Having received her name, Shinki, still a sphere, bounced up and down even more happily.
Fujino smiled and stroked Shinki again, saying softly, "Shinki, wait a little longer. You'll be able to come out soon."
Shinki swayed her spherical body in a joyful response to Fujino.
"Good child." Fujino stroked Shinki again, her eyes full of tenderness.
"I have to go. Shinki, you must gestate your body properly within the sun, do you understand?"
Fujino spoke very seriously. After all, a body is not something that can be made casually, especially for a being like Shinki. One must know that the life gestated from Fujino's other drop of complete blood had still not finished forming even now because of the physical vessel. As for why Dragon Rain was so fast, it was because as the guardian of the world, the world prioritized her gestation, using world power every moment to accelerate the formation of Dragon Rain's body. Otherwise, Dragon Rain, who possessed a portion of the Cosmic Dragon King's power, would likely have needed tens of thousands of years to complete her gestation. During that time, Fujino had also helped significantly, or she wouldn't have been born so soon.
Shinki jumped heavily, bumping against Fujino's body, and then reluctantly returned to the interior of the sun. Although Fujino had developed Shinki's sentience in advance, her body was not yet ready. To gestate a body capable of carrying the three great powers of the Sun, Creation, and that terrifying black aura was no simple task. Even with the help of the primordial sun, it would take at least a hundred years. Fujino couldn't easily interfere in such matters, as a single mistake could cause trouble. But the main reason was that it wasn't appropriate for Shinki to be born yet; the Age of Gods hadn't arrived, and gods couldn't appear before the world so early, so Shinki had to be patient.
Watching Shinki return to the sun, Fujino did not leave immediately. Although the era of youkai had begun its decline, as Fujino had told Pure Fox before, it would still be at least one or two hundred years before the Age of Gods arrived. Fujino didn't plan to just wait around. Although the world could now be accelerated, it would still take a hundred years. Instead of waiting all that time, she might as well go play in other worlds.
However, those two little ones, Dragon Rain and Pure Fox, became a problem, especially Pure Fox.
Fujino had just told Pure Fox that she would stay by their side for at least another hundred years. If she left just like that, wouldn't she be deceiving them?
What should she do? Fujino thought for a moment and decided to go back first; maybe an idea would suddenly come to her.
She used Heavenly Movement to return to the ground, but not to Buzhou Mountain. Fujino didn't plan on going back just yet. This time, she was alone and decided to have a good look around on her own.
Picking up a leaf from the ground, Fujino threw it upward, letting the leaf decide which direction to take. This would be more interesting.
In the end, the leaf pointed south. Fujino walked south alone, looking forward to whether she would encounter anything interesting on the way.
"Damned Wolf Demon, you've been chasing me for so long!"
In the dense forest, a little girl as delicate as pink jade was running through the woods with bare feet. She was not human, as could be seen from the rabbit ears on her head. She wore a light pink dress, but her face looked very tense, clearly fleeing, and her pink dress had several tears in it.
"Tewi, you have to hang on, you can definitely escape!"
The rabbit-eared girl named Tewi cheered herself on. The Wolf Demon behind her had been chasing her for a long time. She had only stolen a little of its food, yet it had pursued her for so long.
The flight continued. This forest was large and had many bushes to hide in, but they weren't of much use against a Wolf Demon, whose sensitive nose could easily track Tewi's location.
"Damn it, am I going to give out?" Tewi's stamina was almost exhausted. She was just a rabbit youkai, after all; her stamina was not her strong suit and couldn't compare to a Wolf Demon's. As for fighting, she was even less of a match. Currently, her ability was merely to make herself a bit luckier, but at a time like this, that bit of luck wasn't very helpful.
"Am I going to die?" The weakness in her legs almost made Tewi fall to the ground, but thinking of her clansmen who still needed her, she forced her aching legs to stand up.
She couldn't fall now; she had to go back, Tewi told herself, struggling to move her legs forward.
"Got you!"
A figure suddenly pounced at Tewi from behind. She quickly looked back to see the Wolf Demon. Seeing the Wolf Demon mid-air with its bloody maw already open, Tewi couldn't help but feel despair.
Am I going to die? Tewi asked herself. Feeling the increasingly obvious rush of wind, she slowly closed her eyes.
She felt somewhat unwilling.
"Flash!"
Boom!
At the sound of an unfamiliar voice and a deafening explosion, Tewi quickly opened her eyes and gaped at the scene before her.
Everything in front of her had been split in two. To be precise, everything ahead had become perfectly neat. The once tall trees were reduced to stumps, and from Tewi's perspective, every stump's height seemed remarkably consistent, without a single protrusion.
As for that Wolf Demon, it had been split in half and lay before Tewi, its blood staining the ground red.
What happened?
Tewi quickly looked back and was stunned. A beautiful woman with ruby-like long hair fluttering in the wind stood there. She wore luxurious clothing the likes of which Tewi had never seen before and held a strange sword in her hand. The blade was covered in fine cracks, looking as if it might shatter into pieces at any moment.
"Little rabbit, are you alright?"
Fujino had not expected to run into Tewi here, or to be more precise, Inaba Tewi.
She had not expected that choosing a random path would actually give Fujino such a surprise.
As for why Tewi appeared in this era, Fujino did not find it strange at all. It was normal; after all, Inaba Tewi was known as the ultimate BBA who excelled at acting young. Compared to her, Yakumo Yukari was far inferior. Inaba Tewi's age was actually greater than Eirin Yagokoro's, but no one knew that. This skill of acting young was truly unparalleled.
"Thank you for saving me, my lady. My name is Inaba Tewi, I am a rabbit yokai." Having recovered her senses, Inaba Tewi immediately introduced herself.
"May I call you Tewi?" Fujino smiled.
"Of course you can, my lady, you are my savior." The current Inaba Tewi was not as black-hearted as she would be in the future; she actually seemed quite serious.
"Tewi, would you like to be my pet? I can protect your kin~" Fujino did not waste any words and stated her purpose directly.
Inaba Tewi was very cute, especially her barefoot attribute, which was superb. That was why Fujino had the idea to take Inaba Tewi as a pet. Fujino believed that Inaba Tewi would not refuse, because Inaba Tewi wanted to protect her kin!
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