In nature, more than ninety percent of creatures were extremely cute when they were young.
On Blue Star, even fierce tigers, brown bears, and the like were no exception. Their tiny, endearingly innocent appearances could even give people nosebleeds from sheer cuteness.
Although wyrmlings could not compare to those furry creatures, they still counted as cute, nowhere near as hideous and terrifying as they would become as adults.
With his human soul, Xiluo had always had little resistance to the pleading looks of these little fellows.
Without a word, he spat out the Frost Magic Crystal.
He let the wyrmlings admire it closely for quite a while, listening to their excited cries before finally taking it back.
"Gwooo!"
The Ground Luo Beasts cried out in panic.
With no Magic Crystal to occupy their attention, the wyrmlings turned their gazes back to the beasts, pointing at them and discussing which parts were fatty or lean, and which were tender.
Although the Ground Luo Beasts could not understand what the wyrmlings were saying, those greedy gazes and occasional sounds of swallowing still scared them half to death!
They struggled desperately, nearly breaking free of Xiluo's claws.
This irritated Xiluo, and he led the six Ground Luo Beasts somewhere nearby.
The other wyrmlings were somewhat puzzled by this, but followed him anyway.
They then watched Xiluo tie the beasts to a tree and begin digging a hole in the ground. After digging for a while, perhaps because he was a little tired, Xiluo stopped.
He turned his gaze toward the six Ground Luo Beasts, pressed one of them down over the hole, and stared intently at it.
"Gwooo..."
Perhaps it could not bear Xiluo's terrifying stare.
The Ground Luo Beast began digging desperately.
Xiluo simply watched quietly from the side.
"Xiluo... what are you doing?"
After watching for a while, Gordon could not help asking.
"What the three of us can do is limited, after all. There's no way we can go hunting every single day from now on.
"There isn't much prey within a five-kilometer radius of the Green Forest to begin with. If we keep showing up, there will only be less and less prey, and hunting will become increasingly difficult!
"Since that's the case, we naturally can't just sit around waiting for disaster.
"Raising an animal to serve as our future food supply is our top priority!
"And Ground Luo Beasts are definitely among the best animals to raise!
"Our stomachs... will be depending on them from now on!"
Xiluo explained, looking at the six young Ground Luo Beasts with a somewhat kindly gaze.
"Hmm... Ground Luo Beasts really are excellent animals to raise, but these ones are too small, far too small. They still have quite a while before they reach breeding age. Can you wait that long?"
Abel, the Blue Dragon Wyrmling beside them, also knew about Ground Luo Beasts and spoke up.
"Then we'll catch more Ground Luo Beasts later!"
After saying this, Xiluo glanced at the little white dragon and the Red Dragon Whelp.
"Gordon, Allen, we'll go out hunting every day from now on. We'll try to get more food and find as many more Ground Luo Beasts as possible! Any problems?"
"No problem... Xiluo, I'll do whatever you say." The little white dragon nodded gently in agreement.
"Losing to you on this hunt did leave me pretty annoyed! Next time, I'll definitely beat you!" the Red Dragon Whelp said with a grin.
"Then it's settled. Oh, right, Allen, use your frost Breath Weapon to freeze the four Frost Giant Eagle carcasses. They might be our food supply for the next several weeks."
Xiluo gave the little white dragon another instruction.
After that, they got busy again.
He watched over the Ground Luo Beasts as they dug out a new burrow, then had Gordon breathe fire into it, thoroughly baking and hardening all the inner walls to prevent the Ground Luo Beasts from digging their way out.
Afterward, he used Nature's Vine, winding it around and around with huge trees as posts to enclose the Ground Luo Beasts' burrow.
A simple Ground Luo Beast pen was complete!
Xiluo admired his handiwork with great satisfaction.
He gathered some weeds and tossed them into the burrow inside the enclosure. The somewhat panicked cries immediately fell silent.
The Ground Luo Beasts inside had begun eating.
"My adorable little darlings! Eat your fill, then hurry up and grow, hurry up and mate, and breed more offspring for me!
"My future food supply is depending on you."
Xiluo spoke with a satisfied expression. After a good while, he said to Gordon and Allen,
"We'll have to move our lairs, too. They have to be near the Ground Luo Beasts. We can't let anything happen to these treasures."
"I'll do as you say." The little white dragon nodded obediently.
Gordon raised his brows. "You actually care this much about these lowly things? That's quite unexpected. But since you say so, we might as well move."
After saying that, the Red Dragon Whelp began wandering around nearby.
He wanted to find a suitable spot for a lair.
Xiluo and Allen soon got moving as well.
It took Xiluo most of the day to dig another burrow beside a tree, large enough for him to sleep in, and he hurriedly settled down to sleep.
The familiar sensations of weightlessness and distortion swept over him again.
In his daze, Xiluo arrived at that familiar yet unfamiliar Mystery Sea.
He gazed silently at the immense, boundless skeleton.
Until a string of black text appeared before his eyes.
[Beginning of Slaughter]: You swung your sharp claws for the first time and ended a life, earning 10 achievement points. Current achievement points: 15 [Rapid Healing]: Heal wounds more quickly after suffering an injury. (Costs 20 achievement points) [Sharp Claws and Teeth]: Your claws and teeth will become harder and sharper. (Costs 10 achievement points) [Storm Breath]: Grants you the ability to breathe storms. (Costs 30 achievement points)
Since [Rapid Growth] had been selected, the new talent that appeared was [Storm Breath].
In Xiluo's opinion, this talent was quite good.
The cost of 30 achievement points alone offered some indication of that.
Storm Breath.
None of the Chromatic Dragons used this kind of Breath Weapon, nor did any of the Metal Dragons.
But judging by the name, it should be a wind-element Breath Weapon.
Xiluo did not think this kind of Breath Weapon was stronger than Lightning Breath.
But Xiluo knew that as long as he mastered this Breath Weapon ability, his control over the wind element would also improve tremendously.
Because the wind element would be etched into his bloodline! Just like the lightning element! There might still be a gap, but it definitely would not be too large.
This would let him use wind spells with greater ease and speed in battle.
Take his earlier battle with the Frost Giant Eagles, for example.
Although Xiluo had learned nature spells, fire spells, some poison spells, and so on from other dragons, in the end, he had only used lightning spells that matched his own element, along with Lightning Breath.
This was a matter of elemental affinity! Aside from lightning spells, the excessive time required to cast other spells was a major problem.
If he had guards protecting him, it would not have mattered much.
But when fighting an enemy at close quarters, one against one, or one against many,
He simply had no spare time to cast those complicated spells, nor did he have powerful equipment to solve the problem.
That made affinity with and control over other elements a top priority.
If his control over the wind element could rival his control over lightning, and he learned a few wind spells, Xiluo's combat strength would surely rise another level, while his fighting would also become more varied.
(End of chapter)
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