14: Chapter 14: Trouble Ensued

Lin Sheng glanced at the piece of meat thrown on the Ground, then looked up at the monster in the sky, not acting immediately.

The monster made no move in response.

After tossing the meat to Lin Sheng, it flew away clutching its spoils.

This massive monster lived in the Upper Atmosphere and rarely descended without reason.

A major reason it had been wandering near the Stratosphere lately was its desire to hunt this "Eight Immortals Table."

However, the "Eight Immortals Table" was too cautious, staying underwater all day and refusing to come out.

Combined with the monster's natural repulsion toward the "Eight Immortals Table's" large pool of "vomit," it had never found an opportunity to strike.

Lin Sheng's action of luring out the "Eight Immortals Table" played right into the monster's hands.

Having captured the prey it had long yearned for, the monster was naturally in a good mood.

Because of this, the monster not only overlooked Lin Sheng's previous offense but even rewarded him with a large chunk of flesh.

Of course, the monster hadn't given this meat away randomly.

On one hand, it truly wanted to reward Lin Sheng.

On the other hand, the saliva of the "Eight Immortals Table" had already clumped together within this meat.

...

Lin Sheng was aware of the monster's thoughts.

After seeing the monster leave, he propped himself up and climbed off the Ground.

Lin Sheng didn't immediately use evolution points to repair his body.

Although he currently had plenty of evolution points, his physical strength was different from before, so the evolution points required were naturally much higher.

Since his current situation was relatively safe, he didn't want to waste these evolution points.

Approaching the flesh the monster had dropped, Lin Sheng noticed that the soil around it already showed signs of corrosion.

This phenomenon was absolutely terrifying.

After all, despite that large lake having existed for who knows how long, no signs of corrosion had ever appeared on its banks.

Yet, this piece of meat had only been on the Ground for a few minutes, and the surface was already corroded.

It was clear how terrifying this meat—or rather, the blood of this "Eight Immortals Table"—really was.

Lin Sheng picked up the broken harpoon he had used for fishing earlier and poked at the flesh a few times.

His intention was to observe the meat more closely, but those few pokes led to an unexpected discovery.

A dark green bead, roughly the size of a basketball, suddenly fell out of the flesh.

"Sizzle, sizzle."

As soon as the bead touched the Ground, white smoke began to rise.

Seeing this, Lin Sheng was delighted rather than alarmed.

According to his understanding, if something like a crystal appeared inside a creature's body, it must be the essence of that monster.

Otherwise, what else could it be? A kidney stone?

Besides, given the corrosiveness of this crystal, it didn't look like a stone at all.

Looking at the earth that had already been corroded several centimeters deep, Lin Sheng directly wrapped the crystal and the flesh in mud.

While Lin Sheng believed his stomach could instantly digest these two things, he couldn't guarantee his throat could withstand the corrosion.

evolution points +34,521

evolution points +107,452

The flesh only gave Lin Sheng over 30,000 evolution points, but that crystal provided a full 100,000.

Lin Sheng nodded inwardly; his guess was correct—this crystal was indeed the essence of the "Eight Immortals Table."

However, Lin Sheng couldn't figure out why the monster didn't eat it and instead tossed this essence to him.

[Ding]

[Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the talent: Strong Acid Breath (Natural Grade)]

Hearing the system notification, Lin Sheng, who was pondering the monster's behavior, was momentarily stunned.

He stopped thinking and began to focus on the information about the "Strong Acid Breath" talent appearing in his consciousness.

「Strong Acid Breath (Natural Grade): The Host's body is immune to acidic substances of Natural Grade and below, and the Host can spit strong acid from the mouth.

Note: The strong acid within the Host's body is limited; it can be obtained by absorbing moisture or converted using evolution points.」

After reading the information on the "Strong Acid Breath" talent, Lin Sheng was quite satisfied with it.

After all, the secondary effect of this talent alone made him immune to acidic substances below the "Natural Grade."

And acidic substances weren't limited to just liquid acids.

One could say that obtaining this single talent was equivalent to having both offensive and defensive talents at once.

Thinking this, Lin Sheng decided to test the strength of this talent.

...

Lin Sheng wandered through the Rainforest; his twenty-meter-long body ensured that no creature within a hundred meters dared to approach.

Lin Sheng was helpless about this situation, so he simply flew into the air, aimed at a two-meter-long Giant Scorpion a hundred meters away, and spat.

Three seconds later, Lin Sheng's "saliva" accurately hit the lucky Giant Scorpion.

"Sizzle, sizzle."

By the time Lin Sheng reached the Giant Scorpion, only half of its body remained.

Lin Sheng tossed the remaining half into his mouth and then began searching for the next "lucky winner."

evolution points +76

...

Flying at a low altitude, Lin Sheng suddenly braked hard.

In front of him was a small patch of trees much taller than the surrounding ones.

But that wasn't the point.

The point was that these trees were covered with countless Dragonflies.

These Dragonflies perched on the branches, almost completely covering the tall trees.

Upon discovering these Dragonflies, Lin Sheng landed in the distance.

He moved through the forest, silently arriving diagonally below the swarm of Dragonflies.

Aiming at the densest cluster of Dragonflies, Lin Sheng raised his head and opened his mouth wide.

This time, Lin Sheng activated three talents at once: "Acidic Breath," "Venom Spit," and "Static Electricity."

His intention was to use "Acidic Breath" for the main attack, with "Venom Spit" and "Static Electricity" as support to maximize the damage.

However, when Lin Sheng used all three talents simultaneously...

"Whoosh!"

A dragon of fire, tinged with red and blue, erupted from his mouth. Wherever the fire dragon passed, both plants and Dragonflies began to "spontaneously combust."

The flame, fueled by acid, was like a maggot on the bone; any creature it touched ignited instantly.

Even Lin Sheng, the perpetrator, was caught off guard by this outcome.

Seeing the Dragonflies starting to flee in all directions, Lin Sheng increased the output of strong acid.

With the supply of "fuel," the fire dragon erupting from Lin Sheng's mouth grew even thicker.

However, before Lin Sheng could look cool for more than a few seconds, a sensation from his body told him that his stored acid was almost depleted.

Out of necessity, Lin Sheng ended the use of this new Fire-breathing skill.

Looking at the spreading flames around him, Lin Sheng felt as though he had caused some serious trouble.