After setting out the Grill Rack, the little girl suddenly found herself in a bind again, because she had never handled a demonic beast before and had no idea where to start.
"Little Black, do you know how to prepare meat?"
Little Black: ...
Little Black did not know what to say. The demonic beasts it had prepared were meant for it to secretly eat itself. As a demonic beast, it did not need to go through such troublesome preparation—it could simply devour them.
Unless it transformed into human form, how was it supposed to handle this demonic beast in its current Big Black Dog form?
However, Little Black was only speechless for a moment. It suddenly transformed into a young man. Since it had already exposed itself before Little Master, there was nothing left to worry about.
Besides, if he did not take human form, it would be inconvenient for him to take proper care of Little Master. From now on, he might as well appear in human form.
At most, when Little Master was traveling, he could change back into a Big Black Dog. That should not have any effect.
"Little Black, you can actually turn into a human too!"
"Little Master, any demonic beast that reaches a certain level of strength can transform into a human. It was just that Master did not allow us to transform before."
"So that's how it is!"
Mu Qingling understood a little. She actually knew that demonic beasts could turn into humans once they reached a certain level of strength; she simply had never seen Little Black transform before.
After Little Black changed back into a human, he began preparing the demonic beast. Before long, he had placed it on the Grill Rack.
Little Black grilled to the side, while Mu Qingling was not idle either. She suddenly wanted soup, so she had Little Black set aside some demonic beast meat for her to cook.
Mu Qingling took out a large pot, then a somewhat strange Small Kettle. After pouring a suitable amount of water into the pot, she tipped the meat from the plate into the large pot.
After finishing all that, Mu Qingling took out another strange object and placed it beneath the large pot. The little girl blew on it, and a burst of flame instantly appeared.
"Done!"
Mu Qingling's father had prepared all these things for her. The object that produced flames was called a Flame Lamp. It looked somewhat like the alcohol lamps people were familiar with, and Mu Feiyang had specially refined it for his daughter to use.
A little less than half an hour passed as they waited. At last, the meat soup in the large pot came to a boil. The little girl added some seasoning, and a rich fragrance drifted from the pot.
"It's finally time to eat."
The little girl eagerly took out bowls and chopsticks, ladled herself a bowl of meat soup, and could not resist taking a small sip.
"Little Master, someone is coming."
Just as the little girl savored the delicious food she had made, Little Black's voice suddenly sounded. He had already sensed people approaching in their direction, and he transformed back into a Big Black Dog once more.
"Ah...!"
"Could Teacher have caught up with me?"
The little girl was startled. Thinking Liu Wenjun had awakened and chased after her, she was so frightened that she did not even care about her meat soup and hurried to put everything away to flee.
"Rest assured, Little Master. Even after another three days, that brat will not wake up. It is not Teacher who has come after us, but two people who feel both familiar and unfamiliar."
Just as Little Black finished speaking, two figures appeared in the distance, sprinting toward them. More than ten figures chased after the pair.
The two fleeing figures also noticed someone ahead. Just as they were about to change direction, they abruptly halted, because they found one of the figures ahead somewhat familiar.
Yet in that brief pause, the more than ten figures behind them caught up and surrounded them, instantly cutting off their escape routes.
"Little beauties, let's see how you can run this time. Be good and come back with us!"
After encircling the two women, a bearded burly man spoke. He did not take Little Black and Mu Qingling in the distance seriously at all.
They were merely a Big Black Dog and a little girl. They could not possibly affect them, and it did not matter even if they had seen everything.
At worst, they could dispose of the little girl before leaving. They could not allow what had happened here to be exposed, and they could even enjoy a meal of dog meat!
"Don't even think about it!"
"That is not up to you. Move—capture them. Do not injure them. These are the two women the Young Master specifically ordered us to take."
The burly man had no intention of wasting words on the two women. They had chased them for so long before finally catching them, so naturally they would not let them go easily. Besides, these were the two women their Young Master had specifically ordered them to capture.
The two women might have already been injured. In only a few exchanges, they were captured. After their cultivation was sealed, the burly man walked toward Mu Qingling.
"Little girl, you saw something you should not have seen. I can only kill you. In your next life, do not run out alone to play."
The burly man looked at the roasting meat on the Grill Rack, then at the little girl before him, and said something rather inexplicable.
"You're bad people!"
"Hm?"
"Hahaha...!"
"Little girl, you're quite amusing. We are indeed bad people, but what can you do about it?"
The burly man froze for a moment, then burst into laughter. This was the first time anyone had called them bad people, and it had come from a little girl only a few years old.
"Mmgh, mmgh...!"
The two women held by the burly man became anxious upon hearing his words. They had not expected these people to be so inhuman that they would not even spare a little girl.
But not only had their cultivation been sealed, they could not even speak. They could not even tell Little Black to quickly take the little girl away.
The two captured women were none other than the Zhao Shanshan sisters who had appeared in Laga Village several years ago. The reason they had fled in this direction was because they had wanted to seek Mu Feiyang's help in Laga Village.
The Xiling Empire had long since undergone enormous changes. After Princess Zhao, the First Prince, and his Henchmen had all died, the Xiling Empire had enjoyed several rare years of peace.
Yet that was only surface-level calm. After the matter involving Princess Zhao, Emperor Zhao Wuji had not continued investigating the Second Prince.
What Zhao Wuji did not know was that this single decision had brewed a great disaster. The Xiling Empire, peaceful for several years, had its imperial family brought under control by the Second Prince, Zhao Pingchuan, in a single night.
Not only were the Xiling Empire's three old ancestors imprisoned, but even Emperor Zhao Wuji was no exception. Only Zhao Shanshan and Zhao Yingying escaped under the desperate protection of the Spirit Guards.
The entire Xiling Empire was now under Zhao Pingchuan's control. What no one knew was that Zhao Pingchuan was no longer the original Zhao Pingchuan.
The current Zhao Pingchuan was merely a disguise assumed by a disciple of the Second-grade sect Medicine King Valley. That disciple was none other than Medicine King Valley's Young Sect Master, Yao Wuchen.
Yao Wuchen had long coveted the Zhao Shanshan sisters. Unfortunately, they had escaped, so Yao Wuchen dispatched a group of Medicine Attendants and ordered them to capture the two sisters at all costs.
That was how the earlier scene of the two women being hunted came about. And because the Zhao Shanshan sisters froze for a moment upon seeing Little Black, they were captured ahead of time.
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