Death... and me

“Come on! Who’s a good girl? Who’s a good girl?!” Rean asked.

Xantanla suddenly felt a primitive urge surging from inside herself. “I-I’m a good girl…” However, she quickly suppressed that emotion. “Stop it! Get away from me!”

Rean couldn’t help but ask, “So… no fur touching?”

Rean seemed quite disappointed, much to Xantanla’s relief. “Forget that! I don’t know what you’re doing, so just stay away from me!”

Roan ignored all of that, though. Whatever Rean did seem to work, so he focused on the main topic. “What about the Molten Divine Rock Flowers?”

Xantanla shook her head, saying, “I only have two of them remaining, but I need them for my cultivation. I have no intention to sell them to start with. If you want more, enter the Blazing Sands and look for them yourself. Now, take this guy away from me.”

Rean sighed in response, asking her, “That’s not nice. Could you at least tell us where we can find the flowers?”

Xantanla, who just wanted to get rid of Rean, immediately answered, “Head to the north region. That’s the part of the Blazing Sands that overflows with the most Fire Element. Because of that, the sand becomes crystalized, and the Divine Energy in the area makes this crystal slowly take the shape of a flower. Then again, this is something that only happens under very special conditions, so you won’t find it easily. Anyways, that’s the origin of the Molten Divine Rock Flowers.”

That was a lot more information than the twins expected. Nevertheless, that helped a lot, so they thanked her and left the residence. Seeing that Rean was finally gone, Xantanla sighed in relief before noticing her servant’s looks. “Get out before I devour the two of you instead!”

The two girls didn’t dare to delay and quickly disappeared. Xantanla then laid down on the ground and put her paws over her head, using her huge ears to cover her face. ‘What was that? What was that? What was that? Why did I suddenly feel so happy out of nowhere? I almost jumped in his direction to ask him to pet me!’ In the end, her canine side won over her emotions. ‘I wish he asked who’s a good girl again…’

*Bam!*

Xantanla struck her head on the wall as soon as that thought appeared. ‘Fuck this shit!’

In the meantime, Rean and Roan went back to the treasure store and bought a map of the Blazing Sands. After that, they jumped on Kentucky’s back and took flight. Roan then took the opportunity to ask along the way. “How did you know she would act like a house dog?”

Rean shook his head, saying, “I wasn’t sure. However, you saw the killing intent, didn’t you? I simply thought her to be very cute, just like the beagles from Earth. Since we would end up in a fight anyway, I had nothing to lose when I tried to treat her like a normal dog. After all, you also know that there are no dogs in the Realm of Gods, only demon beasts. Of course, I still can’t believe such a thing really worked. I thought she was going to get angry instead. I’m shocked that such bullshit really worked.”

Roan nodded in response to that. “In any case, that worked pretty well. We might be able to use this method against other canine demon beasts in the future. I’m pretty sure she wasn’t lying either as she didn’t want to lose to her emotions.”

Rean smiled when he heard that. “Chances are that her race has quite a few members living in the Blazing Sands. Who knows? I might be able to get an entire pack of Desert Fire Queen and King Dogs in the future. Hahaha!”

Roan found it an extremely bad idea. “Yeah? And what will you do with all of them? Forget that, and let’s focus on the journey.”

It didn’t take long for the twins to enter the Blazing Sands. They quickly had to admit the name fits very well. The Fire Element concentration in this place was very high for sure. It was to the point that if the twins were below the Nascent Soul Realm, they probably wouldn’t be able to resist it. Obviously, Kentucky would be in the same boat. “That explains why you couldn’t see many cultivators below the Soul Transformation Realm. We’re already a lot stronger than average cultivators, but it would already be hard for us even if we were in the Nascent Soul Realm, let alone others.”

Roan agreed with Rean, saying, “This is an exploration site for those at the Saint Realm and above, though. Coming here at the Soul Transformation would still be too dangerous. Well, it makes sense since the Third Grade Star Body’s materials shouldn’t be something easy to get.”

In any case, the twins didn’t get into any trouble on their journey to the north side of the Blazing Sands. It wasn’t like the place was a huge area either. It’s just that Fire Element and desert-type demon beasts were plentiful in the area since the environment benefited their cultivations. Rean even saw a few Desert Fire Queen and King Dogs who haven’t reached the Transition Realm yet. It wasn’t a rare race of demon beasts by any means.

“My Divine Sense bending skill is still very useful at our level, it seems. None of the groups we passed by noticed our presence,” Rean said as Kentucky approached the north region of the Blazing Sands.

However, Roan was a lot more alert. “Although the level of the cultivators in Treavin is lacking, we’re still in the center of the continent. I won’t be impressed if we bump into someone at the Void Tempering Realm. That would make your bending ability pretty much useless if we enter their natural spatial detection range.”

Rean shook his head, saying, “We already know that their spatial senses are a lot smaller than their Divine Senses. I would detect their Divine Senses way before they get close to us to notice our presence.”

Roan didn’t agree completely. “And what if they don’t use Divine Sense? If I was them, I would refrain from using my Divine Sense since I don’t want to alert other Void Tempering Realm cultivators.”

“This….” Rean had to admit Roan was right.