The setting sun was like blood. It was already dusk, and beneath the low-hanging evening sun, a four-legged animal struggled onward.
If any residents of Shenzhou had been here, they would probably have thought it looked much like a dog. It walked on all fours, with no signs of cultivation having altered its body. Judging from that alone, even clans like Gu Yan's, considered "primitive demons," were more advanced than they were. This race seemed to lack external ear structures and had no other distinguishing features. Only its incisors and canines protruded unusually far from its mouth. Its body was clearly more canine in structure, yet it possessed rodent-like incisors. Its molars also seemed to show signs of degeneration or wear.
Yet this four-legged creature was an unquestionable intelligent race, one of this world's mainstream species.
It was just... no, it was merely a "component."
For Beast Group Species, an individual body possessed a certain amount of memory and knowledge, but it could not form a "personality."
During the great battle, the other "components" of this little beast's "main group" had all died.
The little beast wandered the battlefield, nosing about here and there. Its innate instincts drove it to seek out a new main group and reconstruct itself.
If it could not do that, then it could only degenerate into a "beast."
What remained was also at the end of the road.
At that moment, the little beast's nose touched an unfamiliar magical artifact.
That square stone.
It curiously nudged it with its nose, but received no response. The little beast was about to leave when, suddenly, a cloud of mist sprang from within the "square stone" and wrapped around it.
A moment later, the little beast's aura rose steadily, breaking directly from Qi Refinement into Foundation Establishment.
Yet