Lin Heng looked baffled and walked toward the source of the sound.
He flashed onto the small hill. The split earth gave off scorched heat, branded with several red cracks.
Anyone who did not know better would have thought it was a little volcano, a precursor to an imminent eruption.
Bang--!
The hill could not withstand the heat. A wave of scorching air shot into the sky, spraying burning dust in every direction.
When Lin Heng swept his divine sense inward, he abruptly discovered a curled-up thing. Its crimson, fleshy body trembled and quivered, and its short tail swept the soil inside the burrow from side to side.
Lin Heng's brows furrowed slightly. He reached out, grabbed its tail in one hand, and yanked it out of the dirt hole.
The little ball bared its fangs and brandished its claws, stretching its short limbs as it waved them forward. Its appearance looked a bit like a New Year beast.
"Fuck, what the hell is this thing!"
"Quite the temper, too!"
"My Small World can even nurture innate spirit beasts?" Lin Heng sized it up and saw at a glance that it was not simple.
Judging by its appearance, it should belong to the Qilin clan.
He had dealt with the Green Qilin Beast before, so he guessed they were close kin.
Lin Heng swept his divine sense into the pit again and found cracked, charred traces around the walls, as though they were the product of an eggshell after it had been carbonized.
An egg-born beast... eh?
Lin Heng suddenly remembered that when he had been searching through his spoils before, he had obtained a beast egg.
After that, he had simply thrown it into the System Space and paid it no further mind!
He had not expected that after