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After fleeing Newborn Valley, Xu Yang prowled along the edge of the Mian Gu Black Forest.

There was no helping it. The weather was simply too unpredictable. A few days ago, everything had been lush and green beneath clear, refreshing skies, but these past two days, the blazing sun had suddenly scorched the land for miles. Even though Xu Yang had reached the Apprentice Ninth Stage, his biological instincts still made him hate such searing heat.

Splat!

With a casual swipe of his claw, he slapped a bird that had been heat-addled enough not to fly away immediately upon seeing him into a bloody pulp. A notification immediately sounded in his mind.

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This weather is way too hot. It's so hot I barely have any appetite.

Xu Yang's pale blue-white fur drooped against his skin, making him look utterly listless. With waves of heat periodically sweeping through the forest, he felt as though he were being steamed in a sauna.

Suddenly, Xu Yang recalled the novels he had read in his previous life. They all said that in extreme heat or cold, one only needed to circulate one's supernatural power to become immune to heat and cold. The moment the thought occurred to him, he tried it. The only supernatural power he could freely control within his body was the Silver Secret Power belonging to the Silver Wolf Clan.

Boom.

Inside his body, the Silver Secret Power surged through his blood vessels like crashing waves, a sound only Xu Yang himself could hear... Yet the instant he activated it, he had to hurriedly stop. The surging, burning Silver Secret Power did not shield him from the heat outside. Instead, it released a layer of heat from within him.

Assailed from both inside and out, Xu Yang instantly felt copious sweat seeping from the sweat glands beneath his thick fur. Wolves did not have well-developed sweat glands beneath their fur, yet even those underdeveloped glands were secreting sweat now. One could imagine just how much heat had been generated inside his body in that instant!

As he walked, he stuck out his tongue to dissipate heat. Though he could not become immune to heat and cold simply by circulating supernatural power as in the novels, Xu Yang was not too disappointed. After all, having reached the Apprentice Ninth Stage, he was now truly supernatural. At most, this hot weather could cause him some sensory discomfort; it would not give him heatstroke and kill him like an ordinary beast.

Splat!

His gaze sharpened. Xu Yang leaped again and swiped his claw, slicing a White-brown Bird that was sluggishly flying away into a spray of blood in midair. Blood rained down, and Xu Yang sharply twisted his waist, directly avoiding the falling filth.

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It had to be said that this kind of extreme heat was an excellent time for Xu Yang to hunt. Previously, ordinary beasts could sense the violent, terrifying aura of a demonic beast from hundreds of meters away, so his efficiency in capturing ordinary beasts had not been very high.

But now, many beasts had been directly "stupified" by the heat, their reactions slowing by a beat. That single beat was enough for Xu Yang to cross the distance and give them a claw. His hunting efficiency had risen by several levels.

And so, over the mere few dozen kilometers back to the Lightning Strike Mountain Range, Xu Yang gathered all the resources needed to advance to the Planet Level.

Host: Xu Yang

Race: Silver Wolf Descendant

Strength: Apprentice Ninth Stage

Resources: 3/3

Awoo! Awoo!

Xu Yang perked up, in an excellent mood. Even the pale blue-white wolf fur lying flat against his body fluttered along with him.

Resisting the urge to let out a wild, resounding howl, Xu Yang spread his limbs and hopped into the Lightning Strike Mountain Range. He remembered a clear spring not far from his cave. In weather like this, soaking in cold water was the supreme pleasure no amount of gold could buy.

Hm? What was that sound?

Xu Yang turned his head toward the distant horizon in slight confusion. The sky was cloudless for miles, a scorched expanse of red.

Did I hear wrong? I clearly heard something like a dragon's roar from a TV drama just now... Could this world have real dragons?

Xu Yang shuddered violently and quickened his steps toward the Lightning Strike Mountain Range. Joking aside, how could anything associated with the word dragon be weak? Moreover, that roar had come from the horizon, which meant its owner could fly. Whether it flew with wings or could fly because it was Planet Level, neither was something Xu Yang wanted to encounter right now.

His top priority was to return to a safe place and break through to the Planet Level.

Planet Level—he would be able to fly!

Just as Xu Yang reached the edge of the Lightning Strike Mountain Range, Caesar and Molenta also flew out of the Frost Mountain Range. Judging by their trajectory, they were passing directly over Newborn Valley.

Ten thousand meters in the High Altitude.

Molenta continuously coiled its body and performed all kinds of difficult maneuvers, like a rubber band endlessly twisting into cat's cradle patterns.

"Boss, where are we going to catch food for Nathaniel? How much can it eat in a day..." Molenta kept asking Caesar like a curious child, chattering nonstop like an old woman.

In truth, it was indeed very young. Caesar was already over eight hundred years old, while it was only a little over two hundred. Furthermore, Sogolian had always sheltered it from the world, so Molenta was quite immature and knew very little about the world beyond the Frost Territory.

Caesar, meanwhile, maintained a proper posture as it flew. It helplessly glanced at its younger brother, who was "playing cat's cradle" in the air. Due to the Frost Flood Dragon Clan's terribly low fertility rate, this younger brother of its had yet to successfully produce offspring. Moreover, Caesar had been too weak before and had no experience caring for younger siblings.

This time, their father had asked it to lead Molenta out to prepare several months to a year's worth of food for Nathaniel. He also intended for Molenta to familiarize itself with the neighboring regions. Thus, Caesar began introducing the area to Molenta. "The territory we're passing over is called the Mian Gu Black Forest. A great many demonic beasts live within it, and we can capture Nathaniel's food here."

"Then do we have a chance to go farther, to the Ten Thousand Beast Plains?" Molenta had long memorized the map by heart. Naturally, it knew that the land below was the Mian Gu Black Forest.

"There's no need to go to the Ten Thousand Beast Plains. Not only would it take nearly half a day to fly there from here, but during such a hot dry season, many of the demonic beasts on the Ten Thousand Beast Plains have actually hidden in the Mian Gu Black Forest." Having lived for over eight hundred years, Caesar was extremely experienced and immediately answered.

"Huh? A hot dry season? Is this hot?"

Even with Caesar's temperament, it could not help rolling its eyes inwardly at its innocent younger brother. "Molenta, the reason you don't feel hot is because you perfectly inherited Father's frost physique. Look at those beautiful ice-blue scales covering your body. It is because of them that you don't feel the heat in the slightest..." As it spoke, a rare trace of jealousy entered Caesar's tone.

It had cultivated for more than eight hundred years before reaching the sixth stage of the Planet Level, all because its bloodline was not pure enough. Less than one-third of the blood flowing through its body was frost bloodline; the rest was all inferior bloodline, far weaker than frost. Molenta was different. More than ninety percent of its bloodline was frost bloodline. It had cultivated for only a little over two hundred years, yet it had already reached the eighth stage of the Planet Level. It could be said that as long as nothing unexpected happened, Molenta would certainly become a Star Level powerhouse like their father, Sogolian!

"Hehe, so that's how it is." Molenta failed to hear the envy in Caesar's words and instead shyly circled around once more.

Caesar was just about to continue when its gaze sharpened. It spoke in a low voice, "Molenta, stop playing. There's movement ahead."

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