Name: Gale; Species: Purple-striped Snake [9m]; Ability: Devour; life level: Ordinary Creature; evolution progress: 84% [16% more until the next life level evolution].
— Three months later.
Gale’s body size had reached nine meters in length.
His evolution progress had also reached 84%, with only 16% left before Gale would welcome his final life level evolution.
Actually, Gale’s body length had already reached nine meters when his evolution progress hit 80%.
However, after reaching nine meters, no matter how much his evolution progress increased, Gale’s body size and length no longer grew.
Gale himself could clearly feel it.
After his body size and length reached nine meters, it seemed he had hit a Bottleneck and could no longer grow.
But as the evolution progress increased, Gale’s physical strength, speed, and other qualities were still steadily improving.
Gale felt that his evolution seemed to have shifted from quantity to quality.
The growth in body size and length was the quantitative change of his body.
While the improvement in physical strength, qualities, and other aspects was the qualitative change of his body.
Gale guessed that the reason his body size and length stopped growing after reaching nine meters was perhaps because his quantitative change had reached the limit of his current life level.
To increase his size and length further, he might need to Breakthrough to the next life level.
And the qualitative change would promote the evolution of the life level.
At the same time, after reaching this level, the increase in Gale’s evolution progress became slower day by day.
It now took Gale nearly five days to increase his evolution progress by one percent, and this time was still increasing as the evolution progress rose.
At the current evolution speed.
If Gale wanted to raise his evolution progress to one hundred percent, it would take at least another three months or more.
Even longer.
But Gale was in no hurry.
Anyway, his current living environment was very stable and safe.
As long as he could maintain this, Gale could accept it even if it took a bit more time.
Safety was the most important thing.
“Rustle.
Rustle.” The sun was shining brightly.
Under the bright sunlight.
Gale’s nine-meter-long purple snake body slowly crawled through the grass and bushes by the lake, beginning to search for prey.
Along the way, many birds and beasts that discovered Gale or felt his presence were all frightened into flying away or fleeing.
In three months, Gale had practically become a local overlord.
Aside from the giant beasts deep in the lake and the occasional carnivorous dinosaurs, there were basically no creatures in this area that dared to provoke the current Gale, not even tigers or lions.
A moment later, Gale found his hunting target.
A herd of wild deer.
And most importantly, this herd of wild deer was currently being hunted by a pack of wolves, which made it easier for Gale to take the opportunity to feed.
Gale slowly and silently crawled to a large gap in the wolf pack’s hunt.
After the wolves launched their attack, the deer herd immediately rushed toward this large gap.
As a result, they ran straight into Gale.
Gale lay in wait among the flowers, grass, and bushes.
The moment the deer herd approached, his tail swung out like a divine dragon’s tail.
Instantly, two wild deer were struck and died on the spot.
Then, Gale coiled his tail to entangle another two nearby wild deer.
In an instant, four wild deer had fallen directly into Gale’s hands.
Gale completed all of this in a flash, and the other fleeing wild deer were even more scared out of their wits.
Even the pursuing wolf pack behind them was so terrified upon seeing Gale that they immediately retreated, not daring to chase in this direction anymore.
After killing these four wild deer, Gale did not continue hunting.
Because these four wild deer were quite large, enough for him to have two full meals.
Subsequently, Gale did not stay any longer and crawled toward the karst cave at the mountain peak with his prey.
After returning to the cave and sleeping twice, the four wild deer were successfully digested by Gale.
However, Gale’s evolution progress did not increase at all.
Then another five days passed.
Only after Gale had devoured and digested nearly thirty wild deer and goats did his evolution progress increase by one percent again.
[evolution progress: 85%]: 15% more until the next life level evolution.
“The speed of this evolution is really getting slower and slower.” Seeing this situation, Gale couldn’t help but sigh.
It was already this slow when he was only at the first stage of life level evolution.
If he waited until he evolved to the next life level and became a giant beast like Kong, how many living beings would he need to devour to evolve?
However, Gale guessed that the reason his current evolution speed had slowed down might be related to the fact that the meat he ate every day was from Ordinary Creatures.
For example, if he could eat those giant beasts, perhaps his evolution speed would greatly increase.
After all, compared to Ordinary Creatures, giant beasts were clearly organisms on two different levels—especially those like Godzilla, who could withstand nuclear bombs or even feed on them.
One could imagine how powerful the life levels of these Titans were.
Giant beasts and Ordinary Creatures are definitely on two different life levels.
If he could eat the flesh and blood of a giant beast now, his evolution progress might increase rapidly.
However, this was something Gale could only imagine for now.
After all, the strength of the giant beasts was right there.
Not to mention others, even for that giant beast in the lake, Gale estimated that he would just be a matter of one slap.
So, he shouldn’t even think about the flesh and blood of giant beasts unless he encountered two giant beasts fighting; then Gale might have a chance to scavenge.
Otherwise, Gale had better continue to honestly hunt Ordinary Creatures.
One morning.
As usual, after devouring and digesting his food, Gale crawled out of the cave to prepare for hunting.
But not even half a moment after he crawled out of the cave.
“Caw!
Caw!
Caw!” “…” From the direction of the distant dense forest and mountains across the lake.
Suddenly, large swarms of birds, Leaf-wings, and other flying creatures flew out, blotting out the sky.
It looked as if they had been frightened by something.
Immediately after, in the dense forest, large patches of trees collapsed, as if they were being knocked down in groups by something.
Then, herds of wild animals came running out of the dense forest.
These animals were of all sizes.
Large ones like dinosaurs, elephants, and mammoths.
Small ones like deer, sheep, and pigs.
Many smaller animals were directly stepped to death by the larger creatures during the flight.
But along the way, these animals that rushed out did not stop; instead, they all ran forward desperately, as if they were fleeing for their lives.
“Boom!
Boom!
Boom!…” Soon, Gale heard dense footsteps like an earthquake.
Those animals rushing out of the dense forest were heading in his direction.
From a distance, it looked like an endless beast tide.
“What’s going on?!” Gale’s heart tightened.
Something big must have happened; otherwise, these animals wouldn’t all be fleeing like this.
And soon, Gale also learned the reason why these animals were competing to escape for their lives.
“Boom!” From the dense forest behind the beast tide.
A terrifying creature, shaped like a lizard but with only two legs and a head like a skull, measuring a full thirty meters long, chased out from behind the forest.
The moment it chased out, it bit and devoured an elephant in one mouthful.
Gale also instantly recognized this creature.
Skullcrawler!