Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Half an hour later, that alluring fragrance started to fill the air…
Yun Yangzi couldn’t wait. He immediately picked one of the chickens up and started munching on it.
Qingcheng packed the remaining twenty-nine chickens in paper bags. Yun Yangzi stuffed everything into his storage ring, and when these yummy smelling chickens were stored inside, they would be kept fresh. He could take them out whenever he wanted to eat, and they would be hot and fresh as if they were just roasted.
Qingcheng took some fruit juice that she made out from her interspace. This one was a mix of many spirit fruits with the flavor of passionfruit. It was even more fragrant and sweet than the juice she had offered him the day before, and she gave him another six containers of it.
“Master, here is some fruit juice that I made myself. Please accept it. This one is passionfruit juice, and it’s specially concocted. You can just treat it like tea and drink it anytime,” she said, briefly introducing the juice.
Yun Yangzi threw aside the remaining chicken bones in his hand and immediately opened one of the containers. “OOOH! This is even more fragrant than yesterday’s!” He smiled so brightly that his eyes nearly disappeared. He dipped a finger in and licked it, and immediately became delirious with joy. “HAHA! It’s simply too delicious! My lovely disciple is simply amazing! Those old fellows are definitely going to be soooo envious of me!!”
Qingcheng didn’t know how to take this Master seriously. Just a moment ago, he was all wise and otherworldly, and then now he was playful and flippant. She just pretended that she hadn’t seen anything…
She walked over to the wolves and knew they were starving, so she got them to hunt an animal down, then took out two containers of fruit juice for them. It wasn’t passionfruit juice, but it was a delicious drink that tasted like orange juice. She got Tealwood to pass it around to all the wolves.
Yun Yangzi put the fruit juice away after he was done with his happy dance. He walked over to Qingcheng and looked sad that he had to go.
“My little Qingcheng… I really have to go now… I will miss you.” He even touched the corner of his eyes dramatically.
Qingcheng initially felt like she would miss him as well when he said these words, but when she saw the way he was acting, that emotion immediately disappeared as she thought to herself, “Master’s acting is really very fake…”
She couldn’t help but interrupt his great show of sadness and say, “Master, don’t worry about leaving. Didn’t you say you’re sending someone to secretly protect me? Then you shouldn’t be worried at all.” She didn’t know who her Master was sending over.
So, she decided to ask directly. “Master, who are you going to send over? How will he find me?” she asked.
When the topic came to this, Yun Yangzi’s attitude instantly turned a little nasty, but the nastiness wasn’t directed at Qingcheng. “Tsk, I’m sending that little idiot! He seems to be a little too free these days, so I will tell him about your situation. Finding you will be a piece of cake for him. But I will instruct him to just keep an eye on you, and he will only appear to help you if you are in danger. So just go ahead and do whatever you want. It doesn’t matter whether he’s there or not. My little Qingcheng is so clever, so perhaps you won’t need him at all, and you’ll settle everything all by yourself!” His smile was a little sneaky… but Qingcheng didn’t take notice.
In any case, since Yun Yangzi guaranteed it, she was confident, too.
Yun Yangzi reached out to gently pat Qingcheng on the head. “Alright now, I really have to go. When I come back to look for you, I hope you will be much stronger than you are now! Hmm? Not bad, you’ve gone up by three tiers in one night. You’re even more amazing than that iceberg-like senior of yours! Haha! Let’s see whether he still dares to act all smug in front of me!” Then he disappeared in a flash, and she was left with only the remaining warmth of his hand on her head.
Qingcheng really felt upset after Yun Yangzi left. She took a while to sort herself out, then continued roasting more food.
After chatting with Tealwood and the rest while eating, it soon reached noontime. She got Tealwood to call back those 100 Magical Beast who had dueled with her and have them gather outside the cave within half an hour, then walked back into the cave and disappeared into her interspace.
Moondevil was done cultivating and immediately came bouncing over to Qingcheng excitedly when it saw her. “Master! I’ve been working really hard at cultivation! It’s great to cultivate inside here!” Its two eyes glittered brightly, and it was so happy.
Qingcheng reached out and cuddled it. After seeing how excited it was, her mood improved as well. “Alright, then. When you have nothing else to do, you can come in here and cultivate. But you must not neglect actual fighting practice as well. That way, your battling experience and prowess will increase more quickly,” Qingcheng emphasized her words.
She didn’t want Moondevil to end up like a building that just kept getting taller without firming up the foundation. When that happened, the building was bound to collapse sooner or later.
“Alright now, go ahead and continue cultivating. I’ll call for you if I need you.” She put Moondevil down again.
She turned to walk to where her Spirit Field was to check how well her Spirit Fruits and the other herbs were growing.
“I’ll create another area at the back here and make this zone separate and inaccessible from the rest of the interspace,” she said.
She floated to the top and waved her hands towards the space that was about ten kilometers away from the Spirit Field. An invisible screen appeared and expanded to cover an area that was about fifty square kilometers in size.
That way, this became an area where nobody was allowed to enter or leave without Qingcheng’s permission.
Outside the cave, all the Magical Beasts had already gathered. Qingcheng saw their excited faces and her lips curled up slightly. “I’m sure everyone knows why I called all of you together, right?” She looked at all the beasts in front of her, and Tealcloud was leading the pack. All of them roared in unison, “Yes, we do!” Of course, all of them knew why and they were all prepared already.
“That’s good. Let me ask you one more time. Is there anyone who doesn’t want to leave and would prefer to stay in the forest?” she asked. She looked around and watched all of their reactions. After ten minutes, not a single one wanted to stay behind.
“Excellent! I want all the Earth Attribute beasts to step out!” Her voice was filled with great authoritativeness.
The twenty Earth Attribute beasts stepped out, and Qingcheng said to Tealwood, “Tealwood, bring Xiaojiu and the other wolves towards the east and the south. About seven kilometers out will suffice. Then get the animals to follow a circular pattern and place one wolf some distance apart from the previous one.” Tealwood couldn’t understand what Qingcheng was trying to do, but he was completely obedient and trusting of her, so he brought the wolves along with him.
Then she looked at the twenty Earth Attribute beasts. “All of you come with me towards the west and the north and stand in the same way I told the wolves to earlier. The rest of you can wait here for now.” Then she led the twenty of them to stand in position.
Fifteen minutes later, Tealwood used his bond with Qingcheng to communicate with her, saying, “Master, I’ve completed my side of the task.”
Qingcheng’s side was done as well. “Alright. Tell them to use their Earth Attribute skills to break the ground. Exert the greatest force they have to make the earth beneath their feet split apart.” She gave the same instructions to the twenty beasts on her side as well.
In no time, the less inhabited western part of the forest started to rumble with the sound of an earthquake, and this rumble reached all the other parts of the forest as well. Some of the higher-level Magical Beasts knew that the earthquake was coming from the direction of their king, so they didn’t find it surprising. They all hid within their dens and didn’t go out.
But the humans walking around the forest didn’t think the same way. There were a few people who looked like mercenary soldiers in the forest. One of them shouted anxiously, “Heizi! Listen! Take a listen! Is that an earthquake? A great wave of beasts might appear in a bit! Let’s go! We’d better leave right now!” He then dragged his companions away and started running out of the forest. They weren’t the only ones who thought this way.
All the humans within the forest immediately started running out. This earthquake sounded like a big one, so they were very afraid. They were frightened because earthquakes would cause a wave of beasts to emerge from the forest! It was most important to escape right now!