[Is This a Daughter? Or a War Beast?]

"God, this little one—after reviving with your blood, she's actually turned around and started feeding on my life energy... It's over, my body is finished. This time, I may not recover even after sleeping for a thousand years!" Empress Fei Wenli trembled all over, her face as pale as a woman in childbirth. She was utterly exhausted, beads of sweat seeping from her forehead one by one.

She seemed too weak even to remain standing.

Yue Yang noticed that her snake tail had begun to blur, gradually turning into mist.

Yet her six jade-like arms did not let go of the little snake demon girl. Instead, they held her tightly, as if she were her most precious treasure.

Watching the entire snake tail turn into white mist and slowly, ever so slowly, get absorbed by the black hole, the transmigrator asked in alarm, "Are you all right? Your body seems to be disappearing..."

"This little one has drained so much of my spiritual energy and life energy that I can no longer even maintain my body. Get ready quickly, or soon I won't even have the strength to send you out. God, I must enter hibernation at once, or the portion of my body I worked so hard to recover will be completely destroyed! Hold her properly. I can't hold on much longer!" Empress Fei Wenli summoned an enormous Codex, crystal-clear all over like crystal itself, its rainbow radiance flashing so brightly that it dazzled Yue Yang's eyes. Under Yue Yang's gaze, the Codex, more than three meters long and two meters wide, miraculously transformed into a transparent crystal coffin.

Empress Fei Wenli looked exhausted to the extreme, as though even the smallest movement severely drained her strength.

She picked up the little snake demon girl and gently kissed her.

Then she handed her to Yue Yang, signaling for him to take her.

The little snake demon girl hesitated somewhat and was reluctant to part, but when Yue Yang reached out, her six tiny arms shifted over and clung tightly to him.

Empress Fei Wenli swayed gently. Her strength seemed to have reached its limit, and she nearly collapsed. She panted continuously, her beautiful chest heaving without pause. "Leave quickly. My life energy has been drained to the limit. I must enter hibernation immediately... If your strength has advanced by leaps and bounds a year from now, try to see whether you can break through the black hole's seal. I need your spiritual energy to support me!"

As she spoke, an incomparably intense radiance flashed from Empress Fei Wenli's six jade-like arms, blazing like the sun.

A gigantic image dozens of meters tall appeared behind her. Its six arms moved in unison, forming a strange seal before exploding with a thunderous crash, like a galaxy bursting apart.

Yue Yang felt an immense impact strike him. An irresistible force pushed his body, filling him with the illusion of traveling through time and space. In that instant, it seemed he had crossed countless mountains and rivers, flown millions upon millions of kilometers, and even passed through the void of the universe.

"Take her out. If she still retains her battle memories, you can ask her about anything you don't understand!"

Empress Fei Wenli's final wisp of consciousness still echoed in Yue Yang's mind.

But when Yue Yang opened his eyes, he discovered that he had already returned to the real world. Everything that had just happened felt like a dream.

The little snake demon girl whom he had been holding tightly had vanished without him noticing. If not for the image of the little snake demon girl on his naked body, Yue Yang would not have dared believe that what had just happened was real.

A familiar fragrance wafted forth, though it was much fainter than the scent Empress Fei Wenli gave off.

A streak of rainbow light flashed.

Amid the radiance and fragrance, the little snake demon girl slowly floated out from Yue Yang's body, becoming a real body of flesh and blood. Her six arms spread wide, and like a little octopus, she clung tightly to Yue Yang. Her sapphire-blue eyes stared at him without blinking, her expression adorably timid, like a child seeing her father and wanting to call him Daddy but not daring to.

"Good girl, get down. Let me get dressed first!" Yue Yang broke out in a cold sweat. Great, he did not even have a wife, yet he had somehow gained a "daughter" out of nowhere.

The little snake demon girl was very obedient. She let go and climbed down.

Her large eyes rolled about the room, as though she found everything immensely curious.

After hurriedly finding clothes and getting dressed, Yue Yang kept pondering one question: was this little girl his daughter, or was she a war beast?

He summoned his Bronze Codex and opened the previously blank fifth page. Sure enough, his guess had been correct. This little snake demon girl really was one of his summoned beasts, and she was also a life guardian war beast, just like his Phantom. However, unlike Phantom, the little girl had no summoning time limit at all. In theory, she could exist forever.

When Yue Yang calmed himself and examined the contents of the fifth page, he was startled out of his wits.

The previously blank fifth page now bore an image of the little snake demon girl. It looked remarkably lifelike and vivid.

Unlike the images of Phantom, Thorn Flower, the Gold-Seeking Mouse, and the others, the little girl's image not only shimmered with rainbow light, but also moved as if it possessed a spirit.

When Yue Yang looked at the image, the little girl, originally shown in profile, would turn her body, raise her little face and eyes, and gaze up at Yue Yang as though she could sense his attention. Yue Yang lowered his head and discovered that the little girl in reality was doing the same thing. She was tilting up her tiny head, staring at him unblinkingly with her large eyes, making the exact same gaze as the image.

If Yue Yang looked away, the image would return to stillness and become a fixed profile portrait again.

Then Yue Yang looked at the brief description below. He went dumb, staring with his mouth agape.

Mysterious Snake Demon: Juvenile, intelligent, humanoid war beast type, Diamond Level 1, life guardian war beast, limitless vitality, life sharing, possesses a Codex.

Diamond rank?

Limitless vitality? Life sharing? Possesses a Codex?

Yue Yang nearly had his blood vessels explode. What kind of existence was this little girl?

"You have a Codex too?" Yue Yang's head spun. Could it be that this little thing had preserved things from her past life? Was her Summoning Codex from her past life still around? Then what were her talent and life guardian war beasts? If she also had a Summoning Codex, was she his war beast or his daughter?

"..." The little snake demon girl did not speak. She merely blinked her large eyes.

With a tiny point of her hand, she summoned a delicate, exquisite Codex that was crystal-clear all over. It somewhat resembled Empress Fei Wenli's Codex, equally translucent like crystal, though its mysterious patterns were slightly different, and it lacked the rainbow halo that surrounded Empress Fei Wenli's Codex.

Yue Yang bent down for a closer look, and his jaw nearly hit the floor.

He saw the words "Diamond Codex" written on it. This little girl's Codex was actually Diamond rank, while his own pathetic Codex was only an entry-level Bronze Codex!

Once he opened the Codex and saw the little girl's talent and life guardian war beasts, Yue Yang was completely speechless.

Binding Talent: This talent may be cast simultaneously during an attack. Invisible chains of binding can restrain the target's **, spirit, spiritual energy, life, and soul. Before the binding is removed, the target will be unable to move. The duration of the binding is affected by the user's ability and the talent's level. This talent is currently Level 1.

"My kidneys!" Yue Yang sweated profusely. Wasn't this the legendary move where you could hit someone and they were not allowed to fight back?

Then he looked at the little girl's life guardian war beasts, and Yue Yang nearly coughed up blood.

Unlike others, who had only one life guardian war beast, she had no fewer than four... On the second page were portraits of four distinctly different creatures. Looking at the text beneath them, he learned that they were the Petrifying Medusa, Storm Mermaid, Thunder Naga, and Frost Snake Demon!

No wonder Empress Fei Wenli had chosen her as the captain of her personal guard. Once this little girl grew up, she would be terrifying!

But was she really Empress Fei Wenli's personal guard captain?

Yue Yang had serious doubts. Could she truly be her daughter? Or perhaps her incarnation?

Of course, there was no way to uncover the real answer right now... As far as Yue Yang was concerned, this little girl felt more like his daughter!

The little girl was still only a juvenile, yet even Yue Yang, who possessed the Innate Formless Body-Breaking Sword Aura, did not have much confidence that he could defeat her. If she were allowed to grow, who knew how terrifying she would become? Fortunately, this little thing was both his "daughter" and his life guardian war beast. Otherwise, Yue Yang would have been consumed by envy! After staring blankly for a long while, Yue Yang finally came back to his senses and patted his chest.

That was close. This little thing had almost scared him to death!

"Third Brother, are you still meditating? It's time to eat. Mother Xu came to call you several times just now." The beautiful woman's voice rang out from outside.

"Okay, I'll be right out." Yue Yang hurriedly called back.

He was about to put the little snake demon girl away, but before he could even reach out, he sensed a resisting, fearful thought in his mind. The little girl's six tiny arms clung tightly around Yue Yang's leg, and her large eyes looked at him pitifully, as though she truly did not want to be put back into the Bronze Codex.

Huh, this little thing could resist his will?

Yue Yang was just about to coax her when the wooden door suddenly creaked open. Yue Shuang, that little girl, cried out happily, "Third Brother!" and pushed the door open as she rushed in...