Having just finished the plump, delicious fish, Big White suddenly spread its wings. Its cry rang high and clear, echoing through the sky and carrying for miles.
"Hm?" Umino Sasuke frowned slightly, sensing an almost imperceptible fluctuation of chakra.
Screech! Screech! Screech...
Big White continuously flapped its wings, stirring gusts of swirling air that disturbed the surroundings and sent fallen leaves flying everywhere.
"This is—"
Umino Sasuke noticed something unusual about Big White and quickly cast the Infrasonic Radar Technique to investigate further.
At that moment, Big White's blood and vitality churned within its body, while its breathing rhythm became exceptionally rapid.
With every breath in and out,
it maintained a peculiar rhythmic frequency with the whirlwinds outside, even forming some inexplicable connection with them.
Soon, at the location of its heart, a thread of pale cyan Wind-Style Chakra condensed.
"Big White has refined chakra!"
Umino Sasuke was overjoyed. Though Big White was the hatchling of an advanced summoning beast, possessing the superior bloodline of a Desert Giant Falcon and even showing signs of ancestral reversion, it still faced the risk of dying young before refining chakra.
Now that it had refined chakra, it could not be said to be immune to all illness, but as long as it did not suffer any exceptional injuries, it basically would no longer die for no reason.
Moreover, with Big White's current size advantage and its newly refined chakra, its survival ability had greatly increased.
Its combat strength far surpassed that Genin-level Water Bat he had contracted before.
It would have no problem dealing with ordinary Genin.
Even against Chunin, Big White's bullet-like speed should allow it to hold them off for a while, while its ability to escape had increased greatly as well.
Screech! Screech! Screech...
After refining chakra for a while,