Chapter 19 Hunting, Er Gou

"Is evolution to proceed immediately?"

"Yes!"

Zhang Ji was evolving in the courtyard of the Niu Niu Le Farm. A mysterious force emanated from the depths of his flesh, and a wave of numbness washed over him. His snakeskin sloughed off in a rhythmic pattern.

A larger king cobra emerged from the discarded skin. At its neck, flesh tore and scales writhed as a wolf's head gradually formed. It shook its head, testing its new form, and howled at the sky.

The imposing roar sent shivers down the spines of the cattle, sheep, and pigs in the distance.

The wolf head possessed all the features of a wolf.

Its ears stood straight, its fangs were stark white, and its expression was ferocious. However, its head was covered not in fur, but in dense, dark-brown scales. Its eyes were a chilling white, glowing with a scarlet light in the night.

It was unmistakably the head of a white-eyed wolf.

White-eyed wolves are extremely rare creatures. Their appearance signals the rise of a king within the wolf pack, a king more savage than any other. They can battle fierce beasts, their white eyes naturally radiating a predatory light.

People often use the term 'white-eyed wolf' to describe an ungrateful wretch, proof that their viciousness and treachery are no mere rumor.

At this moment.

Zhang Ji possessed two heads. One was the king cobra he had always been, and the other was the newly formed white-eyed wolf king head.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

He twisted his body.

New scales grew, the dorsal scales a dark brown, even more muted, with an air of solemn majesty. They were arranged diagonally, shimmering with a cold, metallic luster.

The scales on his torso and tail were narrow, white bands edged in black, conveying a sense of power. The scales on his tail were particularly dense, like a divine weapon's iron hook, and a gentle flick produced a crackling sound in the air.

His body length reached thirty-five meters.

A metallic voice echoed in his mind...

"You have evolved into a two-headed Titan giant cobra, level: seven fierce beast."

"You now possess two heads, two lives. One head is that of a king cobra, the other the head of a white-eyed wolf king. You possess both the king cobra's venomous nature and the white-eyed wolf king's ferocity. You will be the overlord of snakes, devouring all living things!"

"Special skill 1: Deadly Venom Fangs (can kill any creature below level nine with poison); Special skill 2: Death Coil."

"Special skill 3: White-Eyed Wolf's White-Eye Taunt (when rolling his eyes, wolfish power greatly increases, capable of mentally suppressing prey; the lower the prey's level, the stronger the effect)."

Listening to the prompts in his mind, Zhang Ji gained a clearer understanding of his power.

Especially the newly emerged white-eyed wolf king head, which greatly increased his combat strength.

"White-Eye Taunt..."

Zhang Ji pondered, then suddenly slithered towards a herd of yaks in the distance. Several yaks tried to flee in terror, but his white-eyed wolf head immediately rolled its eyes at them.

A bizarre scene unfolded.

The yaks suddenly froze, their eyes vacant.

Zhang Ji seized the opportunity and swallowed one whole without effort. Yak flesh and blood swirled between his fangs, and his eyes glowed with a light of delight.

"My hunting methods have become even more powerful!"

Zhang Ji raised his noble heads high, one the oval head of a king cobra, the other the head of a white-eyed wolf king. The two heads were menacing, the four eyes scarlet, making him appear especially terrifying and sinister.

At this moment, Zhang Ji had transcended the ranks of fierce beasts and resembled a monster.

Just then.

The ears of his wolf head twitched. He suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps approaching from a great distance.

Although the approaching creatures were cautious and their steps were light, the white-eyed wolf king's hearing was exceptionally keen. Zhang Ji instantly picked up the anomaly in the night.

"Whoosh~"

He stirred up a foul wind and quietly left the Niu Niu Le Farm, hiding in a swampy mudflat outside, his scarlet eyes watching the distance.

In the distance, a horde of beasts emerged from the wilderness.

They moved with light steps, approaching the Niu Niu Le Farm in the fog. In the night, the beasts' eyes glowed green, amber-gold, and scarlet.

Creatures with scarlet eyes are inherently more savage than their peers.

Zhang Ji was one such creature with scarlet eyes.

The beasts moved silently, organized and disciplined, surrounding the Niu Niu Le Farm.

Behind them stood three colossal monster beasts, each over fifteen meters tall: a Taipan great evil python, a five-tailed Danghu chicken, and a giant fierce Suanni.

Like commanders of an army, they sat in the rear, their eyes dignified and steady. Their massive forms loomed in the mist, directing the horde of beasts to slowly approach the Niu Niu Le Farm.

In the swamp.

Zhang Ji's mouth watered. He resisted the urge to charge out, his eyes fixed on the three leaders.

"These three have all evolved to level five. Especially that giant fierce Suanni, which is approaching level six. Rumor has it that it is the fifth son of the dragon. I wonder which zodiac dragon was so lucky to have beastified into a Suanni, a ferocious beast."

"Its body flows with ancient blood, no less potent than Wu Zhan's three-tailed armadillo."

"If I could devour that thing..."

Zhang Ji's snake eyes and wolf eyes both gleamed with scarlet light.

But they weren't close enough. He wasn't confident he could swallow all three in one go. He patiently awaited the best moment to strike.

Finally.

"Roar—"

At a certain moment, the giant fierce Suanni roared, ordering the horde of beasts to attack.

Instantly.

The horde charged, the rumbling of their hooves shaking the wilderness, churning the fog and making the earth tremble as if an earthquake was occurring.

In the front ranks were the strong, sturdy, and thick-skinned cattle and pigs, acting as front-line tanks.

Transformed from those born in the years of the ox and pig, their heads butted forward, their horn-like protrusions directly collapsing the ten-meter-tall wall and charging into the farm with a rolling aura of savagery.

Nimble rats, agile chickens, and swift monkeys and rabbits served as assassins, darting onto the roofs of buildings and houses to lie in ambush.

Fearsome tigers, powerful dragons, venomous snakes, and vicious mutated dogs acted as warriors, directly executing a powerful breakthrough in the center.

This meticulously planned siege, full of human-like intelligent arrangements, fully utilized the characteristics of each monster beast to eliminate the king cobra that plagued them.

However.

They charged in with great momentum, only to find mutated cattle, sheep, and pigs running about in panic, with no sign of the giant king cobra.

And on the ground lay the remains of a giant snakeskin.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak~"

A rat discovered the snakeskin, and not just one. There was another in the cattle pen.

It issued a warning.

"Everyone be careful! That foreign king cobra is definitely lurking nearby. This is its lair!"

The crowd hurriedly searched, on guard.

Seeing the twenty-five-meter-long snakeskin on the ground, still radiating ferocity, everyone felt a sense of horror and dread.

A woman transformed into a ewe walked up to the snakeskin and sadly realized that she wasn't even as big as the giant python's head. That is to say, it could swallow her whole in one gulp.

"This is that thing's old skin. It just molted once, so it must be even stronger and longer now!" a golden-haired tiger reminded them, fear in its eyes.

Its form reached ten meters, and its golden fur resembled a burning golden flame. It was very imposing and strong, one of the strongest among the top dozens, aside from the three leaders.

But at this moment, its four legs were trembling uncontrollably.

It had never seen Zhang Ji and thought everyone was exaggerating the rumors.

It had followed out of curiosity tonight, but seeing this giant snakeskin, it suddenly regretted wading into these troubled waters.

"I shouldn't have come!"

Seeing everyone searching around, its eyes darted, and it pretended to search the periphery, quietly slinking away from the back door with its tail between its legs, hiding in a small forest in the distance.

It suddenly discovered a rustling sound in the forest. There was also a golden-haired wolf dog crouching and hiding, who knew how long it had been there.

"Brother you?" The golden-haired tiger curiously gestured, inquiring.

"This humble one is Li Youde, zodiac dog. How may I address you, brother?"

"Little brother's zodiac is tiger, named Lu Tao. Meeting is fate, how about we bide our time here together for a while?"

"Great minds think alike, let's huddle together!"

The fog was thick. In the small forest, a tiger and a dog, shoulder to shoulder, lay prone in the grass, quietly watching the distant Niu Niu Le Farm.

They didn't realize that in the swamp just a dozen meters away from their side, a thirty-five-meter-long Titan giant cobra was lurking, silent and still.