Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1175 - 1176: The Reason for the Abnormality

Unconsciously stroking Xiao Ji’s head, Feng Yuan kept sizing up the One-leaf Fox. However, unlike a typical One-leaf Fox, this one did not show any signs of shyness under Feng Yuan’s gaze, merely looking back at him with confusion. Nevertheless, Feng Yuan sensed a deeply hidden trace of guilt.

Sure enough, there was something off about this One-leaf Fox, Feng Yuan thought. As the initial form in its evolutionary series, it should have already evolved at this time, but this One-leaf Fox was different. Not only had it not evolved, but it also possessed a power that far exceeded its potential limit, it’s just that...

Seeing Feng Yuan looking at him, Agunas shook his head and said,

"I’m not sure what is going on either, its power is very strange."

Ordinarily, the One-leaf Fox should be a Wood Spirit Beast with the ability to use Psychokinesis Series ultimate moves. But this One-leaf Fox was surrounded by an exceptionally strong telekinetic force, as if the tiny body of the One-leaf Fox couldn’t contain such a vast power, causing it to leak out.

However, the One-leaf Fox, with its race’s power rating, was not particularly dominant among the Common Level Spirit Beasts. Why then did this bizarre situation arise?

If it was due to a strange encounter, that would be one thing—after all, sometimes such encounters lead to miraculous events, like the ones Xiao Ji and Kong Qing had, right? Running into Feng Yuan, establishing a good relationship, and even transforming into real Divine Beasts, but to undergo change just by sleeping?

Agunas couldn’t think of any possibility for such an encounter, and even Feng Yuan couldn’t achieve this. Whether it was for Kong Qing or Xiao Ji, all Feng Yuan did was endow them with the authority of Divine Beasts, making their status equivalent to that of Divine Beasts.

Yet, such a change should have been outwardly visible. Without any significant changes, the power simply increased unreasonably. If it were not for Agunas knowing that no current enemy possessed such capability, he would suspect some foreign invader had sneaked in, intending to cause mischief.

"You seem to know exactly what happened, why won’t you speak up?"

Veronia squatted down and stretched out her hand to gently scratch the chin of the One-leaf Fox while softly speaking. However, her words startled everyone present. The One-leaf Fox, with a puzzled face, looked at Veronia, seemingly not understanding what she was talking about. After tapping the One-leaf Fox’s forehead, Veronia scoffed and said,

"That trick won’t work on me. I’ve seen too many of such small deceptions. Your acting skills need to improve—maybe then you could fool me."

Covering the spot where Veronia had touched, the One-leaf Fox cradled its head and wailed softly. Veronia glanced at the One-leaf Fox and said to Feng Yuan,

"This little thing is well aware of what has happened. It just doesn’t want to say."

Agunas looked at Veronia, surprised, and said,

"I thought you might force it to tell the truth."

Glancing at Agunas, Veronia said irritably,

"I’m not that bored. What’s the point of forcing it to tell the truth, other than satisfying my idle curiosity?"

She was not that bored, to satisfy her own curiosity without regard for others’ feelings. But since when did she start thinking like this? Veronia was confused; she still remembered the era of Mitradite rule, and how capricious she used to be...

If it hadn’t been for that, maybe there would have been more than just him... With a self-deprecating smile at the thought, Veronia stood up and walked over to a nearby long table, appearing to want to eat something, but mumbling to herself in a low voice,

"When did I become so sentimental?"

Watching Veronia’s departing figure, Agunas flicked its tail and said nothing. It too sensed that there was something off about Veronia. Since when did she become so considerate of others? But after some thought, Agunas decided to put that aside for now. The main question was, what exactly was wrong with this One-leaf Fox.

Seeing Agunas staring at it, the One-leaf Fox whined and put on a cute expression, seeking his attention. After watching the One-leaf Fox for a long time, Agunas said,

"What exactly are you hiding? It is impossible for a normal Spirit Beast to have such unique circumstances. We Divine Beasts protect Ordinary Spirit Beasts not only to prevent them from undue harm caused by humans but also to shield them from other strange influences."

Although Agunas didn’t place particular emphasis, both the One-leaf Fox and Feng Yuan could sense the warning in Agunas’s words. However, with its woofing and clueless cute demeanor, the One-leaf Fox seemed to be unaware of everything, while Feng Yuan seemed to have thought of something and took out a pitch-black Ancient Book to flip through for a while.

Patting the One-leaf Fox gently with the pitch-black Ancient Book, the latter looked puzzled as it turned to gaze at Feng Yuan, not quite understanding what he was doing. Why would he hit it with a strange book?

Seeing no change in the One-leaf Fox, Feng Yuan shook his head and said,

"It seems it’s still the original soul, not possessed by something strange or anything... But what exactly is going on here?"

"A rare transcendence beyond the future."

"Eh? Lorraine Tower? When did you get here?"

Taking notice of the black-haired middle-aged man who had spoken, Feng Yuan asked with some surprise, for he did not believe that Lorraine Tower would attend Zhong Liuyan’s banquet upon her invitation. Not to mention whether they could get in touch with it, even if they could, why would Lorraine Tower be interested in a human banquet? Furthermore, Lorraine Tower was probably busy hunting down members of the Hunter Organization.

Unless Feng Yuan personally invited him, he doubted that Lorraine Tower would even consider an invitation from the Alliance, and instead would choose to ignore it. At this time, the white-haired middle-aged man gestured to Feng Yuan and said,

"I’m not sure what’s going on either. Right after hearing about this situation from Agunas, it left the Hunter team we had a lead on for me to bring it here."

Lorraine Tower is not incapable of opening a Space Gate, but unlike Agunas who holds a Golden Tome Page, it can’t create a discreet Space Gate. After all, it does not possess the Space Attribute. It’s here merely to confirm something and there was no need to draw public attention.

Approaching the One-leaf Fox, Lorraine Tower bent down and gently stroked the white fur on its back. The animal seemed a bit nervous as it watched Lorraine Tower, seemingly recognizing the identity of the other. The boy heard Feng Yuan call out Lorraine Tower and didn’t react at first—after all, Feng Yuan had only said a name, and the individual was in human form. The common folk were not all aware that Divine Beasts could have human forms.

Therefore, he had treated it as merely a common name. After all, sometimes parents would whimsically name their child after a Divine Beast. The One-leaf Fox remained warily fixated on Lorraine Tower, seemingly fearful of something. After gently patting the fox’s back, Lorraine Tower stood up and looked towards Feng Yuan, saying,

"You just haven’t thought it through yet. If you observe carefully, I believe you too can discern the situation it’s in."

"Breaking free from an illusory future?"

Startled for a moment, Feng Yuan scrutinized the One-leaf Fox and said in amazement. Normally, a Time loop means going back from the present to the past to cause changes, yet it does not affect the origin of returning from the present to the past—that is, on that timeline, one must inevitably return from the present to the past and revise the future again.

However, the circumstance of this One-leaf Fox seems quite peculiar. It has returned from an undefined future to the present, which means this One-leaf Fox will inevitably move forward towards the point in time it returned to, essentially setting its future in stone.

While patting the head of the One-leaf Fox, Feng Yuan said with some puzzlement,

"Why? Doing so brings significant limitations, especially since it fixes the future. When you reach that moment in the future, you must return to the past again, which doesn’t seem to be very favorable."

"Isn’t the future still undetermined?"

With some confusion, Qi Chen looked towards Feng Yuan, clearly unaware of what was happening. Glancing at Qi Chen, Feng Yuan rolled his eyes and explained,

"It is undetermined, but if its power comes from its future self, to enable its current self to possess this power, it must return to the past again at that point of possible future. Otherwise, it would suffer Backlash from the river of time. In severe cases, it’s not impossible to die as a direct consequence."

This was also why Feng Yuan disliked meddling with history or dealing with future-related issues for no reason—it’s simply troublesome. Even if he could avoid the backlash, it would still take quite an effort, wouldn’t it?