It should be the King Kong Bear, the one with immense strength who likes to eat spirit stones as snacks. There wasn't just one, there were at least two; I saw a male bear out searching for food.

I killed a tiger with one punch; its head was flattened. Luckily, I ran fast; otherwise, if it had caught me, I probably would have been dead.

“You can fly, so what are you afraid of on the ground? It’s a giant bear, isn’t it? Come on, I’ll go and meet it. Lead the way.” Jian Ning finished speaking and looked at Huang Fugui, who was not moving and staring at her expectantly.

"What are you doing? Why aren't you leading the way?"

"Master, I'm hungry. Can you give me a chicken leg? Even an emperor doesn't need hungry soldiers."

"Why didn't you say you were hungry when you were watching cartoons? Here, two chicken legs should be enough, eat quickly. I'm in a hurry." Jian Ning took two fried chicken legs from her spatial storage and handed them to it.

Huang Fugui took them, one in each hand, and devoured them with gusto, his mouth dripping with oil. He ate very quickly. After finishing, he took out a tissue to wipe his mouth before leading Jian Ning to the location of the spirit stone mine.

On a slightly lower hill, far from the sect, the hill was mostly covered with pine trees.

Because it has been uninhabited for many years, the trees here have grown into a dense, towering canopy, with thick trunks. Stretching for more than ten kilometers, this is all part of the dense pine forest.

"Master, there are spirit stones right under this forest. You don't need me to mine them, right? I've already brought the place to you. I'll go catch a few birds to roast and eat."

"Go ahead, you never stop being greedy. Be careful, don't run around, and don't set the mountain on fire, or I won't let you off the hook."

After Jian Ning finished speaking, she put a ground-trapping talisman on herself, glanced back and saw that Huang Fugui had already flapped its little wings and flown away. Then she followed the directions it had given her and plunged into the ground.

After descending about ten meters, the spirit stone came into view, radiating a crystal-clear and dazzling light under the illumination of the lamp on its head.

"This is amazing!" Jian Ning looked at the mid-grade spirit stones in front of her and smiled happily. Without saying a word, she started mining.

She stopped relying on others and started digging herself out, soon creating a space the size of a playground. The deeper she went, the higher the quality of the spirit stones became.

With high-grade spirit stones appearing, there might even be top-grade spirit stones at the center.

If there really were top-grade spirit stones, it would probably only take a few to maintain the operation of the mountain-protecting formation for tens of thousands of years.

Ordinary people like them won't live that long anyway, so they'll just use mid-grade spirit stones to get through this earthquake.

Jian Ning did not expect this grand formation to last too long.

After digging for a while, it finally emerged from the ground, and as soon as it came out, it smelled a strong aroma of roasted meat mixed with pine needles.

"Huang Fugui, what are you grilling?" Smelling the aroma, Jian Ning also felt a little hungry. She walked over and asked.

"I caught two crows, master, would you like to try one?"

Huang Fugui held up the crow in his hand and handed it to Jian Ning.

The body strung on the stick looked like a crow.

But it was a bird with three heads and six tails. Jian Ning paused for a moment, then said, "Huang Fugui, are you sure this is a crow and not a quail?"

"How should I know? It's pitch black and laughs like a human, what else could it be but a crow?"

"You're really something, managing to catch and eat such a rare spirit beast."

But it smells really good. I've only ever seen descriptions of the quail in ancient books, which say that its meat is especially delicious after roasting. I'll have to try it today.

After Jian Ning finished speaking, she took a bottle of barbecue seasoning from her spatial storage and sprinkled it on the surface, making the aroma even stronger.

"Master, give me some too." Huang Fugui quickly took his crow over as well, and Jian Ning sprinkled some seasoning on it as well. Then the two of them extinguished the fire.

She sat down and started eating heartily. The first bite made Jian Ning's eyes light up.

To be honest, this stuff is really delicious. It has an extremely fresh and flavorful taste, and is full of vitality. Once you start eating it, you can't stop. You'll want to eat it again and again.

"Fugui, where did you catch this bird? Do you have any more? Let's catch a few more and roast them."

"Master, didn't you just scold me for calling this bird some rare spirit beast? If you try to catch it, won't you wipe out its entire species?"

Huang Fugui was full by now, with two chicken drumsticks to fill his stomach, and his belly was bulging. So he didn't really want to move around much.

"Hurry up, why are you talking so much nonsense? Where did you catch it? Take me to see it." Such delicious food, I have to catch a couple more for Xiao Lingfeng to try.

Huang Fugui dared not disobey her, so he clapped his hands, stood up from the ground, swayed, and returned to his original form. He then flew into the air and led Jian Ning towards the southwest.

The terrain here is low-lying, resembling hills. After flying for a while, Jian Ning spotted pairs of quails foraging in the grass not far away; it seemed they mainly ate insects.

Moreover, they are social animals; at a glance, there must be at least a hundred or eighty of them. Jian Ning didn't intend to catch more; everything in this immortal mansion belonged to her, including these birds.

Take good care of them, and you can catch a few to enjoy during holidays and festivals.

With a slight twitch of his fingertips, he flicked out several bursts of energy.

More than ten lay silently on the ground.

The other birds were still leisurely eating their food, completely unaware of Jian Ning's actions. She used her spiritual energy to condense into threads and retrieve all the birds lying in the grass.

Then, pulling Huang Fugui along, they quietly retreated.

They didn't even bother going to the treasure pavilion; they just grabbed the birds and rushed home.

Aunt Wang was preparing lunch in the kitchen when she was startled to see the three-headed bird that Jian Ning was holding.

"Xiao Ning, is this bird a mutated beast? Aren't they carrying viruses? Where did you catch it? You can't eat it."

"Mom, you really can't eat that much. Make these and send them to Lingfeng and my brother. You can cut this one into small pieces."

"When I make soup, you and Tian Tian can only eat a tiny piece, about the size of your palm, each time. Any more than that, and you two can't handle the energy it contains."

After all, Aunt Wang was just an ordinary person. Although Tian Tian was young, she had been practicing martial arts like an ordinary person for the past few years, and her physical fitness was much better than Aunt Wang's.

The soup made from this bird meat is very nourishing and can be easily digested.

Otherwise, Jian Ning wouldn't have let her drink soup with Aunt Wang and wouldn't have restricted her food intake.

"Okay, this thing is really creepy. I've lived this long and this is the first time I've ever seen a bird with three heads!"

Aunt Wang muttered to herself as she took the birds from Jian Ning, bled them, plucked their feathers, and quickly cleaned them all up.