Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 2777: Chapter 2778: Leisurely Squabbles
Maybe it was Feng Yuan’s mistrust that angered Xiao Ji. Fanning its wings fiercely, it whipped up a strong wind. Behind it, two Fire Dragons formed. Seeing this, Feng Yuan paused for a moment before saying with a smile,
"Don’t be so petty~ After all, we’re preparing breakfast for everyone. If you can’t use flames yet, I’ll have to handle it myself. Haha, I didn’t expect you to be quite capable, Xiao Ji~"
After a few continual compliments, seeing Xiao Ji being flattered senseless, Feng Yuan chuckled and said,
"Alright, let’s go prepare breakfast. Aren’t you hungry yet? Since you can use normal flames, I’ll count on you later~"
Clapping its wings on its chest, Xiao Ji looked confident, secretly snickering. Feng Yuan didn’t try to do anything extra, lest Xiao Ji should realize and start making a fuss.
Xiao Ji’s fire control ability wasn’t strong. Its control over its own ultimate moves was already quite limited, and the surge in strength didn’t improve Xiao Ji’s control power over these moves. But this didn’t trouble Feng Yuan; when a Spirit Beast from a different series uses an ultimate from a non-native attribute, it generally utilizes its own strength to push the natural free energy to form the technique.
Under such circumstances, there is an inherent deficiency in ultimate technique control power, or rather, it’s impossible for cross-series use to naturally have high control power.
Of course, this only refers to an ordinary Spirit Beast’s cross-series use of regular ultimate techniques. In some special cases, certain Spirit Beasts can naturally use non-native ultimate moves, and these aren’t counted in regular scenarios.
As for Xiao Ji? There is a distinction between Divine Beasts and ordinary Spirit Beasts in this regard. Even without the corresponding attribute, a Divine Beast can use cross-series ultimate moves as if they were native techniques, even the control power limit is about the same.
The reason this can be achieved is naturally because once a Divine Beast reaches a certain level of power, it can freely convert its own energy without relying on pushing the natural free energy to execute the ultimate move like Spirit Beasts do commonly.
Feng Yuan didn’t plan on having Xiao Ji use a Fire Attribute ultimate move to cook, which would be too challenging for it because Xiao Ji can now transform its Energy Attribute. Hence, Feng Yuan directly let Xiao Ji convert its energy into Fire Attribute energy.
As long as it doesn’t form into an ultimate move, Xiao Ji’s control over its own energy is still decent, or rather, any Spirit Beast can do so, although this method is limited to specific purposes, since without energy to create an ultimate move, its effectiveness and power don’t nearly compare even to the weakest ultimate move.
But for cooking... It seems using high-intensity flames from ultimate moves is unnecessary. In fact, such terrifying high temperatures are unsuitable for cooking, one careless move and not only could the dish turn to charcoal, but the kitchenware might turn to ash too.
Merely utilizing the nature of energy to facilitate daily life, this was Xiao Ji’s first attempt. Excited like a child with a new toy, it played nonstop, even when Feng Yuan had finished breakfast, it continued playing with fire there.
"Alright, if you want to play, go to the hot spring pool. Be careful not to set the house on fire playing here."
Seeing Xiao Ji controlling the flames floating around, Feng Yuan said amusingly while plating up breakfast. As for keeping it warm? Time Series ultimate moves can temporarily halt the flow of time, which is far better than any warming method.
When Feng Yuan took the plates inside the house, just in time to see the Big Cat and others waking up, Veronia floated to the dining table and marveled at the abundant food, sizing up Feng Yuan, saying,
"Remarkable indeed, you’re up so early today."
It wasn’t surprising for Feng Yuan to prepare breakfast, as it had been agreed earlier that Feng Yuan would handle meals. Mainly because Agunas and others aren’t much for cooking.
As for Big Cat and others? While they could cook, they were invited by Feng Yuan to join the fun, and Feng Yuan didn’t want to make them prepare meals, fearing it might end up feeling like forcing labor.
The Flame Chasing Furry Dog looked puzzled at Xiao Ji standing beside Feng Yuan, wondering what Xiao Ji had done during its sleep to be so smug.
It didn’t know Xiao Ji used its flames to help Feng Yuan solve the breakfast fire issue. Otherwise, it might guess why Xiao Ji seemed so annoyingly proud, as Xiao Ji successfully proved it was more powerful than the Flame Chasing Furry Dog in its eyes.
"Let’s have breakfast first. After that, we need to repair the wooden house here, and the interior... you all decide, if you don’t want to bother, then leave it. In the afternoon, how about we visit the Unfrozen Spring?"
The Unfrozen Spring and the Ice Lotus Hot Spring are not in the same place. However, the distance isn’t far. Feng Yuan had some guesses about the Unfrozen Spring’s situation, but not having seen it himself, he couldn’t say whether it was extraordinary.
Agunas and the others thought for a moment and said,
"No problem, do you need help with the Array Patterns?"
"Well... not for now. Though a bit complex, it’s not exactly difficult, just troublesome."
Feng Yuan laughed, saying those Array Patterns were not hard to handle, just complicated, as Beastmasters wouldn’t reveal their best-kept skills in places like this.
It’s precisely this casualness that caused a serious issue: the Array Patterns are exceptionally complex because they were set up using the most standard method for easier interpretation by others, resulting in cumbersome patterns.
The personal styles appeared not for fun, but as optimizations and simplifications of the Array Patterns. However, doing so makes it harder for others to interpret them, while using the most standard method results in voluminous patterns, akin to official documents with standard wording and numerous entries.
Feng Yuan felt the urge to simplify those patterns. With straightforward optimization and simplification, he estimated a reduction of about two-thirds. But he ultimately gave up, as simplification and optimization though might be achievable through universal approaches, could still lead to difficulties for some in understanding the patterns.
Xiao Ji patiently followed Feng Yuan handling the Array Patterns, while the Flame Chasing Furry Dog, uninterested in following, joined Agunas and others repairing the damaged constructions.
After a busy morning, seeing the nearly repaired Array Patterns, Feng Yuan wiped imaginary sweat and said,
"That’s enough for now, let’s go make lunch~"
Excited for another chance to showcase its skills, Xiao Ji gave a cheerful call, and Feng Yuan naturally knew the reason for Xiao Ji’s enthusiasm, but...
Watching the Flame Chasing Furry Dog showing off its flame play before him, Xiao Ji complained to Feng Yuan, who shrugged and said helplessly,
"Don’t look at me like that, truly speaking, you can’t compete with it in playing with fire."
Aside from the fact that Flame Chasing Furry Dog itself is a Fire Attribute Spirit Beast, its name hints at the high level of flame control its kind possesses. Comparing Xiao Ji to it is really asking for trouble.
Now the Flame Chasing Furry Dog understood why Xiao Ji seemed so annoying in the morning. With a quirky dog grin, it teased Xiao Ji with ever-changing flames. Watching these two bickering again, Feng Yuan said helplessly,
"Playful antics are fine, but don’t affect the cooking, Flame Chasing Furry Dog, look, the cooking fire’s already too big."
It was fine until Feng Yuan said that, which made Xiao Ji angrier. Veronia chuckled watching Xiao Ji and Flame Chasing Furry Dog’s playful squabble, saying,
"So rowdy, how delightful."
Agunas glanced at Veronia while working on the food, and said,
"You could join them."
"Hmm, I’d rather not. Unnecessary restraint stops me from doing such things. Sometimes I envy them, enjoying such joy in the most uninhibited age."
"It’s a pity, if... only it weren’t during the Mythical Era."
"Am I too greedy, given the unique nature of the Mythical Era grants me this powerful strength."
Veronia said looking at Agunas, who flicked its tail and replied irritably,
"What’s the use of thinking so much? Even if you joined them, nobody would criticize you, you’re not human, why care about others’ views."
"Saying that is easy, but I no longer have the mental state to enjoy simple joys, fool others, but how to fool myself."
Veronia said wistfully, watching the raucous Xiao Ji and Flame Chasing Furry Dog.

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