"Does he need mouth-to-mouth?" Li Yichen hesitated. Mantou was no beauty, and he had no desire to kiss an animal.
Just as he was still psyching himself up, a sudden snore rang out.
"Fuck... so he was asleep. You little menace, you nearly scared me to death." Li Yichen instantly relaxed. If the fellow really had died, with Tang Ling'er's fiery temper, she would have cried, thrown a tantrum, and threatened to hang herself. How was he supposed to survive that?
Still a little uneasy, he examined Mantou with his Heavenly Eye.
He saw a peculiar energy inside Mantou rapidly merging with his own spiritual power, then gathering in his dantian, showing signs of forming a core.
"If Mantou can form a demon core, his strength will definitely soar." Li Yichen was delighted. "He usually looks so stupid, but give him something good and he turns out to be craftier than a monkey."
Come to think of it, Mantou was the first spirit pet he had encountered, but with Dazhuang, Little Fairy, and even the Nine-Tailed Fox joining them, he had become the weakest of the bunch.
Although Tang Ling'er had never said so outright, anyone who wasn't blind could see the envy in her eyes.
"You'd better make something of yourself." Li Yichen casually put him into the Space Ring.
Then his gaze fell on Black Impermanence's Space Ring.
"Let's see what good stuff is inside."
With that thought, he reached out, and the ring flew into his hand.
His divine sense then pierced the ring like a blade.
Now that he was at the nascent soul stage, handling an ownerless Space Treasure like this was effortless.
Black Judge's Space Ring held only ten cubic meters. The entire space was gray and lifeless. Clearly, unlike the one Li Yichen