The Two-Headed Ferocious Beast was enormous, and the energy contained in its flesh far surpassed that of the Horned Wolf King. After eating it, the Black Armor Giant Ape grew another thirty centimeters, becoming noticeably larger.
In addition, beneath the Attribute Page, it gained another 2 units of the Extraordinary Element "Rift."
Rift! Split apart—grow two heads during the next evolution!
Imagining a head growing out of its shoulder, the Black Armor Giant Ape shook its head. Forget it. One head looked more normal.
The massive Black Armor Giant Ape continued deeper into the forest. Every step it took made the ground tremble, leaving huge footprints behind.
Its larger body and increased density made the Black Armor Giant Ape increasingly heavy. As it walked, it resembled a moving mountain, imposing and terrifying.
For the next half hour, the Black Armor Giant Ape found nothing. It traveled more than ten kilometers before once again approaching the Abyss Rift that tore through the earth.
When it arrived, the Black Armor Giant Ape keenly noticed that the surroundings were somewhat different.
The black trees were sparser, and the hard ground was covered in small holes and scratches, resembling traces left behind by some kind of ferocious beast.
The Black Armor Giant Ape immediately perked up, because that meant food.
Before it had gone far, a hundred-meter-tall "hill" appeared ahead. The hill was riddled with holes, with ferocious beasts covered in black scales constantly entering and leaving.
Their slender bodies, vicious heads, and sharp claws gave the Black Armor Giant Ape a strange sense of familiarity.
However, these Black Ant Ferocious Beasts differed from those at the edge of the forest. They were larger, nearly five meters long, with more pronounced keratinized outer shells and black spikes covering their limbs and claws.
There were also an astonishing number of them. That "hill" was not a hill at all, but an ant nest.
Screech! Clack! Clack!!
Two Black Thorn Ant Ferocious Beasts spotted the Black Armor Giant Ape and made grating, knocking alarm calls with their mouths. The ant nest instantly stirred, and dense masses of ferocious beasts emerged.
At the edge of the distant rift, countless Black Thorn Ant Ferocious Beasts also crawled up from beneath the slope. More than a hundred of them surged toward the Black Armor Ferocious Beast from both front and rear like a tide.
They formed a sea of black, shaking the ground and kicking up rolling clouds of dust wherever they passed.
Roar! The Black Armor Giant Ape pounded its chest with both fists and let out a savage roar. Its huge, muscular body suddenly burst forward, charging fearlessly into the ant swarm.
The several hundred meters between them vanished in an instant as both sides crashed together.
Bang! Bang! Bang!! The moment they collided, several Black Ant Ferocious Beasts that had leaped at the giant ape were sent flying. Their scales shattered and their bones broke.
Clang! Clang! Clang!! Several pairs of claws capable of tearing through steel bars struck the Black Armor Ferocious Beast's legs, producing crisp metallic sounds, yet they could not tear through its tough scales.
Boom! Boom!! Huge black fists came down, instantly blasting apart the heads of two Black Ant Ferocious Beasts. Blood and brain matter sprayed everywhere as the earth trembled under the blow.
Roar!!
The Black Armor Giant Ape roared again, sweeping several ferocious beasts away with a swing of its thick left arm. At the same time, its right hand shot out, seized one beast by the head, and crushed it directly.
More ferocious beasts lunged at the Black Armor Giant Ape from every direction, densely filling the sky and ground. Pairs of claws clawed at the giant ape's back and legs.
But aside from producing repeated metallic clashes and cutting off some fur, they caused no damage at all.
Boom! The Black Armor Giant Ape shot forward like a cannonball, slamming its shoulder and back into a tree trunk more than twenty meters away. The tree exploded, and the bodies of the three ferocious beasts clinging to its back burst apart.
The moment the giant ape broke out of the encirclement, those ferocious beasts surged toward it again, and the bloody battle erupted once more.
After evolving and breaking through to the Fourth Order, the giant ape swept through everything invincibly. Each swing of its arm sent a cluster of enemies flying, and every punch blew apart a ferocious beast's head. It was incomparably brutal.
Its powerful defense allowed it to ignore everything. Other than claws aimed at its face and eyes, it could not even be bothered to block.
However, with the experience from last time, the Black Armor Giant Ape paid a little more attention this time. It tried to preserve the corpses when killing those ferocious beasts, avoiding the waste of meat.
Only after every Black Thorn Ant Ferocious Beast had died did the Black Armor Ferocious Beast slowly come to a stop.
The corpses of Black Thorn Ant Ferocious Beasts were piled like mountains across the ground. Blood flowed and gathered into a stream that wound for hundreds of meters before disappearing at the edge of the rift.
The more than ten-meter-tall Black Armor Ferocious Beast stood in the blood stream, its eyes crimson. Its body was stained red with blood and chunks of flesh, making it look incomparably savage and ferocious.
It had killed so much that the dense, bloody Evil Qi had condensed into something tangible, forming wisps of red smoke that coiled around the giant ape.
The Black Armor Giant Ape had not been injured in this battle. Against these Second Order ferocious beasts, it had not even activated its talent. It was full of energy and felt like it could fight for three days and three nights.
Whoosh! Whoosh!! The Black Armor Giant Ape exhaled a breath of hot air, and its body suddenly shrank rapidly, revealing its humanoid Slaughter State wrapped in bandages. It swung the demonic blade in its hand.
Invisible power immediately began gathering in the air.
These were the resentment and hatred instinctively released by the Black Thorn Ant Ferocious Beasts at the moment of death after being killed by the Black Armor Giant Ape, transforming into wisps of black demonic energy that converged together.
Looking at the black demonic energy gathering in the air, a smile appeared on Jiang Hou's bandage-covered face.
It actually worked. He had only transformed into his humanoid form to try it out, but he had not expected the ferocious beasts killed by the Black Armor Giant Ape to still provide him with "power."
But upon further thought, it seemed perfectly normal. After all, he was the giant beast, and the giant beast was him. He had killed these Black Thorn Ant Ferocious Beasts in the first place.
Still, the resentful remnants released by more than a hundred Second Order Black Thorn Ant Ferocious Beasts only produced a little over ten wisps after being fully converted and absorbed. In the end, they merged into the white bandages around his left arm, condensing into two twisted, vicious black Hell Runes.
Jiang Hou's total demonic energy units immediately increased by 40 points, and his aura rose another level.
"So little? Only two Hell Runes condensed. Was it because these ferocious beasts weren't slain by my demonic blade, or because they had been dead too long and their most important soul energy had already dissipated?" Jiang Hou frowned slightly, then shook his head.
Forget it. As long as there were gains, that was enough.
Roar! Accompanied by a savage growl, Jiang Hou's body rapidly expanded. The black-and-white light faded as he transformed back into the Black Armor Giant Ape, grabbing a Black Ant Ferocious Beast and beginning to eat.
Breaking off the legs, removing the shell, taking out the organs—he was extremely familiar with the process. In just a few movements, he finished preparing one ferocious beast, leaving a large, bloody chunk of fresh meat in his hand.
The Black Armor Giant Ape sat cross-legged on the muddy ground soaked in blood and devoured it in huge mouthfuls.
Beside it were hills of ferocious beast corpses. Black mist filled the surroundings, and the branches of the trees twisted grotesquely, making the place resemble a hell of blood.
With ample biological energy, the Black Armor Giant Ape's body grew rapidly. Its muscles swelled, new scales emerged between the gaps in its armor, and fur spread across its body.
Unfortunately, these ferocious beasts had a greater proportion of exoskeleton. Their overall meat yield was not much higher than that of the First Order Black Ant Ferocious Beasts.
Half a day later, after it had eaten the flesh of more than a hundred ferocious beasts, the Black Armor Ferocious Beast had only grown from over thirteen meters to fourteen and a half meters. Standing upright, it was as tall as a five-story building.
"This feeling of getting stronger and stronger is awesome." The Black Armor Giant Ape let out a satisfied growl, then turned to look at the distant ant nest as the ground beneath its feet suddenly sank.
Bang! The soil exploded, and the Black Armor Giant Ape turned into a black shadow that slammed viciously into the ant nest.
Boom! The hundred-meter-tall "hill" shook as rocks exploded and collapsed, throwing dust into the sky.
That strike smashed half the hill apart, exposing its riddled interior. Standing amid the rubble, the Black Armor Giant Ape used its hand like an excavator, widening the opening.
With the Black Armor Giant Ape's current strength and physical toughness, these rocks were no different from tofu in its hands.
It quickly dug through the hill and emerged in a cave dozens of meters high and wide. Some black ore was scattered around, but there was no Ant Queen as the Black Armor Giant Ape had expected.
"What is this?"
Just as the Black Armor Giant Ape was feeling disappointed, it spotted a dark red crystal mixed into a small pile of black ore from the corner of its eye.
Crash!! Its huge hand swept aside the black ore and pinched up the fist-sized dark red crystal glowing with crimson light.
Compared to the Black Armor Giant Ape's enormous palm, the crystal was like a tiny bean. Yet the instant it picked it up, the giant ape sensed dense energy fluctuations within it.
Good stuff. The Black Armor Giant Ape paused slightly before tossing the crystal into its mouth.
Crunch! Crunch!! The crystal was too small. The giant ape casually chewed it twice, swallowed it mixed with saliva, and a vast surge of energy instantly exploded within its body before being absorbed.
Faint red marks immediately appeared between the gaps in the giant ape's scales. Its fingernails also became visibly sharper, their tips turning dark red and emitting a sharp aura.
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