Chapter 144: Complete LV5, Planet!

Three days later, after obtaining everything he wanted.

Baichuan gently turned his head, looking at the giant beast before him that seemed reluctant to part, though he had yet to say it aloud.

But this giant beast still keenly sensed that he seemed to be leaving, leaving it once again.

This feeling made it somewhat uneasy, but the timidity in its heart kept it from speaking. It could only gaze at him pitifully like an abandoned puppy, those crimson eyes full of pitiful appeal.

Seeing this, Baichuan smiled softly, extended his claw and patted its head, just as he used to comfort his former puppy. Watching it close its eyes in enjoyment and unconsciously nuzzle against his claw, he finally spoke:

"Just wait here for me a while. I have something important to attend to. Don't worry, I'll be back very soon."

After saying this, he turned around again, his tail fin moving without hesitation as he rose directly toward the Qian Hai area. He could hardly wait to evolve.

As for why he didn't evolve here in the deep sea, it wasn't that Baichuan didn't trust it. After these few days together, he had discovered that the mind of this giant beast before him was actually not very complete.

Just like a newborn innocent child, but it strangely held a sense of attachment toward him, constantly wanting to please him, so there was no need to worry at all.

But this was an undersea volcano, a living one at that. During the evolution process he would be at his most vulnerable. He didn't feel safe evolving here. Although the probability of a volcanic Burst was very, very low, he didn't want to entrust his life to luck.

Moreover, having a child with an incomplete mind guard him—whether accidents would occur, whether it could properly protect him—he wasn't sure.

Right now, the Qian Hai area was indeed more suitable for his evolution.

Thinking of this, he silently rose toward the water surface.

Behind him was a pitiful young beast as if abandoned, its centermost pair of eyes fixed unblinkingly on the departing figure of the flood dragon.

The flood dragon's form was so perfect—slender, agile, swift—perfectly at odds with this world.

So much so that it made its own bulky, slow body seem somewhat ugly by contrast. This realization suddenly made the young beast feel a twinge of inferiority.

The difference between them was like that between clouds and mud. He was so perfect, while it was so ugly.

But why was such a perfect him still in such a hurry, as if something were chasing him from behind, forcing him to keep moving forward, forward, unable to stop and stay with it even a moment longer?

Clearly... clearly, if he just devoured it, he could become complete, regain the power of a thousand years ago, and no longer need to be in such a hurry. So why didn't he devour it?

At this moment, the giant beast, with its childlike heart, didn't understand. But in its mind, the flood dragon's last words before leaving still echoed softly: Stay here and wait for him, he'll be back soon... Stay here and wait for him, he'll be back soon...

It would obediently listen and stay still, waiting here for him to come back...

……

In the blink of an eye, five days had passed, and Baichuan had finally prepared everything.

He silently coiled his body and opened the panel. As the panel's faint light flickered on,

he re-entered that pitch-black, profound space of the panel editing interface.

At this moment, he was as if standing in the Xingkong, surrounded by utter darkness, deep and endless at a glance. Only beside him did the massive flood dragon model flow with dazzling blue light in this darkness—that was his personal ability model.

He directly opened the ability structure library, first extracting the "Tunjin LV3 (Banzhu)" ability from the scaled-horned gastropod, then directly placing it into his own ability model.

As a faint light flashed on the flood dragon model, the ability fused in.

Clearly, this was another holistic ability with no major changes.

To change, he still needed to devour metal himself, actively transforming out armor belonging to him.

This metal wouldn't generate automatically, or rather, automatic generation would be extremely slow, because the iron element he carried in his daily food intake was too little.

Baichuan didn't find it strange, because he had long understood this ability. After completing the most important purpose of this trip,

he directly opened the ability model obtained from that beast whose exterior was a giant beast but whose heart was a young beast. Let him see the true secret of this blood worm.

Muttering to himself, the young beast's ability model also popped up:

【Species: Blood Worm (Unknown)】

【Abilities: Mycelium Sovereign LV5 (Inner), Flesh Fusion Library LV4 (Transcendent), Chenmian LV4 (Limit)】

Clearly, this was an ability model extremely similar to that of another blood worm. Baichuan didn't hesitate, directly opening it to check the description.

Mycelium Sovereign: Can absorb mysterious fungi (outer) into one's own Flesh Fusion Library, selectively placing various mutation Characteristics from the fungi into oneself to begin fusion evolution, thereby modifying oneself to obtain evolution.

Flesh Fusion Library: Stores flesh-and-blood energy and mysterious fungi, can transform out the mutated fungi one has absorbed.

Looking at the ability explanations above, Baichuan instantly felt all his doubts about the blood worm clear up. All his previous speculations were true and correct.

No wonder he always felt the fungi produced by this ability were somewhat strange, seeming only able to change other external creatures, but unable to feed back to himself.

Such an ability that only benefits others and is useless to oneself—logically speaking, no normal creature would evolve it.

Now he finally understood: it turned out the blood worm's ability was only half. It existed as two, and the abilities they controlled were different.

One controlled the flesh-and-blood body and energy, the other controlled authority and wisdom.

Without the flesh-and-blood body and energy, authority (Light Point) and wisdom would be hard to fully exert; and without authority and wisdom, no matter how strong the flesh-and-blood body and energy, it couldn't fully bring out its own power. It would ultimately remain just a beast without wisdom.

The two blood worms were indeed one entity, or rather, they could devour and fuse into one.

He finally understood why his LV5-level ability had one suffix of "Inner" and one of "Outer."

It turned out they were incomplete. But what if they were complete?

A sliver of doubt rose in Baichuan's heart. Without hesitation,

he directly extracted both abilities and placed them into his own body. In an instant, this time the abilities didn't need him to choose—they directly fused into organs that already existed within him—the heart and the Characteristic storage library.

As the abilities fused, Baichuan astonishingly discovered that the suffix of his LV5-level ability "Mycelium Sovereign" began to slowly change, from the original "Inner" slowly becoming two characters: "Planet"!

Mycelium Sovereign LV5 (Planet)!

And the other LV4-level "Characteristic Storage Library" also slowly changed, becoming "Star Bag LV4 (Transcendent)."

At the same time, rarely, even though he hadn't begun evolving, a stream of inexplicable information merged into his mind.

It gave him a sudden enlightenment, letting him understand this ability's function.

This was the first time in all his years of evolution he had encountered such a bizarre event. Whether LV1, LV2, LV3, or LV4, none had ever produced this strange enlightenment.

All abilities, after he evolved them, he had explored step by step himself to learn and familiarize with their use, like the original Ice Frost power.

But this ability directly told him: it was divided into two parts. Just as a planet is divided into inner core and outer core, it too was divided into inner core and outer core. The outer core affects the external world, the inner core affects oneself, transforming oneself into something like a planet.

Perhaps this is why this ability's suffix is "Planet"!

(End of this chapter)