"WOOF! I’m starving! Enough with the chatter, Mo the kid, let’s hurry up and eat!"

The Pig Emperor flapped its wings and charged at the roasted meat, drool drizzling from its canine jaws.

’I’ve been waiting anxiously for so long, all for this very moment!’

With lightning-fast reflexes, Mo Qi grabbed one of its stubby legs and yanked it back, sparing the roasted meat from being contaminated by its drool.

The Pig Emperor chomped down on empty air.

SNAP!

The forceful collision of its upper and lower jaws rattled its brain, making its mind go blank and its eyes see stars.

"Mo Qi, I’ll kill you! WOOF!"

Furious, the Pig Emperor opened its mouth and bit down on Mo Qi’s calf.

Mo Qi was instantly stunned.

’I’m actually being bitten by a pig! Can you believe it?’

’Seriously, Pig Emperor, you’re a pig!’

’Even though you look like a dog right now, you don’t have to go so far as to act like one and bite people!’

"Let go!" Mo Qi shouted, shaking his leg.

"Never!" the Pig Emperor squeezed out through the side of its mouth, its bite tightening instead.

Mo Qi was going crazy. The Pig Emperor’s teeth were like steel nails, digging deep into his flesh.

Although it hadn’t broken the skin, it hurt like hell.

Even his physical body, tempered by the Nine Transformations into Spirit, was struggling to endure it.

"Hu the Eighth, get the Pig Emperor off me!" Mo Qi, left with no other choice, yelled for help.

"You dare!" the Pig Emperor shot Hu the Eighth a threatening glare. "If you do, believe me, I’ll be in your room every single day reciting poetry!"

The hand Hu the Eighth had raised, she lowered again.

She couldn’t imagine what life would be like being targeted by the Pig Emperor, so she could only turn around, pretending she hadn’t seen or heard a thing.

’Young Master, oh, Young Master, my hands are tied. Please forgive me.’

Mo Qi was speechless.

The pain in his calf grew sharper. Mo Qi was furious, wanting nothing more than to smash the Pig Emperor’s dog head in.

CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

Just then, the faint sound of chewing drifted over.

Mo Qi and the Pig Emperor followed the sound with their eyes. At some point, the whole roasted Yinfeng Beast had appeared in Yan’s hands.

She was holding the roasted Yinfeng Beast, which was larger than her entire body, with one hand. In just a couple of bites, she tore off an entire leg and ate it all, bone and all.

This...

Mo Qi and the Pig Emperor were dumbfounded.

Even a single leg of the Yinfeng Beast was half as large as Yan herself.

In other words, Yan had just eaten a piece of meat equivalent to half her own body size!

How was that possible?!

CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

Yan paid no mind to Mo Qi and the Pig Emperor. With another two bites, the other leg was gone too.

Then, under the shocked and bewildered gazes of the man and the pig, the entire Yinfeng Beast vanished into Yan’s stomach in less than thirty seconds, not even a bone left behind.

Yan stuck out her small, pink tongue, licked the grease from the corner of her lips, and revealed a satisfied smile.

’I never thought the silly kid’s cooking was so amazing! Does that mean he made those pills, too?’

As Yan savored the aftertaste of the roasted Yinfeng Beast, she secretly pondered, ’Should I kidnap this silly kid and make him my personal chef?’

"Mo the kid, what did I tell you? This little girl is definitely not simple!" the Pig Emperor was the first to react, sending a mental message.

Mo Qi, of course, had realized this as well.

He hadn’t removed the Medicinal Power from that Yinfeng Beast. If Yan were an ordinary person, she would have exploded from it long ago.

Although he thought this, he couldn’t help but walk over to Yan’s side and ask, "Xiaoyan, are you okay?"

His serious expression and concerned tone made Yan cast aside her distracting thoughts. She shook her head.

Still worried, Mo Qi took Yan’s hand and released his Perception Power, but he couldn’t find anything abnormal about her. Everything was exactly the same as before.

In fact, the absence of anything abnormal was the most abnormal thing of all!

After eating an entire Yinfeng Beast, even an expert at the Void Realm would need to go through a process of digesting and refining its Medicinal Power. It was impossible for there to be no reaction at all.

Unless... Yan’s strength was far beyond his imagination.

At this thought, Mo Qi subconsciously wanted to use the Chaos Scripture to investigate Yan’s condition, but he stopped himself halfway.

’Is knowing Yan’s background really that important?’

’If she really is that strong—so strong that the Yinfeng Beast has no effect on her at all...’

’Then even if I take every precaution, I wouldn’t be able to escape if she wanted to harm me.’

’On the other hand, if it’s all just a coincidence—say, she has some kind of special constitution...’ 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

’Then investigating her would be meaningless and would only add the negative emotion of "distrust" to our friendship.’

Mo Qi had never been a suspicious person. More often than not, he preferred to follow his gut rather than pure logic.

He felt that the little girl, Yan, held no ill will toward him.

So, he quickly gave up the idea of having the Chaos Scripture investigate her.

"As long as you’re okay. Don’t go eating things randomly in the future, understand?" Mo Qi said with a smile, ruffling Yan’s hair.

The corner of Yan’s mouth twitched almost imperceptibly. She was rendered speechless by Mo Qi’s child-like coddling.

However, though she clearly could have dodged it, she didn’t.

She didn’t know what had gotten into her.

Mo Qi calculated the time. Li Yuanhao’s breakthrough should be about complete.

With the Secret Realm Soul in hand, there was no longer any reason to stay in the Wolf Fang Sect.

"We shouldn’t stay here long. Pig Emperor, you’re familiar with Treasures, so I’ll leave the looting to you."

"Hu the Eighth, the item you need is in the heart of this mountain. Go get it, and I’ll help you cure your affliction."

Mo Qi first gave these two orders with a serious expression. Then, pointing at the Demon Beast Group at the foot of the mountain, he put on a smile and looked at Yan. "Xiaoyan, just point out which one you want to eat, and Big Brother will cook it for you."

"WOOF! Mo the kid, you’re playing favorites! Don’t tell me you’re a legendary lolicon, you sicko?"

The Pig Emperor wasn’t having it. It bared its canine teeth, its eyes gleaming as it stared intently at Mo Qi’s calf.

On his pant leg, two rows of teeth marks were clearly visible.

Mo Qi felt a chill run up his legs and straight to the top of his head.

"Where did a pig like you even learn words like that?" Mo Qi asked, his face darkening with exasperation.

"WOOF! This Emperor knows a lot of things, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg!" Just as the Pig Emperor was bragging smugly, an extremely dangerous feeling suddenly washed over it.

It was like the gaze of a colossal dragon upon an ant.

The Pig Emperor shuddered and collapsed to the ground, its legs so weak it almost wet itself in fear.

’Who?!’

The Pig Emperor was terrified, its gaze quickly landing on the person behind Mo Qi—it was Yan.

At that moment, Yan’s eyes were flickering with a ghostly purple light as she stared coldly at the Pig Emperor.

"You seem to have a problem with me?"

An alluring yet majestic, mature female voice echoed in the Pig Emperor’s mind.

"You... you’re Yan? No! Who the hell are you?" the Pig Emperor asked in horror.

This aura felt vaguely familiar, but it couldn’t remember where it had encountered it before.

Its inherited memories were stirred, yet they failed to provide any more information.

’She is no ordinary person!’

’She’s strong. Ridiculously strong.’

The Pig Emperor even suspected that if the phantom of Mo Qi’s mother were to appear again, she might not be a match for Yan.

’This won’t do. I have to warn Mo the kid!’