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Xu Yang now ate only one meal a day.

After lunch, Xu Yang found a patch of firm ground that was relatively cool and clean, lay down on it, narrowed his eyes slightly, and began comprehending the Silver Wolf inheritance in his mind.

Whenever inspiration struck, Xu Yang would wave his claws around to practice the moves, sharp blasts of air crackling through the mountain forest.

Meanwhile, the brown bear carefully cleaned up the mess and filth beside the pool. Now that it had become a lackey, such chores naturally fell to it.

After more than half an hour of work, the brown bear finally restored the poolside to cleanliness. Looking at the refreshed water's edge, it secretly glanced at Xu Yang in the distance from the corner of its eye. Seeing the power behind Xu Yang's movements, it felt both envious and content.

Not daring to disturb Xu Yang, the brown bear obediently found a cool corner and lay down to digest its food, waiting for the energy contained in the demonic beast meat to be absorbed by its stomach and spread throughout its body.

This was how demonic beasts with mixed bloodlines and no inheritance cultivated—inefficiently and slowly.

Their only hope was for their bloodlines to be purified when they broke through a major realm. Only then might they gain an inheritance and set foot on the true path of cultivation!

Yet even that sole hope remained exceedingly slim. Demonic beasts with mixed bloodlines like these could only fight on instinct and experience, and many lived very short lives. Moreover, even if they were lucky enough not to become food for other demonic beasts, the vast majority would never touch the barrier between Apprentice Level and Planet Level before dying of old age.

Not to mention that they lacked methods for breaking through. Even if they blundered into it by chance, it would already be a blessing if one out of a hundred Apprentice Ninth Stage demonic beasts successfully broke through to Planet Level.

In this barbaric, primitive animal world of nothing but naked slaughter, time passed slowly, yet in some ways, it also passed quickly.

When Xu Yang completed his comprehension plan for the day, he discovered that the sun had already begun to set. Based on experience, it would probably disappear completely in another half hour.

He got up, jumped into the pool to wash away the dust from his body and cool himself off, then steamed his fur dry.

After going through the whole process, Xu Yang once again looked graceful and handsome.

Mm, another plain and ordinary day is about to end.

Standing at the cave entrance, Xu Yang stretched his neck as he watched the sunset sink bit by bit below the horizon.

However, the brown bear hiding off to the side and furtively observing Xu Yang ruined the mood.

Looking at the brown bear's timid, chubby face, Xu Yang could not help but find it amusing. This brown bear was simply too intelligent—so intelligent that, judging by its expressions and body language, he kept feeling as though it were a person.

Giving it a glance, Xu Yang turned and walked into the cave.

It was time to sleep.

Only after faint snores drifted from the cave did the brown bear creep out from its hiding place. After looking around, it realized that the "home" Xu Yang had chosen was nice and all, but there was nowhere to sleep...

The only relatively suitable sleeping spot was the cave entrance. As for the inside of the cave? Even if it were beaten to death, it would not dare entertain such hopes.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle~~~"

The air remained stiflingly hot, and the brown bear's thick fur brushed against the shrubs concealing the cave, making a sound.

Suddenly, it stopped walking, because the faint snores inside the cave had ceased.

One second, two seconds...

Just as the brown bear began regretting whether it had overstepped its bounds, the faint snores from within the cave sounded again.

"Phew~ grr~~"

The brown bear quietly let out a long breath, and its suspended heart finally settled. However, it still did not dare move any farther toward the entrance. It found a dry patch at the boundary between the cave entrance and the shrubs, then lay down directly.

It would sleep here!

Inside the cave.

Xu Yang watched this scene through half-open eyes, then closed them again.

The night passed without incident.

On a hot, dry night in the drought season, even the chirping of insects was nearly inaudible.

At around two in the morning, Xu Yang was once again awakened by rustling sounds coming from the cave entrance.

The brown bear twisted its fat backside and rolled up from the ground in one motion. It crept about with barely any sound. If Xu Yang had not been Planet Level, with such powerful senses, he might not have heard a thing.

The brown bear looked back into the cave, then quickly left along the shrubs.

Xu Yang did not bother with the brown bear's movements. He turned over and closed his eyes to rest again, though he made up his mind to make the brown bear sleep farther away tomorrow night.

Otherwise, having his sweet dreams interrupted whenever it got up in the middle of the night was far too annoying.

Of course, the brown bear had not gotten up to relieve itself. It was in the prime of its life, brimming with energy.

People said bears were nearly blind, but in truth, after becoming a demonic beast, the brown bear's poor night vision had long since been remedied. Otherwise, it would not have fought the Demonic Tiger in the middle of the night back then.

It trudged through the primitive mountain forest, stepping deep and shallow as it went. Along the way, it encountered almost no demonic beasts. Even when it did, they were merely small demonic beasts at the first or second Apprentice Stage.

Naturally, this was because Xu Yang had claimed the southern region of the Lightning Strike Mountain Range. The might and aura of a Planet Level being were far too terrifying. Before Xu Yang had even finished marking his territory, most powerful demonic beasts had already fled the southern part of the Lightning Strike Mountain Range.

Some had entered the northern region, while others had gone into the Mian Gu Black Forest.

After hacking its way through thorns and brambles, the brown bear finally arrived at its destination: beneath a towering cliff.

This cliff was extremely high, with Clouds and Mist already faintly visible around its upper half. Unlike most mountains in the Lightning Strike Mountain Range, it was surrounded by sheer cliffs on all sides, like an enormous upside-down iron nail standing on the ground.

The brown bear arrived beneath the cliff and looked up toward the Clouds and Mist, its eyes filled with greed and eagerness. It had not come out in the middle of the night for a stroll. It had come here to please Xu Yang.

On its first day as a lackey, Xu Yang had treated it to a feast of demonic beast meat. Being as clever as it was, how could it possibly offer nothing in return?

As a native of the Lightning Strike Mountain Range, it knew of many hidden delicacies... and atop this cliff lay one peerless treat—

Honey and royal jelly brewed by the Flowing Light Bees!

In the entire Lightning Strike Mountain Range, only this cliff had a Flowing Light Beehive. The queen of the Flowing Light Bee swarm was a demonic beast, while all the other bees were merely ordinary wild beasts. As long as the queen remained alive, the swarm would never die out.

The Brown Bear had also learned the location of this beehive from the previous generation of Brown Bears. According To the elders' instructions, they had reached an agreement with the Flowing Light Queen Bee—at most once a year, they could come and harvest Flowing Light Honey. If they exceeded that limit, the Flowing Light Queen Bee would move the hive elsewhere.

Therefore, for all these years, the Brown Bear had only eaten Flowing Light Honey once a year and never dared violate the agreement.

As it happened, this year's share of Flowing Light Honey had yet to be eaten. It was perfect for entertaining its newly acknowledged boss.

After glancing at the towering sheer cliff that pierced the clouds, the Brown Bear rubbed its thick nose and took several steps back.

The next second, its hind legs suddenly compressed, then snapped straight like springs. Its massive body shot forward like a battering ram.