"Even this you know?" Xianli asked in astonishment as she looked at Meiyao, apparently not considering her a rival.
Meiyao wore a blank look before asking, "This... little guys all need to drink milk, don't they? Could it be that little sister Xianli doesn't drink milk?"
"I... of course I do." Xianli answered instinctively. Everyone nearby, myself included, couldn't help laughing. Meiyao said, "Exactly, so Xiaotun needs to drink milk too. It's just that, to it, milk is pure spiritual energy. What's wrong with it wanting to drink pure spiritual energy?"
"But, but it eats everything! It doesn't just drain people dry—even some treasures get eaten up without a trace!" Xianli said anxiously.
"That's because, like me, when it's completely lost in itself, it sees things differently from everyone else. What we see are actually clusters of energy—some beneficial to us and some useless. We gather the useful energy for ourselves and purify the useless energy. There's really nothing wrong with that," Meiyao said at once.
This is indeed one possible explanation. No wonder Xiaotun seemed to recognize neither family nor friends. It turned out that it wasn't insane—we were. We had actually treated it like an adult, which was an impossible expectation from the start.
Beside Meiyao, Xiaotun had practically found a kindred spirit. Who would willingly seek out people like us, who didn't understand it? Not to mention that Baicheng and I had originally subdued it through our acquired spiritual roots. Every time it absorbed the attributes of my spiritual root, it had to sleep for several days. Who would want to stay with someone like that?
Once I understood Meiyao's intentions, I said, "Meiyao, from now on, why don't you take care of Xiaotun?"
"Huh? Of course! I like it so much!" Meiyao immediately became overjoyed, but