Little Chick

Lin Xiao gave a mysterious smile, then reached out and gripped a basketful of soil.

The next instant, the basket and all its soil suddenly vanished.

Everyone was shocked! They pointed at Lin Xiao's hand, unable to form a word.

"Th-this!"

Lin Xiao explained to them:

"The old immortal gave me a storage space that can hold a lot of things. But only I can use it. If I die, it'll disappear along with me."

Everyone looked at him with envy and longing!

Seeing them like this, Lin Xiao couldn't help thinking of something that came standard for cultivators in the Immortal Cultivation Realm-a Storage Bag.

He wanted to make one.

[Ding-congratulations to the host on unlocking the Item Synthesizer. The Item Synthesizer is a system product with an extraordinarily powerful synthesis function. The only limit is the host's imagination; there is nothing the synthesizer cannot synthesize! Please explore the specific synthesis recipes yourself.]

Good grief!

Lin Xiao really wanted to sit down right there and start studying the Item Synthesizer.

But obviously, that was impossible.

He had the great undertaking of digging soil on his shoulders.

With the convenience of Lin Xiao's private storage, no one needed to set aside extra time to carry the soil.

They promptly bent their heads and resumed their hard work.

They were also looking forward to the moment the sect's main hall was completed!

So the seven of them labored for another half a shichen before stopping.

Once Lin Xiao had put all thirty baskets of soil into his private storage, everyone headed back to the sect.

They had just returned to the sect and were preparing to rest for a while. Before they entered the grass shelter, Lin Xiao caught a familiar scent.

It was Yao Qi!

And it was exactly the same as the Yao Qi on Auntie Sun that day!

Lin Xiao immediately surveyed his surroundings with caution.

A patch of grass a hundred meters away was swaying slightly.

He swiftly charged in that direction, as fast as a fierce wind.

When he reached the grass, he raised his hand like a claw and made a grab!

Lin Xiao had acted so decisively because he could sense that the Yao Qi wasn't strong.

It was probably about the same as he had been at the Qi Refining First Layer.

Clearly, the wild pheasant hadn't expected this person to strike so quickly.

It was caught on the spot.

The six people left where they stood watched Lin Xiao vanish from before their eyes and rush a hundred meters away. They were utterly at sea.

Jiang Youfu, who was still at the Qi Refining First Layer, seemed to sense something. Looking at the wild pheasant in Lin Xiao's hand, he said hesitantly:

"Brother Xiao, the pheasant in your hand... seems a little different..."

Everyone turned to look at the wild pheasant Lin Xiao had caught.

It was a beautiful wild pheasant, with vividly colored, glossy feathers and a peacock-green plume in its tail. Lin Xiao held its plump neck tightly in his hand.

Lin Xiao carried it back to the others and said to Sun Yigao:

"Brother Sun, this is probably the chicken demon that sprayed a big mouthful of Yao Qi at your mother before."

Sun Yigao frowned and stepped forward to examine the wild pheasant.

Then he asked Lin Xiao:

"Sect master, is there a way to find out why this chicken demon harmed my mother?"

Lin Xiao was just about to say no when he suddenly remembered his Law Technique Creation Function.

Perhaps he could try creating a Law Technique to speak with animals?

Lin Xiao asked Sun Yigao to wait a moment, then put the chicken demon, which had stopped struggling, into the grass shelter.

He then set the grass shelter so that nothing could enter or leave, to prevent the wild pheasant from hurting anyone.

After telling everyone to cultivate under the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree for the time being, Lin Xiao squatted down alone on the other side of the tree and began studying the matter.

In just a few days, the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree had grown from a trunk one person could wrap their arms around into a tremendously thick one that would take five people to encircle.

The six sat in a row in front of the tree, holding their cultivation manuals and cultivating diligently. Whenever they came across something they didn't understand or had forgotten, they discussed it with one another.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao squatted alone behind the tree and opened the Law Technique Creation Function.

He opened his private storage and put paper and ink into it, only to discover that he had just one portion of pine soot ink left!

Using it would leave him with none.

He made a mental note of it, planning to buy some ink after going to town with his father to earn money in a few days.

Then he filled his head with all sorts of ideas for talking to animals and began feeding them nonstop into the third slot for creating a Law Technique.

[Congratulations to the host on successfully creating the Law Technique "Hundred Beasts Spirit Speech." The Law Technique has been delivered to your private storage. Please check and receive it.]

Lin Xiao didn't look.

As long as a Law Technique came from the synthesizer, he automatically knew how to use it.

Thus, the six people under the tree had only been cultivating for a short while when they saw Lin Xiao walk toward the grass shelter, full of satisfaction.

The wild pheasant demon, meanwhile, had already left several piles of droppings in the grass shelter.

As soon as Lin Xiao entered, he was forced to pinch his nose.

He used Hundred Beasts Spirit Speech to ask the chicken demon:

"Why did you hurt Auntie Sun?"

The wild pheasant demon looked at the human cultivator before it. Not knowing why it could suddenly understand him, it cocked its head curiously.

"Cluck cluck cluck?"

Make no mistake, there was nothing wrong with Hundred Beasts Spirit Speech. These were merely sounds that conveyed no meaning.

Lin Xiao rubbed his temples.

He had taken too much for granted. Objectively speaking, this was just a little demon chicken whose intelligence had only just awakened.

So he tried asking another way:

"The day before yesterday, did you spit Yao Qi at a human?"

At that, the little demon chicken perked up. It worked hard to express its anger with its body as it said:

"That person! Bad! Wanted to eat me! Spit at her!"

And there it was, the whole truth.

Auntie Sun had bought a wild pheasant in town and brought it home, never expecting that it had awakened intelligence. Somehow, though, it had been caught.

Auntie Sun had bought it and brought it home to stew for Sun Yigao to build up his health, and then.

Lin Xiao first said a couple of words to soothe the little demon chicken, then went out and told Sun Yigao what had happened.

"That's what happened. The little demon chicken is inside. What do you intend to do with it?"

Sun Yigao fell silent for a moment, then sighed.

"Let it be. This wild pheasant can be said to have a karmic connection with us.

"After all, our family was the first to intend to kill it. Fortunately, thanks to you, sect master, everyone came through unharmed. I'll tell my mother when I go home tonight. Let's leave the matter at that. I don't imagine my mother would hold a grudge against a wild pheasant either."

Lin Xiao had originally been thinking that if Sun Yigao didn't intend to spare the wild pheasant, they could have a good meal.

He just didn't know whether Demon Beasts could be eaten.

They probably could, right? Wild pheasants weren't poisonous, after all.

But hearing what Sun Yigao said, ah, all right. Demon Beasts and such could always be obtained later, once their cultivation was higher.

This wild pheasant did have a karmic connection with Sun Yigao.

And with their Lingxian Sect too.

People with a karmic connection didn't eat chickens with a karmic connection.

So Lin Xiao went into the grass shelter, about to tell the little demon chicken he was letting it go.

He saw it sitting upright on a grass mat like a hen incubating eggs. When it saw Lin Xiao come in, it said to him excitedly:

"Human! Human! I want to live here!"

Lin Xiao: ?