76: Chapter 76 Devouring! Evolution and Upgrade
"This Male Lion's head is really hard. Fortunately, it became very fragile under the influence of the missile's high temperature... otherwise, it really wouldn't have been easy to kill this Male Lion..."
This Male Lion was a beast with a higher evolution level than Ye Yang. If it hadn't been hit by a human missile and severely injured, Ye Yang wouldn't have been its match at all.
So, the idea of the Male Lion submitting to him was something he never even considered.
Keeping a creature stronger than himself by his side—wasn't that like tying a time bomb next to him?
"Notification: You have used your wisdom to despicably kill a Male Lion stronger than yourself. The Supreme Aura Cells in your body feel shocked and surprised. Operating efficiency has increased significantly, infecting three thousand ordinary cells!"
"Notification: You have killed a powerful Male Lion. The Basic Breathing Technique in your body feels invigorated. Operating efficiency will double for one month!"
"Notification: You have killed a powerful Male Lion. Your Telepathic Sensing has undergone a spiritual sublimation, and its proficiency level has increased! Successfully promoted from Entry-level to proficient!"
Ye Yang had just killed the lion and hadn't made any other moves yet when the system's mechanical notification sounds kept ringing in his mind.
"What do you mean despicable? That was just a simple little trick!"
He grumbled silently in his heart.
As the system notifications sounded, his whole body felt faintly hot, and a faint light shimmered on his jade-white feathers.
The invisible spiritual energy in the air for several hundred meters around seemed to be pulled by an inexplicable force, converging into wisps of white mist and surging toward where Ye Yang was.
Ye Yang seemed to have transformed into a black hole, greedily and continuously inhaling the surging spiritual energy into his body.
After a while, his body had adapted to the increased efficiency of the Basic Breathing Technique.
Opening his eyes, his agile gaze shifted, and a golden light formed by an aura shot into the distance, making the large trees several hundred meters away tremble.
"System Panel!"
Host: Ye Yang
Race: White-Feathered Giant Eagle
Talent: Intimidation (D+)
Level: D-
Bloodline: Unawakened (8,000 Supreme Aura Cells)
Skills: Basic Breathing Technique (Major Achievement) (Buff: Double efficiency for one month) — Telepathy (proficient)
In the Bloodline column, the Supreme Aura Cells had increased by three thousand, now totaling eight thousand!
"Only two thousand more to reach ten thousand Supreme Aura Cells. I wonder if the race will transform again then..."
Ye Yang secretly looked forward to it. Although he wasn't certain that ten thousand Supreme Aura Cells would trigger the same qualitative change as last time, he speculated that his previous racial transformation happened because the number of Supreme Aura Cells reached one thousand.
So, there was a high probability that ten thousand Supreme Aura Cells would also be a threshold for his Bloodline's evolution.
Then he noticed another slight change on the system panel: a new piece of information had appeared after the Basic Breathing Technique in the skills column.
It was the one-month double efficiency that the system notification had just mentioned!
"Not bad. It seems this system isn't a brainless one; it has some intelligence."
"I didn't expect the harvest from killing this Male Lion to be so great!"
Closing his eyes to sense his surroundings, his proficiency in the Telepathy skill had also increased to the proficient level.
Previously, the range of his Telepathic Sensing was only three kilometers; now, it was a full five kilometers!
Opening his eyes, he stared straight at the Male Lion's massive corpse in front of him.
A slender tongue extended from his beak, licking the jade-colored beak.
The benefits of killing the Male Lion weren't just these; the Male Lion's corpse was also a huge boon!
The Male Lion wanted to devour Ye Yang to become stronger, so why couldn't Ye Yang devour the Male Lion to evolve?
His body was currently in a saturated state, just one step away from leveling up!
"Gugu-gu!!!"
He couldn't help but let out an excited bird cry, then used his sharp claws to tear apart the Male Lion's already heavily damaged body.
Hot blood flowed all over the ground, and billowing white smoke rose from the earth. Ye Yang smelled the scent of roasted meat.
The flesh inside the Male Lion was charred black just like its exterior, and even some of the thick bones looked like charcoal.
He was startled!
"This missile didn't have a nuclear warhead, so there won't be radiation..."
After the initial shock of seeing the Male Lion's interior, Ye Yang lowered his head and began to eat voraciously.
He chose to eat the Male Lion's internal organs, which were the most nutritious part.
As he ate in large gulps, a warm sensation filled his entire body.
When the last piece of the Male Lion's organs entered his stomach, the feeling of saturation in his body suddenly expanded!
"Notification: Your evolution level has increased! Successfully upgraded from 'D-' to 'D'!"
Just as the system notification in his mind ended, a massive surge of energy erupted from deep within his body, flooding into his limbs and bones.
That energy appeared from deep within his abdomen and quickly flowed throughout his entire body—wings, claws, and even his brain...
His flesh, bones, and internal organs became sturdier under the nourishment of this energy, and his size grew visibly to the naked eye.
Wingspan: six meters... seven meters... eight meters...
His wingspan reached over eight meters long!
Half an hour later, the energy that strengthened his body disappeared without a trace.
A beautiful, snow-white giant bird stood upon the earth. Its jade-white feathers shimmered with a faint fluorescence, and its pair of four-meter-long wings looked magnificent and beautiful!
His agile golden eyes inadvertently revealed the elegance of a bird, along with a hint of ancient, desolate aura.
If it weren't for the black Male Lion next to this white giant bird—eviscerated and dying with its eyes open—this scene would have been very striking and admirable.
Ye Yang silently felt the powerful strength growing within him.
"Fortunately, this evolution level increase wasn't as painful as the last one..."
His weight was more than three times what it was before, estimated to be around three tons!
His current size was about the same as the Male Lion next to him!
Being observant, he also surprisingly found that not only was his physical strength improved, but even his brain had been strengthened. His mind was clearer than ever before, and some blurry memories from his past life surfaced vividly.
"Is this devouring evolution... It really is a shortcut..."
Ye Yang glanced at the Male Lion's corpse. If he hadn't eaten it, it would have taken him at least four or five more days to evolve and level up.
Moreover...
Not only did he evolve and level up this time, but he also felt that if there were an evolution experience bar, he would have at least thirty or forty experience points now.
He extended his slender tongue and licked his beak, which was reddened with blood.
Even though his evolution speed was fast, this method of taking a shortcut through devouring still fascinated him a little.
But... in this mountain forest spanning hundreds of miles, there were simply no creatures as powerful as the Male Lion. The flesh of creatures weaker than the Male Lion was of little use to Ye Yang.
A thought popped into his head.
"What if eating humans could make me powerful quickly..."
He shook his head. After all, having been human in his past life, it was better not to do such a thing.
He glanced at the Male Lion's corpse, which was charred black like coal, and his pupils narrowed.
"Human technological weapons are indeed the most powerful on the Blue Planet currently..."
"But it's hard to say about the future..."