Chapter 117: Section 118: I am a Monkey-tailed Brown Bear


    The forest tonight was unusual.


    Bear roars resounded continuously, a Monkey-tailed Brown Bear had lived on this hill for years and was the ruler of this area.


    But now, its roars revealed clear anxiety, fury, and pain.


    What kind of formidable enemy must the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear be facing to elicit such cries?


    It seemed that the threat had been recognized, and the beasts near the cave were disturbed by the waves of bear roars, fleeing one after another, trying to keep away from the cave.


    At this moment, the one troubling the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear was a monster.


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    It possessed the body and wings of a Silver Bat Monkey but the head and neck belonged to a Black Iron Level Acid Liquid Green Lizard.


    This made the monster look disproportionate, completely large-headed and small-bodied.


    The monster was soaring, continuously circling above the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear’s head, and from time to time, it would open its mouth, rolling out a spherical bulge from the skin of its neck. When the bulge slid into its mouth, the monster would spew out a stream of acid.


    The acid was incredibly precise, even accounting for lead time, hitting the mark even though the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear on the ground made evasive maneuvers.


    The acid had already corroded most of its fur, worsening its injuries.


    The Monkey-tailed Brown Bear was extremely furious, the front segments of its gorilla-like palms were already vivid red. Originally, Zhenjin had used these sharp claws to flip a Silver Level Blade Spider with a single strike.


    Normally, the claws, resembling Black Iron, were also exceptionally sharp and hard.


    When the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear faced a formidable enemy and was very angry, the dark claws would turn bright red, emitting high heat as if they had just been taken out of a forge. At that moment, the claws were terrifyingly powerful; Zhenjin himself had tried, and even a Silver Scorpion Shell couldn’t withstand it!


    It was known that the Silver Scorpion Shell could withstand the blade of a Silver Spider.


    However, regardless of how powerful the claws were, if they couldn’t reach Zhenjin, it was all in vain.


    Indeed, this monster with the head of a lizard and the body of a bat monkey was Zhenjin.


    The Monkey-tailed Brown Bear, being large and bulky, found it difficult to even jump, let alone fly. Otherwise, Zong Ge’s ambush tactics wouldn’t have been so tremendously successful.


    The Monkey-tailed Brown Bear couldn’t hit Zhenjin, and almost every one of Zhenjin’s acid attacks added to the injuries of the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear.


    This asymmetric battle had its outcome sealed from the start.


    The Monkey-tailed Brown Bear went from anger to helplessness, from hatred to fear, and the severe injuries made it unable to stand and roar at Zhenjin; instead, it turned and fled toward the cave.


    Zhenjin constantly observed the state of the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear. As soon as it turned around, he perceived its intent and immediately flapped his wings, plunging downwards.


    Just as he was about to draw close to the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear, a red light flashed behind Zhenjin, and a scorpion tail of a gun scorpion grew out.


    The Silver Magical Beast’s scorpion tail whooshed forward, piercing the head of the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear from above its back.


    Zhenjin drew out his tail, bringing with it a mixture of blood plasma and brain fluid.


    Because Zhenjin’s stabbing and pulling motion was so fast, the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear seemed not to notice and kept running for a dozen more steps before it suddenly collapsed to the ground with a thud, sliding forward a bit and kicking up a cloud of fine dust.


    Zong Ge had expended considerably effort, leading a group to first dig pits, then lure the enemy into a trap, and finally shoot to kill them together. Zhenjin, on the other hand, had easily disposed of a Monkey-tailed Brown Bear in about one-tenth of the time it took Zong Ge and his people.


    “Multiple transformations, the power is truly immense!”


    “The Monkey-tailed Brown Bear, when facing the Silver Bat Monkey, is at most annoyed by the sonic waves it attacks with. If the Silver Bat Monkey really needed to deal with the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear, it would have to fight up close, using its monkey claws to scratch. By then, the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear would certainly teach it a lesson.”


    “Against the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear, the Acid Liquid Green Lizard can only spit a few shots of acid liquid in the early stage of the fight. The Monkey-tailed Brown Bear runs very fast, much faster than the green lizard. Even if the green lizard shoots while running, it would quickly be caught up by the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear and then it would have to pay with its life.”


    “However, when the mutations of the bat monkey and the green lizard are stacked together, the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear has no chance to fight back. Add in the scorpion tail, and no single Monkey-tailed Brown Bear could match me in combat!”


    Zhenjin landed on the ground, full of emotion.


    These days of rigorous training, Zhenjin began to profoundly exploit the combat potential of his Heart Core. Through repeated real battles, he increasingly felt the strength and wonder of multiple mutations.


    Zhenjin set his foot on the head of the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear. This Silver Magic Beast, which had almost killed Zhenjin even when it was severely injured, now in optimal condition, hadn’t injured a single hair on Zhenjin.


    The next moment, the Heart Core was activated by Zhenjin.


    Four red lines emerged, binding the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear tightly before refining it, absorbing the essence of the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear’s bloodline back into Zhenjin’s Heart Core.


    “That’s enough.”


    Zhenjin’s body surged with red light again, the light dissipated, and he no longer was in his bat monkey form, but had transformed into a Monkey-tailed Brown Bear.


    Having already been able to mutate bear claws and bear arms, and having consumed a lot of bear meat these days thanks to the contribution of Zong Ge and others, Zhenjin had finally achieved the standards of a complete transformation to the Silver Brown Bear.


    Looking at his own palms and then at his chubby chest, Zhenjin was enveloped by a novel sensation once again.


    Zhenjin stood up, and his perspective immediately elevated.


    Whether it was the sense of smell, hearing, or sight, all were very sensitive, but his sense of smell was not as good as that of the Blue Dog Fox Wolf, his hearing not as good as a bat monkey or a Flying Squirrel, and his vision not as good as a Crocodile Head Hammer Tail Boa, and in terms of practicality, not comparable to the green lizard.


    But how to put it, on the whole, the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear’s three sensory abilities combined provided powerful insight into the external world.


    The bat monkey and the Flying Squirrel’s vision could not compare to it; the Crocodile Head Hammer Tail Boa’s hearing was far inferior. In terms of smell, the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear was second only to the Blue Dog Fox Wolf. The gun scorpion and the green lizard were below it.


    “The most powerful weapon of the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear is still these eight sharp claws.”


    Zhenjin focused his attention on his fingernails, which soon changed from a Black Iron-like appearance to being red-hot.


    Under the stimulus of life and death, Zhenjin instinctively used the claws of the brown bear and from then on, this feeling was etched in his heart.


    So, when Zhenjin used them again, he did it very easily.


    But upon further investigation, the transformation of the claws and the difficulty of the Flying Squirrel producing electric charge are the same. Human nails would never undergo such a change, and this skill of maneuvering such abilities is completely foreign to an ordinary person.


    Zhenjin could not yet produce electric charge, but he was quite adept at using these claws.


    “Let’s try mining!”


    Zhenjin exited his upright human stance, placed all limbs on the ground, and crawled forward.


    He had experience in the form of a green lizard, so he was very familiar with how to efficiently run using all limbs.


    “The brown bear’s hind legs are thick and short; running is difficult in an upright stance, so it is best suited for running on all fours.”


    Zhenjin quickly got the hang of the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear form.


    He came to the cave, dug into the cave walls with his claws, and mined the ore to eat.


    “Hmm?”


    “The taste is quite good!”


    After eating the ore, Zhenjin felt as if he bit into a piece of meat that was both fat and lean, sweet and tender. The meat was not grilled but cooked in a sauce. According to the Eastern Empire, it was called “braised.”


    “So, the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear eats ore just like it eats meat.”


    Zhenjin thoroughly savored this delightful meal.


    Usually, in the camp, although he was fed enough, the soup and other dishes were lacking salt and other seasonings, making them quite bland in taste.


    “Cang Xu dissected a Monkey-tailed Brown Bear and found its digestive ability to be extremely outstanding, especially adept at digesting iron. The Monkey-tailed Brown Bear’s claws also grow from the absorbed iron, solidified into Biological Iron!”


    “I remember Cang Xu also said that such digestive absorption capabilities allow the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear to even consider iron-made swords as food.”


    At that moment, Zhenjin was intrigued.


    “When I return, I can secretly give it a try. I wonder what the taste of iron swords would be like?”


    In his human form, Zhenjin could only use iron swords as weapons. But as the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear, he could see them as a type of food.


    As Zhenjin’s life form kept transforming, his perspective and feelings towards things also changed. Some changes were silent, to the extent that Zhenjin himself didn’t notice them. Other changes were transformative.


    Zhenjin heated his claws until they were red and warm, and he used them in this state to dig into the cave wall.


    The hard cave wall seemed quite soft; with a gentle thrust, Zhenjin could bury his entire claw into the wall. With a slight stir, he could dig out a large piece of ore.


    “Next, let’s try the healing effect of the ore.”


    Behind Zhenjin’s plump bear buttocks, a scorpion tail grew.


    He poked himself with the scorpion tail, quickly creating a small blood hole, not very deep.


    Zhenjin started to devour the ore, and the blood hole quickly clotted.


    Zhenjin carefully observed and felt the ore digesting in his stomach, transforming into a warm flow, moving toward the wound.


    His pain also quickly decreased, and as time passed, a thin scab gradually formed over Zhenjin’s wound.


    “The digestive system of the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear is strong, capable of rapidly digesting the consumed ore, directing the nutrients specifically to the body’s wounds, and facilitating quick recovery.”


    “However, in terms of recovery ability, it is still not as good as that of the Strong Life White Rhinoceros.”


    The recovery ability of the Strong Life White Rhinoceros was not only stronger but also more practical.


    The Monkey-tailed Brown Bear heals by consuming large amounts of food afterward, requiring specific ores. Meanwhile, the Strong Life White Rhinoceros eats a huge amount of food only after healing, consuming more common foods like grass, tree leaves, and fruit.


    Zhenjin stayed in the cave for a while longer, easily digging out a lot of ore.


    “Now with a shortage of iron, mining as a Monkey-tailed Brown Bear is too easy; I’ve practically unearthed the entire mountain!”


    “My work efficiency alone could match that of a hundred people.”


    “These ores will be taken by people tomorrow. Iron has always been in severe shortage at the camp.”


    As for the excuse, Zhenjin didn’t need to come up with one, Cang Xu would certainly speculate—perhaps, the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear has a habit of storing food?


    This might become a flaw, but as long as Zhenjin doesn’t transform in front of others, Cang Xu can only suspect that this Monkey-tailed Brown Bear might be a unique exception.


    The immediate priority for the team was still to acquire more iron.


    It was about time, so Zhenjin left the cave, transformed back into a Silver Bat Monkey, and flew back to the camp. S~ea??h the n??el Fire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.


    He still pondered about the iron ore in his heart.


    “Perhaps, I should take some time out each night to secretly mine and stockpile it, then discover it all at once.”


    “My mining efficiency is too high.”


    “These days, Zi Di and Cang Xu also planned to mine, but they are severely short-handed, and mining also requires iron pickaxes; there is simply not enough iron available to afford making iron pickaxes.”


    “Hmm?!”


    At that moment, during his flight, Zhenjin suddenly changed his expression.