Qin Renhuang just became an immortal, and you told me this is the prehistoric time

Its abdomen ruptured at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a dozen or so small goblins, no bigger than a palm but already with sharp teeth and claws, crawled out of the mother's body, covered in slime and blood!
These newborn little monsters, whose eyes were not yet fully open, made high-pitched "chirping" sounds. Without any hesitation, they immediately surrounded the still convulsing mother, opened their tiny mouths full of fine teeth, and began to devour her!
In just a short while, the female goblin was reduced to a mangled skeleton.

The goblins, having had their fill, seemed to have visibly grown larger, and they wobbled as they crawled into the dark corner of their hut, beginning to adapt to this cruel world.

Ying Shaoyang withdrew his divine sense, and even with his temperament, he couldn't help but feel a chill at this moment.

So that's how it is... Using the mother's body as a warm bed and initial nourishment, they give birth to more than ten offspring at a time, and are born with a ferocious survival instinct... This is the terrifying truth behind how goblins can reproduce into a considerable population with such a small number of females!
The cruelty and strangeness of this world far exceeded his previous imagination. The survival rules and racial characteristics, so different from those of the Qin world, meant that once the two worlds collided, it would not only be a war, but a brutal showdown between two civilizations and ways of life!

Ying Shaoyang concealed his presence, moving slowly above the goblin town like an indifferent bystander, his divine sense meticulously scanning every corner, observing this strange and cruel race.

He saw a relatively large female pigman being roughly dragged into a large hut by several goblins.

The female pig-man screamed in terror and struggled desperately, but to no avail. Inside the hut, dozens of goblins who had been waiting swarmed in…

A moment later, when the female pig-man was dragged out, although she was covered in wounds and her breath was weak, Ying Shaoyang's divine sense clearly "saw" that dozens of tiny embryos were forming inside her body at an astonishing speed!

The female pig-man was bound with rough vines and thrown into a relatively clean corner, guarded by several goblins to prevent her from being eaten by other starving members of her kind. Clearly, she had become a valuable "breeding tool" for this tribe.

The other goblins passing by, though drooling with envy, dared not approach and snatch it.

Ying Shaoyang repeatedly probed with his divine sense and confirmed that neither the goblins nor these pig-headed, human-bodied creatures showed any signs of cultivation, internal energy, true qi, or magical fluctuations.

What they rely on is their naturally strong physique, terrifying reproductive speed, and this...almost illogical reproductive characteristic.

He noticed that the number of adult female pigmen in the city was also extremely small, but they seemed to bear a more important reproductive task than female goblins.

The embryo develops at an astonishing speed, completing its initial development in a very short time after conception.

"Different races can interact so...without any barriers?"

A huge question arose in Ying Shaoyang's mind.

In the Qin world, there is a natural reproductive barrier between different species, which is part of the laws of nature.

In this world, goblins and pigmen, two creatures with completely different appearances and structures, can actually interbreed and quickly reproduce? This completely overturned his understanding.

His divine sense, like invisible ripples, swept across the entire small town once again.

This time, he perceived things much more clearly.

In the largest shack in the center of the city, built of bones and stones, he sensed an aura whose life strength had reached a stable first-level life level, far exceeding that of an ordinary goblin!
"If the leader of a small town has such power... what kind of powerful individuals must exist in larger settlements, or even in the depths of this world?"

Ying Shaoyang's mood grew increasingly heavy.

The basic combat strength of this world is frighteningly high.

To obtain more direct information, Ying Shaoyang flashed and teleported like a ghost to the dirty streets of the small town, revealing his figure.

The surrounding goblins were stunned at first, but then their bulging eyes immediately flashed with greed and excitement at the sight of fresh food, and they pounced forward with a hiss.

Ying Shaoyang didn't even look at them; he merely stirred his thoughts, and the invisible energy around him trembled slightly.

"Boom bang bang..."

The goblins that rushed at him were as if they had crashed into an invisible steel wall when they were still several feet away from his body. Then, his body seemed to be crushed by a huge force, and he instantly exploded into a cloud of blood mist and bits of flesh. Then, he was purified by a pure yang aura and turned into ashes and scattered.

He casually reached out and grabbed at an ordinary goblin standing frozen in fear. The goblin didn't even have time to scream before it fainted and was immediately taken into the stone gate space, where he planned to take it back for further study.

His gaze fell upon a huge cave on the edge of the small town, which exuded a strong metallic aura.

He strolled toward the cave, and all the goblins that tried to attack him or simply blocked his way disintegrated and turned to ashes when they got within a certain range of him, leaving behind an empty space.

Upon entering the cave, Ying Shaoyang's gaze sharpened at the sight before him. Inside, various metal ores were piled up like small mountains. These ores were deep in color and extremely dense; any piece he picked up weighed far more than an iron ore of the same volume in the Great Qin World.

There were also a large number of finished weapons piled up haphazardly next to them. The vast majority of them were heavy weapons such as maces, giant hammers, and cubits. They were crudely designed, but made of extremely solid materials. Each one weighed more than several hundred kilograms!

Ying Shaoyang picked up a short-handled warhammer that looked relatively "small" and weighed it in his hand. It probably weighed no less than 300 pounds.

In the Qin Dynasty, only generals who had cultivated external martial arts and possessed immense strength could wield this weapon with ease.

Here, it seems to be just the standard equipment of ordinary goblins?
He realized a serious problem.

The Qin world is not incapable of forging more sophisticated and heavier weapons; with today's technology and materials, it is entirely possible.

However, for a long time, the Qin Dynasty won its foreign wars by overwhelming force, and its army focused more on flexibility, formation coordination, and crossbow coverage, while neglecting the pursuit of ultimate armor penetration and weight for individual weapons.

In the future, imagine ordinary soldiers of the Qin Dynasty, armed with relatively lightweight swords and spears, facing an army of goblins wielding hundreds-of-pounds-heavy hammers, possessing superhuman physical abilities, and possibly overwhelming numbers… The thought alone is chilling. The disadvantage in weaponry could very well lead to instantaneous annihilation and death!
"The abundance and quality of metal ores in this world far surpass those of the Great Qin. We must obtain these ores and the casting technology!"

Ying Shaoyang made a decision in an instant.

Without further delay, he ascended into the air and hovered above the small town.

He pointed his fingers like a sword, activating the already incredibly powerful Five Thunder Divine Art rune within his body.

In an instant, dark clouds gathered above the small town, and lightning bolts danced wildly! Hundreds of blinding bolts of lightning, as thick as buckets, rained down on the dense shacks and the terrified goblin swarm below, as if the gods were enraged and carrying an aura of destruction!

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!" The roar of the thunderstorm was deafening! With each bolt of lightning, dozens or even hundreds of goblins were reduced to charred ashes in the intense sunlight.

The makeshift shacks were set ablaze, billowing thick smoke. The surviving goblins screamed in despair and scattered like ants in a swarm, many even leaping off the low city walls, braving broken bones and tendons, just to escape this sudden hell.

"The power of thunder magic used in this realm is more than five times stronger than it was in the Qin Dynasty!"

As Ying Shaoyang sensed the immense power contained within the thunder, he gained a sudden understanding.

"Yes, the spiritual energy of this world is pure and active, closely combined with energy, which greatly amplifies the power of Taoist magic and supernatural abilities."

However, he then sighed again.

"Unfortunately, the number of Taoists in our Great Qin is too small to form a large-scale Taoist army, and we cannot make full use of this environmental advantage."

When the thunder subsided, the small town below was in ruins, with charred corpses everywhere, and the surviving goblins had long since disappeared.

Ying Shaoyang waved his hand, taking all the ores, metal ingots, and heavy weapons in the cave into the stone gate space before turning his gaze to the direction in which the goblins had fled.

His figure transformed into a streak of light, silently following the trail of the fleeing goblins. In just a moment, the outline of a massive city appeared on the distant horizon.

This city was completely different from the small city he had just destroyed. The city walls were over twenty feet high, built entirely of huge, roughly cut but exceptionally sturdy gray-white boulders. From a distance, it looked like a giant beast lying on the earth, exuding a wild and heavy aura.

Its size is at least ten times that of the previous small town!
Patrol figures can be vaguely seen atop the city wall.

Ying Shaoyang's divine sense cautiously swept over it.

Within the city, millions of life forms surged! The vast majority of them were comparable to the city's leader, having reached a stable first-level life stage! The goblin residents of the city generally wore simple leather armor or coarse linen clothing, and many carried weapons.

The streets were lined with various shops, selling weapons and armor, but what was even more striking was that they were openly displaying processed pigman and goblin corpses for sale! Among the pigman corpses, male and female were clearly distinguishable.

It seems that there are more customers buying goblin meat than buying human pork.

His divine sense continued to extend outwards, and in a valley about a hundred miles away from the great city, he discovered another camp.

The aura emanating from this camp was the same as that of the pigmen in the pork shops of the city. There were several seemingly old pigmen in the camp, and... a large number of female pigmen! These female pigmen were kept in makeshift shacks, which, besides piles of goblin remains, were mostly filled with weeds and branches.

In several particularly large shacks, there were piles of large quantities of cured or dried... chunks of pig and human meat.

"I see... Pig-people also have the habit of cannibalism, and may even have formed a unique 'farming' industry chain."

Ying Shaoyang understood. It seemed that goblins and pigmen were hunter and prey to each other in this world, devouring one another, yet coexisting in a twisted way.

He judged that the overall strength of the pigmen should be roughly equal to that of the goblins.

Therefore, the main target of this great city's formidable defenses was likely the threat from the pig-man tribe or other similarly powerful races.

Ying Shaoyang focused his investigation on the core area of ​​this massive stone city.

His divine sense, like the finest tentacles, carefully avoided the ordinary goblins and probed towards the tallest and most heavily guarded buildings in the center of the city.

Soon, he sensed several auras!

These auras, like torches in the night, far surpassed those of the ordinary goblins of level one life form in the city, giving Ying Shaoyang a distinct sense of oppression.

What made his gaze even more focused was that within the two most powerful auras, he clearly sensed... fluctuations in spiritual energy!

It is not internal force, nor the power of qi and blood, but spiritual power, which is of the same origin as his cultivation system but carries the unique wild and violent attributes of this world!
"As expected... cultivators exist in this world!"

Ying Shaoyang felt a chill run down his spine. All the clues were now connected, and a larger, more dangerous world was slowly being revealed before him. He would have to be even more careful in his subsequent investigation.

This discovery instantly weighed heavily on Ying Shaoyang's mind.

If the goblin leaders not only possess powerful innate physiques but also master a unique cultivation system, then they can rely on their terrifying reproduction rate and massive population to continuously cultivate a large number of powerful individuals!
This completely shattered his previous judgment of the development logic of the goblin world—a world that relies solely on instinct and quantity, lacking any means of quality improvement.

"We must figure out their cultivation system!"

A resolute glint flashed in Ying Shaoyang's eyes.

Without further hesitation, he focused his mind on the jade pendant at his waist.

"Om-!"

The jade pendant of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Array hanging at his waist suddenly burst forth with dazzling chaotic starlight, soaring into the sky and rapidly expanding in the air! In the blink of an eye, a huge starlight canopy covering an area dozens of times larger than that of the previous small town test, like an inverted giant bowl, completely enveloped the entire megalithic city and its surrounding area!

The moment the formation was created, it began frantically absorbing the surrounding energy of heaven and earth. The goblins within the city immediately sensed the anomaly. The pure energy that had been omnipresent and nourishing their bodies seemed to have been instantly drained away by an invisible hand, replaced by a suffocating pressure and a fear stemming from their very survival instincts!

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!"

"Ow!"

A piercing, chaotic scream and howl instantly filled the entire city. Millions of goblins, like ants thrown into boiling water, began to struggle wildly and wildly.

Some of the weaker goblins suffered severe adverse reactions, vomiting and having diarrhea, leaving green filth everywhere. The entire city seemed to instantly transform into a giant, chaotic inferno. (End of Chapter)