The Great Merchant in the Cataclysm

nly one of them, it felt surprisingly pleasant and gave him a misconception that all the soul crystals would felt the same way.
But he never expected that he had assumed too much.

He laughed at himself, luckily he had self-awareness and did not experiment with the regular soul crystals.
If he ate together in one go, he felt that his brain would not be able to hold up at all.

Fortunately, this was still within the tolerance range of Zhang Mu.
Therefore, he was feeling pain and pleasure at the same time.
He could feel his psychic ability building gradually, at a stable and continuous rate.

There was a rapid improvement in his psychic ability.
Zhang Mu opened his eye abruptly, and he could clearly perceive all the things around him.
Furthermore, it was not because of his keen hearing that he was prided of in the past, but it was his psychic ability dispersing around his surrounding slowly.

Right now, he had a crazy idea in his mind.

He wanted to make use of the newly acquired psychological-type ability and advanced to the second rank!

Relying on the evolver’s ability was far more powerful than solely accumulating energy to progress to the second rank.

Zhang Mu was somewhat glad that he did not let himself use the second-rank advancing potion recklessly, as he would miss an opportunity to change himself from the ground up.

This excitement caused Zhang Mu’s heart to boil straightaway.
Now he actually had a chance to use his awakening ability to advance.
Although it was acquired, it was much powerful than most of the innate awakening ability.

Zhang Mu knew that it might take a certain amount of time for this process, so he got up first to inform Yuan Rui while dragging the mutated wolfdog back together and looked for a house to sleep in like before.

Yuan Rui was still sleepy since she did not sleep well for the first time.
Previously, the constructed dream by the Nightmare Worms caused her mind into a jittery state.
Once Zhang Mu told her to sleep, the exhaustion in her body came rushing up.
After telling Zhang Mu to be careful, she turned around and slept.

When they entered the house, the Obsidian Beetle subtly flew out from Yuan Rui’s pocket and rested quietly on Zhang Mu’s shoulder.
It passed a message to Zhang Mu, “You want to rank up? Alone? Do you know that any mutated animal can destroy the process of your advancing? You have such a big gut”.

In fact, Zhang Mu was thinking of giving full control to the Bloodvine Lotus when he was advancing.
But now that the Obsidian Beetle had said so, he would have another layer of insurance.

Zhang Mu nodded his head to the Obsidian Beetle and gestured it to go far away.
Because when Zhang Mu hand over the full control to the Bloodvine Lotus, it would treat anything with flesh and blood equally, and slaughter them all, including the Obsidian Beetle.

When the time comes with no enemy, yet they had fought with each other first, things would get interesting then.

Even though the Obsidian Beetle expressed that it was not afraid of the Bloodvine Lotus, but in the eye of Zhang Mu, it still hid in a quiet corner to protect Zhang Mu obediently.

When the Obsidian Beetle went far away, Zhang Mu lifted up his left arm and summoned the Bloodvine Lotus.
He then took out a bunch of first-ranked crystals around him before he handed over the full control to the Bloodvine Lotus.

The Bloodvine Lotus started to swell up after recovering its ability and natural instincts.
It did not build a cage according to Zhang Mu’s order, instead, it spread out in all direction and drained the corpse of the Nightmare Worms when it passed by, using this method to protect Zhang Mu’s surrounding.

With the protection from the Bloodvine Lotus and the Obsidian Beetle, Zhang Mu felt that he could be at ease and let himself progress.

Making a prompt decision, he immediately swallowed two soul crystals on the ground in one go and closed his eye.

Boom!

It has started.