"Little Bai, do the other beasts you've met in the Secret Realm live in places like your home?" Su Chen asked.
The little white fox was lying on a small bed, eating pills to heal her wounds. She communicated with Su Chen telepathically. "No, Master. Only our home is like this. But I haven't been to the places farther away, either. The Secret Realm is huge, and I haven't been everywhere."
"Of all the beasts I've met, only my grandpa can walk upright."
"Your grandpa can transform into human form?" Su Chen asked in surprise.
"Sort of, but not completely. My grandpa doesn't look quite like you and the others. His head is still a fox's head, but his body, hind legs, and front legs have evolved to look like yours. He has hands and feet."
"Grandpa said that as long as I work hard at cultivating, I'll be able to evolve like him and walk upright someday."
"But I think walking upright is really slow. Running on four legs is faster." The little white fox spoke with a goofy air.
Su Chen was astonished by what he'd heard.
Beasts could transform into human form!
That was straight out of the novels in mythological stories!
Or were the myths of the Dragon Kingdom not stories at all, but things that had really happened?
Had people seen beasts transform into human form, and that was how these tales had been passed down?
It was just like the immortals he'd mentioned before. After entering the Cultivation World, he'd learned that the extraordinary beings there were the very immortals people in the Mortal Realm believed in!
But something didn't add up. There were no beasts on the surface of Blue Star!
Although the Cultivation World kept some spirit beasts, they were basically raised