The monsters in the middle of the desert are mostly of the Enhanced Gene Primary Level and Interdiate Level. Yang Xiao is already at the Enhanced Gene Primary Level, so he can deal with the common monsters using the Golden Eagle Bow or the Longquan Spear. When facing monsters of the Enhanced Gene Interdiate Level, he uses the Soul Skill Black Hole Swallowing, or Sweeping Void, or One Finger Splitting Earth.
One Finger Splitting Earth can almost be used consecutively. Sweeping Void can only be used once every half hour. Black Hole Swallowing consus a lot of Qi, and Yang Xiao feels that using Black Hole Swallowing three tis in a row makes his body feel hollowed out and weak, so he can’t continuously use this Soul Skill without limit.
After half a day of fighting, Yang Xiao gradually ford a new fighting strategy. He uses the Golden Eagle Bow when monsters are far away, switches to the Longquan Spear when the monsters approach, and if that doesn’t work, he resorts to Soul Skills like One Finger Splitting Earth, Black Hole Swallowing, or even the most powerful Sweeping Void.
After going through this combination of skills, even monsters that have just evolved to the Enhanced Gene Advanced Level are no match for Yang Xiao.
By noon, Yang Xiao had hunted about a dozen monsters. Hunting monsters alone was indeed inefficient, but now he could freely unleash his skills without worrying about the safety of Huang Wen and others.
Yang Xiao ca to an oasis in the desert, where there was a small river and several small puddles around it.
"It seems that the desert environnt has completely changed. Perhaps it won’t be long before the whole desert becos an oasis. The invasion of the alien civilization is not entirely useless, huh."
Talking to himself, Yang Xiao found a place to sit and then took out a sandworm from his Space Ring.
This sandworm had evolved to the Enhanced Gene Interdiate Stage, and its skin had a layer of pale gold.
Yang Xiao took out his sword, cut a piece of the at, and started chewing. His body still needed to eat daily to maintain normal strength; otherwise, he would feel hungry.
According to the Genetic Store map he checked before leaving, he was not far from the next Genetic Store stronghold. He planned to use the Transmission Array when he reached the stronghold to return to Nanmu City and put the monster carcasses from his Space Ring into the Black Bottle for refining.
It was indeed inconvenient not to carry the Black Bottle with him, but for safety reasons, he had to bear with it for now.
After resting for a mont, Yang Xiao suddenly heard a familiar sound of horse hooves from afar. Looking towards the source of the sound, he saw a Fla Horse, as red as fire, running towards him.
"Hey, isn’t that the Fla Horse owned by Liu Yiyi from the Dongli College of Magic City?"
Since Liu Yiyi left last ti, the whereabouts of the Fla Horse had been unknown, and Huang Wen and others deeply missed the horse, even wanting to claim it for themselves.
Then, Yang Xiao heard a long cry of a Giant Eagle from the sky "Ah—". He looked up and saw a small black dot following the Fla Horse from above. As the Fla Horse got closer, the Giant Eagle in the sky beca clearer and clearer.
"Isn’t that the Giant Eagle that Gong Yu saved in the desert?"
The horse and eagle maintained a certain distance, slowly approaching the grassland where Yang Xiao was.
In front of Yang Xiao lay the carcass of a sandworm, nearly forty ters long. The Giant Eagle in the sky saw it and suddenly got excited, flying towards Yang Xiao.
Yang Xiao hurriedly got up to greet them.
The Giant Eagle beca even more excited upon seeing Yang Xiao, as it had beco quite familiar with him since Gong Yu brought the Giant Eagle along with Yang Xiao and others. The Giant Eagle had often received food from Yang Xiao. Whenever he threw food to Huang Wen’s Giant Eagles, he would also give so to Gong Yu’s Giant Eagle.
"Ah—"
The Giant Eagle let out a joyful cry and approached Yang Xiao.
Yang Xiao reached out to stroke the Giant Eagle’s wings. The Giant Eagle didn’t refuse, but its gaze was clearly fixed on the sandworm carcass on the ground.
Yang Xiao chuckled, knowing the Giant Eagle wanted to eat. He picked up the Longsword in his hand and imdiately chopped off a 2-ter-long segnt of sandworm carcass and tossed it to the Giant Eagle.
"Eat up!"
"Err—"
With a shriek, the Giant Eagle gently flapped its wings, its gigantic claws stepping on the sandworm carcass on the ground, starting to tear and gnaw at it frenziedly.
When the Giant Eagle was feasting, the Fla Horse stood a short distance away, casting a wary glance at Yang Xiao and then setting aside its gaze upon the sandworm carcass under the Giant Eagle’s feet, displaying intense envy in its eyes.
"Holy crap, have horses turned into carnivores now?"
Yang Xiao had a thought and, gripping the sword, he chopped off another piece of sandworm carcass and tossed it to the Fla Horse.
The Fla Horse snorted indignantly, galloped a few ters away, then turned to face Yang Xiao.
"Don’t you want to eat at? Go on then, eat it. Don’t worry, I won’t kill you."
It seed as though the Fla Horse understood Yang Xiao’s words, looking at him with so hesitation.
At this mont, the Giant Eagle, busily devouring the sandworm flesh, lifted its head and called out twice to the Fla Horse, apparently communicating sothing, after which the horse gave a low hum and then bowed its head to blow a jet of fla at the sandworm flesh.
Yang Xiao was instantly baffled. What in the world was the Fla Horse doing? Could it actually be craving a barbecue?
The Fla Horse kept spouting flas, occasionally kicking the sandworm flesh to flip it over, and soon enough, the scent of roasted at began wafting through the air.
The Fla Horse stopped exhaling flas and began to tear into the grilled sandworm at with relish.
In Yang Xiao’s heart, a million alpacas stampeded, all saying that horses and dogs are the most human-like; yet this Fla Horse, when it ca to eating, it almost ca close to matching humans. If it kept evolving, would it beco a spirit?
The Giant Eagle had a great appetite; after finishing a piece of sandworm at, it kept looking at Yang Xiao with incessant squawking, apparently having been hungry for a number of days.
Finding food around here wasn’t an easy task for the Giant Eagle, and it seed it had probably been starving for a while.
Yang Xiao cut another generous slice of the sandworm carcass and threw it to the Giant Eagle, who let out a delighted shriek and started tearing at the at.
On the other side, the Fla Horse had also finished eating and was looking greedily at Yang Xiao.
Without a word, Yang Xiao cut and tossed another piece of the sandworm to the Fla Horse.
And so, both the eagle and the horse devoured Yang Xiao’s entire sandworm.
The Giant Eagle was already familiar with Yang Xiao, and after eating its fill, it beca even more affectionate towards him, not rejecting any of Yang Xiao’s actions and virtually treating him as a friend.
The Fla Horse initially was sowhat resistant to Yang Xiao; when Yang Xiao approached, it would stop eating and look at him.
"Easy, don’t be afraid. I won’t hurt you. Let’s be friends, okay? Your forr friend, Liu Yiyi, has gone back and won’t co here anymore."
The Fla Horse seed to miss Liu Yiyi, and upon hearing Yang Xiao ntion her, it proudly neighed, as if expressing a sense of longing.
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