"Brother, our appearance wasn't a coincidence. After we left last time, Qing'er said she wanted to observe you and figure out why you could let me reach the maximum level of Spirit Possession."
"So, we followed you for a few days. You won't blame Ling'er, will you?"
Jiang Feiling stood before Li Tianming and spoke sincerely.
"Of course I won't blame you. It was good that you followed me. If you hadn't, I'd have been in real trouble." Li Tianming could not help sighing. Sure enough, ever since the Little Yellow Chick appeared, fortune had begun smiling on him.
He lowered his head and looked at the girl before him, her skin as white as snow and veiled in a hazy glow.
Her skin was flawless, and her face was like an elf from a dream. Whenever those eyes looked at him, even Li Tianming's heart became pure.
"In the end, Qing'er still couldn't figure it out, so she admitted defeat. I said Ling'er and Brother must share a wonderful affinity. Brother, you must come to Flame Capital to play with Ling'er someday. When Ling'er gains other special abilities in the future, I'll want to try them on Brother too." She looked at Li Tianming with sparkling, expectant eyes.
"Absolutely no problem. I'll definitely go," Li Tianming said.
"A toad dreaming of swan meat. I'm afraid that even if you go, you won't be able to climb over the city walls. You should just stay home and farm." Qing'er rolled her eyes and mocked him from the side.
This girl was unbelievable. She never stopped insisting that Li Tianming farm the land and produce grain for her Vermilion Bird Kingdom.
"Qing'er, give Brother a jade pendant so he can find me in the future," Jiang Feiling said as they were about to leave.
"No."
"Hmph?"
"Fine, Ling'er, you've changed. A grown daughter can't be kept at home!" Qing'er gritted her teeth, but still took out an azure jade pendant and tossed it to Li Tianming. "You stupid pig, don't you dare use my name to swindle and bluff people, or I'll stew your lifebound beast!"
The Little Yellow Chick was so pitiful. So many people wanted mushroom stew with chicken.
"Brother, if something like what happened just now occurs again, you can take out this jade pendant and tell them you belong to Princess Qing. Then they won't dare kill you," Jiang Feiling said gently.
Li Tianming quickly put away the jade pendant. This was a fine treasure. What he lacked most right now was a powerful backing.
With Princess Qing's jade pendant, things would certainly be much more convenient in the future. At the very least, what had just happened would not happen again.
This was an enormous gift.
"Thank you, Ling'er." His gratitude came from the bottom of his heart.
In his eyes, this girl was delicate of heart, lovely, and moving. She was a perfect person fashioned by Heaven itself. What virtues and abilities did he possess to let her reach the maximum level of Spirit Possession?
"Brother, who should you thank even more?" Jiang Feiling blinked, and her impish look became even more enchanting.
Li Tianming came to his senses. "Princess Qing, thank you for the jade pendant."
"No need to thank me. I'm warning you again: don't ever use it to swindle and bluff people. Don't tarnish my reputation!" She clearly had not wanted to give it to him, but Ling'er had asked, so she had no choice. She was still fuming.
"No problem. I promise you, whenever I farm, I'll take the jade pendant off first. I definitely won't dirty it." Li Tianming smiled.
Pfft!
Li Tianming was actually quite humorous. His self-mockery made Princess Qing unable to hold back her laughter.
The crucial point was that she found laughing aloud embarrassing. She immediately put on a stern face, coughed twice, and pretended she had never been amused.
"Brother, come here." Jiang Feiling smiled as she watched them banter, then beckoned Li Tianming over.
"What is it?" Li Tianming asked.
"I want to tell you a secret."
"I'm listening." Li Tianming lowered his head and brought his ear close to her.
The girl's delicate fragrance was dreamlike and intoxicating, making one linger and forget to leave. From the corner of his eye, he watched her little face, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
"Brother, do you want that divine source? It's in that direction." Jiang Feiling whispered into his ear, then pointed in a direction.
Li Tianming's heart jolted.
How did she know he wanted to seek that divine source?
How did she know the direction of that divine source?
This must have been the important thing she wanted to tell him.
This girl was truly like an immortal. Though she did not possess even a trace of Beast Essence and seemed as fragile as a willow in the wind, her wonders were truly breathtaking.
"Let's go," Qing'er urged.
This time, they were truly leaving.
"Brother, see you in Flame Capital." While Li Tianming was still immersed in shock, Qing'er had already taken Jiang Feiling's hand and gradually disappeared from his sight.
After those two graceful figures vanished completely, Li Tianming still felt somewhat dazed, with an empty feeling in his chest.
It was not merely because Jiang Feiling was beautiful. It was that strangely familiar yet intimate feeling, like a fated meeting written in destiny, that made him remember this girl completely.
She looked innocent and pure, yet she was also thoughtful, with a side that seemed able to see through everything.
For instance, she had known to ask Princess Qing for a jade pendant to protect Li Tianming. She had noticed the change in his expression when he heard the words "divine source," and had even pointed out its direction to him!
All of this showed that this girl was far from simple. Her secrets stirred immense curiosity in Li Tianming.
"Tsk, tsk. You look really lecherous when you're in heat." The moment they left, the Little Yellow Chick could not resist mocking him.
"Tired of living?" Li Tianming put away the jade pendant and fixed his gaze in the direction Jiang Feiling had pointed.
"Hehe, even if I gave you one wing, you still wouldn't be my match." The Little Yellow Chick held its head high in arrogant triumph.
"What about now?" Li Tianming raised his left arm, revealing the blackened limb.
"Big Brother!" The Little Yellow Chick changed faces in an instant, nearly dropping to its knees. Trembling, it said, "Big Brother, where are you feeling unwell? Your little brother will massage it for you."
"That's more like it." Li Tianming smiled.
They were only joking around.
"Divine source." Li Tianming searched through his memories for knowledge of this treasure.
A divine source was a kind of divine object naturally born from heaven and earth.
Legend had it that divine sources were created by the gods above and bestowed upon the mortal world. They came in all forms—they could be stones, liquids, or gemstones.
When lifebound beasts and savage beasts obtained divine sources compatible with their own attributes, they could undergo "evolution," leaping to a higher grade.
Once a lifebound beast grew stronger, it was equivalent to increasing the upper limit of both the beastmaster's and the lifebound beast's talents. Their abilities in every aspect could rise!
Divine sources were divided into four grades: heaven, earth, profound, and yellow. It was said that even the most ordinary yellow-grade divine source could allow a lifebound beast to evolve into a seventh-order lifebound beast.
A seventh-order lifebound beast was enough to create the most terrifying beastmaster geniuses. In the Vermilion Bird Kingdom, seventh-order lifebound beasts were called "king beasts," meaning kings among lifebound beasts!
The effects of profound-grade and earth-grade divine sources were naturally even more astonishing. For example, an earth-grade divine source could evolve a lifebound beast into a legendary "sacred beast"!
The sacred beast battle spirit Li Tianming had once obtained was related to sacred beasts. A sacred beast was enough to create a supreme existence across the entire Yanhuang Continent!
As for heaven-grade divine sources, they existed only in legends.
"Yinghuo, you said just now that something like a divine source would be of tremendous use to you?" Li Tianming asked seriously.
"That's right. The moment I heard that term, it appeared in my memories. After I transformed from a Primordial Chaos Giant Beast into a lifebound beast, many of my talents were restricted. Divine sources can evolve lifebound beasts, and they can also help me break free from my shackles, allowing me to grow endlessly stronger until I become a Primordial Chaos Giant Beast again. This is the most instinctive answer given to me by my current bloodline."
The Little Yellow Chick had constantly been pondering how to break free of its bloodline shackles and become once more that Eternal Purgatory Phoenix that fed on suns.
When it heard the words "divine source," it seemed to find an answer. The term made its bloodline boil, and even Li Tianming could feel it.
It now possessed the physique of the Eternal Purgatory Phoenix as well, but only a small fraction of its potential had truly been brought out.
"As long as there's a method, that's what matters. What we should fear is being lost in a fog. Since you need a divine source so badly, and I know its direction, what are we waiting for?" Li Tianming said.
"You want to seize Thunder Lord Manor's divine source? They have seven people, and every one of them has parents and elders protecting them. Their parents and elders could kill you with ease," the Little Yellow Chick said.
"To deal with their parents, this jade pendant can serve its purpose. Judging by Zhang Chong's fear of Princess Qing, their parents' status in Flame Capital cannot be that high. At most, they're middle-ranking figures in Thunder Lord Manor." That was why Li Tianming felt Jiang Feiling had truly helped him tremendously.
With a single jade pendant, he could become someone protected by Princess Qing.
"So all I need to deal with are Thunder Lord Manor's younger generation," Li Tianming said.
His eyes narrowed. Although Lin Xiaoting had been the one who harmed Jin Yu, quite a few geniuses from Thunder Lord Manor had been accomplices.
Even if the young people of Fire Sash Mountain had not helped, Li Tianming would never have felt any goodwill toward them. He even harbored deep hostility toward them. For example, Zhang Zixuan, whom he had just encountered, was no good person.
"I suddenly thought of someone," the Little Yellow Chick said.
"Who?"
"Liu Qianyang. He said he would stay in Lihuo City for a month. Why would he remain for a whole month? He must be one of the contenders for the divine source! With his ninth level Beast Pulse Realm cultivation, he's likely the person with the greatest chance." The Little Yellow Chick sounded certain. It was especially displeased with that youth as well.
Especially because he had taken Li Tianming's Yanhuang Order.
"You're right. Liu Qianyang must be on Fire Sash Mountain. And his sister, Liu Qing, as well as my father, must have followed him in too. Now this is interesting." Li Tianming's blood began to burn. He could no longer wait for the challenge ahead.
"What kind of father is this? First, he gave the Yanhuang Order to Liu Qianyang. Now he's brought him here to help him find a divine source. Is Liu Qianyang his real son or something?" the Little Yellow Chick mocked.
It had a point. Reality was this absurd. His own father drove his son out of the home, then gave everything to an outsider!
"He used to come to Fire Sash Mountain often. No one in the world knows Fire Sash Mountain better than he does. Do you think that Liu Qing married Li Yanfeng only for her younger brother's Yanhuang Order and divine source?" Li Tianming sneered.
"There's a certain possibility."
"Damn, that's fucking noble." Li Tianming stood up.
He looked in the direction Jiang Feiling had pointed.
"If that's the case, then I have even more reason to take this divine source. I'll make sure your bamboo basket draws water in vain, Li Yanfeng!" He was truly speechless. Could there really be another father in the world as bizarre as Li Yanfeng?
"And Liu Qianyang, the Yanhuang Order that belongs to me—I'll take it back with my own hands this time!"
After making this oath, the man and the chick lingered no longer. They set out at once to meet battle head-on!
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