Kapitel 31: Divine Beast Nine Tailed Fox
Redakteur: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Yun Yangzi's appetite could compete with Tealwood's Windblast Wolf appetite. Thankfully, besides a few fish, they also caught an elk. Otherwise, there wouldn't be enough food to go round…
After eating their fill, Yun Yangzi finally had some time to look carefully at Qingcheng's two animals. He looked at Tealwood and said, "Oho, you're not bad! You're so young, but you've already managed to become a Sacred Beast. Not bad, not bad. That's a lot of potential for a Windblast Wolf. I guess you could follow my precious disciple around…"
Tealwood felt a little shy when he heard Yun Yangzi say these words. These were considered a compliment as well as a form of recognition.
Yun Yangzi turned and looked Moondevil up and down. He continued to stare at Moondevil even as Qingcheng cleaned its paws and then suddenly uttered these two words: "Nine tailed…"
Moondevil immediately shuddered in Qingcheng's arms and stared warily at Yun Yangzi.
Yun Yangzi noticed its reaction and became even more agitated. "You're a Nine Tailed Fox, so why do you only have one tail? Also, I'm pretty sure you're at least a thousand years old, right? Why are you still so tiny?" He sounded disdainful of Moondevil.
After he said that, Qingcheng and Tealwood also looked at Moondevil. Qingcheng looked at it puzzledly while Tealwood looked up and down at it suspiciously.
Moondevil started to panic after Yun Yangzi had said all this, and the other two stared at it like that. It was very afraid that Qingcheng would feel that it had lied to her and then abandon it immediately.
It immediately looked at Qingcheng with teary eyes as it held up its two little front paws and sobbed, "Qingcheng… I didn't mean to lie to you. I didn't dare to tell you the truth because I was afraid that you wouldn't be willing to take me in. My parents abandoned me when I was young and ran off elsewhere by themselves because they said I would only be able to mature if I went through these experiences alone. I am indeed a thousand years old, but I'm a Divine Beast! So, my age is equivalent to twenty human years or so. I've already managed to cultivate four tails, but I was ambushed by some people when I was about to get to the fifth tail. Those people wanted to capture me and establish a bond with me, so in order to retaliate, I had no choice but to give up one tail and barely managed to escape. I only have three tails left… then, because I was severely injured, I became much smaller than before. I happened to come out to search for some herbs to heal my internal injuries when I ran into those people you rescued me from. That ugly woman wanted to get her men to capture me, so I had no choice but to run again, and then I met you." The longer it went on, the more pitiful it sounded. It continued to cry a river of tears…
Qingcheng looked at Moondevil and didn't say anything. She didn't like being lied to, and she didn't like others using her or not trusting her.
After Tealwood heard these words, he was stunned. "You're already a thousand years old? And you have the cheek to act all cutesy to Master?! You old geezer! I'm only five hundred. You're actually older than me!" Tealwood was furious. This tiny fox was older than himself, and it had the cheek to whine and look cute in front of his master. It even lied to her!
When Yun Yangzi heard Tealwood say old geezer, his lips twitched several times… if this tiny fox was an old geezer at a thousand years old, then what was he, since he was more than ten thousand years old…? But he wasn't going to say anything about that. His age was a secret… after all, what if his precious disciple disdained him for being too old if he revealed his age?
He seemed to have forgotten that Qingcheng would still know once she regained all her memories…
Qingcheng asked in a flat voice, "And what's your name?" She wasn't as gentle to it as before.
But this time around, Moondevil answered very honestly. "I really don't have a name. When my parents gave birth to me, they just called me… Baby…" It was a little shy and embarrassed to say this… this name certainly wasn't suitable for it now that it was a thousand years old.
Two voices immediately snorted and laughed out loud at this inappropriate time.
"HAHAHA! Baby?! You're an old geezer. You're a thousand years old, and your name is Baby?! I'm going to die laughing…" Tealwood immediately seized this opportunity to attack Moondevil.
Yun Yangzi couldn't hold himself back either. "HAHA! Nine tails, your parents were seriously too flippant about this, weren't they? In the future, all your descendants are going to call you Baby! HAHAHA! It's so funny just thinking about it!" Yun Yangzi couldn't stop laughing the moment he imagined this scenario. He was already a playful character to begin with, and he completely disregarded his image as an old man. Tealwood and Yun Yangzi simply couldn't stop laughing.
Moondevil became even more embarrassed, and it couldn't bring itself to look at Qingcheng.
But Qingcheng didn't laugh at all. She asked it calmly, "So are you a male or a female?" She didn't sound like she was joking at all.
The two beside it stopped laughing… and looked straight at Moondevil.
When all three of them were looking at it and waiting to find out its gender, it felt as though it was about to go through a nervous breakdown… help!
After a long time, Moondevil finally squeaked weakly, "I'm… a male."
"You can still be called Moondevil. Once you're all healed up, you can leave…" Qingcheng didn't say anything more and just passed it to Tealwood. She kept all her things away and walked off.
Yun Yangzi saw that his precious disciple had walked off, so he immediately ran after her. Tealwood had no choice but to carry Moondevil and follow them.
Qingcheng could have helped Moondevil heal up immediately since that only took one bottle of Sacred Spirit Spring water, and Moondevil might have even leveled up. But she didn't do that, partly because she was upset that it didn't tell her the truth, and also partly because this Magical Beast was not bonded to her. If it drank this water, there was no guarantee that some other day, it might be bonded to some other person and tells its master about this secret. She couldn't guarantee that this wouldn't happen.
Since she couldn't trust wholly in Moondevil, she wasn't going to endanger herself at all.
Moondevil sat in Tealwood's arms, and it felt terribly depressed. For some reason, it didn't want Qingcheng to be so cold and distant to it, and it didn't want to really leave after its wounds had healed up. But it also didn't know how to appease Qingcheng's anger.
Tealwood could sense the change in its mood and didn't tease it anymore. Instead, he said very seriously to it, "Master is definitely someone worth following! You shouldn't have lied to her! I don't know why either, but she was really very happy when she saw you today. When you suddenly bumped into her, I thought she would send you flying to some faraway place. But after you seemed so pitiful and said that your mother was missing and acted all cutesy, she actually changed her attitude towards you! And she even gave a super, duper rare smile! You terrible fellow! You're such a disappointment!" Tealwood got more and more agitated as he spoke. He didn't want Qingcheng to be unhappy at all, and just looking at Moondevil made him angry!
Moondevil knew that it was in the wrong too. Tealwood went on, "Master treats the ones loyal to her well, but if you don't intend to follow her, then I hope you leave as soon as possible!" Tealwood went straight to the point because if Moondevil didn't want to follow Qingcheng, then it should leave as quickly as possible since Qingcheng had many secrets that she didn't want others to know about. He refused to let any Magical Beast or human that might betray her get close to her. The consequences of that happening were too severe to even think about.
Moondevil seemed to understand what Tealwood was driving at, and its eyes immediately lit up! It said gratefully to Tealwood, "Tealwood! I get it now! Thank you!" Its mood instantly improved.
Meanwhile, Qingcheng and Yun Yangzi were having a chat in front as well. Yun Yangzi said to her, "My good disciple, can you really bear to let the little fox leave after its injuries are all healed up? That's a Nine Tailed Fox, a Divine Beast… it's hard to meet one even in a thousand years. Besides, I see that the little fellow seems to like you a lot, too. Why don't you establish a bond with it?" He couldn't bear to let go of that tiny fox himself.
It was super rare to run into a Divine Beast, and this was a Nine Tailed Fox that was extremely powerful in battles. If his precious disciple could establish a bond with it, then that would only benefit her and do her no harm at all.
-- Geschenk
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