Unexpected Joy, Evolution Again

After swallowing the Electric Eel, Bai Chuan, having completed the purpose of this trip, lifted his head to look at the thick fog that had already begun to dissipate, knowing that dawn was almost fully breaking.

After thinking it over, since he had already been away from the cave for several days, he decided to head back directly and prepare for his next evolution.

Thus, the Great Serpent left the riverbank and slithered into the forest.

Moving swiftly all the way.

Soon, Bai Chuan suddenly paused and came to a stop.

He turned his serpent head back and crawled in the opposite direction. Not far away, he stopped before a large tree and climbed up along its trunk.

Eventually, he halted near a branch that appeared to hold nothing at all.

"What is this?"

Although his eyes told him this place was empty, nothing more than an ordinary branch, his thermal vision clearly saw a heat source here.

Its shape was elongated, with one end long and pointed, and on the thicker side, four small heat spots were attached.

He stared at it for a while, thinking hard, when a sudden realization dawned on him. Could it be...

"Bang!"

The next moment, a soft tapping sound rang out—the noise of claws striking the tree trunk.

Accompanied by a pained shriek, Bai Chuan felt a violent tremor in his claws—the prey he had caught was struggling.

"As I thought."

Bai Chuan muttered to himself as he looked at the small creature slowly becoming visible in his claws.

If he weren't a snake right now, he would have thrown his head back and laughed out loud. What was surprise?

This was surprise!

He had long wanted to find this kind of miraculous animal, but had never encountered one before.

He had already given up hope, yet now he had stumbled upon it by pure chance.

What was this animal called?

Chameleon!

If there were any compatibility between all the abilities possessed by living creatures in nature, then what abilities had the highest compatibility? Based on your own abilities, what ability would you most want to complement you?

If Bai Chuan were to answer this question, he would definitely say: the Chameleon's invisibility!

Lethal poison plus invisibility.

What a match made in heaven!

It was one of the most troublesome and terrifying combinations in all of nature, one that made animals turn pale at the mere thought.

Imagine a creature constantly invisible, armed with deadly venom, like a ghostly specter of the forest, swaying endlessly through the woods.

Who would dare to be arrogant? Who could sleep soundly?

Arrogant, huh? Yelling, huh?

Fine, tonight he would sneak into their nest invisible and give them a good one.

If you added human intelligence to the mix, then from the mighty tiger above to the weak little rabbit below, who could escape unscathed?

As the saying goes: A tiger's rear end is not to be touched.

If Bai Chuan had possessed this invisibility ability back then, even in his earliest state, he would have dared to say that even a tiger's rear end was his to touch whenever he pleased.

Perhaps then, his speed of evolution and growth would have been even faster than it was now.

"Truly, a pillow appears just as I'm getting drowsy. Looks like I'll have another trump card." Looking at the struggling Chameleon in his claws, Bai Chuan chuckled and remarked.

Without further courtesy, he crushed it and swallowed it whole.

With double happiness upon him, Bai Chuan set off on his return journey in high spirits.

After a day's travel, Bai Chuan once again returned to his familiar luxurious cave.

He directly opened his panel, selected the Electric Eel and Chameleon models one after another, and the next moment, their abilities popped up.

'Race: Electric Eel.'

'Abilities: Muscle Electrification LV2, Current Protection LV1, Diving LV1, Strength LV1, Current Detection LV1, Endurance LV1...'

'Race: Chamaeleonidae.'

'Abilities: Environmental Mimicry LV2, Aura Concealment LV1, Climbing LV1, Organ Specialization (Tongue)...'

"The abilities are pretty sparse. Aside from a few that are either particularly useful or exceptionally powerful, they're mostly unremarkable. Still, the Chameleon's scientific name is Chamaeleonidae, huh? Learned something new."

Bai Chuan glanced at the sparse abilities displayed and couldn't help muttering a few complaints.

Still, the fact that an Electric Eel could rely on such meager abilities to have virtually no natural predators in the wild—well, some abilities really were just overpowered.

After grumbling to himself for a bit, Bai Chuan first checked his remaining points: Points: 23 (3%).

Only then did he begin preparing for the enhancement.

The familiar interface descended once more. Bai Chuan thought it over carefully. First, the Electric Eel's "Electric Muscle" was a must.

The moment the thought settled, he saw the Electric Eel's electricity-generating ability soar up and land inside Bai Chuan's model.

The next instant, a prompt popped up:

"Please select the evolution location for the ability."

Along with the panel's prompt, Bai Chuan saw two glowing points connected by a line appear on his own model.

"What's this?" Bai Chuan was startled at first, then after fiddling and testing a few times, he understood—it was asking him to choose where on his body the ability would evolve.

Since the Electric Eel's electricity-generating ability was LV2, Bai Chuan discovered that this ability could evolve up to two meters of specialized electric muscle on his body.

At the same time, once he chose to evolve too much of this specialized muscle, it would even affect his Strength ability level.

If he chose the maximum of two meters, his Strength LV2 would drop to LV1.

This was a conflict between abilities.

Realizing this, he zoomed in on his own model and looked at the part of the body where the electricity-generating ability was located. There, a dense, neatly arranged mass of sheet-like muscles had appeared.

And between those sheets, some strange tissue connected them.

The normal muscles that had been there before were already gone.

Looking at these sheet-like muscles, Bai Chuan suddenly thought of something—a battery!

That's right. Seeing this, he recalled what he knew about Electric Eels from his past life.

The reason Electric Eels could generate electricity was because they had a special type of electricity-generating cell inside them called an "Electric Plate."

These electricity-generating cells formed sheet-like muscle bundles inside the eel's body, each one like a small battery, and these sheets were arranged in an orderly pattern following some kind of rule.

Individually, their power output wasn't strong, but when combined, the voltage and current became formidable.

At this point, Bai Chuan finally understood why the abilities conflicted.

Because these electricity-generating muscles were specialized—they had only one function left: generating electricity.

If this specialized muscle took up space in his body, it would affect the normal muscles that provided him with strength, creating a chain reaction that lowered his power.

So the question was: would he choose the electricity-generating ability, like a superpower, or a powerful physical body?

Bai Chuan thought it over carefully and seriously. He decided he would choose the electricity-generating ability, but he wouldn't evolve it to the full two-meter length.

He would only choose one and a half meters on the tail section. With his current body length of over five meters, dedicating one and a half meters to evolving the electricity-generating ability was still quite worthwhile.

Because modifying this part of the tail wouldn't have too much impact on him—after all, most of a snake's tail was used for balance and aiding in crawling.

So the specialization of the muscle there wouldn't cause any real harm.