Too lazy to pay attention to the system manager anymore, she squatted down and began to deal with the tiger.

The tiger died from being stabbed in the throat. There was a lot of blood on the ground, and its good fur was soaked in blood. Shen Miao was a little disgusted. She grabbed one of the tiger's paws and dragged it to a clean place.

As soon as the tiger left its original lying spot, the object on the ground was exposed.

It was a magic array, and as the tiger's blood seeped in, the array became clearer and clearer. Upon closer inspection, Shen Miao discovered that it was an extremely vicious array.

It is said that once you enter this formation, your soul will be trapped inside, unable to escape for all eternity.

She broke out in a cold sweat. Luckily, she had been careful and hadn't believed the tiger's act. Otherwise, if the cubs had gotten close to the tiger, they would probably have already fallen into its trap.

The children were very curious as they looked at the bright red magic circle that had suddenly appeared on the ground.

"What is this?"

Erbao squatted in front of the magic circle and reached out his little hand to touch the glowing array.

Shen Miao shouted, "Erbao!"

Erbao was so startled that he quickly pulled his hand back, looked up at Chen Miao, blinked his big, watery eyes, and asked in a daze, "Mommy, what's wrong?"

Shen Miao walked over, picked up Erbao and put him aside, and said seriously, "Don't touch it. This is a formation. If Erbao's hand touches it, his soul will be drained and he will be trapped inside."

Erbao turned pale with fright upon hearing this.

"Is this formation really that powerful? Can you teach me, Mother?" Da Bao leaned closer.

Shen Miao thought for a moment and said, "I will teach you when you want to learn later. For now, let's focus on learning your own special abilities first."

Da Bao clenched his fist and said, "I will definitely study my superpowers hard."

Shen Miao told them to stand aside and not to get close to the superpower. She walked to the edge of the formation, and Xiao Sibao ran over and tugged at Shen Miao's sleeve to pull her aside.

"What's wrong, Xiao Sibao?" Shen Miao looked down and met Xiao Sibao's gaze.

Little Sibao pointed at the formation and said, "Oh no, it will drain your soul! Mother, don't go near it!"

Shen Miao was taken aback, but then she realized that Xiao Sibao was worried that she would be harmed by the magic array, so he came to remind her. What a sensible child.

"It's alright, Mother won't go in. She'll even destroy it to prevent it from harming other people."

The four little ones seemed to understand, but they still stood with their brothers, waiting for their mother to destroy the magic array.

Shen Miao walked around the formation once.

She tried to release some spiritual power, and the formation began to stir like a cat smelling blood, with some black mist swirling within it.

As Shen Miao approached to get a better look, one of the black mists became even more agitated, as if silently roaring, wanting to swallow Shen Miao whole.

As Shen Miao watched the billowing black mist, she felt that its shape looked somewhat familiar.

When her gaze fell upon the tail, she realized that she had seen this shape on an orc before—it was a scorpion.

So this is a scorpion-shaped soul!

Shen Miao didn't know if this scorpion soul had anything in common with the previous scorpion beastman, but she couldn't care less and destroyed the magic circle.

The black mist inside also disappeared.

The children clapped and praised Shen Miao for being amazing, but Shen Miao felt that her abilities were not enough and that she wished she were a little stronger.

However, improving one's abilities is not an easy task. Shen Miao eventually set her sights on beast crystals with devouring abilities. She went back and found two devouring beast crystals, which she then refined and absorbed.

Because she ate two at once, Shen Miao's body was burning up that night, and she couldn't fall asleep. She had to get up and meditate to regulate her breathing, slowly guiding the energy through her body.

She didn't fall asleep until the early hours of the morning. The next day, Shen Miao was the last person in the family to get up. She yawned as she walked out of the room and heard a commotion in the yard. The four children and Qingchen Jiuying were all there.

All I could hear were the children describing it vividly.

"The first thing I saw was a beautiful bird that flew out of my mother's window in a flash. It even glanced at me, and I greeted it before it flew away."

“I saw it too, I saw it too, there’s a feather left here.”

After listening for a while, Shen Miao finally understood: the golden eagle egg had hatched and flown away?

She walked quickly over and took the feather from Da Bao's hand. It was a multicolored feather, and in the dim sunlight, it didn't look like the feather of a baby eagle at all. Where would a newly hatched baby eagle get such a big feather?

But the cubs were adamant that these were eagle feathers.

Shen Miao put the feathers away and looked at the sky with a bit of regret. She had waited for the golden eagle egg for so long, but after it hatched, it flew away without her even seeing it.

It seems we were destined to meet but not to be together.

The young eagle's flight had little effect on Shen Miao. She was now focused solely on improving her abilities, and to that end, she devoured many ferocious beasts. Often, she was so full that she couldn't even eat a proper meal.

Shen Miao's state, which could be described as being possessed by demonic possession, frightened Jiu Ying.

He went to find Shen Miao and stopped her from continuing to devour the beasts. "You can't go on like this. The beasts' abilities inside you can't be digested and will remain in your body. That might backfire."

"I think I'm fine, I can digest it," Shen Miao said after taking a moment to assess the situation.

Seeing that Jiuying seemed hesitant to speak and wanted to persuade her again, Shen Miao quickly added, "I won't go to the mountain anymore. I'm just focusing on digesting the strange beasts I swallowed. Don't worry."

Shen Miao stayed in her room for several days to digest all the strange beasts she had swallowed. Seeing that she was in good condition, Jiu Ying was relieved.

Shen Miao felt that her abilities had improved a lot, so she went to the mountain to find a group of strange beasts that she didn't like and fought them, easily subduing them all.

However, she was in a good mood and didn't harm them; she simply tied them up and threw them into a trap.

Whether they can escape or not depends on their fate.

This provoked a group of strange beasts to curse loudly, but at the same time they were very wary of Shen Miao. The other party's strength was so much higher than theirs, so it was fine to curse him in secret, but if they really went to cause trouble, they would probably be courting death.

Shen Miao clapped her hands and left the mountain, completely unaware that her reputation had been etched into the hearts of those strange beasts.

She went back and dug out the map given to her by the first leader of the crocodile clan, and studied it carefully.

Hmm, the journey seems a bit long. If we set off now, it will take about half a month to get there. We also need to determine the location of the mine. The return trip will also take half a month, so the round trip will take more than a month.

I don't know when the snow season will return this year. If it's similar to last year, then there's not much time left.

Shen Miao immediately decided to set off.