Published: February 11, 2025
Success comes with failure; the jungle law is omnipresent.
These needle birds are the results of Liu Zhenghong's laboratory. In the process of manufacturing or modifying them, these needle birds are all the same, the only difference being their previous levels.
In fact, apart from the needle bird king, the other needle birds are the most powerful beings within their population, with little difference in strength between them. However, now some are alive while others are dead, and the subtle differences in their abilities have emerged; the slightly stronger ones survived.
The two surviving needle birds, including the needle bird king, pecked at their fallen companions' bodies, as if bidding farewell, and also reminiscing.
When they straightened their bodies again, a sense of superiority radiated from them.
They have now absorbed a large amount of ice worm genes. Although these genes are integrated into the original genes of the needle birds, the sheer volume of the new genes has, to some extent, completely mixed with their original genes, creating a new existence. Thus, the current needle birds can be considered a completely new life, one that has fully adapted to this environment.
This place has transformed from a deadly land into the needle birds' home turf.
The two needle birds have not evolved and remain at the fifth level, but the aura they emit far exceeds many sixth-level beings.
Naturally, their changes did not escape Ye Zhongming's notice.
After Ye Zhongming quickly left the Ice Passage with Garan, he immediately cleared away the ice worms clinging to his body and helped Garan free herself from this small pest.
What he had thought while on the ground was indeed correct; the blazing flame combat technique proved to be a treasure for combating the conditions here. Neither the low temperatures nor the ice worms could withstand the combat techniques in this secret realm.
He didn't even need to use any other equipment and successfully passed through the passage.
"Thank you..." Garan found herself in his arms again, but this time she understood it was this man who saved her. If it werenāt for him, even if she exerted herself to activate her equipment and professional abilities to reach this place, she would have lost half her life. At that point, with endless frost beasts ahead and the Ice Passage behind her, it would have been akin to death. In other words, Ye Zhongming saved her; let alone just a hurried embrace through the battle armor, even if he were to go a bit further, Garan wouldnāt have been able to say anything.
The world now is a very casual world.
Of course, it is also a bloody world.
However, as she only said half of her thank you, she noticed the man suddenly turned his head and looked back down the passage, his body tense, preparing for battle.
Garan also turned her gaze to the Ice Passage that had just passed. Because of the arc, her line of sight couldnāt see the other end, but in her current view, apart from the still dissipating ice mist, there was nothing else.
Garan knew Ye Zhongming's strength from Linhai; he was a person who had faced eighth-level life and emerged unscathed, so she naturally didnāt think he was being dramatic. Since he showed signs of tension, it must mean there was real danger behind.
Garan also prepared for battle.
āWhat is itā¦?ā Garan nervously asked, wanting to know what was coming, as the combat methods for mutated plants and mutated animals were different.
But oddly enough, Ye Zhongming didnāt answer her; he looked at the passage with a puzzled expression.
Before Garan could finish speaking, she heard some sounds coming from the passage.
It sounded likeā¦ some large creature was flyingā¦
Garan's mouth widened in shock as she saw the shadows of two huge ice worms emerging from the mist!
She had never seen ice worms this large before, and she immediately gripped her weapon tightly, her body filling with fiery energy, ready to activate the soulfire igniter skill at any moment.