First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!

Unlike the descriptions of the Fire Hound of Calamity in other ancient texts, first of all, the entry in the Book of Crimson Elegance is short.

And then.

The Fire Hound of Calamity recorded in the Book of Crimson Elegance eats dog feces!

Listening to that is a bit disgusting.

Except for the Book of Crimson Elegance, no other ancient records mention that bit.

Something unique like that always sticks in the memory.

Now look at the Disaster Mother.

[Contain Monster: Disaster Mother]

[Containment Reward: Middle Essence Fire][Middle Essence Fire: One of the True Samadhi Fires, originates from the kidneys, its flame is mild, it accepts all rivers]

Lu Ding knew it!!!!

The mother and child pair really were perfectly matched, giving him a complete set!

Although the Fire Hound of Calamity and the Disaster Mother sound similar by name and in kind, in reality these two things do not belong together.

The only tale that might suggest any connection is written like this.

[Disaster Mother]

Recorded in the Fa Yuan Zhu Lin.

[Once there was a nation...... the five grains ripened year after year, people lived in peace with no illnesses...... day and night there were entertainers with no worries...... the king asked his ministers...... I have heard that calamities exist in the world, what are they like...... they replied..... none of us have seen them..... the king then sent a minister to the neighboring state to seek and purchase one..... a heavenly deity transformed into a person..... sold it in the market..... its appearance was like a pig...... bound with iron chains and sold.......]

Roughly speaking, it says that once there was a country where crops always yielded, the people lived peacefully without disease or disaster. Life was so good that the emperor started asking the ministers pointless questions.

“I hear there are calamities in the world. What are these calamities? I have never seen one.”

The ministers, born and raised in that stable country, were baffled. “We haven’t seen any either.”

Since none of them had seen one.

The emperor, out of curiosity, actually ordered a minister to buy a calamity—what a lunatic move.

The minister dutifully went, happily creating trouble for himself.

The heavenly deity watched.

Oh ho?

Someone thinks their life is too perfect!?

We must arrange something!

So the deity disguised himself as a person, went to the neighboring country’s market, and sold a pig-like creature bound with iron chains.

It instantly drew the minister’s attention.

The minister asked the deity, “Doesn’t that look a bit unlike a pig?”

The deity glanced at him. “Pig? Miss, your eyesight isn’t very good.”

The minister froze. “Miss!? I’m a man!”

The deity: “This isn’t a pig, it’s the Disaster Mother!”

When the minister heard the word with calamity in it, oh boy, it sounded exotic and rare. “We don’t have such a thing in our country!”

Take it!

He asked the price.

The deity demanded ten million coins.

The minister didn’t bat an eye. In a country with too much good fortune, they loved trouble for its own sake and had plenty of money.

Money wasn’t the issue.

What did the Disaster Mother eat?

The deity said, “It eats odd things. Listen carefully, each meal it needs one liter of needles.”

Well, that is odd.

The minister paid the money and then went around town trying to buy needles from households.

Door to door, he annoyed the populace—he looked like a crazy man.

In the end, the minister still could not gather a full liter of needles; he worried that without enough needles the creature would starve.

No, it couldn’t starve.

That would make me look incompetent.

So he took the Disaster Mother back to his country and told the emperor, “Having the Disaster Mother disrupts the people. Just kill it.”

The emperor thought it was just a pig—no big deal—kill it.

But when they dragged the pig out to kill it, nothing could pierce it; stabbing and cutting failed.

Burning it did nothing either.

When they set it on fire, it gained a buff, ran around with flames, burning everything in its path; fires broke out everywhere.

Thus, the Disaster Mother brought calamity to that nation: three years of drought, three years of floods, three years of falling meteors. One of those meteors struck the earth and splashed on a pregnant female dog; from that the Fire Hound of Calamity was born.

Great.

Before the Disaster Mother was dealt with, the Fire Hound of Calamity was born.

This nation suffered again.

That is the origin story of the Disaster Mother and the Fire Hound of Calamity in the tale. Of course, the story doesn’t end there—later on other plague creatures plagued the country, all self-inflicted misfortunes.

However, the original text in Fa Yuan Zhu Lin did not record those later parts.

The rest came from what Lu Ding had heard in radio dramas, which were obviously nonsense.

Exactly because the original text said nothing, Lu Ding remembered it vividly.

On the Golden Finger device.

The characters gradually faded.

New characters slowly surfaced.

Lu Ding understood, something big was coming!

[Lower Qi Fire, in position!]

[Middle Essence Fire, in position!]

[Upper Divine Fire, in position!]

[Divine Art: True Samadhi Fire!!]

[True Samadhi Fire: Burns heaven and cooks the sea, exquisite in form and spirit, true with the Dao]

Enlightenment rose from emptiness, and Lu Ding savored it carefully.

Feeling the flame’s power growing within his body.

The True Samadhi Fire and Purple Tenuity Heavenly Fire complemented each other, merging and coexisting.

Until Lu Ding exhaled a long breath.

“Ha.......”

White mist spewed out.

The intense heat warped the space.

With the ultra-high comprehension granted by Heaven-Man Unity, Lu Ding gradually opened a gateway into the world of flame.

Using his own meridian circulation route as the blueprint.

That extreme representing of flame began to traverse his body.

It seemed to form a formation diagram.

It allowed him to comprehend a new terrifying thing.

Although this base was born from the Golden Finger and constructed by Purple Tenuity Heavenly Fire and True Samadhi Fire, the more exquisite change was within Lu Ding himself.

Once this thing opened, it could burn away the void and even link with the Water Dao System, the essential antagonism between water and fire notwithstanding.

It was downright horrifying.

Once unleashed, it would be a world-destroying existence.

Lu Ding thought for a moment and named what he had just realized.

“Call it... the White Flame World.”

He eagerly awaited the day he could use the White Flame World.

This would be one of the pinnacles of his combat power!

As for why it is called the White Flame World, he would understand once he used it.

Over here.

In the Great Wilderness Realm, after Lu Ding beheaded the Wang, he regained control of the situation.

On the other side.

Within the Baoji Kingdom.

After Lu Ding hung up the call, Su Yun sought out the One-Word Prince of Baoji Kingdom.

Because the royal palace did not allow outsiders to stay, since Su Yun arrived in Baoji Kingdom he had been arranged to stay in the mansion of the One-Word Prince.

It was safe here.

In the courtyard.

The One-Word Prince of Baoji Kingdom, Feng Kuangsheng, was practicing calligraphy.

Su Yun rushed in: “Prince Feng!”

Dropping to one knee: “I beg Prince Feng for help!!!”

He was out of options, out of tricks.

Even if he wanted to cultivate, to seek revenge, to give up everything to obtain strength, that process would not be achieved in a day or two. He could not catch up to Lu Ding in time, nor gain the power to defeat or kill him.

He could only seek help from a stronger person.