Extraordinary Element

Boom!

The ground trembled, and cracks spread beneath the Black Giant Ape's feet like a spiderweb.

Powerful strength rooted itself through its legs, its waist coiled like a great dragon, and its fist shot out like a cannon. The explosive force detonated the air before its fist, even forming a transparent shockwave.

Boom! The cannonball-like fist collided with the Black Armor Ferocious Beast descending from above. At the instant of contact, the beast's two scimitar-like fangs shattered and exploded with a dull blast.

Immediately afterward, the thick black arm drove straight ahead like a spear piercing everything, punching through the beast's skull amid an explosion of flesh and blood at the back of its head.

Boom! As the Black Giant Ape's fist punched through the beast, its entire body was also slammed hard by the beast.

The Black Giant Ape's body sank at once. The ground within a dozen meters shook, shattered stones and dirt blasted into the air, and a shockwave spread dozens of meters outward, kicking up rolling clouds of dust.

Huff, huff, huff, huff!! Amid the dust, the giant ape's lower body was buried underground, its body pinned beneath the Black Armor Ferocious Beast. It panted heavily as the red glow in its eyes gradually faded and its rage vanished.

Bang! The giant ape struggled to shove aside the beast's corpse and slowly crawled out of the ground.

Its entire body was soaked in black blood, mixed with red blood from the giant ape itself. It dripped down continuously, quickly forming a pool of blood beneath its feet.

The clash had been brief, and life and death had been decided in the blink of an eye, but the danger involved had been greater than in any battle of the past few days.

This Black Armor Ferocious Beast's talent was probably speed. Its instant burst of movement speed was several times that of the Black Giant Ape, and it also possessed that sturdy, heavy carapace covering its entire body.

The giant ape's full-force punch could flip a tank, yet it had only slightly injured one segment of the beast's tail.

Not to mention its ten legs, sharper than the Cyan Ant Ferocious Beast's pincers and like ten scimitars. In terms of overall strength, it had far surpassed the current Black Giant Ape.

Unfortunately, this ferocious beast that fought by instinct had encountered a Black Giant Ape with human intelligence.

Taking advantage of the moment when the Black Armor Ferocious Beast had nowhere to brace itself in midair and could not change its posture, it traded injury for injury and unleashed all its strength in a single punch that blasted through the beast's head.

However, the Black Giant Ape had also been seriously injured in this battle. Its right arm had been torn apart by the Black Armor Ferocious Beast's shattered fangs, its flesh split open in wounds so deep that bone was visible.

During the impact, half its ribs had broken. The diamond-shaped horn on the beast's head had torn across its chest, leaving three wounds over a meter long and dozens of centimeters deep, blood pouring from them.

But none of that mattered. Winning was enough.

Looking at the enormous corpse of the Black Armor Ferocious Beast on the ground, drool could not help but trickle from the Black Giant Ape's mouth.

In the dark, twisted forest, the injured Black Giant Ape stepped on the Black Armor Ferocious Beast's body, grabbed the edge of a thick carapace plate with both hands, and pulled hard.

Roar! As the Black Giant Ape endured the pain and exerted itself, creaking sounds came from beneath the several-centimeter-thick black carapace, while the muscles attached to it were torn apart bit by bit.

Boom! A carapace plate two meters wide and more than two meters long crashed onto the ground with a heavy clang like steel.

This ferocious beast was not only dangerous, but eating its meat was troublesome as well. Breaking off its legs, peeling away its back shell, removing its head and intestines—by the time all that was done, an hour had passed.

Only then did the Black Giant Ape, drooling, bite down on the blackish flesh before it.

Rip!! Its teeth tore through the flesh with a sound like rubber being ripped apart. Then, the "fragrance" of energy-rich meat filled its taste buds, creaking as it chewed.

This ferocious beast was on an entirely different level from the monsters it had killed before.

After the giant ape swallowed several mouthfuls and its stomach began digesting them, a warm current more than ten times richer spread through its body. Everywhere it passed, the giant ape's cells frantically divided and compressed.

Its wounds healed at an astonishing rate, flesh regenerated, and broken bones regrew.

"What astonishing energy." Excitement appeared in the giant ape's eyes.

It felt that after finishing this ferocious beast today, not only would its size surge dramatically, but the Evolution Points it refined might even directly reach the requirement for evolution.

Eat—eat as much as possible. The Black Giant Ape took another bite, tearing off a huge chunk of flesh from the beast's corpse.

Pfft! This bite sank into one of the beast's main blood vessels, and black blood that had yet to finish draining sprayed out, splattering the giant ape's face.

Paying no attention to the blood dripping from its face, the Black Giant Ape devoted itself entirely to eating. Today's meat was too tough; it was a little hard on its teeth.

The Black Giant Ape ate for nearly half a day before gradually finishing every bit of meat.

Even the sharp long legs it had broken off were smashed open with boulders, and it used the sharp forelegs to pry out the meat inside bit by bit, eating it all. This nutrient-rich meat could not be wasted.

Huff! The full and satisfied Black Giant Ape sat on the ground, breathing out bloody hot air with a contented expression.

That was incredible.

By now, the giant ape had reached a height of ten meters. The muscles across its body bulged high, while the dense black fur covering its surface resembled strands of steel wire.

This time, its height had increased by "two meters," but the giant ape felt that its weight had at least tripled. Its entire body brimmed with strength, giving it the feeling that it could blast apart a mountain with one punch.

After sensing the explosive power within its body, the Black Giant Ape willed it, summoning the Attribute Page.

The giant ape's gaze passed over its Strength, which had risen from 98 to 156, and settled on the description of Behemoth Form below.

Bloodline: Ordinary Gibbon Ape behemoth, ten meters tall, having reached its current growth limit

Talent: Wrathful Roar

Extraordinary Element: Armor, 8 units. Refined material extracted from the flesh of extraordinary lifeforms. Integrating this element during evolution gives a certain chance of obtaining a defensive talent.

Note: The more units of Extraordinary Elements, the greater the chance of awakening a talent

Unique Talent: Devouring Evolution

Evolution Points: 92/100. Its Evolution Points had surged by more than double, leaving only 8 points before it met the evolution requirement, but the Black Giant Ape's attention was focused on the newly appeared Extraordinary Element.

Especially the note afterward—it was simply an unexpected delight.

The giant ape form possessed tremendous strength, and primate agility was not low either. Its only weakness was defense.

If it could obtain a defensive talent during its first evolution, its Behemoth Form would become even more powerful.

At the same time, the human form's base attributes had also changed greatly. Its strength was close to sixteen times that of an ordinary person, and its human form had reached the early Second Order...

Eh, Second Order. The Black Giant Ape was somewhat surprised. It had not expected the Attribute Page to "update" itself based on information it knew.

Huff!!

The Black Giant Ape exhaled a breath of hot air, suppressing the excitement in its heart as it looked toward the abandoned building where the Black Armor Ferocious Beast had been lurking.

There had to be a reason that beast had chosen to stay here.

With heavy footsteps, the giant ape soon entered the palace-like structure. Mysterious patterns were carved into the stone pillars and walls, though it had no idea what they meant.

The ground was relatively intact, with mysterious patterns carved across its surface, resembling narrow channels that eventually converged into a circular formation pattern.

However, this formation was very crude, nowhere near as complex as the blood formation that had brought Jiang Hou back from the dead. As for its function...

Standing at the edge of the formation's center, the Black Giant Ape vaguely sensed invisible energy flowing around it.

This energy flowed and was purified along the formation lines on the ground, eventually gathering within the three-meter-wide eye-like pattern beneath its feet, circulating without dispersing.

The Black Giant Ape pondered slightly before walking in.

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