In the dim waters of the underground Cave, as the evolutionary light dissipated, a terrifying monster struggled free from the surrounding spiderwebs and emerged from the water.

Its head resembled a toad, yet it was the size of a house, and its dark green skin was covered in huge lumps, from which an nauseating viscous liquid seeped out, glowing with an eerie light under the faint illumination.

Its triangular head was held high, and a pair of lantern-sized eyes bulged out, with blood-red vertical pupils burning with savage and greedy light.

It opened its massive mouth, revealing two rows of sharp, inwardly curved fangs, each as thick as an arm, with black, foul-smelling liquid dripping from between its teeth.

As soon as it dripped onto the ground, it made a “sizzling” sound, corroding small pits.

The monster's body coiled like a giant python, nearly fifty meters long, its pipe-thick snake body covered in a layer of scales that shimmered with a cold white light; each scale was the size of a pot lid, incredibly hard, like armor.

These scales rubbed against each other as it moved, emitting a “rustling” sound.

The wounds it had sustained from its previous battle with the Fifth-Order River Earl Insect had also fully healed.

Huge Bat Snake Beast wings extended from its back, spreading out to a hundred meters long, like two giant black sails.

The wing membranes were covered with visible blue blood vessels, through which eerie purple blood flowed.

Sharp bone spurs grew along the edges of its wings, like sharp blades, easily tearing through the air when flapped, producing a piercing whistling sound.

Its tail was slender and flexible, with a sharp, scorpion-like stinger at the tip, shimmering with a deadly cold light; the stinger stored a large amount of venom, and a single sting could instantly poison its prey.

The Bat Snake Beast, strengthened to Fifth-Order, had completely transformed, now revealed nakedly before Zhou Qi’s eyes.

Zhou Qi looked up at the colossal creature before him, finally understanding how ordinary people felt when watching monsters in Ultraman movies.

Apostle: Fifth-Order Bat Serpent Beast

Rank: Intermediate Lifeform

Species: Bat Snake Beast

Genes: Intermediate Bat Snake Beast Genes

Life Essence: Carbon-based life

Talents:

Four-Star Talent:

Lethal Venom Saliva: Can spray black venomous saliva from its mouth; the venomous saliva possesses super strong corrosiveness and toxicity; once it touches the body, it will rapidly rot and die.

Three-Star Talent:

Mysterious Snake Body: Extremely flexible body, while possessing strong toughness and recovery ability.

Two-Star Talent:

Silent Flight: Greatly reduces the sonic boom generated during flight, and can resist the drag generated during flight, increasing flight speed.

Infrared Perception: Can use thermal sensing to detect the presence of other organisms.

Sonar Positioning: Emits ultra-low frequency sound waves, and can locate other organisms based on the sound waves.

Life Strength: 31

After reading the introduction on the light screen, Zhou Qi was quite satisfied with the Fifth-Order Bat Serpent Beast; it was just that its size might make it difficult to enter the Geocentric World.

Thinking of this, Zhou Qi opened the Evolution Space, seeing that the teleportation platform within the Evolution Space had also reached 10 square meters.

Fortunately, the Fifth-Order Bat Serpent Beast had a snake-like body, so as long as it coiled up a few more times, it could still be teleported together.

While contemplating, Zhou Qi opened another new function acquired by the Evolution Space, the Talent Pool.

As soon as it opened, the light screen before him changed to a new interface, and four glowing talent slots appeared before Zhou Qi.

They were:

Thunder Manipulation: Five-Star Talent, requires 30 billion Evolution Points.

Mind Transfer: Four-Star Talent, requires 2 billion Evolution Points.

High-Frequency Fluctuation: Five-Star Talent, requires 24 billion Evolution Points.

Blood Qi Shield: Five-Star Talent, requires 50 billion Evolution Points.

Zhou Qi suddenly realized that this so-called Talent Pool was similar to a shop in a game, and it refreshed daily.

Thunder Manipulation was indeed good, already considered a supernatural ability, but unfortunately, it required too many Evolution Points. Zhou Qi shook his head and sighed.

The Blood Qi Shield was even more outrageous, requiring a full 50 billion. According to its description, it was a talent that formed a shield-like protection on the body based on the creature's Blood Qi energy level, which was very suitable for large-bodied creatures.

Seeing that there was nothing he needed (mainly because he couldn't afford it), Zhou Qi stopped paying attention. For now, the priority was to prepare for the Geocentric World.

............

In a flash, three days passed quickly. During these three days, Zhou Qi’s younger sister, Zhou Xia, returned home, and the family was finally reunited.

Hearing his younger sister, Zhou Xia, say that she was about to start an internship and planned to go to the provincial capital, Xincheng, to look for a job in a couple of days.

Zhou Qi directly said that going to Xincheng was not as good as staying in his hometown, as the nearby White Snake Mountain Insect Farm was very good now, so he directly asked Wang Yufei to arrange a job for Zhou Xia, completing her employment directly.

With this, Zhou Qi finally felt relieved. No matter how the world changed in the future, he was confident in protecting his family's safety around White Snake Mountain for now.

............

March 21, 2017

Current Evolution Points: 3.45 billion

Inside the Underground Base, Zhou Qi floated in the air, his dependents all prostrated on the ground, looking at Zhou Qi from various corners, as if gazing at a great deity. At this moment, he was like the God of all beings.

Zhou Qi's gaze sharpened, and he said solemnly, “Gentlemen, set off, to battle!”

Under the dark night, at the mountainside of White Snake Mountain, a sealed cave was opened, and strange-shaped, large monstrous Insects emerged from the cave like fish leaping out of water, forming a long dragon-like procession.

Like a disciplined army, they were governed by the elite dependents of their respective races, quickly marching towards the Huangshi Mountain Range.

Along the way, there were no obstacles, and not a single creature dared to make a sound, fearing to attract the attention of this army. It was truly a case of “When I do not speak first in spring, which insect dares to make a sound!”

In just a moment, they arrived at the hidden canyon in the Huangshi Mountain Range. At the very front was a lifeform resembling a combination of a crocodile and a Tyrannosaurus Rex, which was Uka.

Uka, who frequently campaigned in the previous era, was unsurprisingly appointed by Zhou Qi as the commander of this battle, and he issued orders to the other dependents to obey Uka's command.

Uka ordered a few Six-Order Four Fiend Insect Soldiers to clear away the rocks blocking the cave entrance, then dispatched a hundred-man squad composed of elite Six-Order Four Fiend Insect Soldiers as the vanguard team.

As soon as the order was given, a Six-Order elite Four Fiend Insect Soldier beside him took the lead and rushed into the underground passage, followed quickly by the rest of the Six-Order Four Fiend Insect Soldiers behind him.

After a good while, Uka continued to issue orders for the rest of the dependents to follow one by one. The massive team took a full two hours to all enter the underground passage.

Uka was the last to enter, instructing the few Four Fiends Insect Soldiers left outside to reseal the cave entrance to avoid being discovered by humans.