Volume 1 The Beginning of Growing Up Chapter 4 Tuogu

I don't know how long it took, Yang Mingyang woke up from his slumber. As soon as he opened his eyes, he was so frightened that he almost jumped up, and a majestic lion was lying in front of him, looking at him with his eyes open. Yang Mingyang wanted to get up and run away, but he felt weak, so he had to look at the lion in front of him in horror. The lion was very large, covered in fiery red hair, but strangely enough, it seemed to be badly wounded, covered in blood, several parts of its fur had been cut open, revealing the flesh inside, its hind legs had been broken, and the blood was dragging behind. Looking at this scene, the fear in Yang Mingyang's heart decreased a lot, and he even felt some sympathy for the poor red lion in front of him. Yang Mingyang looked at the red lion in front of him, he found that the red lion seemed to have tears in his eyes, and seemed to be looking at him with begging eyes, he looked at it seriously again, and further confirmed his judgment.

"You, do you need my help?" Yang Mingyang asked cautiously, not wondering if the red lion would understand his question. Unexpectedly, the red lion seemed to understand his words and nodded at him.

Yang Mingyang looked at the poor red lion and said softly, "If I can help you with anything, I will definitely help you." With a look of gratitude on the red lion's face, he picked up an egg-shaped stone ball from his side, Yang Mingyang recognized this stone ball, it was the stone ball they had in the fiery stone room before. I saw the red lion gently pat it with its front paws, the stone ball broke, and there was a red lion the size of a kitten lying inside the stone ball, and the little red lion seemed to be dead, lying motionless in the stone ball. Then the red lion took out a red fruit out of nowhere, this red fruit was exactly the same size and shape as the fruit that Yang Mingyang and the five people ate before, but the color was different. The red fruit rose into the air from the front of the red lion, and the red lion spat out a small red fireball from its mouth, which gently merged with the red fruit and turned into a more bright red flame, which could be felt from a distance, and the temperature of this flame was much higher than before. Then, the flame slowly flew towards the motionless little red lion, and drilled into its head, and it was strange to say that the flame did not burn the little red lion, and after a while, it entered the little red lion's body and disappeared.

The injured big red lion took out a bag out of nowhere and put the little red lion into the bag, and then the bag magically shrunk to the size of a palm. The big red lion put the bag in front of Yang Mingyang along with the little red lion inside. Immediately afterwards, some consciousness appeared in Yang Mingyang's mind: it turned out that this red lion was named Flame Lion, and it was a demon beast of the late third order. The growth of demon beasts can be divided into seven stages, namely first-order demon beasts to seventh-order demon beasts, and each level of demon beasts can be divided into early, middle and late stages according to the degree of demonic power, and only late-stage demon beasts have the opportunity to enter the next level. It is extremely difficult for the demon beasts to advance every time, most of the demon beasts stay in the first order for life, but their strength will increase greatly after each advancement, for example, the strength of the demon beasts in the early stage of the second order is far stronger than that of the demon beasts in the late stage of the first order, but they are extremely weak in front of the third-order demon beasts. Once the demon beasts grow into fourth-order demon beasts, they can turn into human forms, which are called shape-shifting demon beasts, and there are very few demon beasts that can become fourth-order demon beasts and transform into human form, let alone become seventh-order demon beasts, which is even rarer. This flame lion with red hair all over his body, born with a very strong ability to control fire, is now a demon beast in the late third order, and is also considered a strong person in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, in the process of impacting the fourth order, he was attacked by its enemy, the white ice bear, not only failed to advance, but also suffered serious injuries, and the young lion in the womb was also injured, and after being born, the whole body was cold, and he fell into a coma for a long time. The "Five Spirit Fruit" tree, this tree takes thousands of years to mature six, which is of great benefit to both humans and demon beasts. The Flame Lion waited in this cave for more than three hundred years, and finally waited for the five spirit fruits to mature, it picked the red fire spirit fruit that greatly replenished the fire attribute demon beasts, and planned to find some fire attribute elixirs, which should be able to cure the cold poison of the little flame lion, as a result, when going out to look for fire attribute elixir, it was attacked by several yellow-robed monks, and was forced to helplessly, it blew up the demon pill that stored the spiritual power of the whole body, and destroyed the enemy. However, once the demon beast loses the demon pill, it will no longer be able to store the demon spirit power, and the demon spirit power in the body will be quickly dissipated, and then there will only be death. The Flame Lion has survived its short life with the secret methods of its own race, and it wants to take a second look at its children at the end of its life. It turned out that five children who had eaten the spirit fruit and fainted, one of the children was Yang Mingyang, who had a fire attribute spirit root in his body, so that the little flame lion often followed Yang Mingyang who had a fire spirit root, which was of great help to the little flame lion to eliminate the cold poison in his body, so the flame lion hoped to entrust the child to Yang Mingyang before he died. So it woke up Yang Mingyang, and there was the scene just now, although the flame lion did not succeed in attacking the fourth-order shape-shifting demon beast, it already had some abilities of the fourth-order demon beast, although it did not transform into a human form and could not speak, but it could transmit consciousness to people through special divine powers.

Knowing the ins and outs of the whole thing, Yang Mingyang couldn't help but be deeply moved by the great maternal love of the Flame Lion. He looked at the flame lion and said solemnly: "Don't worry, I will definitely take good care of the little lion, he will be my younger brother in the future, and no one can bully it." The Flame Lion listened to Yang Mingyang's words, and the lion's face showed gratitude. It looked at the bag containing the little flame lion with a gentle expression for a long time, its expression became firm, and a mouthful of red mist erupted from its mouth, spraying it on Yang Mingyang's face, causing Yang Mingyang to fall into a coma again.

When Yang Mingyang woke up again, it was already noon the next day. He opened his eyes and found himself lying on the grass by the blue water lake. Everything he had just experienced seemed like a dream, but he saw a bag in front of him, and in the bag was a small red lion, reminding him that it was all real. Looking next to the lion cub, I couldn't help but be startled - there was a pile of bloody things next to the lion cub, and if you looked closely, it was the claws of four animals and a few animal teeth. At this time, a consciousness appeared in Yang Mingyang's mind: "Child, thank you! If it wasn't for you taking in the little lion, I really don't know what to do, as the mother of the little lion, I have nothing to repay you, the teeth on my body and the claws on my feet still have some use, so I'll give it to you." Farewell, may you and the little lion grow up healthy. ”

Yang Mingyang's mood suddenly became heavy, he raised his head, looked at the other side of the lake, and saw that the mountain where the stone cave was located had collapsed at some point, and the stone cave had completely disappeared, and what appeared in that position was the vast lake......