Feelings powerful energy invading into their body, Little Chibi started shaking vigorously while Little White let out a loud cry
"Grawwwwwwwwllllll!"
For Little Chibi, the process is smooth as he starts to absorb the powerful energy from the "Divine Spiritual Tree." After 1 minute, Little Chibi started to shine faintly before return to normal as he advanced from (Mid) to (Late) Stage 1 Spiritual Beast.
There is not much change to his appearance except that his shell seems to be a bit extra sturdier.
After the small breakthrough, Little Chibi excitedly flying over to Zhu Dingxiang and rubbed its big head against his cheek intimately.
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[Name: Little Chibi]
[Species: Spiritual Sky Turtle (Variant]
[Bloodlines: (Early-Stage) Earth Rank.]
[Cultivation: (Late) Stage 1.]
[Innate ability: Fly, Tough Shell.]
[Description: a small turtle that breakthrough recently.]
"Little Chibi, you are a lot bigger now, so I cannot carry you anymore." Said Zhu Dingxiang with a serious face. The little guy stopped moving and looking at Zhu Dingxiang innocently, trying to understand the meaning behind his words.
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But after a few seconds of hard thinking, Little Chibi gives up, then flying over to Little White and watch her curiously.
Right now, Little White was in pain because the refined energy from the Blood Cleansing Fruit is purifying her bloodline and expelling impurities out of her body.
Since Little White has a (Peak-Stage) Mortal Rank bloodline, the pure refined energy from the Blood Cleansing Fruit is enough for her lineage to advance to (Early-Stage) Human Rank, thus explaining her pain.
"Grawwl...!" Little White keeps roaring as fresh red blood, and black impurities are being expelled from her pores.
Just like that, the process continued for 10 minutes before it stopped as Little White is being shrouded in a blood-red cocoon.
While waiting for Little White, Zhu Dingxiang occasionally warding off some randoms spiritual beasts that show up because of the thick smell of blood from the previous beast fight.
"There are still many carcasses of spiritual beasts around the area that is dead from the previous fight for the Blood Cleansing fruits." Zhu Dingxiang muttered to himself as he was observing his surrounding.
"Well… These corpses are a little bit disgusting, but they will be my capital after I go into towns and cities." Said Zhu Dingxiang willed the "Divine Spiritual Tree" to purify the surrounding areas from the bloodstains and gloomy atmosphere.
After finishing purifying all the blood and smells, Zhu Dingxiang separates the beast cores from all the spiritual beast carcasses and stores everything in his storage ring.
The dark gold ring on Zhu Dingxiang's right middle finger shines faintly before all the spiritual beast carcasses, and beast cores disappear.
5 hours later.
"CRACK*. CRACK... ING…." After hearing the cracking sounds, Zhu Dingxiang turns his attentions to the blood-red cocoon before it cracks open and disappeared into tiny red light dots.
Little White opened her eyes, they are still blue and shining like before, but now they look much purer.
As Zhu Dingxiang keep staring into her eyes, he feels like he was looking at a full moon. This feeling only lasts for a split moment before it disappeared. Little White had grown lightly from before, albeit only a little bit and barely noticeable.
What is different from before is that now, white fires cover her four feet, and her original thorn-like, sharp back claws became pure blue like crystal.
Her fur is still the same, almost pure white with light blue color and still shining faintly, albeit now some white flames are dancing on her back, tail, and eyebrows.
"ROAR!…" Little White let out a roar intimidating the weaker Spiritual beasts in the surroundings while feeling the changes in her body.
[Name: Little White.]
[Species: Moon Tiger (variant)]
[Gender: Female.]
[Bloodlines: (Early-Stage) Human Rank.]
[Cultivation: (Mid) Stage 2.]
[Innate ability: Intimidation, Wind Slash, Yin Fire.]
[Description: A normal Moon Tiger became a variant of its species after bloodline upgrade and gained Yin Fire innate ability.]
(A/N: Innate abilities power will scale with its user as their cultivation go up.)
"Wha…." Zhu Dingxiang was staring at Little White with shock!
He was happy that Little White became stronger and even gained an additional innate ability, "Yin Fire," but what shocked him the most is her appearance changes.
She looks way cooler than before with those white flames dancing around her furs.
Zhu Dingxiang then walking toward Little White and touch her back. The dancing white flames didn't harm him at all, but they give off a cooling sensation with her soft furs, feelings enjoyable to the touch.
Zhu Dingxiang then starts rubbing her head but reluctantly stops as he notices her displeasure.
-————Time-Skip No Jutsu!————
Around the Colossal Mountain Forest borders, A malnourished little boy around six years old wanders around and seems to be examining every tree bushes he came across.
The little boy is wearing simple brown clothes that look old and tattered. The only thing that keeps them together is some loose fabrics of different colors.
While the little boy is happily eating some leftover blueberries on the ground underneath one of the bushes, these leftover blueberries on the floor are dirty. None of them is whole; small animals half bite some and some rotting and mixing with dirt.
However, the little boy is eating them happily like an excellent luxury, unknown of the great danger about to befall him.
A rattling sound fills the previously silent air. The little boy's eyes fall to the 2 meters long Mud Rattlesnake, and the surrounding vanished from his mind.
At that moment, all of his focus was on the reptile before him.
Against the slightly damn soils and muds guard it against the casual eye, the Mud Rattlesnake slowly gliding forward. As the rattle continues to vibrate and attract the boy's attention, his body was frozen under the sudden cold atmosphere.
At that moment, when the Mud Rattlesnake was about to open its mouth, and rushed toward the little boy.
A sharp wooden spike suddenly pierces through the Mud Rattlesnake's head from the ground upward, stopping its charge as the rest of its long snake body struggles fiercely.
"Ahhhhh!" The little boy was out of his daze as he quickly cries out and backing away to a safe distance.
"Are you alright?" A soothing voice sounded from behind the little boy as he turns back only to see a kind-looking big brother with long light green hair in beautiful black and white clothing. He was slowly getting down from a big scary-looking white cat as a small turtle flying around him.
(A/N: Today Chibi had a normal Saturday cleaning around the house and doing chores. What about you? Do ya think it's a little rush to move out of the forest so early?)