Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 392 - 391: Burned the Finger Off

Si Shuo noticed Yin Jiang’s expression. "Yin Jiang, what’s wrong?"

Yin Jiang pursed his lips. Instead of answering her, he gently took her hand and asked Kunzi, "Kunzi, did you start this fire yourself? What did you use to light it?"

The two Hunting Falcon Pups were the youngest in the family. Usually, when the cubs played at starting fires to roast things, they used their older brothers’ fire.

’This is Kunzi’s first time starting a fire, isn’t it? How did he light it so quickly? I didn’t even notice the little guy making a sound.’

Kunzi froze for a moment, then couldn’t help but scratch his head. "I forgot. Little Hong, did you see?"

Little Hong shook her head. "I didn’t see. By the time I noticed, my brother had already lit the campfire."

Si Shuo understood and quickly added, "I thought Kunzi and Little Hong were too young, so I only put some fruit and ready-to-eat food in their Storage Rings. I didn’t pack any flint."

Yin Jiang smiled. With a raise of his hand, the campfire was instantly sucked into the air. When he clenched his fist, the fire, now lacking fuel, was immediately extinguished.

He raised an eyebrow, signaling for Kunzi to try starting the fire to roast the fish again.

Kunzi, his mind blank, held the fish and spun around on the spot, repeating his earlier actions. And then he saw a flame ignite on his fingertip??!!

By the time he realized what was happening, he was so shocked that he lost control of the flame. It began to devour his finger, the pain causing him to fling his hand about. But that flame was Samadhi Fire, which could Devour all things. In the instant he froze, half his finger was gone!

Yin Jiang quickly reached out and extinguished the fire. Kunzi cradled his half-missing finger, his mouth turned down and his eyes welling with tears. The pain stopped once the fire was out, but his finger was gone too...

Si Shuo was so shocked she let out a cat’s cry. "MEOW... Yin Jiang, Kunzi, what kind of superpower did he awaken? One moment it’s Instant Teleportation, the next it’s Teleportation, and now he can call down Thunder and start fires?" ’He burned himself. What a talent!’

Yin Jiang frowned. "I’ve never seen anything like this either. But let’s ask Ji Liang and the others. Maybe they’ll know something."

Si Shuo hummed in agreement, took out a pen and paper, wrote down what happened, and placed it on the stone table in the communal planting area of their dimension.

Just a few seconds later, Ji Liang teleported over with the two Snake Cubs. Xu Chi and Wei Ce, also worried, followed them.

They asked Kunzi a few questions, then Ji Liang smiled and condensed an ice cone in his palm, throwing it at a nearby bluestone. The stone cracked on impact, a display of incredible power. Kunzi watched with sparkling eyes, full of envy.

"You try. See if you can condense an ice cone," Ji Liang said, a smile playing on his lips.

Kunzi froze. ’Can I really condense a flame one moment and release an ice cone the next?’

However, he still followed the method Ji Liang had shown him. After closing his eyes and calming his mind, with a single thought, an ice cone actually appeared in his palm.

He quickly threw the ice cone away to avoid getting frostbite. ’Hey! Don’t Mother and my Fathers care that I’m missing half a finger?’

"It should be the Replication Ability. He can replicate superpowers he likes. As for its limitations, he’ll have to figure those out bit by bit," Ji Liang said. Though he’d had his suspicions, he still found it a bit hard to believe now that it was confirmed. "I’ve only heard from the elders that the more powerful a superpower is, the more restrictions it has. Natural awakenings are exceedingly rare.

Some Female Saints have prayed to the Beast God, asking for this very superpower. But the Beast God must maintain strict control over the ratios of all superpowers. Perhaps only one or two people are allowed to have it every one or two hundred years."

’To think this little guy, Kunzi, would be the one to possess it!’

Kunzi held it in for a long time before he finally couldn’t take it anymore and burst out crying. "WAAAH... So what if my superpower is powerful?! I burned off my own finger..."

’It’s a good thing Father was next to me, or I would’ve been burned to a crisp. In the future, if I replicate someone else’s superpower and can’t control it properly, won’t I get myself killed?’

’What’s so great about this superpower?! It’s too hard to control.’

Si Shuo smiled and patted his head, whispering, "Kunzi, you don’t know yet, do you? Besides his Fire Ability, your Father has another superpower."

Kunzi’s attention was diverted. He forgot all about crying, and with big tears still glistening on his cheeks, he asked eagerly, "Mother, what is Father’s superpower?"

Yin Jiang smiled and, imitating Kunzi, lit a fire on his fingertip. His expression unchanged, he let the fire Devour his finger. Then he blew on it, and the fire vanished. A stream of greenish Spiritual Power enveloped the wound, and the burned-off finger grew right back!

The corner of Si Shuo’s mouth twitched. ’Okay, his regeneration is amazing, but doesn’t it hurt for Yin Jiang to burn himself? Did he really have to give such a hands-on demonstration?!’

Kunzi’s eyes lit up. He quickly replicated his Father’s superpower and grew his own finger back.

Everyone was fascinated by Kunzi’s superpower and conducted one experiment after another. They discovered that Kunzi could replicate the superpowers of any Beastman he met, but he could only hold three in his memory at a time.

In other words, Kunzi could use the last three superpowers he replicated at any given time.

"This is incredible," Si Shuo couldn’t help but clasp her hands together, thanking the system, the Beast God, and fate for blessing their family. She could have wracked her brain and never dreamed up a superpower so fun and powerful.

"Yin Jiang, we have to carefully choose which superpowers Kunzi keeps. The cub is still young; we can’t let him foolishly keep swapping one power for another. The three abilities should ideally provide offense, defense, and support. Also, it’s best if he presents a consistent set of powers to the outside world, to prevent people from discovering his real superpower." After all, Si Shuo had heard of a particularly vicious superpower that could strip others of their abilities for one’s own use, or for others.

"Anyway, pretending to be weaker than we are is always a good strategy!"

Yin Jiang nodded solemnly and began to think it over carefully.

The other cubs all looked at Kunzi with envy. His superpower may have awakened late, but it was just too versatile—a real-life version of "using Magic to defeat Magic."

Another busy and efficient night passed. Seven days had now gone by, and after some intense training, quite a few of the Beastmen had already achieved breakthroughs.

By the eighth day, Si Shuo’s belly had swollen like a balloon. The cubs inside her were lively and active. Whenever she was awake and eating, they acted as if they were running a dance hall in there, blowing bubble after bubble and sending their Magic Power spinning in circles. It took a gentle pat from Gong You to calm them down each time.

Si Shuo looked at Gong You, then at her own belly, and glanced at Zhi Le before she couldn’t help but let out a stifled laugh. "It’s a good thing my Beast Husband is a Big Fish Beast. If I had found a Silverfish, I’m afraid I’d get confused one day and try to nibble on the cubs."

Ji Liang chuckled. "Sounds like something Little Shushu would do."

’Boiling her own cub like a goose egg... Even someone as worldly as him had been shocked by that.’