The Poop Scooper's Daily Routine

"Little Slave, is there any of that meat you just roasted left? If there is, hurry up and offer it to your master! Can't you see This Great King is about to starve thin?!"

Juhua's complaining voice interrupted Li Yuan's thoughts, snapping him back to reality. He looked at Juhua's tsundere expression—obviously wanting to eat, yet trying hard to pretend he did not care.

Li Yuan could not help thinking, Could this spirit beast be keeping me around because it wants me to be its cook?

This was way too unlucky. Other protagonists used their cooking skills to pick up girls. Meanwhile, he had to submit to the tyranny of a spirit beast and cook for it.

He was not Tang San, capable of getting his hands on a spirit beast. Besides, he did not even know whether Juhua was male or female!

Its voice sounded fairly androgynous, though. Right, if spirit beasts transformed into humans, how did they choose their genders? Could they be either male or female?

The gossiping spirit within Li Yuan began to burn, but he did not dare ask Juhua that question, afraid it would fly into a rage from embarrassment and swallow him whole.

"There isn't any left. That old man from earlier snatched all the remaining roasted meat!"

Though he complained endlessly in his heart, Li Yuan put on an obedient, lovable appearance. Before a Ninety Thousand Year Spirit Beast close to reaching Hundred Thousand Years, he truly did not dare play any tricks.

"Is that so?" Juhua looked visibly disappointed, but the Orange Cat quickly perked up again.

"Little Slave, wait here for This Great King. This Great King will be right back. If you dare run away, I'll eat you."

After delivering that threat, Juhua suddenly leaped from Li Yuan's shoulder. Yet instead of landing on the ground, it stood in midair.

Then its figure flickered, and it vanished.

It... left?

Watching the Orange Cat disappear, Li Yuan sighed in relief, but he could not help pondering another question. What was he supposed to do now?

Run away?

If Juhua caught him, would it eat him?

But if he did not run, staying with a spirit beast nearly a hundred thousand years old was really rather stressful!

Fortunately, Li Yuan did not have to worry over that question for long. Barely one or two minutes later, Juhua reappeared.

When it appeared again, it was no longer small and adorable. It had transformed into a giant beast as large as a small mountain.

Of course, that was not the important part. The important part was that Juhua had a gigantic wild boar nearly as large as itself clamped in its jaws.

Compared to this boar, the one Li Yuan had hunted earlier was nothing more than an immature piglet. The two were simply incomparable.

Looking at the clearly abnormal wild boar before him, how could Li Yuan not understand? This boar was definitely no ordinary beast, but a spirit beast. And at the very least, it was a Thousand-Year Spirit Beast. As for whether it had reached ten thousand years, Li Yuan could not say for certain.

In any case, Li Yuan felt that if he faced this boar one-on-one, he would most likely be unable to defeat it. Even escaping would be extremely difficult.

Seeing Juhua deal with such a dangerous spirit beast so effortlessly, Li Yuan completely gave up the idea of running away.

The gap in their strength was far too great. Moreover, Juhua was a Feline Spirit Beast skilled in speed. If he ran, it would probably catch him within minutes.

Forget it. He was only being this Orange Cat's cook. It was no big deal. Raising a cat, right? He had wanted a pet anyway. Was this not perfect?

The only problem was that this pet was a little too powerful, and it had yet to figure out its own position, believing that it was the master.

Come to think of it, that was perfectly normal. Cats usually believed they were the masters. As a human, he should not bicker with a cat over such things.

Drawing upon the Ah Q Spirit and employing the Spiritual Victory Method, Li Yuan finally adjusted his mindset. Then, under Juhua's watchful gaze, he began roasting meat again.

Although that old man Dugu Bo had taken Li Yuan's finished roasted meat, he had at least not taken the grill as well. Before long, Li Yuan had processed the enormous Wild Boar Soul Beast, cut it into chunks, and resumed grilling.

At first, Li Yuan thought that even though an Orange Cat was a Ninety Thousand Year Spirit Beast, it was still a cat. No matter how much it could eat, how much meat could it possibly consume?

But he soon discovered that he was wrong—wildly wrong. Juhua's appetite far exceeded Li Yuan's expectations.

This little fellow was clearly not even as big as Li Yuan's palm, yet its stomach was like a bottomless pit. No matter how much meat Li Yuan roasted, it could finish it all.

Even more unscientifically, its body did not change in the slightest. It was as if its stomach were connected to another dimension.

It took more than half a day before Li Yuan finally fed both Juhua and himself. Then he collapsed onto the ground in exhaustion, unable to move even a little.

When he looked up, he found that darkness had fallen at some point. The entire day had passed just like that, and the Wild Boar Soul Beast that had originally been like a small mountain had now vanished without a trace.

Clearly, that unfortunate spirit beast had entered the stomachs of Li Yuan and Juhua.

Only then did Juhua finally let out a satisfied purr. It then treated Li Yuan like a cushion of flesh, sprawled across his stomach, and began meowing.

"Meow meow meow, so tasty! Roasted meat is really delicious! Little Slave, it would have been great if I'd met you sooner!"

"If I'd known, this kitty would have taken in a few Human Pets long ago!"

Met me sooner so I could be your Poop Scooper, more like! Hearing that, Li Yuan rolled his eyes and grumbled inwardly.

"By the way, Little Slave, you did well today. I'm very satisfied. Tomorrow, this kitty will take you to a good place."

"There are quite a few good things there, but that damned old man took them all."

"But it's fine. We can sneak in. That antidote of yours works quite well—it can actually neutralize that old man's poison. That way, we won't have to fear the old man's Poison Array."

Perhaps because it had enjoyed its meal so much, Juhua had lowered its guard against Li Yuan somewhat. It lazily lay atop him as it spoke.

"A good place?"

"Wait, could the place this Orange Cat is talking about be the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes?"