Auspicious Beast: Can I Come Find You Again?

Chen Doudou closed his eyes to sense his state, feeling that his brain was operating much more nimbly than before. He chuckled, "My spiritual power has doubled; it might not be lower than that of a Spirit Emperor now."

Bibi Dong excitedly rubbed the head of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, "Wow! Who would have thought you golden-furred creature would be so useful."

Under normal circumstances, such an action would surely have provoked the Auspicious Beast into baring its fangs and resisting wildly.

However, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion only looked at Bibi Dong with a complex gaze, neither dodging nor resisting.

This was because, in the memories just shared, Bibi Dong was the only person who had given Chen Doudou maternal love during his childhood.

And in that exchange of memories, she was Chen Doudou.

Maternal love...

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion frantically searched for the definition of this word within its memories, only to discover that it was an orphan.

The kind without a mother, at that.

Was that... a very warm feeling?

It lowered its head to look at its own paws, then glanced at Chen Doudou, who was talking to Bibi Dong. The envious and complex emotion in its heart began to burn like a wildfire.

Bibi Dong set the Auspicious Beast down and waved her hand to shoo it away, "Alright, get going. If you dare to harbor any crooked ideas next time, I'll pluck this golden fur of yours and knit it into a sweater."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion shuddered, subconsciously wanting to retort, but its gaze drifted involuntarily toward Chen Doudou.

It hesitated for a moment, and instead of fleeing immediately, it took small, tentative steps until it stood before Chen Doudou. In its golden heterochromatic eyes, the previous ferocity was gone, replaced by a sense of caution.

"Human, I... can I come to find you again?"

The voice of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was as faint as a mosquito's hum.

"Huh?"

Chen Doudou looked at it with a strange expression.

The Auspicious Beast wanted to find him?

The point was, he wasn't Huo Yuhao, was he?

He wasn't some Child of Destiny.

Chen Doudou looked the golden lion up and down, feeling puzzled.

This didn't make sense.

It would be understandable if the Child of Destiny attracted the Auspicious Beast, but he was just an ordinary second-generation god.

Wait.

Chen Doudou suddenly thought of something, and his face instantly turned horrified.

This guy... it doesn't have some special fetish, does it?

It likes being abused that much?

Did it actually develop feelings after being held by the scruff of its neck by Bibi Dong just now?

Seeing that Chen Doudou didn't answer for a long time, only staring at it with a look one might give a pervert, the glimmer of hope that had ignited in the Three-Eyed Golden Lion instantly extinguished.

Its proud head slowly drooped, and its massive body appeared somewhat dejected.

"I suppose so... to a human like you with such colorful memories, an Auspicious Beast like me that only knows how to eat and sleep must be very boring."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion stopped pestering him, turned silently, and transformed into a streak of golden light, sprinting toward the depths of the Star Dou Forest.

"Auspicious Beast, where did you run off to just now?"

The Three-Headed Hound Scarlet King was napping on a rock. Seeing the Auspicious Beast return safely at last, it breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "If Di Tian finds out you've been wandering around, he'll be nagging for half a day again."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion did not pounce on Scarlet King to play as it usually did. Its eyes had lost their former liveliness, replaced by a depth that did not belong to it.

"Scarlet King..."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion suddenly spoke, "Can you tell me about humans?"

"Humans?"

Scarlet King was stunned, its three dog heads simultaneously showing expressions of confusion, "What is there to talk about regarding that weak, greedy species that only knows how to scheme and plunder?"

"That's not it."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion shook its head, recalling the scenes from Chen Doudou's memories, "I want to know... how do most humans live?"

Scarlet King snorted, disdainfully saying, "Humans are much lower-ranked than us. Aside from their fast cultivation, the only thing they know how to do is calculate against one another and fight over resources, even betraying their own kind for the sake of profit."

"But..."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion interrupted it, its gaze somewhat dazed, "But the humans I saw were not like that."

It thought of the infant held in its parents' arms, receiving unreserved pampering.

It thought of the boy with his arms around his companion's shoulders, laughing after a prank succeeded.

It thought of the warrior who, in the heat of battle, would disregard everything for the sake of his companions.

"They give people a feeling that seems very warm."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion muttered to herself, "I can't quite describe that feeling... but it was so comfortable, it made me not want to leave."

Scarlet King was so shocked by these words that all three of his heads crowded together: "Auspicious Beast, have you lost your mind? Warmth? That is the most hypocritical mask humans wear! Every one of them harbors ulterior motives, especially those Spirit Masters; the moment they see us Spirit Beasts, they only think of how to kill us to obtain our spirit rings!"

"No, that human named Chen Doudou is different."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion shook her head firmly, Chen Doudou's innocent little face appearing in her mind: "He wouldn't kill me. When he looked at me, there wasn't a trace of greed in his eyes."

"Chen Doudou? Who is that?"

Scarlet King's three dog heads simultaneously revealed a ferocious killing intent: "Auspicious Beast, could it be that a human has seen you? I will go kill him right now!"

"You are not allowed to go!"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion stood up abruptly, the golden light on her body flaring intensely as she showed hostility toward Scarlet King for the very first time: "If you dare to touch a single hair on his head, I will tell Di Tian, and I will never speak to you again!"

Scarlet King was stunned.

He looked at the Auspicious Beast before him, who had done nothing but eat and sleep since she was small, and for the first time, he saw something called curiosity in her eyes.

No, it looked more like... envy.

Meanwhile, in a hidden cavern somewhere in the Star Dou Forest.

A large worm covered in golden patterns was huddled in a corner, shivering as he muttered in disbelief: "Have I gone mad, or has this world gone insane? That woman... isn't she the one who fought that man all those years ago?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm felt as if he were beginning to doubt his own existence as a beast.

He had actually seen Bibi Dong?!!

That terrifying woman who once turned the entire continent upside down.

The woman who had once ascended to the heavens in broad daylight alongside the Angel God!

What made it even more unbelievable was that this woman of such noble status was acting like a nanny, serving as a guardian for a human child.

What exactly was the identity of this human brat?

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could not figure it out, but he seemed to have discovered a major opportunity.

"Hehehe..."

A fanatical light suddenly burst forth from his small eyes: "I think I've found a human capable of bearing my million-year spiritual power!"

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, twisting his fat body around the cavern.

"With my help, he will definitely be able to become a god! And I can fly up to the God Realm and become a phoenix, hehehe! That kid named Chen Doudou, you are my benefactor!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had made up his mind.

He was going to find Chen Doudou, and he was going to become Chen Doudou's spiritual-type spirit ring.

Not only would he find him, but he would offer himself up, a million-year spirit beast, as if he were nothing more than a common head of cabbage.