Chapter 6: Broken shell

After seeing the Monkey biting to death by the Golden Flame Lion, Ye Chen left the forest lake.
Xiao Hei's revenge has been reported, and now he has more important things to do.
Ye Chen climbed up a small hill and rolled down the slope.
After flipping for a moment, he fell into a rock hole.
This is the habitat carefully selected by Ye Chen.
This small rock hole is just enough for him to hide, so there is no need to worry about other large monsters finding here.
After confirming the safety, Ye Chen opened the system panel:
System host: Ye Chen
Evolution stage: egg
Physical strength: 0.4
Spiritual power realm: None
Possess skills: solid lv2, camouflage lv1
Shell breaking value (open evolution value after reaching the juvenile stage): 100/100 (shell breaking)
...
"You can break the shell."
Ye Chen did not hesitate to click on the words "can be broken".
Only a click was heard.
The extremely sturdy eggshell had cracks, and at the same time, Ye Chen clearly felt that all the spiritual energy that he had absorbed in the previous days had begun to concentrate in his body.
The shelling process did not last long.
Soon, a small life full of fluff crawled out of the eggshell.
A gust of breeze blew, Ye Chen actually felt a little cold.
"It feels like being stripped naked."
Ye Chen laughed mockingly.
He looked at himself in the system panel:
System host: Ye Chen
Evolution stage: Greybird (juvenile stage)
Physical strength: 0.7
Spiritual power realm: None
Possess skills: camouflage lv1, danger perception lv1
Elemental power: 0/1000
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From the appearance point of view, Ye Chen at this time was almost the same as the ugly duckling, with a downy body and gray appearance, which could only barely be recognized as a kind of young bird.
Due to the fragmentation of the eggshell, Ye Chen lost the firmness skill, but correspondingly, he felt his physical strength increased.
"It seems that the aura energy in the eggshell has been completely absorbed by me."
Having absorbed the aura energy in the eggshell, Ye Chen felt that his feathers seemed to have become harder.
What excited Ye Chen was that he added a new talent skill.
Talent skills-danger perception: able to sense the physical strength of monsters within a certain range.
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Ye Chen tried to use "danger perception", and as expected, his vision changed.
Ye Chen clearly felt that there were more than ten light spots within a range of about fifty meters around the small cave where he was hiding.
The colors of these light spots are different.
There are two main types: green and yellow.
"It seems to distinguish the degree of danger of monster beasts by color."
The non-dangerous one is green, and the slightly dangerous one is yellow.
Ye Chen also felt that there was a red figure at the edge of his perception range!
It was the ground not far away, and a round body was rolling.
Ye Chen remembered that this was an anteater that often appeared nearby.
The other party seemed to have condensed a demon core, it was a genuine Tier 1 demon beast.
"At present, I still can't fight the first-order monsters. It seems that I have to find a way to condense the monster core."
Although he sensed the presence of the anteater, Ye Chen was not worried that the other party would find himself.
Even if I find it, I believe that the other party has no interest in me.
Ye Chen tried to move his body.
Although the physical strength did not increase, Ye Chen felt very relaxed, as if some kind of body's shackles had been opened.
"I can clearly feel my body's hunger, and it seems that I need to eat a lot."
"I am still in my childhood. The creatures on the Aquamarine star grow the fastest in their childhood. I believe the same is true for creatures in this different world."
When Ye Chen said to himself, the cold voice sounded again:
"The host has reached its infancy!"
"Task has been released!"
Fourth-Rank Mission: Condensing Demon Core
Task description: Collect 1,000 elemental powers by eating to condense the first demon core.
Task reward: 1000 points of evolution.
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"Evolution value?"
Seeing these two words, Ye Chen was also curious.
I don't know what this thing does.
But the task of condensing the demon core must be completed.
The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and a few dark clouds hang over the forest at the foot of the mountain.
At night, the forest at the foot of the mountain is very quiet.
Many monsters are active during the day, and there are also monsters active at night, but most of them are small monsters.
This is why Ye Chen chose to go out at night for food.
Walking on the ground not far from the cave, Ye Chen looked down for something from time to time.
Turning over a small rock, a small black bug crawled out.
Ye Chen pecked it down without hesitation and swallowed it.
Earth element +1.
Physical strength +0.3.
After a while, Ye Chen found another bug.
Fire element +1.
Physical strength +0.2.
In the beginning, Ye Chen was very reluctant to eat such things.
After trying several times, Ye Chen gradually felt that the smell of this little bug was not bad.
Tender, with a slightly sweet feeling.
And the element value can be obtained every time.
Elemental value is the key to condense the demon core.
The current Ye Chen can only be regarded as an ordinary fierce beast cub, one demon core short of the real beast.
Ye Chen kept walking along the path, looking for little bugs along the way.
The physical strength and elemental value are also increasing.
Along the way, he has not forgotten the talent of always opening the danger perception.
This helped him avoid many dangerous monsters.
On one occasion, Ye Chen even found a Tier 1 monster that was only a palm.
It was a terrifying ghost-faced spider, hiding behind an uncle.
Regardless of its small size, it was a monster with a demon core.
If Ye Chen didn't have the talent for danger perception, I'm afraid he would really not be able to notice the presence of the opponent.
This also reminded Ye Chen.
Danger does not only depend on the size of the body.
After two hours of foraging, Ye Chen found a bush and began to check his harvest.
Physical strength: 1.2
Elemental value: 77 points for fire element, 32 points for earth element, 12 points for water element, 1 point for light element.
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After the physical strength reached 1.2, Ye Chen's body shape was bigger.
The original fine fluff has become denser and the color darker.
From the appearance point of view, it also felt a bit fierce.
Unfortunately, it is still a baby bird.
From the perspective of harvest, Ye Chen found that the harvest of the fire element was the most.
This may be related to the aura around here.
The strong fire aura has produced a large number of fire creatures.
"In that case, I might as well focus on one direction, try to collect fire elements first, and strive to condense the demon core."
The reason for collecting is because Ye Chen discovered another thing.
Collect element values, not only by eating bugs.
It's okay to swallow Lingzhi.
Many plants with aura are more valuable than small bugs.
Even once, Ye Chen swallowed a beautiful red fruit, which increased the ignition element value by 20.
But Ye Chen didn't dare to swallow Lingzhi in large quantities.
After all, he didn't know the ingredients of these spiritual plants, if he swallowed the poisonous spiritual plants by mistake, he would be killed if he didn't keep them.
In order to obtain element values ​​faster, Ye Chen thought of a good way.
...
The smoke billowed and the flames boiled.
This is the most hidden place in the forest at the foot of the mountain.
A small lava pit.
Ye Chen poked his head out of the grass and looked at the lava pit excitedly.
He followed the red heart worm all the way here.
Red heart bugs are bugs that increase the value of the fire element after being swallowed.
When Ye Chen was searching for insects, he deliberately kept an eye on it.
He simply recorded the distribution and density of various element insects.
As a result, he found that the closer to the edge of the forest, the easier it is to spot red heart worms.
Therefore, he boldly speculated that there must be a strong fire element somewhere in this direction.
"I really guessed it."
Ye Chen licked his beak excitedly.
In the lava pit ahead, molten bubbles float up from time to time.
The strong black smoke makes people afraid to approach.
But in the center of the lava pit, a strange plant grows.
It was a fascinating red flower with nine petals.
And the ninth petal, which was much smaller than the other eight petals, had just emerged.
"Elixir!"
Ye Chen was happy.