Slow Fairy Road (Fairy Spirit Realm)

  Xiao Yao was taken aback, this green-eyed rabbit could actually speak human language?! Wasn't it a little demon? But looking at its appearance, it didn't seem like one, more like a pet for people to admire. So she became even more serious in her study, not paying attention to the other's attitude and harsh words.

  Who would have thought that this rabbit was a natural coward, usually relying on the owner's favoritism, liking to show off with its mouth, but now seeing this person not getting angry and leaving like others, instead staring at itself more carefully and intently, its courage immediately shrunk, it hid its head in the owner's arms and actually started trembling.

  "Hmph", a soft laugh sounded, and then a slender jade hand grasped the rabbit's four ears, lifted it up, and presented it in front of Xiao Yao, "Has this Taoist friend never seen a spirit beast that can speak before?"

  Xiao Yao only then noticed the rabbit's master - a beautiful female cultivator in a purple robe with a veil covering her nose and mouth, a Xian Tian stage cultivator. She also thought that staring at someone else's spiritual beast was very impolite, so she smiled slightly apologetically: "Indeed I have never seen one before, I was momentarily curious, I hope fellow Daoist won't mind."

  "Excuse me, my family has a mouthy one too. I apologize for offending you, fellow Taoist. I hope you won't take it to heart and mind the beast's words." The female cultivator's voice was moving, her eyebrows and eyes also carried a smile, yet her words were apologetic, but her eyes didn't hold any true intention, making her words sound like mere courtesy. However, she calmly accepted the apology, "It's not your fault for being curious, in the inner star zone, there's a famous dan medicine called 'Ling Shen Dan'. If a spiritual beast consumes it, it can speak human language. It's quite rare in the outer star zone, only the renowned families on this island have the ability to obtain it."

  "I see, thank you for enlightening me," Xiao Yao smiled at the female cultivator, ignoring her boastful and showy words, and directly turned around to leave.

  But the nun didn't see the expected admiration or adoration from her counterpart, and under the veil, her pink lips were slightly bitten, she stomped her foot and pinched the rabbit's ear hard, whispering: "A poor and tasteless fool!"

  The rabbit was in so much pain that its mouth twitched three times, and its green eyes were wide with fear, but it didn't dare to make a sound, afraid that the master would pinch it again.

  This scene, Xiao Yao had already gone far away and hadn't noticed, but a certain unscrupulous one in her body had seen everything.

  The large mountain range behind the Upper City is called Meishan Mountain Range. The cave mansion that Xiao Yao got was considered to be in the middle and lower part, in the northwest direction where the mountain range's yuanqi was relatively thin. After she opened the cave mansion with her talisman, she found that it was more spacious than she had imagined, with a total of four stone rooms, as well as a special room for spiritual beasts.

  She took a rough look around and felt very satisfied, then let the leopard come out to set up a stronger protective array. Only then did she sit down on the stone bed and ask the leopard: "Leopard, if you need a reference for the Xianling Realm's techniques, would one book be enough?"

  "Does that even need to be asked? Of course, we'll need to get a few more books, but not necessarily all of the top-level techniques. It's best if they're comprehensive. After all, the methods you've been cultivating so far have always been based on my own experiences and summaries, and although your progress has been smooth, some inexplicable phenomena have appeared, such as having to withstand both human and demon heavenly tribulations. They say that the path of cultivation gets increasingly difficult as one progresses, and after achieving enlightenment, it's even more crucial. To be safe, we can't just rely on my own experiences for reference."

  "Alright, I'll try my best." When it came to matters of personal cultivation, Xiao Yao never argued with Baozi. What he said was what he meant, and there was no room for debate.

  "By the way, I have something to discuss with you." After finishing his cultivation, Baozi suddenly lifted his head and sat on her leg with a serious face. "When we were in the mortal realm, you always made me stay hidden in my dantian, as if I was someone who couldn't be seen by others. Now that we're in the Xianling Realm, shouldn't you let me out to get some fresh air?"

  "How did you suddenly bring this up?" Xiao Yao's eyebrows furrowed, with a bad premonition in her heart. "Didn't we already agree on this? Before ascending to the True Immortal Realm, if I don't give my consent, you can't appear in front of others at will. After all, your identity is too special, and you have many grudges against those above. If you're discovered, both of us will die here, let alone talk about the Great Dao."

  "Damn it! It's been hundreds of millions of years already, and besides, those old guys in the True Immortal Realm don't know that my primordial spirit wasn't sealed in the void!" The leopard waved its paw in protest.

  "That's not going to work!" Xiao Yao said resolutely, "A second-grade Sword-Toothed Leopard not only has the strength of a Houtian cultivator, but can also speak human language. Even if you use mutation as an excuse, it won't fly. Do you think all the cultivators in the Xianling realm are idiots?!"

  The leopard's anger rose, its claws pointing to the tip of his nose: "When we were in the mortal realm, you said the same thing. Looking down on the lowly position in the mortal realm, it is indeed unable to provide goods as high-end as me, so I endured it! But now we are in the Xianling Realm! The demon beasts here can also speak human language if they take the 'Ling Shen Dan'! As long as I don't reveal my true abilities, others will only think you're just a spirit pet, what's strange about that?! To put it bluntly, you just don't want to let me out!"

  Xiao Yao slightly shifted her eyes, and indeed, she was right. Whether it's the mortal world or the fairy spirit world, she really didn't want to let this guy out. If she really let him out, he would absolutely be a troublemaker everywhere, and who knows how much trouble he would bring to herself? As for his solemn promises, she didn't believe a single word!

  She also stiffened her face, and with a burst of energy, she knocked it off her leg. "In short, no means no! Stop causing trouble for me! When you ascend to the True Immortal Realm and recover your body, whether you want to appear or hide, I won't interfere. But as long as you're still sharing my body, everything must be done according to my wishes."

  The leopard's face was as black as iron, his eyes gleaming with a sinister light. "You really won't let me out to see people?!"

  "Don't let go!" Xiao Yao looked down at him with a stern expression.

  Unexpectedly, the leopard listened to her so resolute reply and didn't get angry, but instead suddenly narrowed his eyes, instantly turning back into his usual self, only discontentedly humming: "Not letting go means not letting go, what's there to be fierce about!"

  Xiao Yao's eyebrows furrowed again, this was too abnormal. This guy had never backed down from a fight with her before. When they quarreled, claws and teeth were always bared, it was a usual occurrence. Now, he was so easily reconciled, she seemed to have caught a whiff of something unusual, but couldn't quite put her finger on it. Just as she was thinking of probing further, the spirit beast bag suddenly transmitted an unusual movement.

  Helpless, Xiao Yao had no choice but to temporarily put down her doubts and walked into an empty spiritual beast room on the side, releasing Xiao Yun.

  Ever since being seriously injured in the Shattered Star Valley, Xiao Lü spent several years recovering and then devoted himself to self-cultivation with the ice bead he obtained from the valley inside his spiritual beast pouch. A million years ago, he even entered a state of deep sleep while holding onto the ice bead. Just a few days ago, when Xiaoyao saw him, he was still in deep sleep.

  After coming out, the small bird of prey had a wronged expression and chirped and complained for a while. Since the spiritual beast and its master were in sync with each other's thoughts, even if Xiao Yao couldn't understand its bird calls, she roughly understood what it meant.

  Originally, Xiao Yun's thousand-year slumber was only to digest the ice bead it had obtained. Once digestion was complete, it could cultivate and advance, breaking through to the False Transcendence stage. Who would have thought that just as it woke up and prepared for its final breakthrough, it discovered that it had followed its master to an unfamiliar place, where there was no spiritual energy in the surroundings for it to absorb and cultivate, so it had to forcibly suppress its evolution.

  Xiao Yao was also worried, the beast's power increase was a joyful thing, but unfortunately she had arrived in the Xian Ling realm, where all around her was filled with yuan qi. Xiao Yun was not like the people of the Xian Ling realm who could automatically convert yuan qi into ling qi to cultivate their bodies. At present, she wasn't even as good as a poor farmer, most of the ling stones on her body had been exchanged for yuan crystals, and she didn't know if the remaining ling stones would be enough for it to break through.

  She pondered for a long time, thinking that the flying ascension masters of the past should also have low-level spiritual beasts, and such problems should have been encountered before. Tomorrow, she would first go ask if there was a solution to this problem, and then temporarily suppress her cultivation with Xiao Huan, giving him some top-grade spiritual stones for temporary use.

  Due to Xiao Hui's sudden birth, she was preoccupied with figuring out how to take care of the spiritual beast and save the crystal stone, and unconsciously pushed the abnormality of the leopard cub to the back of her mind.

  On the second day, Xiao Yao went to the Ling Shou shop in the Upper City early in the morning to inquire about it. Fortunately, there is indeed a way for low-level spiritual beasts in the Lower Realm to cultivate in the Xianling Realm, which is to buy a "Ling Kong Jie Zi". What is a "Ling Kong Jie Zi"? It's a spatial artifact that provides a space for cultivation, different from the storage space of an ordinary Jie Zi. If the external yuanqi enters this space, it will automatically convert into lingqi that can be used at will. However, after she asked about the price with great joy, her enthusiasm was immediately extinguished.

  Damn it! A tiny "Ling Kong Jie Zi" actually costs 10,000 mid-grade yuan crystals! Isn't this bullying the poor?!

  Seeing her dispirited face, the shopkeeper was a kind-hearted person and told her that if she wanted to save money, she could also find the materials herself and spend some money to ask a blacksmith for help in forging them, which would save her a lot of expense.

  Upon hearing this method, Xiao Yao's heart was moved. This thing is a kind of treasure, and she herself is an alchemy master. As for the remaining money to ask her master, at the same time, she can also take this opportunity to learn about the Xianling Realm's forging technology. It can be said that one move achieves three gains. The key to the rest is the material and the forging method. How will she get it?

  "Ling Kong Jie Zi" can be sold for such a high price, its materials must not be something that can be bought with just over 30 low-grade yuan crystals on her body. Moreover, the forging method is definitely different from the ordinary attack and defense magic tools, she still needs to spend money to find books to learn. In other words, it still comes down to the problem of yuan crystals, how can she make a lot of yuan crystals in a short period of time?

  Xiao Yao lowered her head and looked at the symbol ring on her hand, then clenched her fist and walked towards the White Jade Pavilion.

  The merits of Bai Yu Bie Yuan can be exchanged for items or books, and when using merits to buy and sell, a certain discount will also be given to the cultivators in the yard, making it more cost-effective for her to earn merits than to earn yuan crystals.

  Arriving at the mission board inside the White Jade Pavilion, Xiao Yao discovered that there were many tasks recorded on it. She scanned through them one by one, muttering to herself: "Which task should I choose?"

  "The old man thinks it's pretty good to hunt and kill air beasts, want to give it a try?"

  "Well, this is a good idea. By the way, I can also see what kind of monster it is..." She said halfway and suddenly felt something was wrong.

  "Think carefully before accepting, then go and kill him directly, what are you waiting for?"

  “……”

  Xiao Yao was shocked and turned her head to see a fluffy head leaning on her shoulder, with two sharp fangs gleaming brightly.