Chapter 1463 Blossoming and Bearing Fruit

A body nearly a hundred meters long, skin that is deathly pale and slippery, sharply defined musculature, and a mouth full of sharp teeth hiding a tongue of unknown length.

When the Balu Monster was small, it looked somewhat cute, but with two months of feeding, the Balu Monster grew larger and is now far from resembling anything cute.

It is a fierce, monster-like virus!

It has an immensely strong reproductive ability, powerful energy absorption and conversion efficiency, and even stronger individual combat capabilities!

If the Balu Monster were not like this, it would not have caught Wen Yu’s eye…

Phew!

With the sound of ripping through the air, the Balu Monster’s tongue shot out at lightning speed, slowing only as it reached Guer’s face, where the foul-smelling, slippery tongue kept licking Guer’s cheek, causing Guer to burst into laughter.

“Alright, alright, I know you missed me, and see, I’ve come back…”

“Goo, goo~~~”

The affectionate greeting between the small Ancient Demon and the large Balu Monster would stir discomfort in any normal person, but after two months of such scenes, Wen Yu was long accustomed to it.

The Balu Monster’s dependency on its feeder is congenital, yet it’s uncertain what it would be like after contracting.

Wen Yu’s mind wandered with dark curiosity over these thoughts and he slowly opened the Night Eyes.

Gateway of Lifelessness (Species-specific Esoteric Level, Active Skill): Distort time and space! Rip the earth apart! Forcefully create a doorway to the unknown! Any life form sucked into this gateway will endure myriad tribulations until life’s end!

The description seems bizarre, yet fundamentally it’s describing a strong attacking ability—which Wen Yu doesn’t lack.

Well, this can’t quite be said, because Wen Yu doesn’t know just how strong the ability is. The Balu Monster itself hasn’t used this skill, and Wen Yu has no way of knowing its performance or operating principle.

The next skill, however, is not as suspenseful as the Gateway of Lifelessness.

Lethal Siphon (Species-specific Esoteric Level, Active Skill): Entwine, then absorb. The host can utilize any part of the body to manifest this ability; when the host’s body contacts the one being affected, a mysterious force completely “glues” the two together, inseparable, whilst the host continuously draws the life force from the opponent until one of them is utterly dead.

From the skill description, it seems similar to absorbing energy, yes, paired with the Balu Monster’s mouthparts, it’s not an ordinary setup.

Upon briefly reading over the two skills, Guer had already sprinkled the acquired potion over the bacteria blanket, and as the liquid melded into the blanket, the Balu Monster seemed to sense the aroma of food; it turned its head, extended its tongue, and as soon as the tongue emerged, it abruptly split into forks.

These tiny forked tongues swiftly plunged into the bacteria blanket, accompanied by a chilling sound of siphoning, and through the perspective of Night Eyes, Wen Yu could see large quantities of energy pouring from the blanket into the Balu Monster, before being smoothly converted into nutrients for the Balu Monster’s growth, after Wen Yu’s “exploitation.”

Seeing the Balu Monster’s body enlarging once again, Little Guer let out a deep breath, checked the “feed” reserve, and beamed with joy as he looked at Wen Yu.

“Finally, this should be enough.”

And Wen Yu merely patted Guer’s head, smiled, and nodded.

…

After dealing with the food for the Balu Monster, the following days weren’t as turbulent.

Firstly, Wen Yu had already figured out the “insider,” well, that’s not quite accurate, should say the “Mysterious Man’s” identity, only lacking his purpose, so Wen Yu naturally no longer needed to startle the snake, but silently awaited this person to willingly present himself before Wen Yu.

Secondly, Guer had delegated all matters big and small related to the Rebel Army First Base to “Number Three Uncle,” while he personally tended daily to the Balu Monster in the underground cavern, and Wen Yu wasn’t about to instigate disturbances, to disrupt the current ‘good situation’.

In sum, the days passed in this “awaiting blossoming outcomes” atmosphere.

Until two years later.

…

“Uncle! Uncle!”

A familiar voice echoed in the ears, and the next moment, the door swung open, and the already over a meter tall Guer dashed into Wen Yu’s room like a frisky colt.

“What’s the matter?”

And Wen Yu merely put aside the files in his hand, raised his head to look at Little Guer.

“Does Uncle still remember what day today is?”

“Hm, let me guess…”

“My birthday? Your birthday? The first anniversary of the completion of the base?”

As Wen Yu spoke, Guer shook his head, until Wen Yu abruptly smiled at last.

“Just teasing, of course, I remember, today is the day the Balu Monster ascends to Level 8.”

Hearing Wen Yu’s words, Guer seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, merrily grabbing Wen Yu’s hand as if impatiently eager to share this joyous occasion with Wen Yu.

And Wen Yu, likewise rose to look out the window.

In these two years, the entire world merely repeated day after day in operation—a sort of uneventful, serene tranquility.

Busy Wen Yu engaged in mechanical tasks, such as creating soul puppets for Demon Realm powerful experts, Heaven’s Pride level soul puppets, handling government affairs, attending meetings, researching human-demon conversion elixirs, playing house games with Guer.

While during quiet moments, Wen Yu continued shouldering his responsibility—whether lurking in the Demon Realm, dutifully performing as the Battalion Leader under the command of Demon Spirit’s forces, or chatting idly with Demon Spirit’s carbon copies in the Eternal Prison, or sleeping under the sea, awaiting the day to be awakened.

In sum, all was uneventful…

And the only thing that captivated Wen Yu’s interest, aside from soon awakening a Heaven’s Pride Sequence Number 1, was the Balu Monster he had come to favor.

Even to the extent that the latter stirred Wen Yu’s heart more!

Simply because the Balu Monster’s ability entirely exceeded Wen Yu’s expectations!

…

According to Little Guer, although the Balu Monster is a unique biochemical weapon, it itself still abides by the professionist’s limitations—apart from its inherent first skill, every time it advances, the acquired skills are random.

The professionist has skill scrolls to alter their own skills, but the Balu Monster clearly has no such privilege, in other words, this Balu Monster cultivated by Little Guer, its individual combat capability and skill characteristics oscillate greatly.

It might be exceedingly strong, it might become worthless.

Yet this is inconsequential, because always, the mission of the Balu Monster is merely to devour, proliferate, and to create endlessly expendable pawns! In Little Guer’s view, as well as his father’s, his grandfather’s, and all Demon Tribe’s eyes, the Balu Monster requires only the first skill.

Nonetheless, exceptions exist for everything.