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Chapter 104: The unscrupulous merchant
After carefully checking his Companion Beast's condition and confirming that the Thunder-Needle Ferret was unharmed and had merely lost consciousness, Han Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. He turned his gaze toward the handsome young male cultivator before him, with his sword-like brows and star-bright eyes.
Far Sky County was neither particularly large nor particularly small, but its circle of younger cultivators was fixed!
Yet Han Zheng had never heard of a prodigy in Far Sky who had contracted a Golden Scale. Could this man be a prodigy from the higher-ranking Fallen Dragon Prefecture's capital?
"How should I address you, fellow Daoist?" he asked curiously.
"My surname is Chen," Chen Beiwu replied, scooping up Golden Egg.
Through the connection provided by the Companion Beast Contract, he discovered that Golden Egg preferred satisfying his appetite to fighting.
Looks like I can take a different approach to training his strength from now on-find Golden Egg a few opponents he can eat, Chen Beiwu thought.
Interest was the best teacher, yielding twice the results with half the effort.
As long as his opponents were "tasty" enough, Golden Egg might take the initiative to hunt without any commands or urging from him.
After enough hunts, Golden Egg's combat experience would naturally improve.
Chen! Han Zheng was slightly startled.
His guess was probably right. There were no Cultivation Lineages surnamed Chen in Far Sky County.
"Fellow Daoist Chen, my Companion Beast has already passed out, so today's sparring..." Han Zheng's expression grew troubled as he spoke.
"Let's end the sparring here," Chen Beiwu said.
"Thank you for understanding." Han Zheng cupped his hands slightly, then turned and hurried away with the Thunder-Needle Ferret.
His Companion Beast concerned his own future Dao Path. Even if Chen Beiwu had an extraordinary