Published: February 12, 2025
Seeing the golden glow emanating from the pair of weapons, many people in the monitoring room showed envious expressions.
Even after a few years into the apocalypse, despite these individuals being the bosses of their respective factions, golden equipment remained rare.
Moreover, these were two identical golden weapons, likely part of a set.
Golden... set.
This further elevated the rarity of this equipment to another level.
"I really underestimated Nine Dragons; I only thought he had a strange assassination technique before, but it seems he has some good stuff," Wen Yan stroked his chin.
This was a habit he developed during peacetime when he had a beard, but now, during the apocalypse, his body had returned to a youthful state, and such symbols of maturity in early life or old age in later life had all been shaved clean.
"You forgot about his battle beast, that level eight mutated earthworm," Alamos reminded Wen Yan.
The battle beast was indeed a part of an evolver's strength.
However, Wen Yan shook his head.
"This big guy looks very intimidating, but it's not a main combat battle beast, rather, it's an auxiliary battle beast."
Auxiliary?
Upon hearing this, the others looked over, clearly not agreeing with Wen Yan's assessment. Whether it was the mutated earthworm's massive body, its sharp mouthparts at both ends, or the visibly toxic bodily fluids it secreted, all indicated that it had considerable attack capabilities.
Wen Yan felt a bit proud, crossing his arms in front of him, adopting a leader's inspection posture.
"Nine Treasures, this earthworm of Nine Dragons, is a castrated life form," he said, glancing around at everyone. "Since you are all scientists or biologists, or at least renowned doctors, you should know what happens when there is a gap in evolution levels between the main body and the battle beast."
The people here naturally understood, even ordinary evolvers knew.
Backlash, this was what evolvers who raised battle beasts feared the most.
No matter how docile the battle beast, as long as there was no strong contract binding it, there was a chance of backlash occurring. The ways it could manifest included but were not limited to fleeing, attacking, killing, or even reversing roles to become the master.
Being able to naturally become master and servant like Ye Zhongming and the earth yellow pill was rare. Even Ye Zhongming, who had been lucky after his rebirth, had only one battle beast of that type.
Other evolvers without powerful scrolls had to face this problem after obtaining a battle beast.
"Castrated doesn't refer to gender but to capability," Wen Yan said, his expression becoming more serious. "This big earthworm has a very powerful ability called—child of the soil. As long as its body is underground and surrounded by soil, it can continuously absorb power from it, allowing it to gain evolutionary strength without participating in combat."
The people around were shocked, somewhat frightened by this ability.
This was natural evolution, or rather, effortless evolution. They just didn't know how fast this energy absorption was. If it was fast enough, it could be a domineering ability.
"The absorption speed in this manner is naturally not as good as devouring other life forms." As if knowing the doubts in everyone’s minds, Wen Yan explained, then quickly turned the tables.
"However, if it absorbs soil that has been soaked in the blood and flesh of evolved life forms, then the speed becomes very fast."
The others fell silent, turning their gaze to the screen where the earthworm had once again lowered its body and was hissing at Xia Bai in the sky.
Everyone felt a sense of greed.
The evolutionary conditions seemed somewhat restricted, but in reality, they were very easy to achieve.
In the wild, battlefields filled with mutated life forms were everywhere. Even in places unknown to humans, large-scale conflicts among mutated life forms occurred daily.
It was possible for hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of lives to perish in one go.