The Rapid Evolution of Kin

The morning sun rose and the evening sun set, and several days quickly passed.

Although the Dinosaur People planned a surprise attack on the Poison Fog Tribe, they still needed to rest and reorganize.

During these days of rest, they were clearing the battlefield.

The corpses of their own kin were gathered together, and under Kangqiao's watchful gaze, the Dinosaur People cast their fellow tribesmen's bodies into the massive volcanic crater.

As for the corpses of the alien tribes, most of the humanoid ones were devoured by the Dinosaur People's blood relatives, the Primal Dinosaurs.

The bodies of the Sea beasts and Serpent monsters, however, were all collected by the Dinosaur People.

A small portion was kept for their own consumption, but the vast majority was gathered and piled up before Kangqiao.

As the Dinosaur Elder danced and gestured, Kangqiao roughly understood the meaning.

After all, during his slumber, Kangqiao had been fed so many times he'd lost count.

So, regarding the corpses of the Serpent monsters and Sea beasts, Kangqiao naturally accepted them with pleasure.

He spat out a bit of flame and roasted them.

The giant serpent meat tasted like chicken, while the Sea beasts carried that unique, briny seafood flavor.

All in all, eating them was truly delightful.

These Serpent monsters and Sea beasts were all giant creatures, not small by any means.

They had a great chewy texture and suited Kangqiao's current size and form's appetite perfectly.

The surviving Dinosaur People spent these days not only recuperating.

They were also summoning their kin.

Yes, the Dinosaur People here were not all of them.

Because across the Southern Continent, they had their own 'ranches,' where a few tribesmen were still out herding.

However, the number of Dinosaur People assigned to herding or other tasks was not large in any given place.

The scattered Dinosaur People who gathered trickled in, sometimes just a few, sometimes a few dozen at most.

After all, the Dinosaur People were the overlords of the Southern Continent, having dominated it and exterminated other weak alien tribes for over a thousand years.

As the most powerful Extraordinary Race in the region, they simply didn't need many people just for herding and hunting.

But perhaps because the Southern Continent was truly vast, in less than four sunrises and sunsets, the Dinosaur People and Primal Dinosaurs who returned to their tribe numbered over five thousand.

Adding the original surviving Dinosaur People, the entire tribe barely scraped together over twenty thousand.

Of these twenty thousand, excluding the young and juveniles, those at full fighting strength numbered less than ten thousand.

Yes, that single battle had nearly wiped out the prime of the Dinosaur People's fighting force.

For the Dinosaur People, this war was indeed tragic.

After nearly ten thousand years of reproduction, they had painstakingly grown their tribe to nearly eighty thousand, only to be thrown back to square one overnight.

As an Extraordinary Race, the Dinosaur People possessed powerful bodies and a natural lifespan of three to five hundred years.

But as the price for their physical strength, they shared a flaw common to all Extraordinary Races.

That was their difficulty in reproduction and growth.

Female Dinosaur People laid a respectable number of eggs, producing two to three per year.

However, the survival rate of these eggs was less than forty percent.

Furthermore, nearly thirty percent of the eggs that hatched turned out to be Primal Dinosaurs.

And Primal Dinosaurs, for some unknown reason, lacked the ability to reproduce. This made it incredibly difficult for the Dinosaur People's numbers to increase.

Not to mention, this was a savage, Extraordinary world.

Conflict was ever-present; tribesmen always died from various accidents, and coupled with skirmishes against alien tribes, their ability to reproduce and grow to nearly eighty thousand was already an extraordinary feat.

This war, fortunately, saw Kangqiao appear at the final critical moment.

Otherwise, the Dinosaur People's ten-thousand-year lineage would have ended there.

Because of Kangqiao's appearance, the surviving Dinosaur People not only successfully repelled the invading alien tribe but also gained even more powerful bodies.

Counting the juvenile Dinosaur People, those who could fight afterward could be gathered to number fifteen thousand combatants.

As for the remaining Dinosaur People, most were too small, still at the infant stage, less than two meters tall.

These days, Kangqiao had been silently observing the Dinosaur People.

And the Dinosaur People had been secretly gazing up at Him.

Especially the adult Dinosaur People who had just returned from various places. While helping their kin clear the intact eggs from the collapsed caves within the gradually cooling mountain range, they also tried to get as close to their god as possible.

They had no ill intentions; it was entirely because of Kangqiao Himself.

Because these days, while exploring His own abilities, Kangqiao had also been conducting experiments.

Kangqiao was very curious about how He had enabled the Dinosaur People to evolve and control flames.

The Flame Wave, that shockwave-like technique for clearing out small fry, certainly couldn't be used casually, since peace had only just been restored here after so much difficulty.

So Kangqiao could only try to grab a few Flatheads who had wandered close out of curiosity with his stubby little hands.

At first, when they saw their young being picked up by Father God, the adult Dinosaur People were a bit worried, afraid that Kangqiao was angered by these little ones' impertinence and would inflict divine punishment on them.

But in the end, the Dinosaur People realized they were overthinking things.

Because the Dinosaur People young that their Father God had picked up were soon set back down, and after being put down, these little Dinosaur People had miraculously gained the ability to control flames.

This discovery made the Dinosaur People overjoyed.

It was precisely because of this that, after witnessing their Father God's mercy, more Dinosaur People who hadn't yet been blessed by the previous miracle began to loiter meaningfully in front of Kangqiao.

To this, Kangqiao turned no one away.

After all, he himself found this feeling of being believed in and cheered for quite pleasant, and besides, he also wanted to figure out the limits of his transformation of the Dinosaur People.

But unfortunately, the experiment wasn't all that great.

Because from start to finish, Kangqiao didn't need to control anything at all—as long as the Dinosaur People touched the flame-like patterns on his body, those flames would naturally burrow into the Dinosaur People's bodies.

During this process, energy in Kangqiao's body would drain, but the amount lost was pitifully small.

So small that Kangqiao himself didn't even notice it.

If it weren't for the fact that he could see with his own eyes the fine threads of heat formed by the flames wrapping around the Dinosaur People and slowly vanishing into their bodies, he wouldn't have detected it at all.

The energy the Dinosaur People could absorb had its limits, naturally incomparable to Kangqiao's.

Still, these Dinosaur People who had absorbed the energy really did become noticeably stronger.

These past few days, Kangqiao had seen quite a few Dinosaur People off in the distance training their newly acquired abilities.

These guys would burst into flames all over, turning into something like Little Fire Men.

Then they'd unleash everything at full power and quickly fizzle out.

But even though they fizzled out, these Dinosaur People seemed to have broken some kind of limit through evolution, so even without getting close to Kangqiao, they could recharge their ability to release flames again by entering lava.

Seeing this, it's easy to imagine how astonished Kangqiao was.

Wasn't this just a bunch of miniature versions of himself—Little Godzillas?

Well, to be fair, these Dinosaur People's bodies were far more agile than Kangqiao's, and much more human-like.

How could Kangqiao, with his thick, stubby legs that couldn't even jump, compare to Dinosaur People?

If anything, the ones most like Kangqiao were the Primal Dinosaurs.

After all, the Dinosaur People's body proportions were really quite similar to humans, just with overly exaggerated size and build.

Plus, they had dinosaur heads and thick tails behind them.

Other than that, Dinosaur People were the most human-like beings Kangqiao had ever seen.

The Shark People he'd encountered before were just so-so.

Can you imagine a fish with limbs?

They were pretty much like the fish-men from some fantasy works, and their appearance was especially ridiculous.

The Dinosaur People gaining the ability to recharge on their own was one thing, but the most important point was that in just a few days, as the Dinosaur People trained roughly and continuously, it was visibly obvious that these individuals were actually starting to grow taller.

Originally averaging four meters tall, some Dinosaur People had now undergone a second growth spurt, reaching nearly five meters, and this clearly wasn't the limit yet.

Less than five days had passed!

If these Dinosaur People were given more time, who knew how much taller they'd get.

Also, the Primal Dinosaurs that had gained abilities might see considerable growth too, right?

What was going on with all this?

This ability of his to radiate evolution into the Dinosaur People was way too unscientific, even downright absurd, wasn't it?

With such an exaggerated rate of evolution, Darwin would probably jump right out of his coffin if he knew.

Kangqiao clicked his tongue in amazement, but at the same time, he was curious about the limits of the Dinosaur People's physical growth.

So, over these days, while continuing to evolve the Dinosaur People who hadn't yet transformed, Kangqiao also kept a quiet eye on their progress.

Until nearly forty sunrises and sunsets had passed!