The Queen Mother was still making her way across the snowy mountains when she stopped abruptly. An enormous creature swooped overhead. Nian was already as big as a bed, leisurely wagging his tail in obvious satisfaction. Shorty sat on his back, pinning a kitten's tail beneath one claw. Xi, a palm-sized Garfield cat, lay miserably on Nian's back.
A jujube-sized tuft of kelp waved atop Shorty's head. The two of them had rotten luck: after running into Nian, they had been put in their place yet again. Xi had it worst, staring resentfully at Nian beneath him. It wasn't even time yet. How the hell did you hatch? This made no scientific sense.
How had he hatched? None of them knew. Watching the monitor, the Heavenly Dao felt deeply troubled. "Has it already reached this point? Qin Fen's ties to the Dao are growing deeper and deeper. This isn't good. If this keeps going..." The Heavenly Dao abruptly broke off its muttering.
As Nian grew, Fortune and the Human Tribe had become inseparable from Qin Fen, because the auspicious three treasures and the Divine Land's Nine Provinces Cauldrons had already begun gravitating toward him. There was simply no stopping it.
With a ding, Qin Fen's earpiece vibrated. A terrifying surge of Fortune erupted in that instant, frightening Kunpeng into hastily backing away. A notification also sounded in Big Chef's mind.
"The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth transformations have met the activation requirements. Activate them at a cost of three hundred thousand Merit?"
He could activate more already? Qin Fen scratched his forehead. Learning the Hundred-and-Eight Transformations clearly took more than spending Merit. Did it require Fortune too? He now discovered, to his astonishment, that his physical fatigue had vanished. That meant something had happened on Nian's end!
*Merit