Blood Wolf carried Lu Heng back to the edge of the grassland again, and it was past noon. "Go straight in, no need to hide your aura anymore. If that fox is too strange, I'll take you back to the space."
With a life-saving space, there were no other humans here, so if they couldn't win, they could run, and there was no danger of exposing the space.
Receiving Lu Heng's instructions, Blood Wolf stepped onto the grassland again and galloped rapidly towards the center.
The grassland was vast. Blood Wolf carried Lu Heng for a long time, and the forest behind them gradually receded.
"Why is there no strange aura anymore? And we've been walking for so long, but that magical beast hasn't appeared," Lu Heng found it strange. The first time Blood Wolf stepped onto the grassland, he had clearly sensed a strange aura.
But now, after wandering for so long, apart from the vast grassland and wildflowers, there was no trace of any living creature.
Had it gone hunting?
After entering the grassland, Blood Wolf began to sniff the surrounding scents from time to time.
The closer they got to the interior of the grassland, the more obvious the scents of other animals emanating from the grassland became.
Slowing its pace, Blood Wolf followed the scent on the grassland, and Lu Heng, sitting on Blood Wolf's back, remained vigilant of the surroundings.
After walking for a while longer, Blood Wolf stopped at a spot. "Master, there's a hole here."
Lu Heng jumped off Blood Wolf's back and walked a few steps forward. Indeed, beside a slightly raised small mound, a ground hole appeared before them.
Lu Heng released a vine and slowly probed into the hole. He didn't know if there were any magical beasts inside, so he decided to use the vine to test it.
The vine spread several meters into the hole and soon touched a soft body.
At that moment, screams of "Ao ao ao..." came from the ground hole.
Lu Heng controlled the vine to quickly wrap around the body and pull it out of the hole at high speed.
With a thud, a snow-white animal, curled up, was pulled out of the hole by the vine.
Looking at the curled-up animal, Lu Heng couldn't tell what it was. He simply controlled the vine to pull the animal's limbs apart, stretching it into a spread-eagle shape.
"Oh, it really is a fox. And a dual-attribute one at that." Seeing its body forcibly straightened, Lu Heng looked at the fox's pointed mouth and smiled.
This fox was a level seven dual-attribute magical beast of fire and wood. Therefore, in this Cloud Mist Forest where the general attributes were not high, it was able to exert such great pressure on other animals.
However, for Lu Heng, these two attributes meant that only Lu Heng could overwhelm this fox in terms of pressure.
Thus, this time, after Lu Heng and Blood Wolf released all their auras again, this fox chose to hide in its hole, wanting to avoid him.
Lu Heng looked at the trembling snow fox in front of him with some hesitation.
This was a level seven magical beast. Killing it might yield him two level seven magic crystals.
As if sensing Lu Heng's killing intent, the trembling little fox let out "ying ying ying" cries towards Lu Heng.
Was it trying to be cute?
"Master, it says it can provide some magic crystals for the master."
"How can it give me magic crystals?"
"Ying ying ying."
"He says they are in the hole."
Lu Heng glanced at the hole they had just seen and extended another branch from the vine into the hole.
He rummaged through the entire cave below with the vine. It seemed this fox had dug many holes, and there were several more storage holes inside.
After moving everything onto the grassland, Lu Heng couldn't help but be surprised by the items dug out.
This fox was quite wealthy. There were over twenty level four magic crystals here, eight level five magic crystals, and two level six magic crystals.
Among the items dug out were also a pile of human items such as storage rings, storage necklaces, and jade pendants.
Lu Heng picked up a storage ring with his vine, wiped the dirt from the inner ring, and saw that the inscription on it indicated a capacity of two thousand stones. It seemed that after its original owner died, these items were all taken by this fox to its lair.
"Forget it, why don't I contract you too? You're a dual-attribute after all. What else can you do?"
Lu Heng had sensed a human aura on this grassland before. Could it be that these human items gave him that feeling?
This shouldn't be the case, as they were all inanimate objects, so how could they have that feeling.
"Ying ying ying..."
"Master, it says... it can transform into a human form," Blood Wolf translated with some surprise.
"Damn it, I knew it, you're a monster. Hurry up and tell me, where did you monster come from?" Lu Heng took two steps back, instantly creating an ice sword and placing it at the fox's neck.
"Ying ying ying..." The fox, trapped by the vine, struggled again. It kept twisting its body, its tail flicking, trying to escape the vine's restraint.
"Master, it says it's not a monster."
"Not a monster, then how can you transform into a human form? Wait, you can understand what I'm saying?"
All this time, Blood Wolf had been translating the fox's words to Lu Heng unilaterally. He hadn't heard Blood Wolf translate his own words to the fox.
"Ying ying ying..." The little fox, having struggled until it was exhausted, looked at Lu Heng and said again.
"Master, it says it was raised by humans. Later, its owner died, so it can understand human language."
"Then how do you explain that you can transform into a human form, and can you transform into any human?"
"Ying ying ying... Ying ying ying..."
"Master, it says it can only transform into one form, and it can't transform into everyone's appearance. As for why it can transform into a human form, it doesn't know either."
"Then transform into a human form, let me see."
Lu Heng placed the little fox on the ground, controlling the vine to hold one of its right legs to prevent it from escaping later.
The little fox lay on the ground to recover, then it began to shake its fur and gradually transform.
As it transformed, its body also grew larger. The fur on the fox's body gradually receded, and a snow-white youth appeared before Lu Heng.
The youth was still in a quadrupedal posture on the ground, but he was completely naked, with a thick head of long hair covering most of his body.
Lu Heng's eyes twitched. He stared at the youth before him for a long time before finally asking, "Can't you transform into something else?"
"Ying ying ying..." The youth raised its head, its androgynous and handsome face looking at Lu Heng, but its mouth opened and closed, still emitting the fox's original sound.
"Mas- Master, it says it can't change into anything else." Blood Wolf looked at the youth with some astonishment. It sniffed beside the youth, "Master, it really smells like that fox."
Seeing Blood Wolf approach, the youth's body trembled. It was somewhat fearful, as Blood Wolf was a level higher than itself, and that terrifying pressure made it tremble.