Chapter 285 Beast
"Why did you eat my ingredients?" Luo Xuanyi said with great sorrow.
"Gu, quack."
The five-eyed toad was held in the air by the death energy with its mouth wide open. Its five eyeballs rolled around, but it couldn't resist its greed, so it closed its mouth and sucked the juice made from the flower fragrance into its stomach.
Luo Xuanyi flipped through the "Compendium of the Four Directions Celestial Spirits" in her head, convinced that there wasn't a single word mentioning the Five-Eyed Toad's habit of eating its owner. Could this be a hidden instinct? Or was the Five-Eyed Toad simply hungry?
Or is it revenge on the master?
Thinking back carefully, Luo Xuanyi did feel a hint of murderous evil thoughts emanating from the five-eyed toad, but as the flower fragrance was swallowed, the murderous intent immediately disappeared.
It was said that taming the Five-Eyed Toad required cruel means. Although Luo Xuanyi was unclear about the specific "taming" of the Six Alliance cultivators, the concept of taming was implemented throughout the Zang Yao Sect.
Extending her understanding from Zang Yaozong's domestication, it was not difficult for Luo Xuanyi to guess what taming beasts meant - it was probably to force naturally born and raised monsters and spirit beasts to be under one's command, turning them from a free state into an inferior state, without holding any handle, and expecting the abused monsters and spirit beasts to completely obey one's command and not rebel.
This is what Luo Xuanyi understands as taming monsters.
In her view, demonic beasts and spirit beasts were like humans, no superior or inferior, just different materials in different shapes. Given this, it would be naive to not have any leverage over the other party and yet still want to use them as slaves.
Thinking about it this way, Hua Fu's fate is predictable. Even if it's just bad luck for the two of them. Damn it.
Luo Xuanyi did not notice that there were subtle differences in her attitudes towards humans and animals.
We can get a clue from Luo Xuanyi's original intention of keeping the five-eyed toad. She did not do so to enslave the five-eyed toad, but out of curiosity about these fellow toads who have souls but look completely different from humans.
Of course, now, Luo Xuanyi's curiosity is mixed with a little anger.
"Five-Eyed Toad, no, that's the name of your tribe... Can you speak human language? What's your name?"
"Quack?"
The five-eyed toad croaked helplessly, its four thick legs flapping in the air, making it look like it was swimming in death.
This is troublesome. I can't speak or understand the language of animals. Luo Xuanyi was a little troubled.
There are five types of beasts in the universe, starting with the lowest-ranking demon beasts and progressing upwards to include spirit beasts, semi-celestial beasts, pure-blooded divine beasts, and celestial beasts. Both demon beasts and spirit beasts are divided into three levels: low, medium, and high. While their numbers are not as high as those of the human race, they are still quite large compared to the other three types of beasts.
The existence of half-celestial beasts and celestial beasts remains a mystery, while pure-blooded divine beasts have become the most ancient legends. The information currently gathered by humans regarding beasts all points to demonic beasts and spirit beasts.
The difference between demonic beasts and spirit beasts lies in their hybrid blood and spiritual embryo. A spirit beast's bloodline is mingled with the blood of legendary mythical beasts, and from birth, it possesses a spirit embryo within its body. Through this spiritual embryo, a spirit beast can absorb and release worldly spiritual energy to cultivate into a demonic cultivator. Its voice, along with the spiritual embryo, resonates with the heavens and earth, enabling it to communicate with all living beings.
Demonic beasts, however, never possessed the blood of divine beasts; at most, they possessed the blood of spirit beasts. Unless the spirit beast's bloodline came from a powerful, pure-blooded divine beast, whose bloodline remained strong even after millennia, there were very few born with spirit fetuses, and thus, they were unable to cultivate into demon cultivators or communicate with other races.
Only after living for tens of millions of years, with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth accumulated in the monster's body, or after consuming some rare treasures, will it be possible for the monster to give birth to a spiritual fetus from its body, thus transforming into a spiritual beast and starting the path of monster cultivation.
The five-eyed toad before Luo Xuanyi possessed the bloodline of the spiritual beast Wind Bird, a descendant of the legendary Plague Bird of the Sky Cloud Mosquitoes. While its bloodline was powerful enough, perhaps due to the excessive amount of other impure blood mixed with the five-eyed toad's bloodline, it resembled a toad more than a bird, unable to give birth to a spiritual fetus, much less communicate with Luo Xuanyi.
If Luo Xuanyi signed a master-servant contract with the Five-Eyed Toad and took it as her mount, although they still couldn't communicate, the connection between their spiritual consciousnesses would allow them to barely sense the Five-Eyed Toad's fluctuations. However, Luo Xuanyi didn't want to do this.
Monster beasts lack spirit fetuses, but their souls are no different from those of ordinary people, with three souls and six spirits. Their souls control their minds, and they gain experience over time, meaning they have the same intelligence as normal people.
The five-eyed toad has lived with Hua Fu for no less than a hundred years. Luo Xuanyi suddenly had an idea: even if they couldn't communicate with words, maybe they could still communicate with gestures?
After returning the five-eyed toad to the pond, Luo Xuanyi temporarily ignored the question of addressing it. She stood before it, gesturing awkwardly, trying to elicit an answer: "Well, how do you think Hua Fu tastes? Does it taste different from other people's?"
"Quack?" The five-eyed toad's five eyes swiveled left and right as Luo Xuanyi's hand moved, and it froze for a moment. Just when Luo Xuanyi thought it was hopeless, it suddenly puffed up its mouth and, with a "quack," spat out a pile of mud.
“Crash!”
The mud fell into the water and was immediately picked up by Luo Xuanyi. These half-melted gray-green sticky pieces looked familiar. Luo Xuanyi tentatively asked the five-eyed toad, "Are you saying this doesn't taste good?"
"Quack!"
Luo Xuanyi felt as if she was beginning to detect a difference in the five-eyed toad's croak. She lifted the sticky block and shook it. "Anything else besides this?"
The five-eyed toad just croaked and didn't spit out anything else.
"So, other parts can be eaten...at least the flesh itself won't be affected."
Luo Xuanyi reluctantly came to a conclusion. The Five-Eyed Toad, not sure if it understood what she said, croaked again. Seeing that Luo Xuanyi wasn't so angry anymore, it stretched its head to lie on top of her feet.
"How come you're still hot after soaking in cold water?" Luo Xuanyi lowered her head and moved her feet, but the five-eyed toad remained motionless like a mountain.
It seems kind of cute.
How did a toad and a bird get together and become hybrids? Why not find a bird and try it with a five-eyed toad sometime? I wonder if a new species might emerge.
Wait, how do monsters reproduce? As for humans, Luo Xuanyi knew that only a mother who had taken the Fumu Fruit and combined it with a father who had been taking medicine for years could reproduce. Ordinary people seemed unable to have children, and Luo Xuanyi was no exception.
However, there is no double mother fruit on the righteous side, so how do they give birth?
Just thinking about Luo Xuanyi gave her a headache. Forget it, let's just leave the Five-Eyed Toad alone for now. The important thing now was to see if the soul search on Hua Fu would be effective.
Luo Xuanyi prayed, pulled out the gold paper, and began to perform the soul-searching technique.
What she didn't know was that Hua Fu secretly used the last bit of her spiritual power to activate the Fu Zhuan before she died. Before it melted in the mouth of the five-eyed toad, the Fu Zhuan had already recorded the entire conversation between Luo Xuanyi and Hua Fu and uploaded it all to the Fuwen Tower.
Second update~ Sister Yi said that they treat each other equally, but in fact she is biased towards beasts as a whole hh and her aesthetic sense is a little weird.
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