Douluo Dalu: I Have a Soul Beast Clone.

Chapter 276 Human Attack
At this moment, Zhu Zhuqing's sensitive sense of smell allowed it to smell a familiar scent slowly approaching, and it immediately turned its gaze towards the cave entrance... A black shadow on all fours was walking slowly towards it with light steps.

Wait until you reach the cave entrance.

The first thing that caught my eye was a pair of cat's eyes, with the left eye being dark green and the right eye being clear blue, followed by jet-black hair all over the body and a slender and agile figure... A slender big black cat slowly walked in.

As if they smelled their mother's scent, the other kittens that were originally sleeping suddenly opened their dark green and orange-blue eyes, whimpered, and crawled towards the mother cat, scrambling for breast milk.

Zhu Zhuqing hesitated for a moment, but finally overcame her psychological barriers, slowly approached the mother cat, and drank breast milk with the other kittens.

The mother cat lay down on the ground, eyes slightly closed, half-closed and half-resting. At the same time, a strange purring sound came from her throat, like some kind of lullaby, which instantly quieted the noisy kittens.

Zhu Zhuqing's spirit also slowly relaxed in this strange humming sound. Even the strange feeling of rejection in her heart seemed to slowly fade away.

Time passed quietly like this.

She estimated that about half a month had passed.

The soul power in her body became stronger and stronger, and gradually emitted white soul light on her body surface. This meant that she was now at least a ten-year-old soul beast.

Even though the bloodline of the Nether Spirit Cat is not as good as those of the top soul beasts, it is still a high-level soul beast, and its growth rate is far beyond that of ordinary soul beasts. A cub can often grow to ten years old in one or two years, and some with good talents may need a shorter time.

And it also has to do with the mother.

The stronger the mother is, the higher the soul power the cub will inherit, or the faster it will grow after birth.

Zhu Zhuqing's biological mother in this life was a Netherworld Spirit Cat that was 10,000 years old. Therefore, even if the cubs were born not long ago, they would have at least 10 years of age. When the nursing period was over and the cubs were able to leave their mother and survive independently, they would have at least 100 years of age.

If a cub is born from a 100,000-year-old Netherworld Spirit Cat, its age will be at least a thousand years. To exaggerate, even ten thousand years may not be impossible.

This is the influence of the mother on her cubs.

One year later.

Several cubs were able to jump around freely in the nest, and even grew sharp teeth and claws. They could no longer drink breast milk.

The mother cat began to bring back some prey and let the cubs eat the meat.

This time, Zhu Zhuqing had prepared herself mentally, so she didn't resist and ate the prey brought back by the mother cat. The taste perception of soul beasts is different from that of humans, so when faced with these bloody foods, it didn't feel any discomfort. At most, it had some psychological barriers.

Now she doesn't care about anything anymore and just wants to grow up as quickly as possible and then break away from her mother cat and act on her own.

Practice for 100,000 years as soon as possible, and then transform into a human!
So when the other cubs were still playing with each other, Zhu Zhuqing had already begun to consciously practice. Absorbing energy from the outside world is an instinctive talent for soul beasts. It doesn't even require the assistance of meditation.

The higher the bloodline level of a soul beast, the higher the efficiency of absorbing energy from the outside world and converting it into soul power. Conversely, the lower it is.

But compared to directly absorbing energy from the outside world to cultivate, it is still faster to directly devour the flesh and blood of other soul beasts. However, it is just a cub now and still relies on its mother cat for survival, so it can only do this for the time being.

After that, Zhu Zhuqing's daily life was basically spent in the three processes of cultivation, sleeping, and eating. A few years passed in a hurry.

Zhu Zhuqing's cultivation has reached several decades, and she is not far from the hundred years of cultivation that would allow her to leave the nest and live on her own.

At the same time, compared with other cubs of the same dynasty, its body size is obviously much larger, and its cultivation level is also higher. This fully proves that its usual cultivation is not in vain.

Just when she thought that the days would pass peacefully, an accident happened.

One day, the mother cat returned to the nest as usual but was injured.

Several cubs quickly gathered around it, whimpering as if they were worried about their mother. Zhu Zhuqing did not move in with them, but stared at the wound on the mother cat's body... This was obviously not caused by a soul beast, but by a human weapon!

In an instant, it was like a bolt of thunder passing through my mind!
Zhu Zhuqing then realized that she was now a soul beast. In this forest, not only soul beasts would threaten her life, but humans were also enemies! In some ways, humans were even more dangerous than soul beasts!

As a former human being, she knew only too well how despicable the means some people would use to obtain spirit rings.

At this moment, the mother cat suddenly turned her head vigilantly and looked outside the nest. Her body began to tense up and she took a defensive posture.

“…This cat’s lair is really well hidden.”

"It's just this damn place. If you hadn't used your spirit skill to plant a mark on it, we would have worked ourselves to death to find this place."

"And this beast is really alert. Even if it didn't find us, it took a long detour to return to its lair."

"Fortunately, we had already marked it, so we didn't lose it."

Several human voices could be heard faintly, getting closer and closer to the nest.

The cubs around seemed to have sensed the impending danger and all gathered around their mother, as if being with her was the safest place.

Zhu Zhuqing had a different reaction. It slowly moved to the depths of the nest, and then quietly lifted a stone in an inconspicuous corner... There was a naturally formed small pit at the bottom, which it discovered by chance. When the stone was covered, there was no hole at all.

The hole was not big, and could only barely hide the body of a kitten. As for the other kittens in the same litter, Zhu Zhuqing could only say silently in her heart that she could do nothing to help them. She then lifted the stone and crawled in, then carefully put the stone back in place.

Zhu Zhuqing knew clearly that these people were well prepared and had been planning for a long time. The mother cat was unlikely to be an opponent, and even this litter of kittens was the target of the other party. Because some noble ladies like to raise some soul beasts as pets. Among them, small animals like cats are the most popular.

When she was a child, Zhu Zhuqing also had a cat soul beast as a pet. Soul beasts like this that are kept as pets will be treated in advance to make them lose their ability to grow, so as to ensure that they will not devour their owners.

So the kitten, although a soul beast, was very young, and died of natural causes after only four or five years of being raised.

After listening to what those people said, Zhu Zhuqing dared to guarantee that their target was definitely the kittens, and the big cats would not be the main target.

(End of this chapter)