Chapter 2389: Chapter 2390: Red Brocade
The spirit beasts originally responsible for cleaning the various hot spring pools usually come out during the night when business is paused. It’s quite unusual to see them during the day like this. If any of these spirit beasts capture people’s attention, then that red shadow certainly does the most.
Seeing that leisurely red shadow, Veronia was taken aback. She could naturally recognize what that spirit beast was, but she couldn’t understand why.
"Red Shadow?"
Looking at the red figure lazily wandering in the hot spring pool, Feng Yuan was surprised. He really hadn’t expected to see such a spirit beast.
The Red Shadow, a dragon attribute spirit beast, is quite powerful and is a very rare dragon-type spirit beast, even though its appearance is like a red koi.
The scales on its body have a red base color that can reflect countless colors under the light, effortlessly showcasing the majesty of a dragon-type spirit beast, even when it moves gracefully.
The one thing Feng Yuan couldn’t understand was that Red Shadow shouldn’t have the ability to break through barriers, not to mention continuously bypass so many security measures, even though Red Shadow’s species strength ranges from good level to legendary level.
A legendary-level spirit beast might be able to break through security measures, but it wouldn’t do so without making a commotion. This means that this Red Shadow might have a special barrier-breaking ability.
Of course, if that red shadow wasn’t it, that would be another story. Feng Yuan felt that the troublemaking red shadow was likely the Red Shadow, as red-colored spirit beasts are rare here in Hot Springs Town.
Tamur shifted and said,
"It was just an accident, but..."
"The thing we saw at the Flowing Water Pool earlier was it?"
Feng Yuan looked at Tamur in surprise. The other might not necessarily have seen the true identity of the red shadow at that time, but with Tamur’s special ability to see snippets of time...
Shifting slightly, Tamur said,
"Yes, it was indeed it, an unexpected ability or rather, a change brought by the Crystal Domain."
"Ah, another new change? This Crystal Domain certainly has a lot of tricks."
Hearing Tamur’s words, Feng Yuan seemed to understand something and said somewhat helplessly. Although Tamur didn’t clarify his words, Feng Yuan could guess what he meant, that Red Shadow probably gained the ability to penetrate barriers under the influence of a specific Crystal Domain.
Considering that it’s impossible for Hot Springs Town to casually set up a Crystal Domain in the hot spring pool, combined with the limited coverage of the Crystal Domain, Feng Yuan is certain that it’s definitely another new change of the Crystal Domain.
Thinking about those new combat methods evolved from the Crystal Domain, Feng Yuan felt somewhat troubled. Red Shadow evidently belonged to a kind of new change previously unknown.
No, Feng Yuan figured it probably wasn’t that, after all, Red Shadow, especially one that follows humans, shouldn’t have the capability to collect Domain Crystals. Moreover, not even the spirit beasts themselves can know which Domain Crystal they can use or suit them.
This means Red Shadow’s change should have been discovered by some research institute.
It’s just that because no paper was published, Feng Yuan didn’t know.
"Exactly, even us Divine Beasts have exclusive Crystal Domains that greatly impact combat; it’s quite normal."
For Veronia, it was rather interesting. After all, the advent of Crystal Domains has changed many ultimate moves and the standing of spirit beasts, especially in battles, where many spirit beast combinations once looked down upon are now starting to show their unique brilliance.
"Really, though this doesn’t affect us, Red Shadow... no wonder they aren’t worried about any problems."
Looking at the leisurely moving red shadow, Feng Yuan sighed. Red Shadow is a rather special spirit beast, similar to Bai Xue people, they’re close to humans and have a good temperament. Under normal circumstances, Red Shadow wouldn’t randomly attack humans.
Even the previous accident, Feng Yuan suspected there was more to it, after all, Red Shadow isn’t the crazy type of spirit beast. Chaotic actions in the hot spring pool weren’t typical behavior for their species.
As for those individualists? Clearly, this Red Shadow didn’t display such traits.
In other words, there must have been some special cause for that accident, though Feng Yuan didn’t know what it was, nor did he care to guess, as it had nothing to do with him.
The Splendid Flower Pool, compared to other hot spring bathing pools, is different only in style, or essentially, there isn’t much difference between the varying pools in Hot Springs Town, except a few special ones.
Though many modern machines can make hot springs more playful, for Hot Springs Town, what they aim to do is to replicate the original natural state of hot springs as much as possible. Even if during the process they rely on the power of spirit beasts, they have to ensure that the hot springs can naturally be sustained in that state.
As for artificial mechanical wave creation and other odd antics, they didn’t do such things, for Hot Springs Town, those would simply spoil its atmosphere.
The main selling point of Hot Springs Town was that atmosphere. Even though situated in the south, it had the vibe of a northern snowy village as its main attraction.
Therefore, the types of hot spring pools in town weren’t particularly diverse, though paired with their atmosphere, it was relatively speaking, a good place to visit.
The Red Shadow seemed to catch a scent of something, curiously swimming over to Feng Yuan and his group. Veronia looked at the Red Shadow studying them with curiosity, saying,
"It seems to be begging for food."
"Ah! Excuse me, dear guests, please refrain from giving it food or beverages containing alcohol."
Before Feng Yuan could say anything, a staff member hurried over, shouting to Feng Yuan, because Feng Yuan and his group were at a considerable distance from the shore, so the staff member couldn’t clearly see what was on the floating tray in front of them.
"Alcohol?"
Suspiciously examining the cute Red Shadow, Feng Yuan casually picked up a dessert and held it out to the Red Shadow, which suddenly jumped up to swallow the dessert in Feng Yuan’s hand, swimming around him contentedly.
As the staff member approached and realized there wasn’t any "dangerous" food on Feng Yuan’s tray, they breathed a sigh of relief.
Curiously, Feng Yuan asked,
"This little guy, it can’t drink alcohol?"
Though spirit beasts and humans don’t completely share the same food, theoretically most spirit beasts can consume alcohol, just a question of how much.
Caught off guard by Feng Yuan’s question, the staff member awkwardly scratched their head, saying,
"Well... it... goes on a drunken frenzy if it drinks, so..."
"I see, so yesterday’s commotion was caused by it drinking?"
Hearing this, Feng Yuan had already guessed the truth, nodding with an awkward smile. The staff member wasn’t sure if they should confirm it. Let out a light laugh, Feng Yuan didn’t pursue the matter further.
Casually tossing another small dessert to Red Shadow, Feng Yuan said,
"Alright, time for you to go beg somewhere else."
Glancing at Feng Yuan, Red Shadow suddenly puffed out bubbles, and around Feng Yuan, numerous rainbow bubbles emerged from the hot spring pool, releasing gentle floral scents as they popped.
"Is this your performance? Not bad at all~"
Although strictly speaking, this wasn’t much of a performance, Feng Yuan still found it quite interesting, even reaching out to pop the bubbles floating in front of him.
After summoning bubbles for a while, Red Shadow flicked its tail and left without looking back. Laughing, Feng Yuan motioned to the staff member to quickly follow.
"Seems like a lively little fellow, but going on a drunken spree, they’ve got their hands full there, huh?"
Veronia chuckled and said. She didn’t expect that the uproar that even forced Hot Springs Town to arrange temporary remedial measures was stirred up by a little tippler.
Of course, Feng Yuan and his party were certain that it was only recently that Hot Springs Town learned about Red Shadow’s inability to hold its liquor. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have let it get drunk in the first place.
Just the subsequent remedial measures were incredibly troublesome, let alone any potential issues. But Feng Yuan found it odd because Red Shadow is a water and dragon dual-attribute spirit beast; their natural habitat shouldn’t include hot springs.
As for it being a spirit beast belonging to a beastmaster?
Feng Yuan doubted that because it seemed to be a wild spirit beast. Yet, why would it appear here?
Thinking it over, Feng Yuan chuckled at himself and stopped worrying about it, deciding that he might as well just enjoy the pleasure of leisurely travel~
