Chapter 3
Now, Zhou Bofu is very happy. He successfully obtained a magical formula that he had been dreaming of for many years. Countless Xianxia jokes are constantly swirling in his mind. "I've made it big, I'm going to become a Buddha and create my own sect hahaha, the world is mine!!!!!! The power to return has been solved!!!!! This is a small step for me, but a giant leap for humanity hahaha!!!!" Basically, Zhou Bofu is currently in a state of madness……… After a long time, he finally calmed down. Now, there's still one problem, which is how to get down the mountain and solve the problem of food and survival afterwards. He carefully tested the footholds on the slope with his hind legs, while the claws on his wings grasped the cracks created by the previous formula, slowly sliding down bit by bit. After a long and arduous struggle, Zhou Bofu finally crawled to the ground. Now, there's only one problem left, which is to get animal protein as soon as possible.
"Hahaha, as the most ferocious and successful predator in 2 million years, from Australopithecus to the ancestors of Cro-Magnon humans are watching me, catching birds and beasts is a piece of cake. Even if I take a step back, at least now I am also a large bird of prey, catching something is completely a big man's thing. And now he has become a bird, a strange feeling of liberation quietly emerges..."
Three days later, Zhou Bofu was extremely disheartened. In three days, he hadn't caught a single living thing... No, actually, he had seen many insects, but when it came to eating them, he just couldn't bring himself to open his mouth.
"What a great man Bear Grylls is...... If he appeared in front of me now, I would immediately kneel down and ask to be supported. At least let him teach me how to eat a scorpion with an unchanged expression."
Three days passed, and Zhou Bofu barely survived on the fruit porridge, his mouth was so dry that it felt like a bird's beak. The ambition he had three days ago had long been fed to the dogs. If it weren't for the fact that the yin-yang incantation had tempered his body, and the weather being the end of summer and beginning of autumn when all things are ripe, he would have probably become a dead bird by now. In those three days, the uncontrollable yin-yang incantation visited him once, still making him vomit repeatedly. The void sensed the origin world's affairs visiting him three times, at least he was certain that he could see his family once a day now. As for his body, due to another visit from the yin-yang incantation, it had actually been strengthened a bit. However, as a carnivorous creature - whether in past or present life - he still yearned to get his hands on some meat. "Damn it, I've lost face for my ancestors! And I don't even dare to venture deep into the forest to hunt... After all, now I just want to turn others into crap rather than becoming someone else's crap. It's really, how hard can it be..."
He was muttering to himself when suddenly his eyes flashed, and a few meters away, something seemed to be there? Zhou Bosi looked intently and found that it was a snake... ...a snake!!!
"Meat!!!!!!!!!!"
He pounced over with the momentum of a thunderbolt, and his sharp claws popped out with a "ding" sound, firmly pinning the snake to the ground. His paw had pierced the snake's head, and it was clear that the snake meat was already in hand.
"Ah, very good." Zhou Bofu is now very excited. "This is a... uh... I've seen this kind of snake before, it's a black-browed cat snake, right? Generally 2 meters in length, non-venomous snake. Very good."
With another reference object, Zhou Bofu reassessed his size. Indeed, the previous estimate was a bit small, and now the dimensions should be... Standing height about 1.6 meters, total length about 2 meters, similar to a snake's length, wingspan about 2.5 meters, and the sharp claws on the hind feet are about 10 centimeters long, quite long. The mouth is probably around 15-20 centimeters in length, can't be measured in detail.
Then it's about how to eat the first piece of raw meat. According to birds, it seems that they should tear and swallow, but according to human souls, they should roast with fire in their stomachs. Zhou Bofu thought for a moment and decided to swallow directly. It's simple, this is an immortal world, although theoretically animals should be afraid of fire, but actually if the fire ghost knows it will bring what kind of cow ghosts and snake gods, by then crying won't even come in time. Finally and most importantly, he couldn't even find a sturdy piece of tree bark, let alone drill wood to make fire, as for the yang fire of yin-yang jue? Hmm, ghosts know when they'll come, this method is uncontrollable. So in the end, he used his claws and mouth to tear the snake into several segments and swallowed them directly, anyway he usually eats raw beef, raw fish slices, etc., now being a bird he has no psychological barriers at all.
Three months have passed, and Zhou Bofu is still alive and has made some gains. First, he confirmed that the ghostly yin-yang incantation occurs once every other day, completely beyond his control, so he had a total of 15 near-death experiences, with his M attribute bursting forth, feeling like he's not himself if it doesn't come once every other day... After 15 times, the gains came, and he was finally able to slightly control the flow of "qi" within his body. Additionally, Zhou Bofu has now vowed to become a demon, so this qi is now referred to as "demon qi".
Secondly, the hunting effect is not bad, since catching the first prey. Digging traps and setting up ambushes have been developed one after another, and the part of being "the most ferocious successful predator 200w years ago" in his soul has begun to awaken. After all, even if he hadn't hunted before, at least he had watched a lot on TV in the past. Now, he lives a life with meat every day.
Finally, he found a small excuse for himself to go home: this place doesn't even have seasonings, everything can only be eaten raw. Snakes and rabbits are fine, but swallowing mice alive is really disgusting.
For three months, his body has grown a circle bigger, but the tragedy is that the weather has already started to frost, and he still has that white short fluff on him. The temperature has dropped a lot. However, Zhou Bofu didn't feel cold at all, so this lazy guy didn't think of making a nest at all... Still sticking to his eat-and-sleep-anywhere style. I reckon it won't be long before he gets a color change.
"Damn it, why is it still downy until now? When can this bird finally molt? This juvenile period is too long!"
Time flies, and another month has passed. Snowflakes have begun to fall, and small animals on the outskirts of the forest are becoming increasingly difficult to catch. Zhou Bofu finally gained control over the flow of yin-yang energy. Due to the strong demonic energy, his body is becoming stronger, but he needs to eat less every day, seemingly showing signs of Bigu (a state of not eating). On this day, while controlling the flow of demonic energy, he divided his attention to observe its trajectory. Whether it was extremely cold or hot demonic energy, the movement trajectory was always intermittent, unable to connect together. It would always flow for a certain distance before skipping over some stages and continuing to flow in the next segment, as if there were water gates in the river. Now, according to the books he read at the starting point, whether it was the messy Qi-gathering books or others, they all seemed to require breaking through these water gates step by step. So he slightly advanced into the depths of the forest, found a hollow under a tree root, and drilled inside. Then he closed his eyes and began to regulate his breath.
