Bang!
The ground trembled, and cracks spread like a spider web under the black giant ape's feet.
With powerful force using its legs as stakes and its waist like a mighty dragon, the punch erupted like a cannon, causing the air in front to explode and even forming a transparent shockwave.
Boom!
The cannon-like fist collided with the descending Black-armored Ferocious Beast, and in an instant of contact, the beast's two scythe-like tusks shattered and exploded with a dull bang.
Soon, the massive black arm pierced in like a long spear, penetrating the beast's head as the flesh and blood at the back of its skull exploded.
Boom! As the black giant ape's punch pierced through the beast, its entire 'body' was also fiercely struck by the beast.
Suddenly, the black giant ape's body sank, the ground within a dozen meters trembled, and rocks and soil soared into the sky, forming a wave of shock that spread dozens of meters, raising billows of dust.
Huff, huff, huff, huff!!
Amidst the dust that filled the sky, the giant ape, with its lower body sunk into the ground and its body pressed by the Black-armored Ferocious Beast, panted heavily, the red light in its eyes gradually fading, anger dissipating.
Bam! The giant ape struggled to push off the beast's corpse, climbing slowly out from under the ground.
At this moment, its whole body was soaked in black blood mixed with the red blood of the giant ape, quickly pooling into a bloody puddle at its feet.
The battle was brief, life and death decided in a blink of an eye, but the danger it entailed was the greatest in recent days.
This Black-armored Ferocious Beast's talent should be its speed, with movement speed bursting several times faster than the black giant ape, and the hard, heavy armor covering its body.
The giant ape's full-force punch could overturn a tank, but it only slightly injured the beast's tail.
Not to mention its ten legs, sharper than the twin pincers of the Green Ants, like scythes, was overall far stronger than the current black giant ape.
Unfortunately, this beast relying on instinct met the black giant ape with human-like intelligence.
Taking advantage of the Black-armored Ferocious Beast being unable to alter its body in mid-air, it exchanged injury for injury, unleashing all its power to punch through the beast's head.
However, the black giant ape was also heavily injured in this battle, with its right arm torn by the beast's shattered teeth, skin and flesh ripped open, and many wounds deep enough to expose bone.
Half its ribs broke during the collision, its chest torn by the diamond-shaped horn on the beast's head, leaving three deep wounds a meter long and blood gushing.
But none of this mattered, as long as it won.
Looking at the enormous corpse of the Black-armored Ferocious Beast on the ground, saliva involuntarily dripped from the black giant ape's mouth.
In the twisted dark forest, the injured black giant ape stepped on the beast's body, gripping the edge of a thick shell with both hands, pulling hard.
Roar!
As the black giant ape burst with pain, the thick black shell underneath cracked, and the muscles linked to the shell were torn bit by bit.
Bang! A two-meter-wide, two-meter-long shell crashed to the ground, emitting a heavy, dull thud like steel.
This beast was not only dangerous but eating its flesh was also a hassle; breaking legs, removing the back's shell, decapitating, and gutting it, all took about an hour.
Only then did the black giant ape, salivating, bite into the blackened flesh in front of it.
Rip!!
With the sound of tearing tires, its teeth shredded flesh, and the 'fragrant' energy-rich flesh filled its mouth, crunching as it chewed.
This beast was not in the same class as the monsters previously killed.
After several bites, as the stomach digested, a concentrated warm current several times stronger coursed through, causing the giant ape's cells to divide and compress wildly.
The wounds healed at a startling speed, flesh regrowing, bones rebuilding.
"Such amazing energy." The giant ape's eyes revealed excitement.
It felt like after eating this beast today, its body size would not only swell significantly, but the refined evolution energy might directly meet the evolution requirements.
Eat, eat heartily. The black giant ape bit again, tearing off a large chunk of flesh from the beast's body.
Plop! This bite landed on the beast's main blood vessel, spouting remaining black blood onto the giant ape's face.
Ignoring the blood dripping down its face, the black giant ape focused entirely on its meal; today's meat was chewy, tough on the teeth.
The black giant ape ate for nearly half a day before slowly finishing all the flesh.
Even the broken sharp legs were smashed with a large stone, the meat inside pried out bit by bit and eaten; this nutrition-rich meat could not be wasted.
Huff! Full and satiated, the black giant ape sat on the ground, exhaling bloody breath with a satisfied expression.
So satisfying.
At this time, the giant ape's size had reached ten meters, with its muscles bulging high, fur on its body dense and jet black like steel wires.
This time, its size increased by 'two meters', but it felt like its weight had at least doubled, its whole body brimming with power, like it could punch through a mountain.
Feeling the explosive force inside, the black giant ape moved by will, summoning the attribute page.
The giant ape glanced over the strength growing from 98 to 156, then focused on the giant beast form description below.
Bloodline: Through-Back Giant Ape [Ordinary Giant Beast, ten-meter body size, reached current growth limit]
Talent: Furious Roar
Extraordinary Elements: Armor [8 units, essence extracted from Extraordinary Creatures' flesh, integrates into this element during evolution, with a certain chance of obtaining a defense-related talent.
Note: The more units of the Extraordinary Element, the greater the probability of awakening a talent]
Unique Talent: Devour Evolution
Evolution Points: 92/100
Evolution value surged more than double, just 8 points shy of meeting the evolution requirement, but the black giant ape's attention was all on the newly emerged Extraordinary Element.
Especially the note at the end, an unexpected delight.
The giant ape form's strength was formidable, and its agility wasn't too low for an ape, with the only weakness being defense.
If it could gain a defense talent during the first evolution, the giant beast form would become even more powerful.
Meanwhile, the base attributes of the human form would change significantly, with strength nearly 16 times that of an average person, the human form's level reaching early-tier Two…
Hmm, tier two. The black giant ape was somewhat surprised, not expecting the attribute page to 'update' based on the information it knew.
Huff!!
The black giant ape exhaled a hot breath, suppressing its excitement, looking toward the abandoned building where the Black-armored Ferocious Beast perched.
The beast must have a reason for being there.
With heavy footsteps, the giant ape quickly approached the palace-like building, stone pillars and walls engraved with mysterious runes, their meaning unknown.
The ground was relatively intact, the surface engraved with some mysterious patterns, resembling small grooves, finally converging into a circular array pattern.
But this array was simple, not as complex as the Blood Array that resurrected Jiang Hou; as for its function…
Standing at the edge of the central array pattern, the black giant ape vaguely sensed an invisible flow of energy around.
This energy flowed along the ground's array, purified, then gathered in a three-meter diameter eye-like pattern underfoot, circulating without dispersing.
The black giant ape pondered slightly, then stepped inside.