Size at Will

After killing the Dragon-Horned Elephant, Xiao Tian withdrew his divine ability. His whole body trembled as fierce hunger surged through him. "Dad, I'm so hungry."

"Ah, hungry? Here, this Hundred-Beast Milk was prepared for you."

Xiao Feng snapped out of his shock and hurriedly handed over a White Bone Jade Flask. It was a Treasure Artifact engraved with runes that kept the milk warm at all times.

The Hundred-Beast Milk Xiao Tian drank was made from the milk of a hundred powerful Blood Moving Realm savage beasts, blended with special medicinal herbs.

This had been Xiao Tian's request. For children, breast milk was a treasure of unsurpassed nutritional value.

The milk of savage beasts likewise concentrated the essence of their bodies and was the easiest to digest and absorb.

Having studied Little One's inimitable path of growth, Xiao Tian had loved drinking beast milk since infancy. Marquis Ling Tian had tried all sorts of methods and eventually devised Hundred-Beast Milk for him.

After he drank the Hundred-Beast Milk, a pale golden glow flowed over Xiao Tian's body as he rapidly absorbed its medicinal potency. His body was still too weak, so this happened whenever he used his innate divine ability.

The first time he used his innate divine ability was at the age of two. He passed out on the spot, terrifying his parents and alarming the clan elders.

He remained unconscious for a day. After waking, Xiao Tian no longer dared to use his innate divine ability recklessly.

Whether he shrank or grew, the expenditure of his body's vital essence was enormous.

At three, Xiao Tian used it again. He was left weak for half a day and ravenous with hunger, drinking ten jin of beast milk.

His precious milk flask contained a Sumeru Space and held a hundred jin of beast milk, allowing Xiao Tian to enjoy it whenever he wished.

Only after drinking fifty jin of beast milk in one go did Xiao Tian feel his hunger fade.

Then he drank slowly, taking small sips. After another twenty jin of Hundred-Beast Milk, he let out a satisfied burp.

He had succeeded. The first time he used his innate divine ability, Size at Will, he grew nine meters tall and immediately passed out.

The second time he used Size at Will, he grew into a twenty-meter giant and was left weak for half a day.

The third time, just now, he had grown forty-five meters tall and successfully killed a Dragon-Horned Elephant, one of the strongest savage beasts in the Blood Moving Realm.

That Dragon-Horned Elephant had been sixteen meters long, with a three-meter tail and a shoulder height of nine meters-a true behemoth.

In short, as he grew, the range within which he could freely wield his divine ability kept expanding.

"Let's go home. I used up a little too much today, so I need to replenish myself. Have Grandpa prepare my baptism for age four. I want to break past ninety thousand jin of fleshly body power."

Xiao Tian casually handed the milk flask to his father and strode forward with his toes turned out. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew past, leaving him chilly down below. Only then did he remember that he had taken off his clothes for the fight.

His divine ability could not yet affect his clothes and make ordinary garments grow or shrink along with his body, so he had stripped in advance before trying it.

Smack, smack, smack-

"I'm your father, not your servant."

His face darkening, Xiao Feng put away the beast milk, scooped up Xiao Tian's little, barely 1.2-meter-tall body, laid him across his knees, and unleashed a crackling barrage of slaps on his fair, tender bottom.

"You have to start spanking your son early. This brat is only four, and he's already this lawless. With his talent, that potential to become a Venerable the old man mentioned is entirely possible."

At the thought of spanking a future Emperor-Sealing powerhouse, Xiao Feng could not resist delivering two more slaps with his palm-fan-sized hand.

"Waaah-Dad, I won't do it again!"

A wise man knew better than to suffer a needless beating. Xiao Tian obligingly wailed twice and no longer dared to act arrogant.

He would find a chance to tell his grandfather, Marquis Ling Tian, and have the old man invite his father for a spar.

Xiao Tian remembered that whenever he was beaten as a younger child and Marquis Ling Tian wanted to beat his father in turn, his grandfather would say, "Feng'er, come along. Let your father see whether your cultivation has improved lately."

At those moments, his father's square face would crumple into a picture of misery, filled with utter reluctance.

By the afternoon meal, his father would send someone to announce that he had clan business to handle and would not be eating with them.

"You little brat, don't you dare tell your grandfather I spanked you. A father disciplining his son is as natural as heaven and earth. Nobody gets to interfere."

Having thoroughly spanked Xiao Tian's little bottom, Xiao Feng spoke in an excellent mood.

"Okay!"

Xiao Tian hurriedly agreed, then ran aside to put on his clothes. Being stark naked like this was utterly improper and far too embarrassing.

Dressed in black, Xiao Tian immediately looked bright and spirited. His short black hair brushed his shoulders, and his dark, shining eyes were as pure as black gemstones. His fair, delicate face had well-defined features and was cuter than a girl's, with a pair of dimples when he smiled. When angry, he looked cool and aloof, making people itch to pinch his little cheeks.

Xiao Feng picked up Xiao Tian's milk flask, walked over, hoisted him up, and tossed him onto his shoulder before striding back toward the clan grounds.

Two guards immediately emerged from the shadows, lifted the Dragon-Horned Elephant, and carried it back to the clan grounds.

That afternoon, Marquis Ling Tian returned and announced a bonfire feast for the evening. Not only that, he also arranged a medicinal bath for the clan's children that night. Every child under ten had to take part.

Word had it that Marquis Ling Tian had returned carrying a fiery-red Heavenly Dog, said to be a remnant descendant of the ferocious Heavenly Dog with Pureblood Heavenly Dog blood in its veins.

After hearing his son Xiao Feng describe his grandson's performance, Marquis Ling Tian had been so delighted that he led men straight into the Great Wilderness and hunted down this Primordial Remnant, whose strength rivaled a Marquis-Sealing powerhouse.

The strength of the human race lay in its ability to wield Treasure Artifacts passed down as its ancestral foundation, unleashing destructive power far beyond its own strength.

For Primordial Remnants that survived alone, that was fatal.

The experts he brought along had also hunted other savage beasts. Their flesh and precious medicinal blood, combined with medicinal herbs, were enough to give the clan's other children a baptism as well.

Naturally, Xiao Tian saw the corpse of that Heavenly Dog descendant for himself. Its body was a full thirty meters long, its fiery-red fur resembling blazing flames.

According to Marquis Ling Tian, the legendary Pureblood Heavenly Dog had a black head and a crimson body. It could swallow the sun and devour the moon and was exceedingly ferocious and powerful.

Xiao Tian listened, dumbfounded. Of course it was powerful. It dared to eat the Three-Legged Golden Crow and the Lunar Jade Rabbit. No one would believe anyone who claimed it was not ferocious.

Still, the Nine-Nether Ao had to be the fiercest canine beast, right? Not only was it one of the Ten Fiends, there was also the World-Destroying Elder at the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, who could be called this world's ultimate ancient monster. The Desolate Heaven Emperor had found killing the World-Destroying Elder far more difficult than killing the Corpse Immortal Emperor.

Gulp.

Gazing at the enormous corpse of the Heavenly Dog descendant, Xiao Tian could not help swallowing. He was feeling a little hungry.

"Hahaha! Xiao Feng, cut off a piece of that Heavenly Dog's hind leg and roast it for Tian'er."

Seeing this, Marquis Ling Tian's old heart swelled with satisfaction, and he spoke with a heroic spirit that soared to the clouds.

Xiao Feng did not dare utter another word and scurried off to work.

"Come, Tian'er. Show Grandpa that ability of yours that lets you shrink."

Marquis Ling Tian picked Xiao Tian up and spoke as he walked toward the hall used to temper the boy's body.

Xiao Tian knew very well how important it was to please his grandfather. Marquis Ling Tian had been granted his title by the Stone Emperor and was immensely powerful, far surpassing other Inscription Realm experts.

One could say that every Marquis-Sealing powerhouse was in the Inscription Realm, but not everyone in the Inscription Realm qualified to be granted a marquis title.

Xiao Tian gave a light leap, shrank to ten centimeters tall, and landed on his grandfather's shoulder before jumping onto his outstretched palm.

"Grandpa, am I amazing? Hurry and look. I still can't keep this up for long."

As Xiao Tian spoke, his clothes were stripped off practically in an instant, caught directly in Marquis Ling Tian's hand.

"Good. Good, good, good! Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous! My precious grandson, hurry and change back."

His old heart brimming with satisfaction, Marquis Ling Tian widened his eyes, which shone with divine radiance, and examined him carefully before speaking with tender concern.

Remembering how Xiao Tian had passed out after using this ability before, he still could not help feeling his heart pound with dread. That feeling was worse than being injured himself.

(End of chapter)