Chapter 21: Summoned Beast
Qin Tang and Qin Xun stopped digging plants and looked over suspiciously.
When they saw the white porcelain teacup in Qin Bi's hand, their eyes were slightly stunned. Suddenly, the two stood up and walked over quickly. Rong Yan was also in a daze; it was his first time seeing someone condense a magic tool.
Jiang Xu climbed up from the ground; he had fallen down in his shock just now.
Several people gathered around, surprised and novel.
"Do you have condensing energy?" Rong Yan asked.
Although Qin Bi was distracted and had a feeling of unreality, she still sensed everyone's shock. Her heartbeat accelerated—not the usual panic, but a kind of surprise.
She didn't say she had condensing energy. Qin Bi said: "I occasionally condense this kind of teacup."
Qin Xun was excited: "This is having condensing energy."
Qin Tang was so excited he couldn't speak. He was the eldest legal son of the Fourth Branch. When the Fourth Branch had an eldest legal daughter, as the family of Rong Juan's fiancée, the Fourth Branch had once been glorious. But later, the eldest legal daughter was gone, and Rong Juan no longer looked after the Fourth Branch.
Qin He didn't like the Fourth Branch either, so the Fourth Branch hadn't had it easy these years.
"Good, it's good to have condensing energy." Qin Tang was surprised and sour.
Qin Bi couldn't stand any abnormality now. Qin Tang's emotions directly affected her, and her eyes turned red. Qin Bi cried again. Oh my, Rong Yan's chubby face wrinkled into a bitter melon.
A dodder flower having condensing energy was not as good as letting someone else have condensing ability.
"Don't cry, don't cry." Qin Lang's mood was active, and he coaxed Qin Bi with a good temper. Before, Qin Bi's crying had made Qin Lang feel very annoyed, but now Qin Lang was stimulated by the magic tool and coaxed Qin Bi: "Sister, we have a summoning magic tool, we still have to kill the beast."
Qin Bi sobbed: "I know."
Jiang Xu had a headache and gave Qin Xun a wink. Qin Bi followed and looked at Qin Xun. In front of her, winking couldn't be hidden; she saw it. What was it for? Qin Xun was almost laughed to anger.
Qin Tang understood and asked Qin Bi for the teacup. Rong Yan and Jiang Xu immediately squeezed their heads to check this summoning magic tool.
Qin Lang also looked expectantly: "Two summoning magic tools should be able to kill that beast. That is a low-level beast."
Qin Bi offered an opinion: "No pattern. I looked, people's teacups have plants and beasts on them."
The white porcelain Qin Bi condensed was clean, with no patterns at all.
Rong Yan understood and gave Qin Bi pointers: "You can use spiritual plant energy wood to draw patterns."
Hearing spiritual plant energy wood, Qin Bi had an impression and took a section of spiritual plant from her storage bag: "This? I have it."
"Yes, yes, yes, this is the spiritual plant energy wood." Now everyone was excited. Rong Yan felt that killing a beast wasn't impossible, so he hurriedly guided Qin Bi: "Use the spiritual plant energy wood, mobilize your condensing ability to draw a small beast, or a plant will do."
Rong Yan was just about to say that vine plants had strong lethality and were relatively easy to draw compared to other small beasts and plants.
Qin Lang was also just about to help with ideas, but Qin Bi wiped her tears and said: "I know how to draw a cat."
"Uh..."
Rong Yan and Qin Tang and the others looked at each other. There were people who used cats as summoned beasts, but their body size was too small. In terms of combat power, larger body size had an advantage, but for a condensing ability novice, being good at it was the most important.
Qin Bi wasn't good at drawing anything else. If she drew it wrong, a summoning magic tool would almost be wasted.
"Drawing a cat is fine." Rong Yan accepted it. It was good enough that the dodder flower could stand up; what else could you expect from her? Rong Yan had never had such a headache in his life: "Try your best to draw the small beast a bit fiercer."
Qin Bi thought for a moment: "I don't know how."
Rong Yan: "..."
Qin Tang spoke: "Draw it however you want."
This was easy to say. Qin Bi started drawing. Jiang Xu called Qin Xun to investigate that horned beast. It was a deer, not small, a herbivorous beast, not far away.
Qin Tang and Qin Lang stared, and Rong Yan turned his gaze away, not looking at Qin Bi drawing the summoning pattern.
Everyone thought it would take half a day. Many condensing energy masters took several days, or even half a month, to draw a summoning pattern.
Who knew, a newborn calf was truly awesome. Qin Bi first drew a circle, tore a pancake and drew it on the cat's head, two round eyes, drew the nose and mouth in a few strokes, and before a cup of tea was finished, Qin Bi had finished drawing.
"Done." Qin Bi handed the teacup to Qin Tang.
Qin Tang was stunned. Playing around, right?!
Qin Lang also looked surprised. Rong Yan turned his head to look, and sure enough, a cat was drawn on the summoning magic tool. Qin Bi's drawing was extremely simple, but it couldn't stop the flow of condensing energy, forming a small beast on its own.
Rong Yan blinked: "The summoned beast looks a bit small."
Qin Bi had already tried her best to draw it large. She poked her head: "The teacup is only this big."
This concubine-born Heir Apparent Consort didn't know anything. Rong Yan didn't say anything else and called Qin Tang and Qin Lang to discuss killing the beast. Qin Bi thought about being aggrieved for so many years. If the magic tool she condensed could kill a beast, her heartbeat would accelerate.
Condensing a magic tool was just an accident. Qin Bi wanted to try if she could condense it again.
Walking away, she found a piece of sandy soil, dug open the dry soil, and waited until the soil had some moisture. Qin Bi took the soil with her handkerchief, pressed it with her hand, and after a while, condensed another teacup.
Qin Bi's heartbeat was fierce. She took the teacup and continued to condense, but her vision went black. She was startled, guessing that the consumption of condensing energy was too severe. A magic tool condensed by mistake couldn't be successful every time.
Qin Bi took the teacup back and offered it like a treasure: "I condensed another one."
Qin Tang was stunned: "..."
Qin Lang: "..."
Rong Yan was dizzy and excited: "Try condensing again."
Qin Bi told him: "I tried, it didn't condense, and my vision went black."
"Then don't condense anymore," Rong Yan said: "Your condensing energy consumption is severe."
Jiang Xu and Qin Xun returned and told the situation of the beast they investigated. Qin Bi took the opportunity to draw a summoned beast on the new magic tool, still a cat, and finished it in a few strokes.
Now that they had three summoning magic tools, Qin Tang and his party didn't dare to be ostentatious.
No other reason, their strength was insufficient, and they were worried about having the summoning magic tools snatched.
Taking a detour, they saw the beast eating grass. Rong Yan took out his summoning magic tool and summoned a bean sprout, a few leaves. Qin Bi's expression stiffened. What could a vegetable do?!
Qin Tang took the summoning magic tool Qin Bi condensed and summoned a cute summoned beast. The small cat was not big, a white tabby cat, opened its mouth and "meowed," the small milky voice clearly having no lethality.
The bean sprout vine waved and pounced on the beast. The tabby cat didn't move at first.
Qin Bi became nervous. Fortunately, when the bean sprout and the beast started fighting, the white tabby cat "whoosh" ran over and joined the battle. Qin Tang and Rong Yan held the magic tools and watched the battle.
Qin Bi just felt that this magic tool was powerful. People holding the magic tool didn't need to go into battle to fight the beast; having the summoned beast and summoned plant fight was enough. ===== CHAPTER 22 =====
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