Looking at the little one tilting its head in confusion, Xiao Shou suddenly felt a bit ashamed.

Many things he should have known were instead explained to him by Yao Heng every time.

Only then did he understand.

He regretted not unlocking the inheritance sealed in his soul out of fear of the pain of receiving it after his divine soul advanced.

Still, although embarrassed, he felt slightly relieved after hearing this. Then he asked again with worry, "From what I read in the inheritance, fully awakening a bloodline divine ability requires the heart of a Hell Flame Beast. Does that mean I have to take its heart?"

"You cannot do that, Master." Yao Heng flapped its wings and said bluntly, "The heart of a Hell Flame Beast is filled with its essence blood. It is formed from concentrated essence blood of the beast. Even with its power suppressed in this world, each one is at least at the peak of the Spirit Transformation stage. If you go there, you would basically be delivering yourself as food."

The more Xiao Shou listened, the more discouraged he became. He could not help but pout and complain, "Sorry, your Master is so weak that I can only deliver myself as food."

"However," Yao Heng continued while flapping her blood red wings, "the heart of a mature Hell Flame Beast can definitely awaken bloodline divine abilities and has a chance to awaken soul-based divine abilities. Even its ordinary flesh has a chance to trigger bloodline awakening. The lower and more ordinary the bloodline, the higher the chance of awakening. If it is a high-grade bloodline, even essence blood only gives a chance."

After speaking, it flew around Xiao Shou a few times and then crossed its arms proudly.

"Master, I looked at you from top to bottom, left to right, and right to left. You do not look like someone with a high-grade bloodline at all. It seems ordinary flesh from the Hell Flame Beast should be enough for your awakening."

"My bloodline being ordinary really is something I should apologize for," Xiao Shou said awkwardly, turning his head away.

He did not know whether to feel happy or frustrated.

Happy that he did not need to risk his life fighting the protagonist for fortune.

Frustrated that his bloodline was so ordinary that even essence blood was beyond his reach, let alone the heart of the Hell Flame Beast.

He sighed.

"So your meaning is, as long as I keep absorbing the blood water here, I might be able to awaken a bloodline divine ability?"

"Yes, yes!" Yao Heng nodded repeatedly while looking at him expectantly. "Master, hurry up and start. You will definitely awaken your bloodline divine ability very soon."

"Why are you so eager?" Xiao Shou looked at the little fellow with a suspicious gaze.

After spending time with it, he increasingly felt that his spirit pet had a slightly mischievous nature.

Yao Heng shyly twiddled its fingers.

"I can absorb a little bit of your evolutionary energy through the contract link. Really just a little bit."

"A little bit?"

Xiao Shou glanced sideways at the little one’s blood-red wings, clothes, and pink hair, then curled his lips and asked, "How much is that little bit?"

"About forty percent of the evolution energy you obtain!"

Yao Heng flew close to Xiao Shou and rubbed against his ear affectionately.

Seeing that Xiao Shou was ignoring it with a straight face, it actually pulled out a small red handkerchief from nowhere and began crying pitifully beside his ear.

"Wuwuwu... Master, I was wrong! I will not steal your food anymore. Please forgive me!"

Forty percent.

Xiao Shou felt a headache coming on and rubbed his ears.

No wonder after killing so many blood shadows, especially those Nascent Soul level ones, he should have reached at least the fourth cycle of the Golden Core, but he only advanced to the early third cycle instead.

He had originally thought it was due to his cultivation technique.

He did not expect the problem to be here.

"So you also need evolution energy, and your bloodline can evolve too?"

"Wuwuwu... of course! Demonic beasts, spirit beasts, spirit plants... no matter what kind it is, as long as it has life, the blood of the Hell Flame Beast can make it evolve."

Yao Heng looked at Xiao Shou pitifully, with an expression full of dependence and expectation.

Xiao Shou massaged his temples with a headache.

Stop acting cute.

In the face of benefits, cuteness is useless.

Especially when it is clearly a little black hearted flower pretending.

He suppressed the urge in his heart and asked coldly, "Then what is your bloodline divine ability? How much more do you need before it awakens?"

"I am so delicate, my bloodline divine ability is nothing amazing at all!"

Yao Heng said shyly.

"It is just the Domain of Time. It is not very useful."

"Domain of Time? Not very useful? Do you think I am illiterate and do not understand what a domain is?"

Xiao Shou immediately grew annoyed.

That sounds extremely powerful.

He flicked Yao Heng with his finger, making it tilt over.

"So how much more do you need?"

"If Master takes half and I take half, then probably about three to five times what we just collected."

Yao Heng waved its hand and the red handkerchief disappeared. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

It then flew onto Xiao Shou’s head and hugged his hair bun, looking like an exquisite hair ornament.

Hearing this, Xiao Shou’s vision darkened.

What they had just cleared had already taken everything he had, and he had only managed it by relying on his cultivation and magical treasures.

He had not even used life saving talismans or thunder beads.

Now it was talking about three to five times that amount.

He took a deep breath, then smiled gently and stroked the little thing on his head.

"Yaoyao, I forgot to tell you something. In about two or three days, I will be leaving this secret realm."