Chapter 28: The Panel's Hidden Function

This day, having finally finished eating all the meat, Baichuan also crawled back out of this snake den with a round, plump belly.

As for the Burmese Python's ability model, he had now obtained it as well. Sure enough, just as he had expected, the abilities were very impressive.

However, since he wasn't in his own safe cave, Baichuan didn't dare casually begin evolving, lest unknown dangers appear, so he held back for now.

Now it was also time to return to his familiar old lair and begin evolving once more.

After this evolution, he would become a perfect snake completely and thoroughly without any serpentine flaws.

……

Half a day later, having finally returned, Baichuan couldn't wait to open the panel.

【Name: Baichuan.】

【Species: Yanjingwangshe.】

【Length: 5.5 meters.】

【Lifespan: 7 years 2 months.】

【Points: 18 (30%).】

【Abilities: Zhongchang LV2, Sedu LV2, Minjie LV2, Qiangzhuang LV2 (Xiongqiang Yihua), Clairvoyance LV2, Linpian LV2, Lizhua LV2, Muscle Electric Discharge LV2, Huanjing Moni LV2, Cunchu LV1, Weixian Chajue LV1, Flexibility LV1, Youyong LV1, Xiaohua Xishou LV1, Wadong LV1, Heat-Sensing Pit LV1, Diving LV1, Underwater Breathing LV1, Regeneration LV1, Qixi Shoulian LV1, Electric Current Protection LV1……】

【Ability Structure Library: Laoshu, Jinshe, Qingwa, Grasshopper, Tengshe, Burmese Python……】

"Kedianji……"

Baichuan frowned slightly, scanning the panel.

Now, as he evolved, his abilities grew more and more numerous, and the information on this panel also became increasingly varied, somewhat affecting his viewing experience.

He wondered if it could be changed somehow?

Unexpectedly, the moment this thought fell, a small Light Point lit up at the center of the panel, and then all the information began twisting and rotating around it as the Core.

When the panel stopped rotating again, the information on it had completely changed.

【Name: Baichuan.】

【Species: Yanjingwangshe.】

【Length: 5.5 meters.】

【Lifespan: 7 years 2 months.】

【Points: 18 (30%).】

【Abilities: LV2 Ability (Expand), LV1 Ability (Expand).】

【Ability Structure Library (Expand).】

"Kedianji……"

Seeing this, Baichuan was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and smiled.

Interesting, truly quite user-friendly.

Then Baichuan no longer paid attention to this little interlude, and immediately expanded the Ability Structure Library, selecting a giant python model stretching its body wantonly.

The next moment, an Ability Panel somewhat different from the previous ones popped out.

"Species: Burmese Python (Banzhu)."

"Abilities: Zhongchang LV3 (Banzhu), Chanchao Jiaosha LV2, Qiangzhuang LV2, Flexibility LV2, Linpian LV2, Heat-Sensing Lip Pit LV2, Energy-Efficient Storage LV2, Youyong LV2, Saltwater Adaptation LV1……"

Baichuan stared at the Burmese Python's incomparably luxurious panel and fell silent for a long time.

Thinking back to when he had first come to this world, his panel back then didn't even have a few LV2-level abilities. Who would have known that the Burmese Python was born with such luxurious abilities.

"Species advantage indeed, sometimes the gap is just that big."

In the end, Baichuan could only sigh lightly. Fortunately, with the panel, he could overcome these species advantages.

But what exactly does Banzhu mean?

After envying others' innate species for a while, Baichuan, who had come back to his senses, was again a bit puzzled. Staring at the two characters behind the species name and behind the first ability on the panel, those characters as if burning with faint flames.

Banzhu!

Is this the literal meaning, a title only worthy of the true overlord of a region? Or is it the existence that reigns supreme within a species?

Baichuan was somewhat confused. If it meant reigning supreme, then as a king of venomous snakes, by reason he should have it too.

But the reality was that he didn't.

Could it mean an existence that can be called overlord among all snakes? Or perhaps even within the Burmese Python species, this snake counts as an overlord?

Or is it related to the existence of an LV3-level ability among his abilities below?

Baichuan stared intently at this ability. This was the first time since coming to this world that he had truly come into contact with an LV3-level ability.

Moreover, the way to obtain this ability was so simple that it left him without a sense of reality.

Somewhat confusing indeed, there's too little information now.

Baichuan sighed helplessly. Facing this world he had never encountered, he was like an ignorant and innocent child.

Sometimes, one truly discovers that the more one knows, the more one feels ignorant. Unlike those animals driven only by instinct, who need not consider anything.

Shaking his head, Baichuan quickly recovered his mood. No matter how strong they were, they were all dead now, and about to become nourishment on his path to becoming stronger.

One day, he would step on everything they had, walking step by step toward the heavens, freely roaming the nine skies.

With that, let the enhancement begin.

First was the first LV3 ability he obtained, Zhongchang LV3 (Banzhu) — Extract and Fuse!

Perhaps because Baichuan already had the LV2 level of this ability himself, this species talent exclusive to snakes didn't encounter any compatibility issues, fusing perfectly.

The instant this ability fused, Baichuan saw his body model instantly swell up as if inflated.

No longer the flat, wide, hollow body of a king cobra, but like a Python, filled with solid muscle inside. At the same time, he discovered his Qiangzhuang LV1 had returned to LV2.

"This is?"

Baichuan, somewhat unclear about the situation, was stunned for a moment. As if realizing something, he hurriedly looked at the Electric Generation ability.

Fortunately, it was still there.

Then he drew out Zhongchang LV3 again, and found that everything had returned to its previous state.

Like this, after he tested it several times, and additionally enlarged the model to observe it from a microscopic angle several times.

Thus, he once again discovered the panel's hidden ability; it seemed that some of the abilities it enhanced, although not displayed on the surface, actually had some hidden effects that truly existed.

For example, the Zhongchang ability seemed to correspond to the snake's body strength and physique and the like.

Some abilities might conflict when body strength was low, but would not conflict when it was high.

Just like the current situation, the Eye King's own body structure did not possess much muscle mass, so even after strengthening with Strong LV2, perhaps its muscle mass and muscle structure and the like had merely reached the threshold of this ability.

Once other abilities required muscles, then other abilities might decrease.

This was because the muscles that had just barely maintained Strong LV2 were divided off some, resulting in not being enough.

But the python's body was different again, because its body was not like other snakes, very flat and empty, like hollow.

It was filled with muscles inside, round and bulging like solid.

Such a huge size brought about an enormous muscle mass, which meant that even if some was divided off for Electric Generation, there was absolutely no problem.

(End of this chapter)