"Huh?" Tianming got a good look and saw that there was an entire star cluster in Ying Huo's eyes instead of the single star it’d had when it first hatched. That happened to line up with his expectations, as star clusters usually had ten thousand stars. As the perverted bird’s current form was too small, the stars were bunched up together and looked like a single star, but they spread apart when its body grew in size!

Almost instantly, the little chick in his hand spread its wings, expanding as infernal flames covered its body. The sharp cry of a phoenix echoed throughout the area. Phoenixes were beasts of fortune and represented all that was right, just,...