"Yes, evolve immediately!"

Zhang Ji willed his response. Instantly, a mysterious heat surged from the depths of his body, spreading through every cell of his flesh. He felt intensely hot, as if submerged in magma or having swallowed a mouthful of the sun's fire essence.

A sound like a roaring river emanated from his body, a testament to the surging qi and blood as injured flesh and blood began to recover.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

Old snakeskin sloughed off, expelling black, foul-smelling impurities. New scales grew at a visible rate, covering his entire body.

But these were no ordinary scales.

The back scales stood erect, becoming vertical, their edges sharp and keen enough to cut through anything. Like dense, diamond-tipped spears, they were a heavy, blood-red color.

Barbed spurs grew from his tail.

The scales there were fine and tough, a fiery red, like freshly forged blades glowing in the night, emitting a chilling metallic sheen.

Rainwater slid silently off them.

This tail was a weapon of slaughter, its sharpness intimidating, capable of piercing any flesh, leaving gaping, bloody wounds.

The king cobra's head scales developed silvery-white horizontal stripes, as if cast from celestial platinum, pulsing with arcs of lightning. The white-eyed wolf king's head was the same, bearing a metallic texture and flashing with arcs of lightning.

He moved his heads, slithering forward, leaving behind mottled snakeskin. A larger, longer king cobra was born, reaching fifty meters in length.

From a distance, it looked like a giant steel python moving.

In his mind, a cold, metallic voice echoed...

"You have completed your eighth evolution, evolving into a Titan Kong Ji Hou Lightning Serpent, Level: Eight Savage Beast."

"Titan Kong Ji Hou Lightning Serpent: Blood-scaled, white-headed, moving with the lightning, possessing the strength to shake the heavens, a body like Vajra, a tail like a divine spear."

"Your scales are harder than Vajra, impervious to fire and water. 98k bullets cannot penetrate them. Every move you make possesses Vajra's indomitable strength. Your roar is like thunder, imbued with the authority of a king."

"You possess two heads and two lives: one head is the king cobra, the other is the white-eyed wolf king..."

Listening to the system prompts, Zhang Ji understood the transformation had revolutionized his strength, making him incomparable to his former self.

The mental prompts continued.

"Special Ability 1: Life-奪奪ing Poison Fangs"

"Special Ability 2: Death Cut (Entangle your prey; your erect back scales will cut it into pieces of bloody flesh, making it easier to eat.)"

"Special Ability 3: White-Eyed Wolf's Taunt (When rolling your eyes, your wolf威威 increases greatly, mentally suppressing your prey. The lower the prey's level, the stronger the effect.)"

"Special Ability 4: Lightning Serpent Movement (When moving quickly, rubbing the two heads together will generate electricity, triggering the Lightning Serpent Movement, like a streak of silver lightning tearing through the firmament, body moving with the lightning.)"

Hearing the prompts in his mind, Zhang Ji's mouth opened slightly in surprise.

"The Death Cut is nothing special, but the Lightning Serpent Movement is almost a divine ability!"

Rubbing the snake's head and wolf's head together to generate electricity could activate the Lightning Serpent Movement, greatly increasing his speed, body moving with the lightning.

Zhang Ji felt excited and let out a long roar.

The snake's mouth and the wolf's mouth roared simultaneously.

"Roar—"

The roar was indeed like thunder shaking the sky; the glass windows of the surrounding buildings shattered. The majestic, deep, and powerful sound suppressed the lightning and thunder in the void, filled with the aura of a king.

In Xichuan Town, all the survivors suddenly felt a chill in their hearts, their souls trembling.

They looked up in horror.

As the lightning illuminated the night, they saw a larger, longer two-headed king cobra climb up the Huatian Building, roaring upwards.

The snake's shadow stretched across the sky, its voice like thunder. The horizontal stripes on its head still radiated electric arcs, seeming to echo the lightning in the void. The blood-red scales shimmered with a metallic luster in the mist, like a giant steel python.

Such a ferocious and terrifying sight was unimaginable, like a prehistoric beast resurrected.

"Heavens! Has that king cobra evolved again?!"

"It killed that terrifying giant wolf! I can't even be happy about it because it's gotten longer and bigger, so it must eat even more."

"Sure enough, the more ferocious you are, the better you survive! I need to become more ferocious too!"

Some people thought this way.

But others wore expressions of fear, disgust, and sullen rage.

"Damn it, damn it all! Why didn't that king cobra die together with that giant wolf?!"

"Neither of them are good! In their eyes, we're all just food! What's there to be happy about!"

"This is just a foreign savage beast, devoid of emotion and humanity. If they are not our race, their hearts will be different. We should find a way to kill it, or Xichuan Town will become its hunting ground!"

Many people thought this way, even the vast majority. They were very calm.

"A tree that stands out in the forest will be felled by the wind. Don't worry, those big shots in the Eastern District won't let it evolve like this."

"According to a few surviving experts, that king cobra is just a savage beast, not someone from Xichuan Town who transformed. As long as we develop snake-killing weapons, we can easily kill it..."

"Believe me, humans are the ultimate predators... especially us Southerners, we eat everything!"

In dark corners, people gestured and whispered, discussing how to eat snake meat to make it most delicious.

At the Heavenly Serpent Gang's base.

A group of people wore complex expressions, some happy and some worried. Their thoughts were the same.

The king cobra was, after all, a top predator, not a compassionate savior or God. They worried about how they would live in the future.

Only Liu Youshan's excited, rat-like eyes gleamed red. Seeing Zhang Ji's imposing presence and clearly increased strength, he was excited and delighted, waving his paws and squeaking.

"Come on, Heavenly Serpent Gang family! Use your claws or tails to raise your drinks and toast the great king cobra!"

The crowd's reaction was lukewarm.

Chen Ping'an, who was born in the year of the Tiger, the black-silk triplet sisters, who were born in the year of the Snake, and Hu San, the black-haired dog, quickly responded.

"Cheers!"

"Cheers!"

"To the great king cobra!"

Liu Youshan scanned the few people with satisfaction and gestured with a smile: "Your kindness to the king cobra will be rewarded!"

His eyes were strange. The few people's hearts skipped a beat. They exchanged glances, their guesses about the king cobra becoming more certain.

Beneath the Huatian Building.

Zhang Ji devoured the Wolf King Buck, gaining a full ten million evolution points, leaving behind white bones, like a mountain peak, shocking to the eye. The bones also bore strange inscriptions.

Very mysterious.

Zhang Ji curiously took a bite of the bone, but didn't gain any evolution points, so he simply left it for Zhu Tiandao to research and analyze.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

His huge body slithered along, his blade-like scales cutting the ground wherever he went. Even the hard concrete or asphalt roads were crushed, leaving clear snake tracks.

"There's still an hour until dawn. That's enough time for me to hunt some more wolves!"

Whoosh~

Raising a gust of bloody wind, Zhang Ji rushed out. In the process of moving, the snake's head and the white-eyed wolf king's head rubbed against each other, generating a "crackling" arc of electricity.

The arc of electricity instantly flowed through his entire steel-scaled body, turning him into a lightning serpent, his whole body filled with arcs of electricity. His speed instantly increased dramatically, like a silver electric current tearing through the night, disappearing in a flash.

Bringing a sound of thunder, body moving with the lightning.

In the distance, in an alley, a giant wolf was fleeing, but with a flash of lightning, it had already been taken away by a gaping maw.

In a hidden underground parking garage, three giant wolves were hiding, but before them went dark, a huge snake's mouth swallowed them together with the car, leaving only a blood-stained Ultraman toy rolling on the ground.

In the weedy wasteland, a group of giant wolves was fleeing, their fur flying backwards in unison.

Leading them was a fifteen-meter-long gray-tailed giant wolf, one of the leaders of the Black Wolf Tribe's hunting expedition, named Samo.

He was also one of Buck's generals, capable of fighting and extremely ferocious.

But at this moment, his eyes were full of fear. He tucked his tail between his legs and fled, while howling and urging the other wolves to run quickly.

"Wolf King Buck is dead! The other leaders are also dead! They were all swallowed by that ferocious king cobra!"

"We must leave this terrible place quickly and return to the Great Wilderness Black Wolf Tribe!"

"Rumble"

Behind them, the void exploded, the bloody wind surging.

Zhang Ji had arrived.

The scales cut through the void, the extremely fast speed bringing a sonic boom, with silver electric currents streaking, body moving with the lightning. Two gaping maws swallowed down from the mist, the wolves being slaughtered and devoured, their screams echoing.

"Whoosh~"

The barbed tail swept across, like a steel spear striking out, with terrifying power. An ancient tree that took ten people to encircle was also smashed to the ground, scattering mud and grass.

Seven or eight wolves were knocked flying, some dying with their brains splattered, some seriously injured on the spot, and others unconscious.

The other wolves fled in terror.

"Go, I'll cover you!"

The leader Samo roared in alarm and anger. A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly turned around and pounced on Zhang Ji, taking the initiative to buy time for the other wolves.

"Leader Samo!!!"

"Don't worry about me, go! Don't let me die in vain. Remember to tell the Great Priest when you get back that we were hunting in the ancient land of the Twelve Divine Kingdom ruins and unfortunately encountered a royal species, all of us sacrificing ourselves for the wolf god!

"Send experts to avenge Buck, to avenge me and the fallen wolf cubs – ah!"

A tail swept over, knocking him down, covered in blood, unconscious on the spot.

Zhang Ji chased and killed the other wolves, sweeping across the wilderness at an extremely fast speed. In the end, he deliberately slowed down, watching several wolves jump into the sinkhole and disappear.

"So, you came from here... Is this below a space-time channel, or is it directly connected to an ancient world?"

Zhang Ji leaned over and stared.