Reborn as a tiger cub, I'm too weak, so I can only rely on self-discipline.

Chapter 161 Black Flame Burns the Forest

"It's a pity I was a step too late, otherwise I could have earned more proficiency in the Slaughter skill."

Forget it, I'll only have around a thousand points of proficiency at most, no need to worry about it.

The most important thing now is to completely get rid of that dodder!

With all his doubts resolved, Cang Nian shook his head.

"Ow~!"

Then, he called out to the tigers.

Follow me!

Hearing Cangnian's call, Tiger Dad and the others were somewhat puzzled, but they still followed in his footsteps.

"This thing is still instinctively consuming these corpses."

However, without the fox's control, it seems to lack any intelligence; it won't run away even if it encounters it.

Upon arriving at the meadow, one sees that the area once littered with corpses has been emptied considerably.

Upon closer inspection, one finds countless strands of dodder entwined inside the corpse, turning the flesh and blood inside into juices that are then guided back along the thin threads of the dodder.

However, now that this thing has been touched by me, it neither runs away nor breaks off to cover up the traces.

Clearly, those behaviors that seemed out of place for evolved plants, which appeared to be behaviors that should not be exhibited by such intelligent beings, were all manipulated by the fox.

Now, without the fox's control, it is left with only basic instincts.

"Damn? Is this the same kind of mycelium as before?"

At that moment, a fisherman who had just climbed down from the tree saw this scene and exclaimed in surprise.

Ouch~!

Tiger Brother, on the other hand, raised his chin and shouted proudly.

It was the one that discovered this!

Cangnian ignored the tiger brother who was trying to take credit and ran towards the direction where he had encountered the main body of the dodder.

Upon arriving here, the main body of the dodder, which resembles a pale golden cloak draped over tall trees, is still here.

The sturdy tree that it had entangled had withered and curled up, clearly because it had been parasitizing it for too long, stealing all its nutrients, and was now on the verge of collapse.

This is the parasitic creature's instinct. Without the fox's control, it regained its senses, but the memory loss during the control period and its low intelligence prevented it from taking any action. It just waited for Cangnian's family to arrive.

This was an outcome that Cang Nian had anticipated.

Since that fox dared to lead a group of pseudo-second-tier evolved creatures, who had been forcibly elevated to second-tier strength, to the pine tree to seize the pine cones.

It must know that the dodder has low intelligence, and that even if it doesn't use its mind to control it for a while, the dodder won't run away.

Cang Nian guessed that the dodder's special ability was to extract energy from the corpses of evolved creatures and inject it into the bodies of living evolved creatures to achieve true advancement.

Otherwise, without a miraculous encounter like the one that allowed the fox to solve the mycelium problem and then consume evolution factors, it would be difficult for that fox to advance to the second stage at this point.

The fox would never use the same method on itself, injecting energy into first-tier evolved creatures and forcing them to reach a temporary second-tier strength.

However, that would require a huge amount of energy and would take a relatively long time.

The fox was undoubtedly attracted by the scent of pine cones.

The pine cones attracted countless evolved creatures in great numbers.

That fox, presumably, used its psychic abilities to conceal itself from the dodder while continuously recruiting new "subordinates."

Then, by outnumbering the prey, they continuously hunt and feed the dodder to it.

Judging from the current performance of dodder, this thing may actually be less aggressive than many first-tier evolved creatures.

Without the help of other evolved organisms, it might only be able to scavenge for food.

It can only be said that the fox's mind control and the dodder's consumption and nourishment seem to have no connection, but when combined, they are a pair of supernatural abilities that complement each other.

With the help of controlling other evolved creatures, the already powerful striped tiger and giant bear, which were already quite powerful among the surrounding evolved creatures, were undoubtedly able to run rampant outside of Cangnian's family.

Therefore, perhaps the fox had already been entrenched here since the pine cones began to release their fragrance, and over the course of several days, it used the power of the evolved creatures it controlled to hunt other evolved creatures.

With the nourishment provided by dodder, the fox might have already reached the second stage before the pine cones became too fragrant.

Moreover, Cangnian boldly speculated that before this fox evolved to the second tier, it might not have controlled that many evolved creatures. Before that, it might have only controlled three: dodder, striped tiger, and giant bear.

After all, the other evolved creatures were far weaker than the spotted tiger and the giant bear, and seemed to be just there to make up the numbers because of time constraints.

As for its decisive action of forcibly injecting energy into its underlings, who had been cultivated and nurtured for some time but had not yet evolved to the second tier, forcing them to temporarily unleash their second-tier combat power...

Perhaps, from the very beginning, it had already set its sights on its own family.

Its own family, in terms of both race and superpowers, was far superior to the bunch of misfits it had temporarily captured.

Moreover, his entire family is at the second tier, with strong individual abilities and excellent teamwork, making them the kind of control that fox desperately wants.

This can be seen from the fact that in the previous battle, the group of pseudo-second-tier evolved creatures did not kill their families, but instead wore them down.

The fox not only wanted to take the pine cones, but also wanted to capture his entire family alive.

The fox's true purpose was to sacrifice his entire original group of subordinates in a desperate act, in exchange for a better group of men.

Unfortunately, it didn't anticipate that the little sable had a storage space. The moment the pine cones ripened, the black king snake broke them off, and the little sable stored them away.

It also failed to anticipate that the main function of pine nuts is not to promote evolution, but to restore one's condition.

"We need to deal with this quickly, otherwise it might develop into something like those mycelium weevil!"

The fisherman who had come along saw this shocking scene and quickly said something.

Upon hearing this, Cangnian nodded.

That's what he meant too.

Although this thing, once it's not controlled by the fox, has pitifully low aggression, at most it can only wreak havoc on evolved trees.

But things that are large in size and reproduce and expand rapidly are the most troublesome.

The best course of action is to destroy it.

Although, this thing likely has the ability to devour flesh and blood to sustain the normal evolution of other creatures.

But if we eat meat normally, we can evolve. Keeping such a menace around means we have to live in constant fear.

At this moment, Tiger Dad swaggered forward.

Huh~!

Then, black flames swirled around Tiger Dad's body, burning fiercely!

The enormous dodder seemed to sense the black flames on Tiger Dad's body and fearfully moved away, as if making way for Tiger Dad.

Seeing this, Tiger Dad took a step, sprinted and jumped, and crashed into the body of the dodder!

Boom~!