Chapter 24: You Are Its Whole World
Lan Xingyu looked at the white tiger before him, matching it with the knowledge in his mind, and said: "A white tiger, fully enlightened, a quasi-Father-Heaven Level powerhouse. If I'm not mistaken, you must be the white tiger, White Emperor."
"White Emperor? What is that?" Tony asked curiously.
"How should I put it? Just understand it like this: this summoning array of mine can summon Creatures from other worlds to accompany me in battle, provided you can form a contract with them. And this one is one of the four Divine Beasts standing at the top of the food chain in that world. Its species is a white tiger, named White Emperor." Lan Xingyu explained to Tony.
"Divine Beast, sounds pretty impressive! So how are you going to sign a contract with it?"
"Uh... that's a question for it. The way a Divine Beast signs a contract is determined by them." Lan Xingyu looked at the white tiger.
"Show Me the quality and quantity of your magic. Half-baked magic won't be of any use." The white tiger said somewhat arrogantly.
"Magic?" Lan Xingyu lowered his head in thought, then revealed that conspiratorial smile again.
Tony saw Lan Xingyu like this and couldn't help but step back a few times. He always felt that this white tiger was about to have bad luck. And this feeling was getting stronger and stronger...
The white tiger went up to sniff, then said suspiciously: "Strange? An elf? No, I feel a higher-level energy. Interesting. Touch my body and inject your magic."
"Alright, here it comes!" Lan Xingyu placed one hand on the white tiger's head and channeled the terrifyingly vast magic within his body toward the white tiger.
No sooner had he spoken than the white tiger felt an unimaginable amount of magic surge into its body.
"This is... what... power?" The white tiger stuttered these three words before frothing at the mouth and fainting.
Tony confirmed his previous suspicion. Indeed, one really shouldn't provoke this guy. Looking at the white tiger frothing at the mouth before him, Tony silently mourned for it for three seconds.
A spell woke the white tiger up. This time, the white tiger was well-behaved. It lay on the ground, wagging its tail, and said: "Master Lan Xingyu, I acknowledge you as my master. Please let me sign a master-servant contract with you."
"How do I sign a contract with you?" Lan Xingyu asked.
"Just give me a name; that is the proof of the contract."
"A name, huh? How about Amber?"
"Amber?"
Lan Xingyu took a piece of chalk from his spatial storage and wrote the characters "Amber" on the ground. Pointing at the characters "Amber," he said: "This 'Hu' (Amber) represents tiger, and this 'Po' (amber) represents white, and the side radical means king."
"A white tiger standing beside a king—this is a name worthy of me." The white tiger said with some excitement.
"Master, please allow me to stay by your side at all times." Amber said sincerely.
"Uh... you're a bit big. You'll attract too much attention like this."
"Is that so? Then how about this?" As soon as Amber finished the first half, it transformed itself to the size of a kitten, with a circle of longer white fur around its neck. When it said the last sentence, its voice became very cute.
Just then, Pepper Potts came to see Tony. Seeing the "little white cat" on the ground, she rushed over and hugged Amber.
"Ah! So cute! Where did this little cat come from?"
"Not a cat! Let go of me!" Amber was in a bit of pain from being hugged... Uh, well, everyone knows Pepper Potts' figure—the kind that could launch 381mm torpedoes just by carrying four blue steel plates. (Guess how many people are in that sentence?)
"She is my sister." Lan Xingyu said!
"What! Master's sister!" Amber was surprised. It immediately withdrew the magic it had intended to use to shake off Pepper Potts.
"Eh, this cat can talk!" Pepper Potts looked at the cat in her arms in surprise.
"Hmm, just think of it as a talking magical Creature. Don't worry, it's absolutely safe." Lan Xingyu said to Pepper Potts, wanting to put her at ease.
"How did you get it out?" Pepper Potts asked curiously, as the magical world was too unfamiliar to her.
"Like this, like that, this way, that way."
"Oh, so that's how it is! How amazing!"
"Sister Potts, let's go back first, shall we? Amber, I have a very important thing for you to do later." Lan Xingyu said seriously to Amber.
"Whatever it is, I will do my best to complete it for you, Master." Amber said solemnly. But the fact that it said such solemn words with its adorable physique and cute voice was just too cute. It made Pepper Potts hug it even tighter, until she saw Amber's eyes rolling back and it started frothing at the mouth again, at which point she finally let go.
"Yes, I believe you. Let's go home first. Your task is at home." Lan Xingyu mourned for Amber for three seconds before taking the lead and walking toward the house.
Tony seemed to have thought of something and muttered: "So that's how it is! Maybe it really is a good method?"
"Tony, what did you say?" Pepper Potts seemed to have seen Tony saying something but couldn't hear it clearly because it was too quiet.
"Nothing. Pepper Potts, you have things to do, right? You should go." Tony didn't want anyone to know that he couldn't even handle a dog.
"How can that be! Today is the day Xingyu needs to make a big decision. School is starting soon; has Xingyu not decided what school to attend yet?" Pepper Potts said dissatisfiedly. Besides, she felt that Tony was definitely hiding something from her.
When they entered the house with Tony, Pepper Potts was stunned. The room was a mess, and a black-and-white puppy was running around everywhere. Seeing Xingyu and the others, it rushed toward them and rubbed against Tony's pant leg.
"Another one? Tony, are you trying to open a zoo?" Pepper Potts was puzzled. She recognized this Husky and suddenly had a headache. Tony, who could already blow up a house, plus a dog that could tear down a house—oh my god, is Tony unhappy with his villa or something...
"Sister Potts, please put Amber down first." Lan Xingyu said to Pepper Potts upon arriving home.
Watching Pepper Potts put Amber down, Lan Xingyu said to Amber: "Can you use some kind of pressure-like method to make it behave?"
"Simple!" Amber said. Immediately, the Husky felt a strong threat. It instantly lay on the ground, looking at the white Creature that was slightly larger than itself now.
"Hmm, very good. Later, if Panda reaches that area, you stop him. But you cannot hurt him. He will be your little brother from now on." Xingyu pointed to his gaming area and said.
"Wait, why is it only your gaming area? What about the other places? What about my sofa and things like that?" Tony heard something wrong; this was a rhythm of not caring about him!
"What if the whole house restricts Panda? He's so small, he won't be able to do anything and will live in constant threat?" Lan Xingyu said righteously. Nonsense, I didn't trick you into buying a Husky just to let Amber handle everything.
"Listen! Tony! You are its master. You should learn to take care of it, teach it what can be done and what cannot be done. You can let Amber assist you. Tony, I hope you understand that for you, Creature might only be a part of your life, but for Panda, the moment you brought him home, you were its whole world." (May all dogs in the world be treated kindly...)
Tony didn't speak. He looked at Creature rubbing against his feet, picked it up, and held it in his arms. With one hand, he stroked its fur. He finally began to face this new member who had arrived at his home yesterday. If it weren't for him, I might have already died yesterday.
"Then, please take care of me from now on, Panda. Let me introduce myself again: I, your master, Tony Stark. And you are called Creature!" Pepper Potts looked at Lan Xingyu in surprise, then looked at Tony.
She had never seen Tony like this. It seemed that ever since Lan Xingyu came to the house, he had been slowly changing Tony. You have to know that Tony's self-willed nature was famous, but Xingyu was just able to change him.
Suddenly, she seemed to remember something and said to Xingyu: "By the way, Xingyu, have you decided which school to go to? School is starting in a few days."
Hearing Pepper Potts, Xingyu remembered that he had to go to school! Oh god, school again, so annoying! But he couldn't not go; after all, it was the Ancient One's requirement.
"Let's go with Midtown Elementary School!" Lan Xingyu said without much thought. I remember little Spider-Man is in Midtown, right? I wonder if I'll meet Uncle Ben. Sure enough, if Lan Xingyu can still save Uncle Ben, it's the same saying: good people deserve to be treated kindly.
As for Spider-Man, Lan Xingyu believed that some people were destined to be heroes.
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