Chapter 157: The Intelligent Leader Dragon

At the same time, after Baichuan left Yaha's side, he began his journey across the entire continent to clear out the overflowing Meat Dragons.

Flying low along the way, every Meat Dragon he spotted was devoured by him using Light Points and converted into energy, and through this he finally realized just how terrifyingly destructive the Meat Dragons were to this continent.

Truly, wherever they passed, the ground was covered with foul-smelling droppings of every kind, along with animal remains.

He had no idea whether this stench came from their original rabbit ancestry, or because these species that should have been eating plants had started eating meat.

Of course, Baichuan didn't want to bother with any of that — right now he only wanted to convert all these overflowing scourges into energy.

With that, three months passed in the blink of an eye.

And by then he had nearly finished clearing out all the Meat Dragons across the entire continent, leaving only the most powerful batch of the entire Meat Dragon species.

Thanks to this, his energy had now reached an unprecedented fullness, so much so that it gave him the illusion that no matter how wildly he burned through it, the energy never seemed to decrease.

But Baichuan also knew this was just because he had too much energy at the moment.

Indeed, he had now nearly devoured every large Meat Dragon on a continent-sized scale; although energy conversion inevitably came with losses, once the quantity got this large, those losses were nothing more than child's play.

Fortunately, he now possessed a LV5 Star Bag that could store energy at a frantic pace — otherwise all this energy would have been completely wasted.

Lost in thought, Baichuan also arrived at the very center of all the Meat Dragon territories across the entire continent.

As he drew closer, a luxurious nest appeared before his eyes on the vast expanse of land.

This nest was far larger than those built by its kin, and exceptionally grand and exaggerated.

On top of the original piled earth of every kind, there were also all manner of animal bones and wood.

These various materials had been combined by the Meat Dragons in a peculiar way — that is, their droppings solidifying — into a massive castle-like nest.

Seen from afar, it was as if a towering Hei Shan had risen on the plains, except that within this Hei Shan were countless small chambers, like a vast ant colony or beehive.

Compared to the nests of unintelligent animals, Baichuan was more inclined to think this was the dwelling of an intelligent being — and it was the most luxurious nest he had seen since he began exterminating Meat Dragons… no, perhaps calling it a castle would be more fitting.

And at the very top was the nest of the original and strongest Meat Dragon leaders — they were the origin of all Meat Dragons, the very first ones Baichuan had modified.

With Baichuan's arrival, before he could even get close to destroy their castle, a dense swarm of Meat Dragons poured out from within it.

These Meat Dragons all moved on four limbs, and as they walked their pitch-black skin rippled like rolling waves; not a single one of them was smaller than six meters, with the largest already reaching eight meters.

This was a terrifying species that completely surpassed the largest animal — the elephant!

These Meat Dragons, surging out like a tide, each fixed their crimson eyes on the flood dragon in the sky above.

Each one panted wildly, yet not a single one dared to rise up and attack, as if in fear of something, or as if some terrifying creature was controlling them.

And just as Baichuan was about to make his move, these creatures neatly parted to both sides in perfect order, leaving a wide path.

Suddenly, two Meat Dragons, each a full ten meters long — even on all fours their shoulder height was over three meters — walked out.

The moment they emerged, all the surrounding Meat Dragons quickly reined in their violent, somewhat restless demeanor and lowered their ferocious heads.

As if welcoming their king!

"This is?"

For a moment, Baichuan was filled with doubt and halted his attack; to be honest, he was now somewhat curious about how those two Meat Dragons he had originally modified were doing.

Looking at their surroundings, and that massive castle-like mountain, along with the various animals being kept inside the castle as if in a pen, Baichuan couldn't help but suspect they had developed intelligence.

Although he was inclined to believe they had developed intelligence, based on the nearly endless Meat Dragons he had killed before, observing their behavior didn't seem to suggest the presence of intelligence — could these be special cases?

If they were special cases, he would like to understand clearly what had caused it; if he could figure it out, could he perhaps recreate this?

And while Baichuan was lost in thought, within the path the Meat Dragons had cleared, those two massive Meat Dragons stood up.

In an instant, dragons with a shoulder height of only three meters became towering monsters over seven meters tall.

The two Meat Dragons stood up side by side, raising their ferocious heads to gaze at the heavens — at the massive flood dragon above.

At that moment, the air fell silent.

Only the gentle breeze sweeping across the vast land below.

In that instant, the two towering Meat Dragons gazed silently at the flood dragon in the sky, their eyes full of gravity and a trace of fervor.

Yet the flood dragon, for some unknown reason, became distracted and ignored the dragons below, simply gazing down from on high at the distant "Hei Shan."

Perhaps in His eyes, He had never cared about the ants on the ground.

In response, perhaps because of their years of lording it over all, a clear glint of Spirit now appeared in the eyes of these two Meat Dragons; faced with a flood dragon that regarded them so lightly, they did not dare to show the slightest anger.

The male Meat Dragon spoke first.

"Squeak—"

A short but resonant sound rang out, entering Baichuan's ears.

Under the translation of Baichuan's ability to perceive the meaning of all things, it became the meaning he understood:

Great Lord of the Wilderness.

Please cease your destruction, and hear the plea of Your pitiful subjects.

……

"Oh?"

At these words, Baichuan's attention returned, and a flash of understanding crossed his eyes, as if the scene before him was both unexpected and yet entirely reasonable.

Based on his understanding over all these years, combined with the fact that Microscopic Vision could directly observe the changes within a body,

he had also come to understand some of the hidden effects of panel evolution.

That was, whenever a creature evolved a certain biological ability model, it would more or less fuse the biological genes of that ability model into its own body.

The amount of these genes present within that ability might be very small.

But if the quantity was large enough, under some fortuitous coincidence, special changes would occur — perhaps combining into a new ability, one connected to the host of the ability!

This was the most fundamental reason for the sudden birth of certain of his earliest abilities, such as Renwei LV1; in the past he had only suspected it, but now he truly understood.

(End of this chapter)