I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 269 - 223 Good_1

Chapter 269: Chapter 223 Good_1

After discarding the parachute, Zheng Yichen executed a remarkably standard landing pose by pressing his fist to the ground while still in mid-air.

Just as he was feeling good about the move, a shadow swiftly rushed over from the side. Its speed was so great that Zheng Yichen was sent flying the moment he raised his hand.

"Fuck—" The flung Zheng Yichen saw clearly what that thing was. It was indeed the target he was seeking—no, more like the target that had presented itself to him. It’s just that the opponent’s attack turned him into express air-delivered goods.

A half-dragon hominid monster, standing over two and a half meters tall with dark red scales all over its body and two lumps of flesh on its back, was hardly aesthetically pleasing—on the contrary, it had an intensified look of distortion and disharmony.

The half-dragon experimental subject stared at Zheng Yichen and didn’t immediately attack again but looked somewhat ’confused,’ as if it recognized Zheng Yichen. However, this confusion quickly turned into anger and rampage.

Piercing roars spread throughout the entire forest, startling a multitude of birds and beasts.

"Get ready to move in." Ahn Longling spoke into a walkie-talkie. She had no intention of letting Zheng Yichen fight alone. If her younger sister were in charge, she would have watched Zheng Yichen fight and definitely issued the kind of command to observe, in order to collect more research data.

"Understood."

In the forest, the half-dragon experimental subject displayed extremely superior fighting skills. When Zheng Yichen’s black spear struck the creature, the scales of the half-dragon trembled slightly, quickly dissipating the force on the spear. There was no mistaking this technique for force dissipation.

It was the very technique Zheng Yichen had recently begun learning from a world of much higher difficulty. Although his grasp on it was just at the beginner’s level, the creature in front of him was already very proficient. Of course, compared to the strong adversary Zheng Yichen faced, this creature seemed somewhat weaker.

This was probably due to the changes brought about by being transformed into this shape.

Still, it was capable of dissipating most of the attack’s power.

Previously ignorant of such skills, he could now learn more through this kind of combat.

"Is he learning the combat techniques of the experimental subject?" Ahn Qi asked as she watched the intense battle below.

Ahn Longling nodded, "The learning part is fine, but the key is the physical constitution he is demonstrating."

Fighting head-on with the half-dragon experimental subject, with fist meeting flesh, Zheng Yichen would be bruised blue and purple when he took hits, but those bruises would soon disappear, showing extraordinary healing power. In terms of counterattacking, she saw that the force Zheng Yichen exerted was not much inferior to the half-dragon’s, despite their significant difference in size.

"I’ve read many of Ahn Ke’s papers on lifeform levels, and some of them mention the traits possessed by beings of higher life levels."

Ahn Longling nodded again. She too had read those papers, which discussed that aside from a series of benefits that come with higher life levels, one also gains a greater advantage in combat within their current environment.

The fire dragon was a being of a higher life level, hence it had scales that could ignore most conventional and some unconventional firearms, as well as the strength comparable to a crane, among other things.

This half-dragon’s life level hadn’t reached that of the fire dragon, but it had inherited some of the fire dragon’s traits, coupled with a smaller body, faster speed, strong recovery abilities, and the superb fighting capabilities of its former human self. If the experimental subject fought the fire dragon, the fire dragon would be pummeled to death.

Physical constitution affects fighting ability but not entirely.

"Roar—" The experimental subject let out a raspy dragon roar, one of the lumps on its back split open, and several sharp tentacles emerged, quickly stabbing towards Zheng Yichen.

"What the heck..." Zheng Yichen clicked his tongue in annoyance, dodging the stabbing tentacles. He still wanted to learn more about damage absorption and explosive strength techniques from this experimental subject. But when the creature couldn’t defeat him after some time, it started using other tricks.

The tentacles’ speed was extremely fast. However, aware of their capabilities, Zheng Yichen had always been on guard. The tentacles’ attacks missed their mark and quickly retracted. The other lump on the creature’s back also split open, and undulating tentacles floated behind it like wings.

The half-dragon’s body also underwent some additional changes. Its teeth became sharper, its body shape mutated, and it even grew mane-like features.

Its eyes were no longer normal, either. Around the central pupil, parts of compound eyes emerged, indicating that, despite still maintaining the form of a half-dragon hominid, it was displaying additional biological traits.

With these changes, the combat style of the half-dragon experimental subject also shifted. It was no longer the pure maximization of physical performance as before; it now included aspects of a wild beast, and these transformations made the experimental subject even more difficult to fight.

But it wasn’t so easy for Zheng Yichen to learn something from the situation.

"What the hell." As the experimental subject displayed a new transformation, Zheng Yichen had no courtesy, taking out some prepared artifacts. The curse artifact to restrict movement took effect, black energy twined around the subject’s body, who bellowed in rage, but its speed unavoidably slowed down. Then came the curse artifact suppressing healing abilities.

After tossing two curse artifacts, Zheng Yichen noticed some changes in the curse artifacts in his hand; a black ’thread’ on them, like a lit incense stick, was slowly burning out, and would be consumed completely in a minute at most.

After the experimental subject’s movements were restricted, Zheng Yichen’s black spear circumvented the half-dragon hominid’s arm. The half-dragon hominid tilted its head to dodge the spear’s attack, and some of the fine scales at the corner of its eyes were scraped off, while the black spear struck its head.

The half-dragon hominid, after taking such an attack, just tilted its head; the tendrils on its back lashed out toward Zheng Yichen. Affected by speed, their regenerative abilities reduced, but the combat skills it retained were still effective.

Time was short, so Zheng Yichen immediately employed Burst Mode, grabbing hold of the tendrils with one hand, yanking and tearing them off, throwing them to the ground. The long spear blazed with blood-red force; each attack caused the half-dragon experimental subject to scream in agony, its tough scales beginning to fracture.

Its skill in mitigating impact was still effective, but while it could shed the force of physical attacks, it struggled to counter the penetration of Blood Asura’s Inner Strength. The techniques involving Blood Asura were not that many, with Demonic Abyss Seven Kills being the top-tier attack; the rest basically worked on the principle ’the more learned, the better the effect’.

Blood Combustion Transform to Origin enhanced physical abilities and skill power, with no conflict with other martial art techniques; rather, the increase in one’s own skill power caused those techniques to become stronger. Asura Battle Intent raised combat awareness and intent, with the ability to influence one’s own attack.

Blood Sacrifice Burst, similar to other techniques, did not have any conflict and could integrate directly with other moves. If Blood Combustion Transform to Origin was about trading own health for power, Blood Sacrifice Burst was about trading health for a stronger attack power, both able to significantly enhance other moves.

Of course, when these moves were combined with Blood Asura’s Demonic Abyss Seven Kills, it resulted in an ultimate output.

As the half-dragon sustained more and more injuries, the negative emotions it emitted grew stronger. After Zheng Yichen stirred it slightly with Asura Battle Intent, it exploded completely, accompanied by a cacophonous dragon roar. Ahn Qi couldn’t help but twitch at the corner of her eye.

"What’s going on?" The moment she heard the roar, her scalp tingled, and her mind became restless, as if she were under some kind of mental attack that disturbed her spirit.

"..." Ahn Longling shook her head and, after confirming that the pilot was still in good condition, said, "Let’s increase the altitude a bit; it’s not safe here anymore."

The pilot hastily increased the helicopter’s altitude.

Facing the half-dragon’s roar, Zheng Yichen’s eyes filled with even stronger battle intent. The battle intent, malice, and killing intent released in the fight were gradually absorbed by him. The normal emotions showing in Zheng Yichen’s eyes grew more and more indifferent, his attacks growing ever stronger.

Where the black spear collided with the half-dragon’s claws, cracks that healed rapidly initially appeared; later, not even cracks surfaced. The half-dragon’s scales kept shattering under the burst of blood-red Inner Strength.

The half-dragon, once able to draw near Zheng Yichen, gradually couldn’t touch him. As it fell into a disadvantage in battle, the half-dragon didn’t even realize its normal mobility and regenerative abilities were restored and awkwardly parried Zheng Yichen’s attacks.

The combat desire stirred up by Asura Battle Intent also started to diminish, and this slight weakening let Zheng Yichen completely suppress the half-dragon’s will to fight, its emitted battle intent drained away like a deflating balloon...

Dissatisfaction flashed in Zheng Yichen’s eyes: "Useless!"

Watching the panicked, roaring half-dragon trying to flee, Zheng Yichen wielded his black spear like a sword, bringing it down heavily on the half-dragon with almost the same devastating power as the 10 Directions Annihilation used by the Battle Maniac Asura.

The brunt of the blow caused the half-dragon to howl, raising its arms above its head. The scales on its arms rapidly thickened, attempting to block the attack, but against the descending pale-red destructive force, the abnormally thickened scales shattered instantly.

The sound of the earth splitting drowned out the half-dragon’s cries of terror.

A long gash cut through the half-dragon, parting the forest like a fine middle parting. The indifference in Zheng Yichen’s eyes gradually dissipated, and when returning to normal, he couldn’t help but shudder: "Fuck...!"

Without bothering to look at the results of his attack, Zheng Yichen swiftly went to the location of the half-dragon experimental subject. Its body barely had any intact scales left, and the powerful regenerative abilities had ceased with the deactivation of the curse artifacts.

"Kill... kill me, I don’t want to go back to that damn, place anymore."

The barely alive half-dragon said intermittently.

"Okay." Zheng Yichen raised his black spear and pierced the half-dragon’s head.