Silver-Back Ape

Bai Yang was just about to thoroughly test the power of this body when suddenly alarm bells rang in his heart.

A massive sense of crisis, born of biological instinct, surged toward him!

Mental scan!

A planetary-level mental scan was approaching this location!

A king-level monster!

Without hesitation, he punched downward, and the ground split open with a crack. He curled into a ball and dove straight down.

Relying on Orochi's instinct, he burrowed nearly a hundred meters deeper.

Then he began to control his body, entering a state of so-called hibernation and suspended breath, his entire form seeming to lose all signs of life.

Above ground, the Blood Brake Squad members had just arrived and were cleaning up the flesh and blood.

They had received Bai Yang's order: show no abnormality, act as usual.

Thanks to the previous great battle, the ground here was covered in bloodstains and pockmarked with craters.

The hole Bai Yang had dug looked utterly inconspicuous.

The king-level monster's vast mental scan swept over the area several times, but the squad members, all at the general level, felt nothing.

Only An Zhengxin raised his head in confusion, looking around, displaying the wariness expected of a junior War God.

The mysterious monster, over ten miles away, couldn't probe with particular precision.

Though it felt something was off, it was habitually lazy.

Since it found nothing, it simply sank back to the riverbed to sleep.

The squad members didn't know if it had truly left, so they busied themselves with their own tasks, ignoring it.

Until five hours later, as night fell.

Suddenly, a bulge rose from the ground in the distance.

Bai Yang dug several hundred meters underground and burst out from there.

It should be safe now.

His heart still trembled with lingering fear. He hadn't expected that a simple transformation would immediately draw the attention of a king-level monster.

The mutual sensing between monsters was so unreasonable.

They had almost simultaneously detected each other's anomaly. Fortunately, Orochi's body was a step ahead, just barely.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have known how to handle it.

Bai Yang decided to continue killing monsters in his original form. This way, his transformation level could still accumulate steadily, with little impact.

Now, his cultivation was at the junior War God level, and his original form could already clash head-on with a mid-level War God.

The Venom Gene was already in hand, and from here on, he could go on a killing spree.

The surrounding ground had already been cleaned up by the Blood Brake Squad.

Their group traveled through the night back to the stronghold at Emerald Lake District to rest properly.

Though he had grown stronger, the squad members' physical conditions weren't fully healed yet.

Everyone slept soundly through the night. The next morning, Bai Yang began testing his new abilities.

After the first stage, his body structure had undergone some change.

The strength of his muscles and skin was astonishingly high, far surpassing that of an ordinary War God.

The Monster Cell's power had also risen accordingly. An Zhengxin was easily elevated by him to the mid-level War God level.

The other squad members also made great strides in strength. He paid special attention to Yuan Jingfu, who had given him that good idea earlier.

He directly raised him from an original mid-level general to the peak of high-level general.

Thinking about it, it would be a waste not to make good use of such a powerfully defensive body.

The Mount Hua Sword's combat capability was now somewhat lackluster for him.

After all, it was originally a ceremonial sword. While its material strength was fine, it wasn't a sharpened divine weapon, so its killing power was limited.

Bai Yang seriously considered whether his fists might now pack more punch.

He had used the sword before, partly because he genuinely liked it, but more because he had drawn an S-rank sword technique from the start.

The starting point was too high, so he naturally went along with it.

But with his talent and comprehension, could he quickly master a fist technique?

Fighting directly with his physical strength didn't seem impossible either.

He might as well give it a try later. For now, killing monsters took priority.

He had his squad members bring out all the remains they had collected—the one snake and five birds.

Though the birds had been swallowed, some parts weren't easily digested.

The Black-Line Snake supplied him with dozens of fine teeth in addition to its four long venom fangs.

And those five flying birds, besides their five beaks, provided over a dozen sharp claws.

He planned to use all of these items; under his Psychokinesis, they could easily tear through the defenses of high-level warlord monsters.

Once coated with snake venom, he wouldn't even fear ordinary beast hordes.

That afternoon, somewhere in the Third Circle Layer.

Bai Yang led the Blood Brake Squad, whose strength had been completely renewed, in an attack on a beast horde.

This was a massive horde originally composed of nearly a thousand monsters, including many different species.

Their leader was a Silver-Back Ape with the strength of a mid-level War God.

But by now, this beast horde had almost ceased to exist.

The ground was littered with the bodies of various "weak" monsters, lying in chaotic heaps.

Members of the Blood Brake Squad were finishing them off one by one.

Just a few minutes ago, Bai Yang had led the team to discover them.

After confirming that the enemy's strength was within their ability to handle, he immediately led the charge.

The Silver-Back Ape, as the leader, had always stayed at the center of the horde.

The outermost ring consisted of relatively weak monsters, with strength increasing progressively toward the core.

Bai Yang simply raised his hand, and hundreds of beast bones and fangs, soaked in the special venom of the Black-Line Snake, swept toward them like a sky-darkening storm.

These flying weapons, carefully selected by the team, were generally between high-level warlord and initial War God in material quality.

Even high-level warlord monsters, if struck by enough of them, would inevitably suffer various wounds, be poisoned, and become paralyzed.

Let alone the weaker monsters.

In just a few seconds, Bai Yang directed these "poison darts" to circle the entire horde three or four times.

And so, the Silver-Back Ape watched in shock as its underlings were nearly wiped out in an instant.

Only it remained, alone and isolated, and the culprit was Bai Yang!

Fury and anguish drove it to immediately challenge him!

A few minutes later, the Blood Brake Squad's "cleanup" work was nearing its end.

Their master, Bai Yang, had also been locked in combat with that Silver-Back Ape beast for quite some time.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

The ground continuously echoed with the sounds of their fierce battle.

Yuan Jingfu and An Zhengxin turned to look.

They couldn't help but be startled by the scene before them.

The contest between this man and this beast didn't resemble a fight between human and monster, but rather two monsters locked in a struggle of raw strength.

Bai Yang stood his ground, barely moving from his position.

No matter what posture the Silver-Back Ape used to attack him, he met it head-on, countering with the exact same stance.

Fist met flesh, blow for blow—every punch and kick was fought with extreme intensity.

This was almost a battle of trading wounds.

The Silver-Back Ape, being a monster, possessed an astonishing physique—that went without saying.

Yet Bai Yang's human body appeared incredibly robust and vigorous, showing no sign of weakness at all.

But considering that one was less than two meters tall, while the other stood a full five meters...

This contrast was nothing short of horrifying to behold.