Chapter 1554: Chapter 1554

After examining the Cursed Crow, Du You’s next target was the Death Gorilla. Truth be told, Du You hadn’t expected the Death Gorilla to advance so quickly—it came as quite a surprise. Initially, Du You had thought the Heavenly Disaster Demonic Dogs would advance first.

After all, the Heavenly Disaster Demonic Dogs naturally possessed an evolution ability, yet they advanced slower than the Death Gorilla.

Death Gorilla: Mutation of the Heavy Rock Gorilla; formed through a mixture of divine poison and transformation. Upon death, requires 24 hours to be summoned again. (Level 61, 10 stars)

Land Yuan Power: 100%

Skills: Divine Poison, Super Resistance, Super Defense, Land Transfer, Force Dispersion, Slowness, Shockwave, Vibration Layers, Land Shield, Life Swallowing

Divine Poison: Enemies struck or attacking will suffer poison damage, ignoring 80% of their poison resistance; countered by Poison Law.

Super Resistance: Enhances resistance by a level+level+level.

Super Defense: Increases defense by a level+level+level.

Land Transfer: Utilizes earth energy for instantaneous movement within a range of (level * 1000) kilometers; cooldown: 3 seconds.

Force Dispersion: Reduces incoming attacks by 80%; reduces attacks involving laws by 20%.

Slowness: Movement slows by 30%, power increases by 50%, Yuan Power strengthens by 100%, Yuan Power recovery accelerates by 200%.

Shockwave: Embeds the shockwave force into attacks, amplifying damage and causing internal vibrations in enemies. Highly destructive to large objects.

Vibration Layers: Forms multiple layers of vibrations from the surface inward to neutralize attacking forces and enhance defense.

Land Shield: Creates a powerful protective shield using Land Yuan Power; defensive strength equals ten times its regular defense.

Life Swallowing: When the Death Gorilla kills an enemy, it absorbs the enemy’s life force to restore its own Land Yuan Power and physical strength. Effectiveness depends on the quantity and quality of enemies slain. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡•𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢•𝕟𝕖𝕥

The changes following the Death Gorilla’s advancement were drastic. Previously, it relied on physical stamina and lacked other forms of energy, but now it had transitioned to Land Yuan Power. After sensing this energy, Du You understood its nature.

Condensed from physical stamina, this Yuan Power served as a potent, innate force filled with destructive capabilities. The Death Gorilla had originally wielded some earth-controlling abilities, but now they had fully merged.

This fusion presented both advantages and disadvantages. On the positive side, the Gorilla’s power had grown, and its skill usage became more versatile. On the downside, this fusion slightly diminished its destructive capabilities.

Still, it didn’t matter much—destruction was never the Death Gorilla’s trademark to begin with.

Next were the skill changes. Divine Poison remained a powerful passive ability capable of invoking poison laws, with immensely potent effects. However, against opponents adept in poison laws, the effects were nullified.

This is why the description notes the ability’s counter—a distinction between comprehending poison laws and simply utilizing them.

At first glance, Super Resistance and Super Defense seemed unchanged, but experimentation revealed subtle updates. While appearing identical, these abilities now offered resistance and defense against laws and divine power as well. The Death Gorilla had, once again, become a virtually impenetrable shield.

Comparing it to the Three-headed Gold Dragon Du You previously encountered, the current Death Gorilla could arguably withstand all sorts of attacks from its opponent—a being far above its own level. It was now a true master of defense.

Next was the Land Transfer ability—an excellent speed-enhancing skill for the Gorilla. With its range expanded and cooldown reduced from five seconds to three seconds, it had become even more practical.

At least, providing comprehensive battlefield support wouldn’t be problematic anymore.

The Force Dispersion skill wasn’t strictly defensive yet functioned as such, contributing heavily to Du You’s assessment that the Three-headed Gold Dragon couldn’t hurt it. Regular attacks would now lose 80% of their power—far stronger than the previous 30% reduction.

Above the seventh tier, law-based attacks were still effective yet reduced by 20%. After enduring such a series of reductions, even Du You would struggle to harm it without deploying an ultimate move.

The Slowness skill evolved from reducing speed by 50% to slowing it down by 30%, while simultaneously enhancing strength. The increases to stamina and recovery were replaced by boosts to Land Yuan Power.

The Shockwave skill now targeted laws and rules for vibrations, slightly enhancing its offensive effect.

However, due to the Gorilla’s inherent nature, these offensive improvements only mattered against weaker opponents. Against enemies below its strength level, it simply turned into outright carnage, maximizing slaughter capabilities.

Vibration Layers similarly expanded its effectiveness to counter attacks involving laws.

The newly added skills were Land Shield and Life Swallowing.

Land Shield turned out to be an exceptionally abnormal protective barrier. Given the Gorilla’s already fearsome defense, the shield multiplied it tenfold.

Were it not for the shield’s immobility, it would likely plunge enemies into utter despair.

Aside from its high energy requirement, the skill had almost no drawbacks. Fully deployed, the Death Gorilla could envelop an entire planet, potentially blocking attacks from mid-seventh-tier enemies multiple times.

Life Swallowing enhanced the Gorilla’s endurance. Although this ability couldn’t yet be tested, Du You could infer its capabilities from its aura of law.

In large-scale battles, as the Death Gorilla guaranteed the poison-filled demise of countless foes, its ability to recover would likely be terrifying. Du You himself wouldn’t need to inject energy to replenish it anymore.

This reduction in burdens was an undoubtedly worthwhile benefit for Du You.

At this point, Du You’s other summoned beasts showed no signs of advancing, nor had Du You’s own skills yet undergone advancement. Having absorbed extensive laws recently, Du You knew his level was ready to upgrade.

However, now wasn’t the time to level up—first, he needed to check on the progress of the two sisters.

Unlike Du You, his star rating was higher, absorption faster, and comprehension quicker. The sisters, on the other hand, couldn’t advance as many skills as he had. Moreover, since summoning skills were personally advanced by Du You, this sped things up even further.

Du You observed that each of the sisters had only advanced five skills.

Still, advancing five seventh-tier skills was no small accomplishment. In terms of quantity, it already surpassed most seventh-tier entities. For most seventh-tier powerhouses, having merely one or two advanced skills was the norm.

If they knew about Du You’s situation, who knows how envious they would be.