Zhou Qi could not help but feel a stir in his heart, thinking, "What happened?" He lightly moved his feet and followed.
All the dependents around seemed to have received the same command, moving in unison towards the largest cave in the center, which was the one from which the Giant Serpent King had emerged.
Zhou Qi's thoughts stirred, and his body directly flew up, rushing into it.
A Ten-Order Firefly was directly carried by Zhou Qi's Mental Energy into the cave, and its soft white light instantly illuminated the cave brightly.
A strange glimmer deep within the cave caught his attention.
The light emanated from the cave wall, carrying a mysterious yet soft texture, completely out of place with the gloomy environment of the Cave.
Zhou Qi's heart stirred, and he walked towards the cave. As he drew closer, he found that the cave was not deep, but the sight within greatly astonished him.
A huge, irregularly shaped object lay quietly in the depths of the cave. Its surface shimmered with a warm luster, as if composed of countless stellar fragments, and it faintly glowed with a hint of flesh and blood.
The object looked fresh and tender, with subtle textures on its surface, like the veins of some ancient life, exuding a unique aura of life.
A strong premonition surged in Zhou Qi's heart; he realized that this thing might be a living lifeform.
Zhou Qi slowly extended his hand, gently touching this jelly-like flesh and blood. A warm and soft power flowed through his fingertips, as if life was communicating with him.
This power invigorated his spirit, and his sense of fatigue instantly dissipated significantly.
The dependents, meanwhile, gathered around, looking at this strange tai sui meat, their eyes filled with greed and hunger.
Zhou Qi could feel that this thing contained enormous energy, perhaps hiding countless secrets.
Immediately, Zhou Qi gave an order to a Fourth-Order Army Ant, telling him to open his mouth and eat a bite of this thing to see what effect it would have.
This Fourth-Order Army Ant had long been unable to resist; if Zhou Qi had not previously told him not to act on his own, these dependents would have already begun devouring this meatball.
Now that Zhou Qi had given the command, he could no longer hold back and began to pounce on this giant, faintly glowing meatball.
His powerful mandibles bit off a small piece of the giant meatball's skin, and his sharp mouthparts swallowed it in just a few bites.
After swallowing, this Fourth-Order Army Ant glowed faintly and then retreated without further action, as if he had eaten his fill.
Zhou Qi secretly clicked his tongue in amazement. Just a tiny piece of the meatball had satiated this Fourth-Order Army Ant. The life energy contained within this meatball was simply too high.
No wonder so many strange serpents could reproduce here; it seems this meatball served as their food.
Zhou Qi walked forward, driving all the dependents back, and looked at this irregular piece of flesh and blood, as large as a millstone and faintly glowing.
As if by a ghost's prompting, he reached out his hand.
"Drip, do you want to consume 1,000,000 Evolution Points to upgrade the planet-level lifeform tai sui meat to first-order tai sui meat? This enhancement requires consuming one plant enhancement slot."
"planet-level lifeform?" Zhou Qi quickly opened the light screen to confirm if he had read it wrong. It was just that the Evolution Points required for this enhancement were too high.
And this seemingly fleshy mass, how was it considered a plant? Zhou Qi couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it.
Suppressing the excitement and the pain in his heart, he began the enhancement.
"Drip, 1,000,000 Evolution Points consumed. The tai sui meat has been enhanced to first-order tai sui meat. Congratulations, Host, you have gained Elementary intimacy with the first-order tai sui meat."
The tai sui meat's size expanded, already two circles larger than before, and its faint glow became even brighter.
Previously, the luster on its surface seemed to be composed of countless stellar fragments; now, after enhancement, a star mark appeared on its skin, and all the other scattered stellar fragments disappeared.
"Drip, 2,000,000 Evolution Points consumed. The tai sui meat has evolved to second-order tai sui meat. Congratulations, Host, you have gained Intermediate intimacy with the second-order tai sui meat."
The tai sui meat expanded its body again, and at the same time, the star patterns on its skin became two.
......
"Drip, 8,000,000 Evolution Points consumed. The tai sui meat has evolved to fourth-order tai sui meat. Congratulations, Host, you have gained Advanced loyalty with the fourth-order tai sui meat."
At this point, the tai sui meat was already the size of a bed, with 4 star patterns shimmering on its skin.
Evolution Points ran out after enhancing to Fourth-Order, with only over 9,000,000 remaining now.
Zhou Qi linked his Mental Energy to the tai sui meat, clearly sensing the fourth-order tai sui meat emitting a Mental Power fluctuation named hunger.
After flying out of the cave, Zhou Qi looked at the piles of strange serpent corpses on the ground and ordered the Fourth-Order Spiked Horned Beetle to act as a sapper, beginning to carry the strange serpent corpses to feed the fourth-order tai sui meat.
One by one, the strangely shaped strange serpent meats, carried on the backs of the Fourth-Order Spiked Horned Beetles, climbed up the stone wall.
"Plop, plop..." From the dark, boundless underground lake, a series of sounds echoed.
Zhou Qi turned his head to look, as if something was emerging from the water in groups.
Applying Mental Energy to his eyes, Zhou Qi instantly saw humanoid creatures on the lake surface. Their long arms and legs resembled frog's feet, and they each had a giant frog head. Each was the size of an adult, and even more terrifying, they held weapons resembling harpoons.
Zhou Qi's expression turned grim. This should be a humanoid race that already uses tools!
They were swimming towards the Cave by the stone wall. Their current goal must be the strange serpent corpses.
Zhou Qi's Mental Power surged, materializing to press down on a dozen or so frogmen in the water, rendering them immobile.
The frogmen, held down by Mental Power, turned their eyeballs to look at Zhou Qi floating in the air in the distance, and their eyes became filled with fear.
While in the water, they took the opportunity to kneel and pray in worship.
Upon seeing this, Zhou Qi withdrew his Mental Power. The dozen or so frogmen felt the pressure on their bodies, which had been like Mount Tai pressing down, instantly dissipate.
They exchanged glances with each other, then knelt and worshipped in the direction where Zhou Qi was floating.
Zhou Qi felt more than a dozen faint golden strands of Power Of Faith emanating from these frogmen, directly pouring into his Mental Inner Scenery.
Vaguely, Zhou Qi's Mental Inner Scenery expanded by a few points.
Seeing this, Zhou Qi connected his Mental Energy to several frogmen.
"God, it's God, the great Frog Ancestor, we have seen the deities from ancient history."
Feeling the Mental Power fluctuations of the several frogmen caused a ripple in Zhou Qi's heart.
In this unknown underground Cave, there were humanoid frogmen calling him a deity, and even a deity from ancient history...