This time around, Zhang Lie finally saw the true form of the disaster-grade lifeform.

The ornate palace appeared once again within the shell, revealing just a single lifeform within. Rainbow mist covered its translucent body, which had the texture of jelly. It was without scales and without claws.

Clams developed strong defenses to protect against a weak, fragile interior. The disaster-grade clam's ability to manufacture illusions had misled Zhang Lie into thinking that it had lost that weakness upon its evolution into a disaster-grade lifeform.

After all, disaster-grade lifeforms didn't have obvious weaknesses, so Zhang Lie had naturally thought that the illusory clamshell dragon was the disaster-grade clam's true form. Only now did he uncover the truth.

In retrospect, this should have been obvious; the evolution to disaster-grade was a dramatic one, but not so dramatic that a clam would discard its shell completely.

This was another reason the disaster-grade clam had been continuously taking advantage of the sea of mists' unusual characteristics to avoid a head-on clash with Zhang...