Chapter 26: Divine Medicine Appears

"Roar~" (Of course!)

Chen Mo let out a low roar and nodded.

"Squeak!" (Praise the Lion King!) The rewarded ice crystal mouse once again bowed toward Chen Mo in a pilgrim‑like manner.

However, it did not drink directly; instead it held a cola, trotted up to Ai Sha, then gathered ice‑type spiritual energy in its little paw and laboriously cut an opening on it.

"Squeak!"

The ice crystal mouse handed the opened cola to Ai Sha.

Ai Sha did not refuse the mouse's kindness; she was indeed curious about the "black water" that the Lion King's younger brother had fetched from the human world, so she stuck out her tongue and licked a sip.

Then she showed an expression that words could not describe.

Immediately after, the ice crystal mouse proceeded to share the "couch‑potato happy water" with the other lions.

The ice lions generally were unaccustomed to the taste, yet still displayed a pleased expression.

After all, this was the Lion King's gifted "black water"! Especially Xiong Ba, whose fierce lion face astonishingly showed excitement and delight.

Chen Mo thought the expression was overly flamboyant…

Xiong Ba: "I want to improve so much!" Watching the ice crystal mouse Xiao Bai share the cola, Chen Mo's gaze became thoughtful.

The recipients of Xiao Bai's sharing were all awakened extraordinary ice lions.

Moreover, the order was almost according to each lion's status within the pride.

"I didn't expect you, Xiao Bai, to still be a social mouse!"

After sharing, the ice crystal mouse eagerly took a sip, and its mouth was instantly enveloped by frothing bubbles as if about to explode, causing it to start spinning in place uncontrollably.

"Squeak squeak!"

So tasty it made it spin in place~

Seeing this, Xiong Ba was pensive.

So expressing deliciousness can be done like this!

Learned it.

"Lord Lion King, the barbecue is ready."

At that moment, a voice from the Black guy reached Chen Mo's ears.

After returning to the pride, he set up a grill, lit a fire, and began cooking the remaining ice‑horned horse meat that the pride hadn't finished.

Naturally, Chen Mo also smelled the aroma of the barbecue.

He hadn't had cooked food in a long time and felt nostalgic, so he eagerly took a bite.

The fragrant meat, evenly coated with spices, was so tasty that Chen Mo, with a lion's palate, had to say it was delicious.

【What is your name?】

Chen Mo wrote in the snow, his ice‑blue lion eyes looking at the Black guy.

"Sang Qi, Lord Lion King, I am Sang Qi!"

The Black guy hurriedly replied.

Chen Mo nodded, then tore a small piece of grilled ice‑horned horse meat with his claw and tossed it in front of the Black guy named Sang Qi.

"Thank you, Lord Lion King."

Sang Qi's eyes showed surprise.

Seeing this, the chubby officer and driver Lao Wang beside them couldn't help feeling envious and jealous.

This is the meat of a transcendent creature!

A transcendent blood meal that can increase the chance of awakening! Had they known they could obtain transcendent blood food, they would have helped Sang Qi process the meat right away!

In the blink of an eye, another week passed.

The prairie temperature kept dropping, and the endless snowfall completely turned the grassland into a snowfield.

As Chen Mo had guessed, vast swaths of vegetation were frozen to death.

Yet some plants began mutating and evolving; after absorbing ice‑type spiritual energy, they not only survived but grew even more vigorous.

For example, some wild grasses that were only a few centimeters tall mutated to over half a meter high.

Trees were even more extreme: some, after absorbing ice‑type spiritual energy, surged from a few meters to over ten meters or higher! Their branches and leaves changed dramatically, though no intelligence arose. In the pride, one lioness and three cubs fell ill from the severe climate shift and eventually died.

Chen Mo could do nothing about it.

Similar scenes unfolded across the snowfield.

The extreme climate change caused at least one‑third of the prairie's lifeforms to perish.

Yet, many transcendent beings also rose.

Of course, there was good news within the pride.

Because they persisted in eating transcendent creature meat, seven more lionesses gradually awakened.

Even Sang Qi awakened.

Now his main daily task is to grill meat for Chen Mo, and each time Chen Mo always bestows a small portion of transcendent meat upon him.

Consuming transcendent meat for seven consecutive days and awakening is not surprising.

What surprised Chen Mo was that this Black fellow's awakened ability turned out to be a rare healing power.

【Frosty Healing】

Consumes ice‑type spiritual energy to accelerate wound healing.

Thus Sang Qi became the pride's sole "nurse", and injured lions hunted under his care recovered ten‑plus times faster! Meanwhile, under the effect of "Gluttonous Lion", Ai Sha also grew larger, now bigger than an ordinary male lion.

Yet before Chen Mo, he still appeared rather small. At least he no longer looked like a "father‑daughter" pair.

The little black panther also grew a bit, and its internal ice‑type spiritual energy now reaches 21 layers! When consuming the same amount of transcendent blood meat, compared to other awakened transcendent ice lions, it can obtain more ice‑type spiritual energy.

Aside from the overpowered brother‑and‑sister duo, the little black panther can be said to be the beast with the best cultivation aptitude in the entire lion pride.

It can even be considered half a cultivated holy body.

And Chen Mo, every day besides guzzling twenty bottles of cola, heads to the deep reaches of Great Snow Mountain to hunt extraordinary beings.

Compared with the border regions, the deep parts of Great Snow Mountain have more extraordinary beings, and they are stronger! His intuition tells him that nearer the mountain's core, even more powerful extraordinary beings may exist!

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【Fat Homebody Happy Lion】 Self‑discipline Challenge Day 8.

Chen Mo, early in the morning, guzzled down twenty bottles of cola.

On the eighth consecutive day of drinking cola, he can no longer feel joy; drinking cola now feels more like taking medicine to him.

"Roar!"

He let out a low growl, gathering Ai Sha and Xiao Bai to prepare to venture into the illusionary depths of Great Snow Mountain in search of prey.

Ai Sha's Ice Gaze can spot creatures up to twenty kilometers away, which greatly aids Chen Mo in both scouting and pursuit.

As for the ice crystal mouse, it's merely a trinket and mascot.

Anyway, the little critter's speed is extreme and it won't cause trouble.

Hearing Chen Mo's call, Ai Sha and Xiao Bai sprinted over.

The two lions and the mouse set off.

Three hours later.

Chen Mo and Ai Sha successfully hunted a frost‑spotted antelope and began to feast heartily.

Now Ai Sha's Ice Gaze can see prey twenty kilometers away, and with Chen Mo's speed, a detected target has almost no chance of escape.

"Squeak!"

After finishing the feast, Chen Mo was about to set off, when the little white mouse perched on him suddenly squeaked twice, then leapt off Chen Mo and ran toward some direction.

After running about a dozen meters, the little white mouse looked back, seemingly checking whether Chen Mo and Ai Sha were keeping up.

Although Chen Mo cannot understand mouse language, he knows that the mouse's squeak means "follow me."

They followed Xiao Bai for about two minutes.

Chen Mo's gaze was inevitably drawn to a small tree, two meters tall, over two hundred meters away.

It was a small tree resembling an ornamental pine, but its entire body was made of ice crystal; its trunk, branches, and leaves were all translucent blue ice!

Obviously, this tree is not a native Earth plant! It could very well be the "Divine Medicine" mentioned by Pang Changguan! (End of chapter)