After getting off the train.
All kinds of snack vendors and touts came into view.
Fang Qing casually bought a meat pie and followed the crowd out of the train station. "Next... wherever I go, I only need to find a place where the spiritual opportunity of [Winnowing Basket Water] is at its most abundant... settle down there, cultivate in seclusion for a while, and devise some techniques along the way."
Only after leaving the station did he learn that this place was called Forest Marsh. There were quite a few lovely mountains and rivers nearby, so he immediately decided to take a trip.
"Meow!" After only a few steps, he saw a calico cat dart past a street corner.
It was little more than skin and bones, its fur somewhat soaked and bedraggled. It probably had not been living well.
Seeing this, Fang Qing's heart stirred. He tossed over the meat pie in his hand. "This is for you..."
The calico cat was startled at first, then drawn by the scent of meat. It stepped forward, sniffed at the pie, picked it up in its mouth, and left.
Fang Qing smiled and continued onward. Before long, he heard another soft sound.
The calico cat from before had returned, a white, fluffy bundle held in its mouth. It set the bundle before Fang Qing.
Fang Qing glanced down and discovered that it was a palm-sized kitten, snow-white from head to toe.
"A gift for me?" He smiled, lifting the white kitten into his palm and meeting its emerald-green vertical pupils. "We are rather fated, then. Thanks..." Fang Qing only found it amusing.
Since methods of Qi Ingestion had spread, how could there be no demon beasts?
The palm-sized white cat had crystalline fur, licked remarkably clean. Fang Qing casually tucked