Ignoring Defense

The sounds of flesh tearing and chewing echoed continuously in the Palace.

As biological energy converted, warm currents spread throughout the Giant Ape's body, causing its already massive form to grow at a visible rate.

But soon, the Black Armored Giant Ape discovered that even growing by ten centimeters now required several times the biological energy it had before.

Among these factors, the evolved body had a higher quality, and the demand for cell division and flesh growth had increased by about four times. While flesh and bones grew, scales were also developing and thickening on the body surface.

This also consumed a large amount of energy.

In addition, the faint golden energy flowing within the blood was also absorbing and converting Qi and blood under the abundant biological energy, accumulating itself, which also consumed a portion of energy.

Combining these factors, the Giant Ape's growth consumption after the Fourth Order was about six times that of the Third Order.

Especially the newly emerged faint golden energy after evolution, powerful as it was, was like 'Spirit Energy'—once used, it was gone.

According to the previous combat and testing consumption, it would probably be exhausted after unleashing ten full-power golden energy punches.

Not bad, the energy demand didn't increase tenfold after evolution, only sixfold. The Black Armored Giant Ape grabbed the Ferocious Beast's corpse, bit off a large piece of flesh, and devoured it.

The smallest of the five Ferocious Beasts was ten meters long. Even though the evolved Giant Ape had better teeth and its eating speed had increased significantly, it still took half a day to finish them all.

The abundant energy allowed the Giant Ape's size to grow from twelve meters to thirteen meters, becoming even more massive, and even the black scales on its body surface appeared thicker.

Only then did the Giant Ape have time to summon its attribute page to view the detailed changes from this evolution.

Name: Jiang Hou

Level: Second Order Mid-Stage

Strength: 151→213 Agility: 72→102 Defense: 39→175 Mark of Inheritance Giant Beast Form

Bloodline: Black Armored Gibbon Ape [Epic Giant Beast, First Evolution, Current Size 13.1 meters]

Bloodline Awakening: World-Shaking Overlord Power [Qi and blood transform into tangible power, containing the intent of shattering, adding to the fist possesses the ultimate destructive power to shatter energy defenses]

Talent: Furious Rampage [Rage ignites the blood, stimulating the power hidden in the bloodline, increasing strength by three times, without affecting reason]

Violent Ape Divine Armor [Consumes bloodline power to integrate into the scales all over the body, which can greatly increase defense, and is indestructible in a short time, like wearing divine armor]

Extraordinary Element: Thorn [2 units, essence extracted from the flesh and blood of Extraordinary creatures, integrating this element during evolution has a certain chance of obtaining thorn-like talents]

Unique Talent: Devouring Evolution

Evolution Points: 49/2000

This evolution, plus the growth from devouring those Thorn Wolf Ferocious Beasts, allowed the basic strength to break through two hundred, and the defense soared by more than a hundred.

It's just that this basic value was a little less than the Black Armored Giant Ape expected. It originally thought that the human form's strength could increase by 70 or 80 points.

However, the Fourth Order is indeed a watershed.

The Black Armored Giant Ape's strength after the bloodline transformation and evolution was too strong, and it felt like every move possessed the domineering power to sweep away everything.

In addition, it also awakened the bloodline power that ignores energy defense, which can achieve a one-hit kill effect at critical moments during combat.

Also, the talent that was originally filled with anger in the brain has become Furious Rampage. The strength is still increased by three times, but without the word 'current', it means that it has become a fixed value.

And it no longer affects reason, which is very important.

Coupled with the newly awakened defensive talent, the Black Giant Ape's close combat has become even more powerful, and it can ignore the enemy's attacks and fight head-on for a short time.

As for that Extraordinary Element thorn, it clearly came from that Wolf King Ferocious Beast.

However, compared to the Black Centipede Ferocious Beast that provided eight Extraordinary units, this Unicorn Ferocious Beast was obviously much inferior, and its strength was also much weaker.

Trash. The Black Giant Ape scorned again in its heart, then left the Palace contentedly, dispelling its giant beast form and returning to normal.

Today, Qin Siyu didn't knock on the door. Jiang Hou, who had returned home close to six o'clock, woke up groggily when the sun was shining in his eyes.

"...What time is it?" Jiang Hou raised his hand to block the sunlight, feeling a bit dazzling, and then immediately realized, "Crap, it's already so late."

Jiang Hou quickly flipped over and jumped up, changing clothes in a flash.

But when Jiang Hou opened the door, he saw Qin Siyu squatting in the living room in front of a cardboard box, softly calling out, "Little darling, come out quickly."

"Be good, come out..."

At the same time, standing beside Qin Siyu was a middle-aged man with a square face, one meter eighty in height, with graying temples.

When he saw Jiang Hou come out, the middle-aged man showed a hearty smile and said with a chuckle, "Little Hou is up."

"...Uncle, you're back."

Jiang Hou was stunned for a moment, then realized why Qin Siyu hadn't knocked on the door, because today was Saturday.

As he spoke, Jiang Hou walked over, somewhat curious, "Uncle, what is Siyu doing?"

"She's calling the kitten inside to come out, but unfortunately, the little fellow is shy and hasn't paid her any attention after calling for so long."

Jiang Hou scratched a few strands of hair sticking up on his head, puzzled, "Uncle, why did you buy a cat?"

He and Qin Siyu usually have to go to school, and now he also has other things to do at night, so where would they find the time to take care of small animals like kittens and puppies?

"It wasn't bought."

Qin Buyi explained, "A few days ago, the Back Mountain of the Mine was restless at night, and many pheasants, wild rabbits, and some wild boars rushed out of the forest."

"We initially thought there was an earthquake and evacuated everyone from the Mine as quickly as possible, but in the end, nothing happened."

"When we waited until dawn the next morning, I took two people to the Back Mountain to check, and then guess what we saw?"

Jiang Hou cooperated very well, asking curiously, "Uncle, what did you see?"

"We saw a ground full of corpses." Qin Buyi's tone revealed solemnity.

"Wild boars, king cobras, raccoon dogs, white foxes, mountain goats, sables, lynx, especially these animals were twice the size of their common counterparts."

"For some unknown reason, these animals were fighting each other, some with their legs bitten off, still tightly biting their opponent's throat before dying, it was extremely tragic."

"That scene startled us all at the time."

Qin Buyi continued, "Later, when we were moving and inspecting the animal corpses, we discovered a hole under a fox, with a kitten hiding inside."

"That kitten was very cute, and I thought you guys would like it, so I brought it back to the dormitory and raised it for two days."

"But this little fellow is shy and won't let anyone hold it, only when it's extremely hungry will it crawl out of the box to eat and drink water."

As he spoke, Qin Buyi said with a chuckle, "Now I've brought it back, and the rest is up to you."

"...We don't have any experience with this either." Jiang Hou said with a bit of a headache.

At this moment, Qin Siyu, who was squatting down, raised her head, somewhat suspiciously, "Dad, are you sure there's a cat inside? Why hasn't it come out after I've been calling for so long?"

"Didn't I say, it's timid, why not let Little Hou try."

"Alright, Jiang Hou, you give it a try."

"...Me? Okay." Seeing that Qin Siyu had already stood up and stepped aside, Jiang Hou could only nod, step forward, and squat down in front of the cardboard box.

The cardboard box was half a meter in size, with a hole cut in the side.

However, unlike Qin Siyu's gentle voice, Jiang Hou's meow was a bit heavier, and carried a faint low-frequency hum that ordinary people couldn't hear.

Sha sha sha! As soon as Jiang Hou called out, the cardboard box shook slightly, and then a white head cautiously poked out from the hole.

The head looked like a ragdoll, but the cheeks were narrower, the fur was snow-white and clean, the edges of the ears were red, and there was a tuft of long red hair at the tips of the ears.

A pair of red eyes were like gemstones, big and round, coupled with the slightly fluttering red hair at the tips of the ears, giving it an ethereal air.

It was indeed very beautiful.