The Silver-Back Ape

Bai Yang had just been getting ready to test the full power of this body when the alarm bells suddenly went off in his mind.

A tremendous sense of danger, born of animal instinct, came over him!

A mental scan!

A Planetary-Level mental scan was closing in!

A King-Level Monster!

Without hesitation, he punched downward. The ground split open, and he curled into a ball and burrowed underground in an instant.

Relying on Orochi's instincts, he dug straight down, moving nearly a hundred meters before stopping.

He then controlled his body and entered a state of so-called hibernation, holding his breath until his body seemed to have lost all signs of life.

Above ground, the Blood Brake Squad had just arrived and was gathering up the remains.

They had received Bai Yang's order not to show any sign that anything was wrong and to carry on as usual.

Thanks to the battle that had taken place earlier, the ground here was covered in blood and riddled with pits and craters.

The hole Bai Yang had dug looked utterly inconspicuous.

The King-Level Monster's immense mental power swept over the area several times, but the War General Level squad members felt nothing.

Only An Zhengxin raised his head in puzzlement and looked around, showing the sort of confusion expected of a Primary War God.

The mysterious monster was more than ten miles away, too far to investigate the area in fine detail.

Though it felt something was strange, it had always been lazy.

Since it hadn't found anything, it sank back to the bottom of the river and went to sleep.

The squad members didn't know whether the monster had really left, so they simply carried on with their work and paid it no mind.

Not until five hours later, after night had fallen.

The ground in the distance suddenly bulged upward.

After digging hundreds of meters underground, Bai Yang burst out there.

It should be safe now.

He was still shaken. He hadn't expected a simple transformation to immediately draw the attention of a King-Level Monster.

The way monsters sensed one another was absurdly unreasonable.

They had sensed that something was off about each other at almost the same time. Fortunately, Orochi's body had the slight edge and reacted a little sooner.

Otherwise, Bai Yang really wouldn't have known how to deal with it.

Bai Yang decided he'd better keep using his original form to kill monsters. That way, he could still keep building his transformation skills, and it wouldn't make much difference.

By now, he had reached the Primary War God level, and his original form could hold its own against an Intermediate War God.

He had already obtained the Venom Gene. Now he could go on a killing spree.

The Blood Brake Squad had finished clearing the surrounding area.

The team returned to their base at the Emerald Lake Residential Complex that night to get some proper rest.

Although he had grown stronger, the squad members still hadn't fully recovered.

Everyone slept well that night. Early the next morning, Bai Yang began testing his new abilities.

After the first stage, his body's structure had undergone some kind of change.

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

The Monster Cell's abilities had also grown accordingly. He easily raised An Zhengxin to the Intermediate War God level.

The other squad members had also made great strides. He had paid particular attention to Yuan Jingfu, who had come up with a good idea earlier.

He'd taken him from the Intermediate War General level straight to the peak of the Advanced War General level.

With a body this powerful defensively, it would be a waste not to make good use of it.

The Mount Hua Sword's combat ability had become somewhat useless to him.

After all, it was originally a ceremonial sword. Its material was strong enough,

but it wasn't a sharpened divine weapon, so its lethality was limited.

Bai Yang gave it some serious thought. Were his fists more powerful now?

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

He'd gotten off to such a strong start that he had naturally kept using the sword.

But with his talent and comprehension, learning a boxing technique quickly should be possible.

Wouldn't fighting with his physical strength alone work just as well?

He could give it a try later. For now, killing monsters came first.

He told the squad members to bring out the remains they had collected earlier: one snake and five birds.

Although those birds had been swallowed, some of their parts couldn't be digested easily.

Besides the four long fangs, the Black-Line Snake had also provided him with dozens of small teeth.

And the five birds had yielded five beaks and more than a dozen sharp claws.

He planned to put all of them to use. With his Psychokinesis, they could easily tear through an Advanced War General monster's defenses.

Once coated with snake venom, he wouldn't have to fear ordinary monster packs.

That afternoon, somewhere in the Third Circle Layer.

Bai Yang and the rejuvenated Blood Brake Squad were attacking a monster pack.

It had once been a huge pack of nearly a thousand monsters, made up of many different kinds.

Its leader was a Silver-Back Ape at the Intermediate War God level.

But by now, the pack had all but ceased to exist.

"Weak" monsters lay strewn all over the ground.

The Blood Brake Squad members were going around and finishing them off one by one.

Just a few minutes earlier, Bai Yang had led the team to the pack.

After confirming it was within their ability to take down, he had immediately led the attack.

As the leader, the Silver-Back Ape had stayed at the center of the pack.

The weaker monsters were on the outskirts, growing stronger the closer they were to the center.

Bai Yang merely raised a hand, and hundreds of beast bones and teeth soaked in the Black-Line Snake's special venom swept toward them in a deluge.

The flying weapons had been carefully selected. Most were between the Advanced War General and Primary War God levels in toughness.

Even Advanced War General monsters would be left with wounds and paralyzed by the venom if they were hit enough times.

The weaker monsters stood no chance.

In just a few seconds, Bai Yang had directed those "poison darts" around the entire pack three or four times.

The Silver-Back Ape watched in shock as its underlings were almost completely wiped out in an instant.

It was left all alone, and Bai Yang was the culprit!

Fury and grief drove it to charge forward and challenge him!

A few minutes later, the Blood Brake Squad's cleanup was nearly finished.

Their leader, Bai Yang, had already been fighting the Silver-Back Ape for quite some time.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

The sounds of their fierce battle kept pounding across the ground.

Yuan Jingfu and An Zhengxin turned to look.

They couldn't help being stunned by what they saw.

The clash between the man and the beast didn't look like a battle between a human and a monster. It looked more like two monsters grappling.

Bai Yang stood in place and barely moved.

No matter how the Silver-Back Ape attacked, he met it head-on with the same stance.

Their fists and feet landed with brutal force, and they fought with incredible intensity.

It was practically a fight where each side traded blows for blows.

The Silver-Back Ape was a monster with astonishing physical strength, so that went without saying.

Yet Bai Yang's human body looked to be in superb condition, and he wasn't falling behind in the slightest.

But one of them was less than two meters tall, while the other stood five meters high.

The contrast between them was startling, no matter how you looked at it.