Chapter 2718 - 2719: Tian Ci’s Auspicious Sign

Xiao Ji’s recovery power is strong, but after being struck by the flaw attack of the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound, its energy circulation is disrupted, which even affects its energy recovery abilities. As for natural recovery capabilities?

A Spirit Beast’s self-recovery depends on energy circulation to enhance it, which is the reason why battling across levels below Legendary Level is extremely difficult. Not to mention low damage, the opponent’s recovery power is often higher than one’s own.

As for those above Legendary Level, it’s even more pronounced—as powerful energy circulation leads to even more formidable recovery abilities. Yet, even such beings, when struck by flaw attacks, find themselves in a predicament where their recovery abilities nearly vanish.

After losing high recovery capabilities, Xiao Ji’s advantage over the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound is no longer apparent. Although Xiao Ji inherently possesses full attributes before reaching Divine Beast Level due to being a Divine Beasts, for a Beastmaster, this is not a necessity.

At best, these things are just icing on the cake and don’t bring qualitative changes. The Fluffy Fire Wolfhound itself, being a combat-type Spirit Beast, has an adequate attribute allocation. Moreover, in the Qi Realm Stance, its attributes are reallocated for maximum utilization.

In this situation, the strength difference between the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound and Xiao Ji isn’t significant.

Especially after the flaw attack, the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound rather becomes the advantageous side.

"Looks like Xiao Ji is going to lose."

Veronia remarked with a hint of surprise as she watched Xiao Ji fall into disadvantage, with the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound relentlessly attacking, rendering Xiao Ji unable to find a chance to counterattack for a moment.

"Not so simple."

"The power of unity is very strong."

Tamur said plainly. Veronia snorted lightly, refraining from asking further—or it might be that she knew well that asking Tamur was futile, as he wouldn’t explain those cryptic utterances.

Just then, black flames once again burst forth from Xiao Ji’s body. Despite impaired energy circulation, Xiao Ji abruptly reentered the Black Sun state.

Under the Black Sun state, the counters will forcibly invoke Xiao Ji’s internal energy, and this time, Xiao Ji consciously limits its energy usage to avoid exposing flaws again.

"What is happening?"

Veronia stared in amazement at the black sun soaring into the air once more, pondering why such a situation should emerge when Xiao Ji seemed obviously unable to initiate the black sun on its own based on its previous state?

"Resurgence of Embers."

Tamur, as before, offered an answer with extraordinarily succinct words, and with a bit of reflection, Veronia understood the reason.

Though the explanation was scant, those four words were crystal clear: Resurgence of Embers—perhaps as an effect after tapping into Heart Moving Spirit? But...

Hold on, that alteration—perhaps Xiao Ji applied Heart Driven Spirit to the ultimate move attached to Special Spirit Beast Decoration? The change in the Heart Driven Spirit influenced black sun’s ultimate move isn’t like before?!

Thinking thusly, Veronia gazed in surprise at Xiao Ji, realizing that this fellow might not be bad at all—this trick is indeed sophisticated, and its effect has exceeded expectations.

At least, it doesn’t align with prior test results; Heart Driven Spirit surprisingly can provide beneficial effects?

Given the origins of the Qi Realm Stance, combined with the fact that Heart Driven Spirit supposedly pertains to the Qi Realm, it seems such hidden combined effects might be acceptable?

Black Sun is innately a Defensive Stance; although it’s unclear what the restrictions are for the Resurgence of Embers, it’s evident that after the Black Sun state is broken, as long as certain conditions are maintained, it can ignore other restrictions and return to the Black Sun state.

Of course, Veronia also noticed that at this moment, Xiao Ji’s Black Sun state appeared somewhat weak. Since it’s a self-initiated ultimate move, its power and attributes naturally couldn’t reach the original values.

But such weakness can evidently fade over time—one clear example is the black sun in the air, shining brightly once again.

Feng Yuan was unaware of the battle between Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound. He was humming a tune, fiddling with fireworks, but suddenly he furrowed his brows, raised his head to look at the sky, sighed after a while, shook his head, and went back to fussing with the fireworks, occasionally glancing in the direction of the Mirror Space.

"Thus Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound both have impressive battle talents, huh. I really don’t know if your luck is good, or if you did something."

Veronia narrated the battle’s progress to Feng Yuan after the fight ended, catching him chuckling while arranging the fireworks.

The battle between Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound ultimately ended in a draw. After all, Xiao Ji was initially struck by the flaw attack of the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound and fell into disadvantage, and even with its strong recovery abilities, it couldn’t forcefully heal all injuries.

Once in a disadvantageous position, the difference between the two parties was not big, and with its attribute advantage, Xiao Ji barely withstood the attacks of the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound. However, breaking through the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound’s Fire Wolf was nearly impossible.

At least, with current available methods, Xiao Ji couldn’t find a way to counter the Fire Wolf—unless it deactivated the Qi Realm Stance to unleash a Divine Beast Technique in its original stance.

Eventually, Veronia intervened to stop the battle, ending it in a draw.

Despite fighting fiercely without holding back, after the battle ended, both sides reverted to their friendly demeanor.

"A synergy effect, huh? Not bad, but... forget it."

Glancing at Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound, Feng Yuan hesitated for a moment, and then he finished setting up the fireworks with a smile, clapping his hands while speaking.

"Alright, next is the fireworks display time. Xiao Ji~ Come, let’s go a bit further to watch the fireworks. Veronia, could you kindly make a platform?"

The space on the mountain-top grassland wasn’t spacious, and watching the display from beneath the fireworks was not ideal.

Tamur swayed gently and said.

"The best viewing location is Li Mountain Village."

Feng Yuan paused briefly, and then understood something, saying.

"So that’s it, no wonder, but it’s fine, let’s go~ hurry back to the village to watch the fireworks~"

So saying, Feng Yuan unceremoniously scooped up Xiao Ji, unfurled wings from his back, and flew toward Li Mountain Village with the eagle-shaped Xiao Ji in tow, while the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound suddenly grew wings, eagerly flew up, and chased after Feng Yuan.

"Seems... something is going on."

Muttering softly while watching the distant figure, Veronia looked over, and Tamur said calmly.

"I cannot foresee his future nor actively prophesy."

"That’s really annoying."

Grumbling with a light snort, Veronia rode on Rainbow Bubbles to chase after them, with Tamur following closely—it hadn’t mentioned that while unable to see Feng Yuan’s future fragments, it could perceive the world’s future fragments.

But that was irrelevant to Veronia, seeming to find little necessity to satisfy her curiosity.

The fireworks etched exquisite patterns across the night sky, besides those traditional firework shapes, Feng Yuan’s carefully crafted fireworks had special versions.

Amidst fiery blooms, the Eggshell Chicken-shaped Xiao Ji pattern exploded in the air, distinct from the usual planar patterns; it more closely resembled a three-dimensional model. Veronia was certain that Feng Yuan had mixed some Special Energy into the fireworks materials.

The fireworks display in the grassland caught the attention of Beastmasters from Li Mountain Village, who initially wondered whose leisure resulted in such a spectacle. Upon seeing the Eggshell Chicken followed by an eagle, they immediately knew it was Feng Yuan’s doing.

The black eagle tightly held in Feng Yuan’s embrace slightly flicked its tail feathers, having not expected that the fireworks display contained memories from the past. Those actions and scant scenery reminded Xiao Ji of various places it shared with Feng Yuan.

Including both modern and past eras, as well as Parallel Worlds—those were invaluable memories to Xiao Ji.

The Fluffy Fire Wolfhound likewise awaited its pattern, or rather, Feng Yuan compressed experiences into fireworks, leading to the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound not appearing initially because he hadn’t yet met the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound back then.

This particular fireworks display stretched several hours before concluding, providing the Beastmasters of Li Mountain Village with an exceptionally fascinating show. Yet, Xiao Ji felt something amiss, lifting its head occasionally to gaze at Feng Yuan with a sense of grievance.

Until the last firework extinguished completely, and night enveloped the sky once again, Xiao Ji incessantly nuzzled Feng Yuan, whimpering with grievance.

"What do you intend to do? The implication of these fireworks is quite disagreeable."

Veronia eyed Feng Yuan skeptically, failing to comprehend his intentions; although not explicit, the underlying meaning was conspicuously evident.

"Doing nothing, just recalling, after all, the upcoming things aren’t particularly to my liking."

Feng Yuan slightly shook his head, gazing into the sky as he replied.