Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 296 Late-Stage Second-Tier Rock Horse Warrior, Thousand-Year Wolf Howl

The rich life essence extracted from the evolutionary cells inside the late-stage second-order rock horse behemoth is viscous, almost like a semi-liquid and semi-solid fluid.

After all, the life essence above this level has already been marked with the personal label of an evolved being with the breakthrough of the third-tier king, transforming from life essence into a third-tier origin.

Therefore, the late-stage second-tier Rockhorse evolution agent in Li Hao's hand is the highest-level life essence in the world, and it is also a factor that ordinary evolved beings can directly absorb.

Beyond the third-tier evolutionary origin, apart from beings of the same level, any other first- or second-tier evolved beings, even if they only touch it at close range, will be distorted or directly dehydrated into charcoal due to the terrifying dose of genetic radiation they instantly receive.

Like the Taishan ruins that Lin Feng once explored.

The source of contamination spreading in the underground shelter comes from the demigod body of the evil god Zong Shiyue. Even a single drop of his tainted blood can kill many living beings, and even the aberrant creatures on the periphery dare not get too close.

Lin Feng and his companions barely escaped death thanks to the protection of the Holy Spring Water and the Lord of the Holy Spring. However, it left an indelible mark of spiritual pollution on those who accidentally got close.

If you leave the surface and are exposed to sunlight, and enter a dark and enclosed environment again, you may see the murderous hallucinations flashing before your eyes again, the terrifying scenes recorded in the blood of the gods when the refuge was breached by wolves.

Meanwhile, the Wasteland Wolf Clan, evolved from the descendants of that ancient wolf clan, is about to launch another massacre against Oasis Town.

If this town-level beast calamity is not stopped, and the transport vehicle storing Zong Shiyue's evil god essence in Lin Feng's convoy is destroyed, it could potentially trigger a larger-scale pollution leak.

Even with the scorching purification of the Sun Restriction behind them, the pollution parasitizing and attaching itself to the living organisms will spread to one settlement after another in the wasteland as long as it escapes the vicinity of the Sun Restriction, eventually forming a biochemical catastrophe that sweeps across the entire wasteland world.

Zong Shiyue, who has obtained countless biomass as a base, will return to the human world as a mutated evil god, and then carry out a revenge against the gods who destroyed his transformation and transcendence thousands of years ago.

Therefore, it is especially important to stop the attack of the wasteland wolf pack and lure the wolf leader, Wolf Ao, into making a move.

The only way to get Lang Ao to take the risk is to show him enough rewards to satisfy his insatiable appetite.

That is, a Rock Horse Warrior who has advanced to the late stage of the second tier, comparable to a late-stage Rock Horse Behemoth...

As the late-stage second-tier Rockhorn Evolution Potion was injected directly into Li Hao's heart, along with the newly injected Sublimation Potion, Li Hao's entire body turned bright red within a dozen seconds, and his blood circulation increased several times over.

The sublimation agent first stimulates the pituitary gland, where various reproductive hormones constantly knock and collide with the receptor cells, causing the previously weakened secondary body, which had been cut off, to re-enter a state of excitement.

As blood flow accelerated, Li Hao's eyes became filled with congested capillaries, and the whites of his pupils turned blood red.

At the same time, he gasped for breath, his nostrils flaring as he frantically inhaled and exhaled air, providing the oxygen needed to break down glycogen for the rapidly expanding and contracting muscle cells and the proliferating stem cells within his body.

At this moment, Li Hao was like a bull in a bullring, ready to pounce, his muscles bulging with blood and surging with boundless power.

This made him more irritable and volatile, more aggressive, and more destructive.

As the sublimation potion took effect, the level 26 evolutionary cells within Li Hao's second-tier body began to iterate and evolve into more advanced and powerful morphological structures in order to satisfy the body's fighting desires.

At the same time, the second-stage late-stage evolution agent, injected directly into the enormous heart, began to modify the heart, helping and stimulating the myocardial cells to advance from the original level 26 to level 27.

This qualitative leap caused the heart's beating frequency and blood volume to increase several times over in a short period of time.

This is also one point that Life Farm instructed Li Hao to pay special attention to.

Because of the unique process involved in advancing to the late stage of the second level via the Rocky Horse pathway, it cannot be done orally or by injection as before; instead, it must begin with the extremely important heart.

The heart is the second largest organ in the body after the brain. If the brain is lost, death will occur instantly, and the heart will not be able to stop beating for more than a few minutes.

Although the brain concentrates thoughts and consciousness and controls the whole body, the heart nourishes every part of the body's flesh and tissue. Without the nutrition and excretion brought by blood circulation, even an immortal second-tier body will quickly fall into a collective collapse of cellular autophagy.

Therefore, to achieve the second-stage late-stage evolution, the organ that needs to undergo transformation first is the heart.

At this moment, the myocardial cells in Li Hao's heart have reached a level of twenty-seven.

If the previous engine was a V8, the new heart of the engine has now been transformed into a V12 four-wheel drive system.

Like a giant water pump that can drain the ocean, it continuously draws out the stale blood from the body and pushes it into various organs for filtration and oxygenation, thereby completing blood circulation.

As blood passes through the atria and ventricles of the heart, it also carries the late-stage cells that have completed their evolutionary transformation, which then enter every corner of the second-tier body through the arteries, veins, and capillaries that are distributed throughout the body.

It stimulates and promotes the remaining intermediate-stage cells to work together to complete this transformation.

The spine and the muscles on both sides are the first to be affected.

This part is where the Rockhorn's evolved flesh is located, and it is also the place where the life essence is rich in the body of the Rockhorn warriors who embark on the Rockhorn evolution path.

Along with the heart, it gradually completes the major leap from the middle to the late stage of the second phase.

As Li Hao gradually underwent his transformation, the aura within his body rose steadily. A layer of high-temperature air waves, almost tangible, floated on his body and armor, appearing to distort the surrounding space when viewed from afar, under the refraction of light.

But when his aura reached its peak, he unexpectedly got stuck at the last step, hovering between the mid and late stages of the second tier. There was still an invisible and intangible barrier between him and fully entering level twenty-seven.

Realizing this, Li Hao, with the last shred of his remaining rationality, slowly raised his head and looked at the bishop in front of him.

Upon seeing this, the bishop immediately swung his spear, throwing the left arm, which was raised by the spearhead, in front of the Rock Horse Armor, thus helping Li Hao complete his final transformation.

Without a complete second-tier body, it is naturally impossible to achieve the transformation from the mid-stage to the late-stage.

This principle, even from the first stage, has become an evolutionary law: one must be in full bloom to catalyze all the cells in the body and advance to a new level.

Li Hao immediately took the severed arm.

Although the severed left arm has lost its connection with the main body, the secondary cells inside it remain quite active and can be left for several days without any problems.

If you water it with nutrient solution on time, it can even survive for several years, or like planarians or succulents, slowly evolve into a new individual. It just lacks self-awareness and is just a living body.

This is also the fate of most second-tier evolvers.

Of course, the vast majority will become evolutionary resources for their own kind or other races, but there are exceptions, such as disappearing into no man's land and becoming an empty walking corpse.

Therefore, for second-order beings, once they have reached the limit of their own evolution, the key to prolonging life is to expand brain cells in order to preserve self-awareness as much as possible.

This requires the intake of more evolutionary resources that can stimulate cell proliferation and division in the body, such as higher-level energy radiation, or instinctive events that can be activated in the genes.

For second-order rock horned horses, it's a male-on-male competition to ensure the continuation of the clan's offspring, while for wolves, it's more about hunting instincts.

When hunting large prey, the immense rewards and the risk of death create an adrenaline rush that drives the evolution of wolf packs, transforming them through this primal impulse. Over time, powerful prey of similar size become the whetstones for these predatory beasts to maintain their hunting instincts.

If hunting is not carried out for a long time, the aging of limbs such as wolf teeth and claws is one aspect, but the damage to brain rigidity is even more serious.

At this moment, Li Hao picked up the severed left arm, then tore off the scab from the wound, and pressed the two arms together to reconnect them at the cellular level.

With the completion of his second-tier body, the final piece of the puzzle for advancing to the late second-tier stage was also completed. As Li Hao entered the twenty-seventh level of evolution, the energy he released, along with the excess evolutionary source matter, stimulated the twenty-five-level Rock Horse Battle Armor on his body, transforming it into a twenty-six-level armor.

It can be said that Li Hao at present is the strongest rock horse warrior in the history of the wasteland.

But at this moment, he needs to engage in a fierce battle, to wreak havoc without end, and to vent his inner rage before he can regain his composure after digesting the sublimation potion.

Otherwise, the ever-expanding body and the uncontrollable restlessness would eventually destroy his brain tissue, turning the Rock Horse Warrior into a mad horse and causing him to completely lose his mind.

So, completely dominated by the surging, violent power within him, Li Hao could no longer maintain his last shred of self-awareness and immediately roared to the sky.

A deep, powerful roar erupted from the Rock Horse Armor and from Li Hao's own throat.

Wave after wave, shaking the wilderness!

All the nearby evolved beings felt a shiver run through their bodies, a fear that contracted at the cellular level. After the sound waves swept through their entire bodies, they instinctively wanted to flee.

The Rock Horse Beast needs to release the uncontrollable power within it to reach the summit, while the Wild Wolf Beast needs to challenge any beast that can threaten it to prolong its life.

Li Hao, who is currently emanating the aura of a late-stage second-tier rock horse behemoth, can be clearly sensed within a radius of more than ten kilometers.

If it were an evolved wild beast with a more acute sense of smell, it could detect a strong male pheromone in the air within a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

This is the superior marking their territory, declaring war on other wild beasts, and provoking other behemoths of the same level.

Currently, the Wilderness Wolf Clan, which is less than five kilometers away from Li Hao, has already shown signs of stress.

The other first-tier evolved wild wolves were alright, after all, this was the roar and oath of a late-stage second-tier behemoth. It was already extremely difficult for them to stand firm under the pressure of this strong aura.

If it weren't for the wolf clan's third-tier king beast bloodline, they would probably have scattered like birds and beasts long ago under this roar.

But precisely because they have the blood of the wolf king flowing through their veins, tens of thousands of evolved wild wolves, upon hearing the howl of their prey, the rock horned horse, feel more excitement and anger than fear.

Especially the leader-level giant wolf in the late stage of the first tier, as well as the offspring of Wolf Ao, and the three wild wolf giants in the early stage of the second tier.

In their eyes, the roars and neighs of the rock stags are blatant provocations.

At this moment, quite a few giant wolves were frowning, baring their teeth, and unable to suppress their howls and gaping maws.

With a brutal massacre where flesh and blood fly, they will show the provoking rocky beast who is the true master of this wasteland.

But before the leading, twenty-meter-long giant wolf, Wolf Ao, the current leader of the Wasteland Wolf Clan, gave any instructions, all the evolved Wasteland Wolves could only endure and suppress their instincts.

At this moment, Lang Ao knew in his heart that he could not control himself for much longer.

If Li Hao, having completed his evolutionary transformation on the spot, continues to roar and provoke, sooner or later a giant wolf, driven by rage, will launch an attack.

At that point, the already unsustainable chaotic order will collapse like a dam, and there will be no way to recover it.

Moreover, the chaotic and disorderly attack could easily escalate into a melee, allowing humans to easily repel the beast tide.

At the same time, out of selfishness, Wolf Ao needs to eat the meat of a late-stage second-tier rockhorn horse in order to maintain its peak condition for longer, so as to stimulate its genes, promote the proliferation and division of second-tier cells, and increase its weight.

Most importantly, as the leader of the wolf clan at its highest evolutionary level, it also has a deep understanding of the rockhorse clan, the vital prey upon which the clan depends for survival.

For thousands of years, it has led the high-ranking elites of the Wilderness Wolf Clan deep into the barren lands of the inland wilderness in search of high-ranking rock horse behemoths.

Witness firsthand a grand gathering of rock horses, with up to a hundred second-tier rock horned horses all gathered together.

They engage in a breeding season that lasts for months to perpetuate the superior bloodline of their race.

As more than a dozen mid-stage second-tier male rock horse giants engaged in competition and battle, many late-stage second-tier rock horned horses were born during this period.

However, among the late-stage behemoths already dominated by hormones, only the victorious one can steadily progress into the late stage and mate with the other female rockhorse behemoths to continue the pure bloodline of the rockhorse.

The remaining losers either fell back to the mid-stage of the second tier or died on the spot.

In its later stages, the Rockhorn tribe existed solely for the purpose of perpetuating the tribe.

For evolutionary groups that have not yet reached the third tier, the reproductive factors in their genes still have a profound impact, especially on wild beasts with slow brain development.

Therefore, Lang Ao was very clear at this moment that if the fight on the arena was allowed to continue, whether Li Hao went into a frenzy and caused chaos, or the church monk killed his opponent with a single shot...

The second-stage late-stage Rockhorse Warrior's flesh, evolved from a second-stage late-stage Rockhorse, can only exist for a limited time.

Once this point is missed, even if you can reap the benefits later, you will not be able to obtain the Rockhorn Horse Meat later on.

Oasis Town has successfully laid out a well-laid plan.

Although Lang Ao knew this was a trap, he had no choice but to lead his wolf clan into it for his own benefit.

Thinking of this, Lang Ao immediately jumped up and flew a hundred meters into the air, landing on the mountains.

Then it looked up at the sky and let out a world-shaking wolf howl that seemed to transcend a thousand years.

The roar and howl emanating from the level 29 Primordial Giant Wolf were earth-shattering and reverberated for thousands of miles.

Meanwhile, a hundred kilometers away from Oasis Town, the High Priest of Blazing Sun, having completed his ambush mission, heard the howling of wolves coming from not far away, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up.

Chaos and turmoil are the rules of the God of the Sun.

It is also the best breeding ground for the development of the religion.

(End of this chapter)