Chapter 151: The Terrifying Ability of the Amoeba

After leaving Man Huang Da Lu, Baichuan first returned to Tiandu Feixu, because according to his original calculations, the Ice Frost there should be about to thaw by now, yet he still hadn't found a way to understand those writings.

So he needed to once again channel energy into those Ice Frost powers, keeping them frozen; although there might not be anyone who had just gone there, he still wanted to be on the safe side.

Thus, after Baichuan once again extended the freezing of those ruins for another ten years, seven days had already passed in Time.

And from this point on, he embarked on a busy life of exploring the entire planet, eating as he went while searching for ability models.

And so, in the blink of an eye, two years passed in Time, and his body length finally reached 31 meters, with his body's neural reflex speed slowing down once again.

During these two years, he thoroughly traversed the entire planet.

He visited other continents he had never explored before, witnessed all kinds of beautiful scenery there, and left countless legends about himself.

He also explored the two polar regions of the planet—the midnight sun and the polar night—personally witnessing the descent of the aurora there…

And among these explorations, he naturally obtained a large number of various local biological forms.

Such as a certain insect that runs the fastest on land; a certain strange Qingwa that, when encountering enemies, can break its own toe bones and push them through its skin to create temporary claws for self-defense, and once it finds the environment safe again, can retract the bones used as claws.

There were also certain peculiar birds that could mimic all sounds of everything in the world, or terrifyingly vibrant multi-legged creatures that could swallow inorganic compounds…

Of course, among them was also a certain jellyfish that Baichuan had once most looked forward to, which claimed to be immortal.

All of these, countless magical and peculiar abilities, truly cannot be counted.

Perhaps in a certain sense, from the moment Baichuan activated Microscopic Vision, the entire planet had already completely opened up to him the crystallization of billions of years of biological evolution.

And this also allowed him to find animals capable of Photosynthesis, which came from the peculiar abilities of the leaf sheep and the green leaf sea slug.

Unfortunately, that ability had too many drawbacks; it could not achieve getting enough energy merely by basking in the sun like plants.

Their ability required eating various plants to obtain enough chlorophyll before they could perform Photosynthesis.

But needing to eat, and eating various plants at that—isn't this just the same as him eating meat to obtain energy from it?

It's just that one obtains energy from flesh and blood, while the other obtains chlorophyll through eating food to perform Photosynthesis, completely conflicting with his original expectation.

Most importantly, this ability would make the area where it evolved become fragile, because only in this way could it have intimate contact with sunlight, thereby absorbing sunlight to initiate Photosynthesis.

Of course, besides that, there's another point—it would make his whole body turn green!

This point instantly wiped the smile off Baichuan's face, who had been overjoyed when he first evolved this ability; if it were for energy, a fine Flood Dragon like him eating vegetarian food would be forgivable, and even if his defense became fragile, the area wasn't large so it wouldn't matter.

For survival and growing stronger, although shabby, it doesn't disgrace a dragon.

But that ability actually made his entire body a greasy green and ugly mess—how could that be acceptable?

Furious, Baichuan immediately began evolving again on the spot, removing this ability.

Eating vegetarian food and becoming weaker is one thing, but being ugly too—who could tolerate that?!

Fortunately, in the end he discovered that this ability could instead allow his Light Points to evolve, and he could have the mutated Light Points eat plants, then scatter them around him to perform Photosynthesis, thereby obtaining a certain amount of energy.

At this point, the feeding range of Baichuan's Light Points was no longer all animals within five kilometers, but animals and plants.

He truly achieved leaving not a blade of grass wherever he passed, like a moving catastrophe, utterly terrifying!

However, even so, Baichuan found that the energy he could ultimately obtain wasn't that much.

It was merely about twice as much as before when he only devoured animals; in other words, at the same quantity, the energy from purely eating grass could barely keep up with the efficiency of eating meat.

Perhaps this was because the sunlight was too weak, or because the efficiency of Photosynthesis was too low.

Sigh, it's a pity his current panel still cannot scan plants; otherwise, with those terrifying abilities of plants, he could solve the energy problem in minutes.

Perhaps there's still a trigger missing here; just like when he activated Microscopic Vision, he still needs a trigger before his panel can begin scanning plants.

Baichuan silently speculated.

In any case, the final effect of this ability was somewhat disappointing to him; barely better than nothing, at least it gave him another special type of Light Point.

Animals, after all, cannot compare to plants that are born to make a living this way.

But he was also clear that this exaggerated feeding absolutely could not be carried out often, or rather, unless a desperate situation arose, he would not use it if he didn't have to.

Because what he was doing was truly an act of complete extermination.

Once he loosened his restrictions, the growth speed of life on the entire planet might one day fail to keep up with his pace, and he would completely devour it into a brown dead star.

Especially since he currently cannot create life; once he did this, it would be no different from draining the pond to catch all the fish, trapping himself in a dead end.

Indeed, planet-level abilities, regardless of anything else, the destructive aspect has already begun to show its signs.

Unfortunately, among so many ability models and various special abilities, he had yet to encounter one that could solve his neural reflex speed problem.

Of course, until this day, that was indeed the case.

On this day, Baichuan gazed at a peculiar ability model on his panel, struck by a sudden flash of inspiration in his mind.

He directly used his boundless, endless computing power to finally pile together a feasible solution—one that could, to a certain extent, permanently and thoroughly solve the neural reflex problem.

At this, he finally laughed out loud; he had thought he would have to choose the most inferior strategy, installing multiple auxiliary brains like an octopus for him, attempting to see if multi-threaded operation through several brains could work.

But unexpectedly, sometimes things truly are "where hills bend, streams wind and the pathway seems to end, past dark willows and flowers in bloom lies another village."

"I thought this ability was useless, but never expected that looking at it from another angle would make it work!"

Muttering to himself, Baichuan also smiled as he summoned two Light Points, directly opening the ability model editing panel of one of them.

As the ability model unfolded, Baichuan directly clicked open that special microorganism ability model:

'Species: Amoeba.'

'Ability: Invasive Metamorphosis LV2.'

That's right, what truly gave Baichuan hope was this little fellow—the amoeba!

It is a special organism whose body is composed of only a single cell; it doesn't have any powerful abilities.

It only has one peculiar ability of invasive metamorphosis, which allows them to invade the bodies of organisms and change their own structure.

And their name is also derived from this; of course, it has another name, called amoeba.

This is an ability model that, while not weak, if placed elsewhere Baichuan wouldn't even glance at.

So even though this ability model was obtained half a year ago.

Baichuan had never valued it; a mere body metamorphosis, and one that exists only because of the body's tiny and special structure, was completely useless to Baichuan.

Or rather, for most microorganisms, they truly were of no use to Baichuan, because their abilities mostly came from their own special structures.

Until this very moment, before Baichuan's flash of inspiration struck, it had been nothing but an ordinary ability model.

But after Baichuan discovered its true function, its importance changed.

Don't look at how its ability is only LV2 — but as long as it's combined with other abilities, it will become the next "Dragon's Roar" ability, and compared to Dragon's Roar, it is even more terrifying and heaven-defying!

(End of chapter)