Little Nine, using Miaomiao's body, narrowed its eyes warily. "Wherever I go, you follow. What exactly do you want?"
Li Tianming kept his tone as gentle as possible. "Because we're a Symbiotic Cultivation System. You're my lifebound beast, and also our family. We've come to bring you home."
"Fa... mily? Boring!"
Little Nine turned its head aside, looking disdainful.
It seemed uninterested in what Li Tianming had said, yet Li Tianming felt a surge of excitement instead.
This wasn't something that could be achieved in one stroke. The fact that Little Nine was responding to what he said was itself a sign that it was willing to keep communicating.
That was a good thing!
Suppressing his excitement, Li Tianming continued probing in a calm tone. "Little Nine, look at them. You're all brothers and sisters born from the same Companion Space. Everyone has been worried about whether your hatching would go smoothly, and they've all been waiting for your return."
Miaomiao, carrying Little Nine's consciousness, held its head high and glanced sideways at the lifebound beasts gathered in the Companion Space.
As the eldest among the lifebound beasts, Yinghuo spoke bluntly. "Little Nine, everyone hatched from an egg in the Companion Space. If Little Li hadn't kept searching for the right opportunity for you to hatch, you wouldn't have obtained that Divine Treasury Jade so smoothly and begun the hatching process, right?"
Xixi was somewhat afraid of Little Nine in its current state, but remembering that it was her younger brother, she still gathered her courage. "L-Little Nine, be good—"
"So annoying! Shut up. I'm talking to this person." Little Nine sounded impatient.
Xixi was so frightened that she immediately hid behind the gray coffin, trembling all over with terror written across her little face.
"Little brother is so fierce..."