Beast Taming Patrol

Lin Su sighed lightly, his gaze irresistibly turning to the colorful mist behind him, peering through the dense fog towards the direction of Qiuqiu.

Originally, he had never considered the possibility of Qiuqiu failing to evolve, but now, having learned about the situation in the Nirvana Secret Realm from Zhou Qiyi, he suddenly felt uncertain.

At this moment, he began to regret having used two types of additional evolutionary resources on Qiuqiu.

The more evolutionary resources there are, the stronger the evolved form after the mutation will be, but this is on the condition of successful evolution. If the two supernatural resources conflict with each other and cause the evolution to fail...

Lin Su took a deep breath and closed his eyes nervously.

Both guardian beasts had been inside for a while now, and judging by the time, the evolution was almost complete.

Lin Su and Zhou Qiyi gradually stood up from where they had been sitting leisurely on the stone platform.

Soon, both of their expressions changed simultaneously, their gazes shifting towards a certain spot.

There, within the Nirvana Pool, energy fluctuations were rapidly surging, becoming increasingly intense, and at the same time, a burst of white Evolution Light pierced through the fog, becoming the sixth color amidst the colorful mist.

"Congratulations," Lin Su turned to Zhou Qiyi, his expression growing even more tense.

Yes, the location where the evolution was occurring was precisely where Zhou Qiyi's dragon was, and evidently, his guardian beast had completed its evolution first.

As the white Evolution Light gradually faded, the fog in the Nirvana Pool churned up, and vaguely, one could see a robust figure with wings flapping overhead coming towards this side, the figure enlarging and becoming clearer by the moment.

Finally, a giant dragon covered in flame-shaped patterns descended from the dense fog, letting out a clear and sonorous dragon chant, then exuberantly moved closer to Zhou Qiyi, clearly excited about its enhanced strength.

This dragon's body surface was covered with numerous round scales, each edged with a faint aqua glow while the center was fiery red. Its claws were somewhat shorter than those of the pre-evolution dragon but filled with a sense of power, and with a casual wave of its broad membranous wings, it could trail flames through the void.

This was indeed the evolved form of the dragon, Storm Flame Dragon, and if one must point out a difference from the normal evolved form, it was probably that this Storm Flame Dragon was a bit more robust.

It might be slightly stronger in strength, but only to a limited extent.

As Zhou Qiyi had expected, the Nirvana Pool just gave his Storm Flame Dragon a bit more essence; it wasn't enough to evolve it directly into an emperor-class species.

After communicating with his guardian beast for a while, Zhou Qiyi nodded slightly, satisfied with the evolution of his own beast.

His gaze unconsciously shifted to Lin Su, who was still anxiously waiting. He thought for a moment, then walked over and patted Lin Su's shoulder, "Don't be too tense, generally speaking, if the evolution were to fail, it would have ended by now. The longer it stays in the Nirvana Pool, the greater the benefits it should gain."

"Hmm," Lin Su nodded.

Zhou Qiyi's words made sense, but the tension in his heart still could not be dispelled.

After all, he was not quite sure what his own guardian beast would look like once it evolved.

If it normally evolved, it would turn into Frost Flower Dream Shadow, but the current situation was not normal. There was one type four and one type five evolutionary resource, and since it was evolving in the Nirvana Pool, it was hard to say...

"I am going to continue searching for supernatural resources now," Zhou Qiyi hesitated slightly then spoke softly.

"Go ahead," Lin Su forced a smile, "We're short on time; we need to hurry. I'll wait here a bit longer, and once my guardian beast has finished evolving, I should also leave."

"Alright," Zhou Qiyi headed towards another side of the Nirvana Pool enveloped in flames that even tinted the clouds above red, "Good luck."

...

Qiuqiu had a very long dream.

Having already mastered Deep Sleep and Dream, it should have been able to freely alter its own dreamscape, but now everything had become different.

A massive wave of spiritual power surged into its body at the moment the evolution began, rapidly stripping away its control of the dream, as if an invisible giant hand was forcefully snatching the power it clung to, brutally and unreasonably.

At the same time, a torrent of icy energy flooded its body. This ice energy was so violent and powerful that, due to its mixed origins, it felt a sensation it had never experienced before even as an icy creature.

Coldness.

Both energies occupied its body and soon began to crush each other, while it, the owner of the body, felt like a spectator, helplessly experiencing the clash and resistance of the two forces, unable to control anything.

In the dream, the ice-blue icy power and the formless spiritual power fiercely clashed, transforming into indescribable colossal beasts entangled in combat, each movement causing alarming fissures in the world of dreams.

This was nothing like the evolutionary process Lin Su had described before!

Qiuqiu was immensely worried, yet powerless.

At this moment, a third energy began to slowly flow into Qiuqiu's body from all directions.

It was the energy from Nirvana Pool, the gentlest of the three energies.

At this moment, it acted like a glue between the other two energies, continuously helping Qiuqiu to stabilize the restless energy within its body, gradually regaining control.

Qiuqiu felt a burst of joy, like a drowning person clutching at a lifeline, desperately holding onto every advantage to reclaim its own power step by step.

In the dream, colorful light emerged from nowhere, slowly spreading out, enveloping the edging-to-fracture dream world like an eggshell wrapping an embryo, continuously repairing the severely damaged dream world.

Then, this colorful light rapidly penetrated the interior of the dream world, like vines continually attacking, wrapping around the bodies of the two entangled beasts, tightening more and more, entangling them further until they could no longer move.

With a roar, Qiuqiu, having regained some control over the dream, appeared in the dream. It grew larger, taking the form of a mountainous beast in the dream world, fiercely attacking the two bound beasts and slowly devouring their power, turning it into its own.

It didn't notice that as it absorbed their power, its form also subtly began to change.

Its previously small, fluffy body gradually elongated, and its increasingly slender limbs and paws shimmered with ribbons of ice-blue light. Its tail grew longer while its tailbone shrank, eventually becoming a fluffy and brilliant ice-blue tail, seemingly scattering frost flowers with each swing.

The fur that once curled around Qiuqiu's neck like a scarf began to shorten, and the surging icy energy within its body finally solidified into a shimmering ice crystal, slowly emerging from within its body to embed like a gemstone at its chest.

Suddenly, a vertical pupil appeared in the dream world with a dazzling frost flower pattern, the same vertical pupil that Qiuqiu had seen several times before and found strangely familiar.

Unlike the vertical pupils Qiuqiu had seen before, this time it did not remain solitary, its edges quickly sketched into form.

Finally, Qiuqiu's large eyes met with a pair of equally surprised ice-blue eyes.

Is this... myself?

…

An Energy Storm erupted from Qiuqiu towards the Nirvana Pool, its intensity surpassing even the evolutionary process of the Storm Flame Dragon, sending a tumultuous surge throughout most of the Nirvana Pool, with colorful mists billowing out.

Lin Su's eyes were full of excitement and nervousness, through the Guardian Beast Contract, he could feel Qiuqiu had achieved a breakthrough from its initial level, and from the twinkling Evolution Light, qiuqiu had successfully evolved.

So... what exactly was its evolutionary form?

He swallowed nervously, straining his eyes to see the figure becoming clearer through the thick mist from the Nirvana Pool. Before he could make it out, the figure suddenly accelerated, rushing towards him like an ice-blue meteor, a roar filled with killing intent echoing in all directions.

"Mew! (◣_◢)" (Come out!)

Huh?

Lin Su stood there, dumbfounded.