Seeing Little White and Little Black Again

"Old Master Xiao's birthday? All right, I'll definitely be there!" Su Ye said.

"You can just go with me when the time comes!" Xiao Xiao replied.

"Sure! When are you going back?" Su Ye asked.

"The day after tomorrow!"

"All right, wait for me in the county town the morning after tomorrow!"

Su Ye and Xiao Xiao chatted a little longer before hanging up.

Before long, Su Ye received a text message: ninety-five million had been deposited into his account.

It was the first time Su Ye had seen so much money, and he felt a little excited.

Su Ye walked around the orange grove and, finding nothing to do for the time being, headed for Mount Jiuhua. He hadn't seen Little White and Little Black in a long time, and he wondered how they were doing.

Su Ye followed the stream into the mountains. He didn't encounter any wild boars or other beasts along the way this time, though he did spot several venomous snakes with triangular heads. He dispatched them with an Ice Arrow Technique.

This was by the stream, and there was no telling whether the venomous snakes lurking here might follow it to his family's vegetable garden. He wasn't afraid of such dangers himself, but his parents, Erhu and the others were all ordinary people. If a venomous snake bit them and they weren't rushed to a hospital, they would still be in serious danger.

So Su Ye decided that once he had started, he might as well see it through, and eliminated those lingering concerns with an Ice Arrow Technique.

He knew the way well, so before long, Su Ye reached the place where Little White and Little Black had fought last time-right outside Little White's home.

Little White didn't seem to be home, though. Su Ye closed his eyes and began sensing their connection through the Beast Taming Art.

"What did they run over there for?" Su Ye said in puzzlement.

According to what Su Ye sensed, Little White and Little Black were now over by Qinghua's cave abode.

Su Ye had never told Little White and Little Black that Daoist Qinghua's cave abode was over there, so how had the two of them ended up there?

Su Ye was puzzled, but he quickly headed over anyway.

A few minutes later, Su Ye arrived beside Qinghua's cave abode. Beneath a huge boulder about ten meters long and wide, Little White was curled up at leisure, while Little Black stood on top of the boulder with its head buried in its feathers, preening its glossy black wing feathers.

"Little White, Little Black!!"

When Su Ye saw them, he shouted to them.

At the sound of Su Ye's voice, Little White immediately sprang to its feet and looked around for him.

Little Black also pulled its head out of its glossy black feathers. Since it was standing up high and had better eyesight than Little White, it spotted Su Ye at once.

"I'm over here!!"

Little White now spotted Su Ye standing in a tree as well, and both beasts rushed toward him.

"Hey, don't shove me! Are you a tiger or a dog?"

Su Ye had just jumped down from the tree when Little White and Little Black greeted him with enthusiasm.

Little White kept rubbing its head against Su Ye's chest, while Little Black used its bird head to keep playing with the hem of his clothes at his waist.

"You can rub against me, but whatever you do, don't lick me!"

Su Ye spoke as he looked at the dense, sharp barbs on Little White's tongue.

Wouldn't one lick take several pounds off him?

Seeing that the two beasts were still rubbing against him and wouldn't let go after all this time, Su Ye realized they were asking for something.

He immediately took some spiritual energy water out of the Immortal Spirit Space. The moment Little Black and Little White saw it, they abandoned Su Ye and started drinking!

Only after downing several bowls of spiritual energy water did they stretch and let out a belch.

Su Ye stared at the two gluttons, speechless for a long time. They could even drink water until they were full...

But spiritual energy water really did taste good.

Then Su Ye seemed to think of something and vanished from the spot in a flash.

Inside the Immortal Spirit Space, Su Ye looked at the unknown spiritual fruit, only one of which had ripened, unable to make up his mind...

"One fruit, two demonic beasts. How am I supposed to divide it..."

Then Su Ye spotted the mutated ginseng nearby.

Back in the real world, Su Ye appeared before Little Black and Little White with a red ginseng root in his left hand and a red fruit in his right.

"Which one do you two want?"

Su Ye placed the red spiritual fruit and the red ginseng in front of the two beasts, ready to let them choose for themselves.

Little Black and Little White's eyes lit up the moment they saw the spiritual fruit in Su Ye's hand. It was precisely by eating this kind of red fruit containing spiritual energy that they had reached their current state.

Little White was the first to react, darting forward and snatching the red spiritual fruit in its mouth.

When Little Black saw the spiritual fruit go into Little White's mouth, it flew into a rage on the spot. A layer of pale cyan light appeared around its body.

Seeing this, Su Ye immediately jumped in front of Little Black with the mutated ginseng.

Only then did Little Black notice that Su Ye was holding something else. Seemingly sensing the vast spiritual energy contained within the ginseng, Little Black lowered its bird head and sniffed it.

In fact, Su Ye had sensed that the spiritual energy in the mutated ginseng should be about the same as that in the red spiritual fruit. But he didn't dare casually consume something that had mutated, so he planned to let Little Black try it first. What if it was poisonous?

After sniffing the ginseng, Little Black grabbed it in its beak and went off to the side, where it began tearing it apart and eating it.

"Sure enough, it's not poisonous..."

"What did you come over here for?" Su Ye asked, looking at Little White and Little Black beside it.

A fragmented message then reached his mind. Roughly speaking, this place was beneficial to them, and they liked staying here.

It's probably because the spiritual energy is so dense, Su Ye guessed inwardly.

This was Daoist Qinghua's cave abode, and inside the cave was a Spirit Gathering Array that could even produce spirit stones, so the spiritual energy of heaven and earth here was considerably denser than elsewhere.

"From now on, help me guard that cave abode over there. Don't let anything inside!" Su Ye ordered Little Black and Little White.

"Roar!!!"

"Chirp!!!"

Hearing Su Ye's order, Little Black and Little White immediately responded.

"All right, go play somewhere else. I'm going inside to have a look!" With that, Su Ye headed into the cave abode.

Although it hadn't been long since his last visit, Su Ye still wanted to go inside and take a look.

Su Ye passed through the illusion array and entered the cave.

Although Su Ye had already dug out half the luminous pearls, it was still as bright as day inside.

Su Ye went straight past the large stone chamber and headed directly into the small stone chamber containing the Spirit Gathering Array.

When Su Ye entered, the Spirit Gathering Array was just as it had been before, glowing with a ring of pale purple light.

Although Su Ye had now learned to set up simple, small Spirit Gathering Arrays, he still couldn't make head or tail of one that produced spirit stones.

After looking at the Spirit Gathering Array for a while, Su Ye headed for the stone chamber below.

Su Ye entered the stone chamber and saw four spirit stones scattered across the floor. He bent down and collected them all in his storage bag.

"Even a mosquito has meat, however small. Who knows how many resources I'll need in the future? I can't waste them," Su Ye murmured to himself.