The Mysterious Black Stone

After a short while, Lin Yu saw that the Blazing Flame Mad Tiger had not moved at all. Just as he was about to try again, a halting voice rang out in his mind.

"Y-yes... Master!"

Lin Yu's eyes lit up, and he immediately grew excited. Just as he had expected, when the Rinnegan controlled a living magical beast, it would not erase the beast's intelligence. It would only force the beast to acknowledge a master. However, there was still something he needed to confirm, so he impatiently asked in his mind.

"Do you feel any different from before?"

"Master! I feel very good right now. Other than the injuries Master just gave me, I've never felt this good before! I don't really know how to explain it!"

The Blazing Flame Mad Tiger's answer stunned Lin Yu. What did it mean, it did not know how to explain it? Puzzled, Lin Yu used Appraisal on the Blazing Flame Mad Tiger once more.

Blazing Flame Mad Tiger (Rinnegan summoned beast, potential increasing), peak Tier 4.

The information he obtained was now completely different from before. Not only had the abnormal status disappeared, but its strength had also stabilized at the peak of Tier 4.

"Looks like the Blazing Flame Mad Tiger's abnormal status was forcibly erased by the Rinnegan. And magical beasts controlled by the Rinnegan can actually improve their talent. The Blazing Flame Mad Tiger originally had Emperor-level potential. Does this increase in potential mean it can advance to Emperor-grade talent? I guess I'll only know once its potential finishes increasing."

Lin Yu pondered for a while but still could not fully figure it out. However, it was an undeniable fact that magical beasts controlled by the Rinnegan could increase their potential, so he did not continue dwelling on it. He had another question now.

"I wonder whether magical beasts revived by the Rinnegan can have their potential increased too? I'll have to test that next time. But after summoning the Blazing Flame Mad Tiger, it feels like my current strength can support at most one more Tier 4 magical beast. I should be able to summon a few more below Tier 4, but anything stronger won't work."

Although Lin Yu had not tested it yet, that was simply how he felt. There was a limit to the number of summoned beasts the Rinnegan could have, and they could not be much stronger than their master. Still, this was already ridiculously overpowered, and Lin Yu was quite satisfied.

"Little Yu, how did it go? Did something go wrong?"

Ji Xuejun had seen Lin Yu standing there with his eyes closed for so long and feared that something might have happened, so she walked over and asked worriedly.

Ji Xuejun's voice jolted Lin Yu out of his thoughts. Only then did he remember that he had not yet dealt with the important matter.

"Sister Xuejun, it's fine. I'm just not familiar with using this yet, so I was getting used to its abilities."

"Wait a moment. I'll ask the Blazing Flame Mad Tiger whether it knows anything."

"Alright!"

Ji Xuejun nodded. Seeing that Lin Yu was indeed fine, she quietly stood to the side and waited for him to learn about the situation.

When Lin Yu turned back and was about to speak to the Blazing Flame Mad Tiger, he suddenly realized that the Wood Human was still suppressing it with Kōan Entering Society Palm. Lin Yu hurriedly dismissed the Wood Human. The moment it vanished, the Blazing Flame Mad Tiger, which had been pinned down and unable to move, immediately flipped over and got to its feet. Then, it lowered its massive head before Lin Yu.

"Thank you, Master!"

The Blazing Flame Mad Tiger's voice sounded in Lin Yu's mind. Lin Yu stroked the enormous head before him. Looking at the docile Blazing Flame Mad Tiger, he suddenly felt as though he were petting a cat in his previous life—except this time, it was a huge tiger more than ten meters long.

The feel isn't bad.

The moment that thought crossed his mind, Lin Yu immediately shook his head and cast away the messy thoughts. Then he asked.

"Blazing Flame... do you have a name?"

"Yes, Master. My name is Santiago Trinidad E. Pablo."

"...From now on, I'll call you Little Luo."

Lin Yu frowned deeply upon hearing that tongue-twisting name. Without further nonsense, he directly gave the Blazing Flame Mad Tiger a nickname.

"Yes, Master."

The Blazing Flame Mad Tiger, now controlled by the Rinnegan, obeyed Lin Yu's every word. Forget a nickname—if Lin Yu told it to die, it probably would not even blink.

Lin Yu nodded in satisfaction, then asked.

"Little Luo, do you remember how you got here? And how did you become like that?"

"Master, I was sucked here by a spatial rift. I had originally been living with my clan, but one day, a human suddenly came to our clan. I don't know what that human said to our clan chief, but it enraged him, and they fought. The force of their clash destroyed our clan grounds and destabilized the secret realm's space. While fleeing, I accidentally crashed into a spatial rift, then lost consciousness. When I woke up, I was here."

"As for why I became like that, it was because I accidentally ate a black stone. Then my strength rose from the peak of Tier 3 to the peak of Tier 4. But after eating that stone, I became extremely irritable. It took a great deal of effort for me to suppress it."

"However, after Master bestowed these eyes upon me, I feel that I'm fine even without suppressing it. And my current strength no longer feels hollow either. Thank you for Master's gift."

Little Luo, formerly the Blazing Flame Mad Tiger, spoke to Lin Yu with deep reverence at the end. Lin Yu was left speechless after hearing this. The Rinnegan's Summoning Jutsu was truly insane. It was one thing to control someone, but they would even be grateful to you for it. It was simply ruthless. But Lin Yu only had three words to say about this effect: I like it.

"Do you remember where you got that stone? Are there any more there?"

"I do. I got it in a canyon not far from here."

"As for whether there are more, I'm not sure either. After I accidentally ate it, my mind was somewhat unclear. I don't even remember how I got out of that canyon. I had planned to go back and search after I fully digested it, but before I could finish digesting it, I encountered Master. Master already knows what happened afterward."

After hearing this, Lin Yu fell into deep thought. It seemed that the source of everything was that mysterious black stone. To completely uncover the truth, finding that mysterious black stone was the key.

Thinking of this, Lin Yu turned to Ji Xuejun, who was waiting nearby, and said.

"Sister Xuejun, the Blazing Flame Mad Tiger told me about the abnormality. It said it became like that after eating a mysterious black stone."

"A black stone? What black stone?"

Ji Xuejun asked in confusion.

"I'm not sure about the details either. The Blazing Flame Mad Tiger said it found it in a canyon not far from here. We may need to go there and see whether we can find any other black stones. Once we find that stone, we should be able to discover some clues."

Lin Yu spoke to Ji Xuejun with certainty. As long as his eyes could see something, the system could appraise its information. Lin Yu was still full of confidence in the system.