Chapter 30

I'm going to eat, eat, eat.

Liang Qu held his chopsticks, frantically scooping up crab roe, and while waiting for it to cook, he didn't forget to dig out the meat inside the crab legs and throw it to the two beasts.

The two beasts had no hands, and the crab monster's shell was very hard; "Cannot Move" was fine, barely able to bite through the shell, but the Fat Catfish was helpless and found it very difficult to eat, relying entirely on Liang Qu, its master.

Eating while digging, neither was neglected.

A quarter of an hour later.

"Hiccup~~~~"

Liang Qu let out a loud, satisfied burp; he was already stuffed and couldn't force down another bite even if he wanted to. Furthermore, eating only crab roe was truly too cloying—cloying to the point of wanting to vomit; he had been forcing it down halfway through.

The two beasts, however, had particularly large stomachs and were very capable of eating, devouring everything.

Being able to eat is a blessing; Liang Qu wished the two beasts would eat more and accumulate more Water Essence so they could evolve into Horned Wood Crocodiles and Tiger-Headed Catfish sooner.

Just the names after evolution sounded very cool, and they must be very powerful; by then, slaughtering another crab monster wouldn't be as difficult as it was today.

For a time, Liang Qu became a free laborer, frantically taking out and blanching meat, then spreading it on the bow of the boat to air-dry, using high heat to kill bacteria and drying it to extend preservation time; anything he couldn't blanch in time was thrown to the two beasts to eat.

Fortunately, the crab monster was large enough that he didn't even need to break the shell; he could just reach inside and dig out all the snow-white crab meat.

Once completely emptied, Liang Qu didn't even spare the crab gills; after washing them clean, he blanched them too. As the part where the crab filters out dirt, it's easy for humans to get diarrhea, but the two beasts didn't mind and devoured them all the same.

Before gaining intelligence, they swallowed crabs whole, not even washing them, let alone now that they had been washed once.

After eating, Liang Qu struck a pose to practice boxing, attempting to increase his digestion speed; half an hour later, he continued eating.

The swallowed Water Essence, accompanied by one intake thought after another, was all consumed to increase the fusion degree of the Water Monkey Ze Ling.

Almost every quarter of an hour, the fusion degree on the panel would jump up a few points.

Countless large light spots dissipated from the Ze Ding, gradually merging into the phantom of the spirit monkey.

Outside the perspective Liang Qu could see, besides in his mind, a phantom of a white-furred spirit monkey seemed to gradually emerge behind him as well.

"Cannot Move" and the Fat Catfish on both sides of the sampan were swimming frantically, trying to consume the energy in their bodies, but when this phantom appeared, an inexplicable sense of awe surged into their hearts, making them stop their movements.

The two beasts looked around but couldn't see the source; when they saw Liang Qu squatting at the bow of the boat, they immediately understood where the source came from.

The Heavenly God was becoming increasingly terrifying.

At the same time, Liang Qu's body was also undergoing deep-level changes.

As the Ze Ling fusion degree increased, the feedback included not only the enhancement of innate abilities but also the improvement of his physical fitness.

It was precisely because of this that Liang Qu didn't die of exhaustion the first time he went underwater to control the Pig-Mother Dragon.

By around four in the afternoon, having eaten four meals in one hour, Liang Qu was shirtless at the bow of the boat, his whole body as crimson as blood.

His body temperature was rising sharply, yet strangely, he didn't experience any discomfort.

Sweat flowed out and evaporated, leaving only salt grains and oil.

Liang Qu had to desperately practice Ape Boxing to consume it; the breath in his chest appeared almost the moment he started moving, and as it circulated rapidly, it grew stronger every single second.

Along with his breathing, white mist like sharp arrows sprayed from his nose and mouth.

Contracting and expanding,

Rolling incessantly!

At one moment, Liang Qu could even feel boiling liquid flowing between his nose and mouth, almost about to erupt, but under his non-stop boxing, the heat flow remained at the critical point of about to spray but not yet spraying.

It was too uncomfortable!

Liang Qu suppressed it firmly; he dared not spray blood.

A continuous stream of Qi and blood overflowed, and the Qi in his chest, which was initially only the thickness of half a chopstick, surged to the thickness of a little finger and was still growing.

Little finger thick!

According to Hu Qi, it had already reached the level capable of skin refinement, but Liang Qu had no idea what to do next.

Damn it, if he had known, he would have asked him earlier; why was he always stammering and pretending to be profound at critical moments, refusing to speak?

Is he writing a novel and leaving cliffhangers!!?

Wave after wave of heat made Liang Qu's mind somewhat fuzzy; he endured the discomfort and then guided the energy in his body to bring this wisp of Qi up.

Thicker, stronger!

According to so many days of observation, the thicker the Qi in his chest, the better Liang Qu's physical fitness; practicing more certainly wouldn't be wrong.

I don't know how much time passed; under Liang Qu's repeated boxing, that surging feeling finally gradually dissipated.

Liang Qu slowed his movements, feeling the heat flow in his body gradually receding.

At this moment, the Qi in his chest was already as thick as an index finger, a large step higher than the little finger level!

And it didn't dissipate after Liang Qu stopped his movements, circulating with enduring vitality.

Liang Qu let out a long breath, a pure white nasal breath spraying out more than three feet.

The cold wind blew, and his skin, which had been as red as a large shrimp, quickly faded to a normal, rosy color.

His entire body's muscle lines were smooth and not abrupt, and the sides of his diaphragm even faintly revealed shark muscle lines, rising and falling like fish gills as he breathed.

Every gesture carried greater power and easier movement; a punch thrown out faintly carried a whistling sound.

Awesome!

Liang Qu's brain calmed down, and he discovered another advantage of his, or rather, one he had always had but had never experienced as clearly as today.

When others eat treasure fish, they just eat treasure fish and digest the energy contained in the meat, but when he eats treasure fish, he not only gains meat energy but also gains a portion of Water Essence.

Water Essence consumed on the Ze Ling can further feed back into the body, improving his physical fitness!

Nanfu Energy Ring, one piece is stronger than six!

I have double the energy!

Communicate with the Ze Ding.

【Ding Master: Liang Qu】

【Refined Ze Ling: Water Monkey (White) (Fusion Degree: 36.6%↑)】

【Water Essence: None】

【River Favorability: None】

【Controlled Water Beasts: Taihua Crocodile, Six-Whiskered Catfish】

【Evaluation: The Water Monkey Ze Ling originates from the great Lord of the Huai Vortex, but it is a small character with insufficient stimulation and a weak life】

Over four meals, Liang Qu obtained a total of 33.2 points of Water Essence, but it hadn't finished upgrading yet; he estimated it would finish by nightfall.

If the Water Monkey fusion degree was an energy bar, he had directly slammed half of it in one go!

The water flow he could control had reached three hundred jin; lifting two adult men in a short time was no problem at all!

It's just a pity that there wasn't much progress in more detailed manipulation, but Liang Qu was already satisfied.

【Can consume 41.4 points of Water Essence to evolve the Taihua Crocodile into a Horned Wood Crocodile】

【Can consume 46.7 points of Water Essence to evolve the Six-Whiskered Catfish into a Tiger-Headed Catfish】

Checking the energy required for the two beasts to evolve, it had also been greatly reduced.

Calculated this way, one whole crab monster, with a little waste, actually contributed nearly a hundred points of Water Essence!

No, it could still rise!

Liang Qu looked at the remaining thirteen crab eggs.

His mental strength was limited; he definitely couldn't control them all, so the rest could only be eaten.

He had to pick the best one.

Liang Qu took the umbilical cover to the boat and observed it bit by bit against the sunlight; the crab inside the egg had grown to a considerable degree, almost about to break through the membrane, making it very easy to see the sex, size, and growth state.

Discarding the ones with little vitality, the ones that were small, and the weak ones.

Only two were the most suitable, but one of them was female, so Liang Qu discarded it.

It wasn't that he was practicing boxing; female crabs really weren't as big as male crabs, and if he wanted to choose subordinates, he naturally had to pick fierce generals.

It's decided, it's you!

Liang Qu cut his finger and drew a water talisman on the back of the crab egg!