Chapter 207
"Are you willing to return to the main family with me, or are you willing to stay in the Southwestern branch family and continue being the Saint Lord?"
"I... I’ll stay!" Blaze merely pondered for a moment and immediately made his choice.
"Saint Lord, I will definitely put my life on the line to help the Saint Lord properly guard the Southwestern branch family!"
"Whether it’s a hundred people, a thousand people, or ten thousand people, I guarantee I can bring them in!"
Alex snorted a laugh and smacked Blaze on the back of the head. "Good brat, you’re trying to put me on the spot here, aren’t you?"
"Rest assured, when the time comes, your Southwestern branch family will definitely have more than just ten thousand people."
"If, at that time, you cannot manage it well, do not blame me for swapping someone else in."
...
In the blink of an eye, two days passed. Early the next morning was the day the assessment began.
At night, Alex lay on his bed with his eyes closed, resting his mind, taking a short nap, and storing up energy for tomorrow’s assessment.
Suddenly, he felt a summons from the unseen world. He frowned slightly and abruptly opened his eyes.
"Hmm?"
"This feeling is..."
Alex instantly reacted, summoning that Spirit Beast Egg from his storage ring.
As expected, the Spirit Beast Egg was covered in fine, fragmented cracks.
From within the cracks, thick smoke continuously poured out. Its color changing every single second.
Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple...
Alex’s face was full of nervousness. Acting just like he was waiting for his own wife to give birth. Keeping his eyes unblinkingly fixed on the Spirit Beast Egg.
At the same time, he tightly clenched his fists, secretly cheering on his son.
The cracks grew deeper and deeper. The Spirit Beast Egg on the table began to slightly tremble and shake, and the smoke surging from the crevices, after myriad changes, finally settled into a pure white mist.
The cracks on the shell were still deepening.
The shaking became increasingly violent.
After about two or three minutes, the trembling abruptly stopped.
The Spirit Beast Egg slowly floated into mid-air and began to spin rapidly.
Accompanied by this high-speed rotation, the white mist inside the eggshell violently gushed out, permeating every corner of the cave dwelling.
The mist reached an extreme thickness, shockingly transforming into a blinding white light that completely obscured Alex’s vision.
In a daze, Alex vaguely saw the Spirit Beast Egg in mid-air shatter open with a loud crack.
A petite-sized fierce beast revealed itself from the shell. It looked left, then looked right. Took a deep breath, gathered all its strength, and let out an earth-shattering, enemy-terrifying furious roar.
"Meow!"
Alex: "???"
Wait, this milky, baby-like cry... what is going on?
Just as Alex was completely bewildered, the white mist and white light in the room abruptly dissipated.
On the ground quietly lay the two halves of the shattered eggshell.
A tiny, entirely pure-white kitten stood in the middle of the eggshells, blinking its big, watery eyes. Looking at him full of curiosity.
"A..."
"A kitty...?"
The corner of Alex’s mouth twitched slightly, momentarily not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Feeling incredibly speechless.
Ever since redeeming it back then, he had looked forward to it for so long.
To accumulate enough souls and blood essence, he didn’t hesitate to slaughter the entire Noir family and go on a massive killing spree in the Heavenly Flame Secret Realm.
And the result... was hatching a white cat.
This little cat looked cute and adorable, completely harmless to humans and animals. Moreover, its cultivation was merely at the fifth level of Body Tempering.
No matter how you looked at it, it was just an ordinary pet.
It could neither serve as a spirit pet fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with him, nor could it be a mighty, cool-looking mount.
Aside from being cute, one could say it was completely useless.
Alex’s face was full of life-doubting despair. He slapped a palm against his forehead, great, all that hard work for nothing.
"Meow!" Seeing Alex’s miserable face, the white cat timidly stepped forward on its little paws, came in front of him, raised its head, and gave another cry.
"Alright, alright, I’ll accept my fate."
"No matter what, you are still the first Spirit Beast I have hatched."
"No matter how useless you are, I will not abandon you."
Alex sighed helplessly, bending down with a bitter smile and stroking the little cat’s head with his hand.
However, the instant he touched the cat’s head, the system’s introduction appeared before his eyes.
[Congratulations to the host for hatching a Saint-tier Spirit Beast, the Phantom Heaven Nine-Lives Cat.]
[The Phantom Heaven Nine-Lives Cat is a Spirit Beast species bred by one of the Five Ancient Emperors, the Myriad Beast Great Emperor. Its aptitude is permanently superior...]
After reading the system’s introduction, Alex was stunned for a long time, unable to help but reveal a smile of ecstatic, wild joy.
"Good boy, so you aren’t just a pretty vase after all!"
The Phantom Heaven Nine-Lives Cat was a spirit pet once raised by the Myriad Beast Great Emperor, one of the Five Ancient Emperors.
Among all spirit beasts in the world, it could absolutely be considered the most unique kind.
Normally speaking, the vast majority of spirit beasts only had four stages: Infancy, Growth Phase, Mature Phase, and Perfect Form.
After reaching the Perfect Form, they would have cashed in all their innate talents. Their strength would be fixed, unable to make any further breakthroughs.
But the Phantom Heaven Nine-Lives Cat actually possessed nine stages. Starting from Infancy, every time it evolved a stage, it could gain an extra life, advance a major realm in cultivation, and comprehend an innate divine ability.
These growth-type abilities... if you casually picked any single one of them, it would be considered incredibly badass and heaven-defying.
For the Phantom Heaven Nine-Lives Cat to gather all of these heaven-defying abilities in a single body... it was already enough to prove just how heaven-defying this harmless-looking little cat was.
As long as he cultivated it well enough, after reaching its Perfect Form, it could possess Saint Realm cultivation, nine lives capable of resurrecting without a cooldown, and nine innate divine abilities.
Although its cultivation would be at the Saint Realm, it would already be enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with a Great Emperor.