"Will this... will this work? Won't it scare people?" Ye Miaoyun asked hurriedly.

Zhou and Ye Xianwen, among others, also went to the entrance to join in the fun.

The two elderly women who were helping in the kitchen also hurriedly followed behind them.

"No, Zhengzheng is so cute, how could she be scary?" Ye Xianya said with a smile.

Ye Miaoyun: "..."

In the daughter's eyes, this big guy was indeed quite cute, but in their eyes, even though it was a spirit beast that wouldn't hurt people, it was still a bit scary.

Once outside, Zhengzheng not only spoke human language and imitated the waiter to attract customers to Taoyuanju, but also flew around in the sky above Taoyuanju.

It was having a lot of fun, which startled the waiter standing at the door so much that he fell to the ground and didn't recover for a long time.

"This is a spirit beast that Xianya brought back. You know... every guest who comes to our Peach Blossom Abode for a meal will have the opportunity to see the spirit beast up close." Qi Jiu patted the waiter on the shoulder and said with a smile.

The waiter then came to his senses and quickly got up, shouting, "Come and see! Come and see! Our Peach Blossom Abode has spirit beasts! Everyone who comes to dine here has the chance to see them up close. If a spirit beast likes you, it might even let you pet it and take you for a spin in the sky..."

Qi Jiu was speechless upon hearing this.

This kid talks nonsense as soon as he opens his mouth. Is he afraid that the spirit beasts will cause him trouble?

Seeing how hard Zhengzheng was working, Ye Xianya quickly went to the Zuixianlou restaurant next door and bought a jar of good wine, intending to reward it later.

That night, Taoyuanju was incredibly busy; even at its usual closing time, people were still coming in to dine.

Everyone came for the spirit beasts.

Even those dining at the neighboring restaurants, upon hearing this, came to Taoyuanju and ordered a table of dishes just to see something new.

Even if you don't eat it, it's fine to pack it up and take it home. The key is that people can see the spirit beast up close.

These ordinary people have heard of spirit beasts, but they rarely see them. Taoist sects raise spirit beasts like precious treasures and respect them as guardian beasts of their sect, and they rarely let people see them.

For ordinary people, seeing a mythical beast once or twice in their lifetime is already considered lucky.

Seeing a spirit beast up close like this was something I never dared to dream of before.

As for... carrying people up into the sky and spinning them around twice?

That's impossible!

Zhengzheng has never been anyone's mount before; it won't stoop to that level.

The next morning, news of the mythical beast residing in Peach Blossom Spring quickly spread throughout the capital.

When many people arrived, they discovered that the spirit beast was nowhere to be found.

Even Ye Xianya, who usually sets up a fortune-telling stall here, has disappeared.

Ye Xianya has changed the time for fortune telling to the afternoon of Shen Shi (3-5 PM), and she used to tell fortunes to fifty people a day, but now she only tells fortunes to thirty.

Zhengzheng told her that the concentration of spiritual energy in Zizhu Mountain was several times that of the capital city, and that the spiritual energy was even more concentrated when cultivating under that Zhuguo tree.

Ye Xianya suspected there was a spiritual vein there and wanted to go and take a look.

She plans to go to Zizhu Mountain with Zhengzheng to cultivate every day before dawn, return for lunch around noon, and then tell fortunes for people in the afternoon.

She also wanted to regain her former strength as soon as possible, so that... in this world, she could go wherever she wanted and do whatever she wanted without having to worry about anything else.

Moreover, every time she saw Zhengzheng, she missed her own white tiger Tangtang.

Only by becoming stronger can I go to Taiyi Sect and bring Tangtang out sooner.

Zhengzheng doesn't want to be anyone's mount. A few years ago, a Taoist priest tried to catch it, but it knocked him unconscious!

As for now?

When you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head; how much more so should a golden eagle!

It couldn't defeat Ye Xianya, but it really wanted to eat the Hundred Beast Pills that Ye Xianya had refined, and also the wine that Ye Xianya had given it last night. It tasted delicious, and it wanted to drink it again in the future...

In short, it had reasons to give in!

Ye Xianya rode a golden eagle and left the capital for Zizhu Mountain just as dawn broke.

Zhengzheng was very fast, at least several times the speed of a normal gold-label flight. Because it was carrying Ye Xianya, its speed decreased slightly, but it was still very fast.

If Ye Xianya hadn't used magic to block the air and freeze herself, she probably would have fallen.

It's a hundred li from the capital to Zizhu Mountain, and it only takes a quarter of an hour to get there.

Ye Xianya couldn't help but sigh, as expected, birds are indeed faster, especially the spirit beasts among them.

Zhengzheng has only been training for a short time, so her strength is definitely not as good as Tangtang's.

But its speed is twice as fast as Tangtang's.

When Ye Xianya arrived at Zhengzheng's lair, under the Vermilion Fruit Tree, the first thing she saw was not the Vermilion Fruit hanging on the tree, but a pile of shiny things under the tree.

Pearls, gemstones, gold, luminous pearls, and all sorts of other precious materials were on display, dazzling the eyes.

"Zhengzheng, do you like these?" Ye Xianya asked, her eyes wide.

"These things are what I've painstakingly saved up over the past few years. I originally planned to give them to Wang Qiu'er, but..."

Zhengzheng sighed like a human: "Wang Qiu'er is gone, so these things are useless to me now. Sister... do you want them? These things are quite valuable in your human eyes. After selling them, you can definitely buy a lot of medicinal herbs, and then you can refine a few more bottles of Hundred Beast Pills for me."

Zhengzheng didn't want to betray herself and acknowledge Ye Xianya as her master, but she also wanted to follow Ye Xianya. Last night, she shamelessly pestered Ye Xianya to call her "sister".

Ye Xianya has even survived a heavenly tribulation, what else could she not let go of?

It didn't matter what he was called, so he agreed.

"You painstakingly saved this up?" Ye Xianya couldn't help but reach out and tap its head: "I think you stole it."

"I took it because I liked it." Zhengzheng didn't think there was anything wrong with what she did.

"Taking something without asking is considered stealing. You mustn't do that again." Ye Xianya didn't scold it too much.

After all, this little guy had never been taught before and couldn't distinguish right from wrong.

"Should I return these things?" Zhengzheng flapped her wings: "Some of these things were taken... stolen several years ago. I was young then, not as smart as I am now, and my memory is not good. I can't even remember where I stole them from."

"Then I'll sell it and use the proceeds to refine the Hundred Beast Pill for you." After saying this, Ye Xianya looked up at the Vermilion Fruit Tree in front of her.

This Vermilion Fruit Tree is very large, but only six bright red Vermilion Fruits hang at the top of the tree. In a few days, when the weather gets colder and it snows, these Vermilion Fruits will be fully ripe.

After entering Zizhu Mountain, Ye Xianya clearly felt that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was more concentrated, but now, standing under the Zhuguo Tree, the feeling was different.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth under this Vermilion Fruit Tree is very rich, similar to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that I felt when I cultivated in the Taiyi Sect in my previous life.

No wonder Zhengzheng has grown to this extent at only thirteen years old.

Moreover, Ye Xianya also sensed that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was seeping up from underground.

This proves that there are spiritual veins underground.

It's just that it's too small or its spiritual power is insufficient.