"Meow!"
Lu Li had just descended the mountain and arrived at the Soul Refining Pagoda on the mountainside when a figure pounced toward him.
A chubby giant cat leaped onto Lu Li's head. Lu Li held it off by the belly, leaving it dangling in midair, its paws flailing wildly.
"A'Huo, why do you seem even fatter?"
Lu Li asked in confusion, giving the fat on A'Huo's belly a couple of squeezes. It felt quite nice, but he had let A'Huo out before entering seclusion so it could lose weight.
Martial God Mountain had several branch halls overseen by elders, one of which was the Beast Taming Hall. Lu Li had figured that A'Huo was too weak, or perhaps that he himself did not understand the intricacies of spiritual beast cultivation and had trained it improperly.
So, he had tossed A'Huo into the Beast Taming Hall, hoping to trouble the Senior Brothers and Senior Apprentice-Sisters there to look after it and help train it.
The spatial density of the Divine Martial Continent was extremely high, with Eighth Order peak as the baseline. Given A'Huo's attributes at the time, merely surviving in this world had been difficult.
Thus, Lu Li had thought A'Huo would rapidly slim down in this world. By the time he emerged from seclusion, A'Huo would be a sleek, nimble mount.
Who would have thought that after twenty years in seclusion, A'Huo had not only failed to slim down, but had grown even fatter?
"Senior Brother Lu Li, it isn't that your pet beast neglected its cultivation. It's just that those Senior Apprentice-Sisters..."
The Beast Taming Hall disciple who had come with A'Huo explained respectfully, recounting the full story to Lu Li.
Only after hearing him out did Lu Li understand. When A'Huo had first appeared in this