Kang

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

Kang first appears as an enormous green pig as large as a small hill, with green scales and disproportionately tiny pink wings. It can shrink into a palm-sized piglet; after its mutation, its body becomes black and metallic-looking 6 16.

• Original features: Large, watery eyes, a broad snout, and soft pink wings that support flight in its miniature form 6.
• Mutated scales: Thick, coarse, ink-black scales with a cold metallic luster 16.
• Mutated wings: Enlarged, batlike membranes with bone spurs and knife-sharp edges; one edge cuts Shi Yunfeng’s finger 16.
• Other distinguishing features: Beady eyes, large ears, four stubby legs, and a small curly tail 17 39.
• After overeating: Its belly becomes so round that its legs cannot reach the ground, allowing Shi Hao to roll it like a ball 18.

Personality

Shi Yunfeng describes Kang as gentle by nature, but its most conspicuous habits are eating and sleeping. Spirit food immediately captures its attention, and a promised feast persuades it to abandon its anger after being thrown into the Green-Scaled Eagle’s throat. It later attaches itself to Shi Hou so firmly that it refuses to leave his shoulder when others call 6 8 14.

Kang is timid and often reluctant to work. Shi Hou repeatedly motivates it with food or threats of cooking it. Nevertheless, it can become aggressive when provoked: a threat of being stewed enrages it against the Bei Village Sacrificial Spirit, and it opportunistically attacks the Li Fire Bull Demon once the beast is vulnerable 17 30 45 46 48.

Abilities & Skills

Qi Disruption and Paralysis

Kang emits blue energy from its nostrils that interrupts a target’s internal energy flow and immobilizes it. Shi Yunfeng identifies this as an exceptionally rare control-type precious technique 16 17.

• Technique interruption: Shi Hao recalls Kang disrupting the Green-Scaled Eagle’s precious technique with blue light 16.
• Hunting support: A direct hit leaves a One-Horned Wild Boar rigid, convulsing, and unable to rise despite showing no obvious wound 17.
• Single-target restraint: Paralyzes the Bei Village Sacrificial Spirit long enough for Shi Hou to attack with his enlarged Stone Knife 30.
• Compressed projectiles: Fires a fingernail-sized, highly concentrated blue projectile at the Demon Ape’s chest wound 46.
• Brief effect against powerful beasts: Three concentrated pellets immobilize the Li Fire Bull Demon for only an instant, but that opening allows Shi Hao to deliver the killing blow 48.

Rapid-Fire “Gatling Mode”

Shi Hou turns Kang into a handheld rapid-fire weapon by restraining its body and provoking it. During the first test, he pulls its tail while holding its mouth shut, forcing repeated energy discharge through its nostrils 17.

• Area suppression: Brings down Greenwind Wolves, Iron-Beaked Eagles, a Five-Colored Deer, a Dragon-Scaled Elephant, and other prey during a single hunting test 17.
• Combat use: Sweeps blue shots across Bei Feng’s riders and their mounts 20.
• Shield pressure: Pins down a Spirit Transformation Realm Thunder Clan elder and weakens his lightning shield, enabling Shi Hou to finish the fight with the black pot 39.
• Energy supply: The meat Kang consumes replenishes the blue energy used in its attacks 18.
• Limits: Sustained firing causes overheating, black smoke, limpness, and exhaustion. During the Thunder Clan battle, it runs out of ammunition and loses consciousness 17 20 39.

Carrot-Fueled Energy Storm

A Spirit-Medicine Carrot produces an uncontrolled surge when Kang is frightened during the confrontation with the Thunder Clan. Its bristles rise, its wings spread, and it hovers while pouring blue energy into the enemy group 24.

• Incapacitates the Thunder Clan and Bei Village fighters, leaving them vulnerable to Shi Hou’s looting 24.
• Ends with Kang’s snout smoking before it collapses from the air 24.

Energy Tracking

After mutating, Kang becomes highly sensitive to energy fluctuations. Its tracking method sends two faint streams of blue light from its snout through the surrounding air 45.

• Application: Searches for the wounded Demon Ape by detecting its leaking blood energy 45.
• Limit: Follows the strongest blood-energy scent rather than recognizing deception. The Demon Ape’s deliberately scattered blood misleads it until Shi Hao identifies the false trail 45.

Size Changing, Flight, and Durability

Kang can rapidly reduce its enormous body to a palm-sized form and fly using its wings 6.

• Durability: Shi Linhu’s iron arrow strikes its forehead, scatters sparks, and bounces off harmlessly 6.
• Reported resistance: Shi Hao states that Shi Yunfeng considers Kang’s hide and flesh tough enough to resist ordinary treasured artifacts 8.
• Survival inside an enemy: Escapes from the Green-Scaled Eagle’s throat after injuring the bird from within 8.
• Physical charge: Knocks Shi Shoushan out of an incoming lightning spear’s path, although the impact also injures his lower back 39.

History

Arrival at Stone Village

Drawn by the aroma of spirit food and the Stone Pot’s aura, Kang emerges from the forest near Stone Village. Shi Yunfeng stops the villagers from attacking after recognizing it as an auspicious beast. According to the legend he recounts, Kang’s appearance heralds a bountiful harvest 6.

Kang initially fawns over Shi Hou, licking and nuzzling him while ignoring Shi Hao. After Shi Hao kicks it, it shrinks and settles on his shoulder. During the subsequent egg raid, Shi Hao throws the sleeping pig into the pursuing Green-Scaled Eagle’s throat; Kang survives, wounds the bird, and returns to the children. Shi Hou keeps it from leaving by promising a special feast 6 7 8.

Mutation and Hunting Partnership

Kang later enters the Stone Pot and absorbs enough energy to drain more than 50,000 of Shi Hou’s Blood Qi Value. Shi Hou nearly kills it in anger, but Shi Hao stops his blade and Shi Yunfeng explains the value of its mutated bloodline and control technique 16.

Testing reveals that Kang’s blue shots can disable large numbers of fierce beasts. Shi Hou rewards it with concentrated stew made from Dragon-Scaled Elephant trunk and pot-nurtured vegetables, then establishes a routine of nourishing soaks and hunting trips. Over ten days, their hunts help Shi Hou restore his Blood Qi Value above 200,000 17 18.

Conflicts with Bei Village and the Thunder Clan

Kang helps rout Bei Feng’s mounted fighters and later paralyzes Bei Village’s Sacrificial Spirit. Its mutated appearance and thunder spirit qi also attract a Thunder Clan elder, who demands possession of it and calls it top-grade even among Primordial Remnants 20 23 30.

Kang’s carrot-fueled discharge defeats the elder’s group in the wilderness. In a later confrontation at Stone Village, it saves Shi Shoushan from a lightning attack and helps Shi Hou break down the elder’s defenses. Afterward, Shi Hao uses Kang’s unconscious condition to demand compensation for supposedly frightening it 24 39 40.

Primordial Remnant Expedition

Kang joins Shi Hou, Shi Hao, and the Green-Scaled Eagle in hunting the wounded Demon Ape and Li Fire Bull Demon. Although its tracking is fooled by the ape’s decoy, it provides a concentrated electric shot during the ambush and a crucial paralysis burst against the bull demon 44 45 46 48.

After the hunt, Kang reacts with terror to the overwhelming pressure preceding the Primordial Zhu Yan’s appearance. Back in Stone Village, Shi Hou feeds it the remaining Suanni Runes Treasure Soup; it releases blue-and-gold smoke rings, falls stiffly to the ground, and twitches in bliss 48 49 50.

Relationships

• Shi Hou — Principal feeder and hunting partner. Kang becomes attached to his spirit food, while Shi Hou uses its paralysis attacks to secure prey and control stronger opponents 8 14 17 18 44.
• Shi Hao — Playmate and fellow glutton who calls it “emergency food.” Despite throwing it at the Green-Scaled Eagle and rolling it around after meals, Shi Hao also prevents Shi Hou from killing it. The two compete over food, including the last piece of Suanni meat 6 7 16 18 42.
• Shi Yunfeng — Recognizes Kang’s auspicious nature and explains its rare control technique, persuading Shi Hou to spare it after the costly mutation 6 16.
• Shi Shoushan — Saved from a lightning spear by Kang’s charge, but suffers a lower-back injury from the rescue itself 39.
• Green-Scaled Eagle — Initially an opponent injured when Kang is thrown into its throat; later accompanies Kang on the primordial remnant expedition 7 8 44.
• Thunder Clan elder — Attempts to seize Kang for its mutated bloodline and thunder spirit qi; subsequently suffers both its uncontrolled energy storm and its rapid-fire assault 23 24 39.