Du Siwen stared at the vanished Feizhu and asked in astonishment, "Qingtong, what on earth was that thing?"
Xu Qingtong smiled slightly. "That's my pet! His name is Xizi, and he's a Feizhu. He may be ugly, but he's quite capable!"
The two sat cross-legged where they were and waited. Before long, Xizi emerged from the ground and crawled over to Xu Qingtong, holding a glittering crystal in his two front claws.
"A spirit stone?" Du Siwen recognized at a glance that what Xizi held in his front claws was a low-grade metal-attribute spirit stone.
Xu Qingtong was somewhat surprised as well and hurriedly communicated with Xizi through divine thought.
"Master, there's a small mineral vein beneath this hill, full of this kind of ore!" Xizi said.
"Wonderful! Xizi, you've done a great service. I'll get you something delicious later!" Xu Qingtong said.
Then he said to Du Siwen, "Senior Sister, we've struck it rich this time! Xizi discovered a spirit stone mine beneath this hill. This spirit stone was dug out of the vein!"
Hearing this, Du Siwen immediately jumped up in delight. Once her excitement subsided, she looked at Xizi on the ground again and said, "This fellow may be a little ugly, but now he looks rather adorable!"
Xizi rolled his two large eyes and raised his front claws, deeply dissatisfied with Du Siwen's praise and voicing his vehement protest!
"Oh? This little fellow can even understand me!" Du Siwen said curiously.
"His spiritual intelligence has awakened, so naturally he can understand you!"
"Qingtong, where did you find him? First Xiao Qi, and now Xizi too. I really have to hand it to you!"
Xu Qingtong did not answer her, but lowered his head in thought. After a moment, he looked at Du Siwen and said, "Senior