The young man supported his hands on both sides of Yun Luo's body. He originally wanted to hug Yun Luo, but now he was being carried by Yun Luo and could only rely on his arms to maintain his balance.

Yun Luo narrowed his eyes: "I said, get off me."

"Meow~~~"

The boy was stubborn and refused to move. He felt very aggrieved and just wanted Yun Luo to kiss him, hug him and stroke his fur.

Being stared at by those silver-blue eyes, Yun Luo's gaze wandered. Xiaobai's eyes in his boyish form were long and narrow, completely different from his round eyes in kitten form. But when those eyes looked at him, they were exactly the same as when he was being stared at by Xiaobai.

Yun Luo sighed and softened his voice: "Get down first. You are not a little kitten anymore. You can't press me like this, and you can't get too close to me."

"Meow?"

Seeing Yun Luo's attitude softened, the boy subconsciously wanted to get closer and rub against him, but Yun Luo quickly blocked his way.

"Look at yourself now, you're so big, can you come down first?" Yun Luo finally understood. Although Xiaobai had become a human, his thinking was still the same as when he was a kitten.

After a lot of trouble, the boy finally got off Yun Luo. Yun Luo sat at the head of the bed, and the boy curled up beside him, with his head on his legs, looking unhappy.

Xiaobai wanted to curl up in Yunluo's arms like he used to, but he was too big now, and no matter how he acted coquettishly, Yunluo would not agree.

Putting his head on Yun Luo's legs was the result of both of them taking a step back.

Yun Luo was also helpless. If he had not been moved by the boy's eyes that looked like a kitten, he would have thrown him out long ago. He could not do anything to the coquettish kitten, and when it came to the boy, his heart only became a little harder.

Originally, Yun Luo wanted to settle the score with Xiaobai, but now seeing that he looked so confused and didn't even understand why he had become a human, Yun Luo lost his mood.

One hand was placed on the boy's head, stroking his hair intermittently like petting a cat, while the other hand was held in the boy's hand and played with it. Xiaobai had always liked playing with his fingers, Yunluo watched for a few seconds and let him do as he pleased.

With his eyes gently closed, Yun Luo talked to 007 in his mind.

[Host, I've located their position.] 007 shared the tracked location with Yun Luo, [The person who ordered the capture of Xiaobai is here.]

[Can we lure them over here?] The distance was quite far, and Yun Luo had no suitable way to get there.

"I'll try. That person is very cautious. I'm not sure if I can lure him over here." Speaking of this person, 007 couldn't help but complain, "Host, you have no idea how bizarre this person is. I searched all the internal networks and couldn't find any specific information about him."

Yun Luo was not surprised by this. On the contrary, he would feel strange if he could find out something easily.

How is Xiaobai's health? This question is what Yunluo is most concerned about right now.

[It must be the collision between the host's spiritual power and that unknown energy that broke a certain restriction in Xiaobai's body, causing Xiaobai to suddenly transform into a human.]

Yun Luo pondered: [In other words, Xiaobai isn't actually a cub, but was injured and reverted to a cub. My spiritual power and the strange energy in the black box accidentally caused Xiaobai to transform back into a teenager. So, what is Xiaobai's origin?]

"Meow~"

Yun Luo felt a gentle touch on his palm, and subconsciously pinched it. He was slightly stunned. This feeling...

Yun Luo suddenly opened his eyes and looked down, only to see a pair of furry cat ears on the boy's head, standing up and trembling.

The soft fur brushed across the palm of his hand. Yun Luo closed his fingers, and the soft white fur slid into the gaps between his fingers, bringing a slight tingling sensation.

Moving his eyes downwards, Yun Luo saw the big furry tail behind the boy as expected. The tail, magnified countless times, looked even more adorable.

The white tail hung at the boy's side, trembling unconsciously.

Yun Luo freed one hand, reached down and touched the tail.

As if frightened by something, the big furry tail suddenly flicked up and hit Yun Luo's back of the hand with a snap.

The power of an eighth-level orc was undeniable. With just a light blow, the back of Yun Luo's hand turned red. The young man sat up and hugged Yun Luo's hand.

"Meow~~"

The boy held Yun Luo's hand and moved closer to him. Yun Luo touched the boy's head and said, "I'm fine, don't worry."

It did hurt, but it was bearable. The boy didn't do it on purpose, so Yun Luo wouldn't blame him for such a small matter.

The boy lowered his head and said nothing. He looked at the hand he was holding. This hand was slender and fragile. Just by being touched by his subconsciously raised tail, a large area of ​​it turned red.

"It's really okay, it just looks a little scary, don't..." Yun Luo suddenly stopped talking before he finished speaking.

He saw the boy who had been holding his hand without saying anything suddenly lower his head. Before he realized what the boy wanted to do, he felt a wet touch on the back of his hand.

The boy's slightly raised tongue slid lightly across the back of his hand, "treating" him like a cat licking a wound.

This was something Yun Luo had never expected. Feeling the constant touch on the back of his hand, he froze in place and even forgot to push the boy away.

It was the first time that Yun Luo had such close contact with someone else. Strangely, the boy's approach did not make him feel unbearable. It might be because the boy's every move was too similar to his pet Xiaobai, and he subconsciously regarded the boy as a big cat.

After coming back from his daze, Yun Luo immediately wanted to withdraw his hand. The boy's grip on his hand was weak, and although there was some resistance, Yun Luo was firm, so the boy let go.

"Meow? Luo, hurt..." The boy frowned, as if he was not used to this way of pronunciation, and explained haltingly.

There was still a strange warmth on the hand hidden behind his back, and Yun Luo felt a little embarrassed. If it was Xiaobai in kitten form who licked the back of his hand, he wouldn't have felt anything strange, but Xiaobai had just done that in boy form.

There are some things that don't feel strange when done by furry animals, but it won't feel strange when done by humans.

"Xiaobai," Yun Luo put a hand on the boy's shoulder to stop him from getting any closer, "You are not a little kitten anymore, don't do this to me so casually."

"Luo, you're hurt. Lick it and it will heal quickly." The boy didn't know what he had done wrong that caused Yun Luo to not let him get close, and he tried to explain.

"I know you want to make me feel better, but you are a human being now, and you can't do this to others casually." Yun Luo patiently explained to the boy.

The boy is now in completely cat form, acting coquettishly and clinging. Yun Luo would be happy to see such a temperament in a kitten, but it would be a bit too much for such a big boy.

"Then, to whom can you do this?" the young man asked curiously with his eyes wide open.

"Of course, you can only do such intimate actions with the people closest to you."

"The closest person?" The young man frowned and thought for a moment, his expression puzzled. "But Luo is the closest person!"

"I'm not talking about this kind of intimacy," Yun Luo didn't expect the boy to give him such an answer. He loosened his hand on the boy's shoulder and looked into his blank eyes. "I'm talking about the kind of intimacy between partners."

"What is...a companion?"

"A partner is someone you want to have kittens with in the future."

"But I don't want to have kittens with anyone else. I just want to be with Luo."

"But you can't do what you just did to me," Yun Luo patted the boy's head, "Okay, go and rest."

The boy was clingy and refused to leave, but Yun Luo ruthlessly suppressed him. He eventually curled up beside Yun Luo's bed and fell asleep.

After waking up from a nap, Yun Luo walked around the boy beside the bed and went to find Norton.

In order to deal with those who wanted to attack Xiaobai, Yunluo gave everyone in the manor two days off. Even during the day, the manor was still quiet.

"Little Boss," Norton stood in the yard and saw Yun Luo's figure and immediately came forward, "I have always wanted to go find Little Boss, but I was afraid of disturbing Little Boss's rest."

"You haven't rested?"

"I can't sleep."

"Come and sit down. I came to see you this time because of what happened last night." Looking at Norton sitting upright, Yun Luo smiled, "You don't have to be so nervous, relax."

It was difficult for Norton to relax. He kept hesitating whether to go find Yun Luo. Yun Luo was the only light he saw when he was in the dark abyss. He had vowed long ago to protect this light for his whole life, no matter what the cost.

But just last night, he did that for his own pleasure. He felt happy afterwards, but did he ruin the boss's original plan?

Norton couldn't stop blaming himself whenever he thought about how he had disrupted the boss's plan.

Yun Luo felt his uneasiness and could roughly guess where the knot in his heart lay. He was also somewhat helpless. He had let Norton solve the matter of the Frod family on his own in order to untie the knot that had been in his heart for many years. He had never expected that just after untying one knot, another one would come up, and this one was the one he had insisted on knotting for himself.

When it comes to things like heart knots, especially for a cultivator who has just stepped into the door of spiritual practice, no matter how much others say or do, it will be of no help. The cultivator can only untie it by himself.

Yun Luo simply got straight to the point: "The Frode family will definitely not be able to return. What are your plans for the future?"

"I originally wanted to leave Somir after resolving these matters," Norton pursed his lips. "I plan to hand over the property that originally belonged to my mother's family to a dedicated person to manage, and donate a certain amount of money to charity every year. As for the Frod family, I don't plan to take care of it."

"You said that was the original plan, so what about now?" Yun Luo asked casually while playing with the transparent water cup.

"Now..." Norton suddenly knelt down and gave Yun Luo the highest imperial salute. "I am willing to offer all my loyalty. I hope the young boss will keep me."

“Ding——”

The water cup knocked against the table, and Yun Luo stopped what he was doing. He lowered his eyes and looked at the young man with his back straight.

"You said you want to stay?"

"I know I'm weak, and even my true strength isn't enough to stand up to the little boss. But, it was the little boss who gave me a new life, and I'm willing to be loyal to him for the rest of my life!"

"Real power?" Yun Luo raised his eyebrows with interest.

"I'm actually not a first-level orc." Norton didn't know what he did, his face suddenly turned pale, and what followed was his rising strength.

"It's rumored that I was born a low-level orc, unable to advance. That's not true. I should have been a third-level orc, but before the test results came back, my physique was artificially damaged, turning me into a 'waste' that would never advance. Later, my grandfather accidentally discovered the truth and wanted to confront the head of the Frode family. However, before he even reached Somir, he encountered a group of notorious space pirates, and none of them survived."

When talking about this incident again, Norton was surprised to find that he no longer had much anger. He was about to tell the story calmly. The past pain had sunk to the deepest part of his memory.

Pirates too? Yun Luo tapped his fingertips on the table. If they were the same pirate gang, it meant that Patriarch Frode had been in contact with them for at least twenty years. The Empire would send a special army to wipe out pirates every year, and very few pirate gangs could survive for more than five years. The person behind this pirate gang that had survived for over twenty years was worth investigating.

"What was the name of the space pirate who killed your maternal grandfather's family?"

"It's called 'Blood Lion'. I checked it out later and found out that 'Blood Lion' had completely disappeared five years ago. It wasn't wiped out by the army, but all traces of it suddenly disappeared." How could he let go of the murderer who killed his family? As soon as he learned the truth, he went to check on the Martian thief. The strange thing was that no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find any information.

"Do you know the members of the 'Blood Lion' back then?" Yun Luo wanted to confirm whether the two were the same group.

"They were very cautious," Norton shook his head. "The time they were truly active in the public eye was actually no more than a year, and then they gradually faded into obscurity."

Norton did not ask Yun Luo why he was interested in this, but instead explained in detail the information he knew. After listening, Yun Luo had a rough guess in his mind.

He was more interested in something else than the "Blood Lion".

"Your true strength is now at the peak of the sixth level, so it should have taken you quite some time to recover. How did you hide this from everyone?"

The Empire had a special tool to conceal its strength, but it was not only expensive but also difficult to obtain. It was obviously impossible for Norton, who had just recovered his strength and had nothing at the time, to get it.

Seeing Norton's embarrassed expression, Yun Luo added: "Of course, if you don't want to say it, I won't force you."

"It's not that I don't want to say it, but I don't know what that thing is." Norton stretched out his right hand to his left shoulder, and cut open the skin with the wind as a blade, revealing a black round piece.

"I was thrown into a dilapidated mine by Yaqi, and I crashed into a huge rock. When I woke up, my damaged talent was restored, and I also got this thing. As long as I open the restriction, I can hide my true strength."

From Yunluo's perspective, Norton's body is covered in wounds, some of which are fatal. Without the strange disc and his sudden return of strength, Norton would never have survived. If his true strength was hidden from the beginning, his sudden rise later in the story would make sense.

But this disc... doesn't look like a product of the interstellar era.

"Come here, let me see this."

Norton walked over without saying a word.

Yun Luo stood up and stood in front of him, jokingly saying, "Is it okay to tell me such a big secret like this?"

"I believe you, sir!"

Yun Luo just raised his eyebrows and said nothing about Norton's sudden change of address.

As he got closer, Yun Luo could feel the strange energy fluctuations on the disc. It was different from the energy in the bodies of the orcs in this world, and it was also different from spiritual power. If you had to say it, it was somewhere in between the two.

The disc had already merged with Norton's flesh and blood. Yun Luo used his spiritual power to explore it, but found nothing. When the spiritual power was withdrawn, it also healed the skin that Norton had cut himself.

"Sir, do you know what this thing is?" Norton looked at the fully recovered shoulder in surprise. His self-healing ability was strong, but it was far from being able to heal the wound instantly without leaving any trace.

"I can't tell, but this thing is beneficial to you and harmless, so you don't have to worry."

Norton touched his recovered shoulder and said, "It has been with me for so many years. If it was harmful to me, I probably wouldn't be alive today."

Yun Luo took a sip of water, placed the contents of the cup on the table, and said, "What I'm about to tell you may overturn your twenty-plus years of cognition. Of course, the choice is still yours. No matter which you choose, I won't interfere. But before that, I want to ask you a question. Last night, when you were uncovering those truths, did you feel anything unusual in your body?"

Abnormal? Norton carefully recalled what happened last night. "Yes, after I told my mother the truth about her experience, I felt my body relax. It was like the shackles that had been holding me captive for years suddenly collapsed. I also vaguely entered a very strange state. However, my mind was completely focused on other things at the time, so I didn't pay much attention to this feeling."

"Remember when I asked you about your abnormal body last time? That's what I want to talk about now." Yun Luo reached out and used his spiritual power to lift the cup on the table. "Since you're not a true first-level orc, you should have noticed that there's a different energy inside you than your original one."

"Yes, I discovered it some time ago. They were just quietly dormant in my body. This energy appeared just after I came to the manor. Is what you want to talk about related to this energy?"

At this moment, Norton felt that he had thought a lot, but also seemed to have thought of nothing.

When he first learned about the existence of this energy, he was uneasy. His great hatred had not been avenged. If something happened to him, who would give justice to his mother's family? That was why he was so anxious to expose the truth of that year and hand over the evidence. Otherwise, he would make those people taste the pain he had tasted.

He has never been a kind person. For those who have done him a favor, he will find the right opportunity to repay them. If it is an enemy, even if his hands are stained with blood and he is in purgatory, he will make the other party pay with blood!

Yun Luo saw the raging flames in those dark green eyes. The surrounding spiritual energy gathered towards Norton uncontrollably, and the breakthrough that was forcibly suppressed last night came again.

But Norton's condition was obviously not right now. Yun Luo was about to interrupt him, but Norton had already woken up on his own.

"What's wrong with me?"

"You are breaking through. The energy you just attracted is called spiritual power."

"Spiritual power?" A completely new word that he had never heard before. Norton stood there blankly, letting the light spiritual power envelop him, feeling a little overwhelmed.

"To be honest, I was not thoughtful enough on this matter. I injected spiritual power into the new dish I developed. After you ate it, the spiritual power remained in your body for some reason. Without any guidance, you completed the first step of cultivation." This was something Yun Luo had never expected. After discovering that there was spiritual power in this world, he had studied it and found that the people in this world did not use the spiritual power for themselves.

"Is it the kind of magical power that sir possesses?" Norton suddenly remembered the shocking scene he saw last night, and his heart beat faster. Orcs desire powerful strength in their bones, and Yun Luo's own strength is one of the reasons why he is impressed.

"Yes, you have embarked on this path now. Although I haven't figured out how you got here, it doesn't matter. From now on, are you willing to practice with me?" Yun Luo had thought about it last night. It just so happened that he had a set of exercises that was very suitable for Norton.

"I do!" Norton answered without thinking.

Of course he was willing. His bloodline talent was not high enough, and his current strength was the result of countless efforts. He also knew how difficult it would be for him to make further progress. Although it only took him a few years to advance from the third level to the peak of the sixth level, the distance between the sixth level to the seventh level and the eighth level was like a chasm. Many people could not cross this hurdle in their entire lives.

"Since you have chosen to practice with me, there is one thing I will never allow, and that is betrayal. If one day you betray me, I will take back everything you have received from me. I will not restrict you in other matters." Yun Luo's tone turned cold, and he looked directly into Norton's eyes, as if he could see through people's hearts.

"Don't worry, sir. Norton will never betray me in this life!" Norton knelt on one knee. "I have decided to abandon my past name. I hope you can give me a new one."

"I don't accept disciples, so you don't have to be so polite to me." Yun Luo lifted Norton up with a spiritual power. "A new name symbolizes a new life. It means to make a final decision with your past self. This name is not for me to choose. You can choose it yourself."

For a being like Yun Luo, the bond brought by the given name is too deep.

"Let me first tell you about cultivation. The method of cultivating spiritual power is very different from your previous method," Yun Luo said as he passed some basic exercises to Norton. "You can practice according to this first. If you have any questions, you can come to me."

This process was very magical. Norton closed his eyes and received the words that kept appearing in his mind. As time went by, his brows became more and more furrowed, and the words became more obscure and difficult to understand as time went on.

After a while, Norton opened his eyes, and his forehead was covered with a layer of fine beads of sweat.

"The normal order should be to test your spiritual roots first, but I don't have the tools to do so right now. Once I figure out a way to do it, I'll develop a more specific cultivation method for you."

It was Yun Luo's first time teaching someone to practice, and he was not proficient in the business. He had no idea that the amount of elementary skills he instilled at one time would be too much for a novice cultivator to handle. Only Norton was truly talented and could barely accept such a large amount of information.

Norton was indeed very talented. He tried to circulate his spiritual power twice as instructed in the exercises and successfully stabilized his realm.

Seeing this, Yun Luo smiled more. He was indeed the person he chose. He understood things immediately.

Yun Luo did not leave immediately, but stayed to guide Norton in his training for a while.

"Here, observe carefully how the spiritual power flows here." Yun Luo stretched out his hand and tapped Norton's left rib.

Because of the posture, from behind, it looked like Norton was holding Yunluo in his arms. When Xiaobai woke up, he didn't see Yunluo. When he followed Yunluo's scent and came over, he saw this scene.

"Luo is mine, you are not allowed to touch me!"

The young man rushed over like a cannonball, knocked Norton away, picked up Yun Luo and jumped to the side, staring at Norton with unfriendly eyes.

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