Evolution Begins with Elemental Domination

But it was all too dangerous.

"Just remember to be careful."

Xue Yao hesitated for a moment. She had once been confused and resentful toward this man who had abandoned her sister, but after the entire city transmigrated and the world had changed so drastically, all those feelings had melted away, leaving only a simple, brief blessing.

Su Chen didn’t look at that familiar face. His Small Straight Knife hovered above his hand, as if magnetically suspended.

After a second of hesitation, he replied, "You too. Take care of yourself."

Theoretically, the two of them had no real relationship anymore. The link between them had been severed long ago. They could only be considered strangers who had once been in contact.

Su Chen had no responsibility or obligation to interfere in her life.

’I wish her all the best.’

"Mm."

Xue Yao replied softly. She smoothed the wrinkles on her clothes, then stood up. After a brief farewell, she walked toward the living room.

Five seconds after she left, an unseen force was once again applied to the Small Straight Knife, and Su Chen resumed his simple Telekinesis practice.

Half an hour later, seeing that the majestic migrating jellyfish had long since disappeared, he didn’t linger. After a quick word with the people in the living room, he cast Wind Silk Clothing and headed out into the rain.

He also opened a black, long-handled umbrella.

The rain had started to let up.

Some people even came out to hunt for monsters.

The Courtyard Resort’s cluster of villas was large and complex, and some monsters that had lost their way had taken shelter from the rain inside. After all, this place was on high ground, far better than their nests, which had been flooded by the downpour.

But their good fortune didn’t last long. A few people had already discovered them and begun to hunt.

Su Chen saw an armored armadillo emerge from a crossroads in front of him, its Scale Armor glinting coldly in the rain. With a mere thought, a highly compressed wave of Telekinesis surged forth silently. The normally formless and intangible Spiritual Fluctuation now carried a scorching, fiery light.

BOOM!

The armadillo’s head exploded. Shards of Bone Armor and a spray of blood mist erupted outward as its body crashed to the ground.

"What the hell?"

The two figures who had been chasing it were startled. From their perspective, the armadillo’s head had just exploded from a distance without any warning.

Seeing a tall figure pass by at the intersection to their left, they froze in apprehension.

At the same time, two items floated up from the still-smoking corpse: a Fire Element essence and an earth-brown Rune. Both were pulled by an unseen force, landing steadily in the figure’s canvas bag.

The passing figure didn’t even pause, simply disappearing into the depths of the rain as if nothing had happened.

Su Chen’s little test of his new power had an immediate and lethal effect.

The ’Strong Thought Burst,’ formed by combining the Flame Burst and Telekinesis Runes, was indeed astonishingly lethal.

Although casting it instantly from a distance meant it couldn’t channel the full, maximum output of Flame Burst, even at half power, it could still achieve an instant kill as long as it struck a monster’s biological weak point. At worst, it would still inflict heavy damage.

As for its other drawbacks, his limited Spiritual Power was a major constraint. His Telekinesis’s effective Perception Range only extended fifteen meters in front of him.

’This is probably related to my Intelligence Attribute.’

Su Chen knew there was a way to break through this limitation.

However, there was a way to solve the problem of its limited range.

When he arrived at a grassy camping area, he saw a dilapidated canvas tent, half-collapsed on the lawn. A Forest Wolf with a mangled left hind leg was curled up inside, clearly having been injured during the migration.

’A target has appeared.’

Stopping more than thirty-five meters away, Su Chen raised his right hand slightly. Telekinesis surged like a tide, rapidly compressing and coalescing in front of his palm to form a fist-sized, rapidly spinning, invisible shell.

At the same time, the Flame Burst Rune in his Sea of Consciousness suddenly lit up. Scorching Fire Energy poured into the projectile without reservation, instantly dying the entire shell crimson. Wisps of heat began to rise from its surface, distorting the air.

The next moment, it shot forward like a fired cannon.

BOOM!

The Telekinesis Shell completely vaporized the tent and the Forest Wolf beneath it. A fireball erupted into the air, and a powerful, cone-shaped shockwave blasted outward. Even after its initial force dissipated, the attack still carved a ten-meter-long, scorched trench in the ground behind it.

’Not bad.’

Su Chen was satisfied. This was another way to activate Strong Thought Burst. When both Runes were used at full power, the effect was truly impressive.

The Forest Wolf had been a slender creature, easily over three meters long, yet not a single drop of its blood had been spilled.

But because the attack was so overwhelmingly powerful, he couldn’t find a single essence after the downpour extinguished the residual flames.

’That was like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.’

He wasn’t too concerned about such a minor loss, though.

Soon, Su Chen tried a new trick. He quickly enveloped his entire body with Telekinesis, lifting himself up and breaking free from the earth’s pull. He immediately began to fly forward. Before long, braving the curtain of rain, he successfully reached the temporary RV park.

Thanks to its position on high ground, the area couldn’t flood. So, aside from the possibility of a monster attack, there was no need to worry much about the RVs’ safety.

Unit 13 was also fine. After circling it once, he saw no signs of any damage.

To prevent monsters from breaking into the RV park, Su Chen made a point of patrolling the area. He confirmed that a few of the surrounding RVs were gone. It didn’t look like they had been stolen; rather, their owners had likely moved them to find a safer place to wait out the rain.

But moving rashly to another spot could be like a sheep walking into a tiger’s den.

Just then, the window of an RV lit up. Liao Dahai’s face appeared, and he waved out the window in greeting.