The Jade Water Pill worked wonders. Less than two hours after the big tiger swallowed it, she was lively as a dragon and fierce as a tiger, pouncing and playing with Little Black. Even their way of "flirting" was something else. Luo Qian shook his head, checked the sky, brought out the Torch Dragon Boat, and climbed inside to rest. Thunderous beast roars kept coming from outside. Helpless, he adjusted the Torch Dragon Lamp's shielding until it blocked the sound as well.
By the time daylight broke, the Broken Range was still shrouded in gloom, though it was brighter than the night before. Luo Qian emerged from the Torch Dragon Boat to find both Little Black and the big tiger gone! His heart lurched. Did that stupid leopard elope with his wife?
He rounded a boulder and found the two enormous beasts lying together, one atop the other. Grinning, Luo Qian decided to play a prank. He chanted a spell to draw Little Black back into the Beast-Sealing Puppet. But when the flash faded, both Little Black and the tiger had vanished! Startled, he examined the puppet in his hand. Sure enough, it had changed. Where there had once been a black leopard, there was now one body with two heads: a leopard's and a tiger's. The tiger's head was even bigger than the leopard's. The Thundercloud Fire Leopard was only a Seventh Rank Immortal Beast, while the Golden-Blood Demon Tiger was a nine-star Magic Beast. Had this tigress not suffered Alaparis's curse and been saved by Little Black, why would a nine-star Magic Beast have shared a night of passion with a Seventh Rank Immortal Beast?
So it seemed humans were not the only creatures who knew how to repay kindness. Even beasts understood that a life-saving debt called