Note : Hey guys, this is just a side chapter, it's not necessary to read it to understand the latter chapters, but I do recommend reading it, especially if you love the little pup. Andd the 2nd chapter would come out a bit late but would still be this week, prob Sunday. This chapter is in the Pov of the little pup or Xiao Xie. 【小雪】: meaning little snow.

In the midst of Mythical Beast Forest.

Sounds of grass rustling and heavy breathing drifted along with the wind.

The little pup was currently busy, chasing after a small, red mouse with speed that clearly exceeded the mouse.

The little pup wasn't chasing the small mouse to hunt though, it was chasing it for fun mostly with a hint of vengeance in it's eyes.

Prior to receiving Li Zun’s divine energy, it couldn't hunt the red mouse due to it's blistering speed and it's advantage of having a clearly smaller body. But now, the little pup was brimming with energy it never had before, and with it, it wanted to take revenge against these little mouse for teasing him whenever it failed to get them.

As for food ? How could the little pup lower itself to eat a clearly not tasty mouse when Li Zun would always catch himself a high class beast meat that he would cook later on, adding the already high class taste.

Although the little pup was very little, it had the smugness of an accomplished gourmet. Especially nowadays since it has tasted Li Zun’s tasty cooking, it would never lower itself to eat raw, uncooked food.

Just when the little pup was having fun, chasing the poor little red mouse, Li Zun's voice sounded through the forest.

“ Xiao Xie, it's lunch time ! Are you eating or not ! “

When the little pup heard Li Zun’s voice, it's 2 pointy ears immediately perked up and it immediately ran back to where Li Zun is located.

It rushed all the way to the Earthly Oak Tree where Li Zun is cooking the beast meat, with saliva dripping down it's mouth and face grinning with happiness.

For the first few days, there would always be strong magic beast that wanted to bully the little pup. But after seeing that it's fellow comrades have now been roasted to food instead, they would now all back down and run away every time they saw the little pup.

They were terribly afraid that the little pup would take some fancy to their meat and asked that monster in human’s clothing to cook them. It was even worser than the day where the Vajra Thunder-Wolf is still living. At least, the Vajra Thunder-Wolf wouldn't spoil the little pup so much and would only occasionally hunt when it's stomach is hungry.

Soon, the little pup arrived at the Earthly Oak Tree and saw Li Zun currently cooking a high class beast meat, it's small nose sniffed out the fragrance coming out of the meat and ran with even more joy towards Li Zun.

When it reached 5 steps away from Li Zun, it immediately stopped in it's tracks and sat down patiently while lifting out it's tongue and breathing heavily. Clearly this was not the first time it had done this, because the spot where it ate was always the same, and it had left a mark there.

Li Zun had long realized the little pup was coming, he laughed when he saw the little pup begging for the food with it's eyes. He immediately divided a portion of the meat and gave it into the little pup.

“ Be careful, it's hot ! “ Li Zun warned the little pup because it looked like it could gulp down the meat at any moment.

The little pup bowed it's head up and down to show that it acknowledged Li Zun's words and it immediately began to eat heartily.

This was not the first time they had eaten like this, and nowadays it had became a routine for the little pup.

When lunch was over, the little pup turned back to the forest and wanted to play around once more when it was stopped by Li Zun’s words.

“ Hey Xiao Xie ! Look at you, you're so dirty, your snowy white fur had already turned brown with dirt, come and take a bath with me ! “

The little pup looked like it was hesitating a lot when it heard Li Zun saying the word ‘ bath ‘. Clearly, it didn't like baths so much.

But before the little pup could run away, Li Zun immediately grabbed it and forced it to take a bath with him in the river while it was growling “ Awoo ! “ “ Awoo ! “ in discomfort.

Night came.

The little pup took a stroll around the forest at night. Since it was the rivers and lakes are very beautiful at night, it couldn't help but always coming there at night while looking deeply into the water.

When it looked into the water, it could somehow remember those memories of him and his father, living it's days happily without a care for the world. Never, would it have imagined that it would lose it's father this quickly.

Suddenly, it felt a large big hand patting his head. When it turned back and saw who it was, he saw Li Zun squatting besides him.

“ Thinking about your dad again ? “ Li Zun asked him in a soft voice.

The little pup nodded it's head in faintly in response.

Li Zun sighed and sat on the ground next to it. For a long time only the sounds of bugs creaking and water running could be heard.

After a long moment of silence, Li Zun began to spoke. “ I have never experienced familial love before, so I don't know how it feels when you lose someone important. But I'm sure your dad wants you to live out your life and became strong for yourself. Your dad clearly cared for you. Even in it's last moments, it still sent me a look to ask me to protect you. “

The little pup nodded it's head in response, but this time, instead of sadness, a clear determination burns in it's eyes.

It had been born here in the mythical beast forest. When he was young, his mother had already left him alone with his father. When it's father was about to die, it thought that it was going to die that day too. Never had he imagined that Li Zun would appear at it's last moments.

The little pup lifts it's head up in determination and began to walk back towards Li Zun's tree house.

Li Zun smiled when he saw the little pup no longer saddened that much.

That day, he promised himself, although he was currently just a small little pup, one day it would become a fierce great wolf that would have it's name resounded through.

That night, the two snuggled together in their sleep.

Man and Wolf, whose destiny have became intertwined.…but tonight they would just sleep soundly together.

Note : Short and done, if you like side chapters like these, I may make more in the future !