"The Xuanzhi Beast originally grew up in the Xuanzhi Mountains of the Upper Realm. This beast prefers shade and lives in groups, so it is mostly distributed in dark and damp rainforests and mountain walls. It is docile in nature, but dislikes humans and often uses the limb-like appendages on its body to 'throw' humans who trespass into its territory..."
Tu Ling paused briefly, giving Ling time to ask questions.
"Grandpa Tu Ling, you don't know, Zi You's situation is very different from what you described..."
"Oh? Tell me, what's so special about it?"
When Zero said that his Purple Nether was completely different from the Xuanzhi Beast he had mentioned, Tu Ling was quite curious.
“That’s right,” Zero said slowly. “When I first encountered it, it wasn’t as large as it is now, nor was it as ‘friendly.’ I do agree with the point about the Xuanzhi Beasts you mentioned being ‘social,’ since there was more than just one when I saw it… to be precise, it was just its various limbs. There are many such limbs, but none like Ziyou.”
"I see..." Tu Ling was also quite puzzled after hearing Ling's words. He asked again, "Then where did you get this Purple Nether?"
Surely it wasn't raised by myself...
Hearing this, Zero scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly and said softly, "Grandpa Tu Ling, you might not believe it, but Zi You was raised by me... It was this big from the beginning," Zero gestured with his hands to show its size, and continued, "Then as I raised it, it grew bigger and bigger, and changed more and more, until it finally looked like this..."
There was something Zero didn't say: he always felt that Zi You's current form wasn't the end, and that she might even undergo further mutations in the future...
However, Tu Ling was so shocked by Zero's words that he couldn't speak—
"You... what did you say? You... you said you trained this?"
Seeing the earth spirit's astonished expression, its blue and transparent body seemed to turn even bluer from surprise. Ling laughed and said, "That's right, I only used a little bit of the potion on it, and it grew up."
Zero seemed quite proud of himself when he said this.
How could I not be proud? If I hadn't had that sudden inspiration to take it back for research, I wouldn't have ended up cultivating this "big guy" Zi You.
Even the well-informed Grandpa Tuling was quite surprised.
But Tu Ling grasped the key point in Zero's words and asked, "Potion? What kind of potion?"
Ling was taken aback. How to explain this? He didn't know the name of the potion He Jie had given him, or what its ingredients were...
Thinking of this, he said somewhat ashamedly, "At first, I just placed it in the observation room to observe it, using this—" Zero took out the active liquid he had used at the beginning from his space and showed it to the Earth Spirit, "After using it, not long after, Zi You started to grow and split from the original one tentacle, and many more tentacles were added. Then I went to the Pavilion of Miraculous Medicines, and a friend of mine gave me a bottle of potion. I used it, and then I subdued Zi You..."
The next thing to do was to subdue Ziyou, and now it has grown into this form.
"You mean, there's another potion?" Tu Ling examined the potion in Ling's hand and found nothing special. It seemed that what caused Zi You's change was the second potion that Ling mentioned.
Thinking of this, his gaze deepened slightly, and he said, "If I'm not mistaken, when you successfully used the second potion, you established a blood pact with Zi You..."
"A blood pact?"
"That's right, you added your blood when you used the second potion, didn't you?" Tu Ling looked at Zero with eyes that seemed to see through everything, and the answer was already in his words.
"Yes, I added my blood, and then Ziyou was no longer as irritable as before, and even became very intelligent."
Tu Ling nodded and said, "That's natural. You've established a blood pact with it, so it naturally sees you as family."
At this point, Tu Ling paused again, seemingly talking to himself: "However, how did this blood pact appear in the human realm, and in such a way..."
"What is a blood pact?" Zero asked, puzzled.
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