NOVEL NEXT Chapter 244: Chapter 244: Lin Zhen ‘s Pet, Xiao Nuan (3rd update)
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By the time Lin Zhen woke up again, he felt weak all over, with dizziness and blurry vision, which were signs of excessive blood loss.
“Ah… so dizzy!”
Lin Zhen sat up swaying and checked the time, only to find out that more than a day had passed.
“Clang! ”
Something fell from the entrance of the cave, and Lin Zhen saw the liquid metal he originally used to block the entrance rolling towards him.
Lin Zhen had turned the metal into a circular wall to block the entrance, preventing lava from pouring in and heat waves from attacking. It had saved his life, but why did it fall?
Lin Zhen put away the liquid metal while still feeling a bit dazed. If the lava had washed away the liquid metal, it didn’t fill the cave.
If the lava had poured in, Lin Zhen guessed that only his bones would have remained.
“Where’s the puppy?” Lin Zhen searched left and right but did not see the puppy’s shadow.
Has it run away? After sucking so much of my blood, it actually ran away?” Lin Zhen was quite disappointed. With his current loss of blood, a normal person or even a weaker War God would have died. Even though Lin Zhen was full of vitality, he was extremely weak, and his combat power was greatly affected.
Yet, the Galaxy Beast had run away.
“It probably loosened the liquid metal when it ran out. Sigh, I guess it was all for nothing. I hope my condition recovers quickly. I still need to collect the Cinnabar Stone and Domineering Stone. This condition won’t do.”
Lin Zhen tried to stand up and leave; otherwise, he might not be able to leave if another volcanic eruption occurred.
Just as he reached the entrance, the incredible heat wave attacked again, and Lin Zhen was about to activate his Spiritual Shield and leave.
At this moment, he suddenly saw a surge in the lava below, and the puppy swam out like a swimmer. Then it took three leaps at once and ran on empty air, rushing out!
Moreover, the puppy was holding a fiery red strange fish in its mouth. The fish was as long as two feet, much larger than the puppy, but it had already died.
The puppy ran to the cave where Lin Zhen was in just a few steps, then bumped into his arms.
Lin Zhen’s weak body couldn’t withstand the puppy’s collision, and they both tumbled back into the depths of the cave.
“Ouch! What’s going on?”
Lin Zhen hit the meteorite wrapped in eggshells and felt an unbearable soreness all over his body.
The puppy was not affected at all. It licked Lin Zhen’s face with its hot tongue, making it wet.
“Is it… is it recognizing me as its master? Or does it take me as its mother?” Lin Zhen looked incredulously at the puppy snuggling in his arms.
Its condition was obviously different from before. Its golden fur became shinier, and the mane around its neck turned from light red to fiery red. Its limbs looked stronger, and its eyes seemed to have a faint starlight floating when they opened and closed.
When it opened its mouth wide, its milk teeth did not seem to have grown longer. However, Lin Zhen could tell from the dead red fish that its bite was powerful.
It had a long tail that wagged behind it, but it didn’t look like a dog’s tail. It felt more like a lion’s tail.
“It definitely isn’t a dog. It just looks like one.” Lin Zhen decided quickly.
The puppy clung to Lin Zhen’s arms, its body warm and unaffected by swimming in the lava just now.
“As expected, it grew up wrapped in lava and isn’t afraid of fire at all.”
Lin Zhen tried hard to hold the puppy and examine it from top to bottom, liking it more and more.
He even sensed the power of thunder and light in the puppy, which inherited from Lin Zhen’s legacy.
After licking Lin Zhen’s face twice, the puppy jumped down, picked up the fish that rolled to the side, and delivered it to Lin Zhen’s arms.
“Is it for me to eat?” Lin Zhen couldn’t help but ask.
To his surprise, the puppy seemed to understand him. It opened its mouth and made a biting motion, then stuck out its tongue and looked at Lin Zhen.
Lin Zhen picked up the fish and found it somewhat transparent, like it was made of jelly.
After taking a sniff, he didn’t smell any fishiness. Since the Galaxy Beast had given it to him, it probably wasn’t poisonous. Lin Zhen was feeling weak anyway, so he took a bite.
The fish melted in his mouth, and Lin Zhen immediately felt a burst of heat from his Dantian spreading through his limbs and body. His weakened condition due to blood loss began to recover.
“This is indeed a great supplement. I won’t be polite then.”
Lin Zhen started eating, and the more he ate, the tastier it got, and the lost strength gradually returned.
Meanwhile, the puppy didn’t idle either. It picked up the crab meat Lin Zhen had given it before. The piece of crab meat was large, bigger than its body, yet it swallowed it in just a few bites.
After finishing, it wagged its tail at Lin Zhen, seemingly still wanting more.
Lin Zhen immediately took out another piece of crab meat, weighing over a hundred pounds, and threw it in front of the puppy. The puppy pounced on it and ate it at an incredible speed.
This fish weighed about ten pounds, and when Lin Zhen finished eating it, the little dog surprisingly managed to devour all the hundred pounds of crab meat in one go.
“This guy can really eat!”
Lin Zhen looked at the foodie and quietly closed his eyes. The power within him felt surging, so he decided to meditate for a while.
While meditating in the cave, the little dog lay down beside Lin Zhen’s leg, occasionally rolling over and exposing its tiny belly, apparently treating Lin Zhen as its mother or owner.
During meditation, Lin Zhen became increasingly astonished.
It was not the power of the red fish that replenished his lost blood, but he discovered that within his Dantian, inside the Dark Star’s core, a large amount of molten flame had actually appeared!
The original composition of the Dark Star was formed by dark energy, dark matter, light, electricity, and cold air, never having the power of flames. But now, a large amount of flame power had appeared, and it was hidden in the core of the Dark Star in a magma-like form, much like the huge amount of magma hidden within a planet’s interior.
“Did I get this from the little dog?”
Lin Zhen thought carefully and deduced that when he fed the little dog with his own blood, he must have been nourished by the little dog’s power.
The little dog’s eyes occasionally showed the power of electricity and light, indicating that it had absorbed Lin Zhen’s energy. Lin Zhen’s Dark Star had also absorbed the little dog’s power in the process, creating the molten flame.
This Dark Star gradually resembled a real planet.
The powers of electricity and light flowed and slowly revolved around, giving it the taste of a planet.
Lin Zhen was secretly delighted, as this time he gained a fortune from the disaster. The power of flames was very important to him.
In Lin Zhen’s heart, he always had the desire to forge a Star Artifact. Otherwise, in his previous life, he would not have spent so much time studying the knowledge of Star Artifacts. However, to achieve this, it required the power of flames as a foundation. He never expected to obtain it so easily.
After meditating for a while and absorbing all the power from the red fish, Lin Zhen felt his condition had returned to normal, even better than before.
“You really are a little lucky star.”
Lin Zhen picked up the golden red -maned lion dog at his feet and pinched its nose, “What’s your name?”
The puppy’s nostrils were not small but very cute. When Lin Zhen pinched its nose, it became uncomfortable and twisted, spraying out sparks from its nostrils with a faint smell of sulfur. A little bit of electric light even crackled and jumped for a moment.
“How about Xiaohong?”
It seemed that the puppy knew Lin Zhen was trying to give it a name and snorted out more sparks with dissatisfaction.
“How about Xiaojin?”
The sulfur smell became a little stronger, the dog even hummed a few times, and Lin Zhen seemed to see a hint of contempt in its eyes.
“Your body is so warm, let’s call you Xiao Nuan.”
The puppy paused with its head tilted, then stuck out its tongue and licked Lin Zhen’s palm.
“Alright, let’s settle on that. Xiao Nuan, let’s get out of here with me.”
Lin Zhen thought about the outside events. When he arrived, the tournament was only one week away. Another day had passed, and he still had to fetch two stones, so he couldn’t delay any longer.
Lin Zhen walked ahead, and Xiao Nuan followed like a little lion behind him.
As soon as they reached the cave entrance, the magma below suddenly surged, threatening to flood the cave.
Lin Zhen hurriedly took out the liquid metal, preparing to turn it into a wall to block the lava again. Unexpectedly, Xiao Nuan jumped out and swallowed all the lava that had just entered the cave with one gulp. It even drank a large portion of the lava flowing up inside the volcano!
The lava that entered Xiao Nuan’s mouth seemed to shrink rapidly, turning into a small red molten ball that disappeared in its stomach.
“Innate Devouring! This is the Galaxy Beast’s Innate Devouring that kills all below the Star Realm in an instant. Such a perverted skill!”
Feeling the power of the Galaxy Beast in his heart, Lin Zhen took advantage of the opportunity to instantaneously move 100 meters away, flapping his Lightning Wings. Within two seconds, he flew out of the volcanic crater.
He thought that Xiao Nuan would take a while to come out, but when he looked back, he saw Xiao Nuan stepping on the void behind him. After it saw him, its body shook, shaking off a bunch of sparks.
“You… you can actually keep up with my speed?” Lin Zhen looked at the creature that resembled both a lion and a dog, his eyes filled with disbelief.
“Roar, roar!”
Xiao Nuan proudly called out two times, sounding a bit like a lion or tiger, yet with a bit of baby-like feel.
This was the first time Lin Zhen heard Xiao Nuan’s cry, and he really didn’t know what kind of breed this Galaxy Beast was.
At this time, the volcanic lava behind them finally erupted. Lin Zhen immediately flapped his Lightning Wings again, flying towards Crane Lake.
As they approached Crane Lake, the leisurely Xiao Nuan behind them suddenly roared. Its neck’s fur exploded, and sparks spouted from its nostrils. The power of light and electricity occasionally burst forth, revealing the presence of the Star Realm again..