Starting as an infant, with parents who are blond-haired delinquents?

As the lowest level of the monster food chain, the screaming chickens are no match for any other monsters. Therefore, in order to quickly improve their strength, they can only choose to devour their own kind when they have no other way to do so.

Furthermore, this cannibalistic behavior, aside from a few isolated cases, is not usually widespread within screaming chicken colonies. Rather, it often originates from the colony leader, under absolute hierarchical suppression…

With other races of monsters on the outside and the leader of his own tribe eyeing him covetously on the inside, he was besieged on all sides and caught between a rock and a hard place.

Therefore, they can only gamble their hopes on the border between humans and monsters, but humans will not give them any good treatment either.

Although their innate combat abilities are much weaker than those of other demonic beasts, or even almost non-existent.

However, what makes the Screaming Chicken so unique is its high level of intelligence, which has become one of its defining characteristics.

The only manifestation of this is in their ability to communicate through language. Unlike other mythical beasts, which only develop their intelligence and spiritual awareness after reaching the seventh rank, thus evolving the ability to understand and master other languages, such as human languages.

They often reach this level by the time they reach the fifth rank. Therefore, in terms of intelligence, they have a significant advantage over other demonic beasts.

Unfortunately, wisdom is insignificant in the face of absolute power, and their wisdom is not enough to help them transcend this class.

In this mountainous region, the weakest among them are still universally reviled.

Fortunately, being in an area teeming with hostile monsters, this fifth-tier screaming chicken is undergoing a transformation from fifth to sixth tier.

This is the result of it devouring all the screaming chickens that survived in the entire vast and boundless Monster Mountain Range.

Some of these were "found".

The meaning of "picked up" here is that the screaming chickens are killed by other monsters, but their crystal cores and bodies do not contribute to the strength of other monsters. Therefore, most monsters simply kill them as a cruel hobby and a means of venting their anger.

Their remains and crystal cores are usually discarded ruthlessly and carelessly, and then the chickens search for and devour them.

However, given this situation, the number of physical cores he could obtain from his own race was still far too small, so he had no choice but to sacrifice his own family and take matters into his own hands.

So another portion of what he consumed consisted of the screaming chickens of his own kind that he had personally killed.

As the original leader of the Screaming Chickens, Chicken One should have been leading the entire group of Screaming Chickens to survive and try to gain a place for their race in the Monster Mountain Range.

But it didn't do that, because it knew... that weak races, no matter how much they grow, will inevitably end up being used as experience points by others. And these worthless creatures don't even deserve to become experience points for others.

However, they are actually able to promote each other, and under the same type of crystal core, they can help each other to quickly improve their strength. From their bloodline, the Screaming Chicken Leader Chicken One has always had a signal flowing through it.

Breaking through the sixth rank is an absolute watershed moment for them as screaming chickens.

From the long river of history, the information flowing in their bloodline can often be perceived by leaders of certain ethnic groups, who can discern the wonders contained within lower and higher ranks.

Only after reaching the sixth rank will their bloodline truly activate its power, thus achieving a reversion to their ancestral form.

It is said that this is because their bloodline contains a trace of the Vermilion Bird's genetic molecules.

Since ancient times, the Vermilion Bird, a mythical beast, has been unable to reproduce, but it can spread its own power.

This force, in human terms, is the gene molecule.

These unique gene molecules belonging to the Vermilion Bird can usually cause other genes to mutate, so over time, the places where the Vermilion Bird has stored its power happen to be other demon beasts.

Then, over the course of history, through genetic mutations, other monsters, in the process of reproducing, experienced varying degrees of genetic mutations in their offspring.

Over time, through the fusion and mating of blood from different races, one branch gave rise to a strange and monstrous race called the Screaming Chicken.

Therefore, the bloodline concentration of a leader is usually the highest among other monsters of the same race. Within the bloodline of their leaders, one can sense the allure of so-called ancestral power.

Returning to one's ancestral bloodline means that reaching the sixth rank allows one to fully activate their bloodline and obtain the power of their ancestors, even if these ancestors were merely among the very first to reproduce and not the Vermilion Bird…

However, possessing even a trace of the Vermilion Bird's power, it is not a pipe dream to make a comeback in the Monster Mountain Range.

Therefore, apart from Chicken One, the leader of the screaming chickens, the other screaming chickens didn't actually have that level of bloodline concentration and couldn't sense the information being transmitted through their bloodlines. Thus, they were unaware of the possibility of killing and devouring each other…

It wasn't something I was particularly persistent about; it was just something that happened occasionally.

Unlike the ferocious and brutal chicken, over the past few decades, it has searched the vast and boundless mountain range, covering hundreds of thousands of kilometers...

They wiped out all the screaming chickens belonging to their own flock...

The screaming chickens on the mountain either died or fled. Because the Monster Mountain Range was not far from the border between humans and monsters, many screaming chickens had no way out and were forced to flee to the border between humans and monsters.

Begging for a glimmer of hope.

In recent years, the number of screaming chickens encountered near the border has been decreasing because the number of screaming chickens near the border is already small.

Basically, everything became nutrients for the chicken.

Over several decades, it progressed from the third rank to the peak of the fifth rank.

This is impossible for a normal screaming chicken; only its behavior of constantly devouring its own kind could have allowed Chicken One to maintain such a high-speed breakthrough.

In the cramped cave, a chicken covered in green feathers lurked furtively, regarding the crystal core hidden among its feathers as a precious treasure.

"After going through countless hardships, I've finally found where you, Chicken Sixteen, are hiding. All my efforts haven't been in vain..."

The chicken couldn't help but laugh, then let out a soft squeak, its sharp beak opening and closing wildly.

This signifies that it is filled with boundless excitement and exhilaration at this very moment.

The green on the feathers seems to be changing...

This is because it deliberately dyed its entire body of feathers the same green as the mountains in order to hide itself and not be easily found by other monsters.

It's easy to imagine how much thought and effort it has put into hiding all these years, trying to avoid being discovered by other monsters—all for the sake of survival.

As long as it survives and continues to devour its own kind of screaming chickens, once it breaks through to the sixth rank, its inner bloodline tells it that it will no longer need to fear other races of demonic beasts…

Even the king of the Monster Mountain Range, the seventh-tier Poisonous Serpent King, no longer frightened it; this was the absolute confidence that its bloodline gave it.

"I was too naive back then. One wrong step cost me decades to make up for it..."

We shouldn't have alerted them in the first place. We should have taken advantage of their rest to wipe them all out in one fell swoop, then slowly devoured them...

Instead of taking them down one by one, they discovered our plan and fled. Searching for them over the years has been incredibly troublesome…”

Chicken One could no longer hide its smile. It looked up at the sky and crowed, whether out of regret or excitement at having achieved its goal, it was hard to tell. Back then, it had attacked its own people one by one.

Then some of the clever screaming chickens smelled danger and chose to escape. The chickens had no choice but to find the screaming chickens that had escaped in order to increase their strength.

Otherwise, it would be far from meeting the conditions for advancing to the sixth rank.

As the saying goes, perseverance pays off. After secretly searching almost the entire Monster Mountain Range, it finally found the last Chicken Sixteen hiding on the mountain. As a fourth-tier level Chicken Sixteen, it was precisely the one Chicken One relied on to achieve its final breakthrough.

Chicken One is currently at the peak of the fifth rank, just one step away from completing the final breakthrough.

This final step, which would likely require decades of cultivation, can be accomplished in just half a day using this fourth-tier crystal core…

"Once I successfully break through to the sixth rank and obtain the ancestral power of this rare bloodline, I will raze this entire mountain range to the ground!"

Suddenly, Chicken One gritted its teeth again. It had had enough of living like mud in the ground or a rat crossing the street, only able to survive by endless hiding.

Its feathers and the green on its head have served as its camouflage for decades, and it has had enough of it all.

"I want to restore my body color to the noble yellow of a screaming chicken. I want to take away the throne of the Viper King. How dare a mere ordinary bloodline-level scoundrel sit on the throne of this Monster Mountain Range?"

"I will also kill all the demonic beasts in this mountain range—no, only the male demonic beasts. The remaining female demonic beasts will become my tools for procreation!"

With near-manic laughter, Chicken One was completely immersed in its post-breakthrough state. The deaths of all its people didn't cause it, as the leader, much remorse.

The idea of ​​procreation is nothing but nonsense. The offspring produced by interbreeding between different races need to withstand the test of time; it's not something that can be done at will.

Chicken Yi merely left behind female demon beasts to satisfy his own selfish desires.

Its full plumage suddenly fluffed up from its wings, and the power contained within the fourth-tier screaming chicken crystal core gradually flowed into the surface of its body.

Then it penetrates deep into its body.

Subsequently, it could clearly sense that the constraints imposed on it by the sixth-tier level were becoming increasingly loose.

This means that it is very close to the true sixth rank. Therefore, with the effect of such a whole crystal core, Chicken One is confident that it can directly help it achieve the true sixth rank strength and the true peak of the Monster Mountain Range!

In that instant, it could no longer restrain its power and strength. A boundless aura of power burst forth from the narrow, dark cave, whose entrance was hidden by many obstacles.

In the past, this would have been disastrous. The leakage of one's aura and power would have attracted many covetous demonic beasts, which was a major taboo.

But now, it is only one step away from the sixth rank and the bloodline reverts to its ancestral state. In this state, what fear can it still have?

All of this is the message being conveyed by the blood vessels within the body!

Unbeknownst to them, this unique and powerful energy attracted many surrounding monsters.

They were gradually drawn to this force, curious and greedily salivating...

But at the very moment they got close, they hesitated...

This power has increased dramatically, and it seems that this group of fourth and fifth-tier demonic beasts is not something they can withstand...

boom!

Chicken One has already absorbed nearly one-third of the crystal core's power, and it is only half a step away from the sixth rank!

Then it stopped hiding anything and with a loud bang, it shattered the entire cave, revealing its yellow body and clearly telling them about its noble lineage!

[A screaming chicken? How could this be? Such terrifying power! Is it about to break through to the sixth tier?]

【Run away! 】

Suddenly, all the demonic beasts scattered, their bodies frantically fleeing in all directions. Facing Chicken One, who was about to complete its breakthrough, they no longer displayed the composure and condescension they had shown towards the Screaming Chicken before…

"Hehehe, none of them will escape!"

The sharp, strange cry brought Chicken One's emotions to a peak.

Meanwhile, on the other side of Earth, Zhang Chaoqiang had completely digested the mild medicinal liquid and was able to absorb the fourth-order screaming chicken crystal core he had in his hand in a short time.

Holding it in his palm, Zhang Chaoqiang first prepared to observe the progress of the progress bar before deciding whether to use the stealing technique.

Unfortunately, the original fourth-order crystal core only had half of its power left. Even if Zhang Chaoqiang absorbed it completely, it would probably only remain at around 85%.

"In that case, theft is the only option..."

Zhang Chaoqiang wasn't sure if this rare item even existed in the world, so he used [Steal]...

Chapter 195 Shout it out loud?

Zhang Chaoqiang stared at the progress bar in front of him…

[Screaming Chicken Crystal Core Progress Bar: 83%]

From around 80% onwards, the process became extremely slow, which is why he had to deduce that even if the entire absorption were completed…

It probably wouldn't even reach 100%, so he didn't hesitate and resolutely used...

[Theft]!