An Opportunity for Evolution (Please Bookmark)

More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

During these days, Su Heng spent a great deal of time on the Little Snake every day, helping it catch prey while avoiding potential dangers.

In his previous world, adult Water Boas had no natural predators in the primeval jungle.

But in this strange world, Su Heng did not dare let down his guard in the slightest.

Especially over these past ten days or so, Su Heng had witnessed many bizarre sights.

Black clouds flying against the wind like the Mythic Kun Peng, forests shrouded in eerie purple mist beneath the Blood Moon, and a string of enormous footprints.

Those footprints were deep and densely packed, like those left behind by a centipede magnified countless times.

But if it really had been a centipede, Su Heng's rough estimate based on its length and width easily led him to the conclusion that it had to be at least a hundred meters long.

All signs showed that the world before him was completely different from the one he had once known.

Vaster, and more dangerous.

Besides helping the Little Snake increase its template in the primeval jungle, Su Heng also gathered True Relics in real life whenever possible.

Before the Anaconda successfully evolved into a Tier-Two Lifeform.

Su Heng could not accommodate a template. After studying the matter for some time, he had also discovered that relying on the template's own growth alone resulted in extremely weak bonuses feeding back into reality.

His condition had indeed improved, but it could not fully heal.

Su Heng's vitality had yet to reach the average level of a normal person, and his health and financial circumstances limited him.

Naturally, he had no means to conduct large-scale searches or investigations into information related to True Relics.

Over these ten-plus days, all he could do was search his own home and see whether his parents had left anything else behind for him.

However...

Unfortunately, after working in vain for more than ten days, Su Heng still had nothing worthwhile to show for it.

"Looks like I can only wait until my Blood Cancer has completely healed before searching for new relics."

After confirming that there were no additional True Relics in his home.

Su Heng gave up and searched for information online, becoming a nutritionist of sorts as he tailored different diets for the Little Boa's various growth stages.

And with Su Heng's wholehearted assistance.

Over these past ten days, the Little Boa's growth had been incredibly rapid.

Finally.

On this morning, just as the sun poked its head over the eastern mountaintops.

The Little Boa had reached the limit of its first stage.

A corner of the primeval jungle.

A clear, rushing stream wound its way through gaps in the rocks.

Golden sunlight spilled over the treetops, cloaking the lingering mist that had yet to fully disperse from the forest and lending this primeval jungle an air of mystery.

A Golden Boa, roughly twenty meters long and as thick as a barrel, with beautiful dark-gold scales, hung from a treetop and lazily basked in the sun.

The ground bore traces of a struggle, along with a few strands of black fur.

The owner of that fur had been a wild boar. An adult wild boar could grow to weigh nearly four hundred kilograms.

Though herbivorous, wild boars were so ferocious that even the fiercest carnivorous predators did not dare provoke them lightly.

However...

As the Little Boa grew, this forest had long since become its hunting ground.

No large beast dared set foot here casually, so this adult wild boar that had wandered in by mistake met a tragic end on the spot.

Even though it weighed over four hundred kilograms and measured more than two meters long, charging like a small tank.

It had not lasted more than two exchanges against the Anaconda's death coil and neurotoxin.

Now, the entire wild boar had been swallowed into the Anaconda's belly, slowly digested into nourishment for its growth.

And after eating its fill, the Anaconda grew sluggish, basking in the sun to promote blood circulation within its body.

The dark-gold pupils of the Golden Boa, over twenty meters long and hanging drowsily from the treetop, suddenly lifted its head. A glimmer of joy flashed through eyes matching the color of its scales.

Su Heng's consciousness descended into the Little Boa's body.

Having learned from his first loss to the Caiman Crocodile, Su Heng had become much more cautious afterward.

Even if it slowed the Anaconda's growth a little, he would not use up all of his daily login time at once.

Instead, he would save some time to guard against unexpected incidents that could occur at any moment in the dangerous jungle.

Fortunately...

The Little Boa's growth rate was even more astonishing than Su Heng had imagined. Over the following ten-plus days, it encountered almost no real danger.

Other than those unpredictable Mutated Creatures, there were practically no beasts in the entire rainforest capable of threatening it.

"Has it already reached its limit?"

After descending into the Little Boa's body, Su Heng skillfully opened its status panel.

First Template: Anaconda (Female)

Status: Lazy

Life Level: 1

Vitality: 19.87 (Average 5, Limit 20)

Bond Level: 3 (Current template bonus: 50%)

Length: 20.26 meters

Age: 0.2 years

Template Traits: Devour (Rare), Venomous Fangs (Common), Robust Growth (Common)

"Then the next thing to consider is how to break through into a higher level of life..."

Su Heng frowned in thought.

The life traits of different stages all had their own limits. For example, the Little Snake's vitality limit in the first stage was twenty.

So, after reaching that limit.

No matter how much it continued eating, neither its size nor vitality could increase any further.

And if it wanted to continue growing, it could only break through that limit and enter a new level of life.

But Su Heng had no idea how to break through that level.

Continue fighting?

Keep eating?

Or perhaps accept the Blood Moon's radiation and mutate?

Or was the power of snakes limited, and it had to become a Monster, or perhaps a Flood Dragon...

Su Heng had crossed over from an age of information explosion, so he had plenty of ideas in his head. But if those ideas could not be tested against reality, they were nothing more than ideas.

And just as Su Heng was racking his brains...

The Little Snake suddenly raised its upper body excitedly, its crimson tongue flicking as it gazed toward a place in the distance where black smoke rose.

A feeling of longing surged from the depths of its soul, filling the Little Boa with fighting spirit.

"That place seems to be a human village."

Su Heng had indeed found traces of human activity in this primeval jungle, so when hunting, he tried to avoid places marked by human footprints and reduce the chances of conflict.

But this time...

"You mean the things in that village can help you evolve into a new level of life?"