I took and swallowed this soul crystal, but the smell in the air did not change much, so its proportion should not be very high.

Zhang Mu was thinking so, but his hands had already nimbly touched the nightmare worm's corpse. He used both hands to pull the nightmare worms on both sides together, and his two hands flexibly moved in their fat.

Soon, Zhang Mu found the soul crystal with familiarity. After taking it out and taking a closer look, it was indeed similar to the one he had just taken, except for the light and dark colors. Zhang Mu guessed that this should be due to the strength of the nightmare insects. There is also a difference in strength within their own group. The ten nightmare insects that were abandoned just now burned their bodies and burned the soul crystals that had been nurtured in their bodies for so long. It was because of their relatively weak strength that they had to cover the rear of the large group.

However, even though these nightmare insects, which were used as cannon fodder, burned their soul crystals, they were still unable to resist the attack of the obsidian insects.

Zhang Mu thought to himself, if this is the case, why bother resisting in vain? Wouldn't it be better to be a fish on the chopping board? After burning the soul crystal, I still can't escape the fate of being slaughtered. Now that the soul crystal has been burned and consumed, it seems to have lost its luster, and its efficacy should be greatly reduced.

Zhang Mu felt heartbroken when he thought of this. These nightmare bugs were such a waste.

He held a normal soul crystal in his left hand and a damaged one in his right hand. He put them into his mouth one after the other and swallowed them in one gulp. When the energy opened up and flowed freely in his body, he knew that he had guessed correctly.

The energy of the normal soul crystal was enormous, but Zhang Mu could only feel a trace of the remaining energy of the burnt incomplete one flowing into his brain.

He glanced at the remaining twenty-five nightmare worm corpses. The soul crystals of nine of them were incomplete, and the remaining sixteen were normal. Zhang Mu immediately made a decision in his mind.

Eat the incomplete soul crystals first, or eat the normal ones first. Later, the resistance of the soul crystals will deteriorate due to excessive intake. At that time, these incomplete soul crystals will be completely useless.

Zhang Mu was the first to pick

He took out all the incomplete soul crystals from those nightmare bugs whose bodies had shrunk after burning and placed them on the open space in front of him.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, as if he had made some decision. He looked up at the dark night after the wind had calmed down, then stretched out his hand and swallowed the incomplete crystals in front of him one by one.

Although they were incomplete, there were nine of them in total. These nine energies swirled into Zhang Mu's body, sometimes entangled, sometimes separated, and when they gathered together, they moved through Zhang Mu's body extremely domineeringly.

Zhang Mu's face was a little grim, with veins bulging slowly. He had underestimated the power of the superimposed soul crystals. Even if it was incomplete, it was difficult for him to deal with it now.

When he took it for the first time, because he only had one, he felt extremely comfortable, which actually gave him an illusion that this kind of soul crystal should be like this when taken. But he didn't expect that he thought too much.

He laughed at himself in his heart. Fortunately, he had the self-knowledge to not experiment with the intact and normal soul crystals in this way. If he had eaten so many at once, he felt that his brain would not be able to bear it.

It was still within Zhang Mu's tolerance range, so now he was in pain and happy. He felt that his mental strength was slowly increasing at a steady and continuous rate.

The improvement of mental power was rapid. Zhang Mu suddenly opened his eyes. He now felt that he could perceive everything around him clearly. It was not because of his sharp hearing that he was proud of in the past, but because his mental power could slowly spread out around his body. The objects touched by the mental power were the most real.

Now he suddenly had a crazy idea.

He wants to advance to the second level by relying on his mental power, an acquired evolutionary ability!

Advancing to the second level through evolutionary ability is far more powerful than simply evolving through energy accumulation.

Zhang Mu is now somewhat glad that he did not so rashly use the second-order evolution potion directly on himself. If so, he would have missed an opportunity to change himself from the very beginning.

This excitement made Zhang Mu's heart boil.

He has an opportunity to advance by using his awakened abilities. Although it is acquired, it is stronger than most innate awakening abilities.

Zhang Mu knew that this process might take some time, so he stood up and told Yuan Rui to take the mutant wolfhound back with her to find a room and sleep like before.

Yuan Rui was still a little sleepy, because she had not slept well in the first place, and the dream created by the nightmare worm had made her mind tense all the time. As soon as Zhang Mu said that, the fatigue in her body surged up. She told Zhang Mu to be careful and turned around.

When they entered the house, the obsidian worm quietly flew out of Yuan Rui's pocket and silently landed on Zhang Mu's shoulder. It sent a message to Zhang Mu in its mind, "You want to advance? Alone? Any mutant beast can ruin your advancement process. You are really a big shot."

Actually, Zhang Mu wanted to hand over all the control to Blood Vine Lotus when he advanced, but now that Black Obsidian said so, he just had an extra layer of insurance.

Zhang Mu and the Black Obsidian Worm nodded, signaling it to go far away, because after Zhang Mu handed over all the control to the Blood Vine Lotus, it treated all flesh and blood creatures equally and only killed them, including the Black Obsidian Worm.

It would be very interesting if there were no enemies coming and they started fighting first.

The Black Obsidian said that it was not afraid of the Blood Vine Lotus at all, but under Zhang Mu's gaze, it still obediently hid in a quiet corner and began to protect Zhang Mu.

After the Black Obsidian Worm flew away, Zhang Mu raised his left arm and summoned the Blood Vine Lotus. He took out a bunch of first-order elemental crystals and placed them around himself, then directly handed over all control to the Blood Vine Lotus.

The Blood Vine Lotus, having regained its abilities and nature, suddenly expanded. It would not follow Zhang Mu's orders to build a cage, but instead stretched out in all directions. When it passed by the corpse of the nightmare worm, it sucked it dry and stayed around Zhang Mu in this way.

Zhang Mu felt that with the light and dark protection of the Blood Vine Lotus and the Obsidian Worm, he could break through with confidence.

He acted decisively, swallowed two soul crystals on the ground at once, and closed his eyes.

boom!

here we go.

(End of this chapter)