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The sky gradually darkened, and a crescent moon hung in the heavens. Cool moonlight spilled down, casting the entire Lightning Strike Mountain Range into hazy shadows and making it seem especially mysterious.

At the foot of a low peak in the middle section of the Lightning Strike Mountain Range, half a wolf's head suddenly poked out from the entrance of a partially collapsed cave. Its dark teal fur was extremely well concealed beneath the cover of night.

After reaching Apprentice Sixth Order, why did my fur color change again...? Compared to this, that original blue-green color had a bit more vitality.

Xu Yang narrowed his eyes. He recalled how, after leaving the system's Training Room, he had been mentally exhausted. After calling on the system to upgrade, he had fallen into a deep sleep. He had slept until now, and the color of his fur had changed again, making him feel rather uncomfortable.

Forget it... let it change however it wants. All I want is strength.

Gently tossing those irrelevant distractions from his mind, Xu Yang now only wanted to hurry out and hunt, fill up his resources, and then rapidly grind his way to Planet Level.

Then he would be able to fly!

With that thought, Xu Yang finally crawled fully out of the cave. His body was 4.2 meters long, with a shoulder height of 1.8 meters. He looked every bit as tall, powerful, and imposing as one could imagine!

Xu Yang's ears twitched slightly, and with a whoosh, he shot ten meters away.

Resources +0.1

Beneath his padded paw, a pool of crimson blood spread outward. Xu Yang lightly shook the droplets of blood from his paw and ignored the flattened little mouse beneath it.

At his current level, such things were merely resources, not food.

Leaping lightly through the forest, Xu Yang did not deliberately follow any particular route. Instead, he trusted his hearing and sense of smell.

A flying turtledove?

Resources +0.1

A slithering lizard?

Resources +0.1

Before he knew it, Xu Yang had charged his resource entry to 2.5/3 again. Killing a few more prey animals would let him upgrade. If he remembered correctly, Apprentice Seventh Order and Apprentice Sixth Order had a clear dividing line: speed would increase dramatically again, and physical strength would rise greatly as well. Causing a sonic boom with one's body alone would not be a problem!

Of course, that was knowledge he had gained from reading "Swallowed Star" in his previous life, and those were human data. Now that he was a wolf, he should naturally have an advantage in physical strength. Perhaps even at Apprentice Sixth Order, he might already be capable of breaking the sound barrier through sheer impact...

Still, the ever-cautious Xu Yang decided to wait until Apprentice Seventh Order before trying it.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, Xu Yang heard a violent roar from his front left. The emotions revealed in that sound were intense agitation and panic.

Huh, a tiger's scent? And the smell of a Brown Bear...

Xu Yang decided to take a look. After all, the Brown Bear had shared fruit with him before.

After two or three bounding leaps, he moved through the rugged primeval forest as though walking on level ground. Soon, Xu Yang climbed to a high vantage point and saw what he wanted to see. However, the truth differed somewhat from what he had expected. The one letting out panicked roars was not the Brown Bear, but the tiger.

Standing on higher ground and downwind, Xu Yang remained unnoticed by both the bear and tiger under the cover of night. The two beasts were fighting in a depression a kilometer away. With trees blocking his view, Xu Yang could not see very clearly, but he could vaguely make out the tiger dodging and weaving while the Brown Bear pursued it from behind.

The forest roared in waves, and thunderous crashes rang out from time to time. Branches snapped, great trees toppled, and the battle between the two giant beasts was exceptionally fierce.

The Brown Bear has the upper hand right now, so I won't go over. I don't want it to misunderstand and think I'm trying to take advantage...

Just as Xu Yang thought this, he spotted a dark figure stealthily creeping along the edge of that depression from the corner of his eye, slowly approaching the battlefield.

His expression turned grave. Looking closely, he discovered that it was another tiger!

The Brown Bear, caught in the middle of the fight, could not see the Fierce Tiger hiding in the darkness, but Xu Yang saw everything clearly. The tiger fighting the Brown Bear was deliberately guiding it toward the ambush... This was a trap, a trap set by two tigers to kill the Brown Bear!

Xu Yang could not understand why extraordinary animals had to fight each other to the death. Were all the beasts scattered across the land not good enough? Not only were they tasty, they were also safe to hunt!

What Xu Yang did not realize, however, was that with the system, he only needed to gather resources to break through and upgrade smoothly. The other members of the Monster Race did not have a system. If they wanted to level up and break through, they had to consume food rich in cosmic energy. It could be fruits nurtured by heaven and earth, treasures encountered through fortunate chance, or other animals of the Monster Race... And compared to rare treasures, the Monster Race was far more numerous!

Xu Yang was still lost in a mental storm when the Brown Bear stepped into the trap the two tigers had laid for it.

Rumble!

The hidden Fierce Tiger was smaller than the other one, but its savage pounce whipped up a gale that seemed ready to sweep everything around it into its grasp. Its body, over four meters long, carved a sharp arc through the air like a bolt of lightning as it viciously slammed into the Brown Bear's side.

The sudden attack made the Brown Bear's pupils contract sharply. It felt an unprecedented sense of pressure.

With an earthshaking roar, the Brown Bear attempted to vent its fury and strength through sound. It temporarily gave up on the target in front of it and tried to turn around to deal with its attacker. But how could the tiger in front let it have its way? It completely entangled the Brown Bear with a fighting style far more frenzied than before, shattering its attempt to turn around.

Left with no choice, the Brown Bear could only do its best to protect its vital areas.

"Roar—"

The Brown Bear's miserable cry!

The attacking Fierce Tiger's claws were like armor-piercing awls, easily puncturing the thick fur along the Brown Bear's waist and abdomen before sinking deeply into its flesh.

"Riiip—"

Blood erupted from the Brown Bear's wound like a fountain, staining the earth around it red. The pain nearly suffocated it, yet it still struggled stubbornly, attempting to retreat while launching a counterattack.

Streams of sharp trajectories streaked through the air from the Brown Bear's claws, but the two tigers dodged nimbly, constantly searching for openings in its defense.

Now that the Brown Bear had been heavily injured, the two tigers were in no hurry to Step Forward and fight it head-on. Instead, they prowled around the Brown Bear. The killing instincts inherited in their bones told them that the longer such a large wound dragged on, the weaker the prey would become... They only needed to keep pressuring their prey, keeping it under constant strain without allowing it to rest. In the end, they would easily reap a perfect kill.

Everything had happened too quickly. In that split second, Xu Yang had no time to react.

Watching the Brown Bear's miserable state as it used one paw to cover its waist and abdomen and the other to Drive away the Fierce Tigers, Xu Yang struggled internally for a moment. In the end, a trace of helplessness flashed through his Eyes. Forget it. I'll help it out. After all, it proactively gave me a piece of Lightning-struck Fruit, and the system even updated with a new function because of it...

The more Xu Yang thought about it, the more he felt that he should help this Brown Bear.

His dark teal fur was the best camouflage in the dim night. Xu Yang quietly raced down along the ridge, his padded paws making no sound as they stepped across the mud, Mountains and rocks. Like a ghostly shadow of the night, he swiftly and silently crept toward the bloodthirsty battlefield.