"hiss!!"
The poisoned green-scaled python kept struggling, trying to break free from the Qingmu parasitic seeds, but as time went on, not only did it fail to break free from the parasitic seeds, but its body became weaker and weaker.
"Bang!!"
A moment later, under the combined effects of the parasitic seeds and poisoning, the unruly green-scaled python finally fell down.
Seeing the Green Scaled Python being defeated by Qing Mu, the King Kong Bear beside him immediately ran forward excitedly, smashed the Green Scaled Python's head with one palm, and began to gnaw on the corpse of its former opponent.
This sudden scene made Qing Mu slightly stunned. Although he had long known that there was no harmony among the soul beasts, the decisiveness of the Millennium King Kong Bear still surprised him.
Then, Qing Mu stroked his chin and looked at the Millennium King Kong Bear gnawing on the Green Scaled Python's corpse and said, "It seems that the cruelty of the competition between soul beasts is even more intense than I originally expected, at least among these mid- and low-level soul beasts."
Qing Mu is not a murderer. If it is not necessary, or if he takes the initiative to find and obey the soul beasts like the Thousand-Year King Kong Bear, Qing Mu will often spare their lives.
Qing Mu originally did not plan to kill the green-scaled python directly, but instead planned to let it act as a guide.
But since the Millennium King Kong Bear has already killed it, forget it. I can just find another one later.
As a human being, Qing Mu naturally wouldn't feel anything about the death of an ordinary soul beast.
They are just soul beasts. If they die, they die. There are not many other things in this forest, but there are still quite a few soul beasts.
"Eh~ What is this?"
Suddenly, Qing Mu looked at the Millennium King Kong Bear and his pupils shrank suddenly.
In front of him, he saw that the body of the Millennium King Kong Bear was growing slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it had grown by several centimeters in a short period of time.
The King Kong Bear ate very quickly. In just a few minutes, he had eaten most of the Green Scaled Python's body, and his body had become a full circle larger than before.
At this time, Qing Mu let out a long breath, and he seemed to understand something.
For a long time, there has been endless debate as to whether the age of a soul beast reflects its true age or its cultivation level.
If it is their real age, then the age of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King and the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm is obviously not up to a million years. One relies on devouring a large number of soul beasts to advance, and the other relies on the ten thousand year old ice marrow. Both have reached a level that does not belong to their real age.
But if it is cultivation, it cannot explain why some carnivorous soul beasts, which clearly hunt frequently, do not see much growth in their lifespan over the years.
Especially for some high-level soul beasts, its age is really its age.
But now, through the example of the Millennium King Kong Bear, Qing Mu had an idea. Perhaps soul beasts can only improve rapidly when they devour soul beasts that are older than themselves.
However, if one devours a soul beast younger than oneself, the effect will be minimal unless one is like the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, who devours countless soul beasts and completes the accumulation of quantitative changes.
"Burp~"
After eating the corpse of the green-scaled python, King Kong Bear burped.
Inside its body, the flesh and blood of the Green Scaled Python is still being digested. Once it is completely digested, its lifespan should increase significantly.
However, just when King Kong Bear was happy about the increase in his age, a voice came and suddenly made him shudder.
"Have you finished eating?"
Qing Mu looked at King Kong Bear and said calmly, "After you finish eating, take me to find the next soul beast, otherwise..."
"Da na!"
Bulbasaur appropriately lashed the two vine whips to the ground, and a muffled sound suddenly rang out at the scene, the threat implication of which was self-evident.
Seeing this, King Kong Bear immediately nodded like pounding garlic, and then ran quickly into the distance.
In the following time, King Kong Bear took Qingmu and Bulbasaur to almost all the territories of the surrounding thousand-year soul beasts, but they were all just ordinary thousand-year soul beasts, which Qingmu was not satisfied with.
The oldest one was a three thousand year old centipede. It was originally a good opponent for Qing Mu, but its IQ was too low and it could not be recycled at all. In the end, it was killed by Bulbasaur.
"Looks like we need to go further into the forest."
Seeing this situation, Qing Mu sighed helplessly and said.
Then, Qing Mu glanced at the Millennium King Kong Bear lying on the ground like a dog and shouted, "You can go now. I don't need you anymore."
Upon hearing this, the Millennium King Kong Bear suddenly widened his eyes and looked at Qing Mu in disbelief.
This big devil actually let me go so easily?
Seeing this, Qing Mu raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Why? Do you still want to follow me?"
The Millennium King Kong Bear quickly shook his head and slowly left while observing the changes in Qing Mu's expression.
It wasn't until the Millennium King Kong Bear left Qing Mu's sight that Qing Mu said in silence, "This King Kong Bear is so clever that it doesn't look like a Millennium Soul Beast at all."
Generally speaking, it takes at least ten thousand years for a soul beast to have an IQ close to that of humans, but the King Kong Bear that Qing Mu encountered achieved a similar effect in just a thousand years, which makes it an outlier.
"Dana, dana~"
At the same time, Bulbasaur has recovered to full health through the rooting trick and expressed his will to continue fighting to Qingmu.
Qing Mu smiled slightly as he felt the overflowing soul power in his body and the high-spirited Bulbasaur.
"It's rare to see you so interested. Let's move on. I heard there's a forest king in this forest, perhaps a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast!"
After saying that, Qingmu and Bulbasaur continued to walk towards the depths of Palu Forest.
As he continued to go deeper, Qingmu also encountered many powerful soul beasts, such as the three thousand year old pink cat, the enchanting fox, the four thousand year old thunder bird, the green light mantis...
As for these soul beasts, Qingmu naturally had some friendly exchanges with them on combat techniques. The levels of Qingmu and Bulbasaur also increased rapidly in the process.
Time flies, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye.
On the river bank, a four-thousand-year-old black water turtle was lazily basking in the sun. Two thick purple vines broke out from the ground, like two long spears, piercing the turtle shell on its belly.
In an instant, the Black Water Turtle let out a painful wail. Although the defense of turtle soul beasts was much stronger than that of ordinary soul beasts, the turtle shell on its abdomen was not as strong as people imagined. Facing this sudden and powerful attack, its defense was still broken.
A large amount of purple energy invaded its body along the vines, but was blocked by the water energy in the Black Water Turtle's body.
"As expected of a Black Water Turtle, it's not so easily poisoned."
Then, the purple vines retracted, and two figures walked out from the woods nearby. They were Qing Mu and Bulbasaur, who had transformed into Bulbasaur form.