Chapter 56 Suanni, you're not actually a big orange cat?

Suddenly, a light appeared in the darkness.

The flames were not the usual orange-red, but a light blue like ice crystals.

In the somewhat eerie firelight, a white claw suddenly appeared.

The claw was enormous; the width of the entire palm was nearly three meters. You could easily guess what a colossal beast owned that claw.

However......

This entire rift valley isn't very wide.

"Thump!"

"Oh my head!"

"Bang! Bang!"

"Wow, my butt! My butt!"

The shout was so rhythmic that Xiao Jiu immediately echoed it: "Waaah!"

System and Qianchuan: "..."

As Xiao Jiu and the others watched, the enormous claw shrank smaller and smaller until it revealed its entire body in the flames.

His body was covered in snow-white fur, with a beautiful ice-blue ring of brown fur around his neck, resembling a lion. However, he also had a translucent, ice-like horn on his head that ordinary lions wouldn't have.

After stomping its feet to adjust to its new size, the Suanni ignored Xiao Jiu and the others who were watching it transform, and turned to leap up into the rift valley.

"Stop right there!"

After a long pause, the system finally spoke from Suanni's energetic, youthful voice: "...He's not actually a cat?"

The system thought it was about to see a giant orange cat, and was even prepared to laugh at it!

Qianchuan was stunned for a moment before he finally said, "Meow Meow... is he a Suanni?"

System: "Yes."

Qian Chuan recalled that he had to admire how well the system had kept things secret. All he knew was that the cat-like creature was called "Meow Meow," but he had no idea what the real Meow Meow was.

but......

The thought of Suanni being called "meow meow" and Taotie being called "dog"...

Qianchuan was unusually at a loss for words.

Having a contract now is like having a passport to this world.

The Suanni no longer needed to worry about its power triggering the system's alert. Like a husky that had broken free of its chain, it ran wildly through the rift.

"Stop right there! Stop right there!!"

White smoke-like substance swirled around the Suanni's claws. As it nimbly turned and leaped, the white smoke billowed out like steam from a power unit, making it so fast that it was almost impossible to see with the naked eye.

As the white smoke dissipated, wherever the Suanni went, a pale, almost white, ghostly blue flame burned rampantly.

The system scrolled over to look at the nearest cluster of flames: "He controlled it quite well; he didn't set the surrounding area on fire at all."

Just then, something suddenly appeared in Xiao Jiu's hand.

[Rewards have been issued]

The system immediately jumped over: "Host, host, what's the prize?"

Xiao Jiu opened her hand, looked at the thing in her hand, and tilted her head in confusion.

What appeared in his hand was a small bottle, not much bigger than the palm of his hand, and the material looked a bit like white pottery.

The system was about to send out an analysis to see what it was when suddenly, the area around them went dark.

Xiao Jiu and the others all looked up—

A few meters away, a lion nearly two meters long was leaping toward where they were.

Qianchuan quickly pulled Xiao Jiu back.

As a white figure crashed down and bounced back up, the energetic voice of the Suanni echoed through the rift.

"Haha! I caught you!"

He was pressing down on a snow-white kitten with big ears with his paws. Because of the huge difference in size between the two, it looked like the kitten was about to be crushed to death.

Xiao Jiu rushed over, squatted down, bent over, and anxiously cried out, "Meow, meow! It hurts!"

The Suanni said unhappily, "You underestimate spirits too much. Besides, I didn't even use any force, so how could it feel pain?"

Even though he said that, when Xiao Jiu reached his hand under his claws, Suanni still obediently raised his claws.

The spirit seemed terrified; it didn't run away even when the Suanni wasn't subduing it.

When Xiao Jiu reached out her hand to it, it immediately and instinctively pulled back.

Xiao Jiu's hand also stopped immediately.

However, the spirit seemed to realize that Xiao Jiu meant it no harm, so it gradually relaxed and tentatively came closer to smell Xiao Jiu's fingertips.

A few minutes later, it stopped hiding completely and let Xiao Jiu pick it up.

At this moment, in Xiao Jiu's arms, there was a fluffy mini kitten that was only about ten centimeters long. Its two long and big ears were draped behind its head, and its long white eyelashes were blinking gently, making its round and big black eyes look very moist.

The entire spirit looked like a newly built little snowball.

Xiao Jiu hugged the spirit, patted its little head, and scratched its chin, just like when she coaxed and petted the cat version of the Suanni before.

Suanni glanced at Xiao Jiu's expression and snorted out a breath: "Hmph."

The system didn't notice Suanni's behavior; it just rolled over and said, "By the way, think of a name while we're at it. I'll check out what's going on with this creature first, and then we'll go up after we figure it out."

Suanni, however, drawled out, "What's the point of thinking about a name? Just call me whatever you want, it's much easier that way."

It's weird and has a faint sour smell to it.

The system had no idea what the Suanni was up to all of a sudden; it just thought the cat was really inexplicable.

The system muttered, "The body has clearly grown bigger, but why is the mind becoming more and more childish?"

However, the scan results for the spirits came out at this time, so the system ignored the Suanni.

It reviewed the results and translated: "Three distinct energy waves remain. Two of these energy waves correspond to this world and the spatial rift, respectively. The other one..."

The system pondered for a moment and said, "The other one should come from a plane world with extremely low energy saturation."

Upon hearing this, Qian Chuan hurriedly asked, "Low energy saturation? Has the spiritual energy of that world also been depleted?"

System: "No, it's not that. It's just that the energy composition of that world is inherently low."

Upon hearing this, Qianchuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The system continued to guess: "Perhaps this is why these creatures called spirits are so small."

For monsters in the cultivation world like Qianchuan and Suanni, there is a very simple and straightforward way to judge their strength: look at the actual size of their physical form.

The larger the size of the monster, the stronger it is.

Of course, some monsters can freely change their body size, and even transform into the appearance of other species. These kinds of monsters are more powerful than those that cannot change their appearance.

This pitifully small spirit naturally belongs to the very weak category.

So the system found it even more incredible: "How exactly did it contact the Mountain Goddess?"

Upon hearing this, the Suanni's golden eyes flickered as if it had thought of something.

He fell silent, looking down at the laurel grass at his feet, and didn't speak for a long time.

After determining that the spatial gap would only open under certain special circumstances, the system thought for a moment and immediately used several thousand points to issue a broadcast reminder.

Xiao Jiu and the others only saw a white light fly out of the system's body, like a small, glowing insect, slowly flying into the cliff face in front of them.

System: "Done. In case it's turned on again next time, we'll receive the broadcast in advance."

The Suanni suddenly asked, "How far in advance can we know?"

System: "Ten seconds."

The Suanni flicked its tail: "That's enough."

None of them could fly. Although the Suanni was indeed very good at jumping and leaping, judging from how hard it had to chase the spirits just now, it was clear that it couldn't jump directly from the bottom of the cliff.

Although his and Qianchuan's prototypes could grow a little bigger, due to space limitations, they would be stuck by the cliffs on both sides if they changed back even slightly.

They didn't want to destroy the rift valley, so they had no choice but to let Xiao Jiu exchange for items.

The system felt its heart ache as it listened to the sound of points being deducted.

"Three hundred and fifty thousand! Three hundred and fifty thousand!"

Previously, the levitation items were only 100,000 each, but now the price has almost doubled. That's because I bought two at once, which only cost 350,000 in total. I wonder how much it will go next time.

While feeling the pinch of losing points, it explained to Xiao Jiu how to use the item.

This levitation device is an inconspicuous white ball, about the size of a ping-pong ball.

Xiao Jiu held the balls in her hands and looked at them curiously for a while, then, following the instructions, she threw the two balls directly onto the ground.

"Bang! Bang!!"

Everyone was a little stunned by the scene in front of them, which was almost like a mushroom cloud rising from the sky, while the little spirit was blown into a ball.

The system said with difficulty, "Host, let's use less force in the future..."

Xiao Jiu blinked her eyes and obediently replied, "Okay."

More than ten minutes have passed, and the item that should have been activated when the person fell to the ground still hasn't reacted at all.

The system worriedly said, "Could it be broken...?"

Everyone stared in silence at the large crater that had been smashed into the ground.

It was quite a coincidence that the laurel grass here wasn't growing very densely. When Xiao Jiu fell, she landed on a patch of soil without laurel grass, which blasted a hole in the soil.

Xiao Jiu and the little spirit lay beside the deep pit, which was more than a meter in diameter, peering longingly inside.

If Xiao Jiu had ears on her head, they would definitely be drooping down right now.

The system could only quickly comfort Xiao Jiu, saying, "If all else fails, we'll just wait for Taotie Fuyu to plant the flowers and throw them down." Suddenly, a violent gust of air rushed out from the bottom of the large pit.

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Jiu, who was closest, was carried into the sky by the airflow!

Breaking free from the constraints of gravity, even just levitation, is a wonderful experience.

At this moment, Xiao Jiu was enveloped in a transparent bubble, which floated lightly in the air, carrying Xiao Jiu slowly towards the previously set destination.

Although he could barely see anything, he still excitedly turned his head back and forth.

Behind him, the system, also wrapped in a bubble, was trying to get closer.

A moment later, a wisp of fire appeared, and upon closer inspection, it was Suanni and Qianchuan who had also come up.

The Suanni summoned several balls of fire to provide illumination.

Beside him, the bubble enveloping the spirit was exceptionally light. Due to the flames, the temperature difference in the air created tiny air currents, causing the spirit to float back and forth in the air.

Upon seeing this, the Suanni immediately became excited.

He immediately summoned more firelight, and with a very malicious intent, he made the flames swirl around the spirits, causing them to roll around in the bubbles.

The little guy didn't say a word when he was bullied, he just endured it, so Xiao Jiu, the system, and Qian Chuan, who were floating in front, didn't notice.

The system's endpoint was set right next to the farmland, and the bubbles were floating quite fast.

So a few dozen seconds later, from a distance, they saw Fuyu on the ground waving at them.

The bubble burst on its own as soon as it hit the ground.

As soon as Xiao Jiu's foot touched the ground, Fu Yu came up to her and asked, "How is it?"

Xiao Jiu tilted her head and thought for a moment, then looked at Fu Yu and said, "Okay, let's play! Fu Yu, let's play together!"

Fu Yu smiled and said, "Okay, I'll play with Xiao Jiu next time."

He was about to say something when he heard a sound—

"Mmm..."

Fu Yu subconsciously looked up.

Standing not far from him was a lion with snow-white fur and an ice-blue mane, which looked very beautiful and particularly imposing.

After a long pause, Fu Yu finally said, "The roar of that lion is quite... quite unique..."

Suanni: ?

System: "Hahahaha—"

The Suanni roared, "Are you stupid! That wasn't me who called it!"

Fu Yu recognized the familiar way it spoke immediately, and his eyes widened in surprise: "Meow!?"

The Suanni swished its tail, but didn't reply.

The system was still laughing.

Enraged, the Suanni rushed over and slapped the laughing golden sphere away.

Just then, a voice rang out from behind Xiao Jiu.

"Little Jiu!"

As soon as Xiao Jiu turned around, she was hit in the chest by a large gray fur ball that leaped high into the air.

The Taotie was very heavy. When he slammed it down, a dent immediately appeared under Xiao Jiu's feet, but he still caught the Taotie steadily without any effort.

Just as they were enjoying a tender "face-to-face rubbing," the Suanni's eerie voice rang out beside them.

"Doggy, have you forgotten something?"

Taotie: "What are you saying? I don't understand, meow meow."

Suanni sneered and directly picked Taotie out of Xiao Jiu's arms: "Playing dumb, huh? Come on, come on, the usual."

The Taotie didn't resist at all, and in the blink of an eye, the Suanni carried its head four or five meters away.

Noticing Xiao Jiu's gaze, Taotie waved its paw at Xiao Jiu with a particularly leisurely air: "Xiao Jiu, Meow Meow and I are going to play now. We'll come back and play with you later."

Xiao Jiu waved back: "Doggy meow meow play!"

Xiao Jiu only lowered her hand after the figures of Taotie and Suanni had completely disappeared into the darkness in the distance.

But when he turned around, he saw Fu Yu standing there, frozen, staring in the direction where Taotie and Suanni had disappeared.

Xiao Jiu: "What's wrong, Ayu?"

Fu Yu immediately snapped out of her daze: "N-nothing, right! Xiao Jiu, my level-up points seem to be almost full, can you take a look for me?"

Xiao Jiu's attention was indeed diverted: "Okay."

The system then rolled back, its path passing right by the farmland. It jumped up to Fuyu and praised, "You're amazing! You finished all these fields by yourself so quickly."

Fu Yu's expression suddenly froze: "Y-yes..."

Qian Chuan glanced at him, then looked at the farmland: "2000 grain blocks, you and Taotie ate them all?"

Fu Yu answered fluently this time: "Yes, I've finished eating."

Qian Chuan nodded. He was about to say something when he suddenly caught a glimpse of white out of the corner of his eye.

He looked down and saw that it was the little spirit.

"Mmm..."

Qianchuan smiled and gently picked it up, cradling it in his palm. He then lightly stroked its head with the tip of his index finger.

Fuyu and Xiaojiu came over after hearing the noise.

Seeing their eyes practically shining, Qianchuan took the opportunity to hand over the spirit.

Thinking about how the spirit had been cautiously trying to approach the farmland, Xiao Jiu exchanged for a grain block.

Just like he used to take care of the Taotie, he broke the grains into smaller pieces, soaked them until soft, and then fed them to the little spirits little by little.

This big-eared kitten was clearly starving; it was eating without even lifting its head.

But it was only so big, and it was full after eating just one corner of the grain.

It took two steps toward the crack with its round, bulging belly, then turned back to look at Xiao Jiu with reluctance.

"Mmm..."

Qian Chuan suddenly remembered something and said, "I remember now. This creature seems to have a special need for flowers and plants. It must have been hungry before that it climbed up to eat the spirit roses. Now that it's full, it needs to go back into the crack."

Because now only in the cracks are there large patches of greenery.

Fu Yu then asked, "Special needs? What do you mean?"

Qianchuan: "There are two different interpretations. One is that spirits live in a very harsh environment where the mountains are steep, extremely arid, and devoid of any vegetation, making it impossible for humans to climb them."

"But my great-grandmother once told me that spirits actually prefer places with lush vegetation because they can only walk on grass and trees, but..."

He paused for a moment: "But one day, a human suddenly discovered that eating spirits could cure diseases. So, countless humans began to search for them."

"In fact, the humans who hunted the spirits were not sick at all. They just said, 'If you eat them, you will never get sick again,' and then they chased the spirits all the way to the mountain where they lived."

Qianchuan let out a heavy sigh.

"Humans pretend to be injured to lure kind spirits closer to them, and when the spirits come with healing herbs, they will stab them directly."

"Later, the spirits also discovered the wickedness of humans, and they no longer approached them."

"And their movements are so nimble that humans simply cannot catch them unless they come to them on their own initiative. So, those humans destroyed all the plants in the mountains."

Spirits can only walk on grass and trees, but once trees are cut down and the green grass and flowers in the mountains are destroyed, the spirits have nowhere to escape.

Qian Chuan carefully picked up the white kitten-shaped spirit, his expression somewhat saddened: "Perhaps, it is also the sole survivor..."

Spirits can only walk on grass and trees, but this little guy who appeared here can already walk on the soil.

Clearly, this isn't the first time it's done this.

If things are as Qianchuan's great-grandmother said, then this little guy is a miracle.

This is like forcing a fish to learn to breathe air in a short period of time, or forcing a turtle to jump as high as a cheetah on all fours immediately, otherwise, it's a dead end.

Fu Yu couldn't help but curse, "This is outrageous! Why are humans always like this!"

He said angrily, "When will they realize that there are more than just them in this world! This world is not just for humans! Other living beings also have the right to live!"

Fu Yu was so angry that his chest heaved rapidly, and his face turned red.

The system, thinking of its host, remained silent for a moment, saying nothing.

Just as the surrounding air seemed to grow heavy, Xiao Jiu suddenly said, "System, the leaves in the warehouse!"

The system immediately poured out a large amount of the unused mint from the warehouse, and the spirit's round eyes lit up when it saw it.

But it didn't struggle or show any sign of wanting to get down. It just let Qianchuan hold it while staring longingly at the ground, not even making a sound. It was so well-behaved that it broke your heart.

Fuyu and Xiaojiu gathered the mint leaves together, and Qianchuan gently placed the spirit creature inside the fluffy mint leaves.

The little spirit excitedly stomped on the leaves several times, even hopping and spinning around before lying down, closing its eyes, and falling asleep in no time.

If the previous "spiritual energy revival" plan still felt a bit unreal, the appearance of this little spirit made Xiao Jiu, Fu Yu, and Qian Chuan suddenly become extremely motivated.

Anyway, let's get some flowers and plants so this little guy can eat and sleep comfortably!

Although they were all determined, the roses in the field still had a long way to go, and their points were almost used up.

Fu Yu sat by the edge of the farmland, elbows on his knees and hands supporting his chin: "Sigh, if only there were times when I could never use up all my points."

System: "Sigh, yes. If that day ever comes, I will definitely create a spatial passage so that the host can go wherever he wants."

But no matter how much they fantasize, for now, they can only wait patiently for the roses in the field to bloom.

Since there was nothing else to do, the system took out the mysterious reward that Xiao Jiu had just received from the warehouse.

Fu Yu: "What is this?"

System: "I don't know. It was a prize that was automatically sent to the host before. I haven't had time to identify it yet."

Fu Yu: "The prize?"

System: "Yes, the host achieved an accomplishment related to pet collection. Didn't you hear the announcement?"

Fu Yu shook his head blankly: "No."

System: "Strange... Shouldn't this be playing throughout the entire world? Never mind, let's see what this is first."

[The Ganymede's Vase: The vessel of the Toastmaster on Mount Olympus, possessing remarkable effects on liquids.]

system:!

Liquid substances!

The system and Fuyu exchanged a glance and exclaimed excitedly in unison, "Moon Spring!"

Their biggest problem right now is that the flow of Moon Spring is too small. If there were more water in the spring, the merging speed of the two worlds could be greatly shortened!

Xiao Jiu and Qian Chuan were watching the spirits sleep. To avoid waking them up, the system and Fu Yu ran over and each called out to one of them, bringing them all to the edge of the farmland.

Xiao Jiu's brain was working much better now than it had at the beginning, and he immediately understood after hearing the system's explanation.

This bottle might be a great help to them right now!

However, since they didn't know what this "special effect" was, they decided to experiment with the river water next to them first.

On the riverbank, clear spring water swayed gently in a white ceramic bottle, reflecting shimmering white light.

A few seconds later, the surface of the water suddenly rippled more noticeably, and then the water kept increasing until it gushed out of the bottle!

Xiao Jiu grabbed Fu Yu's hand and held Qian Chuan's hand with the other. The three of them formed a circle, with Xiao Jiu raising his hand high and the other two cooperating with him. They whispered together, "Yay!"

The system excitedly replied, "It'll work! Let's go to the Moon Spring and see if we can put the spring directly into the bottle!"

Although Qianchuan felt the idea was a bit strange, once he arrived at the bottom of the waterfall, he still followed the system's instructions, aimed the golden sphere at the fairy tree on the waterfall, and threw it with great force.

There's no way to climb on the soil here; it's like a mille-feuille.

Xiao Jiu and Qian Chuan didn't have wings, so they couldn't get up there at all.

The system had said it should be able to possess the spirit tree by touching it, but almost half an hour had passed and there was no new movement on the cliff. All that could be heard was the huge sound of the waterfall falling.

Just as they were worrying that something had happened, the sound of the waterfall suddenly became quieter and quieter.

One minute later, that huge waterfall had no water left!

It goes without saying that something must have happened here.

Just as Qianchuan and Fuyu were discussing what to do at lightning speed, the Elf Tree suddenly moved.

It stretches out its branches, bending them slowly to create graceful, curved lines.

These lines overlap and intertwine, ultimately outlining a—

A handsome young man holding a water bottle.

It's also 3D.

Qianchuan and Fuyu: ? ? ?

The next second, the bottle burst open like a floodgate breaking and a dam collapsing, and a huge stream of water gushed out of the bottle mouth with a "bang".

The water flowed like a dragon, rushing straight into the distance.

There, two figures were fighting.

One of them is the Suanni, who is terrified of the Moon Spring.