Evolution from Carp to Divine Dragon - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Devouring the Mutant Catfish

TL: Etude

As soon as he got close, Lin Hao directly bit at the giant catfish’s belly!

Just like before, as soon as his teeth made contact with its skin, they were deflected.

But Lin Hao didn’t give up and continued to bite!

Due to the heat generated by his Fire Scales, the slime on its body seemed to thicken from the elevated temperature.

This time, when Lin Hao bit down again, his teeth didn’t slip off as before but penetrated its skin directly!

Blood started gushing out instantly!

The giant catfish, jolted awake by the intense pain, began to thrash wildly!

However, Lin Hao wasn’t about to miss this opportunity.

He continued to bite furiously with his sharp teeth.

In a short amount of time, he had torn a massive hole in its belly!

And he kept attacking, biting madly!

Gurgle! Gurgle!

The giant catfish turned to spew out its strange black ink.

But Lin Hao had already bitten into its internal organs!

He pushed his whole body through the bloody hole he had torn in its belly.

The heat from his Fire Scales cooked its belly from the inside!

Its body shuddered and it died instantly.

The massive body began sinking to the bottom.

“It’s done. If it weren’t for that slime on its body, I would have killed it long ago.” Lin Hao muttered to himself.

He wondered how many evolution points this giant catfish would bring him.

He was quite excited now.

“Better hurry and devour it!”

“If I get transported back in an hour, that would be a huge loss.”

Without hesitation, Lin Hao swam to the riverbed, opened his mouth, and began tearing at the giant catfish.

“Tastes pretty good.”

The meat of the giant catfish was firm, reminiscent of chicken.

“At least a hundred jin, maybe even two hundred.”

As he muttered to himself, he devoured it frantically.

Of course, he avoided the organs, fearing they might be poisonous.

He ate quickly, soon leaving behind only a complete fish skeleton.

“That was satisfying!”

Devoured a mutant catfish, gained 3000 evolution points.

“Holy crap!”

“Three thousand evolution points!?”

Lin Hao was shocked when he saw the system prompt.

The previous two mutant creatures he devoured only gave him a few hundred evolution points each.

But this time, he gained three thousand points at once!

Nearly ten times more!

“It must be because the previous mutant creatures had low combat power and small bodies.”

After calming down from the excitement, Lin Hao steadied his emotions.

“There’s still time; can’t waste it.”

Not yet transported back, he swam further ahead.

Soon, he found an area with many common freshwater snails.

Eat!

He devoured them all!

Devouring freshwater snails earned him 5 evolution points.

“Indeed, those invasive species give fewer evolution points.”

Previously, devouring one apple snail only earned him 0.5 evolution points, but devouring a freshwater snail yielded 5 points!

A tenfold increase!

Devouring an adult grass carp earned 90 evolution points.

Devouring an adult crucian carp earned 90 evolution points.

Devouring a juvenile crucian carp earned 20 evolution points.

Devouring…

…

As he continued to devour his way forward, system prompts kept appearing.

The accumulated evolution points steadily increased.

However, after searching the entire area, he found no more mutant creatures.

“Hurry up, there’s plenty of fish here. Let’s use the electric gear!”

As Lin Hao continued swimming towards the area ahead, he soon heard human voices.

People?

Hearing these voices, he paused for a moment.

After swimming a bit further, he saw three men standing in the shallow water, wearing waterproof rubber boots.

One man was holding an electric fishing device, while the other two were using nets to catch fish.

“They’re electrofishing.”

Seeing this, Lin Hao snorted coldly.

Although he was devouring fish continuously, he despised those who used electricity to catch fish.

After all, electrofishing was devastating to the fish population.

Now, with his evolution points increasing, he didn’t bother with small fish anymore since they offered few points and sustainable development was necessary.

Once he had more places to teleport to, he could go back and forth, letting the fish grow before returning to devour them again, heh heh.

Moreover, he didn’t have to eat fish exclusively; other creatures could also be devoured.

Mutant creatures, however, provided the most evolution points.

He needed to find more mutant creatures!

“Old Xiao! Look over there, I think there’s a big fish!”

One young man exclaimed excitedly upon spotting something.

“A big fish?”

As soon as he spoke, the man called Old Xiao quickly walked over.

Holding the electric fishing device, he was about to discharge it into the water.

Splash!

At that moment, a large fish burst from the riverbed, sending water splashing everywhere!

The three men were wide-eyed.

A fish!

A completely black fish!

It was enormous!

From the naked eye, it was nearly two meters long!

Even more terrifying, the fish’s mouth revealed two rows of sharp teeth!

They looked like shark teeth!

“Mother… mother!!!”

The men were terrified.

They dropped their equipment and fled towards the riverbank!

“Run! Run!”

“There’s a monster!”

…

They scrambled up the bank, not even stopping to retrieve their fallen rubber boots, running frantically.

What they had just witnessed was terrifying.

They had never seen such a huge fish!

“Heh, they run pretty fast.”

Watching the men flee in terror, Lin Hao swam in the opposite direction.

Their overturned bucket had spilled, and many electrocuted fish floated on the water’s surface.

Lin Hao opened his mouth and swallowed them one by one!

In a short time, the system’s evolution point prompts increased rapidly.

The rate of increase was so fast that he felt a rush of pleasure with each prompt.

However, before long, his entire body turned into a white light and gradually faded away.

“What a pity, I got transported back just like that.”