Emerald Swan

Tang Liu struggled in vain. "You even have that? Fine, fine, I admit I was a little out of my mind back then, but isn't acting cute perfectly normal for a child?"

"Please count your actual age on your fingers and toes before saying that. Would you like the system to provide a detailed tutorial on 'Basic Toddler Finger Addition and Subtraction'?"

Tang Liu: "...Bro, I was wrong, bro. Let's not talk about this anymore."

The system replayed it again: "Nooo, can we just fly, fly, fly over there? Pleaseee~"

Tang Liu exploded. "Get lost!"

The days passed quickly as he explored the forest while watching dramas across time and space with his three companions.

Since the Soul Beast he was looking for still had around two years before it became a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, he was in no hurry. He first left the Star Dou Great Forest and bought a camping tent and a whole range of supplies in the nearest city, along with plenty of fresh ingredients, before returning to the forest.

Whenever he did not feel like doing anything, Tang Liu would curl up in the tent and watch dramas with his three little hangers-on. More often, though, he was either cultivating, practicing his cooking with those ingredients, or gathering all kinds of rare heavenly treasures in the Star Dou Great Forest and having the system teach him how to make interesting or practical tools.

In short, he seemed to have completely returned to the stay-at-home lifestyle he had led during holidays in his previous life. The only difference was that his "home" was now a small camping tent.

Naturally, after spending two months in the forest like that, he began to feel a little bored.

After all, while the system was practically omniscient, it was