Chapter 574: Devour! Devour! Devour! Devour Forth a Tiger's Vigor, Devour Forth a Thousand-Mile Leap

“Get ready to jump! We’re not going into the sea! We’re leveling up first!”

Seeing the situation in the distance, Shen Fei, who had been frantically fleeing with the dinosaur stampede, instantly changed his strategy. Escaping was crucial, but leveling up was just as important. There hadn’t been an opportunity before, but now, the sight of countless LV0s and LV1s spread across the vast beach made him anxious.

He had never imagined such a scene, and he worried that it would be fleeting. The countless LV0s and LV1s were enough for his team to get through their most vulnerable Newborn Stage. As long as they passed that, their team could snowball and grow with incredible speed.

“Hurry! Xiaohong, you go first!” Shen Fei shouted, not wanting to waste a single second of this fleeting opportunity. “Zero, Black Tortoise, the three of us will dive deep the moment we hit the water! Black Tortoise, you’ll carry the two of us to that beach!”

At the same time, he sent Xiaohong out, telling her to fly ahead and start Devouring. With her flight, she could get there the fastest. Shen Fei’s thinking was that even if he and Zero didn’t succeed, as long as one member of their team made it past the Newborn Stage, it would be incredibly important—perhaps even sufficient—for the entire group.

“ROAR!”

“ROOOAR!”

“ROOOOAR!”

The moment Shen Fei made his decision, before Xiaohong could even flap her wings, Black Tortoise, who had been quiet the whole way, suddenly raised its head and let out a loud cry.

“There, there,” Shen Fei immediately understood what was going on and started comforting it. “They’re just turtle eggs. They’re not *your* eggs… Besides, you’re the great Black Tortoise! You’re not even the same kind of creature as these Dinosaur Era turtles! Don’t be sad!”

The LV0s and LV1s covering the distant beach were all little turtles and turtle eggs. Turtles from the same era as the dinosaurs had laid countless eggs on this beach, and these eggs had now become Shen Fei’s target. When Black Tortoise saw the newly hatched LV1 turtles that looked so much like itself, it couldn’t help but cry out at the same moment Shen Fei announced his plan.

Unfortunately for it, Black Tortoise’s emotions were quickly soothed by Shen Fei’s words. After being comforted, Black Tortoise stared at Shen Fei with its pair of small, pitch-black, round eyes, as if to say, ‘You better not be lying to me!’

“I’m not!” Shen Fei insisted, continuing his orders under Black Tortoise’s intense gaze. “You’re the Black Tortoise, not a turtle! You’re the Water God!”

SWOOSH!

While he was speaking, Xiaohong had already flapped her wings and was gliding toward the beach.

SPLASH.

Not long after Xiaohong flew off, the Triceratops carrying Shen Fei and the others finally stepped into the water.

PLOP! PLOP! PLOP!

Shortly after the dinosaur entered the water, the three figures on its head leaped off. Without a second thought, they held their breath as planned and dove deep.

Shen Fei saw that most of the dinosaurs knew how to swim. After rushing into the water, nearly all of them quickly surfaced, paddling forward with their limbs. This chaotic scene allowed Shen Fei and the others, who were diving into the depths, to avoid being bumped into. Furthermore, with the help of Black Tortoise—a natural swimmer—Shen Fei and Zero were pulled through the water in a rapid arc. They dodged the stampede and crawled out onto the beach on the other side.

“Quick! Devour!”

They had finally arrived at their destination, just as planned. The Triceratops they had been on was part of the dinosaur stampede’s vanguard. Seeing more and more dinosaurs charging into the water behind them, Shen Fei gasped for air and shouted, springing into action. They were truly pulling chestnuts out of the fire.

Behind the stampede, the massive Level 1000 Thorns was still in pursuit. The entire dinosaur stampede was only about ten kilometers long, which meant they didn’t have much time to Devour the turtle eggs. They had to get back into the water and escape before the entire herd was submerged and the super Thorns caught up. In fact, because of their short little legs, they might even have to retreat into the water while a small portion of the stampede was still on land.

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!

There was no time to ponder why a super Thorns that created dinosaur stampedes even existed in the Dinosaur Era. Confirming they were short on time, Shen Fei took the lead, guiding Zero and Black Tortoise in a mad dash toward the screen-filling sea of LV0s and LV1s.

A few minutes later, they charged onto the beach, which was covered in turtle eggs and recently hatched turtles. Before he started Devouring, Shen Fei glanced up at Li Xiaohong, who was already circling in the sky above.

“Holy crap! So fast!”

He saw that Li Xiaohong, who had been LV1 just like them a few minutes ago, was now an astonishing LV31. In that short amount of time, Xiaohong had already leveled up more than thirty times.

“Let’s go!”

Watching Li Xiaohong fly above the beach, picking off turtles over LV10, Shen Fei didn’t hesitate. He charged directly at a small turtle in front of him that had just hatched, its level ticking over from LV0 to LV1.