Devouring Stars, becoming Luo Feng's golden finger

On the city streets, now a scene of utter devastation.

The corpse of the Azure Scale Python lay sprawled on the ground like a fallen giant pillar.

[Killed a Mid-Level Lord Class Monster (Repeatable)] (Completed once)

Reward: 1050 Points

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Closing the mission panel, Luo Feng slowly descended from the sky, arriving before the massive corpse. With a thought, his sharp Nine-Series Flying Daggers began to dissect the python's body.

Before long, a huge snakeskin was completely peeled off, along with important materials such as the snake fangs, gall bladder, and the Azure Scale Snake Egg.

“Mid-level Lord Class monster materials usually sell for 1.5 billion to 7 billion, but this Azure Scale Python is larger, making its materials more expensive than usual. It should fetch upwards of 5 billion.” Luo Feng calculated in his mind, but he wasn't overly excited.

He turned his gaze to the nearly one-meter-tall Azure Scale Snake Egg on the ground, a mix of complexity and emotion in his eyes.

This snake egg shouldn't have survived.

The Azure Scale Python had the ability to destroy and kill the egg within its belly before it died, but it didn't.

Many monsters, when they feel they can't protect their offspring, often choose to kill them beforehand rather than let them fall into enemy hands.

Luo Feng thought of the Azure Scale Python's crimson snake eyes filled with unwillingness and pleading as it died.

Unwillingness was normal; after all, no one wants to die, especially a Lord Class monster with intelligence comparable to humans.

But, pleading?

Its brain tissue was destroyed, and death was inevitable. It couldn't have been pleading for him to spare its life, could it?

Obviously not.

Then...

Luo Feng touched the slightly prickly, dense azure scales on the snake egg, a hint of regret flashing in his eyes.

Letting this unborn little guy go was impossible. Humans and monsters were mortal enemies. If he let it go, it would grow into a Lord Class monster that could harm countless humans and martial artists!

“I should still sell it.” Luo Feng thought to himself.

Many large organizations liked to acquire powerful monster eggs or monster cubs, whether for experimentation or with the intention of taming them; that remained to be seen.

“It wouldn’t be impossible if you wanted to keep it by your side.”

Bai Chen appeared out of nowhere.

Hearing Bai Chen's words, Luo Feng's heart stirred. “Bai, what do you mean by that?”

“I can create a Beast Taming Secret Method for you. Once you learn it, you can naturally enslave it. Or, I can directly take action and enslave it for you.”

Within his inner space, Bai Chen gently rubbed the head of the tiny cat girl in his arms, smiling faintly.

The cat girl was naturally the white cat 'Energy+. '

Over this period, Luo Feng's points had accumulated to over ten thousand, while Bai Chen's stored energy had reached over a hundred thousand.

The previously almost depleted energy had suddenly become abundant.

Without hesitation, Bai Chen directly spent some energy to give the white cat 'Energy+', which had been created imperfectly due to the previous energy shortage, two new abilities.

One was Shape-Shifting; the white cat could transform into a cat girl form. After all, it was a cat, so it naturally had to learn to transform.

The other was more important: Perception Ability.

[Perception Ability]

Effect: Greatly enhances one's perception ability, allowing one to hear sounds from extremely far away and keenly sense the aura of living beings. (The range of perception is directly proportional to strength; the stronger one is, the greater the range.)

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From the beginning, Bai Chen's idea for creating the cat 'Energy+' was not only to keep him company but also to provide support for Luo Feng.

Yes, a support role. After all, the combat role was covered by Luo Feng, the protagonist, so there was no need to create a life form stronger than Luo Feng, which would also be uneconomical.

As for the Perception Ability... anyone who has read the original '吞噬星空' (Swallowed Star) knows that even at the Immortal level, detection and perception abilities are essential. Whether it's buying incredibly expensive detectors or learning perception secret methods, the strong will try their best to enhance this aspect, at least to avoid it becoming their weakness.

If you perceive the enemy in advance while they are unaware, then you have the initiative. If the enemy is weak, you can ambush and kill them; if the enemy is strong, you can quickly escape. You can fight or retreat.

No matter where you are, information is a crucial element in combat, which can determine life and death at critical moments.

Although Energy+'s current perception ability is nothing in the vast universe, on Earth, where even the strongest are only Star-level, Luo Feng can basically not worry about being ambushed.

In simple terms, Luo Feng has a full-map vision cheat (growable).

“A Beast Taming Secret Method is out of the question.” Luo Feng thought for a moment and shook his head.

The Giant Elephant Chapter Secret Method and the Nether Fiend Saber manual were already enough for him to learn. He didn't have extra time to waste on some Beast Taming Secret Method.

If he were to learn it, it would be in the future, not during this period of rapid increase in his own strength.

“Bai, just enslave it directly.” Luo Feng pondered for several seconds and made a decision.

He wasn't lacking the billion or so he would get from selling the snake egg, and since 'Bai' had the means to enslave and control monsters, he might as well just enslave it.

It wasn't just the pleading look in the Azure Scale Python's eyes before it died that touched Luo Feng a little; it was also because Luo Feng thought of his family.

If his parents and younger brother had a powerful pet beast guarding them, Luo Feng himself could be much more at ease.

“When the time comes, I can exchange some milder medicinal pills from 'Bai' that can improve physical fitness for my parents and younger brother. They don't need to go out hunting monsters, but it's good to have a good body and self-defense capabilities.” Luo Feng thought to himself.

While Luo Feng was thinking, a white cat suddenly appeared above the Azure Scale Snake Egg.

“Bai, this is...?” Luo Feng looked at the cute white cat. The white cat had a bell around its neck and was wearing a tight-fitting combat cat suit. Its ruby-red cat eyes revealed curiosity about the outside world.

This was clearly a domestic cat; it couldn't be a monster.

Bai Chen was too lazy to explain and directly turned the white cat's abilities into information, stuffing it all into Luo Feng's mind for him to digest and understand himself, finally adding a sentence,

“From now on, this white cat is your teammate.”

“Its name is 'Energy+'.”

After digesting this information, Luo Feng, realizing what was happening, looked at the white cat standing on the Azure Scale Snake Egg, his eyes filled with excitement. Its abilities were too useful to him!

Especially this Perception Ability. This way, he wouldn't have to painstakingly fly high in the sky to find monsters anymore. He could directly have the white cat activate its Perception Ability and obtain the location and strength of monsters!

This saved him a lot of time and greatly reduced the danger he faced.

“Can it sense the existence of King-level monsters? What is its range of perception?” Luo Feng asked curiously. He wanted to know how powerful this white cat's abilities were.

“It can sense King-level monsters. As for the range of perception, it's currently only at the Warrior-level, so the maximum range is about two kilometers in diameter, one kilometer in radius. Underground, it will be reduced a bit, but it can still detect several hundred meters deep. Once its strength increases in the future, it will be able to perceive hundreds or thousands of kilometers or even further.” Bai Chen responded.

The newly born Energy+ couldn't even be called a martial artist, but after continuous feeding with blood essence pills, Energy+'s strength had advanced by leaps and bounds. Now, both its martial artist and mental strength aspects had reached the Elementary Warrior level.

And because it possessed the wind attribute talent, coupled with the fact that it was a cat, its speed had even reached the level of an Advanced Human Warrior.

While Luo Feng and Bai Chen were chatting, Energy+, in cat form, had also completed the spiritual enslavement of the small life that had formed but not yet hatched within the snake egg.

Afterward, the Azure Scale Snake Egg, as well as the Azure Scale Python's remains and stripped materials, were all put into the space by Bai Chen. Luo Feng was already used to 'Bai's' convenience. The monster materials he stripped and collected were basically placed in the space, and he only casually put one or two light Beast General-level materials in his tactical backpack to make it look like he was doing something.

Energy+ stayed behind, temporarily acting as Luo Feng's cat-shaped detector, assisting in obtaining more energy.

Another chapter tonight, ha.