Wang Chen had been naïve.
He had thought that a little Spirit Mouse weighing half a liang could not possibly eat more than a few grains of rice, no matter how much it ate.
Yet Wang Chen had been wrong.
Spectacularly wrong!
While Wang Chen was making the Pet House, Yuan Yuan on his shoulder sent him the thought that it wanted food.
After the blood essence consecration was complete, Wang Chen and the little fellow had formed a connection on the level of Soul and Consciousness.
Thus, there were no obstacles whatsoever in their communication.
Wang Chen could fully understand its thoughts and feelings.
So Wang Chen took out rice ball to feed it.
To his surprise, little Yuan Yuan refused.
It wanted meat!!
Fine.
Wang Chen took out a strip of braised Demonic Beast Meat and tore off a shred for it.
The moment it was stuffed into its tiny mouth, it vanished in an instant.
It was nowhere near enough!
Next, one shred of meat became a piece of dried meat.
Then it became half a strip of braised meat.
In the end, the entire three- to four-pound strip of dried beast meat was devoured clean by the little fellow.
It could really eat!
Wang Chen was not overly surprised.
Many demon creatures possessed the same "Taotie" trait, capable of devouring food far exceeding their own body weight.
This storage capacity ensured that they could endure for a long time when faced with famine.
It was also a way of survival.
The most typical example was undoubtedly the Sky-Swallowing Giant Toad.
That fellow had an insatiably greedy appetite. It ate whatever it caught and was never satisfied.
A grain-storage bag refined from its stomach pouch could hold a million jin of rice in one go!
Wang Chen