The instant the Chain of Fate linked the Exquisite Flower King to Can Can, the Exquisite Flower King's slender body began trembling uncontrollably.
Can Can, an earth-element creature like itself, was clearly at the same Growth Rank, yet Can Can was so powerful that the energy surging toward it felt extraordinarily substantial.
As that power poured in, the Exquisite Flower King's body swelled slightly, faint bulges appearing across it as though it could barely withstand the influx.
The tightly closed flower buds covering its body quietly cracked open, revealing to Xu Ran the petals that had previously overlapped so closely that not a single gap remained.
Now!!
Xu Ran pressed his hands against the Exquisite Flower King's open petals.
Then, lubricated by the Bathing Solution evenly coating them, his hands swiftly followed the petals inward, reaching the deepest recesses of the slightly opened bud in moments.
The Exquisite Flower King froze.
Being reached at a depth never touched before made its entire body tremble uncontrollably, as though electrified.
The ends of its limbs, resembling smooth root tips, curled desperately and shook as though cramping. The buds covering it involuntarily opened farther amid its trembling, seemingly anticipating more thorough grooming from Xu Ran.
Just as I thought.
A relaxed smile appeared on Xu Ran's face.
The Exquisite Flower King was a very unusual evolved species.
Its initial species was the Jade Wood Spirit, a humanoid Contract Beast resembling a wooden puppet. Only under certain specific circumstances could it follow a rare evolutionary path and assume its current form.
Compared with the Jade Wood Spirit, the Exquisite Flower King's most distinctive feature was the tightly closed flower buds covering its body.
Those buds were also what made it so difficult to groom.
They were not merely decorations on the Exquisite Flower King's