The shadow in the sky charged directly towards the gaping hole below. Of course, although this being said so, hope still stirred within him—he prayed that the entity below wasn’t what he feared it might be... Things were not so simple, but as one of the Strong Ones, he had invested too much in that thing below. If it were truly destroyed, he didn’t know if he would go insane. As the dark being suddenly jumped aside to make room, the Strong One within the shadow plunged into the earth with a force that shook the heavens and the earth, utterly terrifying in its intensity. The speed from above to below quickened in an instant. Below the surface, Jia Yan was still desperately squeezing into that space. As an Evolutionary Creature, he had devoured plenty, but this was his first encounter with something so difficult to devour! "Keep pushing, the Strong One from above will be here soon... Huh? Why has the descent speed of the Strong One increased so much!?" Jia Yan originally wanted to encourage himself, but after sensing the speed of the Strong One descending from above, his heart sank. The other’s descending speed was like a different person’s, speeding up unimaginably. Previously, their arrival might have been half an hour later, but now it had been brought forward to just fifteen minutes! "I must also speed up. Among those arriving, there is an entity with terrifying strength!" Having realized this, Jia Yan’s anxiety instantly turned into motivation! Squeak, squeak, squeak!! His speed in squeezing forward suddenly increased. His current speed also increased several times. He was going all out! In the approaching other’s sense of speed, he could feel their fury. Jia Yan didn’t know if what he was excavating now was the same entity as before; he only knew that if he didn’t fully absorb the Mutating Energy, his own mutation wouldn’t proceed smoothly. More importantly, without that energy entering his body, even if some Mutating Energy had emerged, his current strength would still not allow him to escape! His only hope of escape was to acquire sufficient Mutating Energy at this moment, then use this overflowing energy to flee from this mining site! Although it really was a desperate venture with slim chances of survival, it was still better than having no hope at all! "Faster, faster, faster, faster!!" Jia Yan was incredibly agitated, using his own perception to sense the entity approaching from above. His body desperately squeezed into a gigantic material similar to a Chaos Stone! "Huh? What is this?!" Suddenly, as Jia Yan truly reached the core of the material, he was startled. Right before him, a light burst forth, its intense brilliance almost blinding. Jia Yan, somewhat astonished, stared at the anomaly in front of him, somewhat unable to react. This central material of the anomaly was a strange pond of bluish-gray liquid. It was an entity resembling the Chaos Stone from the outside world, but the energy it contained was extremely horrifying—it could even be said that this pond’s Energy Liquid contained energy thousands of times more terrifying than the powerful Chaos Stones of the outside world! "What a terrifying Energy Liquid, it’s even a hundred times more dreadful than the materials enveloping it! What on earth is this?" Jia Yan, somewhat in disbelief, dared not approach the pool of material because the terrifying energy emanating from its surface almost made him feel like his entire body was being torn apart—this feeling was close to causing him death. Sometimes, even Evolutionary Creatures don’t dare to devour everything with immense energy, otherwise wouldn’t it be more thrilling to drive a spaceship straight into a stellar body? And this material also reached a point where Jia Yan almost dared not touch it. Its energy was so vast that Jia Yan felt, if he touched too much of it, something unexpected might happen to his body. Jia Yan dared not touch the bluish-gray liquid, so his body could only voraciously devour the upgraded version of the Chaos Stone material surrounding it. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!!!! However, as he devoured these materials more rapidly, the speed of the Strong One bombarding from above also increased, seemingly Jia Yan’s urgency grew stronger as he devoured more. Just ten minutes later, the approaching sounds of the bombardment had closed in on Jia Yan’s location, now just about a kilometer or so away. "It’s no use; I’m not devouring fast enough!" Jia Yan looked at the Condensation Fluid secreting from his body. At this point, he hadn’t even devoured half of the gigantic material, and his perception was that the Mutating Energy in his body was still far from enough, certainly not just a bit to satisfy the mutation. As a mighty Early Star Space Powerhouse, if just any material could cause a mutation, it would be far too devaluing. Jia Yan now realized that the energy needed for his mutation probably exceeded his estimate, because he felt, even if he completely absorbed this gigantic material and expelled the waste from his body, he would probably need to devour all the Chaos Stone within two kilometers to complete this mutation! "No good! Only seven hundred meters left! The other party is rushing so urgently, they probably won’t negotiate nicely, will they? Is the Mutating Energy I currently have enough to escape a pursuit of this level? Impossible!"