I'm not just human!

"Gotcha!"

The moment the lightning-shaped humanoid embraced the subterranean creature, it suddenly expanded into a giant net of lightning, trapping the creature within.

"Tegl, now's the time!"

Perhaps because Tegr was rather reckless, Sanders not only trapped the subterranean creature but also took charge of tactical command, fearing that Tegr might miss the opportunity.

But now, it is Xia Fa who has transformed into a saber-toothed tiger.

The moment Sanders embraced the subterranean creature, Xia Fa understood. He pushed off with both legs, his truck-like body soaring into the air, and with the force of gravity, he leaped down, slapping down on the subterranean creature with both hands.

Just as the underground creature was trapped, Xia Fa's enormous tiger paws arrived, slamming violently onto its body.

pat!

Its six insect legs could not withstand such enormous force and were crushed simultaneously, the sound of them breaking even sounding like a single, exceptionally loud noise.

With a soft "plop," its body was crushed, looking at it like a spider being trampled by a tiger, with off-white sap splattering everywhere.

Neither Xia Fa nor Sanders were surprised by the result. Although the subterranean creatures were strong, under normal circumstances, they were only equivalent to whale-level mutants, and some were even much weaker than whale-level mutants.

Therefore, it would be strange if these two whale-level mutants, working together, couldn't defeat this subterranean creature.

Xiafa took a deep breath through his shiny black tiger nose, and his body quickly transformed back into human form. His yellow and white fur shrank back into his skin, and his large pores healed instantly.

As for Sanders, he also transformed back from his Thunder human form into the blond, freckled youth.

“I didn’t expect this, Teglü. Your tactical coordination has improved a lot.” Sanders looked Shafa up and down. “This was probably our best performance yet.”

"Right?" Xia Fa smiled, feigning a simple and honest expression.

Although he didn't know if his ability to travel back in time at any time would expose him, Xia Fa decided to be cautious and keep it hidden.

Therefore, he always kept in mind that he was playing Tegrus.

Upon thinking of this, he glanced discreetly at the back of his right hand, and sure enough, there was the hourglass pattern, though the gray mist of time within it had only passed by less than one percent.

"It seems the time allotted for the 100-meter dash this time is quite generous..."

Xia Fa was quite surprised, after all, last time, when the same amount of time was spent, about one-tenth of the time mist in the hourglass had already passed.

In other words, this time, the 100-meter sprint exercise was given ten times more time than the last time!

For some reason, Xia Fa felt a little relieved after discovering this.

This time, without Sanders's earnest urging, he chose to take the lead and step into the cave.

Sanders followed behind him, raising his right arm and swiping two fingers of his left hand across his tactical watch.

"We've advanced about fifty kilometers, and then after digging through the last two kilometers of sand, we should reach the outside of the mother nest. How we infiltrate will depend on the situation on site—"

puff!

He was only halfway through his sentence when his slightly thin body was suddenly lifted up.

It was a sharp blade, like the segments of an insect's leg, that pierced his chest from behind, and blood splattered onto the back of Xia Fa's neck, still warm.

Without hesitation, Xia Fa lunged forward, instantly creating a distance of dozens of meters before turning around to look.

Sanders was suspended in mid-air by the sharp blade, struggling violently. His body seemed to freeze in a movie, sometimes transforming into lightning and sometimes returning to flesh.

The sharp, brown insect-like legs with black spots seemed to suppress his ability to transform his body into an element.

In an instant, Xia Fa's mind raced, and he realized what they had encountered.

The only thing capable of suppressing the elementalization of the whale-level mutant's body is... a subterranean creature comparable to a demigod!

"Teguru, don't worry about me, run...run..."

boom!

Blood trickled from Sanders' mouth. He had barely managed to utter those words when the sharp, brown insect legs suddenly twisted and trembled, shattering his body into pieces.

His flesh and organs were scattered throughout the cave, and in Shafa's mind, a fragment of memory from Tegru involuntarily surfaced.

It turns out that Teglü and Sanders have been best friends since childhood, otherwise they wouldn't have acted together.

Sanders got married just last year, and his daughter was born this year. She's less than two months old, and both his wife and daughter are very dependent on him as their father.

Before the subterranean creatures launched a massive invasion of Caligia in their spaceships, Sanders planned to visit several more planets, mine shiploads of mutated crystals, and use the proceeds to buy a large house and provide his daughter with the best environment.

But now, he is dead.

An overwhelming sadness welled up from the bottom of his heart; it was Tegl's instinctive reaction.

Xia Fa composed himself, forcing himself to stay calm, and using the sunlight streaming in from the cave entrance, finally managed to clearly observe the appearance of this strange subterranean creature.

This strange subterranean creature's body was actually a pool of slime. The brown insect leg segment that had just pierced and cracked Sanders had now turned back into slime and shrunk back into its body.

It looked up and glanced in this direction, its slimy body transforming into the form of a cheetah, ready to give chase.

Xiafa, however, reacted even faster. After clearly observing the physical characteristics of this alien subterranean creature, it immediately chose to enter its fully mutated form.

Then, he turned around and ran into the depths of the tunnel without hesitation!

After all, the alien subterranean creatures are equivalent to demigods! The one I've transformed into through time travel is just a whale-level mutant, I have no chance against them!

In fact, even in the extraordinary era, whale-level extraordinary beings under normal circumstances cannot defeat demigods. Not everyone can be like me, who can kill demigods at the eagle level.

Therefore, Xia Fa's choice was—to run!

If I get killed by this strange subterranean creature, then this 100-meter run for physical training will be considered a failure, and I won't be able to train again for at least two days.

At this critical moment, as he was about to join the children of the true gods in hunting down the transforming Silver Cleanser, Xia Fa could not afford such a loss.

Therefore, he had no choice but to run, since the cave entrance was blocked by that strange underground creature, and running might give him a chance to survive!

Boom!Boom!Boom!

A tremor came from behind. The strange subterranean creature, which looked to be made of nothing but slime, was surprisingly heavy. The burrow behind it collapsed, and the tunnel in front of it didn't look like it would last much longer either.

Fortunately, the saber-toothed tiger that Xia Fa had transformed into was extremely fast when it ran at full speed, and it managed to maintain a certain distance.

He dared not feel fortunate at all, but only ran for his life while trying his best to think about how to further develop the mutation of this saber-toothed tiger.

This method was forced out during the last battle against the [Gods' Nemesis] when they were on the verge of death. Mutations can be developed indefinitely. Xia Fa doesn't know if there's an end to it, but at least until he reaches the level of a true god like the Sun God King, there is probably no end to it.

In other words, even if it is just this rare "Sabertooth Tiger" mutation, in addition to the initial in-depth development of the "completely mutated form", it can definitely be developed to a deeper level.

Once successfully developed, the improvement could be far greater than signing an ordinary secret agreement; it's estimated to be at least equivalent to signing a high-level secret agreement.

That would mean that he could immediately upgrade from a whale-level mutant to a demigod mutant and directly kill this alien subterranean creature!

However, there is still one problem...

"After all, my soul has temporarily entered Tegeru's body; I didn't travel through time and space in my original form. And the in-depth development of the mutation likely depends heavily on one's own potential and talent. If Tegeru's potential had already been exhausted..."

Despite this concern, attempting to further develop the mutation in a life-or-death crisis is arguably the only option at present.

Therefore, Xia Fa had no choice but to run away while trying his best to squeeze out the mutations from the saber-toothed tiger.

He had only run a few hundred meters when the two scimitar-like teeth on his upper jaw suddenly grew a long section, almost equivalent to half a spear.

But immediately, the giant tooth shrank back and returned to its normal appearance.

Immediately afterward, the moment he lunged forward, his forepaws sprouted countless serrated teeth, but just before landing, those teeth reverted to their original shape.

"No, no, none of them will work..."

For the first time, Xiafa experienced the difference between talents, or more precisely, the difference between the talents of his own body "Xiafa" and this "Tegru".

You should know that he originally possessed six god-level mutations, but he was able to fully develop them all in an instant.

Now, he is controlling Tegr's body and trying to develop the rare mutation of "Sabertooth Tiger" in depth, but he has failed several times.

If it were his own original form, the mere "Sabertooth Tiger" rare mutation could be developed to 100% in the blink of an eye, potentially making him a Dominator-level mutant on the spot!

Suddenly, Xia Fa, who was running away, had his body hair grow several times longer and thicker, but then it immediately began to thin and shrink back.

Just as he was about to witness another failed attempt at deep mutation development, the alien subterranean creature suddenly accelerated and launched a surprise attack from dozens of meters behind him!

Xia Fa immediately sensed it, and a chill ran through him.

He had long suspected that the speed of this alien subterranean creature couldn't possibly be on par with Tegl, who was just a whale-level mutant, but he had no other choice but to escape.

Now it seems he was right. This strange subterranean creature deliberately lured him in, until he had nowhere to escape, and then suddenly accelerated to launch a deadly attack!

Almost instantly, the alien subterranean creature pounced, two insect-like limbs emerging from the slime and slashing down.

Fortunately, the failed deep mutation development just now had made all the hair on his body several times thicker, which actually withstood the slash that could have severed his body.

With a loud bang, Xia Fa was not cut in half at the waist, but instead became the one who bore the enormous force of the slash and was sent flying backward.

A metallic taste filled his throat, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, discovering that all the bones in his body were shattered, and he couldn't even get up.

"Could it be that this 100-meter dash for physical training is going to fail...?"

"I didn't even make it to the final hundred meters into the heart of the nest..."

Xia Fa's gaze narrowed slightly, a surge of immense resentment welling up within him.

The strange subterranean creature pounced again, giving him no chance to catch his breath before truly finishing him off.

beep--!

A pure white beam of light descended from the sky, completely enveloping the alien subterranean creatures suspended in the air.

The intense, high-temperature beam of light quickly reduced this arrogant, alien subterranean creature to ashes. Despite possessing demigod-like strength, theoretically no one in this world should have been able to defeat it in a single blow.

The pillar of light disappeared, and a tall, resolute-looking, and handsome man appeared. He turned his head and looked at Xia Fa.

A warm and reassuring smile, like the sun, immediately appeared on the man's face.

“Brother, don’t be afraid. I am Helios, a senior deacon of the Elemental Mutation Association. Lie down and don’t move. I can heal you.”

Chapter 412 Traveling with the Sun God King! It's so pleasant!

Helios?

Whether before or after his transmigration, Xia Fa was quite cultured, just like the readers. He was not only proficient in physics, biology, materials science, chemistry, medicine, etc., but also had some knowledge of various mythological lineages around the world.

Therefore, he immediately recalled what "Helios" meant.

In Western mythology, when people mention the sun god, they often immediately think of "Apollo".

In fact, Helios was the true first-generation sun god, and because of his power of "harmony," he was hailed as the strongest god.