129: Chapter 129 The Powerful Ye Yang! The Changing Environment! (First Update)
Not only that, but mysterious caves began appearing in various places across Planet Blue. Not a single human who entered to explore ever returned, as if something terrifying resided within; many began calling them Demon Dens.
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Great Xia, Jianghai City Outskirts, Divine Phoenix Mountain.
The sun, symbol of life, rose high as usual, radiating scorching sunlight.
The sky was different than before, however; the shadow of a round red moon remained fixed in a corner of the sky, facing the sun from afar...
At the summit of Divine Phoenix Mountain, a white mist of spiritual energy permeated the air. The spirit tree, which had grown a few tender green flower buds, swayed its branches slightly in the mountain breeze. Nearby, the white jade bamboo was already over three meters tall, its jade-like segments thicker than before, with several small bamboo shoot bumps emerging from its base.
A giant bird covered in golden feathers stood atop the peak. Under the sunlight, the golden feathers reflected a metallic luster and the sharp edge of a blade, making it difficult for anyone to look directly at it.
Ye Yang's golden pupils gazed into the distance. His overlooking gaze was like the world's most advanced camera, as everything within dozens of miles fell clearly into his sight.
By now, half a month had passed since the supernatural phenomenon of the "Super Red Moon." Since then, a red moon had remained hanging in the sky.
Every night, the earth would lose its light and fall into darkness. The red glow emitted by the red moon not only failed to illuminate anything but also caused a weird aura to appear across the darkened land.
All humans, including Ye Yang, had grown accustomed to the red moon's presence. It seemed the image of a white moon was gradually fading from everyone's memory.
Setting aside the influence "Red Moon" had on Ye Yang, the appearance of the mountain forests for hundreds of miles around Divine Phoenix Mountain was also vastly different from half a month ago.
In places where the forest grew vigorously, there were now trees nearly a hundred meters tall!
Patch after patch of them stood like the skyscrapers in a developed human city.
Not only did the trees and plants change, but the surrounding mountains also changed significantly; almost every mountain had grown taller.
Take Ye Yang's own territory, Divine Phoenix Mountain, for example. From its original height of four to five hundred meters, it had surged to seven or eight hundred meters, nearly doubling!
Even the area of the summit had expanded considerably!
Looking at the mountains from afar, they were exceptionally tall and towering, as if the peaks had formed a mountain range. Among them, Divine Phoenix Mountain remained the tallest, with the surrounding mountains encircling it like guards.
Ye Yang withdrew his gaze and blinked, feeling somewhat worried in his heart.
"What is the reason for these drastic changes in the surrounding forests..."
"I remember seeing a report about Mount Everest in my past life. Mount Everest's height grows every year due to slight movements in the Earth's crust and the shifting of two continents, so it grows by a few meters annually..."
"But now..."
In just half a month, the surrounding mountain landscape had changed so much it almost felt unfamiliar to Ye Yang!
He knew Divine Phoenix Mountain wasn't a special place; it was just an inconspicuous green mountain in nature. This meant the entire global natural environment was undergoing a cataclysmic change.
The core of it was that the crust of this planet was undergoing a transformation...
"Surely an Ice Age or a meteor impact won't happen in the future, right?"
Ye Yang remembered that Ice Ages and meteor impacts were among the reasons the ancient eras ended. With such massive changes happening to Planet Blue now, it was very likely its gravity would change. Ye Yang didn't need to worry about floods or tsunamis.
What he worried about was whether Planet Blue would face a global disaster like an Ice Age or a crisis where a massive meteor is attracted to destroy the planet...
"I'll deal with it when it happens..."
"Maybe by then, this bird will have evolved enough to survive in outer space..."
He shook his head, no longer thinking about these stray thoughts. He wasn't the type to worry about the sky falling... wait... he was a bird.
Feeling the power within his body growing stronger by the day, Ye Yang gradually felt more confident.
Ever since the "Red Moon" appeared, his body had been getting stronger every second, enhanced day and night by spiritual energy and the red moonlight.
Reality wasn't like an online game where power only increases when you level up; every day, he was a bit stronger than the day before.
In half a month, Ye Yang felt his evolution level experience was already at least one-quarter full!
At this rate, his evolution level would increase in less than two months!
"System Panel!"
He muttered in his mind.
Host: Ye Yang
Race: Thunderbird
Talent: Intimidation (C-)
Level: D+
Bloodline: Thunder Power (20,000 Supreme Aura Cells. The more Supreme Aura, the stronger the bloodline ability!)
Skills: Lightning Breathing Technique (Perfection) (Buff: 5x efficiency for half a month) — Telepathy (Minor Achievement)
An azure panel appeared in his mind.
The information on the system panel hadn't changed much from before; after all, his skills hadn't leveled up in the past half month.
However, his strength was far greater than it was half a month ago!
The reason was that his count of Supreme Aura Cells had reached 20,000!
Previously, the Supreme Aura Cells only functioned under sunlight, and when the weather was bad, their efficiency would drop significantly.
But after the "Red Moon" appeared, his Supreme Aura Cells, much like the Lightning Breathing Technique, could function around the clock.
Naturally, the growth rate of Supreme Aura Cells was much faster than usual. Combined with the buff that increased operational efficiency, it was practically moving at rocket speed.
In half a month, the number of Supreme Aura Cells had doubled from the original 10,000 to 20,000!
The reason Ye Yang was so powerful was precisely because of this surge in Supreme Aura Cells.
Because the Thunder Power in his body grew stronger along with the number of Supreme Aura Cells!
At this moment.
Through the surface of his golden, glass-like body, a golden light could be seen faintly flickering within.
Ye Yang felt that the Thunder Power in his body was at least several times stronger than when it first awakened!
Thunder Power was already his trump card, capable of easily destroying human fighter jets. Now, this power had received such a massive boost!
He didn't know exactly how powerful the Thunder Power in his body was now, but Ye Yang could even feel that his body might not be able to fully withstand a total outburst of this power...
Fortunately, Ye Yang didn't need to fight. He could get stronger quickly just by lying flat and staying on Divine Phoenix Mountain.
Furthermore, the Thunder Power in his body was constantly tempering his physical strength, which felt wonderful.
"It's really great to experience the feeling of getting stronger quickly just by lying flat and doing nothing every day!"
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However, while he was happy and idle, his subordinates were suffering.
On the other side, in a different corner a hundred miles away from Divine Phoenix Mountain.
The air here was filled with a thick scent of blood...