Rations

But so be it, as long as they didn't confiscate the benefits.

Tongzi is quite easy to talk to.

Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu arrived at the place Banxiang City where they had previously captured various Demon Beast.

They must have food available in the areas where they regularly live.

Because the system would give Lin Xiao things like plant seeds or insect eggs that the Demon Beast liked to eat for the first time he captured five of each kind, Lin Xiao's goal was clear: to find these things given by the system.

What I thought would go smoothly turned out to encounter problems.

That is, the two of them searched all over the mountains and fields for a long time according to what the system gave them, but they only found a very small amount of the things that the Demon Beast liked to eat the most.

Lin Xiao confirmed several times that they had not gone to the wrong location and had not missed anything, so they had to suspend their search for food for the Demon Beast.

This is too inefficient. After half a day, the amount found isn't even enough for those Demon Beast to eat in one bite.

Why is that?

Logically, Demon Beast should live in places where food is plentiful...

Lin Xiao opened his private vault and began checking the food rations distributed by the system.

Seeing that he seemed to be thinking, Jiang Youfu did not disturb him. Instead, he collected some Rare Flowers and Exotic Herbs around the area, planning to ask Senior Liao and Brother Xiao later if they were edible.

Lin Xiao looked at the food seedlings several times, and finally his gaze fell on [favorite food].

Could it be that these Demon Beast, although living here, don't usually eat their favorite foods, but instead subsist on other, less desirable foods?

Hmm, thinking about it that way does seem possible.

Not everyone, including people, can eat their favorite food every day. It's normal; he's overthinking it.

It seems the food the system provided for these Demon Beast must be of good quality...

Just look how hard it is to find in the wild, and you'll know. They're so rare that even the Demon Beast that love to eat them can't eat them to their heart's content. At most, they can only occasionally encounter a few that have grown and eat a little to satisfy their cravings. Because they're rare, they must be good stuff.

It seems I'll have to carefully cultivate these seedlings that the system gave me when I get back. Who knows, they might not only be able to feed the Demon Beast, but also have other uses.

However, for now, he still needs to find some ordinary alternative food for Demon Beast, and it would be best to dig up some seedlings to provide for them before the food seedlings provided by the system grow.

Thinking it over, Lin Xiao grabbed a Golden Porcupine from the living creature storage area, tied it around the neck with Spiritual Power threads, and then let go.

The area they are currently in is the habitat of the Golden Porcupine.

The Golden Porcupine, already starving and desperate, was immediately thrown into its familiar surroundings and abandoned all hope of fighting Lin Xiao, the culprit who had imprisoned it. Instead, it took off running towards its food source.

Lin Xiao, holding the Spiritual Power thread, followed closely behind without any effort.

Seeing Lin Xiao walk ahead, Jiang Youfu stopped picking the Rare Flowers and Exotic Herbs and quickly followed.

Looking at the Golden Porcupine running wildly ahead, he asked Lin Xiao:

"Brother Xiao, are we using it to lead us to its food?"

Lin Xiao nodded:

"It's my fault for not thinking of this method sooner; I wasted so much time."

Jiang Youfu shook his head and slapped his cheek, saying:

"No, no, Brother Xiao, I picked so many things today! I'll show you when we get back! If they're not poisonous, I'll study whether they can be cooked, hehe. And I collected seeds for everything."

"Okay, I'll check what they are when we get back."

The two chatted as they followed behind the Golden Porcupine, which was frantically running for food.

Before long, it stopped in front of a large patch of bushes with blue berries the size of a baby's fist, and then began to eat heartily.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao sighed softly, just as he had expected.

They had seen many of these blue berries in this area before, but because they were completely different from the Rainbow Jade Flower, the favorite food of the Golden Porcupine given by the system, they had never considered them.

Fortunately, it has now been discovered.

Seeing the Golden Porcupine burying its head in its food, Lin Xiao didn't rush to put it into the animal storage area. Instead, he started collecting large quantities of the blue fruit around it and dug up many fruit tree saplings along with the soil to store in his private stash.

Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu were very fast; in no time, they had picked all the fruit in the area except for the one around the Golden Porcupine.

The Golden Porcupine, having just eaten its fill, was about to move to another spot to fill its belly when it looked up and discovered that the bushes around it, which had been laden with fruit just moments before, were now completely bare.

The Golden Porcupine, which had been starving for many days and was finally able to eat, burped in a daze. Then, while it was still in a daze, it was 'whooshed' into the living creature storage area by Lin Xiao, who had already finished his work.

"Let's go, let's move on to the next place."

--

Although Yuan Qing didn't have much of a background, he still had some fellow disciples and friends within the Heavenly Profound Sect.

Although not everyone was willing to help him, those he considered his friends would at least not harm him.

Among these friends, those he was closest to, besides Xu Juan, were the few people Lin Xiao had rescued in the Green Field Mystic Realm.

Because it was Lin Xiao who called him over, and they carried those people out of the secret realm together, those who were rescued all believed that he and Lin Xiao knew each other.

Because of this, although those people were most grateful to Lin Xiao, they were also grateful to Yuan Qing.

The despair of being trapped is something that ordinary people can hardly understand.

Once they were finally rescued, they didn't even want to waste any energy hating the culprit who had thrown them into that confined space; all they wanted was to live a good and meaningful life.

Because of the physical deterioration they had suffered over the years, they were unable to perform sect missions after leaving the sect. They were only at the Qi Refining Stage and were not considered prodigies, so they were not valued. When they did not leave the sect, the sect assumed they had died in the secret realm, and there was no longer a place for them within the sect.

Although they eventually got out, so much time had passed, and some of those who had been trapped for a long time had grown quite old. They hadn't cultivated properly for several years, so their cultivation hadn't improved much. It's easy to imagine how the sect treated them; naturally, they wouldn't take good care of them.

After all, resources are limited. With their bodies weakened, they can't contribute, and the sect has to support them for nothing.

Furthermore, it's unknown whether their minds have been damaged, which might cause problems for their future advancement, and they might not even be able to reach the Foundation Establishment.