Chapter Ninety-six: Cats and Mice

  In a rural garden, Qian Xiaodou sat on an apple tree, secretly eating apples while anxiously thinking to herself: What's going on? How did I end up like this? Eating so many zombie things without turning into a zombie, but instead my powers have increased greatly, breaking through difficulties is already strange enough. Now I've discovered that as long as I cry, it rains heavily from the sky?

  This is really fun, is it good or bad?

  I don't get it, never mind. The master won't say, he must have his reasons. But from now on, if there's a severe drought and I can save the world just by crying, then I'm a hero! Hehe, not bad, Qian Xiaodou is not only beautiful but also has a heroic thought!

  "Hey, you little thief! You dare to steal the apples from my Hédōng Shī family? You're looking for death! Just watch me skin you alive!" Suddenly, a loud, extremely fierce voice of a rural woman rang out!

  Qian Xiaodou's heart was racing with guilt, and she jumped in fright. After taking a deep breath to calm herself down, she immediately pulled out a gold ingot and threw it on the ground, shouting loudly:

  "You this shrew, take your golden ingot and get out of here! The fruits here are all for the young master's consumption. Scram! Don't you dare linger!"

  A woman in her forties quickly picked up the gold ingot and took a bite on it, looking at the shallow tooth marks on the gold, she suddenly exclaimed with great joy:

  "Oh dear, young master, look at this broken mouth of mine! Alright, alright, young master, eat slowly, I'll leave first!"

  "Halt!" Qian Xiaodou felt something was off and hastily stopped the woman, asking: "This is strange, Ben Xiao's divine skill is matchless in the world, how did you discover me? Quickly confess the truth!"

  The woman turned her head and smiled with a big mouth:

  "You don't know, young master, that our place is very close to Jiuhua Mountain, where the land is blessed with talented people. A long, long time ago, a small injured animal, resembling both a cat and a mouse, ran out of the mountain. Our ancestors thought it was cute and took care of it. This little fellow has been helping us guard the orchard for generations. Whenever someone tries to steal fruit, it will sound the alarm. Thanks to it, we haven't lost any fruit in hundreds of years!"

  Qian Xiaodou frowned and asked, "How can sworn enemies like cats and mice live together? What kind of animal is it? Hmm... living for several hundred years isn't anything special for a small animal, but to guard something for several hundred years out of gratitude is truly precious. It's there, I want to see it!"

  The woman's face turned red with embarrassment as she said: "This... this doesn't seem right, our ancestors said that we descendants are not allowed to reveal its news, or else..."

  Qian Xiaodou casually pulled out another gold ingot and immediately put on a serious face, her voice cold as ice:

  "Either you take the gold and tell me its location, or you go die!"

  As they watched the majestic young man pull out a gigantic sword from behind his back, an aura of coldness spread, and timid women quickly knelt down and cried out in pain.

  "Spare my life, young master! That little scamp is right now in the well at the head of the village. Huh? Where's everyone gone? Ah! Could it be a god? And where are my fruits? They're all gone too... but no matter, these two golden ingots will keep me alive for eight lifetimes! Hahaha..."

  Qian Xiaodou didn't have time to care about an ordinary person, because he had a huge appetite. This trip was just for him to come to the mortal world to collect food, but unexpectedly encountered such a thing. With a curious heart, he flew into the well, grabbed a small white creature the size of an arm, and flew up into the sky.

  Halfway through, he finally saw clearly that it was a small cat weasel that had become a spirit. This kind of spiritual creature is not precious and not rare, but its loyalty has won the appreciation of Qian Xiaodou. The greatest use of this spiritual beast is its innate divine power - alertness!

  This little guy has the extraordinary ability to detect danger, which is just useful on this adventure trip. With this little guy standing guard for himself, eating and sleeping are both great!

  "Now, Xiaodou, grab it and say with a big smile: 'Little treasure, I helped the person who saved you before, from now on you are my little slave, I will treat you well, you must listen to me, only listen to me, understand?'"

  Suddenly, the small beast in his hand opened its mouth and said in a childish tone:

  "Big scammer, obviously threatening others, I'm ignoring you now!"

  "Uh..." can talk! Spiritual intelligence has been activated, heaven, I accidentally caught a thousand-year-old spiritual beast and made a fortune. At this moment, Xiao Dou had a flirtatious smile on his face:

  "Alright, little darling, what are you always doing with them in that poor mountain village? From now on, follow me and we'll go have fun in the Immortal Realm. What delicious food do you want to eat, I'll buy it all for you, okay?"

  The little beast said discontentedly: "They once saved me, of course I want to repay them. However, the promise between me and their ancestors was also terminated due to that girl's failure to keep her word!"

  Qian Xiaodou wiped away cold sweat and smiled: "Girl? That's a big aunt! Little guy, from now on you'll follow me. I won't betray you because of others' threats. I will always protect you!"

  The little beast nodded its small head and said: "She's the one I've been watching grow up, just a little girl. As for you, with 500 or 600 years of cultivation, shouldn't you be an old man? How dare you call her 'Big Aunt'? Hmm... You keep saying that you'll always protect me, is that true?"

  "Of course!" Qian Xiaodou said loudly with a serious face: "Deceive you, I am the turtle son, I! The greatest villain in the world, only I have the right to threaten others, who dares to threaten me, look for death! You'd better follow me and mix it up!"

  The little beast scratched its fluffy ears and said, "Alright then, as long as you feed me well, don't bully me, and don't abandon me, you can be my master forever!"

  With Qian Xiaodou's insight, he absolutely believed in it and immediately shot a ray of light into its body saying:

  "This is the way to enter my dantian, in this world only you and I know about it. The food on the shelves inside, you can eat as much as you want. If during your cultivation, you need to eat some herbs from inside, just let me know. That coffin... forget it, I'll just put the coffin inside my body instead. Be careful not to stay inside for too long, there's no air in there and you might suffocate!"

  The little beast said happily: "Thank you, master. You're really great! Hmm... there's one more thing I need your help with - give me a name!"

  "Let's call you Xiao Ta!" Looking at it standing upright, Qian Xiaodou smiled and said: "You stand like a small tower, so let's call you Xiao Ta, okay?"

  "Okay~" Little Tower said in a childish tone: "Little Tower be good, from now on you'll hide in Master's small bag, and call me when something happens!"

  Qian Xiaodou put it in her own small bag and continued to collect all sorts of delicious things among humans, how frightening!

  After many days, after collecting everything, with all sorts of delicious food and daily necessities filling a space as big as the Xiang Si bracelet, Qian Xiaodou returned to Shangong Valley.

  Because of Xiao Ta's words, Qian Xiaodou suddenly remembered his own toad - Du Jiao. Hmm, with its tongue, this time going out to catch something will be so much faster!

  It just so happens that I'll go to Leng Lao Da's place once, bring away Du Jiao, and deliver this captain token of the top eight teams to him.

  Arriving at the grand mansion of Leng Han Ming, he originally wanted to pay his respects to Old Master Leng first, but unexpectedly, he was busy receiving a noble guest. Never mind, they were all brothers, no need to stand on ceremony, so he directly strolled over to the spiritual beast enclosure and brought out Du Jiao. Leng Han Ming had already instructed the guards beforehand, so when Qian Xiao Dou led Du Jiao back, it didn't require much effort at all.

  Just as the unicorn was led out, this poor-mouthed guy stuck to Xiaotai, chatting him up. Xiaotai had just awakened his spiritual wisdom and was no match for this old cunning fellow. He chatted with this senior with great enthusiasm, and the two spiritual beasts made a lively scene. Qian Xiaodou, the owner, was left out in the cold, unable to help but smile wryly.

  Nothing to do, silly sitting in another guest hall Qian Xiaodou, idle and aimlessly glanced at his own ring, fiddled with his combat equipment, keeping himself in the best combat state at all times, is the only way to survive in the immortal world!

  Suddenly! When Qian Xiaodou observed the six copper hammer puppet giants, his face turned pale, looking at each puppet beast where there were originally 3,000 spiritual stones of energy, now each puppet beast had become 324 pieces, Qian Xiaodou's heart was chilled to the bone!

  Isn't it just that you used a minute and a half to swing the big copper hammer when fighting against Yongle, but actually used more than 15,000 of your own spirit stones?

  Qian Xiaodou made up his mind at that time, he must sell this broken puppet and exchange it for other items. As for the puppet, he would just make a few low-level ones like many of his predecessors, as long as they could explore dangerous places.

  Sigh... thinking about it this way, most of the time, what our seniors did was right after all!

  "Xiao Dou~" Leng Han Ming suddenly appeared, with a serious face saying: "What are you thinking about? Your soul is not at peace, this is a great taboo for us cultivators, you should always be vigilant and not let your heart demons invade, this is very serious, do you know?"

  Qian Xiaodou snapped back to reality and chuckled: "What demonic invasion, boss? You guys have all experienced it several times over the past few hundred years, but me? I really haven't had a single one!"

  Leng Han Ming helplessly smiled and said: "I know you're quite arrogant, after all, your First Heaven Godly Technique is already at the fourth level. Your foundation is even more solid than ours. Sigh... Xiaodou, what were you thinking just now? Your face looks so gloomy, was it Xiao Fei who provoked you again? I've received intel about this, you know!"

  "Wow, so many eye lines!" Qian Xiaodou pouted and said: "No way, I was just looking at my six copper hammer puppet beasts earlier. I used it for a bit, and it consumed over 15,000 spirit stones! It's almost as wasteful as my self-destructing treasure! No good, I've made up my mind - I'm going to sell this thing, and I'm very determined!"

  The cold and desolate laughter said: "Those six copper hammer puppet beasts were made by the great puppet master Donghu Shangren, because those six puppet beasts played a crucial role in the battle between good and evil two thousand years ago, so they are worth so much. This thing is a memento in the hearts of the righteous people, I didn't expect you to get it on the martial arts arena!"

  Qian Xiaodou smiled wretchedly: "The situation was urgent at the time, it's fine, didn't suffer a loss, won that match, and I even obtained a top-grade treasure, earned several times more. Right, Boss, this is the Captain Token, let's exchange, you go be the boss, this time I won't accompany you, I'll go flirt with girls~"