Chapter 18: Awakening Realm Mid-Stage! Corrosive Poison Mist Upgraded!

Name: Lu Chuan

【Age: 2 and a half years old】

【Race: Silver Ring Snake】

【Level: Awakening Realm Early Stage (500/0)】

【Skills: Climbing (Advanced) + Camouflage (Advanced) + Ambush (Advanced) + Swimming (Advanced) + Rapid Digestion (Advanced) + Perception (Advanced); consume 30 Evolution Value to upgrade an Advanced skill.】

【Innate Abilities: Corrosive Poison Mist (Primary), Soul-Seizing Pupil (Intermediate), Dark Night Ghost (Primary), Spirit Snake Swift Step (Primary); consume 100 Evolution Value to upgrade a Primary innate ability, consume 500 Evolution Value to upgrade an Intermediate innate ability.】

【Evolution Value: 600 points】

Looking at the accumulated Evolution Value, Lu Chuan felt very satisfied.

After pondering for a moment, he moved his mind and added all 500 points of Evolution Value to his level! Hum—

The next instant, a massive surge of energy poured into Lu Chuan's body, and the familiar sensation made him unable to help but let out a soft moan.

At this very moment, Lu Chuan could perceive that the energy within his body was rampaging, beginning to continuously help him transform his physique.

At first, the circulation of this massive energy was somewhat sluggish, as if it couldn't find a target, but as time passed, after the energy had circulated through his body once, its speed increased significantly.

During this change, slight cracking sounds came from Lu Chuan's bones, and his body twisted continuously along with it.

"Is Boss..."

Jingang and the group of newly recruited underlings were not yet clear about this kind of change; after all, their situations were different when they leveled up.

Xiaoqing, however, smiled faintly: "Big Brother is improving his strength; we had better not make any noise to disturb him."

"When Big Brother finishes, everyone will understand what happened."

Lu Chuan was completely immersed in the joy of the breakthrough and did not hear the communication between these underlings.

In fact, at their level, although their calls were different, they could still discern the expressed meaning from the other party's tone and changes in their calls, so communication was not difficult.

"Hoo—"

Not knowing how much time had passed, Lu Chuan let out a long breath.

He felt the massive energy within his body slowly dissipating, signaling that this breakthrough was about to end, so he seized the time to carefully sense the changes within.

"It's done!"

Not long after, Lu Chuan exclaimed inwardly and swung his body a few times, only to find that he seemed to be blocked by something.

Out of curiosity, he turned his head to look and immediately let out an exclamation.

After this breakthrough, Lu Chuan's body length had reached fifty meters; if he didn't look closely, he could hardly see it all at once, as the part of his body closer to the tail was obscured by trees or weeds.

Besides his body length, his physique had also surged from the thickness of a water bucket to that of a water vat, and those black and white scales were becoming increasingly distinct, to the point where one could even see the sharpness of the scale edges.

It could be said that at this time, Lu Chuan's scales were basically the same as daggers, extremely sharp! "I can test the changes in strength after the upgrade."

Thinking this, Lu Chuan moved his body with his intent, and as his powerful frame swept out, it immediately snapped a massive peach tree in half, the crackling sound of breaking wood ringing out incessantly.

"This... this..."

As Lu Chuan's breakthrough ended, the reactions of the various beasts present were also varied.

The other Giant Apes that had not been enslaved by the 【Soul-Seizing Pupil】, seeing this incomparably massive body easily destroy the peach tree, all showed expressions of terror, even subconsciously avoiding him, not daring to get too close to Lu Chuan.

After all, they had just seen with their own eyes this giant silver ring snake defeat Yuan Wang and make Yuan Wang bow his head in submission.

For a time, the Giant Apes began to tremble, and the more timid ones simply buried their heads and covered their ears, not daring to pay attention to any changes around them. "Congratulations, Big Brother!"

As for Xiaoqing and the other underlings, their expressions were different.

Xiaoqing was the first to swim to Lu Chuan's side, offering sincere congratulations: "I am truly happy that Big Brother was able to break through consecutively; it seems that following Big Brother was a very good choice."

"Big Brother, but you must also be careful, lest you crush the Giant Apes here to death."

"Uh, uh, I will be careful."

Lu Chuan looked over upon hearing this and indeed discovered that his body had squeezed a Giant Ape to the edge, and the latter was so terrified it didn't dare move, almost being flattened.

He had been too focused on his joy just now and hadn't noticed this point.

Upon discovering it, Lu Chuan immediately retracted his body.

Huitailang squeezed past Xiong Da and Xiong Er, and amidst the grumbling expressions of the two beasts, came before Lu Chuan, "First, congratulations to Boss for successfully breaking through; we are all very happy that you can become stronger."

"However, Boss, you must not move around randomly, otherwise it would be bad if you crushed the tree growing the Strange Fruit."

"Everyone is wholeheartedly following you, Boss."

Hearing this, Lu Chuan looked at Huitailang with a look that was not quite a smile.

He knew this guy was eyeing the Strange Fruit, but having used such a tactful way to remind him, one had to say it was very cunning.

Regarding this, he didn't mind.

Underlings like Xiong Da, Xiong Er, and Hu Dali just shouted excitedly: "Boss is mighty!"

Looking at the fanatical expressions of his underlings, Lu Chuan raised his head and communicated with them using Soul Power, "Little ones, all come over here!"

At Lu Chuan's command, all the underlings gathered around.

"From now on, everyone search the forest for Strange Fruit with all your might."

"Any Strange Fruit you see, grab them all for me!"

"Those who resist, kill without mercy!"

"Yes!"

The underlings were excited and turned around without hesitation to start their actions.

Seeing that all his underlings had gone to search for Strange Fruit, Lu Chuan coiled beside this golden peach tree, pondering endlessly, "Now, the remaining Evolution Value is not enough to continue upgrading, but there is no need to keep it."

"Only by continuously enhancing strength can one obtain the greatest gains."

Thinking of this, he loaded all the remaining 100 points of Evolution Value into the skill—【Corrosive Poison Mist (Primary)】.

Nowadays, Lu Chuan lacked a powerful offensive ability, and among the many skills, 【Corrosive Poison Mist】 was quite good.

"Hum——"

As a mysterious light flashed around his body, Lu Chuan received the feedback of the skill upgrade and couldn't help but hurriedly look over—【Corrosive Venom (Intermediate): The corrosive toxicity is stronger, capable of easily corroding hard objects like stones, and it also carries a potent neurotoxin that can leave the poisoned victim delirious!】

"Good!"

Looking at the description of 【Corrosive Venom】, Lu Chuan couldn't help but exclaim, his heart filled with great joy.

This time, upgrading 【Corrosive Poison Mist】 not only caused it to undergo a significant transformation and become more powerful, but also turned it into an area-of-effect skill: "In this way, it will be quite convenient when facing pack-dwelling opponents like wolves or the Giant Ape."

(End of this chapter)