Transformation

He had thought this Blue Nemesis would be formidable. Who knew it was just a wax-tipped spear.

He could have handled five pieces of trash like this half a year ago...

From a distance, Zhuang Hong used spikes to turn the Mantis Monster into a porcupine. Only after confirming it was dead beyond doubt did he slowly approach.

Dense waves of nutrients radiated from its body.

"It's edible, and extremely nutritious!"

With that thought, he thrust a hand into its body and began feeding. Before long, he had sucked it dry into a desiccated corpse, and the Source Power within him began to surge.

Yet he was still not satisfied.

"Not enough. I'll go back and swallow the Dragonfly Monster too!"

Zhuang Hong returned to his original location and drained the entire Dragonfly Monster.

Compared to more than ten days ago, his appetite had grown considerably.

Last time, swallowing the Red Beard Monster's body had filled him up. This time, he had swallowed the Blue Mantis Monster and the Green Dragonfly Monster in succession before barely reaching the limit of his appetite.

Feeling the surging, boiling Source Power within him, he had a premonition: he would evolve without needing to fully digest and absorb the two Natural Enemies.

It had been nearly two years since he became a Green Monster. He had devoured countless Natural Enemies and had finally accumulated enough to evolve. He could not help feeling delighted. Perhaps he would soon be able to sleep soundly without a care in the world.

Of course, it was not all delight. There was also a trace of worry.

Was it possible that once he evolved into a Blue Monster, the attraction he gave off would become even stronger, drawing stronger and more numerous Natural Enemies to besiege him?

If that were true, his situation might become even more dangerous.

But since he had already set foot on this road, there was no turning back. He could only continue exploring new spaces, find the other "Zhuang Hongs" in other spaces, devour them, and gain greater, stronger power.

Because there were only two possible endings. One was for him to devour every Natural Enemy and obtain supreme power. The other was to be devoured by some Natural Enemy.

And he did not want to die!

Also, what exactly was that Mantis Monster? It was as though someone had used some kind of technique to stitch a mantis and a human together, giving him an intensely strange feeling.

Looking at it this way, there had to be some unimaginably powerful existence within this Infinite Space...

A faint sense of crisis arose in Zhuang Hong's heart.

What if he encountered an enemy he could not resist that wanted to eat him? What if powerful Natural Enemies invaded Earth and destroyed his home?

Danger!!!

As Zhuang Hong's mind filled with wild thoughts, he could not help letting out a full belch and became drowsy.

He rubbed his slightly bulging belly and temporarily suppressed all those feelings of crisis.

There was no use thinking about that. The most urgent matter now was solving his sleep problem...

He planned to search for an alternate-space "Zhuang Hong" as soon as he cured A Fei's illness.

"Sleep, sleep, I really want to sleep..."

Zhuang Hong muttered to himself and once again set off for Earth.

"Rustle, rustle~"

Less than a day after Zhuang Hong left, more than twenty humanoid Mantis Monsters suddenly emerged from midair. They landed on a patch of shattered stone and wandered about as though searching for something. In the end, they dug a shriveled Mantis Monster corpse out of the ground.

This dried corpse was precisely the Mantis Monster Zhuang Hong had devoured and casually buried.

Not long after, a man in a black robe slowly walked out of the empty air.

The man was extraordinarily handsome, but his eyes were pitch-black. Together with his purplish lips, they ruined his overall beauty and made him look particularly eerie.

He lowered his head to inspect the dug-up empty shell. Excitement and greed flashed through his eyes, and a smile curled at his lips as he murmured, "There's actually a sweet and delicious delicacy nearby. It looks like a Clear Pattern Worm preparing to transform. What an unexpected delight. If I devour him, perhaps I'll transform into a True Spirit before long."

Then he chuckled. "Now then, let me find where this Clear Pattern Worm is."

What should have been a two-day journey was dragged out into three days by Zhuang Hong's poor sleep.

Only three days later did Zhuang Hong return to Earth.

He casually sat cross-legged on his bed and quietly sensed the subtle changes in his body.

He had digested nearly half of the two Natural Enemies he had devoured.

At this moment, the Source Power spread throughout his body had increased by thirty percent and turned a deep, inky green. It surged and roiled within him with exceptional activity, giving Zhuang Hong the sense that it was inexhaustible.

Even his physical strength and vitality had reached unprecedented peaks.

Zhuang Hong clenched his fist and murmured, "I've become stronger."

Another day passed. More than seventy percent of the nutrients he had consumed had been digested, and the Source Power within Zhuang Hong underwent a qualitative transformation.

The Source Power that had originally been scattered throughout his body began to churn violently like boiling water.

Then, at a certain moment—whether by chance or inevitability—the Source Power in his abdomen formed a vortex.

The vortex grew larger and larger, radiating an invisible attraction. The Source Power throughout his body seemed to answer its call, streaming into the vortex one after another.

When all the Source Power had gathered together, the dark-green sphere gradually shrank from the size of a fist to the size of a fingertip. At the same time, a streak of Blue Light burst from the tiny sphere of Source Power and slowly spread, dyeing the entire Source Power Orb blue.

In the blink of an eye, it had become an azure bead that spun rapidly.

As time passed, it finally stabilized, quietly floating as it rotated at an unhurried pace.

The evolution of his Source Power had taken Zhuang Hong by surprise.

"Does this mean I'm blue quality now?"

The Source Power throughout his body had been drawn away and gathered in one place, yet instead of making Zhuang Hong feel empty, it gave him an unusual sense of fulfillment.

It was as though the essence of his life had broken through its upper limit and risen to a new height.

Zhuang Hong did not move rashly. Only after the changes within him had completely ended did he slowly stand and feel the differences in his body.

His body, Source Power, and Space Essence had all been enhanced across the board. Simply clenching his fist let him feel power on the verge of bursting forth, as though he were invincible beneath the heavens.

Even his digestion speed had become faster. The remaining flesh and blood of the Natural Enemies within him was being frantically digested and absorbed, transformed into various nutrients that replenished every part of his body, while the azure Source Power Orb inside him slowly grew.

Yet even so, Zhuang Hong could still feel an intense urge to feed coming from his body.

He craved more Natural Enemy flesh and blood.

"I'll go to another space and test my current strength."

He took one step forward and vanished from the room.

Zhuang Hong arrived in a barren stone forest.

With a thought, the Source Power in his sea of qi surged up to his head in an instant, spreading through his brain and eyes before radiating outward.

Dimensional Sight!

The next moment, nothing in the current space could hide from him. Not only that, he could see the scenes within nearly a hundred spaces adjacent to the current one.

Layer upon layer of dazzling scenes flooded into his mind. After undergoing a special conversion, they allowed Zhuang Hong to accurately distinguish the distance, direction, size, and shape of every object...

Like a god, he looked down upon the surrounding space. So long as he wished it, he could travel through it and manipulate it at will.

"My Dimensional Sight range has reached five hundred meters, and my vision has nearly doubled. This feeling of being able to do anything... really makes me able to do anything..."