Chapter 52

After a brief pause, the venomous snake flicked its tongue, realizing that an enemy seemed to have appeared in front of it.

"Hiss!"

The venomous snake excitedly reared up.

Whatever it is, let it take a couple of bites first; it's almost starving and about to hibernate!

Chapter 52

The black snake stood upright, opened its mouth, and lunged to bite in the direction from which the Wind Blade were coming.

At this moment, Wen Jing's figure had already disappeared into the mist.

Snakes have poor eyesight to begin with, and after her invisibility ability isolated her own chemical signals and energy, she completely disappeared from the other party's perception.

After several attempts to bite empty air, the starving black snake regained some Calmness, slowed its movements, and flicked its tongue in all directions, trying to locate its enemy.

Just then, another Wind Blade condensed from an angle and slashed towards the black snake's head.

This time, prepared, the black snake immediately swayed its body to avoid the attack, while its head continued to peek in that direction.

With this movement, the horizontal scales on the inside of its body were immediately exposed to Wen Jing's attack range.

"Whoosh!"

When the fighter jets arrived, the tiny insect, in its stealth mode, acted without hesitation.

Her figure emerged from the mist, revealing a faint shadow, and then shot out like a bullet, striking the black snake's vital spot.

This "seven inches" does not refer to length, but rather to the point where the black snake's heart and spine meet—its weakest point.

Wen Jing's mental attribute has now reached 30 points. Like speed, 30 points seems to be a threshold. After breaking through, her perception has reached a more subtle level than before.

Combining biological attributes with her observations of the black snake's movements while in stealth mode, she located the area where its blood flow was most intense.

"Laugh..."

The Energy-Shaping Weapon sliced into the gaps in the black scales, and dark red blood spurted out.

The black snake froze for a moment, then began to writhe wildly.

However, Wen Jing's Gravity Silk firmly adhered to its wound, and a dagger extended from its mouthparts, even 'thoughtfully' featuring a blood groove, which it then plunged deep inside.

This hit the black snake's weak spot, causing its entire body to curl up and writhe.

"Splash..."

Unlike the red and white birds, the black snake immersed itself directly in the black pool water, constantly bumping and rubbing its body against the tree roots.

But the next moment, a golden 'light bubble' lit up at its seven-inch mark, which was the Level Two Energy Shield that Wen Jing Jingxin had learned.

"Click click click..."

Unable to use his Energy-Shaping Weapon after erecting Energy Shield, Wen Jing reverted to his most primitive method: opening his mouth to gnaw.

The dark red flesh was extremely bitter; one's health would begin to slowly decline upon tasting it, even after the special ability to immunize against some of the toxicity.

At the same time, a series of cracking sounds came from the shield behind her, not from external impact, but from the corrosive toxicity of the pool water.

Even at this point, Wen Jing felt that he had already devoured the other's heart, but the black snake was still struggling frantically.

He's still alive!

In the stalemate, Wen Jing was also shocked by the black snake's tenacious vitality, which forced her to raise the shield for the third time, consuming a lot of energy.

As expected of the biggest overlord in the lower levels, even after starving for so many days under her tactics, she can still achieve this level of skill.

She originally came with the intention of testing the waters; if she could defeat them, she would fight; if not, she would go back to the Trial Tower to get an Empowerment Stone and come back again.

Although the Empowerment Stone are like blind boxes, and it's uncertain whether you'll get any useful abilities, they at least guarantee an increase in attributes.

However, the battle had gone smoothly so far, and now that they had reached the final decisive moment, it was not the time to retreat.

"Evolutionary poison resistance!"

[The direction of evolution has been determined...]

[Evolve by consuming points...]

[94→80]

The moment his Skill Points were depleted, Wen Jing felt his mandibles, which had been numb Slowness due to the black snake's venomous blood, become agile again, and he bit off most of its heart in one go.

[Evolution complete]

[Gained Trait:?? Snake Venom Resistance]

After evolving her Snake Venom Resistance, Wen Jing's stress level dropped drastically, her health points stopped decreasing, and the previously highly venomous snake blood and flesh became Digestion and decomposable nutrients, even starting to increase her life and strength attributes.

With increased efficiency, she finished eating the black snake's heart in just a few breaths.

Having suffered such a severe blow, the black snake's strong vitality finally came to an end. With a sudden stiffening of its body, it flipped over and floated in the black pool water, looking like a tree branch if you didn't look closely.

"Pop!"

Just then, Wen Jing crawled out of the black snake's wound, his body covered in dark red blood.

Her middle pair of feet wiped her body like tiny brushes, giving her a quick clean, before she floated out of the pool and stuck the Gravity Silk onto the black snake.

The Gravity Silk exists between reality and illusion, with herself as the connecting core. It cannot yet perform more complex gravity manipulations or be used to bind enemies in battle; otherwise, she would have other methods.

However, Wen Jing still remembered how expensive it was to evolve the Gravity Silk, and upgrading it was definitely something she couldn't afford right now.

A ripple spread across the pool, and Wen Jing pulled the snake's body to the tree roots at the water's surface.

After all, Wen Jing evolved a special Snake Venom Resistance to save Skill Points. Although she was less resistant to the toxins in the pool after the evolution, it was still poisonous, so it was best to avoid contact.

"Splash..."

The black snake's entire body was dragged ashore, like food served on a dining table.

This snake would be considered a small to medium-sized snake from a human perspective, but compared to Wen Jing's size, it's like a person standing in front of a high-speed train.

Of course, for her now, food is more important than a high-speed train.

This area is the Black Serpent's territory, and the areas further away that belong to its hunting grounds were all cleared out by her in the previous encounters, making the probability of intruders negligible.

The insect immediately fell, burrowed into the seven-inch wound, and began to eat!

On the tree roots shrouded in poisonous mist, the motionless snake's body gradually began to flatten, but the dark red snake blood that had flowed out during the previous battle had merged into the pool water and been absorbed by the roots of the giant tree.

Not long after, two or three red mushrooms growing near the root system suddenly trembled and released a huge amount of spores.

The original mushroom that had spewed out spores quickly shriveled up, while the spores drifted in the direction of the spray and landed in the direction from which the snake blood had spread.

A new red mushroom visibly grows and matures, then bursts forth with spores and quickly shriveles.

If you look at this scene from above, it looks like several red footprints, step by step 'walking' towards the location of the snake's body...

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Snake meat, so chewy and delicious!

Snake bones, crisp and hard, eat, eat, eat!

Snake gallbladders are so bitter, but they're a good thing, so I have to eat them!

Sure enough, after enduring the bitterness and finishing the snake gall, Wen Jing received a notification in his mind.

[Acquired Trait: Abnormal Status Immunity II]

Upon hearing this suggestion, she immediately opened a hole with excitement and crawled out of the snake.

"Phew... I don't feel uncomfortable at all anymore."

She had previously developed some resistance to the toxicity of the fog, but she still felt unwell, and her health points would slowly decrease while she was here.

Looking at the panel again, the life and strength attributes had both increased significantly after this hunt of the enormous black snake.

Life: 60

Strength: 55

Speed: 36

Spirit: 32

The increase in value was more than that of an Empowerment Stone, and this was only after she had consumed half of it. No wonder she is the overlord of the lower level of the giant tree.

However, precisely because it is the dominant species in this area, it seems to be the only one, unlike the numerous red and white birds in the treetops.

Of course, these attributes are all secondary. The biggest gain from this trip was that Wen Jing 'Abnormal Status Immunity was raised to level two, giving him the confidence to challenge the Queen Ant.

During a brief moment of thought, Wen Jing's gaze swept casually across the room and suddenly caught sight of a red shadow not far away.

Red mushroom?

When did this thing grow here? She clearly remembered that there weren't any mushrooms like this around here before.

However, the damp environment at the bottom is very suitable for the growth of fungi, so it's not surprising that they appeared there.

Wen Jing's heart stirred, and he tentatively floated over, wondering if he was now immune to its poison.

Fifteen centimeters, fourteen... ten centimeters!

As it slowly approached at that precise distance, the crimson mushroom indeed spewed out a cloud of poisonous mist.

The little insect brushed past the poisonous mist and saw its health points decrease by one.

Such a potent poison; even a level two abnormal immune response couldn't provide immunity.

Wen Jing immediately stepped back, glanced back at the distance between the snake corpse and the crimson mushroom, and used her Gravity Silk to pull them further away, lest the mushroom's poison affect her food.

The insect burrowed back into the snake's body and ate the remaining half.

There are venom glands inside the snake's head; she plans to increase her venom resistance by eating more of them, saving them for last.

However, when Wen Jing finished gnawing on the snake's tail and looked up, he suddenly saw two or three bright red mushrooms growing gracefully next to the snake's head.

What the heck?

A snake's carcass shouldn't decompose that quickly, so how did mushrooms start growing on it?

Wen Jing's compound eyes widened, and he immediately realized something was wrong; the crimson mushroom had clearly been chasing after him.

Just then, a red mushroom near the snake's head suddenly emitted a cloud of spores, and the red mist enveloped the snake's head.

Before long, red spores covered the top of the snake, and a red mushroom visibly grew.

Judging by its appearance alone, it looks like a black snake wearing a red hat.