Chapter 98: The Storm Before the Storm

For example, gunpowder.

In small quantities it might only give you a little firework to look at, but once the yield goes up, that firework can blast an entire area sky-high!

The same goes for this toxic, highly corrosive liquid — once the quantity is up, no creature can withstand it.

And compared to improving quality, accumulating quantity is far easier.

Especially with his current massive body — the toxic liquid he has stockpiled is no ordinary amount!

Because this is liquid stored and mixed separately in two sacs inside the chest cavity; the liquid accumulated in one sac is already plenty, and with two combined…

Just one word: abundant and filling!

Plenty of venom means an inexhaustible supply of toxic fire. Baichuan says that given Time, he could even scorch the earth for a thousand li!

Leaving no creature within that range alive!

This kind of power can already be considered a natural disaster to a certain extent, though the class of that disaster is a little…

Thus, he truly regarded an ordinary cold-weapon Empire as nothing!

High-altitude strikes alone, seizing air superiority, already made him invincible.

It was precisely this time that he came into contact with the only 'transcendent' on the entire continent.

That was a blond, blue-eyed big man who had heard of this earth-shaking incident — the news that a feathered serpent god, an evil dragon creature, had taken up roost at the Imperial Palace.

Who had traveled all the way from another small country.

As for that 'transcendent's' ability, there was only one — or rather, one set.

He could emit a peculiar invisible wave. If Baichuan's current vision couldn't see it, he might have been swept by that wave without knowing.

Though being swept by it doesn't necessarily mean it would have any effect.

This wave's effect is similar to a bat's ultrasonic system, or rather another branch of ultrasound.

It can transmit the information the ability host wishes to convey, as well as understand the emotions and general meaning within various creatures' sounds.

Very mysterious, but after Baichuan captured him and scanned out his ability template, he finally discovered what this ability actually was:

Forced Transmit LV1, and Forced Receive LV1.

These are the names of this set of abilities — obtained by a lucky one among the human group, who, after being struck by lightning and not dying, mutated and gained this ability.

Of course, the more specific origin, he had no way of knowing.

The reason he knew so much was still because this fellow voluntarily poured it all out.

You know, there are always a group of people in this world whose hearts are Transparent, who are diplomatic and tactful, who know how to read others' minds and thus cater to them for favor.

And such people generally appear beside those emperors.

Indeed, with such a powerful ability, even if this big man didn't understand a thing before, under the influence of this ability, he should have come to understand at least a little.

Think about it — among so many people in the entire Empire, this evil dragon had captured only him alone, and he even carried a special ability on him.

Combined with having dodged his ability's effect earlier — even a pig should know where the problem lies.

There's a saying that goes well: in this world, bad people don't necessarily die, and good people don't necessarily die, but there's only one kind of person who will definitely die! And that's the "fool"!

So the big man figured that even if his guess was wrong, it didn't matter — the ability's origin, he could just say it; he truly didn't think anyone could replicate his situation.

Thus, under this big man's voluntary confession, Baichuan learned how his ability was born.

As for the effects of those two abilities:

Forced Transmit: forcibly transmit the information the ability host wishes to convey into the designated creature's brain, enabling it to understand the meaning expressed within.

Forced Receive: comprehend the emotions and meaning contained within the sounds emitted by various creatures.

All of this is an effect evolved from those rings of invisible waves.

Of course, there must be some additional effect within this — namely, when facing creatures without vigilance, it carries a certain bewitching quality, causing them to subconsciously believe the information spoken by the ability host.

And this effect works better the smarter yet more simple-minded the creature.

Used well, it could perfectly serve as a mysterious Druid in the world, faking miracles and deceiving people through Ren Jian; or bewitch large crowds, brainwashing them to raise up some massive cult.

These were the uses that subconsciously came to Baichuan's mind when he obtained this ability.

Regarding this, he finally understood the malice in the heart of this blond, blue-eyed fellow he had caught in his claws.

This fellow, upon learning of his power, had traveled thousands of miles to come here wanting to bewitch him, to make him serve as this fellow's strength.

With such a sinister intent, Baichuan subconsciously wanted to crush him to death with one claw.

But on second thought, he thought it would be a pity to let such a rare ability just disappear like this.

Moreover, it posed no threat to him — because when capturing him, Baichuan had already discovered that the magnetic field on his own body and the ultrasonic waves he constantly emitted seemed to have inadvertently blocked this blond big man's ability waves.

So after much deliberation, he still let him go.

In this ordinary world, where apart from the Great Zhou there is no other transcendence, having a few transcendent exceptions always seems precious — let him see what tricks this fellow can pull off.

Anyway, the impact isn't great; if he could mutate again, wouldn't that be wonderful!

So Baichuan simply knocked him out, and, to avoid him discovering the problem afterward, decisively bestowed upon this fellow an ability: "Fanzhi LV2"!

"Little fellow, from today you shall completely transform into a breeding boar, and raise up a great tribe for me!"

With this thought, Baichuan directly tossed him down.

Spreading his massive wings, he leaped up and left, leaving behind only the blond, blue-eyed big man who remained in his temporary cave, already entering a state of evolution.

Baichuan simply didn't believe that, under this fellow's uncontrollable frantic sowing, he couldn't produce a few offspring who inherited his ability or even developed mutated abilities.

After this trip, during this year, apart from collecting various visible creature ability models across this continent, Baichuan encountered a human who had mutated and developed a peculiar power.

As for the various legendary incidents he caused along the way, those were not within his consideration.

Same old saying — anything that doesn't help his dragon transformation, he never wants to bother with.

At the same time, this experience once again told him:

Apart from the Great Zhou continent, the other continents on the planet completely lack transcendent power, and there are no various miraculous Strange Beasts!

Great Zhou is special!

What confirmed this was not only his experiences and observations over the past few years, but also the differences between the human models he had scanned and analyzed across several continents.

That's right — among the human models from these different continents, the Ability Panels of several different races were more or less the same; only the humans in the Great Zhou region possessed special abilities.

This special ability was not Symbiosis, but "Will LV1"!

In other words, this was a unique ability belonging exclusively to the humans of the Great Zhou region, one that did not exist among humans on other continents.

Coupled with the scene he had witnessed when he killed Zhang Dadan back then — those red Light Points drifting out from his body and scattering across the sky.

Perhaps the emergence of this ability was also connected to the supernatural power unique to them…

Taking this into account, Baichuan realized he had actually already entered a bottleneck period.

Currently, aside from some abilities still deep in the ocean that he couldn't reach, the powerful abilities he could think of had basically all been obtained by him.

Even some seemingly incredibly powerful small creatures — for instance, ants, whose strength was said to be over a hundred times their own body weight — he had obtained as well.

But unfortunately, he had now realized it too.

The reason these creatures possessed such great strength was simply because their body size was small enough and their structure was special.

Once their abilities were scaled up proportionally to his current body size, not to mention anything else, the nerve-reflex speed alone would be enough to give them a headache.

He had also attempted to evolve that ability, but unfortunately the Panel told him the compatibility was insufficient; if he insisted on evolving it, negative effects and bodily deformity might occur.

For example, what Baichuan feared most right now was a reduction in his nerve-reflex speed — once he evolved the ant's ability, if the structure changed, his reaction speed would drop.

He would essentially become a complete waste; no matter how great the strength, it would be useless — just a living target.

And that was the best-case scenario; what he feared even more was evolving it, but the ability failing to take effect.

Therefore, upon weighing the two against each other, Baichuan found the gains far smaller than the risk, and stopped right there…

(End of this chapter)