Chapter 608: Silver's Mutation

Shortly after feeding the Silver the Tier-3 healing pill, Leon wrinkled his brows in thought while swinging his bone spear in a continuous and circular loop that forms a defensive circle the rats could not breach with their inferior strength.

'I have become quite proficient in the Everlasting Blood Mantra. Refining Origin Blood only takes up one-third of the time when I first started practicing this technique. Practicing any further than this is will just be a waste of time…' Leon mused.

He has reached his current speed limit in refining Origin Blood from the mutant rats' extracted blood essence.

'Despite refining so many Origin Blood from these mutant rats, they have not been able to provide me with any new type of Origin Blood. These rodents serve no other purpose than to replenish my stamina…'

At this point, Leon had most likely slaughtered at least several hundred thousands of flying mutant rats, but despite this, he only has 11 types of Origin Blood.

'If I want to master the Everlasting Blood Mantra and advance Body Cultivation's blood refining phase swiftly, I will need to find places with large and diverse gatherings of beasts… like beast tribes, I suppose.'

'However, I cannot just slaughter all the beasts in a beast tribe for no good reason if they are not my enemy, not to mention I do not necessarily have to kill them to obtain their Origin Blood. Just enough blood essence will do…' Leon contemplated.

'Time to wrap this up quickly, so I can regroup with the others and continue our journey.'

Having settled his mind, Leon shifted his focus back on the mutant rats with a sharp glint and began slaughtering the vermins with greater ferocity and power—!

Awrooo!

The Transcendent-level silver wolf suddenly gave a mighty howl of pain, causing Leon to glance over immediately with a frown, "Hm?"

"Silver, what's wrong?!" Leon quickly hollered with a clear and resounding voice.

However, the three-tailed silver wolf did not seem to have heard him.

Instead, it continued howling while rolling around on the blood-soaked ground in anguish as if it was being tormented by a thousand ants gnawing its innards.

Leon quickly shot over and cleared the mutant rats in the area with a mighty sweep of his bone spear set aflame with scorching heat under his Fire Law.

Tens of thousands of rodents were immediately swept away by a flame wave before a ring of fire was formed, baring the mutant rats from coming closer.

'This is…'

Leon's frown deepened after taking the chance to inspect the three-tailed silver wolf's condition.

He could see redness in the three-tailed silver wolf's eyes, but it was not the result of the Wrathful Demonic Energy corrupting its mind and making it go berserk.

"Awroooo!" Silver howled.

Bones could be heard creaking and cracking while the surface of its flesh squirmed like worms as veins protruding on its body.

Myriad changes could be seen under Leon's divine sense before his eyes flickered with a conclusion, 'Silver is undergoing a mutation!'

"But is this mutation a good thing or a bad thing? Come to think of it, how did beasts grow stronger before they gain intelligence and learn to cultivate?" Leon wondered.

'Descendents of divine beasts had their powerful latent bloodline to help them, but what about the beasts in the lower spectrum without any noble heritage from their ancestors?'

Evidently, there were no divine beasts in the absolute beginning.

"Only through evolution and cultivation were they able to become divine beasts. I have only taught Silver about Divine Beast Cultivation recently. It shouldn't be undergoing cultivation breakthrough," Leon muttered.

Not to mention, a cultivation breakthrough would not alter the beast's body constitution like he was currently witnessing in front of him.

"Which leaves us with evolution, huh?"

Having reached this conclusion, Leon decided not to interfere with the three-tailed silver wolf's evolution and chose to protect it from being interrupted by the mutant rats.

"The wall of flames will keep the mutant rats from coming close. It's fine to leave Silver here and focus entirely on killing."

Swoosh~!

Leon flew outside the fire ring and dived straight into the sea of rats with his bone spear ignited in flames and began burning all the rodents in his range.

Squeak! Squeak!

The flying mutant rats immediately cried in burning agony under the power of Leon's scorching hot flames, causing the fast rodents to quickly retreat in alarm and fear.

As for the slow ones, there was no need to mention what happened to them. Naturally, the fast ones lived, and the slow ones died.

Flickers of intelligence were reflected in the eyes of the surviving rodents, but it only lasted a brief moment before they were replaced by the original berserk-red gazes.

Leon narrowed his eyes before pondering, "There are some other things I have meant to try for some time now. I shall use this chance to practice it on these rats."

…

Meanwhile, the three-tailed silver wolf continued to howl and squirm on the ground—when a new tail was eventually squeezed out, its claws became sharper, and its fur became harder!

Boom!

Sometime later, the three-tailed—No, the four-tailed silver wolf completed its evolution as its aura surged fiercely and proudly!

Awrooo!

A single mighty howl quickly shook the battlefield!

The unprotected eardrums of several mutant rats were immediately ruptured before Silver leaped out of the fire ring and slammed its paw down on a group of mutant rats.

Boom!

A heap of the dirty rose into the sky as the earth shattered under the force of the four-tailed silver wolf's powerful paw, crushing all numerous mutant rats before sweeping out with its four tails and sliced up hundreds of rats with its sharp wind pressure.

In the distance, Jorn and the beastkin warriors observed the battle before they were shocked by the four-tailed silver wolf's changes.

"Oh my god, that silver wolf was only an Early-stage Rank 1 Transcendent just a moment ago, but now, its strength directly shot up to Early-stage Rank 2 Transcendent!"

"We can only improve our strengths 1 stage at a time, but a single evolution allowed the silver wolf to jump an entire rank. This kind of increase in power is unreal!"

The beastkin warriors spoke.