Qi Sheng followed the entire ongoing saga of Lu Xing challenging Wonder Butterfly.
The process left him unsure whether to laugh or cry.
During that time, Wonder Butterfly's Hunting Level rose by six, which was somewhat beyond his expectations.
But he could understand why a Primordial Monster would suddenly grow.
Emperor Zhao was the creator of Monster World, and his power formed the main framework of the world. Every Primordial Monster separated from him represented a characteristic of the world and could never truly be killed. Even if they died, they could undergo initialization and revive elsewhere.
And absorbing external power to strengthen themselves was not the only way Primordial Monsters could grow.
As Monster World operated, it continuously generated energy for all things. Spirit plants grew, spirit ore formed... As long as something conformed to the laws governing the world's operation, it could receive power nurtured and allocated by the world, allowing it to develop.
This was even more true of Primordial Monsters.
Devouring, cultivating, taking beatings, spacing out... Every Primordial Monster had its own specific behavioral logic that conformed to the world's operation. As long as they carried it out, they could draw a portion of the energy nurtured by the world.
It was like completing a growth quest issued by a "World NPC" and receiving experience rewards from the world.
Wonder Butterfly's bullying of the weak was clearly one of its ways of gaining power to grow.
By bullying Lu Xing, it received gifts of the world's power, raising its level from 7 to 13.
Its seemingly bizarre behavior was actually supported by very reasonable underlying logic. It was like human breathing, which was also, in essence, a process of interacting with the world and receiving the various bodily responses needed to keep the body functioning.