I Can Grant Origin Powers To Anything

The cave was filled with blood, and there were signs of battle breaking out. It seemed like it had just witnessed a gruesome war.

And the final result appears to be...

Gu Xi emerged victorious.

After all, the body of the Ice Snow Leopard lay here, its belly had been sliced open with a sharp blade, and the cub inside had been taken.

It seemed to have gone quite smoothly.

This was expected, as Gu Xi had made meticulous preparations for today, gathering information, surveying the terrain on the map, and preparing for years on end.

Her strength wasn't necessarily inferior to that of the Ice Snow Leopard. Coupled with human intelligence and an advantage over an unsuspecting beast, the likelihood of failure was slim.

However, it seems she was seriously injured as well.

The cave was stained with blood everywhere, nearly half of it being hers...

If that's the case, why didn't she stay in the cave to heal?

After all, if this place was suitable for the Ice Snow Leopard to give birth, safety shouldn't be a major concern. There's no way she lost all sense of priority and hurried back to the Bei Xuanwu Martial Mansion, dragging her injured body, as soon as she got the Ice Snow Leopard cub, right?

Xu Lingjun surveyed the surroundings with his gaze.

The environment in the cave was chaotic, with blood splattered everywhere, and the originally soft ground was now covered with footprints of both humans and the Ice Snow Leopard.

"Master, I've discovered something unreasonable,"

Xiaoya suddenly said.

"What is it?"

"The cause of death for the Ice Snow Leopard is blood loss,"

Xu Lingjun initially didn't find anything amiss, but as he grasped the hidden implications in Xiaoya's words, he suddenly realized, and said, "You're saying it died because it was sliced open, losing too much blood?"

"Yes."

Death from excessive blood loss?

According to Gu Xi's plan, she should have completely slain this Demon Beast, then quickly opened its belly to retrieve the cub inside.

Gu Xi had even lamented that a cub taken alive would be healthier and have a higher survival rate. However, unfortunately, her strength was far from being able to extract the cub alive… or even if a Grandmaster from the Upper Realm Returning to the Origin could subdue an Ice Snow Leopard to extract its young, it might still be impossible.

So she had to settle for the next best thing.

How did she accomplish it?

Not right...

There was another Demon Beast, wasn't there?

Xu Lingjun suddenly remembered, Gu Xi had mentioned to him there was not just one Ice Snow Leopard. She fell into crisis because she hadn't anticipated the existence of another Ice Snow Leopard and ended up getting caught off guard hard.

But now, where did that male Snow Leopard go?

"Xiaoya, can you find the direction Gu Xi left in?"

Xiaoya replied, "Master, there is a passage under the Snow Leopard."

Without hesitation, Xu Lingjun tossed the body of the Ice Snow Leopard into the Transformation Capsule, then punched the thick layer of snow hardened to its underside...

As expected, one punch opened up an entrance roughly around a meter in size...

Or rather an exit, with winds howling in along with cold snow.

Xiaoya said, "Master, there are Miss Gu Xi's footprints ahead, which have been buried by the wind and snow."

"It seems an accident happened indeed."

Xu Lingjun bent down and started crawling out of the cave slowly.

This passage was obviously excavated by the Ice Snow Leopard, and with Xu Lingjun's height, it was difficult to walk upright, so he had to squat and inch forward. After traveling dozens of meters down the underground passage, it started slanting upward.

Finally managing to crawl out.

He was now quite a distance from the cave.

All around was a vast expanse of whiteness.

"There's bloodstains!"

Xiaoya reminded him.

Yet Xu Lingjun couldn't see anything. Obviously, the wind and snow were relentless, and even if there was blood, it would soon be buried beneath the ice and snow; only Xiaoya could see through appearances and understand the essence.

"Xiaoya, lead the way."

"Yes."

Guided by Xiaoya, Xu Lingjun moved swiftly, rushing forward.

And it wasn't long before…

With Xiaoya's guidance, Xu Lingjun uncovered a spot buried under the snowstorm.

On the snow, a lean Snow Leopard corpse lay prone, lifeless.

This Snow Leopard was larger than the previous one.

It was clearly the male Ice Snow Leopard that Gu Xi had mentioned. But now, it too was dead.

The fatal wound was a punch that smashed its skull to pieces...

It wasn't Gu Xi.

She wasn't capable of that.

This power is already nearly beyond the Dongxuan Realm.

So... has the worst-case scenario happened after all?

Was this place exposed?

Aside from Gu Xi, was someone else also targeting the Snow Leopard? Did Gu Xi collide with them?

In any case, Gu Xi is probably in danger now...

Xu Lingjun rushed ahead swiftly, and as for the corpse of the Ice Snow Leopard, he naturally collected it.

No matter who killed it, after all, it's in my hands now, so it's naturally all my contribution.

Meanwhile.

In a cave dozens of miles away.

Amidst soft, low moans of pain.

Gu Xi lay weakly on a stone, her face pale and almost devoid of color. She slowly put her upper garment back on and said, "Thank you for applying the medicine for me."

"It's nothing, I just did what I should. But how did you get such severe injuries?"

Li Jingjun apparently didn't expect that she would encounter Xu Lingjun's Assistant Tutor when she merely ventured into the danger zone to take risks, and she seemed to be severely injured…

Thankfully she carried remarkably effective healing medicine, or she might have lost her life.

Her gaze kept drifting to Gu Xi's side and said, "Don't worry, this medicine works wonders; it won't leave any scars in the future."

Noticing Li Jingjun's intense gaze, even though Gu Xi was grateful to her, a slight wariness crept into her eyes, as she blocked the small transparent box. Inside the temperature-controlled box, two snow-white cubs, about the size of kittens, snuggled together, sleeping soundly.

So... cute...

Li Jingjun didn't hide her fond desire, whispering, "Rest assured, I have no ill intentions. I just want to pet them… is that okay?"

Gu Xi apologized, "Sorry, these belong to Xu Lingjun. No one is allowed to touch them."

"He… his things?"

Li Jingjun's eyes lit up with delight, surprised, "Senior Sister, you might not know, but I'm good friends with Xu Lingjun. I even share my Pang Hu with him… so his things, me petting them, kissing them, he would definitely not mind."

"Pang… Pang Hu? What is that?"

Gu Xi thought, I haven't heard of Pang Hu, could I have misunderstood? Did she mean underwear? Could this girl be so lewd? No, was Xu Lingjun actually so lewd, sharing underwear with this girl?

"It's Pang Hu, my orange cat pet."

Li Jingjun explained.

"Oh, that fat cat."

Li Jingjun corrected, "It's Pang Hu."

"Xiaojun always calls it the fat cat, I've seen it more than once, I just didn't know it was called Pang Hu."

Li Jingjun's eyes were filled with longing as she gazed dreamily at the two white kittens snuggling for warmth inside the box, saying, "So, he can play with my things freely, but his things… I can't even pet or kiss them?"

"Sorry, it's really not possible right now."

Gu Xi explained, "This Beast Box was custom made at great expense. Not only does it maintain a constant temperature, but it also continuously emits a hypnotic type of Spiritual Qi to keep these Demon Beasts asleep and healthy. If we open the box, they'll regard the first person they see as their parent, so I can't let you pet them. If you're truly interested, you can ask Xiaojun later."

"Is that so? Alright, I understand."

Li Jingjun nodded, saying, "Then can I just watch from the side?"

"You can."

Li Jingjun placed her hands on her knees, crouching in front of the box, staring intently at the two Ice Snow Leopards inside. Small leopards, they were...

But their small size was not much different from kittens.

As she watched, she became increasingly satisfied and murmured, "So nice, so cute, Senior Sister Gu Xi, where did you get such adorable kittens?"

"Their parents gave them to me."

Recalling what had happened earlier, Gu Xi couldn't help but sigh inwardly... she hadn't anticipated such an unexpected turn of events, beyond anything she had imagined.