Chapter 263

The Leviathan flew up the cliff. The closer it got to the top of the canyon, the louder the young wyvern screeched. Lin could feel that... it was very happy. Perhaps because it was too young, it could not tell if the Leviathan was a predator, but it knew that it was close to its nest.

Sure enough, the wyvern's nest was above the canyon, but what kind of place was it?

The Leviathan had flown for about two thousand meters and came out of the dark depths of the canyon. The place was shrouded in fog, and the young wyvern kept screeching towards the south.

The Leviathan flew towards the south. The further it went, the thinner the fog became.

Until the fog completely dissipated …

"Caw!"

With the young wyvern's cry, a world appeared before the Leviathan's eyes.

This was a vast place. The ground here was covered with low green plants. Occasionally, there would be tall trees in this green land. In the distance, there was a jungle environment. Even further away, Lin could see a towering mountain. At the top of the mountain, there was black smoke constantly billowing out.

It was a perfect environment. It was completely different from the wasteland Lin saw before. There were only bones and death in that area, but the terrifying plague fungus seemed to be blocked by the huge rift that was ten kilometers wide. It did not affect the life in the rift at all. Lin did not know why the fungus could not float over, but it was a wonderful feeling.

The Leviathan slowly landed on the ground. The ground was covered by a large number of short green plants. These plants were not moss. They were a new kind of plant. It seemed to be the evolved form of moss. They grew long, straight leaves and had deeply buried roots, so they were called 'grass'.

The animals here were even more wonderful to Lin.

At this time, a large group of small reptiles about one meter tall ran in front of the Leviathan. These creatures moved with their legs, but their speed was quite fast. They quickly rushed to the side of a lake in the grassland. They looked for food by the water.

There were other kinds of reptiles around the tree. There was a two-meter-long fat creature drinking by the water. There were also some long-headed reptiles that Lin had seen in the canyon before.

There were quite a lot of creatures gathered by the water's edge. Most of them were no more than two meters long. Lin had once made an evolutionary prediction of the various small reptiles in the Twisted Jungle, and these creatures were very much in line with her prediction.

Reptiles would become bigger and break away from their previous small size. Some of them might start to stand on their hind legs, just like the scene of reptiles slowly evolving.

But after seeing one of them, Lin didn't think so.

A huge creature walked to the lakeside with heavy steps. It stood on four thick limbs, and its tail and neck were especially long. When it raised its head, it was more than six meters tall, and its body was twelve meters long. The creature stretched its neck and roared at the sky, as if announcing its territory.

Lin realized that she could refer to these creatures as' dragons' in her mind. These creatures were not creatures that could evolve from small reptiles that had just broken away from large arthropods. They had to go through an extremely long period of evolution at the very least.

Of course, there was another possibility. If they were creatures that specialized in division of labor, their evolution speed would be much faster. But these creatures … were clearly not specialized in division of labor. They were reptiles that had gone through an extremely long period of evolution.

Perhaps for some reason, they evolved earlier than the reptiles in other regions. Perhaps there were no large arthropods here, or perhaps the large arthropods here had declined earlier for some reason, giving the reptiles the opportunity and time to evolve.

This continent was separated by a huge rift valley. Outside was a skeletal desert destroyed by fungi, while here was a large reptile world. The wyvern Lin saw before should have flown out from here.

As for the young wyverns, they should have been brought into the canyon by the large wyverns.

This feeling was really fun. Looking at the huge reptile by the lake, Lin decided to name it 'Dome Dragon' because of its round head.

In fact, it was a name that came into her mind, so Lin just called it that.

Judging from these creatures, it seemed that reptiles could grow larger than arthropods. Excluding specialized creatures like the Deep Sand Bus or the Earth Splitter, the largest wild arthropods on land were lava spiders. But the Dome Dragon surpassed the lava spiders in size. Although the lava spiders had large legs, their bodies were actually very small. The Mist Worm should be larger, but worms weren't arthropods.

Most importantly, no matter what the reason was, the reptiles here definitely didn't evolve as long as arthropods, and the Dome Dragon shouldn't be the largest creature here.

As expected, vertebrates had the potential to become 'giant'?

While Lin was thinking, the water beside the Dome Dragon suddenly surged. A large mouth rushed out of the water and pounced on the Dome Dragon that was drinking water.

Lin remembered that this mouth was the one that ate the wyverns in the canyon. In this bright environment, Lin noticed that this was no ordinary animal. The skin structure of this' mouth 'was more like two leaves of a plant, and the middle was full of thorns.

Of course, it was also possible that this was an animal that grew out of a plant to make it easier to disguise itself.

But when it rushed out of the water, the Dome Dragon retracted its neck in time, and the mouth didn't manage to bite it. It retreated and tried to return to the water, but the Dome Dragon stepped forward and stood on its hind legs, raising its forelegs high.

Boom!

The Dome Dragon's thick forelimbs stomped heavily on the mouth, and with a crack, a large amount of dark red liquid burst out of the mouth.

It felt like blood. The Dome Dragon walked away after stomping on it. It seemed that it didn't eat this. Lin thought that maybe she should study it …

The Leviathan floated up from the grass and flew towards the lake. The wyvern was still crying, but Lin ignored it. When the Leviathan got close to the strange 'mouth,' she immediately reached out with her tentacles, preparing to dissect it and study it …

Lin found that the creature's structure was very strange. It looked like a carnivorous plant she had seen before — the Death Spike.

Thud!

Suddenly, a stone hit the Leviathan's carapace. Floating astronomy.

PS: Thank you ~ Xingyu ~ Lingge ~ Wen He ~ for the tip ~