The sound of flesh tearing and chewing continuously echoed in the palace.
As the creature's energy transformed, waves of warmth spread throughout the Giant Ape's body, and its already massive form began to grow at a visible speed.
However, the Black Armored Giant Ape soon discovered that the same growth of ten centimeters now required several times the biological energy compared to before.
The evolved body had a higher quality, with the demand for cell division and flesh growth increasing by about four times. As the flesh and bones grew, the scale armor on the surface also proliferated and thickened.
This also consumed a lot of energy.
Moreover, the pale golden energy that circulated in its bloodstream absorbed and transformed the blood energy under sufficient biological energy, accumulating itself, which also consumed a portion of energy here.
Overall, the growth consumption for the Giant Ape after reaching four-tier was about six times that of three-tier.
Especially the newly emerged pale golden energy after the evolution; it was powerful, but similar to 'Spiritual Power,' when used, it was quickly depleted.
According to the consumption during previous battles and tests, about ten full-force punches of golden energy would be exhausted.
Not bad, the energy demand after evolution didn't increase tenfold; it only rose sixfold. The Black Armored Giant Ape grabbed the beast's corpse and viciously bit off a large piece of flesh, devouring it.
The smallest of the five beast corpses was ten meters long. Even though the evolved Giant Ape had better teeth and faster eating speed, it took half a day to finish them all.
Sufficient energy caused the Giant Ape's size to increase from twelve meters to thirteen meters, becoming even more massive, with the black scales on its surface appearing thicker.
Only at this moment did the Giant Ape have time to summon its attribute page and look at the detailed changes from this evolution.
Name: Jiang Hou
Level: Mid-tier Two
Strength: 151→213
Agility: 72→102
Defense: 39→175
Seal of Inheritance
Beast Form
Bloodline: Black Armored Through-Back Giant Ape [Epic Beast, one-time evolution, current form 13.1 meters]
Bloodline Awakening: World Dominating Power [Transforms blood energy from virtual to real, containing the intent of cracking, with extreme destructive power to shatter energy defenses when applied to the fist]
Talents: Furious Rampage [Anger ignites the blood, stimulating the power hidden in the bloodline, tripling strength without affecting rationality]
Violent Ape Divine Armor [Consumes Bloodline Power fused into the entire scale armor, significantly enhancing defense, temporarily indestructible as if attached with divine armor]
Extraordinary Element: Thorn [2 units, extracted essence from the flesh of Extraordinary Creatures, integrated into the element during evolution, offering a certain probability to acquire thorn-related talents]
Unique Talent: Devouring Evolution
Evolution Point: 49/2000
This evolution, along with devouring the growth from those Thorny Wolf Beasts, pushed the basic strength to surpass two hundred, and the defense soared by more than a hundred.
However, this basic value was slightly less than the Black Armored Giant Ape expected; it originally thought the humanoid form's strength would increase by seventy or eighty points.
Nevertheless, four-tier indeed marks a watershed.
The Black Armored Giant Ape's strength after bloodline mutation was extremely powerful, feeling as if every gesture held a tyrannical power capable of pushing everything sideways.
Besides, the Bloodline Power awakened to ignore energy defenses, at a critical moment in battle, enabling a one-hit-kill effect.
The previous talent of anger flooding the brain also transformed into Furious Rampage. Strength still amplified threefold, but the word 'current' had disappeared, indicating it had become a fixed value.
Moreover, it no longer affected rationality; this was very important.
Along with the newly awakened defensive talent, the black Giant Ape's melee strength increased significantly, capable of ignoring enemy attacks and engaging in fierce combat temporarily.
As for the Extraordinary Element Thorn, it obviously came from that Wolf King Beast.
Compared to the Black Centipede Beast offering eight Extraordinary units, this Horned Beast was considerably weaker in strength.
Rubbish. The Black Armored Giant Ape sneered again internally, then left the palace satisfied, reverting from the beast form.
......
Today, Siyu didn't knock on the door. Returning at nearly six o'clock, Jiang Hou slept until the sun dazzled his eyes before waking up dazed.
"...What time is it?" Jiang Hou shielded his eyes against the sunlight, feeling somewhat harsh, then quickly reacted, "Shoot, it's already so late."
Jiang Hou hurriedly flipped up, changing clothes quickly.
As Jiang Hou opened the door, he saw Qin Siyu crouching in front of a cardboard box in the living room, softly calling, "Little darling, come out quickly."
"Good, come out..."
Beside Qin Siyu stood a middle-aged man with an angular face standing at 1.8 meters, his temples grayed.
Seeing Jiang Hou emerging, the middle-aged man sported a hearty smile, chuckling, "Hou's up."
"...Uncle, you're back."
Jiang Hou first paused, then realized why Qin Siyu hadn't knocked on the door; because today is Saturday.
Speaking, Jiang Hou walked over, somewhat curious, "Uncle, what is Siyu doing?"
"She's calling out the kitty inside, but unfortunately the little guy's shy, has ignored her calling for ages."
Jiang Hou scratched the few tufted hairs sticking up on his head, puzzled, "Uncle, why did you buy a cat back?"
He and Qin Siyu both had school during the day, and he had other things to handle at night; where was the time to care for little animals like cats and dogs?
"Wasn't bought."
Qin Buyi explained, "A few nights ago, the forest behind the mining site became tumultuous, with many pheasants, wild rabbits, and some wild boars rushing out.
"We initially thought it was an earthquake, so immediately evacuated everyone from the mining site, but in the end, nothing happened."
"The next morning when it got light, I took two people to check in the forest. Can you guess what we saw?"
Jiang Hou cooperated, curiously asking, "Uncle, what did you see?"
"We saw all sorts of corpses," Qin Buyi spoke seriously.
"Wild boar, king cobra, pine marten, white fox, goats, minks, lynxes, especially these animals were twice the usual size of their kind."
"For reasons unknown, these animals fought one another, some had their legs bitten off while still gripping their opponent's throat before dying, very tragic."
"This scene startled us at the time."
Qin Buyi continued, "Later, when we moved and inspected the animal carcasses, we found a hole hidden underneath a fox, with a kitty inside."
"That kitty was very cute, and I figured you'd both like it, so I brought it back to the dormitory for two days."
"But this little guy is shy, no one could hold it, only when extremely hungry it would crawl out from the box to eat and drink."
With a laugh, Qin Buyi added, "Now I've brought it back, and it's up to you."
"...we really don't have experience," Jiang Hou felt a bit troubled.
At this moment, Siyu raised her head with suspicion, "Dad, are you sure it's a cat inside? Why doesn't it come out despite my long calls?"
"As I said, it's timid. Why not let Hou try?"
"Okay, Jiang Hou, you have a go."
"...Me? Alright." Seeing Qin Siyu already standing aside, Jiang Hou could only nod, taking two steps forward to squat before the cardboard box.
The box was half a meter large, with a hole on the side.
However, unlike Siyu's soft voice, Jiang Hou's cat-imitating call was heavier, carrying a faint low-frequency hum people couldn't hear.
Rustle rustle!! Just as Jiang Hou called, the box slightly quivered, and then a white head carefully poked out from the hole.
The head resembled a ragdoll, but the cheeks were slimmer, fur snowy white and clean, red at the ear edges, with a tuft of red hair at the tip.
A pair of red eyes like jewels, large and rounded, coupled with gently swaying red fur on the ear tips, exuded an ethereal aura.
Indeed, it's quite beautiful.