Hou and the wolf both stared at eachother. The Wolf's natural instincts screamed that something had changed and it became more cautious.
Hou was not a fighter but he was very talented and began looking at the wolf's feet and mirroring a similar footwork but adapted for his human body. As the wolf walked left, Hou walked right. He was always in a stance that was ready to dodge. This dance continued for dozens of breaths until Hou took a risk and decided to move in.
He didn't use his leg parasites but just ran forward but he had more than pure physical power, as he closed the distance he activated the red moss on him and while the wolf was distracted jump onto it.
The wolf was slower due to the blood fog and didn't manage to dodge in time, Hou put his right palm over the wolf's eye and shot the petals into it.
The sudden pain and loss of it's right eye caused the wolf to shake and launch Hou flying into a tree. Hou felt a shock go through his whole body as he struggled to stand up again.
Then a rush of blood went to his back and Hou stood, spitting out blood from his mouth. He rubbed his mouth and focused on exploiting the weakness he made through destroying the right eye on the wolf.
He suspected that now there was a large blind spot he could exploit the wolf wavered as it looked at Hou it's bloodlust rose and it activated it's trump card, from it's mouth miasma radiated and a patch of purple moss could be seen. The miasma was growing over the wolf as it's body starting growing further. Hou could feel like danger was rising and moved forth to stop it.
He charge in and was going to do a big punch when he felt a tingling and moved back the last moment. He leant back and the wolf's paw just missed him.
Hou took the chance and let out more petals slashing it's paw and he moved forward once more to get a punch in. He ducked left and narrowly dodged the wolf's bite then as he was crouched he activated the leg parasites and punched upwards. From the shock in the head, the wolf became unconscious. It shrunk and became a smaller than average wolf.
Hou walked over and was going to deliver the last blow when Yue talked,
"Don't decide whether to kill this monster just yet, just like with parasites you could use it for your own advantage. The monster has an ability and you could use it as a companion in fighting. If you do wish to simply use your blood and inject your will in replacement of the miasma will. You'll then gain a connection with the wolf and you will be the source of its intelligence"
Hou nodded and decided that would be the best course of action, he plugged a cactus before and drew blood, dripping it into the eye wound he created in the fight.
As Hou focused his attention on his will, he could feel it and moved it towards where he could feel the miasma qi containing will, each time he expended some blood and captured the miasma qi under his control. When all the foreign qi was under his control he could feel he had somewhat control over the wolf.
"From now on you shall be Da for your ability to grow massively tall, wake up." Hou takes to his new companion then turned inwards to talk to his master,
"Is there a way to heal the wolf like you did with my body, can you teach me?" Hou pleaded with his master.
"There is but it has a cost, I should explain that to reconstruct your body I expended spirit wills, the ones with powers, and using my knowledge of merging physical and spiritual to sacrifice the strong spirit wills and create a weaker but permanent physical phenomena. Hence to heal this wolf, you will need to have spirit will suited and sacrificed them, once you have them I will teach you the technique" Yue lectured.
"I see, for now I'll give time for the wolf to heal it's shallow wounds and absorb miasma qi so I have enough for any other fights I might have"
Hou sat cross-legged and the now much smaller wolf Da on his lap. The two took a few days to recuperate while Hou absorbed qi and occasionally passed it to his wolf companion so it would have enough qi for multiple fights.
Hou stretch on the fourth day and felt ready once again to move forward, he commanded Da to grow and it became a trusty mount he used to gallop through the forest.
Luckily he had lots of qi stored and could sustain Da's large size constantly, and just when he was feeling bored Hou saw a golden glow in front of him.
A symbiote!
Hou orded Da to shrink and the two of them walked forward carefully looking at the symbiote. It was a tall thing flower with lots of leaves, and purple turning to white petals. The strange thing though was the sunlight was mostly coming from underground, even then it was bright.
'This will be my first exposure to sunlight after becoming Yue's inheritor, let's see how different it will be to control this qi'
Hou walked forward fiercely, ordering Da to stay put. Even better the Symbiote could do anything Hou grabbed it's stalk and pulled it out. There's were large stores of qi underneath and Hou lefty nothing to chance and planned the flower onto his stomach. Inside his body the big stores of qi formed into a large single core and from the outside nothing could be seen but a light flower shaped birthmark on his stomach. Hou easily used a blood formation to control it and use it safely.
Hou activated it and felt a formless change on the air, then he could feel sunlight qi coming from around him and being absorbed into his stomach and a very fast paced.
'This symbiote by itself is useless but once I gain more symbiotes I should be able to gain enough qi from the air to use them without restraint in a fight!'