Assigning Spirit Beasts
Early the next morning.
After absorbing a breath of the First Sun Power, Ling Pengyun sought out Ling Rucong and told him about the Songhua Spirit Chicken and the Fruit Flower Bee.
Then, he cast a spell on the Lingyun Mountain, summoning several earthen walls, each ten feet high and several inches thick, to form a circle and serve as a chicken coop.
After setting up a Soundproof Restriction around the chicken coop, the seven Songhua Spirit Chicken from the Beast Taming Pouch were placed into this "special chicken coop."
As soon as these seven fist-sized little Songhua Spirit Chicken were released from the Beast Taming Pouch, they became weak and collapsed to the ground, losing their usual lively and noisy manner of bumping into the earthen wall and chirping.
Seeing the unusual behavior of the seven Little Pine Flower Chicken, Ling Pengyun raised an eyebrow and probed their Little Pine Flower Chicken with his Divine Sense. He found that they were not seriously injured and were simply too hungry, which put his mind at ease.
"I've kept these seven little pine flowers in my Beast Taming Pouch for over ten days and forgot to feed them. Fortunately, they're not ordinary chickens, so they won't be in any trouble if they go hungry for a few days."
After letting out a sigh, Ling Pengyun hurriedly took out some First Rank Middle Grade Azure Jade Spirit Rice from his Storage Bag to give the seven little Songhua Spirit Chicken, who had not eaten for several days, as a supplement to make up for their lack of food.
Having accomplished this task, Ling Pengyun left Lingyun Mountain and arrived at Lingyun Small City Town, a short distance away from Lingyun Mountain, deep within the Lingyun Orchard, which covers an area of over 100,000 mu.
He then placed the Fruit Flower Bee and the Fruit Flower Bee that had migrated from the Azure Stone Orchard into the Beast Taming Pouch, and instructed the queen bee to manage the swarm well and not to harm the mortals in the orchard.
After leaving the orchard, Ling Pengyun used Green Travel Leaf to fly directly into the City Lord Manor in the heart of Lingyun Small City.
Because his flight was so conspicuous, Ling Pengyun was surrounded by a group of guards shortly after landing at the City Lord Manor.
When the guards saw that the "immortal" Ling Pengyun was not wearing the uniform Daoist robes of the Ling Clan cultivators, but instead had the Clan Token that only Ling Clan cultivators wore at his waist, they hesitated for a moment and kept a distance from Ling Pengyun, not approaching him directly.
Among the guards, an older one spoke up and asked Ling Pengyun a question.
"Esteemed Immortal Elder, may I ask if you are a member of my Ling Clan?"
"Yes, I've come here to find the city lord Ling Yu," Ling Pengyun nodded slightly and said.
Upon hearing this, the guard's guard immediately dropped his guard, and he quickly pushed through the crowd and ran towards a relatively luxurious room in the City Lord Manor.
A short while later, the older guard returned with a richly dressed, obese middle-aged man.
Upon seeing the obese middle-aged man before him, Ling Pengyun smiled and called out to him.
"Uncle Rain!"
"Peng Yun?" The obese middle-aged man was slightly taken aback when he heard Ling Pengyun's call. He glanced at Ling Pengyun's face and found it somewhat familiar. After thinking for a while, he finally remembered who this Immortal Elder was.
This obese middle-aged man is Ling Yu, the city lord of Lingyun Xiaocheng. He is the son of Ling Yunxi, the Fifth Elder of the Lineage, and the father of Ling Penglin. Although he is a mortal, Ling Pengyun also treated him with the respect due to a junior because of his relationship with Ling Yunxi and Ling Penglin.
"Well, I've come here today because I need your help with something, Uncle Yu." Ling Pengyun didn't want to say much and directly stated his purpose.
Upon hearing this, the obese Ling Yu was somewhat surprised. It was strange that a cultivator would seek help from a mortal like him.
He turned his head and waved to the guards around him, dismissing them. Once no one was around, Ling Yu asked Ling Pengyun.
"Peng Yun, I am just an ordinary person with limited abilities. I will definitely help if I can."
"Uncle Yu, you can definitely help with this." Ling Pengyun said with a smile, and then told Ling Yu what he had done. He released a swarm of spirit bees into Lingyun Orchard and asked Ling Yu, the city lord, to order the mortals managing the orchard not to provoke the bees.
"Oh, so that's what it is. It's a small matter, just a matter of a few words. Peng Yun, I wonder how Peng Lin has been doing lately? I haven't heard from her for three or four years." A look of longing appeared on Ling Yu's chubby face.
"Don't worry, Uncle Yu, Tenth Sister is doing well. She hasn't contacted you recently, probably because she was sent by the Lineage to do a mission. Now that Tenth Sister has entered the realm of formations, it won't be long before she surpasses Fifteenth Ancestral Grandmother's achievements in formations," Ling Pengyun said.
Upon hearing this, Ling Yu was overjoyed. "If Peng Lin can surpass her mother in the art of array formations, then her brothers and sisters will have no worries about their future."
Although he was a mortal, he knew a thing or two about formations because his mother and daughter were both cultivators.
Afterwards, Ling Pengyun chatted with Ling Yu for a few minutes before once again commanding Green Travel Leaf fly away from the place.
His main purpose in coming to Lingyun Small City was to inform Ling Yu, an acquaintance, and warn the mortals managing the Lingyun Orchard to avoid attracting the Fruit Flower Bee. Once this matter was resolved, Ling Pengyun and Ling Yu naturally had nothing more to talk about.
After all, one was a cultivator and the other was a mortal.
As for Lingyun Small City, it was originally just a small town called Lingyun Small Town. Before the Ling Clan moved to Huai River County, the Ling Clan Mountain was right next door. In addition, the surrounding terrain was flat and there were no high mountains, making it a good place to grow crops. Nearly 30% of the Ling Clan clan's mortals lived in the town.
Because the town had a population of tens of thousands, it was expanded into a small city.
However, due to the relocation of the Lineage several years ago, more than 70% of the ordinary clansmen in the city were taken to An Yang County Huai River County to reclaim wasteland, which has resulted in the population of Lingyun Small City now only reaching nearly 10,000.
During the next ten days or so at Lingyun Mountain, Ling Pengyun would absorb a mouthful of the First Sun Power every morning. After breakfast, he would work with his elder, Ling Rucong, in the Spirit Field Spirit Field of the mountain, watering the Spirit Plant planted there with Spirit Rain or using the Lingxiao Ripening Technique to accelerate their Spirit Plant.
Late January.
That night, in a quiet room on the second floor of the only Bamboo House atop Lingyun Mountain.
Ling Pengyun sat cross-legged on a Meditation Mat with his eyes closed, continuously channeling his Divine Sense into a vermilion Beast Taming Pouch that floated in the air in front of him.
This Beast Taming Pouch was obtained by Ling Pengyun after killing that Evil Cultivator Qi Training Late Stage. Inside the bag was a Spirit Seeking Rat.
About half an hour later, a faint cracking sound came from the floating Beast Taming Pouch, and Ling Pengyun quietly opened his eyes at that moment.
"It took more than ten days to finally use my Divine Sense to wash away the Divine Sense imprint that the Evil Cultivator in the Qi Training Late Stage Refining stage had placed in this Beast Taming Pouch."
Ling Pengyun was secretly delighted and poured a wisp of spiritual power and Divine Sense into the Beast Taming Pouch floating in the void.
With the infusion of spiritual power, the vermilion Beast Taming Pouch shone brightly, and Ling Pengyun also detected through his Divine Sense that the Spirit Seeking Rat inside the Beast Taming Pouch still had a trace of life.
"That Spirit Seeking Rat really didn't die."