Chapter 40: The Grey Wolf

  Yueyang was about to give the Iron Claw Wolf a good thrashing, beating it until it spat out fresh blood and its breath was weak. But he found that its life was surprisingly tenacious, not only did it not die, but it looked quite refreshing, as if it were born to be beaten, a masochistic wolf.

  Stop, bend down and check the cause.

  Only after using his true energy to probe did he discover that the Iron Claw Wolf's body was extremely unusual.

  Ordinary Ironclaw Wolves are earth-attribute beasts, but this one isn't. It's a fire, gold, and dark triple attribute variant.

  In theory, it's unlikely for a low-level beast to possess multiple attributes or conflicting attributes. If there are more than two attributes, they're usually extremely high-level variant creatures, such as the Ice-Fire Chimera. However, even the lowest level of the Ice-Fire Chimera is probably at least Bronze 8, which is an unattainable existence compared to a mere Iron 2 like the Ironclaw Wolf. Yet, this ordinary Iron 2 Ironclaw Wolf in front of me possesses three attributes, which is truly bizarre.

  Yueyang discovered that precisely because this strange Iron Claw Wolf had both fire and darkness attributes, it could resist the devil's aura to a certain extent.

  Also because of its golden attribute, its body is very resistant to damage, like a wolf that cannot be killed.

  Of course, the reason why Yeyang was able to beat it so comfortably wasn't because it was resistant to attacks, but rather because Yeyang's attacks carried a hint of pure innate true energy. The Iron Claw Wolf, which had come here to absorb demonic energy and lick up demonic blood, was being tormented by the evil demonic energy of Demon King Haxin, causing it immense pain. Yeyang's blows happened to be just what it needed to alleviate its suffering. The harder Yeyang hit it, the more the evil demonic energy in its body was purified, so the Iron Claw Wolf felt increasingly comfortable... What was even more deadly was that Yeyang's fists and feet were extremely heavy, causing internal bleeding and shattered bones, while the almost explosive evil demonic energy within the Iron Claw Wolf's body rapidly merged into its flesh, continuously repairing its body, crazily transforming the evil demonic energy into its blood, flesh, and bones.

  It can be said that Yueyang's attack is indirectly a process of washing his marrow and changing his tendons.

  Beat it, and it turns out to be a rebirth for it!

  Yue Yang immediately discovered the problem after one inspection, and was furious. He picked up a large stone, ready to smash it to death, letting it try the taste of 'large stone smashing crab'.

  "Wooo..."

  The iron claw wolf's eyes revealed fear and sorrow, Yueyang looked at its gaze, his heart moved.

  This lone wolf was abandoned by its pack and wandered alone in a strange land, somewhat similar to myself, who is also without support. However, I am luckier than it, for I have the beautiful woman and the little girl, who after crossing over into this world, took on the identity of the useless man and received everything that belonged to him. The beautiful woman treats me like her own son, although I am not her third child, in reality, I have enjoyed all the love and care from the beautiful woman's family that was meant for the useless man.

  Killing this iron-clawed wolf with stones would be of no benefit to oneself.

  Why don't we use it for an experiment?

  If using demonic blood and demonic energy can strengthen the physical strength of transformed creatures, then wouldn't it also be possible to use this method to cultivate even stronger other war beasts?

  Yueyang threw away the stone, thought for a moment, dug out the arm of Demon King Haxin, and drove all the evil demon energy inside into the body of Tie Claw Wolf. This was much easier than driving it into the air before. Firstly, there was a physical entity to contact, making it convenient to drive out; secondly, the evil demon energy of Demon King Haxin would firmly attach itself to the flesh of living creatures, making it difficult to drive away from the body. The living Tie Claw Wolf was the most ideal container for the demon energy. As soon as Yueyang's pure true energy arrived, it immediately ran onto the wolf's body; thirdly, Tie Claw Wolf's severely injured body urgently needed to replenish its energy, and it would absorb both evil demon energy and pure true energy without distinction.

  The energy of Demon King Haxin's severed arm is enormous, but it's extremely murky, with evil demonic aura that Stabbing Flower doesn't need.

  The thorny flower can absorb the enhanced magical energy of the devil's arm, hellfire energy and dark blood energy. These are beneficial for transforming into a 'human', especially the dark blood energy which has great benefits for shaping a perfect human body.

  However, evil demonic energy is the opposite, it makes creatures ugly and terrifying.

  Yueyang doesn't want the thorny flower witch he worked hard to cultivate to become an ugly freak in the future, so evil demonic energy is absolutely not allowed!

  Tie Zhao Lang's belly had swollen up like a ball and was about to explode at any moment. His body had also inflated by a large margin, his eyes bulging out, and the demonic energy filling him to the brim made him look just like a 'wolf-shaped balloon'.

  It may be painful to the extreme, but Yueyang has no time to care about it.

  He drove all the demonic energy into it and then stuffed the arm of Demon King Haxin into the mouth of the Golden Thorn Flower.

  The Golden Thorn Flower was not swallowed in one gulp as usual, but was held in the mouth and slowly swallowed, extremely slowly digested. Yueyang estimated that if it was swallowed in one go, not only would it be indigestible, but it might also explode with a loud "boom", shattering its body into pieces. Yueyang worried that it would burst its body and from time to time transmitted true energy to help it speed up digestion and absorption.

  Despite this, on the stem and leaves of the golden thistle, hellfire continued to burn, causing the thistle to tremble with pain, shaking back and forth.

  Under his feet was a wolf with iron claws like a ball, and Yueyang didn't have such a good mood to deal with it.

  It's just an experimental product, so it won't be a waste even if it dies.

  Yueyang would beat Iron Claw Wolf brutally if he was in a good mood and saw that the thistle was growing well, as this beating would be an unexpected good thing for Iron Claw Wolf. If Yueyang was in a bad mood and saw that the thistle had swallowed something it couldn't digest and spat it back out, needing to use his true energy to help it digest, he would also brutally beat Iron Claw Wolf with his feet, venting his anger... Anyway, the treatment of the thistle and Iron Claw Wolf were like heaven and earth - one side was carefully nurtured with true energy, while the other was brutally beaten and scolded.

  It took Goldenrod a whole day to completely swallow King Haxor's arm.

  Of course, digestion has just begun. Yueyang estimates that it will take at least two months for Huang Jin Ci Hua to fully digest the arm of Demon King Hasin. As for perfectly transforming into a humanoid 'Thorn Flower Witch', it's likely to take three months later.

  In comparison, Iron Claw Wolf's evolution was much faster.

  Now, despite being trampled by Yueyang eight times, having his skull cracked three times, his neck vertebrae broken twice, his spine smashed five times, and his leg bones kicked nine times, he has fully recovered. If Yueyang hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that this Iron Claw Wolf, who had been beaten by him to the point of internal injuries and vomiting blood nonstop multiple times, could still be alive.

  Iron Claw Wolf not only recovered as before, but also evolved further.

  Within a day, it evolved from an ordinary second-tier Iron Claw Wolf into a Bronze third-tier Iron Spine Wolf.

  The speed of evolution is simply a miracle in the history of wolf evolution! The Bronze Tier 3 Iron Spine Wolf has strength equivalent to that of an ordinary Tier 4 Iron Claw Wolf King.

  Because wolves have the characteristics of 'copper head iron foot tofu waist', if their biggest weakness 'tofu waist' evolved into an iron spine, then their combat power would increase by at least tenfold. Moreover, it is still a demon wolf evolved from the evil magic of the Demon King, with several times stronger strength, so single-handedly challenging a fourth-level Wolf King should be very easy!

  Yue Yang discovered that this wretched wolf Xiao Qiang still had some potential for evolution.

  It's mainly the demonic energy inside his body that hasn't been fully consumed yet. After the demonic energy merged with his body, it still hasn't exerted its full power. After a period of time, I estimate that this unkillable wolf Xiaoqiang will be able to upgrade to Bronze 4 or even Bronze 5.

  After a thorough examination, Yue Yang discovered that his innate true energy had an unexpectedly wonderful effect on its evolution.

  If it weren't for his innate true energy, Wolf Xiaoqiang would have exploded and died long ago.

  Moreover, the demonic energy couldn't possibly merge with its body so smoothly. Using his innate true energy to beat it was equivalent to giving it a marrow-washing and tendon-changing treatment, which would help it transform its body. Otherwise, even if it were an ordinary Iron Claw Wolf, no matter how powerful, it wouldn't be able to withstand the evil demonic energy of Demon King Haxin... Yue Yang suddenly felt that this little wolf, which couldn't be killed, was similar to himself in some ways.

  Although there were slight misfortunes, most things were very fortunate.

  The only difference is that you don't need to be beaten up yourself to succeed, but it needs to be severely beaten up in order to make slow progress.

  When the golden thorn flower swallowed the devil king's arm, Yueyang quickly put it into the summoning treasure book, letting it slowly digest and transform into a thorn flower demon girl. Now that the thorn flower was safe, he didn't need to worry about it anymore.

  Now the most important thing is to rush to Tongtian Tower and bring back Yueling safely, giving a perfect reply to the beautiful woman.

  Yue Yang took a step forward, and the iron-backed wolf that couldn't be killed quickly followed. Yue Yang kicked it hard with one foot, blasting it several meters away. It got up with a roll and followed closely behind, completely ignoring Yue Yang's bad temper.

  Moreover, it also knows how to fawn over the transmigrated male. Usually, it follows him around when there's nothing going on, but at meal times, it always runs out to catch a rabbit or something and presents it to Classmate Yueyang with a flattering expression. However, no matter how hard it tries, Classmate Yueyang remains unmoved, reasoning that same-sex repulsion is at play - this wolf is male and looks like it's begging to be beaten up, so Classmate Yueyang can't bring himself to have a good impression of it.

  Followed for two days and two nights, Yueyang couldn't drive away this wolf Xiaoqiang, so he had to let it follow him. In the end, he even kindly gave it a name: Huī Tàiláng!

  As for the contract, Yueyang won't be contracting a male Iron-backed Wolf.

  Arriving at the teleportation array of the White Cloud City Lord's Manor, Yueyang's classmate heard that it wasn't a contract beast and would require additional payment. Enraged, he kicked Grey Wolf several times: "Grey Wolf, you despicable dog! I didn't let you follow, yet you insisted on following, now wasting my money for nothing!"

  The officer in charge of transportation saw this and almost cried: "Don't hit, don't hit, this is a Bronze Tier 3 Iron Spine Wolf! I've been here for half a year and haven't seen a Bronze Tier beast as tame and intelligent as this... You're treating it like this, I'm worried for you. How about I pay the fine for you?"