Chapter 62: Evolution Once More, Mutation

Even though six days had already passed, even though he had Regeneration LV1, the fracture site still ached, seriously affecting his agility and his plans.

Perhaps it was time to upgrade his Regeneration LV1.

After using this ability for so long, Baichuan now understood that LV1 could only rapidly heal wounds on flesh and blood.

And only the surface layer of flesh and blood at that — whenever it involved internal organs, the healing speed would slow down, and as for bones, it was even slower.

By that logic, would LV2 perhaps allow rapid healing of wounds on internal organs or bones?

But if he evolved his bones directly while in this bone-injured state, could it heal the broken bone?

Thinking of this, and since he had just saved up 3 points today, Baichuan decided to start another round of evolution.

3 points were just enough to evolve the caiman's 'Crocodile Bone LV3 (Banzhu)' ability.

Originally he had planned to evolve the caiman's Bite or Scales first.

But these past few days, the inconvenience caused by the broken bone made him think it over and decide to strengthen his bones first.

Maybe if he evolved a more perfect bone, his fracture could be completely healed?

A crocodile's bones, they say, are about ten times harder than cattle bones.

If his bone strength reached that level, perhaps that day he wouldn't have had his bone snapped by Zhang Dadan.

But these humans really do have lives as tough as cockroaches.

Thinking of this, Baichuan couldn't help grinding his teeth in anger — who would have thought that guy, even with his head smashed in by him, could still land a vicious blow on him.

But after this lesson, next time he wouldn't be so careless.

For now, let's evolve first.

With that thought, Baichuan once again opened his panel and selected the saved caiman ability model.

As the model appeared, its abilities appeared once more.

'Species: Caiman.'

'Abilities: Crocodile Bone LV3 (Banzhu), Zhongchang LV2, Ken Yao LV2, Digest LV2, Scales LV2, Diving LV1, Swimming LV1, Mianyilv LV1, Stealth LV1, Energy-Saving Storage LV1, Renwei LV1.'

Without hesitation, he directly selected the first ability, Crocodile Bone LV3 (Banzhu).

The familiar procedure played out, and Baichuan once again fell into slumber.

The familiar viscous secretion oozed out once more, slowly wrapping him completely until he vanished from sight.

Then it began to form a giant egg.

Evolution, once again, began.

……

Four days later.

Afternoon, the blazing sun hung high.

In a certain underground cavern, a crisp crack rang out.

A long, slender great serpent — like a swimming dragon — broke out of a giant egg-shaped hard shell.

As it moved, metallic scales overlapped and clinked against each other, clearly audible in the silent underground cavern. Then a pair of fierce, thick claws pressed sharply against the soft ground.

It raised its slender neck, its forked tongue flicking lightly; even in this utterly dark underground, its pair of sharp serpentine eyes emitted a faint glimmer.

"How many days have passed?"

Baichuan gazed at the pitch-black underground, murmuring to himself, and instinctively opened his panel to check the passage of his lifespan.

Soon, he discovered he had lost five days of lifespan.

In other words, five days had passed — so by that reckoning, an LV3 ability involving such a large-scale change to the whole body required five days.

Baichuan silently summarized in his heart.

Then he looked at his seriously injured tail from before the evolution. Now the scales there were brand-new, not a single blemish, no longer sunken and deformed as before.

And most importantly, he could no longer feel any pain there, as if the agonizing bone fracture from five days ago were a fleeting dream, something he had merely imagined.

He smiled at this — it seemed he had found yet another new way to use the panel.

In the future, if he suffered some terribly severe injury that he couldn't recover from on his own,

then couldn't he use this kind of evolution to make the wound fully heal?

Mm, let's keep this method in mind for now; when the chance arises, he could test it a few more times. If it really works, then perhaps from now on he should always keep a few points in reserve for emergencies.

After silently noting this idea down, Baichuan left the cavern.

After leaving the cavern, the moment Baichuan started crawling quickly, he immediately noticed the changes in his body.

He seemed to have gotten much heavier, and his whole body had grown considerably wider, with his back slightly humped.

It was probably because his most important spine had become harder and more flexible.

Besides that, the muscles all over his body seemed to have grown denser.

He stopped his crawling serpentine body, turned his head to look at the resting mark on the ground — now there appeared only an extremely faint resting mark, far less conspicuous than the one he had left before evolving.

Presumably it was because the contact surface on the underside of his body had grown larger, so the resting mark pressed out by his weight had become less obvious.

Of course, these were all subtle changes; his greatest sensation was:

his tail had inexplicably become much more agile.

Baichuan looked at the tail that had reached right before his eyes, its tip swaying gently like a living rope.

This was an extremely unusual phenomenon — after all, he was a snake!

Apart from a few species like rattlesnakes, which snake has an incredibly agile tail?

Practically none!!

Most of their tails are used only to maintain body balance and convey information.

Even he, a Yanjingwangshe that had evolved many times, was no exception — but now his tail had inexplicably become extremely agile.

After all, he was now a seven-meter-long great serpent!

Normally, a snake this massive would move slowly.

Even if it looks fast, much of the time the front half of its body has already started slithering, but by the time the tail begins to move as well, several seconds have already passed.

This point is most obvious when a snake turns around to slither back.

The Python family is a prime example.

He, Baichuan, also benefited from his own evolution of Minjie LV2, which allowed him to burst forward, thereby avoiding this slow phenomenon.

From this point alone, one can see that in many snakes, the closer the body is to the tail, the less agile it becomes.

Even he, Baichuan, cannot be exempt from this, yet now his tail has inexplicably become incomparably agile.

He thought carefully — this phenomenon seemed to have appeared before, giving him an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

Subconsciously, he opened the panel and looked at his abilities row, beginning to scan through rapidly, taking in ten lines at a glance.

Soon, he discovered among his own abilities one that had appeared out of nowhere at some unknown time — Renwei LV1.

Seeing this, he immediately recalled those two abilities that had likewise appeared out of nowhere back then: Minjie LV1 and Linpian LV2.

Isn't this situation exactly the same as now?!

What is going on?

(End of this chapter)