Chapter 35: I Have an Affinity with This Object!

Although the Flower and Bird Market is named for flowers and birds.

In fact, birds have long since ceased to occupy a mainstream position for various reasons.

Most shops in the market primarily sell various flowers, plants, and small animals.

Kittens, puppies, hamsters, lizards, miniature pigs, and so on can all be seen on this street.

Su Ping walked slowly, his gaze sweeping over those pets from time to time.

By visual estimation, about one-tenth of the pets possessed spiritual nature.

This proportion was already quite astonishing.

In the Cultivation World, this proportion might only be one in a thousand, but those in the Cultivation World with true talent had become Demon Beasts since their ancestors, and what can be caught in the mortal world are actually those left behind generation after generation.

It is not that the difference between the two worlds cannot be understood.

Furthermore, this is just a visual estimate; it will miss some pets that are severely introverted, and the actual proportion will still change.

However, spiritual nature is one thing, but the quality is not higher than that of Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui that he bought back then.

Su Ping was not in a hurry either; he walked back and forth on the street twice before entering a shop.

After twenty years of cultivating, Su Ping no longer had much feeling for the prices of goods that did not use Spirit Stone.

If it can be exchanged directly or indirectly for gold, then it is cheap! Consequently, the shopkeepers who received Su Ping were quickly filled with smiles and became incomparably enthusiastic toward Su Ping.

Such distinguished guests who come to the Flower and Bird Market without bargaining at all have become increasingly rare over the years; they must be cherished!

Su Ping bought three Wen Birds.

Compared to the more popular parrots, Su Ping valued the cultivation potential of the Wen Birds more.

Then Su Ping also bought a milk-white puppy whose spiritual nature was among the best in the market.

Carrying the birdcage and the dog cage, Su Ping walked to the last shop on his plan.

"Old man, can your black cat be sold?"

Su Ping did not look at the flowers and plants filling the surroundings of the shop or the ornamental fish in the fish tank.

He looked at the old man who was lying on a wooden chair, closing his eyes and listening to a soft tune in his Bluetooth headset.

The old man opened his eyes and thought with some confusion.

Then he turned his head to look at the litter of kittens in the corner of the wall.

That was the litter of kittens born after their family's old mother cat didn't know where she went, got pregnant, and then came back.

His old cat was not a precious breed, so this litter of kittens was naturally not worth much.

Like many people who have a pile of kittens born to a house cat, he was also pondering how to give them to others for adoption.

Now hearing that a customer wanted one, he opened his mouth, swallowed the three words "I'll give it to you," and changed them to: "This cat of mine is one I raised myself; I've raised it for more than ten years, and I have feelings for it..."

"You..."

Su Ping looked at the old man who was hesitating, walked into the shop, and looked at the Xiao Hei Mao with a gentle gaze.

"Old man, I really like that black cat; I have an affinity with it."

"You know, we Daoists value this the most."

"Sorry to trouble you to part with it."

The old man had originally wanted to start with a high price and then slowly negotiate to sell the black cat.

Suddenly, he saw clearly that the customer who walked over was actually a Daoist! And he looked like the real deal!

Just this temperament, this immortal air!

He definitely wasn't a fake! The old man couldn't help but feel guilty in his heart.

When people get old, they can't help but tend to believe in some things that may or may not be true.

Added to that, the Daoist wanted to buy a black cat.

The old man couldn't help but recall the rumors he had heard since childhood about black cats having an evil nature.

He didn't dare to ask for a high price, but instead said: "If there is truly an affinity, these kittens of mine aren't worth anything; if the Daoist wants one, just take it."

"Then I thank you, old man."

Su Ping half-squatted down and reached out his hand; in fact, he secretly used the Object Manipulation Technique to envelop the Xiao Hei Mao, which was in a dazed state.

Then the scene that left the old man dumbfounded happened.

The Xiao Hei Mao in the cat nest, which would clearly be shunned and immediately run away if he wanted to touch it.

Now it was trotting out of the cat nest and actively lying on the palm of this Daoist. And it let out a series of weak meows.

"That really is strange!"

The old man felt even more that Su Ping, this Daoist, was someone with real ability.

He even wanted to ask Su Ping which Daoist temple he was from, as he wanted to go and form a connection.

Then he discovered that in just that moment of being stunned.

The figure of that Daoist had already left the threshold.

Then he felt his mobile phone vibrate slightly in his thigh pocket.

A pleasant female voice rang out from the headset on his left ear:

"Payment received: 1000 yuan!"

Selling a house cat for one thousand yuan definitely counts as a high price.

It's just that the old man who had seen Su Ping could not be happy no matter what.

He always felt that failing to form a connection with that Daoist was definitely a huge loss for him!

Su Ping left the Flower and Bird Market.

What he said earlier about having an affinity with the black cat was not a lie either.

The first time he saw that black cat, he thought of himself twenty years ago before he went to the Cultivation World.

At that time, Su Ping also kept a small black cat, which was also a kitten born from a domestic cat given by someone else.

Back then, Su Ping adopted two, one white and one black.

As it turned out, the white one was docile and obedient, but the black one seemed to have a rebellious streak from birth; not only did it never get close to people, but it also frequently went missing.

Even its meowing was rarely heard.

What was even more mysterious was that when they had grown a bit, Su Ping prepared to have them neutered to avoid being caught off guard by an extra litter of kittens.

The black cat heard Su Ping while he was on the phone contacting the vet.

This black cat seemed to understand, or perhaps it knew that something bad was going to happen.

It actually escaped right then and there and never returned home to eat that free cat food again.

Because of this, Su Ping was left with a deeply profound impression of the spiritual nature of black cats.

And this small black cat this time.

Was indeed the animal with the most conspicuous spiritual nature in this flower and bird market! Such an animal.

Su Ping even somewhat suspected that if this small black cat had been born in the Cultivation World, would it have been gifted with extraordinary talent and spontaneously become a Demon Beast!

He returned to East King Temple, accepted the supplies prepared by the young Daoist Zhou Xuan, left behind gold, and then went back to the Cultivation World.

Meow! The small black cat had been in a state of fear, but suddenly, it seemed to sense that something in the outside world was different.

Between breaths, it seemed that something was making its whole body feel warm and exceptionally comfortable! The small black cat began to disregard its previous terror and wholeheartedly started taking deep, large breaths.

Afterwards, such good times did not last long.

With a meow, the small black cat was shaken out of Su Ping's sleeve.

Upon landing, the small black cat immediately began to shiver.

It had seen two large rats standing on their hind legs, staring at it with ill intent.

Although it had a slight advantage in size, the small black cat could vaguely sense that it could not beat these large rats!

"Tsk tsk tsk, it really is divinely gifted by nature; it can already absorb Qi into its body just by coming into contact with a Spirit Qi environment."

"The animals and plants of my hometown might all have very deep potential for development!"

Watching the changes in the small black cat, Su Ping's eyes lit up.

Then Su Ping took out a Spirit Talisman for beast taming and, taking advantage of the fact that this batch of pets was still in a dazed state, forcibly established a contract with them.

And then, drawing on his previous experience.

Su Ping, with a Waste Pill in one hand and Life Spirit Medicine and Purification Spirit Medicine in the other.

Promoted the three Wen Birds, the puppy, and the small black cat he had harvested this time into Spirit Beasts! The three Wen Birds were named Wen Yi, Wen Er, and Wen San.

After becoming slightly familiar with their transcendent bodies, they took flight under Su Ping's mental command, soaring five or six hundred meters into the sky in the blink of an eye.

Instantly, the high-altitude perspective of the entire Linyue Villa appeared in Su Ping's mind.

(End of this chapter)