Little Broken Ball World.
Mu and Xi sat separately on Bai Yujun's shoulders, holding onto her dragon horns with their eyes wide and round.
Opposite them, the phoenix divine bird, now several zhang long, tilted its head curiously as they stared wide-eyed at one another. Mu suspected the phoenix had learned its head-tilting habit from a certain dragon. A perfectly auspicious phoenix became adorably foolish the instant it cocked its head.
"Bai, what do you use to feed the phoenix?"
Hearing that, Bai Yujun pondered briefly and began counting on her fingers.
"At first, I had four female officials catch earthworms and loaches, but Little Phoenix refused to eat them. Then I planted rice, but it still wouldn't eat. Legend says phoenixes eat nothing but bamboo fruit and drink nothing but sweet springs, so I tried those too. It took a few bites, then started chirping wildly. I tried countless methods before finally asking a tree demon to help cultivate all kinds of fruit."
She spread her hands.
"Later, I discovered that Little Phoenix actually has a broad diet. It eats spirit fruit, mountain spring water, and even earthfire. It's really hard to raise."
Bai Yujun had tried many methods of raising it.
Free-range, enclosed raising—she had racked her brains to keep the phoenix from going extinct.
Mu rubbed her little head.
She could not understand why Bai Yujun had managed to pick up a phoenix chick. Turning from a flood dragon into a dragon was rare enough; now Bai Yujun had created her own world and produced a phoenix as well. She might as well get a qilin and complete the three clans.
Little Phoenix loved to play. It turned away proudly and flew toward the volcano to frolic.
Xi studied Little Phoenix curiously.
"Strange. Why hasn't the little