Chapter 223: Cultivating Feelings, Building Trust

After the things were counted and organized, Lin Zhangqing collected them into different storage bags according to their categories for easy searching later.

Then the two began to drink tea and chat; Chen Zi Ya stayed with Lin Zhangqing for a relatively long time today, staying here all morning, and didn't go back until almost noon.

Before leaving, she returned a spirit beast bag to Lin Zhangqing; inside were exactly the twenty-four Purple Crystal Scorpions that Lin Zhangqing specifically left behind to protect her before setting off for Qiyun Prefecture.

After Lin Zhangqing took it, he collected them into the spirit beast bracelet, and also left some minced meat and a piece of ice crystal for them to gnaw on slowly.

After Lin Zhangqing returned to the Chen family, his cultivation and daily routine became regular again; after Chen Zi Ya left, he activated the Mystery Array and the Spirit Gathering Array, and began to cultivate various spells and divine abilities.

After more than two hours, he completed his cultivation task; thinking of the Earth-Armored Rhinoceros he had just contracted still in the mine tunnel.

And the three little Earth-Armored Rhinoceroses, two or three days had already passed, and he didn't know how they were doing! So Lin Zhangqing decided to go over and take a look at them.

Communicating with Lin Zhangliu in his heart, he asked it to leave a spatial mark in this room, which would be convenient for returning later.

Then he entered the inner space and told Lin Zhangliu that he was going to the mine tunnel where the Earth-Armored Rhinoceroses were.

After getting its feedback, Lin Zhangqing walked toward the courtyard.

This time, he harvested quite a few spirit stones in that evil cultivator's storage bracelet; Lin Zhangqing prepared to pour those fifty thousand-plus mid-grade spirit stones into the deep pit for Lin Zhangliu to absorb and digest.

And the three pieces of upper-grade spirit stone raw ore harvested in the Jinzhou Prefecture gambling stone workshop this time were also thrown into the deep pit together.

There was no other way; if they weren't thrown in, it would be a waste to leave them outside, so let Lin Zhangliu use them to improve its strength; finding things in the room, then coming to the edge of the deep pit, the three pieces of upper-grade raw ore were thrown in directly, followed by the mid-grade spirit stones, all poured directly from the storage bag into the deep pit.

Soon, he received feedback from Lin Zhangliu in his heart; waves of happy emotions spread in his heart; since advancing to the third stage, Lin Zhangliu's meaning was clearer.

These emotions were much richer than before; he looked forward to it recovering quickly and being able to bring more surprises to Lin Zhangqing.

After doing this, the seven Three-Colored Deer had already come to Lin Zhangqing's vicinity in company, but from the position they stood, one could see the difference in their relationships.

Lu Youqiang and his family were behind Lin Zhangqing, while Lu Youguang and his family were three or four zhang away.

However, they were all Lin Zhangqing's spirit pets; now that there were more deer, Lin Zhangqing changed the order a bit, first feeding the Spirit Nurturing Pill; he fed two to the second-stage Lu Youqiang and Lu Xiaoya, and one to the other first-stage ones, from big to small.

The last one fed was Lu Xiaomin; Lin Zhangqing took the opportunity to catch it, hold it in his arms, and stroke its fur; it was scared and "Yo-yo!"-ed toward its parents.

Lu Youguang and the others also responded to it, but it looked like they were comforting it.

So soon, Lu Xiaomin stopped calling and stayed obediently in Lin Zhangqing's arms, a pair of cute big eyes staring at him timidly.

Lin Zhangqing was almost melted by this little thing; among all of Lin Zhangqing's spirit pets now, it was the cutest and most adorable, and Lu Xiaoling had already been replaced by it.

Just thinking of Lu Xiaoling, unexpectedly Lu Xiaoling came, and after "Yo-yo!"-ing twice toward Lin Zhangqing, it drilled directly into Lin Zhangqing's arms.

Now it had first-stage late-grade cultivation, but it was more than four chi tall, almost reaching adulthood; fortunately, it was a female deer and had no antlers, so it wouldn't hurt Lin Zhangqing.

However, Lin Zhangqing still hurriedly hugged its neck, lest it squeeze Lu Xiaomin; it was jealous because it saw Lin Zhangqing holding Lu Xiaomin and not holding it!

Lin Zhangqing couldn't help but laugh; he didn't expect the little deer to be so interesting, and Lu Xiaoling would actually be jealous.

Holding them together in his arms, stroking their fur, then it was the little male deer Lu Xiaokang, followed by Lu Xiaomei and Lu Youguang.

Anyway, he stroked all the Three-Colored Deer once; this was also the time to increase feelings and build trust with them.

After such a contact, he felt that the relationship with Lu Youguang and his family had suddenly narrowed quite a bit.

Just as Xu Meiniang and Zhao Liyu also came over, after they finished saluting, Lin Zhangqing directly instructed them to go and get two more bundles of alfalfa grass for him. Actually, just when Lin Zhangqing threw the spirit stones into the deep pit, Lin Zhangliu had already notified him that he had arrived.

The following days were relatively stable; his daily cultivation and daily routine were all regular.

Especially Lu Youguang and his family, because they had just arrived in the inner space, so he had to spend more time accompanying them.

In just a short while, Xu Meiniang and the others brought two bundles of alfalfa grass; Lin Zhangqing didn't know if the Earth-Armored Rhinoceroses would eat this; this was just an attempt of his.

If they ate it, of course it would be better; if they didn't eat it, it didn't matter; anyway, for the Earth-Armored Rhinoceroses, Lin Zhangqing had already made up his mind to mainly let them roam free.

If he had to raise them, he definitely couldn't afford to raise them, so he had to let them roam free, otherwise, it wouldn't take long before they could make Lin Zhangqing go bankrupt.

Instead, when the Earth-Armored Rhinoceroses found an ore vein, if Lin Zhangqing felt it was necessary, they still had to mine some ore to send to Lin Zhangqing.

This was the correct way to use the Earth-Armored Rhinoceroses after contracting them, rather than inviting them back and raising them like masters; the Earth-Armored Rhinoceroses must create value for him.

After collecting the two bundles of alfalfa grass into the storage bag, he let the deer go play by themselves, and also let Xu Meiniang and the others go do their own things and not worry about him.

Subsequently, Lin Zhangqing exited the inner space and appeared directly in that Yellow Earth Crystal mine tunnel; as soon as he looked over, he immediately saw the five Earth-Armored Rhinoceroses.

Jin Yi and Jin Er had no spirit, their bodies unfolded and lay on the ground, while the three little guys were digging for ore.

Seeing Lin Zhangqing come over, Jin Yi and the others were quite happy and immediately stood up and came to his side; Lin Zhangqing reached out to stroke their pointed heads; to tell the truth, the feeling was much worse than the Three-Colored Deer.

But no matter what, they were his own spirit beasts, so he had to make do; after stroking for a while, Lin Zhangqing first fed Jin Yi and Jin Er a Spirit Nurturing Pill each, and after seeing that they both liked to eat it, he fed them one more.

Only then did he have time to look at the three little Earth-Armored Rhinoceroses, discovering that they had all advanced; they were first-stage early-grade before, and after taking the Hundred Flowers Drunken Soul Wine, they were now first-stage mid-grade.

And their body length was more than four chi before, but now it was clearly a section longer, and should be more than five chi; the height also had a considerable increase.

When Lin Zhangqing left last time, he also left them quite a bit of demonic beast meat, which was gone now; it was estimated that these three little guys had digested it after advancing.

The three little guys had stopped digging for ore now and were looking at Lin Zhangqing.

They still had a very deep impression of him; he gave them a blow that was painful to the extreme, and also gave them spiritual objects for advancement; how could they not have a deep impression?

Lin Zhangqing didn't know what they were thinking, so he directly took out a large piece of demonic beast meat and began to cut it into strips for easy eating.

He gestured to the three little guys, and they were all eager to try, but just didn't dare to come over; Lin Zhangqing was speechless; they were truly a group of timid guys.

Communicating with Jin Yi and Jin Er through the contract, he let them communicate with the three little guys, and only then did the little guys dare to come to Lin Zhangqing's side.

He began to feed them demonic beast meat; at first, they didn't dare to eat much, so Lin Zhangqing directly stuffed it into their mouths.

At this moment, they let go, and Lin Zhangqing also took the opportunity to stroke their heads.

The three took turns being fed meat; for every piece of meat fed, Lin Zhangqing would stroke their heads; doing this was to let them get used to his existence and start cultivating feelings with them from now on.

After the demonic beast meat was all fed, Lin Zhangqing finally fed them a Spirit Nurturing Pill each, which could be considered keeping the good stuff for last.

After the things were all fed, Lin Zhangqing didn't let them leave either, but kept them by his side to play.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 224 =====