The legend begins with becoming a white deer.

"Huh? How did I fall asleep?"

After an unknown amount of time, Qi Ji woke up, yawned, and felt the surging power within his body, immediately realizing that his third physical enhancement had ended.

Qi Ji jumped forcefully on the spot, and his body leaped into the air in a flash, his deer hooves more than four meters off the ground.

This jumping ability surprised even Qi Ji himself.

Generally speaking, when a sika deer jumps, the distance between its hooves and the ground is usually between one and one and a half meters, with very few reaching two meters. However, Qi Ji at this moment has far exceeded this value.

This was without Qi Ji using his full strength.

"My current physical condition has completely exceeded the upper limit of the sika deer's species, hasn't it?"

Qi Ji was both amazed and delighted, running and jumping through the woods to express his joy at his greatly improved physical condition.

Like a white gust of wind, Qi Ji darted back and forth through the woods at a speed too fast for the naked eye to see.

With a leap, Qi Ji's astonishing jumping power allowed him to cross a ten-meter-wide river effortlessly, feeling as if he were flying.

"Yo"

As the deer cried out in the sky, Qi Ji had the illusion that he was at the top of the food chain in the mountains and forests.

Whether he could defeat a tiger or bear in a physical fight is another matter, but in terms of speed and jumping ability, Qi Ji was confident that no normal mountain mammal could compare to him in his current state.

"I'm not afraid of seven or eight wolves now; they can't catch me at all. By the way, let's test my current strength."

Qi Ji arrived in front of a tree as thick as a thigh, turned around and kicked it hard with his hind legs.

"Bang!"

With a muffled thud, a large number of leaves immediately fell from the sky, and Qi Ji heard the cracking sound of the tree trunk breaking apart.

"Bang!"

With another blow, Qi Ji successfully kicked the tree in half, and the birds in the surrounding trees instinctively flew away.

With just two hooves, it snapped a tree trunk as thick as a thigh; such power is comparable to that of a brown bear or a tiger.

"I'm not afraid of tigers and brown bears now, right? Hmm, maybe not. Tigers and brown bears have forepaws that can flap freely, and my deer hooves aren't as agile as theirs, unless I can grow antlers. Wait, what's that strange feeling on my head..."

Qi Ji hadn't noticed anything because he was too excited before, but now that he had calmed down, he immediately realized the abnormality in his head.

Qi Ji turned around and walked to the riverbank, looking down.

"This is... deer antlers! No, it's deer velvet."

Qi Ji stared in surprise at the pair of straight deer antlers on his head reflected in his mind's eye. They were about the length of an adult's finger and were white, just like his skin.

"How did I grow deer antlers? I remember I only had two small bumps on my head before. Could it be because of this physical enhancement?"

Qi Ji looked puzzled, but to be honest, it was a good thing.

Antlers are the state of deer antlers before they are fully hardened. Once hardened, they become the strongest weapon of the male deer, and even if broken, they can grow back the following year.

At the same time, deer antlers are also an excellent medicine. In Qi Ji's previous life, many people who raised sika deer would cut off the antlers from the deer's heads and sell them for money, waiting for them to grow back the following year.

From a certain perspective, the sika deer can be considered the only mammal in the world capable of regenerating organs.

After some testing, Qi Ji returned to the deer herd.

The doe girls were looking at Qi Ji with strange eyes. They had all seen the changes in Qi Ji. If they could somewhat accept the changes when Qi Ji was still a fawn, then the changes in Qi Ji now were truly beyond their comprehension.

Even if they lack human intelligence, they know that such speed and power are far inferior to what a normal sika deer should have.

If Qi Ji hadn't lived with them all along and hadn't actually looked like a sika deer, the deer herd would probably be looking at Qi Ji as if he were a large carnivore.

Even Qi Ji's mother didn't come over immediately. Instead, she hesitated for a long time before approaching Qi Ji and sniffing him closely.

Although the scent remained unchanged, the way it looked at Qi Ji changed somewhat after seeing the antlers growing on Qi Ji's head.

It's not that they've become hostile and repulsed, but rather that they've developed a feeling of looking at other sika deer, lacking the gentleness and care they previously showed when looking at their own children.

Qi Ji naturally noticed this slight change as well.

Is it because I'm fully grown up now?

Qi Ji had some guesses.

According to his understanding from his previous life, female mammals automatically produce procreation hormones after giving birth. These hormones control them to continuously raise their offspring, and they will not go into heat even during the normal estrus cycle of their species. This is because the procreation hormones make them determine that raising their offspring is the most important thing at present. These procreation hormones will only disappear when their offspring grow up and leave them.

Qi Ji's mother was in the same situation at that time.

Although Qi Ji had not left, the growth of the deer antlers and its size, which was no less than its own, made it instinctively realize that its child had grown up. In this situation, the secretion of maternal hormones in its body would automatically stop, which also caused Qi Ji's mother to no longer care about Qi Ji as much as before.

In fact, this change has been gradually becoming apparent over this period of time.

The frequency of the daily care and licking became less and less, and the time they spent sleeping together at night was not as long as at the beginning. This all proved that the maternal hormones in Qi Ji's mother's body were decreasing.

Just now, Qi Ji grew antlers after the third physical enhancement, and antlers can basically be identified as a sign of an adult deer.

In the animal kingdom, children should leave once they reach adulthood.

Qi Ji looked at his departing mother with a slightly complicated expression. He had always struggled with his relationship with his birth mother in this world, but now that the day had come, he couldn't help but feel a complex mix of emotions. He knew it was his own human soul at work.

"Phew... Be rational, Qi Ji."

Qi Ji shook his head, trying to calm himself down and clear his mind.

"I am no longer human, after all. I can't use human standards to judge the habits of animal groups. Perhaps this is for the best. In accordance with the laws of the species, it's time for me to leave this place."

To be honest, Qi Ji wasn't sad at all; he just hadn't expected this day to come so soon.

He did not choose to leave immediately, but instead chose to follow human custom and leave the following morning.

Instead of getting close to the deer herd, Qi Ji walked a short distance away to rest and eat some grass to regain some strength.

Time slipped away slowly, and then, in the evening, a voice suddenly echoed in Qi Ji's mind.

Congratulations on obtaining a Legendary Spirit Point! Legendary Spirit Point +1

"!"

Qi Ji stared wide-eyed in surprise.

What's the deal with the legendary Spirit Point?

He didn't do anything.

The next second, Qi Ji seemed to receive some information from the depths of his being and instinctively turned his head to look in a certain direction.

"It's that little girl..."