The Master of Beasts

Chapter 1031 - 370: The Extraordinary Infant

"They must be trying to fuse the genes of Fierce Beasts into humans, not like a Beast Warrior, but they want to transform the abilities of Fierce Beasts into human talents!"

"Transform the abilities of Fierce Beasts into talents?"

"That’s right, among them I saw many corpses of infants, and these corpses more or less showed signs of beastization," Zhuo Lin said seriously.

"Experimenting with infants? That’s truly something only the people from the Inner Circle would do!"

Chen Jiuge frowned slightly. No matter which world you’re in, infant creatures always receive some preferential treatment. As long as they’re not completely heartless cultivators, they would rarely target infants. The only ones who could do such a thing, aside from the Inner Circle who don’t regard the Outer Circle as human, there truly isn’t another force.

"You all didn’t come just to tell me about this discovery, did you?"

"Sir, you’re wise. Besides the laboratory, we also found a surviving infant!"

At Zhuo Lin’s indication, Han Kui left the room and shortly returned with a soundly sleeping baby girl.

The infant girl was very cute, plump and fair, with a finger in her mouth, and drool quietly cascading down, perhaps dreaming of something delicious.

Seemingly afraid that Chen Jiuge wouldn’t understand the infant’s uniqueness, Zhuo Lin cautiously introduced, "Sir, don’t be fooled by her being just an infant; the mana fluctuations in her body have already reached the Second Level, and her physical strength has reached the Third Level. What’s more, she seems to have inherited several talents from Fierce Beasts. Her future achievements are unimaginable!"

"Hiss, that’s truly terrifying!"

After taking a deep breath, Chen Jiuge’s expression turned somewhat grim as he said, "Since she has such formidable abilities, how did you manage to break into that laboratory? It’s not that I’m looking down on you, but in the eyes of the inner families of the Inner Circle, Seventh Level Cultivators don’t really count as much."

"We have speculated on this; this baby must be a newly researched success. From those beastized infant corpses, it’s clear that this laboratory has existed for a long time, yet it never had a real experimental success!"

"Are you saying you just got lucky?"

"That should be the case!"

"Even so, your existence has surely been exposed; the people behind that laboratory must have their eyes on your Hunting Team now!"

After some contemplation, Chen Jiuge said, "I’ll take the infant away. Try to disband the Hunting Team or come up with a way to deceive them!"

"Yes, we’ve already discussed this. The Mountain Hunting Group can’t exist anymore!"

"Moreover, these hunters are unruly and not suitable for recruitment. I intended to change my approach anyway."

"As long as you have a plan, act quickly and make sure no one gets too close!"

"Yes, sir!"

........

Returning with empty hands but adding an infant upon coming back, Chen Jiuge felt a bit helpless.

Nonetheless, this infant was indeed extraordinary. On the way back, Chen Jiuge had personally checked her.

"The mana fluctuations are at the Second Level, along with Third, no, almost Fourth Level Martial Artist’s physical strength — truly unbelievable!"

Chen Jiuge couldn’t imagine how monstrous the infant would be once fully grown.

"However, her identity needs to be concealed a bit; I’ll register her under my name. With her, there’s no hurry in cultivating others."

Though unexpected, Chen Jiuge was quite satisfied with the infant girl’s appearance.

Early the next morning, Chong Wu brazenly pushed open the door to Chen Jiuge’s room and saw the embarrassed Chen Jiuge helplessly looking at the baby girl lying on the table.

"Am I dreaming?"

Opening, closing, and opening the door again several times, Chong Wu sat thoughtfully in front of Chen Jiuge: "Sir, I greatly admire your abilities, but how could you do such a thing?"

"To start without finishing, that’s not something a man should do!"

"Ah, pfft, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Chen Jiuge spat and then worriedly said, "Do you know how to raise a child?"

"Raising a child?" Chong Wu’s face twisted for a moment, but quickly returned to normal.

"Raising a kid is simple. Judging by her, she obviously hasn’t been weaned. Though she’s quiet now, she’ll definitely be hungry soon; let’s prepare some milk!"

"Got it."

Before long, Shanyu came back with a Fierce Beast that had recently given birth, trembling as it looked at the three people in the room.

"Wah wah wah"

It wasn’t crying; it was the excited sound of the infant girl.

"Thud, thud, thud"

Crawling on all fours, the iron wooden table left a trail of tiny indents from the baby girl’s crawling.

Holding down the struggling Fierce Beast, the baby girl greedily sucked on the milk while Chong Wu, shocked, said: "Mr., is this really your daughter? Isn’t her physique a bit exaggerated? If I didn’t know better, I’d swear she’s a True Dragon descendant!"

Chen Jiuge awkwardly chuckled; actually, Chong Wu wasn’t entirely wrong. If you were to look at the genes, the baby girl could indeed be considered as having True Dragon bloodline.

Because according to Zhuo Lin’s information, among the Fierce Beast genes fused into the infant, one belongs to the True Dragon.

To have the gene of a True Dragon, obviously the force behind that laboratory is incredibly powerful!

After a while, Chen Jiuge rescued the Fierce Beast, looking resigned as the baby girl gazed unsatisfied at it, as if ready to pounce if not for Chen Jiuge holding her back with one hand.

"Looks like she isn’t full yet!"

Finding amusement in the situation, Chong Wu quickly returned, bringing two more lactating Fierce Beasts.

Only after draining seven Fierce Beasts of their milk did the baby girl finally lie sprawled on the table, sleeping carefreely.

"Mr., your child is truly remarkable. What’s her name?"

"Yaoyao."

Moved by a thought, Chen Jiuge said.

"Yaoyao?"

Chong Wu felt a bit puzzled; the name sounded strange, but considering the baby’s extraordinary nature, the name wasn’t so odd after all.

Because of Yaoyao drinking milk, quite some time had been delayed, so Chen Jiuge planned to finish today’s work first.

Though as the chief Beast Master, Chen Jiuge wasn’t required to cultivate Fierce Beasts daily and Hundred Beasts Pavilion didn’t impose many restrictions on him, as long as it didn’t interfere with operations, Chen Jiuge had a lot of freedom.

However, Chen Jiuge disliked procrastination. After all, the time for practice was limited each day, and he couldn’t just read the entire time; cultivating Fierce Beasts was a way to spice life up.

The main thing was, Chen Jiuge really didn’t know much about looking after children!

Walking along the path to the farm, Chen Jiuge had no fixed choice for the Fierce Beast to cultivate, simply wandering and observing until finally choosing a Heavenly Fire Chicken with a pair of beautiful long legs.

This was a creature resembling an ostrich, but with fiery red feathers, and its muscular long legs were more than a meter tall, capable of inflicting significant pain with a single stomp.

"The usual, let’s enhance the speed. This kind of Heavenly Fire Chicken sells the best."

The Heavenly Fire Chicken’s leg muscles are quite developed. Don’t let the ’fire’ in its name fool you; it doesn’t breathe fire, earning its name purely from its fiery red feathers.

Its body is relatively robust, but its greatest advantage lies in its speed, while its strength shouldn’t be underestimated either.

Since the Hundred Beasts Pavilion opened several months ago, Heavenly Fire Chickens enhanced for strength haven’t sold particularly well, which actually relates to the chickens themselves.

The Heavenly Fire Chicken has a gentle temperament; typically, only small Hunting Teams that can’t afford an Earth River Car buy them for transportation.

Enhancing strength is essentially boosting the chicken’s combat power, but for a Third Level Fierce Beast, no matter how strong it gets, it’s limited, and using it for hunting is impractical.

Enhancing speed at least ensures a faster retreat with minimal losses during transport.

While pondering, Chen Jiuge was already merging various Spiritual Materials into a mass, forming a light red Primordial Pill.

"Hmm, not bad."

Casually tossing the Primordial Pill into the flock of Heavenly Fire Chickens, one lucky Heavenly Fire Chicken soon embraced its new life.

Each time Chen Jiuge witnessed such occurrences, he couldn’t help but marvel at the wonders of life!

As Chen Jiuge joyfully refined Primordial Pills and nurtured Fierce Beasts, Yaoyao awoke.

In the dimly-lit room, a small and lovely baby girl opened her pair of jet-black eyes.

"Yiya, yiya"

The dark environment displeased Yaoyao, so she randomly gestured with her hands, igniting a flame on the bed, casting strange and grotesque shadows on the wall.

"Yiya!"

Yaoyao watched the shadows joyfully, her delicate skin unfazed by the heat of the flames.