Chapter 35: Breaking Through the Shackle Realm!

"Boom!"

In the dense mountain forest, a series of huge commotions rang out; looking closely, it turned out to be a giant snake sliding through it rapidly.

Every tall tree blocking the giant snake's path was collapsing in large swathes.

It also caused countless creatures inhabiting the forest to be terrified.

Some of the unlucky ones died directly under the snake's body, yet the giant snake did not feel a thing.

This giant snake was Lu Chuan.

At a certain moment, Lu Chuan suddenly stopped his pace, raised his snake head, and looked toward a water pool not far away, revealing a hint of sharpness.

Within his line of sight, there was a group of rhinoceroses by the edge of that water pool, and the leader among them was seven or eight meters long.

Its rough skin was draped over its body like armor, and its defensive power seemed astonishing.

Especially the sharp rhinoceros horn just above its nose, which seemed capable of tearing everything into shreds, invincible and ever-victorious.

However, compared to Lu Chuan, this rhinoceros's size was still not enough to look at, and especially its cultivation was far inferior to Lu Chuan's, as it was currently only at the Awakening Realm Early Stage.

"Hmph!"

Lu Chuan moved rapidly, his massive body extremely agile, so fast that it was almost impossible to track his movements.

He opened his mouth and spat out a cloud of black mist; the moment this black mist touched the rhinoceroses, it caused them to collapse in large swathes.

That terrifying toxin eroded the rhinoceroses' defenses and consciousness, leaving them unable to make even the slightest sound.

Only then did Lu Chuan slither over, mercilessly opening his blood-red maw to devour them.

This time, he had brought many underlings to this mountain range near Dali, and he basically did not engage in any subjugation efforts; after encountering these strange beasts, he mostly killed them directly! Moreover, he specifically chose the formidable ones to strike.

Because he specifically handled those slightly stronger strange beasts, Xiaoqing, Jingang, and other strange beast underlings could slaughter in all directions, and almost every interval, there was a continuous supply of blood food and Spirit Fruit delivered to his mouth.

During this period, Lu Chuan's strength grew at an extremely fast speed, which was breathtaking.

"Ding!"

"Congratulations to the host for a successful devouring, rewarded with 30 points of Evolution Value!"

"Ding!"

"Congratulations to the host for a successful devouring, rewarded with 6 points of Evolution Value!"

"..."

After activating the Rapid Digestion ability, Lu Chuan's devouring speed was very fast, and he had no feeling of fullness at all, while the system's continuous notification sounds rang out in his mind.

When he finished devouring the rhinoceros herd, the system's notification sounds were still ringing incessantly.

"Boss!"

"We're back!"

Not long after, Xiaoqing, Jingang, and other strange beast underlings dragged some strange beast corpses over one after another and piled them up in front of Lu Chuan.

Xiaoqing even put down the Strange Fruit wrapped in large leaves and came before Lu Chuan, "This is what we found; it's all here."

"Mm-hmm, you all did very well!"

Lu Chuan nodded, praised Xiaoqing, Jingang, and the other strange beasts a few times, and only after they were all jubilant did he cast his gaze upon the harvest in front of him.

By now, the entire mountain range had basically been ravaged by Lu Chuan's underlings, and the key was that there was no existence in this mountain range capable of stopping them, so this group of strange beasts was completely unimpeded, able to get whatever they wanted.

Crack—Lu Chuan lowered his head and opened his mouth to swallow a Spirit Fruit; feeling the sweet juice and pulp of the Strange Fruit explode in his mouth, he couldn't help but reveal a look of enjoyment.

Most of the time, Lu Chuan would crush these Strange Fruits before swallowing them, rather than swallowing them whole.

With many underlings by his side, he now swallowed the food in front of him with peace of mind, and soon he made these strange beast corpses and Spirit Fruits disappear at an extremely fast speed.

Because of the reason that he didn't need to chew, coupled with his fast devouring speed, his stomach had some feeling of fullness after a short while.

Although the Rapid Digestion was constantly at work, the things he had devoured this time were still a bit much, but he did not stop the devouring behavior; instead, he stored the food he couldn't digest in a short time into the Swallowing Origin Space to digest slowly when he had leisure time.

"Ding!"

"Congratulations to the host for a successful devouring, obtained 15 points of Evolution Value!"

"Finally 3000 points of Evolution Value!"

Not long after, the system notification sound in Lu Chuan's mind just ended, and he looked at the attribute panel, unable to help but reveal a look of anticipation, "It hasn't been easy, accumulating for so long."

His invasion of this mountain range this time was all for the sake of evolution points.

After all, Lu Chuan's whereabouts had already been exposed, and according to that woman's temper, he felt that the other party would definitely make a comeback in the near future, so if he didn't improve his strength quickly, he would likely be in great danger.

During this period, he was racing against time to do this very thing.

While pondering, Lu Chuan added all the evolution points to his level, and the next moment, a massive wave of energy surged through his entire body, causing him to tremble all over.

He enjoyed letting this massive energy wander continuously within his body, changing his physique bit by bit.

At the same time, Lu Chuan's size surged again; after Xiaoqing and the other strange beast underlings noticed, they hurriedly retreated, seemingly worried about being accidentally crushed by their boss.

This upgrade was completed almost in an instant, but Lu Chuan felt as if a long time had passed.

When he came to his senses, he discovered that although his size had not changed as obviously as in the previous few breakthroughs, his scales and body structure had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Now, Lu Chuan's scales had already transformed toward a richer gold, each scale thickened and enlarged by a bit, and especially the edges of these scales had become sharper.

"Hmm?"

"I can see the physical condition inside my body?"

Just now, Lu Chuan had his eyes closed, feeling the intense comfort brought by the upgrade, and he hadn't opened them yet, but he suddenly discovered that he could still see himself, so he couldn't help but focus more attention on it.

He saw that on various parts of his body, there were suddenly extra shackles of different colors, and out of curiosity, he counted them silently, "One, two..."

"Good fellow, nine in total!"

Lu Chuan was immediately overjoyed; after all, each of these shackles was a small barrier.

Afterward, as long as he broke one shackle, his strength would be able to take a big step forward!

"Boss now... seems to have become completely different!"

Not far away, Xiaoqing, Jingang, and the other strange beast underlings, feeling the aura emanating from Lu Chuan, could not help but reveal looks of worship, and it was from the heart, but they were somewhat unaware of why this feeling appeared.

This was actually the effect achieved only through Lu Chuan's absolute suppression and intimidation of them in terms of strength.

Lu Chuan did not know the thoughts in the hearts of these underlings; at this moment, he remained where he was and discovered that after breaking through to the early stage of the Shackle Realm, he seemed able to mobilize the spiritual power within his body to the outside, attacking by way of Spiritual Qi projection.

Consequently, he was in an even better mood, "This kind of long-range attack method can be considered to make up for the deficiency in my attack methods!"

(End of this chapter)