Visitors from Another World
In the pitch-black cave, a fist-sized luminous pearl barely illuminated a small area.
The man sitting in the center bamboo chair was wrapped tightly in thick animal hide, with only his beautiful eyes showing.
The Beastmen surrounding him all looked at him expectantly, as if waiting for him to provide a solution.
Feeling somewhat helpless under the intense gaze of this group of people, Yue Tianze felt a little helpless.
He rubbed his temples and asked in a language the Beastmen could understand, "So, Little Yue found a Human Race in the forest, and you don't know what to do, so you came to ask me?"
The chieftain of the Ming Deer Clan sighed, "Yes, over all these years, you're the only person we've met. But you're intelligent and kind. We don't know what that other person is like, and we're worried that if our cubs accidentally wander into her territory while she lives in the forest, they might harm them..."
These Beastmen also felt that communication was easier and more pleasant among their own kind. They wanted Yue Tianze to help them inquire about the other party's intentions; if the other party was equally friendly, they could continue to maintain contact.
If the other party has ulterior motives, they can only prepare in advance.
Although the Ming Deer Clan is kind to others, they are not easily bullied or submissive!
Yue Tianze understood the clan leader's meaning, but he didn't even know why he had come to this world, so how could he be sure what kind of person this new clansman was?
Fortunately, the little girl Yue was brought along by the clan leader. Seeing that the expressions of the surrounding Beastmen were not very pleasant, even though she was timid, she dared to say a few words for Sang Ying: "She is a good person."
Amidst the murmur of voices, Yue's voice was almost drowned out, but Yue Tianze noticed her because of it.
Actually, it was Yue Tianze who helped name this little girl, so the two of them are somewhat destined to be together.
He looked at the little girl and asked gently, "Little Yue, what did you just say?"
The sounds inside the cave immediately ceased, and everyone turned to look at Yue. This sudden turn of events startled the little girl, who immediately lowered her head, avoiding eye contact with anyone else.
"I... I said, she's a good person," Yue said softly. "She gave me fruit, and she spoke very gently, just like you, sir."
The title "Master" has been passed down among the Beastmen for generations and is said to be a title given to those who are extremely worthy of respect. However, it was not until Yue Tianze appeared that the Beastmen began to use this title on him.
Yue's mother was the clan chief's daughter. When she heard her daughter being so affectionate with someone she had only met a few times and comparing him to Yue Tianze, she immediately became unhappy.
She snapped, "Yue, watch your words!"
When Yueyi met her mother's stern gaze, she lowered her head again.
Although the Beastmen cared a lot about being called "adult," Yue Tianze himself didn't care. He wasn't a great person; he just had the advantage of living a long life.
Yue Tianze liked being with Beastmen because Beastmen lacked the cunning and treachery of Human Race. They were so innocent that Yue Tianze was always worried that if he didn't look after them, they would be sold out and he would even help them count the money.
Fortunately, he stayed there for a long time, and through Yue Tianze's tireless teaching, the Beastmen of the Ming Deer Clan finally learned what "the wickedness of the human heart" meant, and were no longer so easily trusting of others.
However, the innocence in their bones is not easy to erase, and of course, Yue Tianze never intended to erase it.
A young girl like Yue would certainly not lie, so he believed that she genuinely thought the Human Race was a good person.
Yue Tianze didn't say much, only replying, "I understand. I will go and meet with them tomorrow."
If, as Little Yue says, he is truly a good person, perhaps they could be recruited into the Ming Deer Clan. After all, next month marks the biannual Salt Scramble Ming Deer Clan and Black Bear Clan, and the Ming Deer Clan currently lacks suitable warriors.
With such mixed feelings, Yue Tianze saw the Beastmen off, and the next morning he got up and went deep into the forest.
The path was shown to him by Yue's mother; he didn't let the other Beastmen follow him. If he were alone, escaping would be easy.
Sang Ying was awakened by the chirping of birds. She had made several chairs and a table for herself yesterday.
I didn't plan to do anything else today, I just wanted to go around and see if the traps I set last night had caught any wild animals, so I could release them all.
She set the trap only to keep the wild beast away, preventing it from venturing into her territory and making her cultivation at night uneasy.
However, Sang Ying felt that with the aura she released, no wild beast would be so blind as to see her running into danger.
However, it turned out that she hadn't considered everything comprehensively.
Sang Ying didn't know what expression to make when she lifted the half-destroyed camouflage of a trap and looked down to meet a face.
The other person looked utterly innocent, sitting pitifully at the bottom of the pit, their animal skin clothing covered in mud.
"This... fellow Daoist?" Sang Ying asked uncertainly.
Yue Tianze never expected to be so unlucky. He had only gotten a little closer to Sang Ying's wooden house and vaguely saw the roof when he accidentally fell into the trap.
He did want to save himself, but he had paid a much higher price for coming into this world than Sang Ying.
Sang Ying was able to accomplish the great task of saving the world for two reasons: first, because she had accumulated enough Merit over the years, and second, because she transformed the Dragon Abyss Sword into the most powerful divine artifact. It was through these powers that she was able to make up for what was missing in the Heavenly Dao.
Yue Tianze had truly given up all his divine Divine Power. Unlike Sang Ying, who was a cultivator before and could slowly absorb Spiritual Qi to recover her cultivation, he was not.
Yue Tianze's high status in the Ming Deer Clan is all thanks to his intelligence.
Having no Divine Power whatsoever, and even with a physique weaker than the average person, Yue Tianze was contemplating whether to shout for help, hoping that some nearby Beastmen might rescue him. But the next second, he met Sang Ying's probing eyes.
Yue Tianze quickly snapped out of his daze at Sang Ying's questioning. He struggled to switch back to his original words and said happily, "Yes, yes! Fellow Daoist, Fellow Daoist. I am a fellow Daoist."
Sang Ying frowned; she felt that this person didn't seem very intelligent.
Even with that thought in her mind, she still threw down the vine rope she had used to rescue the person. "Can you climb up yourself?"
"I'm afraid that won't work." Yue Tianze gave a wry smile; he was now truly "powerless to even kill a chicken."
Helpless, Sang Ying turned around and went back to the wooden house to get the largest wicker basket, tied the wicker rope to it, and threw it into the pit.
Although Yue Tianze didn't have the strength to climb up, he did have the strength to squeeze into the vine basket, even though it looked a bit embarrassing.
But as long as they could get out of there, they didn't care about being ashamed.