102: Chapter 102 Flames? Flames!

Although he didn't know what level of demon beast that distant roar belonged to, Chi Anlin thought about it and decided he shouldn't be too worried; he still had the great dao crystal given to him by his teacher.

After some searching, Chi Anlin found the eagle nest where Xiao Xing was located. He had several First Realm Ant Soldiers carry him as they flew up, and he directly entered the nest.

The eagle nest was very large. After all, the size of a Crimson Cloud Eagle was terrifyingly massive, so even after landing in the nest, Chi Anlin felt it was somewhat empty.

However, Chi Anlin spotted Xiao Xing at a glance.

At this moment, Xiao Xing was sitting on the head of a young eagle, repeatedly slapping its large beak.

"What are you doing?" Chi Anlin walked over. This fellow was usually cowardly, but when encountering demon beasts weaker than itself, its ego inflated to the extreme.

"Squeak squeak?" Xiao Xing turned its head, saw Chi Anlin, and immediately pounced on him.

Chi Anlin stroked Xiao Xing's head. This little guy had almost been scared to death, but given the situation back then, it still dared to push the other rats away. Such courage was commendable and deserved some praise.

"Little An, this rat has taken a goddaughter!"

"Um, okay... Huh?!" Chi Anlin looked at Xiao Xing in bewilderment. What was going on with this guy?

Xiao Xing slowly slid down from Chi Anlin and ran toward one side of the nest, shouting as it ran, "These little eagle brats just scared this rat's goddaughter."

Soon, Chi Anlin saw a small fiery-red wolf... Why did this thing look a bit like Xiao Yue?

After thinking for a moment, Chi Anlin used Appraisal on the little wolf.

【Name】: Fire Spirit Wolf

【Attribute】: Fire

【Level】: mortal rank third stage

【Quality】: Yellow Grade High Quality

"Huh?" It seemed that when they first started, Xiao Yue was an Ice Spirit Wolf.

"The little red dog should be the big dumb dog's sister. This rat smells the big dumb dog's scent on her!" Xiao Xing said in the sea of consciousness. At this moment, Xiao Yue, who had been lurking silently, suddenly fluctuated and let out a roar within the sea of consciousness.

"Xiao Yue's sister?" Chi Anlin raised an eyebrow, thinking it couldn't be such a coincidence, but seeing Xiao Yue's reaction in the sea of consciousness, it was likely true.

So Xiao Yue really was a variant. However, this mutation was too strange; while other demon beasts mutated into different races, Xiao Yue's attribute had completely flipped.

But... Chi Anlin glanced at Xiao Xing. This guy had taken Xiao Yue's sister as a goddaughter; wouldn't it be beaten to death by Xiao Yue later?

Picking up the little wolf cub, Chi Anlin conveniently swept all the treasures in the eagle nest into his space ring.

As for those young eagles, Chi Anlin took a look, but they were only Yellow Grade High Quality. Although demon beast cubs were relatively expensive, he wasn't particularly short on money right now.

The main issue was that the Queen Ant wasn't here; otherwise, Chi Anlin certainly wouldn't have minded taking them into his Small World.

"Yi Yi, have the Blood Devouring King find the Crimson Cloud Eagle and kill it. Then we can withdraw."

This new map was full of fire-attribute demon beasts. Chi Anlin felt he could move the Queen Ant to the edge and catch some fire-attribute beasts to perform Fusion.

Although he didn't plan on contracting a fire-attribute demon beast himself, his older sister did have a Fire Domain War Body. It wouldn't be bad to get her a high-quality demon beast to raise; after all, these things would be absolutely loyal to him.

As for this little wolf cub, Chi Anlin felt he could give it to Xiao Yue to raise, since it was his sister after all.

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In a cave, Xiao Yue stood beside a beast carcass and lowered its body.

This was a mother wolf covered in wounds, and she had already breathed her last some time ago.

The entire pack had been destroyed; not a single Fire Spirit Wolf survived.

Gently nudging the mother wolf with its nose, a hint of killing intent flickered in Xiao Yue's ice-blue eyes. It could smell the scent of Human Race Cultivators on her body.

Lifting the mother wolf's body, Xiao Yue slowly walked back the way it came, its snow-white fur stained red by her blood.

On the other side, Chi Anlin jumped down from the eagle nest, holding the little wolf cub and Xiao Xing.

The Blood Devouring King's strength had already reached the First Realm Fifth Stage. Having once been a King, it didn't need to stabilize its realm and could unscrupulously absorb blood and souls to improve itself, so its speed was exceptionally fast.

Combined with the martial techniques learned in its past life, the Blood Devouring King could take on a Crimson Cloud Eagle alone.

Sitting atop a First Realm Tiger Armor Ant Soldier, Chi Anlin soon spotted Xiao Yue.

Noticing the corpse on Xiao Yue's back, Chi Anlin was stunned. At that moment, the little wolf in his arms also began to howl piteously.

Inside the sea of consciousness, Xiao Yue's soul core fluctuated slightly, and Chi Anlin understood its meaning.

The Fire Spirit Wolf pack had been wiped out. This Fire Spirit Wolf on Xiao Yue's back was its mother.

Its mother had died at the hands of human cultivators.

Chi Anlin sighed. From Xiao Yue's perspective, although its mother had abandoned it, she had no other choice. If it had remained with the pack, it would have eventually been treated as a discard anyway.

Furthermore, an ice-attribute demon beast could not survive in the Fire Domain.

And it would personally kill the culprits who murdered its mother.

Chi Anlin jumped down from the Ant Soldier's back. From a human perspective, killing demon beasts for resources was a normal occurrence.

"Yi Yi, have the Ant Soldiers familiarize themselves with the scent of the human cultivators on this Fire Spirit Wolf and expand the search area to find these people." However, a human perspective was just that. Chi Anlin felt that since his demon beast had been wronged and its entire family slaughtered, he would definitely side with his own rather than be objective. When they found those people, he would let Xiao Yue handle them.

He didn't know what Xiao Yue was thinking, but it actually wanted him to perform a Fusion on it and its mother...

Chi Anlin lowered his gaze and opened the system.

“Ding, do you wish to fuse 【Extreme Ice Blood-Cracking Wolf】 and 【Fire Spirit Wolf】?”

blood energy Required: 100 million

Fusion Success Rate: 100%

Fusion Time: 10 minutes

"A hundred percent success rate?" Chi Anlin was somewhat puzzled. This was the first time he had encountered such an outrageous success rate.

Logically speaking, the Fire Spirit Wolf was only Yellow Grade High Quality; it shouldn't require so much blood energy...

After confirming with Xiao Yue once more, Chi Anlin chose to proceed.

A bloody light emerged, and many blood-colored threads rose from the ground. The Fire Spirit Wolf's corpse suddenly disintegrated, turning into specks of red light that enveloped Xiao Yue.

Xiao Yue stared ahead. Within the light, its mother’s eyes were filled with affection and surprise as she slowly walked toward it.

At this point, the female wolf hesitated and stopped, lowering her head in guilt.

Blood threads spread across Xiao Yue's body, wrapping it into a beating heart.

Xiao Yue shook its head and let out a soft, low growl.

I stopped hating you long ago; I just can't forget that tiny version of myself...

In Xiao Yue's eyes, a snow-white wolf cub was wailing in the mud, watching its mother walk away.

After an unknown amount of time, a pair of warm, large hands picked it up.

"A mutated wolf cub? Let's take it back for that kid to have as a contracted beast."

Flames spread across Xiao Yue's body. Deep within its ice-filled heart, a tiny flame burned, meeting the azure ice without melting it.

The white fur was rapidly assimilated by the flames, turning into orange and red lines that intersected and rose, dancing within the fire.