Finally Summoned the Xenomorph

"Success!" Fate said from the side, somewhat excited. Though he did not know why Li Junshan had left his innate summoned beast egg unhatched and come to summon these useless low-level magical beasts instead, seeing him succeed still made Fate very happy.

Li Junshan was excited inside too, but he understood that he had not completed his idea yet. It was far too early to be happy, so he calmed himself and, in one breath, summoned all the remaining Hopping Rabbits and Flame Chickens as his own magical beasts.

"He said a few days ago that his mental strength training wasn't making any progress, and now he can actually summon five at once." Fate's eyes widened as he muttered from the side. Then he suddenly remembered that the youth before him had crossed four levels in a single month to reach the rank of Battle Master. Compared with that, the scene before him no longer seemed quite so shocking.

After summoning the last Flame Chicken, Li Junshan felt as if all the energy in his body had been drained away, and even his physical strength was a little spent. With a slight shift of thought, the five low-level summoned beasts before him vanished, appearing in his Spirit Space at the same time.

The moment the five summoned beasts appeared in Li Junshan's Spirit Space, he sensed more than a dozen Xenomorph Eggs all transmitting their desire to hatch to him at once. Without the slightest hesitation, Li Junshan sent an order of approval to hatch to five of the Xenomorph Eggs with his mental strength. Almost instantly, the five Xenomorph Eggs near the five summoned beasts opened the membrane flaps at their tops at the same time, and five Facehuggers clearly lunged at the Hopping Rabbits and Flame Chickens that were crying out in terror.

"Whew..." Li Junshan let out a long breath.

This scene was the good method he had thought of last night. Letting the xenomorphs hatch in reality had always felt improper to him. After all, these things were too terrifying; without absolute certainty, he did not even dare to try. But it was different in the Spirit Space. The xenomorphs' transition in and out between the Spirit Space and reality depended entirely on the Summoner's will. If he summoned some magical beasts and placed them in the Spirit Space, letting the xenomorphs' parasitism and first growth molt take place there, then confirmed whether he could control the xenomorphs, it would be much safer.

"How is it?" Fate also understood his meaning a little now. His expectations for the Innate Summoned Beast were far too intense, and at this moment he could not help feeling a little nervous.

"There'll be results right away." Li Junshan was a little nervous too. By now, the Facehuggers had already completed their mission, implanting xenomorph embryos into the bodies of those magical beasts before sliding stiffly onto the void-like ground inside the Spirit Space.

"Maybe it'll take a while longer." Li Junshan murmured. He remembered that in the game, xenomorph embryos fused with Yautja genes grew extremely quickly, and could burst out of the host's body in barely more than ten minutes. But the current environment was completely different from the game or the movies, and he himself could not say for sure.

At this moment, the five summoned beasts in the Spirit Space seemed to sense the arrival of their doom. They trembled, letting out despairing low whimpers, unable to move under the restraint of Li Junshan's mental strength.

"Hiss..." A scream filled with violence and savagery rang out in Li Junshan's mind. The first xenomorph tore open the Flame Chicken's chest cavity and was finally born.

"Hiss..." Four more screams rang out in succession, and the other four xenomorphs also burst from their bodies.

"Fused with new species genes. Gained increased fire resistance."

"Fused with new species genes. Gained increased fire resistance."

"Fused with new species genes. Gained increased fire resistance."

"Fused with new species genes. Gained a ten percent increase in jumping power."

"Fused with new species genes. Gained a ten percent increase in jumping power."

At the same time the five xenomorphs burst from their bodies, five lines of information clearly drifted through Li Junshan's mind.

"They can actually... fuse with magical beast genes too..." Li Junshan swallowed. A tremendous sense of happiness enveloped his whole body, and he could not help jumping up and cheering loudly.

"I'm rich, I'm rich! Haha, too fierce! Haha..."

Fate stared from the side, dumbfounded, and could not help asking urgently, "What happened? Did it succeed?"

"It succeeded. It fucking succeeded too well." Li Junshan hugged Fate and shook him violently. With the strength he had gained from fusing with xenomorph genes, after only a few shakes Fate felt dizzy and saw stars, shouting repeatedly for him to stop.

"Hurry and summon it out so I can see." Fate shook his somewhat woozy head and hurriedly said to Li Junshan.

"We still have to wait a bit." Li Junshan said after calming his excited mood a little. At this moment, the five xenomorph larvae were opening their mouths and launching feeding attacks on their respective hosts, sending flesh and blood flying everywhere in a scene too tragic to bear.

Li Junshan waited patiently. Fate could not figure out the situation and did not dare speak from the side either, afraid he would affect him, so he simply sat down and entered meditation.

Perhaps a few minutes passed, or perhaps more than ten. Because Li Junshan was too nervous, he himself could not tell clearly. All of a sudden, one, two... four xenomorph larvae in succession stopped feeding, and their bodies were covered by a layer of earthen-yellow light. Li Junshan's heart thudded wildly as he nervously "watched" those four balls of light.

The light grew brighter and brighter, and the balls of light swelled rapidly like expanding balloons. Several seconds later, the light dimmed, and four xenomorphs appeared in the Spirit Space.

"Awesome!" Li Junshan clenched his fists in excitement.

These xenomorphs were clearly special xenomorph lifeforms combined with Yautja genes. They were more than two meters tall and around three meters long, with several braid-like organs hanging from the sides of their long, smooth skulls, and a pair of tiny eyes turning with intelligence.

Their forelimbs were longer than those of ordinary xenomorphs and looked even more powerful. Their tailbones, more than three meters long, swayed lightly behind them, and the blade-like tips of their tails flickered with the light of death, making anyone who looked at them feel a chill without even being cold.

The remaining xenomorph larva was still tearing at the plump Hopping Rabbit's corpse. Li Junshan found it a little strange. They had broken from their eggs at the same time and attached to hosts at the same time. Those four had already completed their molting evolution, so why was this one still silent?

Then he noticed it. As a pale-white, diamond-like round bead was swallowed by that xenomorph larva, it finally stopped, and earthen-yellow light emerged, completing its molting evolution in an instant.

A magic crystal!

Li Junshan suddenly understood. Each xenomorph larva could only become a savage killing machine after completing its molting evolution. During the larval stage, it could only crawl and jump, relying on its hard, sharp main jawbones to attack enemies, and this molting evolution cycle was much longer than the parasitic period. Li Junshan had not expected that xenomorphs could actually complete their molting evolution instantly by swallowing magic crystals. This discovery made him even more ecstatic.

Every magical beast possessed a Beast Core. It was just that low-level Beast Cores were not of much use, and could even only be used as ornaments or toys. Yet xenomorphs clearly did not reject low-level ones; otherwise, the Beast Core of a Hopping Rabbit, which even ordinary people disdained to hunt, would not have let them evolve instantly.

Li Junshan felt that he was simply too blessed. He even felt happier than when the monitor explosion had killed him and caused him to transmigrate into this inexplicable world.

Wait. It seemed a little too early to be happy.

Li Junshan suppressed the joy filling his chest and tried to communicate with the five xenomorphs.

"Lie down."

The five xenomorphs swiftly lay down in the Spirit Space.

"Stand up."

The five xenomorphs stood up.

"Form a line and count off."

The five xenomorphs swiftly formed a neat line, and like a choir, they stretched out their necks and let out hissing cries one after another.

"Haha..." Li Junshan jumped up into a large tree like a madman and laughed himself hoarse, his echoes filling the surroundings.

Fate was still meditating when suddenly, by instinct, he sensed a powerful, baleful aura filling the surroundings, and subconsciously awoke from meditation. The moment he raised his head, he froze, feeling the veins on his forehead throbbing fiercely, unable to even catch his breath.

Five strange magical beasts were lined up in a perfectly neat row. Muscular cartilage filled with explosive power covered their entire bodies, saliva dripping continuously from their enormous mouths. Their long tailbones unconsciously swayed behind them, and the blade-like tips of their tails sent a chill running down Fate's back.

"Th-this... is your... summ... summoned beast?" Fate's voice sounded like a virgin stripped naked and left standing in a gale.

"Never seen one before, have you?" Li Junshan stood beside him and said, smug with pride, "So, how does it look?"

"Terrifying," Fate said with a shudder. "Though I've never seen this kind of magical beast in the Beast Illustrated Handbook, I can feel that it's extremely powerful."

"Of course." Li Junshan was all smiles. "Come on, I'll take you hunting." As he spoke, he snapped his fingers, and two Xenomorphs ran over, then docilely crouched on the ground.

Watching Fate climb on, Li Junshan still felt a little uneasy and warned him, "Hold on tight. It's very fast once it starts running."

Fate slowly recovered from his shock, waved a hand, and said, "It's fine. I've ridden a Gale Wolf before. Can it really be faster than a Gale Wolf, born with the wind attribute?"

Li Junshan smiled and did not explain. He climbed onto the back of another Xenomorph and firmly grabbed the two longer pieces of cartilage on the Xenomorph's neck.

"Move out."

Li Junshan gave the command in high spirits. Three whooshing gusts sounded as the other three Xenomorphs, following his will, took the lead and opened the way, swiftly running toward the depths of the forest.

Seeing those three Xenomorphs like black lightning splitting the long sky, Fate jolted and hurriedly tightened his grip on the Xenomorph's cartilage. He only felt his body fling backward with a violent jerk; if he had not been prepared, the Xenomorph's start alone would have thrown him off.

Feeling the head-on gale whip his eyes until tears streamed from them, Fate had no choice but to narrow his eyes. Its speed was not inferior to a Gale Wolf's, and it was even more agile. Fate made that judgment in his heart, but without seeing the Xenomorph's combat strength with his own eyes, he could not tell what level of magical beast it should belong to.

As they ran, those low-level magical beasts were frightened into scattering in all directions. The forest was a scene of chickens flying and dogs jumping. Hearing a magical beast's shrill scream from up ahead, Li Junshan and Fate had only just arrived when the battle was already over.

Two enormous Arrow-Quill Porcupines lay on the ground, countless holes all over their bodies gushing springs of blood. Whether they had been pierced by Xenomorph tailbones or tongues, no one could tell.

"Level-four magical beasts, Arrow-Quill Porcupines." Fate's eyes widened as he said in surprise, "They were dealt with that quickly?"

"What a pity about such good hides." Li Junshan said with heartache, "Last time, Uncle Niu and Dali hunted an Arrow-Quill Porcupine, and its pelt was kept very intact. I heard it sold for ten gold coins."

"Find their magic crystals," Li Junshan ordered one of the Xenomorphs.

That Xenomorph swept its tailbone across the heads of the two Arrow-Quill Porcupines respectively, and their heads immediately split in two. Two fist-sized magic crystals rolled out.

Li Junshan jumped down and picked them up. The magic crystals were pale yellow, crystal clear and translucent, with a flowing glow seeming to shimmer inside the cores. They were truly beautiful.

"Level-four Arrow-Quill Porcupines are earth-type magical beasts. Their magic crystals contain relatively little magical power, so they aren't worth much money," Fate said as he came over.

"Then what are these magic crystals used for?" Li Junshan did not quite understand.

"Magic crystals of the various elements are of great help to magicians of the corresponding system in cultivating their spiritual power, and they're also necessary items for refining certain magical materials. A magician using a staff inlaid with a crystal of the same attribute will have their magic power strengthened; Battle Qi follows the same principle. The price of a level-four Arrow-Quill Porcupine's magic crystal on the continent is roughly a few dozen gold coins. The higher the magical beast's level, the more expensive it sells for. Level six is a dividing line; no matter what attribute a level-six Beast Core has, it can easily sell for tens of thousands of gold coins," Fate explained patiently.

"Then is it useful for a Summoner's spiritual cultivation?" Having summoned five Xenomorphs in one breath, Li Junshan felt his spiritual power had been overdrawn. There were still so many Xenomorph Eggs in his Spirit Space, and just thinking about it made him excited.

"No use." Fate shook his head and said, "Magicians are different from Summoners. A magician's cultivation of spiritual power and magical power has a lot to do with elemental affinity, while Beast Cores have the function of attracting and accumulating magical elements. That is their greatest value. Of course, they also have a certain use for magical beasts. A magical beast of the same attribute swallowing the corresponding magic crystal may evolve, though it isn't absolute. Low-level ones are useless, and if the level difference is too great, the magical beast that swallows it will die from its body exploding because it cannot control or withstand the elemental power inside the core."

If a Xenomorph swallowed this magic crystal, would it evolve?

This thought surged up in Li Junshan's mind. He tossed down one core and ordered a Xenomorph to swallow it. In the end, after waiting a while, he saw no change in the Xenomorph, and no strange information prompt appeared in his mind either.

Looks like genes are still the key. The effect of Beast Cores on Xenomorphs is to make them instantly complete molting, growth, and evolution, and only the first time they eat one does it have any effect, Li Junshan thought inwardly.

"Then this is yours." Li Junshan tossed the remaining Arrow-Quill Porcupine core to Fate, whose face was filled with the joy of someone saying, "I've been waiting forever."

"Keep moving."

Whoosh...

The Xenomorphs carried them deeper into the forest.