“I have to bathe them and go in to clean?”
Ji Die looked at the snow-white tiger chained up in the compartment to his left, his eyes nearly popping out.
He had thought he would be feeding some kind of livestock, but he never expected tigers…
“Awoo!”
At that moment, a wolf howl came from another compartment.
“There’s also a wolf! Why is this wolf so big!” Ji Die’s face turned pale as he looked at the wolf, which was more than a person’s height.
Thinking of Ma Lian Nan’s previous words, his heart hung in his throat. He looked up at the compartment’s number plate.
Number Three.
“Good thing! This isn’t my responsibility!” Taking a deep breath to calm himself, Ji Die walked deeper into the shed, looking for his assigned compartment, number eleven, feeling increasingly relieved.
Some compartments contained normal animals, such as white cranes, though their size seemed somewhat massive, taller than he was.
“I hope the Yao Beast I’m responsible for is normal.” Ji Die silently prayed, and soon he saw compartment number eleven.
He looked inside with a nervous expression.
The next moment, he heard himself swallow.
Inside this compartment was not a wolf, nor a tiger, but a gigantic python as thick as a water bucket, coiled up.
This snake was at least two or three people long, completely black, with scales on its forehead that gleamed with a cold light.
…
“The compartment needs to be cleaned once every seven days, and that big snake needs to be bathed once…”
This was Ji Die’s third day at the Beast Pen.
Ji Die had already become familiar with the daily feeding routines.
He picked a fruit from the orchard, chewed it in his mouth, and looked towards the shed. The thought of having to bathe that snake four days later made his head ache.
Over these three days, he had more or less found out some information about this Beast Pen.
The Yao Beast kept here were all tamed; most were very docile and wouldn’t harm people, unless in an emergency.
But that definitely did not include the one he was raising.
This fellow was rumored to have ripped off the arm of the Disciple responsible for feeding it not long ago.
Ji Die shuddered just thinking about the bloody scene.
Moreover, it was the Yao Pet of a very famous Disciple, so he couldn’t even hit it.
Of course, he might not be able to defeat it anyway. According to what he had learned in the past two days, the beasts in this Beast Pen were all Yao Beast.
Yao Beast are animals that, by chance, absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and embark on the path of Cultivation.
And the Yao Beast in this Beast Pen were all at the Qi Training Stage of Cultivation.
The creature he was raising was even said to be at the Qi Training stage 3 peak.
He simply couldn’t win!
After finishing one fruit, Ji Die couldn’t help but rub his cheeks. He carried a basket of fruits into the shed, stood outside compartment number eleven, and poured them all in.
However, the large black snake merely opened its cold eyes, glanced at him, then closed its eyes again, ignoring the fruits on the ground.
“Eat it or not, I don’t care.” Ji Die glanced at it. For the past two days, he had tried to build a good relationship with it, but who knew it completely ignored him.
He didn’t pay it any mind and walked straight out of the shed.
Anyway, it would naturally eat when it was hungry.
Back in his room, Ji Die sat blankly on the bed.
The room only had a bed; there was no other furniture, excessively simple.
“I don’t care anymore. At worst, I just won’t go in when the time comes. I don’t believe they can force me. As for whether there will be other punishments, it’s better than losing my life.” Ji Die gritted his teeth; the tension of these past few days vanished at this moment.
Ji Die also closed his eyes and focused on Cultivating.
After this series of events, he understood the importance of strength even more. Without strength, one’s fate could only be controlled by others.
It was almost afternoon when Ji Die finished his Cultivation, his face heavy with worry.
“Still unable to Breakthrough to Qi Cultivation Second Layer.”
For some unknown reason, he felt that his Realm seemed to have hit a wall and could not improve further.
“Is everyone like this, or is it just me!” Ji Die sighed.
His Cultivation time was still short, so he didn’t know that in the Qi Training Stage Realm, Qi Cultivation Second Layer, Qi Training Fifth Layer, and Qi Cultivation Seventh Level were three major hurdles.
Breaking through them was more difficult than breaking through ordinary Realms. For those with poor talent, getting stuck at this Realm for three to five years was quite normal.
“I’ll try again. I don’t believe I’ll always be unable to Breakthrough.” With a sigh, Ji Die wasn’t too disheartened. He went out and delivered another basket of fruits to the black snake.
When he came out of the shed, he happened to see several Disciples gathered nearby.
One of them was the handsome young man who had reminded Ji Die that day, whose name seemed to be Luo Qiang.
He was holding a fruit in his hand, showing off to the Disciple next to him.
“This spirit-boosting fruit that boosts Cultivation was given to me by Senior Brother Wu when he came at noon and saw that I was taking good care of his Yao Pet. Aren’t you envious?” Luo Qiang said smugly.
The other Disciples didn’t speak, but their eyes clearly showed envy.
This guy’s luck was too good; not only was the Yao Beast he raised very docile, but the Yao Pet’s owner was also very generous, occasionally giving him some rewards.
He never expected to be directly rewarded with a spirit-boosting fruit this time.
One should know that this kind of fruit contained Spiritual Qi and could boost Cultivation, with effects far better than Spirit Stone.
“spirit-boosting fruit…” Hearing that the fruit could boost Cultivation, Ji Die, who was about to return to his room, stopped and looked at it curiously.
He found that the fruit in the other person’s hand seemed exactly like those growing in the garden, only lighter in color, and he blurted out instinctively,
“Why does this fruit look so much like the ones we eat?”
His voice wasn’t loud; he was just muttering. A fat Disciple nearby heard him, looked at him, and said,
“That’s right, these two kinds of fruit are the same.”
“They’re the same?” Ji Die was stunned, but the ones he ate had no effect on boosting Cultivation.
“It’s a bit complicated to explain…” The Disciple started talking, rambling a lot, and Ji Die generally understood the origin of the two kinds of fruit.
These two kinds of fruit were indeed of the same variety, but the one in the other person’s hand was already ripe and could boost Cultivation.
The ones they ate were considered unripe; they didn’t have as many effects and could only fill their stomachs.
As for why there were so many fruit trees planted here, yet the fruits were picked before they ripened, on one hand, the ripening cycle of these fruits was very long, seemingly requiring ten years.
On another hand, the fruits here were originally grown to feed Yao Beast. The Sect also had this kind of fruit tree planted in other places, carefully tended, and harvested when ripe.
“Unripe, huh…” Ji Die listened to this news, thinking of his copper furnace, his heart pounding.
He remembered that the very small ginseng that first triggered the copper furnace directly increased its lifespan by several decades when put in. He wondered if putting this fruit in would have an effect!
If it could increase its lifespan by several decades, it should ripen directly, right!
“Come out.” Finding a random excuse to leave, Ji Die quickly returned to his room, propped the door shut with a stone, and summoned the copper furnace.
He took out a fruit, placed it in the copper furnace, and then stared at it with anticipation.
“They’re all plants, so probably, it should, be possible…”
Buzz! The familiar green light appeared, and Ji Die’s heart leaped into his throat. When the light dissipated, he quickly took the fruit out of the copper furnace and examined it carefully.
The color of the fruit was a bit lighter than before, looking almost exactly like the one Luo Qiang had in his hand just now!
However, whether it could boost Cultivation still needed to be tested!