The animal was in the shape of a cat-like or dog-like creature. It walked on four legs and had a tail, along with two eyes, a mouth, and a nose. It didn't have fur like cats or dogs, but its body bore some similarity with dirt.
At the very least, it had a dirt like color and what seemed like a dirt like texture. Along with its dirt colored body, it seemed to have lines of green flowing across its body. They seemed to be like veins. The green was very bright and could be described as neon.
It made the four legged animal go from dirt-like to mystical. He didn't know if this would change, but he was looking forward to finding out.
The animal didn't make too many movements since the life Qi was still flowing into it, so Zhou Fan was unaware of whether or not he was aggressive or peaceful.
After a bit longer, Zhou Fan sensed that the animal, or rather, beast now, had reached its final form.
Now, it was less in the shape of a cat or a dog and more in the shape of a lion or tiger. In fact, it was even bigger. Its height reached 8 feet and its length reached 25 feet. It was, without a doubt, a monstrosity worth fearing. In its current state, its power could hardly be called strong, but that was only because it had yet to start cultivating.
Its base strength was actually near the level of a foundation establishment human. Whether that was because of Zhou Fan's divinity or the cosmic dao was yet to be tested.
Zhou Fan looked at the beast in front of him as it slowly gained consciousness. At first, it looked at him confusedly. All of a sudden, it roared as loud as it could directly in front of his face. It didn't sound like the roar of a normal animal, but the roar of an angry giant.
Seeing that his roar didn't affect Zhou Fan, the beast attempted to leap towards him and bite his head off. As it flew towards him, Zhou Fan observed its new body. Instead of the dirt-like color with green veins, it could now be described as a green tiger. It had green fur and black stripes on its body.
Once the tiger got close enough, Zhou Fan moved his head to the left a fair amount. That caused the bite to miss, but the tiger didn't give up. With its head over Zhou Fan's shoulder, it tried to swing its head down and head bump Zhou Fan.
Once again, Zhou Fan dodged his move, this time by side stepping to the right, barely dodging the tigers blow.
Now, with Zhou Fan below the tiger body, the tiger jumped up 20 feet and fell back down with all four of its paws ready to land on Zhou Fan.
Like the past two times, Zhou Fan side stepped to the right and caused the tiger to hit the hard mountain top. Since the mountain was in a world with Zhou Fan's mortal dao, it was much stronger than the tiger, causing the tiger to splatter onto it painfully.
Luckily, it hadn't been moving with too much force. After a moment, it got back up and snarled at Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan was having fun playing with the aggressive tiger. It had been a while since something was so naturally aggressive.
As the tiger jumped towards him to attack again, he perfectly dodged the attack and sliced off half of one of its nails with his finger nails. The tiger didn't notice at first since the process was so smooth, but before it could attack again, it felt a slight pain in his right front paw.
As it held it up to look at it and noticed its missing nail, it roared at Zhou Fan louder than the first time. However, the roar was tinged with a slight bit of wariness.
That didn't stop it from attacking as it charged forwards in Zhou Fans direction. It reached him in a moment and seemed to attack him with a right paw swipe. Just as Zhou Fan was about to dodge it, however, the tiger stopped its attack and flipped around, attacking Zhou Fan from a different direction with one of its back paws.
Naturally, Zhou Fan saw it and ducked down, not forgetting to take another half of a different nail again.
The process repeated itself, with the tiger realizing it was missing a claw and roaring in rage.
The next time it attacked, Zhou Fan slapped away its paw and punched it in the chest, sending it flying backwards. Of course, he had held his strength back immensely. Still, the tiger struggled to get up. Finally, it was showing hints of fear.
Seeing the thought of giving up flashing past its eyes, Zhou Fan secretly increased its cultivation.
All of a sudden, the tiger felt an increase in strength that it couldn't describe even if it could speak. It went from an abnormally strong mortal tiger, to an abnormally strong tenth level core formation tiger.
It seemed to let out a little chuckle of arrogance as it once again charged towards Zhou Fan, this time simply attacking with a clumsy paw attack. This attack, however, was thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of times stronger and faster than his other attacks.
To its utter shock, the tiger watched as Zhou Fan once again dodged its attack, taking another two nails with him. The tiger, now down to 16 nails, suddenly felt much less arrogant and proud. Due to its high intelligence, it managed to realize that Zhou Fan was simply playing with it, not even taking it seriously.
It lowered its head and tried to limp off of the mountain top, but Zhou Fan didn't plan on letting him leave.
"Where do you think you're going fatso." Zhou Fan said, somewhat imitating the chicken.
Although it couldn't understand English, the tiger was able to feel the intent behind Zhou Fan's words.