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After being busy for several days, Song Baiyu finally finished decorating his sister's villa with potted plants. He then picked up the sandalwood box that he had been holding onto for over two months.
"What's inside this wooden box, anyway? It's already surprising that it's made of sandalwood, but to also use the improved Taiyi protection?" Song Baiyu became increasingly curious about what was inside the sandalwood box, and his expectations grew higher.
When Song Baiyu first got the Danjin wooden box, he didn't expect that a Taiyi formation would hold him back for more than two months. This was because his cultivation had reached the late stage of the Qi Refining Realm and his internal energy had increased significantly. Otherwise, the time it took to open the Danjin wooden box would have been even longer.
For two months, Song Baiyu had not been able to open the golden wooden box, but it was not without gain. Because of using internal energy to crack the Taiyi formation every day, Song Baiyu's use of internal energy became exceptionally skilled, and he could almost reach the point where he could use it as easily as lifting his arm.
"It's almost time, the mystery is about to be revealed!" Just as Tai Yi formation was left with only one last step that couldn't be cracked, Song Baiyu felt a little nervous in his heart. At this moment, Song Baiyu's forehead was filled with sweat, while his face was full of excited expression.
Taking a deep breath, Song Baiyu's fingers quickly danced on the surface of the sandalwood box, and for a moment, the room was quiet and still, with only the occasional sound of the goldfish splashing water in the aquarium.
When Song Baiyu's face was heavy with the last inner strength, the Tanyin wooden box made a "pa" sound, indicating that the Taiyi formation protecting the Tanyin wooden box had been completely broken. Song Baiyu's face showed a relieved expression, and fortunately, nothing went wrong.
Just as Song Baiyu smiled and was about to open the sandalwood box, the sandalwood box suddenly popped open automatically. Song Baiyu felt a black light shooting out of the sandalwood box, and at the same time, a sharp whistling sound echoed in the air.
"My life is over." Seeing the black light shoot straight at him, and he couldn't react in time, Song Baiyu despairingly closed his eyes.
As soon as the thought flashed through Song Baiyu's mind, he felt his left shoulder sink, and a severe pain spread from his left shoulder, but it only hurt for a moment. Soon, he felt a chill at the wound site, and the severe pain disappeared without a trace. At the same time, his ears were itchy, as if being lightly brushed by hair.
"Didn't I die?" Song Baiyu had just thought that he accidentally triggered the hidden mechanism of the Tangan wood box, and his life was about to end, but after being frightened for half a day, he found it wasn't so.
However, Song Baiyu's body was still stiff at this time. After all, the severe pain in his shoulder earlier was not an illusion, and he could always feel that there was a fluffy thing scratching back and forth at the base of his ear. Song Baiyu was very clear that the thing that had stopped on his shoulder at this moment was probably the one that jumped out of the Danjin wooden box. But how did he feel that this thing was a living thing? Can a living thing stay in the Danjin wooden box for a long time without eating or drinking? What happened to his shoulder earlier, like being pricked by a needle?
"Chirp, chirp..." Just as Song Baiyu was pondering what the thing on his shoulder was, a clear and crisp call suddenly came from beside his ear. Although it was just a simple "chirp", it sounded exceptionally pleasant to the ear. Song Baiyu even had an illusion that he could feel the other's joyful emotions.
"Hmm..." Song Baiyu felt a slight weight lift off his shoulder, and then he saw that there was an additional black shiny thing on the coffee table.
"It's really a living thing!" Seeing the black ball on the coffee table, Song Boyu's eyes lit up. This was an exceptionally cute little animal. The little guy had a shiny black coat without any other colors mixed in. On its fluffy head were two long and pointed ears, under which a pair of bright and spirited big eyes stared at Song Boyu. What's more interesting was that its tail wagged back and forth, as if beckoning to Song Boyu.
Looked at the little guy's appearance, Song Baiyu was confused. Even with his experience in the Xiu Tian realm, he couldn't recognize the origin of this little guy. The little guy looked like a cat, but it didn't sound like one when it meowed. And could a cat survive without eating or drinking inside the Dan Jin wooden box for countless years?
This guy's body is only as thick as an arm, but that body has silky smooth fur, and that plump body is really likable.
"Chirp, chirp..." Seeing Song Baiyu staring at it without saying a word, the little guy seemed to get anxious. It chirped twice and then jumped onto Song Baiyu's chest.
Previously ambushed by this little guy, Song Baiyu saw the little guy jumping towards himself again, thinking that the little guy was going to attack him again. He subconsciously wanted to counterattack, but just as his hand was about to move, he suddenly received a friendly intention in his mind.
Although he felt strange in his heart, Song Baiyu still stopped his counterattack action in time. Even if he wanted to counterattack, it would be useless. The little guy's speed was as fast as lightning, and Song Baiyu couldn't even touch the opponent's shadow.
The little guy's two front paws firmly grasped Song Baiyu's collar, and his fluffy head burrowed into Song Baiyu's neck, full of affection.
Seeing that the little guy really didn't attack himself, Song Baiyu let out a sigh of relief. He stretched out his hands and slowly, slowly placed them on the little guy's body.
"Squeak... Squeak..." Feeling that Song Baiyu had no malice towards it, the little guy chirped happily again and stood on Song Baiyu's palm, staring at him with a pair of round, shiny eyes.
"Can you understand what I'm saying?" After sensing the little guy's intention three times in a row, Song Baiyu knew it was no coincidence and asked tentatively.
"Chirp, chirp..." The little guy nodded at Song Baiyu and let out two more happy cries, its calls filled with joy and affection. At the same time, it rubbed its fluffy front paws against Song Baiyu's palm.
"Can I really sense the little guy's emotions, and can he understand my words? This shouldn't be an illusion, right?" Song Baiyu felt that what was happening in front of him was a bit unbelievable. Although he knew that the little guy in front of him was definitely not ordinary, but he had only just made contact with him for the first time, how could such a thing happen?
"Hiss, hiss..." The little creature seemed to sense Song Baiyu's thoughts and became anxious. It suddenly jumped onto Song Baiyu's shoulder and scratched the wound on his shoulder with its claws.
The wound on Song Baiyu's shoulder had almost healed by now, and with a pat from the little guy, Song Baiyu came to his senses. His own tendons were as hard as steel, yet the little guy could easily pierce through them. What was even more astonishing was that it actually used its own wound later on.
"Spirit beast!" Earlier, due to shock, he had forgotten about the little guy sucking his shoulder's blood, but now being reminded by the little guy, Song Baiyu immediately thought of this matter. In the Cultivation Realm, there was a Spirit Beast Recognition, which was a master-slave relationship between cultivators and spirit beasts confirmed through secret methods. Thinking back to the little guy's series of actions earlier, it seemed similar to the Spirit Beast Recognition in the Cultivation Realm.
"Are you trying to tell me that I'm your master?" Song Baiyu asked in his heart.
"Squeak...squeak..." The little guy jumped onto Song Baiyu's hand again, nodded its head, and its voice was filled with delight.
"It turns out that it's really a spiritual beast, this little guy's selling point is not bad, but I don't know how its abilities are." Song Baiyu didn't get excited because he suddenly obtained a spiritual beast, after all, in the Cultivation Realm, spiritual beasts were everywhere, and they were also divided into trash and top-notch ones. The worst spiritual beasts only had ornamental value, slightly better ones had some kind of talent, but couldn't evolve, while top-notch spiritual beasts could slowly evolve.
"Chirp, chirp..." Seeing Song Baiyu standing there for a long time without speaking, the little guy on the tea table called out again. It looked at Song Baiyu with great confusion. Although the little guy couldn't speak, its round and shiny eyes were too human-like. If he only looked at those eyes, Song Baiyu would definitely mistake the little guy for a person.
"Little guy, can you tell me what kind of spirit beast you are?" Confirming that the little guy could understand his words, Song Baiyu began to communicate with it, trying to figure out the little guy's background.
"Chirp...chirp..." The little guy called out twice, and then there was a blank space in the information that came back.
"Little guy, what's your racial talent?" Song Baiyu furrowed his brow and continued to ask.
"Hmm... " Still no information.
"Little guy, how long have you been in the sandalwood box?"
"Buzz...buzz..." Still a blank piece of information.
“……”
In this way, a person and an animal stared at each other, exchanging patiently, the animal's cries became more cheerful, while someone's voice gradually weakened.
An hour later, Song Baiyu helplessly announced his abandonment. This little guy seemed intelligent, but the result was that he didn't know anything when asked. There were two possibilities for this: one possibility was that the little guy was a young beast and had just been born into the Danjin wooden box, so it knew nothing; another possibility was that the little guy was a trash spirit beast, and being able to understand his commands was just an instinct. However, Song Baiyu's heart leaned more towards the latter possibility.
"Since you don't have a name, I'll just call you Jiji from now on." Song Boyu was already exhausted from deciphering the Taiyi Formation, and after exchanging with the little guy for an hour without any effect, he became even more spiritless. So, in a very irresponsible manner, he casually gave the little thing a name.
"Wow..." The little guy heard that he had a name and conveyed his joyful emotions to Song Baiyu.
"You go play by yourself, I'm going to cultivate." After working hard for more than two months, he originally thought that the Dan Jin wooden box contained a precious treasure, but it turned out to be just a spiritual beast with exceptional speed. Song Baiyu felt a slight sense of disappointment in his heart, as the saying goes: the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
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