Three-Eyed Golden Lion

Chen Ming looked at the message on the World Chat box. With an ancient auspicious beast appearing, the first thing that came to his mind was the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

"Since I'm idle anyway, I might as well head over."

He had nothing to do right now, so he prepared to go take a look. Since it was a special event, it was only natural to be a little curious.

Chen Ming raised his hand to select the map teleportation, and soon he arrived within the latitude of the inner Star Dou Forest.

Following this, he unleashed his Golden Dragon King martial soul; his black hair instantly turned golden, and his black eyes shifted to red.

With a flap of his massive dragon wings, Chen Ming flew into the high sky toward the coordinates. Meanwhile, on the other side...

A small golden lion, whose art style was clearly out of place, looked around in confusion, observing the blocky trees, the pixel-style soul beasts, and the pixelated grass.

"Wasn't I hunting? How did I end up here?"

The three-eyed golden lion cub wandered around curiously, reaching out with her five claws to pat a pixelated soul beast.

She saw the creature suddenly glow red, fly back, land, and then start chasing her to bite.

"What a strange soul beast. The soul beasts here all look so weird..."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion bit the soul beast to death in one go. After the soul beast died, it dropped some small green orbs that could increase her cultivation, followed by a purple soul ring.

"There's no meat at all!"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion was horrified to discover that these soul beasts left no meat behind after dying. She immediately lunged at another soul beast, but after biting it to death, there was still no meat.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion refused to give up and killed another soul beast, but there was still no meat. She immediately sat on the ground, feeling dejected.

"Am I going to starve to death... What kind of hellish place is this! I want to go back!"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion could not accept that she was going to starve to death here. If she were to die, she should at least die from overeating! Starving to death was just too painful!

"Uncle Di Tian! Uncle Chi Wang! Uncle Wan Yao Wang! Auntie Bi Ji! Uncle Xiong Jun! Auntie Zi Ji! Uncle Yao Ling!"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion began to call for help, even taking out the Black Dragon Reverse Scale that Di Tian had given her to try and inject soul power into it, but it was completely useless...

"No!!! I don't want to starve to death!"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion could not accept the ending of starving to death; this way of dying was too miserable. It would be better to die with a full stomach.

"I'm sorry, Uncle Di Tian. I will never dare to run out of the Star Dou Forest core area again... The outside world is too dangerous... Please, take me back..."

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion shed tears of regret. If Heaven gave her another chance, she would never leave the core circle of the Star Dou Forest even if it killed her.

Grumble~

An ill-timed sound rang out. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion's stomach was hungry. She tried hunting a few more soul beasts, but nothing dropped any meat.

Driven to a dead end, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion set her sights on the grass. Could it be that she, the dignified Emperor Auspicious Beast, was reduced to eating grass?

Grumble~

Just as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was still hesitating, her stomach sent another warning. She had originally left the core circle to hunt a Ten-Thousand Year Twin Giant because she was hungry.

Now that she had been wandering here for several hours, she was already starving. Seeing that she had no other choice, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had to lower her head and open her mouth to bite the grass below to survive.

Pop!

However, the next second, the system defaulted to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion destroying the grass. The grass disappeared with a pop, and the big golden cat bit into thin air, instantly losing her composure.

"How can I not even eat the grass! What kind of ghost place is this!"

In the end, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was exhausted. She collapsed onto the ground with a thud, looking as if she had given up on life.

In a world where she couldn't eat anything, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion felt like she was in hell. She was a foodie, and for a foodie to starve to death, the suffering was immense.

On the other side, Chen Ming had been watching all of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's actions. He was quite happy to see that she was conscious, could speak, had autonomy, and had a different art style.

Finally, someone could keep him company! However, he did not rush over rashly. After all, this Three-Eyed Golden Lion had 15,000 years of cultivation, and he was no match for her.

Although he could suppress her with his bloodline, the gap in stats was too large. Thus, Chen Ming prepared to wait until the Three-Eyed Golden Lion accepted her fate before suddenly appearing to save her.

He wanted to avoid the Three-Eyed Golden Lion treating him like a snack. Of course, he could revive, but it would still be very unpleasant.

Just as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion closed her eyes, trying to sleep through her hunger, a burst of fragrance suddenly drifted over. She immediately opened her eyes.

What came into view was a human with golden hair and red eyes. The aura the other party emitted... it felt so familiar!

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion had a trace of Golden Dragon King bloodline in her body, so naturally, she felt a sense of closeness to Chen Ming, who had activated the Golden Dragon King martial soul.

However, right now, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was staring straight at the egg-fried rice in Chen Ming's hands, tears of hunger streaming from the corners of her mouth like a small creek.

"Want to eat?"

Chen Ming was very surprised that she didn't pounce on him immediately, but he still spoke to try and communicate.

Hearing this, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion nodded her massive head frantically. Every cell in her body was currently transmitting feelings of hunger.

"Want!"

"Open your mouth."

Chen Ming signaled for her to open her mouth, and the big cat obediently complied. He immediately poured a plate of egg-fried rice into her mouth, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion began to eat.

It was so delicious that it brought her to tears. Eating a plate of egg-fried rice in such a state of extreme hunger, this feeling of being reborn in a desperate situation was truly wonderful. It was good to be alive.

If Heaven could give her another chance, she would hide in the core circle of the Star Dou Forest forever and never come out. At the same time, she would never dare to waste food again.

Back in the day, the auspicious beast was quite the gourmet; when she hunted soul beasts, she specifically targeted mental-type ones, and she only ate their brains.

Now, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion wished she could beat up her past self for wasting so much food; the change in her circumstances was much like the difference between payday at the start of the month and the end of the month.

It seemed even worse, actually; the main issue was that she couldn't even eat weeds—she truly couldn't eat anything at all, which was just utterly despairing.

"Do you want more?"

Fearing she wasn't full, Chen Ming pulled out an iron bucket of egg fried rice, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion lunged at it immediately, sticking her head into the bucket to eat; her wolfing down the food made her look like a starving ghost.

A moment later, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion finished the iron bucket of egg fried rice and finally felt comfortable, smacking her lips as if still wanting more before turning to look at this human who could speak to her.

The aura on the other party was very intimate, yet the pressure he exuded was just like that of the mysterious Lord.

"Human, can you tell me where this is? How do I get out?"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion wanted to leave this godforsaken place, and having finally encountered an object she could communicate with, she asked immediately.

"This is the inner circle of the Star Dou Forest, also known as the Mixed Zone; as a soul beast, you don't know this? As for getting out, just teleport."

ps: The first update for February 23rd, totaling two thousand words.