It was not just him.
He Ling's eyes were filled with undisguised astonishment as well.
Anning was still young. Naturally, she could not raise it the way Chen Xun had raised those two little auspicious beasts—fencing off a patch of land and letting them fend for themselves.
By the second year, He Ling had already kept Anning by her side, protecting it with her own body so it would not suffer the physical suppression of Divine Mountain Continent's aura. Wherever she went, it followed like a little tagalong.
Upon the vast earth.
"Big Brother, little Anning..." Shock flickered in He Ling's gaze as she watched the little white elephant spinning and running in the distance. "It can actually devour Heavenly Foundation Stones?"
Gales howled here, sending dust rolling through the air. Of course, Black Bull had caused all of it.
A hundred li away lay a massive mining pit spanning ten thousand li. The Immortal Realm—Temporal Void Realm—was quite far from the Boundary-Breaking Boat, a hundred thousand li to the northwest; from here, only its blurry outline could be seen.
Today, He Ling had brought Anning to "visit" its eldest and second brothers. They came once every year, but who could have known that this year, there would be an unusually large amount of fine Heavenly Foundation Stone debris drifting through the air, which Anning had accidentally swallowed!
The heterochromatic pupils in her eye sockets emerged as she continued observing Anning's internal condition.
"...Damn it."
Chen Xun slowly swallowed, his eyes full of astonishment. Then he said gravely, "Third Sister, this is a downright prodigal little beast. It can swallow Heavenly Foundation Stones whole."
His breathing grew much heavier. For years, he had strictly controlled the little elephant's food intake, afraid of whetting its appetite. After all his worries, he