Chapter 86: Purple Golden Flower Fox Marten?

"Hui Siye, have you heard of the Purple Golden Flower Fox Marten race?" Chen Shicheng scratched La Tiao's chin and asked.

"Purple Golden Flower Fox Marten?" Hui Siye lowered his head, recalled for a moment, and said uncertainly, "It seems to be an ancient strange beast, ribs sprouting a pair of wings, size like a wish, flies and eats people. What? Did La Tiao evolve into this species?"

"Not evolution, it's atavism!" Chen Shicheng, as if sunning his own child, raised La Tiao, "Clang clang! Though I'm not very sure, there's a great chance La Tiao is an ancient strange beast!"

"Squeak squeak!"

After atavism, La Tiao's level reset to zero, but its spirit-intelligence did not diminish; instead it became even more agile.

Thus, dissatisfied with its currently exposed lower abdomen, it lowered its head and gently bit the master's finger a few times, then wildly twisted its body in protest.

"Alright, alright, I won't lift it. Our La Tiao is a shy little fellow." Chen Shicheng scratched La Tiao's chin, then opened the Storage Bag, "You've slept so long, you're hungry, right? There's something tasty inside, go in and eat a bit."

"Squeak!"

As the Storage Bag opened, a strong scent of blood drifted out; La Tiao froze, then its eyes flashed, limbs ready, and it darted straight inside.

The moment it entered the Storage Bag, it spotted two piles of blood-and-flesh mounds on the ground and rushed toward them without hesitation.

A row of small teeth, like a hot knife slicing butter, chomped bone and flesh in big bites, continuously swallowing them into its belly.

But as it ate, it suddenly paused, its little nose twitched, and with a hint of puzzlement it lifted its head, moved to the other side, and locked eyes with the Tai Sui that was feasting heartily.

…

After a moment of Silence, its cute little face broke into an excited grin, a row of sharp teeth flashing, causing the Tai Sui to startle sharply.

After tossing La Tiao into the Storage Bag to eat, Chen Shicheng waited in place for a moment, but his small team led by Gan Jiang Mo Evil did not return, leaving him a bit regretful.

But since the people didn't come back, it gave him a spot to grind monsters, so he gave up the idea of trapping them again, and alone sealed the gap, continuing to use Soul-Attracting Incense to grind monsters.

However, after the first use of Soul-Attracting Incense, the wild beasts within a ten‑kilometer radius were already cleared; even when he lit the incense again, the subsequent beasts that arrived were noticeably fewer and pitifully lower in level.

Moreover, these beasts are born of heaven and earth's resentment and leave no corpses after death, so Chen Shicheng only farmed twice, exhausted the number of Merit Points extractions, and then leisurely returned to the inn at the gathering point.

Upon entering, he immediately extended his Divine Perception into the Storage Bag to see how La Tiao was eating, but the scene inside made his face turn dark.

La Tiao, panicked, was darting around the two piles of blood-and-flesh mounds, while the Tai Sui, with a small gap at the edge of its body, kept appearing and disappearing, chasing with earth‑dodge.

Fortunately, La Tiao's spirit-intelligence is higher than the Tai Sui's; at the instant the Tai Sui vanished with earth‑dodge, it still knew to run toward the blood‑flesh mounds, otherwise it might have been digested down to no bones.

Even so, amid the peril, as La Tiao fled it still slyly stared at the gap on the Tai Sui's body, a glistening droplet slowly sliding from its mouth corner.

"What a sin."

Chen Shicheng, with dark lines over his head, pulled the two critters out of the Storage Bag.

The moment it hit the ground, La Tiao reacted, darting onto Chen Shicheng, shoving Hui Siye aside, its face full of innocent chirps, as if accusing the Tai Sui's misdeeds.

The Tai Sui, after crashing onto the wooden floor, realized there was no earth beneath it, shook its body, got up and kept crawling toward La Tiao. Seeing this, Chen Shicheng, speechless, gave La Tiao's little head a light tap, and simultaneously lifted his foot to block the Tai Sui trying to climb onto his body.

The impeded Tai Sui reacted for a while before grasping Chen Shicheng's meaning, extending two tentacle-like fingers to wave at La Tiao incessantly, as if accusing, while La Tiao, unwilling to back down, shouted even louder.

One marten and one Tai Sui thus talked past each other, beginning a debate between different species.

"Stop!"

Chen Shicheng, dizzy, lifted La Tiao from his shoulder, pointed at the Tai Sui on the ground and said, "From now on, you're my junior, you must never eat it, understand?"

"Squeak?"

La Tiao innocently shook its head, indicating it hadn't eaten.

"Hehe."

Chen Shicheng let out a cold laugh, pointed at the gap on the Tai Sui's body, then compared it to the size of La Tiao's mouth.

In that moment, silence spoke louder; the dumbfounded La Tiao subconsciously licked its mouth, then its head and limbs drooped weakly, looking utterly aggrieved.

Seeing it realize its mistake, Chen Shicheng, reluctant to keep scolding it, tapped its little nose and placed it on the ground.

Then he drew the gourd he had obtained from Hui Siye, set it beneath the Tai Sui's wound, his hand continuously "caressed" the Tai Sui's top, watching Tai Sui Blood flow into the gourd, and soothing it regardless of whether the Tai Sui could understand.

"This is my fault; I forgot to introduce you two. Of course, it's not too late now. Its name is La Tiao; by order, you should call it big brother, and it will call you little brother."

Although the Tai Sui possesses spirit-intelligence, it is unusually simple; even after scratching its head with its tentacles for a while, it didn't grasp Chen Shicheng's meaning.

However, it sensed from the tone that Chen Shicheng didn't want it to take revenge.

Thinking of the stable life inside the Storage Bag and the countless blood and flesh, it weighed the options for a while, then hesitantly retracted its tentacles, but its body, sulky, curled up while moving away from La Tiao, whose eyes still glowed at it.

"So good!"

Seeing the Tai Sui understand, Chen Shicheng nodded with satisfaction.

At the same time he noticed the Tai Sui's wound beginning to contract and the blood ceasing to flow, so while retrieving the gourd he also slipped the sulky, curled-up Tai Sui into the Storage Bag.

【Tai Sui Blood: After consumption, it can restore any injury in a very short time; adding it when refining Elixirs greatly enhances their effect.】

This time the covertly collected blood was scant, barely noticeable in the gourd's vast interior.

But based on last time a single drop could soothe meridian injuries, if all this blood were drunk, it could likely restore a near‑death person to full condition; roughly speaking, this blood amounts to a whole life!

Formally fastening the gourd to his waist, Chen Shicheng tapped La Tiao's little head again, warning it never to provoke the Tai Sui again, then placed it back into the Storage Bag.

(End of Chapter)