"Why isn't the teacher here?"
"The teacher should be behind us. Let's just walk and clear the way for the teacher and the headmistress."
Wanwan held three kittens in her arms, four small birds perched on her shoulders, and a small otter perched on her back.
In just a few months, they ate the food from the animal park and, under the careful care of their owners, all learned to talk.
Some of them were only born when they were sent here; they didn't even know how to be demon beasts, let alone how to cultivate into human form.
But if we wait a few more months, perhaps until next autumn when the first crystal forms, they will be able to temporarily maintain the appearance of human cubs.
This is incredibly fast for demon cultivators, hundreds of times faster than for wild demon cultivators.
Without the care of the Hundred Beast Garden, wild demon cultivators might spend their entire lives struggling with their first fragment of a demon core.
The cats, dogs, birds, and otters were all covered in fur, maintaining their animal forms, but they spoke in soft, babyish voices, as if this trip to the abyss volcano was just a spring outing, and they weren't afraid at all.
Wanwan patiently explained the potential dangers to them until worry appeared on their animal faces before she stopped.
Even if there are demons and cultivators of varying ranks paving the way, they must still be made aware of the dangers.
That is the purpose of their visit.
There are more than a dozen pet owners like Wanwan. Some of them are cultivators from the Five Spirits Hall, but their cultivation levels are low, so each of them can only take care of one pet, and they still need to be protected by everyone.
Some people have questioned why, given the danger of this trip, they had to bring the cubs along and go to such lengths to put each cub into a beast-taming ring. Was it because some local demon cultivators came to steal the Spirit Fire Glazed Glass?
Zhao Xixiang had no ulterior motives in this matter.
Monsters live in a highly competitive environment, competing with nature, the food chain, and even their own kind.
The zoo provided them with a relatively peaceful haven, but that doesn't mean they couldn't see the darkness and cruelty within it.
There's a chance that some powerful demon cultivators might get injured or even killed on this trip. The little ones in the Hundred Beast Garden have never encountered anything like this before, and they might cry their eyes out or even become withdrawn and reclusive.
But such separations of life and death are commonplace for ordinary monsters.
If they didn't receive such rigorous education in the face of adversity, and instead learned about injury and death while they were still young and naive, wouldn't they truly become pets in a zoo?
The immortal realm is so cruel, and Zhao Xi didn't want them to be so naive as to know nothing about the outside world.
They are not ordinary human cubs; they are demonic beasts born with certain abilities!
Moreover, Zhao Xi did not put the children in any dangerous situation.
With demons of varying ranks clearing the way, the pet owner would only observe and move through the teleportation arrays they had set up, and the entire journey would take place within the defensive arrays.
Sometimes you'll encounter rampaging monsters that try to break through the defensive formation.
The children can observe these terrifying monsters with ferocious faces up close.
Their power is completely different from the gentle monsters in the mountains outside the Beast Garden! If we really encounter them, there's no point in reasoning with them; the only option is a fight to the death!
If the defensive formation breaks down, or if other dangers arise, the pet owner will immediately use the Earth God Shrinking Talisman to teleport their pet outside the abyss.
From the outside, the abyss appears as a huge rift valley, with the ground sunken and the rocks deep underground folded together.
Monsters inhabit different levels and hunt each other.
Xiao Jia had set up an earth spirit formation on a small hill outside the rift valley in advance.
These are all spiritual plants and trees painstakingly cultivated by the little earth fairy. Combined with the earth god's shrinking talisman she wrote, it can definitely pinpoint the location accurately.
As long as the other party is still a cultivator from the lower immortal realm and is not powerful enough to possess their own domain, they will not be able to break through her earth spirit teleportation array.
"We caught another one, Master Axiang. This one should also be a rabbit." Haiye flew back from the front on his sword, a beast-taming ring hanging on his wrist.
To make communication easier, Zhao Xi thought the title "Headmaster" was too unfamiliar and didn't sound like something brothers back-to-back in the heat of battle should use.
Moreover, Haiye is the head of a clan.
She told everyone to call her Ah Xiang or Xi Xiang, and she also called everyone else by their names.
As a result, even polite people like Haiye became much closer to her.
The beast-taming circle emitted a red light, and inside, demonic beasts kept jumping around, trying to break through the barrier.
Zhao Xi stood inside the defensive formation and accepted the Beast Taming Ring, her face beaming with joy: "That would be wonderful."
She returned to the makeshift tent set up beneath the defensive lines.
Haiye followed her inside.
The tent contained a low table, a magic bed, and a wooden board with a map of the abyss hanging on it. The map was marked with notes in different colors: red, blue, and yellow.
In a corner, a dog-headed demon cultivator was healing another dog-headed demon beast. Spiritual energy wafted from the green ointment, filling the tent with a pleasant fragrance.
Zhao Xi wanted to go to the array bed and put the fire rabbit in the beast taming circle into the array.
The Fire Rabbit is entirely red, somewhat resembling the Firelight Beast in color, but its long ears and exceptionally long incisors are clearly characteristic of a rabbit.
The monster's legs were folded in three places, somewhat like a flea. It was this jumping ability that allowed the Fire Rabbit to leap across five levels of abyss in one go. Haiye had to chase it on his sword for quite a while before catching up with it.
It had magical wounds on its back, dripping with blood, and lay on the array bed.
As soon as Zhao Xi released it, it leaped upwards and crashed into the edge of the formation with a bang.
Sizzle sizzle—
A jolt of electricity struck it.
The fire rabbit landed at the bottom of the formation, its whole body stiffening and twitching a few times.
Zhao Xi, quick as a flash, took out a small medicine packet and covered its mouth and nose.
After a few breaths, the Fire Rabbit relaxed completely and lay flat.
I'm so sorry!
Zhao Xi tried to pry open its rabbit mouth, inserted a funnel, poured in the green juice of the spirit herb, and then stuck a thunder spirit talisman on its forehead.
Lightning suddenly burst forth from the formation.
After a series of crackling sounds, the fire rabbit's skin was charred and emitted blue smoke. Just as it was about to achieve immortality, Zhao Xi reached inside and retrieved the Thunder Spirit Talisman.
Everything within the formation came to a standstill.
Haiye stood to the side, dumbfounded, and swallowed hard.
This Abyss Fire Rabbit, with such strong combat power, was turned into an electric roast rabbit so quickly under the headmaster's hands.
Bunnies are so cute, how could you roast them...?
Slurp—
"..."
Zhao Xi looked at Hai Ye.
Haiye, feeling a little embarrassed, scratched his head, a goofy smile spreading across his face, and asked, "Master Axiang, is this the same rabbit as before?"
"Yes."
"But this one is red, while the previous one was black. Could it be that the previous one was possessed by a demon?"
"I don't think so. Let's dissect it and see."
Zhao Xi wanted to place high-grade spirit stones inside the spirit stone lamp, making the array brightly lit. Like a surgeon, she picked up a scalpel and disemboweled the fire rabbit: "Look, it has a demon core, which means..."
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