This Venerable One Went to Great Pains to Acquire Mounts

As the gale swept through, scattered pieces of Chaos stubborn stone drifted down along the way, and countless strange scenes of Chaos manifested before them.

Fifteen kalpas passed. Feng Yue cultivated for fifteen kalpas as well, then jumped down from the Chaos Enlightenment Tree and came before Clover.

"How is it?"

"Still not cooked?"

Feng Yue asked, casually checking the heat.

"Senior, this egg is quite sturdy. I'm afraid it will need more time. It has been boiling for so long now, yet there has basically been no movement at all. Even the eggshell is only lukewarm!"

"Then keep burning it until it is cooked! No matter what, this Venerable One is going to eat this egg. Even if the Great Dao itself comes, it cannot stop me!"

Feng Yue spoke with a trace of anger. Fifteen whole kalpas had passed without the slightest change—he truly had not expected that.

After wasting so much time, if it still was not cooked, that would be a truly disastrous loss.

He came before the two Chaos King Ferocious Beasts. One black and one white, furry things always evoked a fondness from the depths of one's heart.

The two were still trapped in the construction of the bipolar spacetime wormhole, cycling over and over, endlessly shuttling back and forth.

"Help..."

"This King is about to pass out!"

"This King gives in!"

"Put this King down already!"

The white Ferocious Beast roared. Its entire body felt awful. Ever since fifteen kalpas ago, it had been foaming at the mouth, then vomiting without end. Even now, nausea still gripped it.

It had thought every Ferocious Beast had an adjustment period. Who would have thought it had still been too hasty?

It was far too dizzy—so dizzy that the world spun around it. The fainting, nausea, and vomiting only worsened by the day. That feeling was impossible to describe, like wandering between life and death. There were always a few moments when it wished it were dead.

"You already give in?"

"How boring!"

Feng Yue sent out a streak of pure white light from his right hand and set the two beasts down.

"Bleurgh, bleurgh, bleurgh~!"

A strange substance mixed with the smell of pickled cabbage spewed uncontrollably from the mouths and noses of the black and white Ferocious Beasts. Then both collapsed onto a piece of Chaos stubborn stone and said weakly, "No more, no more. This King needs to rest for a while!"

"This King too!"

The two King Ferocious Beasts, one black and one white, had both been given motion sickness by Feng Yue!

"It's fine, calm down. Here, have some fruit to settle your nerves!"

Feng Yue tossed them two Chaos Heavenly Spirit Fruits, letting them rinse their mouths. Their sour breath stank a little.

As they ate the fruits, the two Ferocious Beasts likely had yet to realize the severity of the problem.

Feng Yue paced around beside them, stopping now and then to look them over.

"Mhm, mhm, very mighty and domineering. And with that fluffy fur—very nice!"

"One black and one white. They can be ridden separately!"

Feng Yue muttered to himself, while the two Ferocious Beasts could not be bothered with any of that. They truly had no way to deal with someone like Feng Yue, who had made them suffer so terribly.

Without a word, he constructed bipolar spacetime wormholes, sending them in and out, nauseating them without rest. Who could endure that?

Fortunately, after getting spun around, they could eat free spirit fruits.

The Chaos Heavenly Spirit Fruit was considered a rare variety in Chaos. It was excellent—extremely sweet and delicious, and even able to clear heat and purge toxins. It counted as an all-purpose fruit.

"Um... do you have any more of this fruit?"

After finishing one fruit, the black Ferocious Beast shamelessly asked Feng Yue despite feeling a little embarrassed.

Seeing this, the white Ferocious Beast also looked at Feng Yue thick-skinnedly.

"There's plenty of fruit. I have a tree over there, and it is covered in this kind of fruit!"

"But do you not know that receiving another's favor while seeking the Dao creates a karmic entanglement in the unseen?"

"Can you afford to repay such karma?"

The black and white Ferocious Beasts: "..."

"Uh... then I'll vomit it back up!"

"Vomit it back up? Can it still be eaten?" Feng Yue smacked one Ferocious Beast on the back of the head. It really was a damn Ferocious Beast—dumb as a rock.

"You dare hit this King? Do you know that this King is—Smack!"

Smack!

"This Venerable One will hit you!"

"What, you ate this Venerable One's fruit and incurred such enormous karma. Not only do you refuse to repay it, you are still putting on airs?"

"Do you think you are the Karma Demon God? Do you think karma cannot cling to you?"

"This Venerable One will tell you two something. Chaos has an old saying: one who eats another's food speaks softly; one who takes another's things acts softly!"

"Do not let your mouths be so hard in the future. If you dare keep calling yourselves 'This King,' I'll toss you two into the spacetime turbulence and shave off your fur!"

At those words, the two Ferocious Beasts immediately sat upright in fright. The Chaos stubborn stone they had been lying on seemed to possess intelligence as well, rapidly plunging downward and fleeing the area.

"We...!"

"Karma cycles endlessly, and the Great Dao is ever-changing. You two cannot run from it..."

"Of course, this Venerable One is not so heartless toward Ferocious Beasts. Tell me, then—how will you compensate this Venerable One?"

With a trace of a smile, Feng Yue asked in an incomparably wicked yet gentle-as-water manner.

The two Ferocious Beasts looked at each other, somewhat awkward.

"Aren't you just bullying honest beasts?"

"You occupied our territory, and now you're turning around and accusing us, demanding compensation!"

The white Ferocious Beast's mind worked faster, and in an instant, it understood the situation.

It seemed the true owners were the two King Ferocious Beasts. This creature before them had only arrived later, had it not?

"Forget it, forget it. There probably won't be any result if we keep talking!"

"Little Ye, set up another pot later and send these two Ferocious Beasts in for a nice bath!"

As he spoke, Feng Yue had already made his move. The aura of Boundless Dao enveloped the black and white Ferocious Beasts, and he lifted them up like pet dogs.

"What are you doing?!"

The Ferocious Beasts were utterly baffled.

"Little Ye, heat the oil!"

Feng Yue called toward Clover.

"Alright, Senior!"

Clover answered quickly.

"Deep-fried Ferocious Beasts will surely be delicious!"

"Be more careful in your next life. This is Chaos, where the strong are honored. What this Venerable One says is the reason. What you two say is merely principle, without cause or reason. Understand?"

Feng Yue grinned at them.

"Wait!"

"Don't!"

"There must be some misunderstanding here!"

"There's no misunderstanding. Don't worry!" Feng Yue patted the two Ferocious Beasts' fluffy heads, then grabbed them and prepared to put them into the oil pot.

"There is a misunderstanding! There must be!"

"How about this? We accept your previous condition!"

"What condition?" Feng Yue stared at them and asked.

"Being mounts!" the black Ferocious Beast suddenly said.

"Oh, this Venerable One never mentioned such a condition. You were the ones who wanted to become mounts!"

"You said it yourselves, right?"

Feng Yue's gaze grew increasingly sinister. The two Ferocious Beasts could not help swallowing, terrified to the extreme.

"Yes, yes, we are both willing!"

"Master never mentioned such an absurd condition. What a wild claim!"

"We willingly submit to Master and gladly serve as beasts beneath his saddle!"

"Hahahaha, beasts worth teaching indeed!"

From beginning to end, the black and white Ferocious Beasts had been within Feng Yue's calculations. Speaking of it, everyone understood perfectly well; they simply had not wished to lay things bare.

See? Once they spoke openly, it became so easy.

Feng Yue had not threatened or tempted them in any way. He merely took them through a little game, and they were already convinced body and soul, willingly accepting the title of mounts.

"Aiya, this Venerable One's charm is still so great!"

"Even two Chaos King Ferocious Beasts are willing to follow this Venerable One and build a future together. Not bad, not bad!"

The black and white Ferocious Beasts: "..."