Chapter 845: The Evolution Begins

Rain drizzled as a writhing pitch-black lifeform sat atop a sea of bones, as though the bones that lay beneath it were its throne. When it sensed the formation of a new superior world, it raised its head and looked toward the skies.

"How curious... a massive burst of energy just moments ago, and now a new superior world forming… How long ago was the last evolution into a superior world? A century, three centuries? Forget it: it won't succeed, anyway."

A humanoid figure leaned against a golden mulberry tree. Beneath its feet was scorching earth and soil, and a hundred suns revolved around the mulberry tree's branches.

Ten suns hung in the sky, and as time progressed, the ten suns in the sky descended from the west and landed on the mulberry tree. Ten other suns revolving around the figure's head flew into the sky and toward the mulberry tree, which appeared over the horizon from the east. The mulberry tree itself seemed to have some ability to distort or warp space.

The figure who leaned against the mulberry tree glanced greedily at the sky as it sensed the merger of the two large worlds.

"How many years has it been? Another pig ripe for slaughter, but that direction... that damn fellow Feitian's gotten lucky again."

The nine superior worlds had agreed that they would each be responsible for a certain portion of the third realm and partitioned the worlds evenly between them.

Long ago, the superior worlds had warred with each other in order to compete for the energy released during the formation of a superior world, until one time, a superior king of the realm perished in such a conflict. Only then did the superior kings come to their senses: there was no reason for them to fight to their deaths just for these resources.

Instead, they brokered an agreement that would give them each a plot of land to tend to. They and they alone would be able to claim the superior worlds that formed within their land; none of the other superior worlds would make a move.

Just then, in a world submerged by blood, in which over ninety percent of its mass was a sea of blood, a monstrous creature emerged from its surface. It cast a shadow that seemed to stretch throughout the world.

It looked like a long worm with an unusual head. It had no nose or ears, only a single eye located at one end of its body. One arm grew out of each of its two flanks. The blood-colored eyeball seemed to be able to penetrate the sky.

"Come, Pozhi!" the worm howled.

The sea of blood frothed. A dark red palace rose from its depths, constructed out of bone with an unusual dark red coloring that couldn't be scrubbed off. It looked as though it had been coated in layers of fresh blood.

The doors to the palace opened wide, and a three-headed, six-armed monstrosity clambered out. Its heads each had three eyes and looked like a raging hog. Its hair and beard were made of flame.

Pozhi got down on one knee, showing utmost respect and deference to the worm.

The worm informed it, "A superior world has just formed."

One of Pozhi's heads visibly perked up. "Finally—after an entire millennium!"

That head then sprayed out a burst of fire.

Its left head did the same. "Haha, we can finally feast on more energy!"

Pozhi's right head licked its lips. "It's been far too long since I was on a battlefield. I miss the taste of blood already."

The worm nodded. "Gather a force of ten million xuluo, head to that world, and bring back its energy."

Pozhi's three heads all nodded immediately. "Yessir!"

With a wave of his hands, Pozhi summoned forth a myriad bloody figures from the sea, half of whom had three heads and six arms, and half of whom had three heads, four eyes, and four arms. All were uniformly fierce-looking.

"It's time to fight!" Pozhi announced.

The xuluo who emerged from the sea of blood roared in excitement, so loud the air seemed to vibrate.

Back in the world of the east, the merger of the two worlds continued. More and more runes fell to the ground like rain.

The two worlds rotated around each other, faster and faster as they approached, six-colored light strobing in the sky. Like yin and yang, the two worlds seemed at that moment to be perfectly balanced, to be in unity.

The energy from the merger spread throughout the entire world; the lifeforms within would be its beneficiaries. Their natural talent and physical fortitude would both be enhanced by leaps and bounds.

The lifeforms in both the worlds of east and west glanced at themselves in shock, noticing the changes to their bodies. Those who had been strong became even stronger; those who had been intelligent became even more intelligent.

Even though he was already a disaster-grade lifeform with maxed disaster gene fragments, Zhang Lie could likewise sense his cells furiously multiplying as he received the benediction from the world.

The lifeforms that received the greatest boon were undoubtedly disaster-grade lifeforms like Red Comet and the five-colored dragon. Compared to humans and aliens, their evolution was far more obvious. Red Comet began to molt; its new exoskeleton was still scarlet, but with traces of gold.

Zhang Lie felt as though he was able to sense the possibility of a higher level of evolution beyond disaster-grade from the changes to Red Comet's body—a post-disaster-grade lifeform!

Li Qianlin asked worriedly, "How long will the merger take?"

She had witnessed the merger of the draconian world with the eight other medium-sized worlds, which had finished in what seemed like the blink of an eye. On the other hand, the merger of east and west seemed to be taking far longer.

Although Li Qianlin could sense that the merger process was completely different between medium-sized worlds and large worlds, she was worried that the process would be interrupted midway through.

"At least a day," Zhang Lie replied. "The merger of the draconian world with the others only resulted in an evolution into a large world, but the merger of the worlds of east and west will form a superior world. Furthermore, the world of the east is as large as twenty medium-sized worlds, more than twice the size of the draconian world even after the merger.

"Also, the two worlds aren't merging quite yet—they're evolving into a superior world together first. That evolution will take even more time. Just be patient and wait."

Li Qianlin blinked. This was the first time she had heard that piece of information. "Hold on, what did you say? Isn't Father combining the two worlds?"

"He is, but during that process, this world will simultaneously evolve into a superior world."

"Really?" Li Qianlin murmured in excitement. She had never witnessed how strong superior worlds were for herself—of course she would be excited to find out that her world was evolving into one!