59: The speed of the fireflies vs the speed of evolution

Jia Gu Yi Yan's body shot out again, leaving only a fiery afterimage in his original spot.

He slashed at the nearest Modified Fish.

The Modified Fish reacted quickly, its thick hind legs pushing off, its slender tail maintaining its balance, and it actually dodged Jia Gu Yi Yan's extremely fast attack.

The Que Yan Blade sliced across its scales, like cutting through water, opening a wound.

'So fast!'

Did its thick hind legs evolve to keep up with his speed?

However, if it merely relied on pure speed to catch up to the Fire Finch...

Jia Gu Yi Yan's feet swept towards the ground from his extreme sprint.

Flames bloomed the instant he landed, his body accelerating again like a rocket with a second stage.

The Modified Fish, which had dodged with extreme speed relying on the immense power of its legs, was quickly caught up to.

Before the opponent could clearly see him, Jia Gu Yi Yan's flame-wrapped blade pierced out again.

This strike was incredibly fast, aimed directly at the Modified Fish's eye.

In an instant, it pierced through the gap in the Modified Fish's external skull, penetrating its eye and brain.

The scorching flames also instantly incinerated the Modified Fish's brain and eyeballs.

However, the Modified Fish's tiny mouth, in turn, spat out an extremely fast water arrow.

That secondarily evolved fish mouth actually evolved to be able to spit out water arrows at extreme speed!

How could Jia Gu Yi Yan not have noticed this evolved fish mouth!

He had been on guard the entire time!

The blade was withdrawn, and Minds Eye unfolded!

In a flash, the extremely fast water arrow transformed into abstract black and white lines.

Its trajectory was exposed with absolute clarity under Minds Eye.

Slash!

Whoosh!

Flames, like a rainbow, erupted with a booming crackle, precisely striking the launched water arrow.

Immediately, the water arrow was once again evaporated and vaporized by the flames.

However, Jia Gu Yi Yan had still miscalculated.

The Modified Fish's evolution was not just obvious external changes, but also more inconspicuous internal ones.

The launched water arrow had already been struck by Jia Gu Yi Yan once.

Therefore, the water arrow launched this time had already evolved once!

The vaporized water arrow did not dissipate; instead, it drifted towards the remaining three Modified Fish!

The three Modified Fish inhaled it into their bodies through their mucus-covered gills.

In an instant, the three Modified Fish once again grew at an extreme speed!

"It can actually evolve through steam!"

Jia Gu Yi Yan suppressed his inner frustration and displeasure, quickly adjusted his mindset, and charged at one of the Modified Fish at extreme speed.

He would take one down while it was evolving!

The Modified Fish did not just stand there foolishly while evolving.

Seeing Jia Gu Yi Yan charge, the evolving Modified Fish dodged while its body grew at an extreme speed.

The pupils of its eyes began to change, from circular to horizontal rectangles, to capture more details.

A pair of barbels became slender and hard, used to detect vibrations in the air.

Its legs became even more elongated, and its tail also became more slender.

Its fish waist began to thin, while its fish belly and chest still grew robust muscles to control its front two arms.

The fins on its back completely degenerated and disappeared.

Then, it straightened its body, and a pair of claws blocked the blade swung by Jia Gu Yi Yan.

It stood up.

Not only did it stand up, but its vision and perception had also evolved.

At this moment, it was not just relying on the immense power of its legs for crude, extremely fast movement.

Instead, it could capture Jia Gu Yi Yan's extremely fast movements through its vision and perception, and then react.

"What kind of Darwinian monster is this!"

Jia Gu Yi Yan dodged the monster's claws with extreme speed, then lunged forward, holding his blade with both hands, and fiercely thrust it into the fish's belly.

Scorching flames spiraled around the blade, increasing the power of the thrust.

With the fierce thrust, the fish's belly, which was relatively softer compared to its back, was violently pierced.

Then, flames incinerated it from the inside out, engulfing the entire Modified Fish.

Damn it, it will probably evolve its belly defense soon.

Gazing at the water arrow that shot out, Jia Gu Yi Yan was too lazy to stop it.

His flames could only turn water into steam, completely unable to block it.

If he had the power of ice to freeze the water flow, it might be effective.

Unfortunately, he did not.

Two plumes of steam were swallowed by the last two Modified Fish.

The two Modified Fish also completely straightened their bodies, their chest muscles becoming even more robust.

Their arms also completely separated to the sides, and their claws became even sharper.

At the same time, their forearms grew shield-like carapaces.

Their tails did not continue to change, only becoming slightly thicker.

And on their abdomens, a thicker layer of hard skin grew, which was also covered in mucus.

At this moment, the two Modified Fish did not simply dodge.

Instead, they charged at Jia Gu Yi Yan simultaneously from both sides.

They sprinted at extreme speed, accumulating inertial force, and swung their sharp claws.

Jia Gu Yi Yan lowered his body and swung his blade, cutting towards the Modified Fish on the right.

The Modified Fish on the left, in turn, stomped forward and charged, moving sideways behind Jia Gu Yi Yan, its claws swinging at the back of Jia Gu Yi Yan's neck.

"Clang!"

The blade was blocked by the Modified Fish's arm's round shield shell, leaving a deep gash.

And the monster's other claw, in turn, lunged towards Jia Gu Yi Yan's abdomen.

Caught in a pincer attack, Jia Gu Yi Yan's Basic Breathing Technique operated at extreme speed, his heart beating rapidly, pumping blood to his legs.

In an instant, his legs also ignited with scorching flames.

Whoosh!

His figure instantly vanished amidst the front and back pincer attack.

The terrifying speed that could dismember monsters in an instant reappeared, and even the two Modified Fish, whose perception and vision had evolved, could only capture an afterimage.

Their claws only tore through the lingering flames.

Clang!

His flame-wrapped right foot kicked out fiercely, and with a collision sound, the Modified Fish that had ambushed him from behind was heavily kicked into the air.

Jia Gu Yi Yan paid no attention to the kicked Modified Fish.

Instead, he charged directly at the other Modified Fish, his blade wrapped in spiraling flames, thrusting it out fiercely.

The Modified Fish hurriedly extended its other intact round shield claw, trying to block the attack.

But how could Jia Gu Yi Yan give it this chance?

The flames on his hands surged rapidly, and the flame vortex wrapped around the blade quickly grew and spun.

In an instant, the blocking round shield, along with the arm, was instantly pierced through and crushed.

The blade that pierced and crushed the arm did not stop, piercing into the Modified Fish's abdomen.

That evolved fish belly, combined with the mucus, could cause the blade to slide off.

But at this moment, Jia Gu Yi Yan, coupled with this full-power strike,

The fish belly was simply unable to resist, and was instantly pierced by the blade, incinerating it from the inside out.

A water arrow once again shot out from the mouth of the dying Modified Fish.

Having killed this Modified Fish with an extremely fierce assault, the other Modified Fish was still in the air.

Jia Gu Yi Yan looked at the launched water arrow, knowing he had no way to stop it.

He drew a card.

"Fire Finch Slash."

Click.