Social Waste Beasts

At first, things were fine. Li Yuan was responsible for cooking, while Juhua was responsible for eating. Aside from the man and beast being equally capable eaters, nothing seemed wrong.

But gradually, things started to take a turn for the worse. Juhua ate more and more each day, and the fat on its body kept piling up.

Speaking of which, Juhua truly lived up to being a purebred Orange Cat. In just four years, its once-slender figure had vanished without a trace.

Now, Juhua looked as fat as a dyed orange pig. Where was even a trace of the former Spirit Beast King's majesty? It did no proper work all day, failed at everything it tried, yet took first place when it came to eating.

If it had only been Juhua, that would have been one thing. The key was that it had ruined the entire atmosphere of the Sunset Great Forest's core area.

Aside from stuffing itself, Juhua had also gathered a group of Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beasts from the Sunset Great Forest and led them into depravity.

And besides being able to eat, these Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beasts, under Juhua's leadership, had become hopelessly addicted to games.

Of course, the games they played had also been invented by Li Yuan. Back then, Li Yuan had found life in the Sunset Great Forest too boring, so he had simply combined local characteristics to create things like playing cards, flight chess, and dice to pass the time.

He had never expected this group of spirit beasts to become completely addicted to games.

They gathered together every day to eat, drink, and play, while the scale of the excess flesh on their bodies grew ever more impressive. They were an entire group of Social Waste Beasts.

Not only that, with nothing to do after stuffing themselves, this group of Social Waste Beasts even started playing at sworn brotherhood. And yes, that was Li Yuan's fault too.

Whenever he had nothing better to do, Li Yuan would alter some stories from Earth and tell them to Juhua and the others. Among them was a Douluo version of Journey to the West.

Who would have thought that this group of spirit beasts would actually be inspired by it and establish the Sunset Great Forest Brotherhood?

After eating Void Grass, Juhua had successfully evolved from a Netherlight Orange Cat into an Idiot Orange Cat—no, a Void Orange Cat. It had survived the Heavenly Tribulation and become a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Thus, it ranked first among the spirit beasts and called itself the Meow Demon King.

Below Juhua, four more spirit beasts had joined. The second was the Eighty Thousand Year Golden Lion. Its strength was second only to Juhua's among the spirit beasts, so it became second brother.

After that came the Seventy Thousand Year Purple Gold Jade Face Fox and the Sixty Thousand Year White Jade Mammoth. As for the youngest, it was actually an old acquaintance of Li Yuan's. That was right—the king of the many Savage Baboons in the Sunset Great Forest, a Sixty Thousand Year Savage Baboon spirit beast.

These spirit beasts were considered powerful in this part of the Sunset Great Forest. Before joining up, each one had been impressively imposing, perfectly matching Li Yuan's image of spirit beast kings.

Yet before long, they had all been infected by the Idiot Orange Cat. Within days, they had all turned into salted fish. Now, each looked more useless than the last, with no aspirations whatsoever. All they knew was how to freeload and wait for death.

And Li Yuan had successfully evolved from the Orange Cat's Poop Scooper into a Zoo Keeper. Just feeding these five spirit beasts every day nearly exhausted him to death.

Of course, even though they had become Social Waste Beasts, the five of them still carried considerable deterrent power in the Sunset Great Forest. After all, they were all powerful spirit beasts over Fifty Thousand Years old, the sort who could walk sideways through the Sunset Great Forest.

With the five of them backing him up, Li Yuan's life in the Sunset Great Forest was fairly comfortable. Entering the Sunset Great Forest's core area was as easy as going home.

"Meow? Little Slave, you're back. Hmm, right, how's your cultivation going?"

Seeing Li Yuan enter the wooden cabin, Juhua instinctively tried to put on the airs of a master. Clearly, though, it had failed.

There was no helping it. It had gotten far too fat. As everyone knew, fat people had no dignity.

So Li Yuan naturally scooped Juhua up in his arms. It really was quite heavy—Li Yuan nearly failed to hold it steady—then happily began petting the cat.

"Meow meow meow?"

Juhua tried hard to maintain its dignity and quickly struggled free from Li Yuan's embrace before jumping to the ground. Unfortunately, because it was too fat, its landing posture was not particularly graceful.

"Meow, Little Slave, what are we eating for lunch today?" To conceal its embarrassment, Juhua stiffly changed the subject.

The moment it asked that question, not only Juhua, but all the remaining spirit beasts stared blankly at Li Yuan, waiting for his answer.

Over the past few years, they had been completely won over by Li Yuan's cooking. The instant they heard about food, they perked right up.

"How about Fried Chicken?" Li Yuan rolled his eyes and said helplessly, "I happened to catch a Thousand Year Five-Colored Pheasant just now. We'll eat that today."

"One chicken won't be enough for all of us, will it?" Juhua asked instinctively.

"Then go catch a few more. Look how fat you've gotten. Get up and exercise." Li Yuan looked at it with disgust.

"Meow?" Juhua froze for a moment, then turned to look at the second brother, the Golden Lion, with a scornful expression. "Did you hear that, Second Brother? Hurry up and catch a few chickens. Look how fat you've gotten. Get moving and go exercise."

"Ying ying ying?" The Golden Lion, nearly fat enough to become a ball, looked utterly bewildered. Instinctively, it looked toward the third brother, the Purple Gold Jade Face Fox. "Third Brother, I'm entrusting you with a difficult and glorious mission..."

"Fourth Brother, I'm talking about you. Hurry up..."

In the end, the task was passed to the Wild Baboon King. There was no helping it—who told it to be the youngest? Among the spirit beasts here, it was the weakest.

Thus, the Savage Baboon could only cast a resentful look at its shameless older brothers before heading out to hunt.

The remaining four shamelessly burst into laughter, then gathered together and began playing flight chess.

Seeing this, Li Yuan instinctively wanted to cover his face. He knew it would turn out like this. These spirit beasts were completely beyond saving.

"Oh, right, Little Slave, what level are you now?" Juhua perhaps felt a little embarrassed as well, so it changed the subject again.

"Level Thirty." At the mention of this, Li Yuan immediately became interested and asked, "Juhua, what do you think I should choose for my third soul ring?"

That was right. Li Yuan was already Level Thirty. Once he obtained another soul ring, he would become a Three-ring Soul Master.

That was only normal. After all, four years had already passed, and Li Yuan had improved too.

Honestly, rising only fifteen levels in four years was not particularly fast for Li Yuan. It could even be called slow.

After all, he had ravaged nearly half of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes and consumed who knew how many Heavenly Treasures. Logically speaking, the energy contained within those Heavenly Treasures alone should have been enough to raise Li Yuan's cultivation by dozens of levels.