Chapter 41: Capture

“Ow Wu …… Ow Wu ……”

The two heads of the emaciated Double-Headed Flame Wolf each let out a low growl toward the pack ahead.

As if pleading, “Don’t abandon me,” but the pack paid it no heed.

Undeterred by the indifference of its own kind, the Double-Headed Flame Wolf stubbornly trailed behind the pack.

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

Cang Luo secretly followed the Double-Headed Flame Wolf, waiting for it to separate from the pack, but after a full day, the wolf still clung relentlessly to the rear of the group, leaving no opportunity to strike.

As dusk fell, the pack returned to their den on the hillside—a cave at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by thick shrubbery, offering good concealment.

The pack went inside to rest, but the Double-Headed Flame Wolf could only tremble as it crouched outside the cave, gazing sadly at the entrance.

It had no right to enter the cave, nor even dared approach the entrance, as two strong adult Flame Wolves guarded it at night.

Cang Luo crouched for a while longer but still found no chance to act.

Still, he wasn’t worried—he now knew their den’s location, and it was clear the Double-Headed Flame Wolf wouldn’t leave anytime soon; he could just wait patiently for a few days and surely find his opening.

So Cang Luo used the “Manual of Hundred Herbs” given to him by Cang Feng to find some non-toxic wild fruits nearby, ate them hastily, then climbed a giant cedar tree to practice the Divine Body Destruction Technique...

The next day, the Double-Headed Flame Wolf still didn’t stray far from the pack, and Cang Luo still found no opportunity to strike.

Until the fifth day at noon, when the Yuanwu Continent in late May was scorching under direct sunlight, Cang Luo finally lost his patience.

So he devised a plan to take the initiative—to lure the wolf away from the pack.

Cang Luo tied half a leftover rabbit carcass to a vine; the rabbit was just an ordinary animal, not a beast.

After securing the bait, Cang Luo made further preparations.

Three hours later, Cang Luo stealthily approached the Flame Wolf den under the blazing sun.

Perhaps due to the extreme heat, the pack hadn’t gone out to hunt and instead rested inside the cool cave; the Double-Headed Flame Wolf still lingered near the entrance.

At this moment, the emaciated Double-Headed Flame Wolf lay beneath the shade of a giant cedar, its two pairs of eyes closed in pretended sleep, occasionally twitching its eyelids and ears.

Suddenly, both its nostrils flared, and it sprang up instantly, sniffing furiously with loud sniffs.

It seemed to smell something delicious—saliva streamed uncontrollably from its two dry wolf mouths.

Food! It was food! And it was moving!

Rabbit meat! It was actual rabbit meat?

The Double-Headed Flame Wolf’s four dull eyes suddenly gleamed; it couldn’t tell if the rabbit meat before it was dead or alive—only that it was food. Without hesitation, it lunged forward and bit down on it.

It hadn’t eaten in days, and with two heads, it required far more energy.

But… it missed. It ended up swallowing only mouthfuls of dirt.

“Oh! Oh!”

The Double-Headed Flame Wolf let out two low growls, seeing the food it had just spotted now fleeing into the nearby dense forest.

Its right head fixed on the rabbit meat, its left head glanced back at the cave—after a moment’s hesitation, it charged after the meat without a second thought, plunging into the forest.

In the forest, Cang Luo monitored the Double-Headed Flame Wolf via satellite while tugging one end of the vine.

The other end of the vine was tied to the rabbit meat, which the Double-Headed Flame Wolf chased behind.

Cang Luo chuckled: “Heh! Having two brains doesn’t make you smart—you’re still dumb. I hope you’ll become smarter once you’re my beast companion.”

The right wolf mouth spat sparks, the left exhaled white smoke; all four eyes stared unblinkingly at the rabbit meat.

It chased the meat relentlessly, but the meat always stayed just out of reach—close enough to see, yet forever eluding capture.

It sped up—the meat sped up too.

It slowed down and tried stealth—the meat slowed with it, yet never let it catch it.

The Double-Headed Flame Wolf growled in frustration, sparks flying from its jaws, white smoke swirling.

After more than ten minutes of pursuit, the rabbit meat suddenly stopped moving atop a pile of dry leaves.

Seeing this, the Double-Headed Flame Wolf’s eyes lit up, saliva dripping, and it leapt excitedly onto the neatly arranged pile of leaves, about one and a half meters in diameter.

“I’m eating rabbit!”

“I’m eating rabbit too!”

Each of the Double-Headed Flame Wolf’s two mouths let out excited howls as they lunged toward the now-stationary rabbit meat.

Finally, the Double-Headed Flame Wolf bit down on the long-awaited rabbit meat.

But the instant it bit into it, the pile of leaves collapsed beneath it.

With a loud “plop,” the Double-Headed Flame Wolf tumbled into a deep pit.

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

This pit had been dug by Cang Luo over three hours earlier using sharpened branches; around its walls, angled branches were embedded to prevent prey from escaping.

Seeing the trap had succeeded, Cang Luo rushed out from the side, carrying a bundle of thick branches three meters long.

At the pit’s edge, he saw the Double-Headed Flame Wolf gnawing on the rabbit while the other head snarled and growled menacingly at him.

“Hah! Two mouths are convenient—you can eat and curse at the same time. But that’s as far as you go.”

Saying this, Cang Luo drove sharpened branches into the pit, pinning the wolf’s limbs in place—one after another.

The Double-Headed Flame Wolf struggled desperately, but due to extreme weakness, it couldn’t spit fire at Cang Luo—only a few puffs of white smoke escaped from its left mouth.

Like an engine that’s run out of fuel.

Ten minutes later, the Double-Headed Flame Wolf was immobilized by over a dozen branches, unable to move.

After confirming no danger remained, Cang Luo entered the pit with the vine and tightly bound the wolf—especially its two mouths, wrapped in layer upon layer.

After finishing, Cang Luo climbed out of the pit and pulled the soon-to-be-his-beast-companion up to the surface.

Cang Luo was panting—not from exhaustion, but from excitement. He sat down to rest and pulled out his phone to take a selfie as a memento.

He even posted the photo to the World Council WeChat group, instantly triggering gasps and exclamations from the elite members, all asking what kind of beast this two-headed monster was.

Clever Li Weiguo asked if Cang Luo was trying to subdue a beast companion and requested he film the entire process.

Cang Luo ignored them. He unrolled the beast-companion contract scroll, laid it flat, and studied the array composed of Bagua symbols and ancient inscriptions.

After a few glances, he thought the array wasn’t very complex—much simpler than an engineering blueprint.

As he stared, a sudden insight struck him.

“I already have nearly all three conditions needed to draw the array: the structure? Just trace it. The materials? Right here—Flame Wolf blood and its core. And as for stable, continuous yuan energy? I’m the man with infinite yuan energy! All that’s left is… powerful yuan consciousness?”

“Do I qualify? How can I know my yuan consciousness isn’t already supreme unless I try?”

Cang Luo snapped his fingers excitedly, tore off a piece of linen from his clothes roughly the same size as the scroll, and spread it on the ground.

Then he used his flying claw to slash several wounds on the Double-Headed Flame Wolf—blood gushed out, causing it to whimper and snarl, sparks flying from its jaws, its four eyes glaring fiercely at Cang Luo.

“Damn it! You dare glare at me?”

Cang Luo cursed, raised his fist, and unleashed a furious barrage of punches, beating the wolf into submission until it whimpered and wagged its tail like a dog begging for mercy.

The first condition for subduing a beast: you must break its spirit!

Fanning away the white smoke from the wolf’s mouth, Cang Luo dipped a thin branch into its blood and began tracing the array from the scroll onto the linen...

Fanning away the white smoke exhaled by the two-headed Flame-devouring Wolf, Cang Luo dipped a thin twig into its beast blood and began tracing the magical array onto the linen, copying it from the scroll on the hide...