"Xiao Bai? What are you lying here for?"
Xu Qing had noticed the polar bear long ago. He had not even deliberately hidden his presence.
But he might not have known that, now that his strength had increased so greatly, things he once had to do deliberately had all become instinct. Perhaps calling them passives would be more accurate.
Xu Qing watched the seven- or eight-meter-long beast shudder all over. It had clearly been frightened by him.
With a thought, most of the natural energy within a hundred zhang was forcibly stripped away and fused into his palm. Then, combined with methods such as a bit of Ring Fusion to trigger a qualitative change, and so on...
Just like that, Mystic Ice Marrow containing thirty percent of the energy of Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow was created.
Xu Qing pried open the bear's mouth and tossed it in.
"Awoo—!!!"
Xiao Bai immediately retreated a hundred meters, his two paws frantically digging into his own mouth as he tried to vomit out the poison this human had thrown in.
Crafty human! He threw poison the moment he came up!!
My throat, yueh~
Nothing came out.
Wait... what was with this taste?
Xiao Bai stopped and licked his bear paw. There was some Ice Marrow residue on it.
"Good, right?"
Xu Qing said with a beaming smile. At the same time, he split off a wisp of mental power and watched the miserable little ice-loli getting struck by lightning.
"Don't be so nervous. Look behind me. That's your Auntie Ice Empress. She's going through the most dangerous stage of a beast's life—transcending a tribulation."
"So, I know your head is full of questions, but no rush. Eat something tasty first, then we'll talk. Heh... want more?"
Xiao Bai said nothing. Only inside his