Begin Your Glorious Evolution!

What had wrapped around him was not a hand.

It was a mass of... half its body was still normal, translucent blue gelatin, and it even looked a little cute.

But the other half was a nauseating flesh-red color. Countless tiny, vein-like tentacles writhed madly, with several eyeballs of varying sizes growing on them, staring fixedly at Su Li.

Most horrifying of all, that half of flesh was constantly devouring the normal gelatinous part, making squelching chewing sounds.

This was the legendary—Cthulhu-style Slime?

"This is way too sanity-draining!!" Su Li felt as though his mind had suffered a critical hit.

Before Su Li could recover, the Flesh Tentacle wrapped around his ankle suddenly exerted force.

Su Li's vision blurred, and his entire skeleton was hoisted upside down into the air.

The slime below split open a huge mouth full of dense, sharp teeth.

"WTF! Older Brother, let's talk this out!"

He was about to be shoved into that meat-grinder-like mouth.

"This thing looks so sanity-draining. If it swallows me, there's definitely no good juice waiting for me! I'll probably get chewed into calcium tablets!"

In that critical moment, Su Li's gamer instinct to clear the fight without taking damage exploded.

"Let go of me!!"

Su Li instantly twisted at the waist, and the Corrupted Iron Sword in his hand became a streak of light as it viciously stabbed into the slime's fleshy half.

"Pfft!" Once, twice, three times... ten times!

At that moment, Su Li became an emotionless pile driver.

Though the slime could likely use its traits to negate or reduce most physical attacks...

"But my sword has shit on it!!"

"Damn it, taste my Sticky History Supreme Sword!!"

Every stab sent foul-smelling fluid spraying out.

[Crimson Corruption!]

The slime, which had been trying to devour Su Li, suddenly froze.

The Dark Red fleshy mass seemed to have been doused in concentrated sulfuric acid and began boiling violently. Its originally vivid flesh-red color rapidly turned into a dead-gray shade of decay.

Crimson Corruption was madly destroying its structure!

"Eeeek—!!" The slime let out a shrill scream like a leaking balloon, and the tentacle around Su Li instantly loosened.

Su Li performed a graceful midair twist before landing. Without pausing, he rushed in to finish it off.

"Strike while you're sick and take your life!" Just then, a scene that left Su Li dumbfounded occurred.

The slime did not counterattack. Instead, it rolled around wildly on the ground.

Then, its two originally unified body parts—the blue gelatinous part and the red fleshy part—actually began fighting each other!

The fleshy part was in extreme pain from the corruptive poison. To save itself, it extended tentacles and tried to devour the healthy blue half beside it to replenish its energy.

The blue gelatinous half clearly did not want to die either, immediately extending countless tentacles to resist desperately.

"Smack! Smack! Smack!" The tentacles on both sides whipped each other. It was fighting itself.

"That works too? Left hand fighting right hand?"

Su Li stood nearby, watching this fine show of "I'm killing myself" with great interest.

In the end, under the continuous corrosion of Crimson Corruption and the internal struggle, the fleshy half completely withered. The entire slime stopped wriggling as well, turning into a pool of foul-smelling black water.

[Successfully killed: Abyssal Corroding Slime (Juvenile)]

[Experience gained +200 (385/400)]

[Attributes gained: Strength +2 (8 → 10), Spirit +2 (9 → 11)]

"WTF?!" Seeing the reward notifications, Su Li was so shocked his jaw nearly dropped.

"Two hundred experience from one monster? And four attribute points? What kind of divine reward is this?"

That Lv5 Elite Skeleton from before had only given him thirty experience and one point of Strength!

"Could it be because its level was high?"

Su Li stroked his chin as he analyzed it. "No, this thing was just disgusting-looking. It wasn't that hard to fight..."

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him.

He remembered a line from the opening CG:

"After the War of the Gods, the great Aiseland Continent faced the erosion of the Abyss..."

"Abyssal corruption!" Su Li slapped his thigh bone.

"This thing is a monster contaminated by the Abyss. It's like an invasive species or virus from outside this world, so killing it is basically helping the World Will remove a virus? That's why the rewards are so generous?"

If that deduction was correct... Su Li's gaze changed as he looked at the pool of black water.

This was no monster. It was clearly a walking experience pack and attribute point bundle!

"From now on, I'll specifically look for ugly things like this to kill!"

He glanced at his experience bar.

[Lv4 (385/400)]

"Just fifteen more experience until I level up and evolve!"

Su Li was brimming with excitement. He could not be bothered to continue exploring. In this dangerous wilderness, staying even one second longer was risky. He had to hurry to level five, complete his evolution, and raise his combat power.

"Back to the Mass Grave! That's my blessed hunting ground!"

Su Li sneaked all the way back, avoiding every suspicious creature along the route as he hurriedly felt his way back to the entrance of the tomb.

The moment he entered, Su Li immediately summoned the system interface.

"Mod, activate!"

[Mod activated: More Monsters]

"Bzzzt—" Visible ripples spread through the air.

In the previously empty Tomb Passage, the scattered bones on the ground seemed to have received some sort of summons. They began trembling violently before rapidly assembling themselves.

"Clack, clack, clack..." Bone-grinding sounds that made one's scalp tingle rang out one after another.

In the blink of an eye, five or six Skeleton Soldiers wielding all kinds of broken weapons crawled out of the ground, ghostly blue Soulfire lighting up in their hollow eye sockets.

"The monster-spawning efficiency is pretty good." Rather than panicking, Su Li revealed the kindly smile of a capitalist watching his crops grow splendidly.

"My poor kin, rest in peace. Become stepping stones on my path to becoming the King of the Undead!"

"Take my sword!" Su Li charged forward with the Corrupted Iron Sword in hand.

With his Strength now at ten points and Agility at seven, Su Li fighting these ordinary little skeletons was simply a dimensionality-reduction strike.

There was no need for tactics at all, just pure stat suppression.

With a horizontal sweep, he directly sliced off the head of the skeleton rushing at the front.

[Killed Lv4 Wasteland Tomb Skeleton. Experience gained +15]

Golden light flashed!

[Congratulations, level up! Lv4 → Lv5]

[Free Attribute Points gained: 3]

[Notice: Your current level has reached the racial limit. Evolution requirements detected as fulfilled. Begin evolution immediately?]

"It's finally here!" Su Li forcibly suppressed the urge to immediately confirm.

"Do not evolve yet!"

What a joke. This was a monster-spawning point with the mod enabled, and several skeletons nearby were still eyeing him hungrily. If he could not move during evolution, wouldn't he be giving himself away for free?

"Steady. I have to be steady." Su Li immediately disabled the mod.

"I'm outta here!"

He dashed out of the tomb like the wind and headed straight for the Corrupted Cave.

Some time later... inside the Corrupted Cave.

Seeing its master return, Pipi Finger, which had been guarding the entrance, immediately waved its fingers attentively and came over like a big red dog.

"Good dog... no, good hand."

Su Li extended a bony hand and stroked Pipi Finger's rough handback as though petting a cat.

"Go guard the entrance. If anything comes in, squeeze it to death!"

After settling his guard, Su Li found a clean spot and sat cross-legged. Then he took a deep breath.

"System, open the evolution panel!"

A light screen unfolded before him, and countless complex gene chains reorganized before his eyes.

[Player has reached Lv5. Race: Little Skeleton]

[Searching evolution paths...]

[Based on your attribute tendencies and special experiences, you may currently choose from the following basic evolution directions:]

[Option One: ...]

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