Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Under the sunny skies.
A group of Magical Beasts in Langya Magical Beast Forest gathered outside the cave again. They weren’t here for their king. They were here for… Qingcheng.
After going through duels for the past few days, the Magical Beasts were improving at different speeds.
Today, they had all gathered there because they had thought through this very carefully. They were certain that they wanted to follow Her Excellency Qingcheng!
Qingcheng stood before the empty space outside the cave and saw all the Magical Beasts standing there with determination in their eyes. She felt comforted and happy that she hadn’t made the wrong bet.
“Have all of you thought through this carefully?” Qingcheng asked calmly.
The Magical Beasts all answered together, “We must follow Your Excellency!” None of them hesitated, and they all expressed the same opinion.
After noting their responses, Qingcheng replied in a loud voice, “Excellent! From today, all of you shall follow me and share in both my glory and humiliation!” Her firm and resolute voice made all the Magical Beasts feel a shudder in their hearts.
All of them looked upwards and howled, “All of us will follow Your Excellency till the day we die! If we go against this promise, we will be punished by the heavens and allow the gods to destroy us!” An oath to the heavens was made.
Qingcheng looked at all of them. “I, Feng Qingcheng, will not let any of you down!”
After that, she said, “Tomorrow I will leave this place. You can decide whether you want to leave with me or stay here and cultivate. I will call everyone again before I leave. Alright now, you are all dismissed.”
None of the Magical Beasts asked further questions and obediently returned to their own territory.
Everything was over, and the place became quiet again.
Qingcheng wanted to head into the forest to look for some ingredients as well as some animals to rear inside her interspace.
The most important thing about food on Star Continent was how much Spirit Qi it could replenish. The taste wasn’t important. Also, there were limited types of food available.
She didn’t like those options. Since she had the ability to choose and a huge kitchen inside the interspace, it would be such a waste if she didn’t use the kitchen to make delicious food.
When he saw Qingcheng head off for the forest, Tealwood quickly caught up with her. “Master! Where are you going?”
She didn’t stop and just spoke as she walked, saying, “I want to go into the forest to take a look around and search for some items that I want. You’re welcome to come along.”
The moment Tealwood heard those words, he happily tagged along.
Tealwood was even more familiar with this forest, so bringing him along might help her to find what she wanted.
The two of them walked within the forest at a leisurely pace, as if they were taking a stroll in their backyard. Now and then, they would run into some Magical Beasts, but after greeting them, the Magical Beasts would quickly take their leave. The inner section of the forest was usually considered a danger zone to other humans from outside the forest because the inner section was filled with high-level Magical Beasts, but walking in this area was like going shopping for Qingcheng and Tealwood…
When Qingcheng found some herbs and grasses that she wanted, she would pull the entire plant out of the soil, roots and all, and place them within her interspace. They weren’t very old plants, but she didn’t have to worry about that since she had her interspace.
“Oh? This is a sinkiang arnebia root?” Those were good for treating freckles and acne as well as detoxing the body and was one of the ingredients for refining a Beautifying Pill.
Qingcheng’s eyes lit up when she saw the plant. Beautifying Pills were good stuff! She carefully pulled the entire plant out of the soil and placed it in her interspace’s herb field.
Tealwood was watching rather curiously. His master had gathered many herbs along the way, and each time she picked them, she would make sure to pull the entire plant along with its roots out of the soil.
When Qingcheng saw how Tealwood kept stopped himself again and again despite the fact that he wanted to, she realized what he was puzzled about.
So, she explained to him, “I have an interspace that follows me everywhere, and it can store any living organism. You’ll get to see it in the future.” Then she continued to look for the things she wanted.
After hearing her explanation, Tealwood was immediately enlightened. “I thought so! You change your clothes every day, and you often pull things out from nowhere, but I don’t see any storage ring on you. Heh heh!”
She looked at how Tealwood was smiling so foolishly and couldn’t help but roll her eyes at him.
However, it was clear from her slightly upturned lips that she was in a good mood. She wasn’t worried about letting Tealwood know about the bangle interspace because he was a Magical Beast that was bonded to her with his own life! He was a partner who would never betray or turn on her! He would be completely different from her partner in her previous life, Yama.
After that, she found a few other plants along the way. There was wild ginger, fennel, pepper, and some other condiments. She put all of them into her interspace.
“Master! Why are you keeping all these random weeds? And I don’t see you roasting any of the little animals that we’ve caught so far…”
Tealwood didn’t understand at all. These were all random plants and ordinary animals found in the forest that nobody cared about. They were even worse than a low-grade Magical Beast. But his Master continued to keep them all in her interspace as if they were treasures to her.
Qingcheng explained everything to him amicably, saying, “These are not random weeds. This is pepper, this is fennel, this is ginger, and this is garlic. All these things can be eaten, and they make pretty yummy foods. As for those animals… of course they’re meant for eating, but you’ll understand in due course.”
Tealwood’s incomparably handsome face suddenly looked a little bashful as he clasped his hands together and started speaking shyly, “Master, are you really really good at making yummy food? Do you think you could let Tealwood try some? Pretty pleaaase? Tealwood has never really eaten human food before, and I’ve always been eating raw foooood… can I? Can I?” He fluttered his beautiful almond-shaped eyes a few times.
Qingcheng immediately felt disgusted. “Speak properly! Otherwise, shut up!”
Tealwood was stunned!
“Er… Master! I want to eat some of the delicious food you make!”
Then he started grumbling in his heart, “Don’t all those female humans speak like that to male humans? Then the males immediately agree to anything they ask for. Why doesn’t this cutesy manner of speech work on my Master?”
If Qingcheng knew what he was thinking about, she would definitely have kicked him far, far away. He was a disgrace to his Master! Tealwood was a male, for crying out loud! Not a female! But there was no way Qingcheng would ever know because Tealwood would never tell her this… he didn’t dare to say anything out of line after being shouted at earlier.
Just as they were ready to move forward, a little furry fellow appeared in Qingcheng’s way in a panic. Qingcheng was about to react, but the little fellow immediately jumped into her arms before she could do anything. Even Tealwood hadn’t managed to stop the little fellow from doing so.
That was despite Tealwood being a Sacred Beast.
The little fellow was completely white and furry all over. It leaped onto Qingcheng’s chest and held on to her tightly.
Er…
Tealwood looked at how this little fellow was holding on tightly to Qingcheng, and then he saw how Qingcheng’s expression had immediately darkened. “Ahem… ahem… Master… I didn’t see anything…”
He quickly turned away. Goodness! Master’s expression was so nasty, it was terrifying!
Qingcheng looked down at the little ball of fur clinging onto her chest. She pulled it off and held it up in front of her.
The little fellow was desperately flailing about, but it stopped moving and became quiet after it saw Qingcheng.
Its eyes were large and teary, its two front paws were clasped together, and it looked very upset indeed. “Boohoo… don’t abandon me here! There are bad guys trying to catch me! My mother has disappeared, and I’m the only one left… boohoo…” It looked so pitiful.
Tealwood was so surprised that he spun around again. “What? You know how to speak like humans?”
That’s right! This little fellow was actually speaking like a normal human being.
The little fellow didn’t answer Tealwood and continued to look pitifully at Qingcheng. But Qingcheng just looked at it without responding.
The creature started to feel even more uneasy when Qingcheng looked at it like this…