Chapter 17: Unifying the Dali Mountain Range! Scavenging for Strange Fruit!

"Roar—"

The Yuan Wang remained unyielding, though now staggering due to the poison, it still raised its arms high, attempting to force the enemy back with brute strength.

Born a king, it possessed a natural pride, yet Lu Chuan's 【Corrosive Poison Mist】, under the suppression of 【Dark Night Ghost】, increased the pressure significantly, constantly affecting its sanity and reactions.

"The opportunity has arrived!"

Taking advantage of the Yuan Wang being poisoned, Lu Chuan moved as fast as lightning, heading straight for the Yuan Wang.

Bang! In an instant, a loud noise erupted.

Lu Chuan used sheer brute force to knock the Yuan Wang to the ground, his powerful tail sweeping across, nearly shattering the Yuan Wang's bones.

The latter, relying on its last bit of strength, wobbled as it rolled to one side, while not forgetting to pull up a giant tree to defend itself, only it tried several times and failed.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

After successive attacks landed, the Yuan Wang was already dazed and confused from the strikes.

Lu Chuan, taking advantage of the Yuan Wang's bewildered expression and sluggish movements, pressed forward fiercely, and in those cold eyes, streaks of eerie blue light suddenly flickered.

【Soul-Seizing Pupil】, quickly taking effect! In just over ten seconds, the Yuan Wang stopped all struggling, and now lay prone on the ground, communicating with Lu Chuan via soul.

"I am willing to submit, spare my life, Big Brother!"

"Hehe, you are sensible!"

After hearing this voice, Lu Chuan smiled slightly, then opened his mouth to disperse the remaining poison mist on the Yuan Wang and cured its poison.

"Yuan Wang, from now on, just follow me closely, I guarantee I won't treat you poorly."

"Yes, thank you, Big Brother!"

However, as the saying goes, one mountain cannot hold two tigers.

Now that the Yuan Wang had become his own little brother, he could no longer continue using this title; otherwise, even if he didn't mind, it would lead to some misunderstandings.

Thinking of this, Lu Chuan pondered for a while, and combining the Yuan Wang's strength and the characteristics of its Bloodline Talent, he said softly: "In that case, you shall be named Jingang from now on."

"Jingang, are you willing?"

"Everything shall be as Big Brother commands!"

The Yuan Wang, or rather the Yuan Wang renamed Jingang, agreed to this matter without a second word.

At this moment, he had nothing but reverence for Lu Chuan in his heart, along with the thought of following him wholeheartedly from now on, with no other distracting thoughts.

"Very good, tell your disciples and grandchildren to be quiet."

Seeing that the other Giant Apes were still fighting with Xiaoqing and the other little brothers, Lu Chuan hissed a few times, giving Jingang his first order after being subdued.

"Roar roar—"

Immediately, when Jingang let out a few strange cries, those Giant Apes all stopped one by one.

Although they had doubts in their hearts, since their boss had said so, they would not disobey.

Thus, Lu Chuan had subdued the Yuan Wang, which also meant he had subdued the entire Giant Ape colony.

"Good fellow, there are quite a few strong ones."

A moment later, after counting, Lu Chuan discovered that among the Giant Ape clan, besides Jingang who was in the Awakening Realm, there were six other Giant Apes in the late Mortal Realm, and he was immediately overjoyed.

"Adding Xiaoqing, Xiong Da, Xiong Er, and other strange beasts, I already have over a dozen little brothers in the late Mortal Realm under my command."

"Not to mention, there is also Jingang, who is in the Awakening Realm; now, no matter where I go, it can be considered a powerful force."

However, Lu Chuan discovered that ever since he subdued Jingang.

The number of little brothers that 【Soul-Absorbing Pupil (Intermediate)】 could enslave had also reached its limit.

Unless Lu Chuan could continue to break through, he would be unable to continue enslaving other wild beasts.

But for a short time, Lu Chuan did not need to worry about this problem.

At this moment, Lu Chuan held his head high, looking at the dozens of powerful little brothers in front of him, his heart filled with excitement.

"From this point on, I can consider myself to have completely unified the Dali mountain range!" "This feeling is still quite good!"

"Jingang, how did you become so strong?"

Lu Chuan came back to his senses and began to be curious about this matter.

He firmly believed that Jingang could improve so quickly because it had definitely obtained an extraordinary opportunity.

Sure enough, the latter smiled honestly upon hearing this.

"Boss, to tell you the truth, I encountered other fortuitous encounters in the Peach Forest, which is why I have my current strength."

"Boss, I will take you there now."

"Lead the way."

Subsequently, Lu Chuan, along with Xiaoqing and the rest of his little brothers, followed Jingang to the deepest part of the Peach Forest.

At this moment, Jingang also said very excitedly: "Boss, it's right ahead!"

He looked in the direction Jingang was pointing, and immediately saw a golden peach tree; this peach tree was very old, covered in peach resin, and its branches were gnarled, and one could smell a special fragrance of peach wood before even getting close.

Around this golden peach tree, Jingang had even piled up a low wall with stones, and on one side of the low wall, many melons and fruits were placed; it looked like Jingang worshipped it quite often.

Walking up to it, Lu Chuan discovered that there was a lonely, unripe fruit hanging on the golden peach tree, which was currently turning from green to gold.

And next to this fruit, there was a relatively fresh break.

Just as he was examining it, he heard Jingang say with some unease: "Boss, there were originally two fruits here, but the ripe one has already... already been eaten by me."

"Only this one that hasn't ripened yet is left."

"No matter!"

Lu Chuan sensed its unease and waved his hand to signal Jingang not to worry, but his gaze remained fixed on the unripe fruit, his eyes burning with heat.

Although he really wanted to eat the Strange Fruit now, it was useless if it wasn't ripe, so he waited patiently.

"Jingang, there are still quite a few ripe Strange Fruits in the forest, right?"

Hearing this, the Yuan Wang nodded and told him everything: "After some fruits ripened, I had the other children put them away, preparing to let the children who needed them eat them."

"Then bring them all over; if left for too long, they might rot, and it would be a waste."

"Yes!"

At the command, all the ripe Strange Fruit in the Peach Forest were brought over, and those that had not yet been picked were also plucked from the branches one by one by the Giant Apes.

Before long, a large quantity of mutated peaches was delivered in front of Lu Chuan.

He counted them carefully and discovered there were actually twenty in total; having these was quite good.

"The taste is not bad!"

Lu Chuan did not stand on ceremony, devouring the mutated peaches before him in large mouthfuls, and could not help but offer a word of praise.

"I hope these Strange Fruit can greatly increase my strength."

"Ding!"

"Congratulations to the host for a successful consumption, you have gained 25 points of Evolution Value!"

"Ding!"

"Congratulations to the host for a successful consumption, you have gained 30 points of Evolution Value!"

"..."

A dense stream of system notification sounds rang out in Lu Chuan's mind.

Not until the final notification sound faded did Lu Chuan finally finish consuming all of these mutated peaches.

Afterwards, Lu Chuan somewhat impatiently opened the system panel to check his attributes in every aspect.

(End of this chapter)