huge crimson Fire Dragon appeared in the river water, its scorching high temperature causing the entire area of river water to begin boiling from its frozen state.

Ice and fire met, and water vapor filled the sky.