According to measurements by mechanists, an ant can lift objects more than 400 times its own body weight, and can drag items over 1,700 times its own weight. American Harvard University entomologist Mark Moffett is a scholar with considerable research on Asian ants. According to his observations, more than ten united ants can carry maggots or other food weighing over 5,000 times their own combined body weight. This is equivalent to ten burly men, each weighing 70 kilograms, moving a load of 3,500 tons—meaning each person would be carrying 350 tons. From the perspective of relative strength, ants are truly the champions of strength. Why do such tiny ants possess such incredible power? Scientists have conducted extensive research and analysis, proving that an ant’s body is a miniature animal nutrition treasure trove: every 100 grams of ants can produce 2,929 kilojoules (700 kilocalories) of energy. Scientists have discovered that the muscles in an ant’s legs are highly efficient “engines,” and these “muscle engines” are composed of tens of billions of subtle “mini-engines.” Therefore, ants can generate such extraordinary and exceptional strength...

Seeing all this, Ethan Bolton's eyes flashed with a clear glint!

Yes, his strength had increased. It seemed that this devouring had absorbed the ant’s characteristic strength!

“Lifting objects more than 400 times my own weight! My body weight is 70KG, so by that calculation, I could lift 28,000KG! That’s 56,000 jin! This still seems a bit unrealistic! I’m only devouring, not actually an ant—huh?”

Just as he thought this, suddenly, Ethan Bolton felt a peculiar sensation swirling in his mind. So, after a brief moment of contemplation, he once again focused his mind and entered the crystal space at the center of his brow.

At this moment, the space no longer had the grayish-white mist. It seemed that after devouring the ant, the mist had been completely consumed.

Ethan Bolton wasn’t particularly surprised by this. What struck him as odd was that this space, about three meters in length, width, and height, now seemed to have expanded just a little bit more. Although the increase wasn’t much, the sensation was quite distinct.

Not only that, but the space felt even more solid to Ethan Bolton. And when his awareness approached the white crystal, he felt a slight pause, then saw that outside the original halo, there was now an additional halo with only a small half-segment of white light!

Clearly, the second ring outside the white crystal had been lit up, but it hadn’t yet formed a complete circle!

When his awareness touched this roughly one-sixth segment of the white ring, Ethan Bolton felt another sudden pause, and then a kind of instinctive realization arose abruptly—just like a newborn baby instinctively knows how to suckle, it seemed to be a completely subconscious, instinctive understanding!

Heavenly Eye Devouring! Gene Copying! Extraction of Superior Genes! Gene Recombination! Acquiring the abilities of superior biological genes! Beginning gene evolution! The lifeform begins to fuse and grow!

This inexplicable, sudden understanding felt as if it had always existed, without the slightest sense of abruptness.

Moreover, in that instant, Ethan Bolton understood even more: once the third ring of the white crystal was reached, it was no longer necessary to directly capture a creature into the Heavenly Eye space. Instead, he only needed to use his mental power to scan inside the creature’s body, and upon returning, the special essence within the Heavenly Eye space would immediately begin to recombine the target’s superior genes, extract them, and start fusing and combining them, evolving toward a perfect lifeform!

Strangely, Ethan Bolton even saw several rather clear images—these images were a kind of visual impact formed by an almost instinctive realization!

This kind of visual impact formed by sensation was quite mysterious, but it was like inherited memory! At the very least, Ethan Bolton now felt that he had inexplicably understood many things, and had completely absorbed those clear images.

Those images depicted the process of using the devouring ability, and although there were no words explaining the process, Ethan Bolton could fully comprehend and grasp it.

Through this realization, Ethan Bolton understood: this comprehension was precisely caused by the evolution of the crystal at the center of his brow! And the prerequisite for evolution was devouring and absorption!

“According to this instinctive feeling, this ability can generate essence, and the use of essence mainly has two modes: one should be the gene optimization mode, and the other should be the talent absorption mode! If that’s the case, when the intensity of the essence reaches a certain level, it should even be possible to directly enter another person’s brain and copy their powerful traits and enhanced genes.

If that’s the case, then for ants, there’s no need to bring them into the crystal space at the center of the brow. Instead, I can simply use the essence to circulate inside their bodies, scan them, and then have the essence return to my own brow space, completing the gene combination, fusion, and restructuring of my own genes. In this way, I can certainly acquire the ant’s special ability—strength—while also gaining some understanding of the ant’s physical condition and structure!”