Chapter 1456: Little Jin Dragon and the Guardian Phoenix 09

Inside the zoo.

The staff looked on, troubled, at the scene not far away.

How can there be a visitor who scares tigers to tears! Is that even reasonable!

"Really boring."

Jin Chen rubbed another tiger's head, and saw that several tigers around were lying down, trembling; the one he petted was so frightened it could go into shock at any moment.

This had the staff worried sick, and some even suggested calling the police.

You know those tigers are usually the fiercest! They wouldn't even dare to get off the sightseeing car, but this guy just jumped down and got into a scuffle with them!

Jin Chen walked deeper into the lawn, with two bold lions following behind him, already treating him as their boss.

The further he went in, the stronger the demonic aura he could feel.

Jin Chen frowned slightly, dissatisfied, and simply blocked his sense of smell.

What kind of demon is this, smellier than the crane demon at Ning Ze's place?

Even the demons on Yao Mountain who never bathe don't have this kind of stench.

【According to this world's setting, the more harm a demon does, the greater its karmic burden, and the smellier it becomes—those evil demons even take pride in it.】

Ling Gun Gun explained, but he still couldn't understand it at all.

【However, Host, the demons in the zoo are somewhat related to the protagonist's ordeal—it's a weasel demon, a little brother of He Yi.】

No wonder they all reek together.

"Handsome guy! Handsome guy!"

Jin Chen turned his head and looked back.

A girl on the sightseeing car shouted anxiously, "My phone fell down—can you pick it up for me?"

Jin Chen looked in the direction the girl pointed; two tigers curiously circled the phone, pawing at it.

He raised his hand, gave a thumbs-up, and snatched the phone from the tiger's jaws.

The tiger, frightened, covered its head and fled; to appease him, it even carried the raw meat the keeper had brought at noon over to Jin Chen.

Jin Chen: "……"

"Eat your own." Jin Chen rubbed the tiger's head again, just like rubbing a dog.

Amid the starry eyes of several girls and the looks of male visitors who felt "shown up" by this kid, Jin Chen hopped onto the sightseeing car in a couple of moves and returned the phone to the girl just now.

"Thank you, really thank you!"

"You're awesome, handsome guy—does your job also involve tigers?"

Jin Chen coldly shook his head. "No."

"I have no job; I live off my wife's soft meals."

But being terse is practically a standard accessory for a handsome guy; the girl who dropped her phone earlier mustered the courage to want to add Jin Chen as a social media friend.

Jin Chen: "I don't have a phone."

Really, I'm not lying to you.

But hearing it, it sounds like a refusal—and the most face‑losing kind at that.

Jin Chen planned to continue deeper on the sightseeing car, which would be much faster than walking.

——

Then, when Chang Li came looking for him, what he saw was Jin Chen bullying the tigers and lions to his heart's content, with several pretty girls surrounding him taking various selfies—he was practically too popular.

Chang Li furrowed his brows; seeing this scene, he instinctively felt a bit unhappy.

His dragon wouldn't listen at all.

He kept saying he wanted to protect him, yet he secretly came to the zoo and had a blast playing with others.

Amid the staff's advice, Chang Li walked toward Jin Chen with a cold expression, as the tigers that had gathered radiated a fierce aura.

Chang Li glanced.

The lead tiger:??

"Roar——"

"This person is even scarier than the last one! Brothers, we're about to run!"

Hearing the tiger's roar, Jin Chen stopped his search for demonic energy; to avoid drawing attention, he agreed to take a few photos, but in the blink of an eye he saw his phoenix approach.

Jin Chen thought, thinking he should still pretend not to be too happy,

but before he could feign it, he saw the phoenix's clearly unhappy expression and immediately felt sorry, moving closer.

"Pho… Chang Li, what's wrong?"

"Could it be that Ning Ze that bastard has already made a move!"

Chang Li didn't want to speak to this dragon, and retreated half a step.

"How can you just run out without my permission?"

His tone was a bit sullen.

It seemed this unhappiness was directed at himself.

Jin Chen blinked blankly, first apologizing for everything: "Sorry."

Then he began to be stubborn.

"But I don't understand what you're talking about, and you still ignore me."

Seeing there was really no drama, several girls had already run back to the sightseeing car, after all they were still afraid.

Chang Li reluctantly said, "Then you also can't come out without telling me."

"Phoenix… were you just jealous?" Jin Chen suddenly asked, raising his eyebrows slightly.

"Not at all, don't spout nonsense."

Chang Li pinched Jin Chen's face, "If you don't behave, I'll send you back to Demon Mountain."

Jin Chen asked, "Fenghuang, are you still willing to leave me?"

Chang Li: "……"

It fell silent again.

He poked Jin Chen's shoulder in anger to vent his frustration, but Jin Chen grabbed his hand tightly and whispered, "Fenghuang, I sense the demonic aura here; it's a vicious demon."

"We'll find it and then kill it."

Evil demons like to eat humans; they indeed need to be dealt with.

Chang Li nodded slightly, and the gloom in his heart lessened a bit.

All right, his dragon isn't disobedient; it just doesn't like to communicate well, and it keeps coming up with antics.

Chang Li silently thought that he should correct Jin Chen's bad habit as soon as possible.

He and Jin Chen walked side by side; suddenly Jin Chen put an arm around his shoulder, Chang Li's heart fluttered slightly, he didn't resist and just let him hold him.

Jin Chen chuckled happily, then tossed away the foul feathers that had gotten on Fenghuang's back.

More than ten minutes later.

They were almost out of the zoo, at the very edge, a small grove of trees.

A yellow weasel demon emerged from the grass pile, still biting a piece of raw meat it had snatched from another animal, chewing it tastelessly.

Suddenly, the yellow weasel demon's short fur ears twitched, stood upright, and its dark eyes stared straight at the nearby entrance.

How could there be the aura of a great demon? That's definitely not a good thing in this place.

The yellow weasel demon squeaked and immediately darted into the burrow.

Suddenly a flame shot toward it, startling it into another squeak as it transformed into human form and rolled to the side.

"Who! That monster barged into your territory, Grandpa Yellow…… Fenghuang! Mom!"

The yellow weasel demon had seen Chang Li before; it had almost been mistakenly injured during Chang Li's fight with the snake demon, and immediately turned pale with fright, helplessly gnawing on its hand.

Chang Li glanced at the bones scattered everywhere, many of which were human; he guessed they were the missing people rumored to have vanished mysteriously from this city.

His tone icy, he said, "It's rare for a yellow weasel to become a demon; you have the innate talent for cultivation, you could attain the Dao by seeking an investiture, so why fall into becoming an evil demon?"

As a divine beast, Chang Li could not understand such behavior at all.

Jin Chen stood beside Chang Li, thinking that as his wife, a single strike would be enough; he fired off a blast and dutifully served as a backdrop, but he never expected the yellow weasel demon's gaze to grow increasingly strange.

Jin Chen:?

This was treating him as a very weak point to break through.