Chapter 41: Capture

"Awoo... awoo..."

The two heads of the emaciated two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf each let out a low howl toward the wolf pack ahead.

As if pleading, "Don't abandon me," yet the pack paid it no heed.

Faced with the indifference of its own kind, the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf did not give up; it stubbornly trailed behind the pack.

Because its parents were among them, it needed not only food, but also the care of its pack and parents.

Facing Facing Cang Luo secretly followed behind the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf, waiting for it to separate from the pack, but a full day passed and the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf still clung stubbornly to the rear of the pack — there was simply no opening to act.

As dusk fell, the wolf pack returned to their den in the hills — a cave at the foot of the mountain, its entrance overgrown with thick shrubs and well hidden.

The wolf pack went inside to rest, but the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf could only cower and lie outside the cave, forlornly staring at the cave entrance.

It had no right to enter the cave to rest, nor dared it approach the entrance, because two strong adult Fire-Devouring Wolves stood guard at the mouth.

Facing Facing Cang Luo crouched there for a while, still finding no opening to act.

But he wasn't worried — at least he now knew where their den was, and it seemed the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf wouldn't be leaving anytime soon. A few days of waiting by the stump and he was sure an opening would come.

So, using the *Hundred Herbs Record* Cang Feng had given him, Facing Facing Cang Luo found some non-toxic wild fruit nearby for food, ate hastily, then climbed a giant cedar and began cultivating the Meiti Shengong...

The next day, the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf still hadn't strayed far from the pack, and Facing Facing Cang Luo still hadn't found an opening.

Until noon on the fifth day, when the Yuanwu Continent in late May was struck by the sun directly overhead. Under the scorching sun, Facing Facing Cang Luo finally lost his patience.

So Facing Facing Cang Luo came up with a plan to take the initiative — to lure it out of the pack.

Facing Facing Cang Luo tied half a wild hare he had left over as bait to a vine. The hare was just an ordinary small animal, not a demon beast.

After securing the bait, Facing Facing Cang Luo made some more preparations.

Three hours later, Facing Facing Cang Luo crept toward the Fire-Devouring Wolves' den under the scorching sun.

Perhaps because the sun was too brutal today, the wolf pack hadn't gone out to forage but was resting in the cool cave, and the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf was still keeping watch near the entrance.

At this moment, the increasingly emaciated two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf was lying in the shade of a giant cedar to cool off. Its four eyes were closed as it dozed, its eyelids and ears twitching occasionally.

Suddenly, both its noses twitched, and with a whoosh it sprang to its feet, sniffing wildly with a whooshing sound.

It seemed to have caught the scent of something delicious — drool gushed from both of its dry wolf mouths.

Food! It was food! And it was moving!

Hare meat! It was hare meat?!

The four dull eyes of the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf lit up again. It couldn't tell whether the hare meat that had suddenly appeared before it was dead or alive, only that it was food. It didn't think too much — it lunged straight at it and bit down.

It hadn't eaten in days, and having two wolf heads meant it needed to burn even more energy.

But... it lunged at empty air and got a mouthful of sandy dirt.

"Ow! Ow!"

The two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf let out two low howls, watching in disbelief as the food before it ran off into a thicket not far away.

Its right head stared fixedly at the hare meat, while its left head glanced back at the cave a few times. After a moment's hesitation, it threw caution to the wind and chased the hare meat into the thicket.

In the thicket, Facing Facing Cang Luo monitored the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf through the satellite while tugging on one end of the vine.

The other end of the vine was tied to the hare meat, and the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf was right behind the hare meat.

Facing Facing Cang Luo grinned: "Hehe! Having two brains is nothing special — still pretty dumb. Hopefully it'll get a bit smarter after becoming my beast pet."

The right wolf mouth of the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf was spitting sparks, the left was puffing white smoke, and all four eyes stared unblinkingly at the hare meat.

It chased the hare meat relentlessly, but the hare meat always kept a certain distance — close enough to touch, yet never caught.

It sped up, and the hare meat sped up.

It slowed down and tried stalking, and the hare meat slowed down with it — but never let itself be caught.

The two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf snarled in fury, sparks flying from its wolf mouths, white smoke curling around.

After the two sides had chased each other for over ten minutes, the hare meat suddenly stopped on a pile of dead leaves and stopped moving.

Seeing this, the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf's eyes lit up, drool pouring out, and it excitedly pounced onto the neatly arranged pile of dead leaves, about one and a half meters in diameter.

"I wanna eat the rabbit!"

"I wanna eat the rabbit too!"

The two wolf mouths of the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf each let out excited howls as they lunged at the rabbit meat that had stopped moving.

At last, the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf bit down on the long-awaited rabbit meat.

But the instant it bit into the hare meat, the pile of dead leaves suddenly collapsed.

With a loud *thud*, the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf tumbled into a big pit.

A pit about one and a half meters in diameter and two and a half meters deep.

This pit had been laboriously dug out by Facing Facing Cang Luo over three hours earlier using sharpened sticks. Around the inside of the pit were sharpened sticks driven in at an angle, meant to keep the prey from escaping.

Seeing the trap successfully capture the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf, Facing Facing Cang Luo hurried out from one side, a bundle of thick three-meter-long sticks in his arms.

Facing Facing Cang Luo came to the edge of the pit and saw the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf tearing at the hare with one head while baring its fangs and snarling at him with the other.

"Heh! Two mouths sure are convenient — can eat and curse at the same time. But this is where it ends."

With that, Facing Facing Cang Luo took the sharpened sticks and drove them into the pit, pinning the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf down and locking its limbs in place — one stick after another,

The two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf struggled desperately, but perhaps because it was too weak, it didn't spit fire at Facing Facing Cang Luo — only the left wolf mouth puffed a few breaths of white smoke.

Like an engine that had run out of fuel, sputtering out.

Ten minutes later, the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf was pinned in the pit by over a dozen sticks, unable to move.

After checking that there was no danger, Facing Facing Cang Luo took the vine into the pit and bound it up tightly — especially those two wolf mouths, wrapping them round and round.

After all this, Facing Facing Cang Luo climbed out of the pit and hauled up the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf that was about to become his beast pet.

Facing Facing Cang Luo was panting — not from exhaustion but from excitement. He sat down to rest and even took out his phone to snap a selfie as a memento.

He also posted the photo to the World Conference WeChat group, which immediately drew exclamations from a bunch of big shots, all asking Facing Facing Cang Luo what kind of demon beast this two-headed monster was.

The sharp Li Weiguo asked Facing Facing Cang Luo if he was planning to tame a beast pet, and demanded that Facing Facing Cang Luo film the whole process.

Facing Facing Cang Luo ignored them. He took out the beast-skin scroll inscribed with the beast-pet contract formation, spread it flat, and looked at the formation composed of Bagua symbols and ancient inscriptions.

After a few glances, Facing Facing Cang Luo felt that this formation wasn't very complicated—much simpler than engineering blueprints.

As he studied it, a sudden inspiration struck Facing Facing Cang Luo.

"I meet almost all three conditions for drawing a formation, don't I? The formation structure just needs to be copied as is, and the materials for drawing it are right here—the blood of the Fire-Devouring Wolf and its demon core can both be used.

As for stable and continuously outputted elemental energy, that's not lacking either—bro is a man with infinite elemental energy! Then all that's left is... a powerful elemental sense?

Do I meet the conditions? How would I know if my elemental sense isn't that powerful without trying?"

Excitedly, Facing Facing Cang Luo snapped his fingers, tore off a piece of burlap from his clothes roughly the same size as the beast-skin scroll, and spread it flat on the ground.

Then he used a flying claw to slash a few wounds on the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf. Blood immediately gushed out, and the pain made it whine and whimper, sparks shooting from its mouth, while its two pairs of eyes glared at Facing Facing Cang Luo with fierce light.

"Damn, how dare you glare at me?"

Facing Facing Cang Luo cursed, raised his fist, and pummeled it wildly until it didn't even dare to breathe heavily, wagging its tail like a dog begging for mercy.

The first condition for subduing a beast pet—you must beat the demon beast into submission!

Fanning away the white smoke exhaled by the two-headed Fire-Devouring Wolf, Facing Facing Cang Luo dipped a thin tree branch into its demon beast blood and began copying the formation from the beast-skin scroll onto the burlap...