Even Li Changqing, a Legendary Beast Tamer, failed to detect that faint, peculiar wisp of spiritual wind.
He still thought his own Big Boss, the Tai Gu Kun Peng, had held back out of concern for the stability of this Secret Realm Fragment.
Although this Secret Realm named “Bloodthirsty Domain” was nominally S-Class, as far as he knew, it was merely a fragment of an S-Class Secret Realm, and its stability was indeed hard to guarantee.
Especially since it had to support the confrontation between two supreme beings.
Li Changqing initially thought the pink-haired little sister was doomed, but then he came back to his senses.
He hurriedly looked toward the Silver Moon Wolf floating above the blood-soaked land.
Above the surging scarlet earth, shattered bloodstones and dried blood energy spread out like a desolate hell, yet a single figure, pristine as the moon, stood there quietly.
That fur, pure white as snow, was now mottled and stained by the dark red blood energy, yet showed no sign of weakness or fatigue.
A Silver Moon Wolf.
That was an extremely rare King-rank creature!
It was already unnatural to encounter the pink-haired little sister and a Silver Moon Wolf here!
He recalled how that pink-haired little sister had thrown herself into the Primordial Blood Seed’s arms…
Could it be… that there was… another expert?
Li Changqing looked up at his Big Boss again, his eyes filled with doubt.
So, had Big Boss not been too slow to act earlier, but rather…
“It’s fine…”
The Tai Gu Kun Peng’s deep and ancient divine thought resonated directly through Li Changqing’s mind, without any sound, yet every word was clear.
The Tai Gu Kun Peng’s enormous eyes drooped slightly, gazing from afar at that clump of motionless Primordial Blood Seed. A rare flicker of surprise and confusion passed through its pupils.
“So it’s His backup plan…”
The Tai Gu Kun Peng’s sky-obscuring massive wings slowly retracted. Those golden vertical pupils, which had witnessed the vicissitudes of seas and lands, stared at that tiny figure wrapped in blood light, utterly still.
“This girl has become the Primordial Blood Seed’s vessel.”
Li Changqing’s pupils contracted sharply. He couldn’t believe his eyes as he looked at that Primordial Blood Seed.
No, now it should be called a blood-red cocoon!
Vessel?
What vessel?!
Wasn’t that pink-haired little sister being possessed by that Mythical-level being?
Before he could press further, the Tai Gu Kun Peng’s low divine thought continued: “She hasn’t been fully possessed yet.”
“Right now, she is merely bearing all the scattered origin remnant souls of the Primordial Blood Seed after its collapse. She is only an as-yet-unformed, unsettled flesh-and-blood vessel.”
“If I’m not mistaken… the Primordial Blood Seed intended to completely possess this body, so it bound its Blood Soul to this girl. All it needs is time; as the Blood Soul slowly erodes her own soul, the Primordial Blood Seed will complete its rebirth.”
Li Changqing sucked in a sharp breath of cold air.
He recalled the moment when the Primordial God Cult had initiated the Blood Source Channel Opening Ritual.
The Blood Source Channel had only opened a sliver of a crack.
But that single, insignificant fissure had thrown the deeply dormant Primordial Blood Seed into complete frenzy. Disregarding the unstable channel and the risk of its own origin shattering, it had violently, madly, and recklessly forced its way through the seal barrier, hastily emerging into the world.
Could it be that the Primordial Blood Seed had set its sights on this pink-haired little sister and thus forced its way out like that?
What exactly did that pink-haired little sister have on her that so attracted the Primordial Blood Seed?
Li Changqing’s gaze was locked onto the pulsating blood-red cocoon ahead, deep dread filling his eyes.
If that were the case… then they would have no choice but to take action against this pink-haired little sister in advance.
They absolutely had to eliminate this threat ahead of time!
But just as Li Changqing began to harbor these “malicious thoughts” toward Luo Ning, the Tai Gu Kun Peng’s divine thought suddenly shifted.
“But nothing is absolute…”
The ancient giant eyes narrowed slightly, and the Tai Gu Kun Peng once again savored that faint, imperceptible puff of spiritual wind that seemed to transcend spatial rules.
“This girl is likely carrying a fragmentary ancient hidden legacy, which is why the Primordial Blood Seed gambled everything to covet her.”
“Since it’s His backup plan…”
“The vessel can be reversed, and the parasite can also be devoured.”
The Tai Gu Kun Peng hovered in the shattered Secret Realm’s sky. It sent another indifferent divine thought to Li Changqing.
“Li Changqing, your task from now on is to guide her and stabilize her original heart.”
As the words fell, the Tai Gu Kun Peng’s massive wings gently swept. The surging green light of the wind around it abruptly receded by half, and that hovering deep-sea sky that had enveloped the entire Bloodthirsty Domain slowly dissipated as well.
“There’s no need to interfere deliberately, no need to forcefully restrain. Let everything take its course.”
Let it take its course?
Big Boss! What the hell?!
That’s the Primordial Blood Seed! A Mythical-level existence! What if it recovers its strength? How can we just let it go?!
Before Li Changqing could press further, his Big Boss, the Tai Gu Kun Peng, along with the hovering deep-sea sky, vanished from this blood-colored Secret Realm.
“…” Li Changqing.
And what was this “His backup plan”?
Damn it! He hated riddlers the most…
“Kunkun, you need to go talk to your Big Boss properly! Always being a riddler—if he goes to some city and gets told to get lost, that wouldn’t be good.”
“…” Yun Bai Feng Jing.
Are you telling me to go talk to the ancestor?
When the ancestor appeared, I didn’t even dare to move, okay?!
A chest full of questions was bottled up inside, with nowhere to vent. Li Changqing could only helplessly shift his gaze back to that blood-red cocoon suspended in midair above the bloodland, slowly and steadily pulsing.
A strange change quietly occurred at this moment.
The blood cocoon, originally as thick as substance and firmly wrapping the girl’s body, did not continue to expand and erode. Instead, it began to fade and dissolve at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Layers of crimson light receded, the dense and viscous blood-light origin no longer leaked outward, instead gathering, settling, and consolidating inward.
One second.
Ten seconds.
A few dozen breaths passed in an instant.
The thick and hard blood-red cocoon shell became more transparent and thinner, gradually fading into that slender and delicate girl’s body.
The last wisp of scarlet blood light, like a returning undercurrent, slowly sank into the left side of Luo Ning’s fair neck.
On her delicate, jade-like skin, a pair of exquisite, eerie, dark red shallow fang marks were imprinted.
After the blood cocoon completely disappeared, Luo Ning remained unconscious, falling straight down from the air.
Yin Yue, who had been waiting below for a long time, finally breathed a sigh of relief at this sight.
Earlier, when the Blood Seed Origin was struggling and contending inside Luo Ning’s body, she had been tense the entire time, not even daring to breathe heavily, staring fixedly at the blood cocoon, terrified that something might happen to her master.
Now that the blood cocoon had dissipated and the crisis had temporarily subsided, her suspended heart finally settled.
The Silver Moon Wolf glanced at Li Changqing to the side, her gaze indifferent, devoid of any extra emotion.
Although Li Changqing was her master’s future teacher, she was still unclear about his current attitude toward her master…
So, to be safe…
“Hey! Kunkun…”
Li Changqing had just been about to let his Kunkun save Luo Ning as she fell through the air, but even he hadn’t expected that someone… some wolf would beat him to it!
Yin Yue’s wolf body suddenly transformed into a clear, bright moonbeam, moving at an absurdly fast speed. In a flash, she caught the falling Luo Ning.
Super-tier skill “Moonlight Leap” activated instantly!
Yin Yue, carrying Luo Ning, instantly broke through the air and directly left this Secret Realm covered in bloodstains and devastation.
“???” Li Changqing.
“Holy crap! That speed! How is that possible?!”
“And there were people there! Poof! Gone again!”
“Kunkun! Did that Silver Moon Wolf glance at us in contempt just now, mocking us for being slow?”
“…” Yun Bai Feng Jing.
Yun Bai Feng Jing’s two round, huge whale eyes were already wide open.
Frankly speaking, he was utterly stunned by the whole whale!
That wolf’s speed really did seem faster than his!
And on top of that, she could even break through the Secret Realm’s spatial barrier!
Is this Silver Moon Wolf really legal?!?!