Chapter 1919

A poison thorn lay in ambush within the dense, lush tangle of vines, drawn here by the scent and residual heat of its prey.

Fifty meters from the poison thorn, a large bird stretched its neck, searching for fruit among the trees.

Pfft!

Like a jet of air, a half-meter-long bone spur shot out from within the vine layer, flashing a sharp gleam before piercing the giant bird's neck.

The giant bird tilted its head, let out a mournful cry, turned and fled, but after just a few steps, two more bone spurs coated in venom flew in; these spurs were slender and sharp all over, designed only to pierce prey, their destructive power not particularly strong.

Both bone spurs sank into the giant bird's thigh roots, slowing its escape, and then another spur pierced its cloaca.

The giant bird leapt up in pain, hanging in midair, its body rapidly going numb, and finally crashed to the ground with a thud.

A mantis carapace creature rushed forward quickly, the ring of backward-curved blades at the tip of its carapace tail unfurling, it gripped the giant bird's neck tightly and dragged it away.

This was nearly a perfect hunt, with no communication, yet their coordination was flawless.

At eight o'clock the next morning, Su Xiao lay in a wooden shed; the slime inside the insect nest was too abundant, and he had no interest in sleeping there.

"Woof~"

Xiang Bubu's call made Su Xiao open his eyes; at that moment, Xiang Bubu was yawning, looking somewhat fatigued.

Su Xiao recalled Am and Bah via the adventuring party channel; after a busy night, it was time to verify the results.

The mantis carapace creatures and poison thorns remained busy, essentially biological machines, working eighteen hours and needing only about half an hour's rest near the insect nest to resume energetic hunting.

Su Xiao checked the biological energy stored in the insect nest, which had reached: 1952/2000 points, not far from promotion, lacking only 48 points.

The efficiency of the fourteen poison thorns was decent, with one-third of their biological energy coming from them, but late last night, one poison thorn was torn apart by a wild beast, and buried with it was a mantis carapace creature.

After waiting about half an hour, three mantis carapace creatures dragged back three large wild beasts, still following the original process: dissect the beasts, then have the insect nest consume the flesh.

The insect nest surged, and a jet of emerald-green liquid welled up from below; the surrounding mantis carapace creatures swarmed forward, sharing that emerald-green liquid—this was overflowing biological energy.

"Jilala."

"I'm here."

A lazy voice came from within the insect nest.

"You can advance to the second stage."

"This is also my expectation."

Inside the insect nest, Jilala was completely enveloped by it, as vast amounts of biological energy surged into her body.

Hearing Jilala's words just now, Xiang Bubu was somewhat surprised, it looked puzzled at Su Xiao, meaning: "Has the bug sister become so obedient?"

"The demonic power is gradually taking effect."

"Woof."

Xiang Bubu understood, it came to Su Xiao's wooden shed and collapsed headfirst to sleep.

When Jilala advanced in stage, the entire insect nest was in a sealed state, even shrinking slightly to enhance its defense.

A long wait began; obviously, Jilala wanted to advance to the second stage, and unlike when she spawned troops, this process was slow, after all, once a mistake occurred, her evolution would fail, and the result of evolution failure was only one: death.

As soon as Jilala began evolving, Su Xiao felt the surrounding world begin to change, as if some unseen thing were gathering toward the insect nest to protect it and Jilala.

The Withering Seed began to take effect, for Jilala was not a pure plot character, so the Withering Seed did not turn her into a Son of the World (false), but even so, Jilala, having absorbed the Withering Seed, was a very special existence to this world, gaining a bonus from the power of fate, though only a minuscule amount.

While Su Xiao waited for Jilala to complete evolution, the Apostle's Eye floating above issued a warning: suspicious creatures had entered within a one-kilometer radius.

Su Xiao carefully sensed the information fed back by the Apostle's Eye, confirmed the position, and then, with a few flashes, vanished into the forest.

Half a kilometer from the insect nest, several people wearing primitive fur skirts, their bodies covered in fiery red patterns, walked through the bushes; their steps were agile, the leader holding a severed and cracked carapace foot, which at that moment emitted a faint glow.

These few primitives walked without delay; from their expressions, they seemed to have discovered some kind of "treasure."

"Fire, we can, find, new life, mother body, huh."

Halting, fragmented conversation sounds came through; Su Xiao stood behind a towering tree, hearing those few words, he felt uneasy, as if the Sun Tribe had a way to find the insect nest.

"The, resonance, of, the, carapace, will not, be wrong……"

The primitive at the front, with a mark on his forehead, spoke; his eyes were fiery red, as if flames burned within them.

Behind the tree, Su Xiao judged the six primitives' direction of advance, then leapt onto a tree, silent and breath completely concealed.

Su Xiao half-crouched on a half-meter-thick tree trunk, his heart rate dropping to its lowest.

After more than ten seconds, the six primitives arrived beneath the tree; when the last one stood before Su Xiao in front and below, he leapt down from the tree.

Hanging in midair, the azure steel shadow energy enveloped the Dragon-Slaying Flash; Su Xiao gripped the longsword with a reverse grip in one hand, the blade tip pointing downward.

Pfft!

The sharp longsword pierced bone, directly entering through one primitive's crown and exiting from his lower jaw.

As Su Xiao landed, he immediately drew back the longsword, changing from reverse grip to normal grip, and kicked the front primitive in the lower back with one foot.

The primitive pierced through the skull by Su Xiao flew in midair and instantly became a corpse, he straightly smashed into the foremost tribesman.

Su Xiao stepped forward; dry leaves flew and scattered, the longsword cut out a chain-like streak, and faint blue electric arcs flickered in midair.

With a swish, a skull full of bewilderment flew up.

"Enemy……"

The primitive standing before Su Xiao to the left and front had just uttered one word when Su Xiao already gripped the sword with both hands, the longsword stabbing toward the ground.

"Blade Way Sword · Time."

Hum~

Everything around slowed down, except Su Xiao.

Pfft. Pfft……

Again, a skull and most of a body flew up; two primitives stood rigidly in place, blood jetting from the severed ends to a height of over ten meters.

With a bang, the corpse that Su Xiao had first pierced through the skull struck the foremost chieftain.

"Blade Way Sword · Azure Demon."

Clang.

A cyan-blue blade light flew out; this move had only one characteristic: speed—extreme speed.

The cyan-blue blade light swept past the neck of a primitive man; due to its excessive speed, not even a trace of blood appeared at his neck.

"Blade Dao·Time!"

Su Xiao's long sword in hand stabbed the ground again; the primitive chieftain had just pushed aside his kin's corpse when his speed slowed.

Clang, clang, clang.

Three blade lights struck before the primitive chieftain; two arms flew out, and the last slashed through his waist, piercing his body.

In Dead Silent City, Su Xiao would never have felt such a killing strike—there, enemies' physiques were one tougher than the next, and even breaking through the Black King's defense was difficult.

His self-developed blade technique, combined with the lv. 26 Blade Master bonus, doubled its destructive power—this was the true combat style of a Blade Master.

Su Xiao held his long sword diagonally pointing to the ground; a few drops of fresh blood slid down the blade—if the aura was strong enough, the blade remained unstained.

Fresh blood fell to the ground; only then did five corpses collapse. The primitive chieftain fell with a thud, losing combat ability—this was Su Xiao's deliberate act of leaving a survivor.

Su Xiao probed the primitive man's information via Disciple's Eye; the opponent still had 21% life remaining.

d·Assassination appeared in Su Xiao's hand; he fired at the primitive chieftain's chest side, avoiding vital organs and viscera. This shot reduced the chieftain's life to 9%, plunging him into a dying state.

The long sword returned to its sheath; Su Xiao picked up a segment of carapace from the ground and squatted before the primitive chieftain.

"How is this used?"

Su Xiao pressed the d·Assassination against the primitive chieftain's forehead; any slight movement would trigger a headshot.

"No... know... way..."

Pfft~

The bullet exited the barrel, one shot shattering the primitive chieftain's skull; Su Xiao stood, retrieved a test tube from his storage space, and poured its powder around.

Not long after, a beast's roar echoed from afar—the corpses here would soon be cleared.

Su Xiao was about to leave when several transparent crystal fragments floated up, entering the【Soul Lock Lamp】hanging at his waist—only close-combat kills could collect soul crystals, a conclusion drawn from real combat.

Su Xiao held the Soul Lock Lamp, barely larger than half a pinky tip, before him; it already contained many soul crystals, and that inner longing grew stronger.

A rumbling sound came from behind Su Xiao; a beast resembling a black panther but much larger charged nearby, deterred by the bloody scent on Su Xiao, it dared not advance.

Su Xiao glanced at the beast not far away—too little meat—he directly abandoned it.

Su Xiao walked toward the insect nest direction; he anticipated changes after Zhi La and the nest evolved to stage two, more importantly, he had obtained a segment of carapace seemingly capable of sensing the nest—a valuable item, though he remained unsure how to use it.

Purely hunting beasts to accumulate biological energy was too slow; Su Xiao wondered if attacking other insect nests to seize biological energy was possible—after all, most nests habitually accumulate biological energy, as it is the sole means of evolution.

If this idea succeeded, Zhi La's promotion speed would greatly increase.

Even if unable to plunder biological energy, could Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Ignoring Bubu Wang infiltrate the enemy's interior and steal biological energy through some method?

These ideas, Su Xiao would only attempt after Zhi La evolved to stage two... m.