"...!!!"
Upon hearing the Taotie speak, Rong Xi felt only one thing: extreme shock! This ancient ferocious beast could actually talk! Uh, a sheep was talking!
"Can it talk?"
"Baby, can you hear that? It's talking!"
When Rong Xi came to her senses, she excitedly pointed at Taotie, just like a mentally challenged child.
The baby's illusory figure, exasperated, covered its face with its hand, utterly exhausted and disillusioned. What kind of owner had it chosen? So embarrassing, so incredibly embarrassing, it had absolutely no desire to communicate.
"Baby, why are you covering your face?"
Rong Xi had no idea where she had gone wrong.
"Master, how can you be so ignorant?"
The baby let go, looking at Rong Xi with grief and indignation.
Rong Xi blinked and said, "How am I ignorant? Do you think I'm like you? I'm only eighteen, a young girl, not an old fogey like you!"
"Master, where's your face?"
The baby rolled his eyes.
Taotie stood aside, watching Rong Xi talk to the baby, and was very dissatisfied that he was being ignored.
"I want to sleep!"
Taotie rolled its eyes at Rong Xi, then closed its eyes, and soon a snoring sound came from behind.
"Sleep? Forget sleeping, let's get up and party!"
Seeing that Taotie was pretending to be asleep, Rong Xi slapped it across the face.
The baby is questioning the meaning of life, and so is Rong Xi.
Taotie, one of the four ancient fierce beasts, was sleeping soundly when it was suddenly enslaved by itself. Shouldn't the first thing it did upon waking up be to fly into a rage?
"Bad master!"
Taotie was woken up by Rong Xi and glared at her angrily.
However, under the influence of the enslavement array, it was unable to attack Rong Xi at all.
The enslavement array works on the soul. The moment the array takes effect, Rong Xi becomes the master of Taotie. Taotie will only fight desperately to protect Rong Xi and will never harm her in the slightest.
"Would you like to eat something delicious?"
Upon hearing Taotie's mutterings, Rong Xi, remembering Taotie's gluttonous nature, decisively tempted it with delicious food.
"Eat, eat, eat!"
It's delicious, I have to eat it.
As a glutton, it also has high aspirations.
Its dream is to eat all the delicious food in the world and become a gourmet.
Although the gluttonous race boasts of eating everything, some things are genuinely, truly inedible. While they'll eat anything, good or bad, who would willingly choose something unpalatable when faced with delicious food?
"Then help me collect the top-grade spirit stones in this cave first, look, those sparkly things!"
Rong Xi raised her hand and pointed to a top-grade spirit stone embedded in the cave wall, giving Taotie her first command.
"Yes, Master!"
The Taotie opened its mouth, releasing a terrifying suction force. The underground pit immediately shook violently, and cracks appeared on the cave walls.
All the top-grade spirit stones flew towards the gaping maw of the Taotie.
"I can't eat this anymore, I wanted all of this!"
Top-grade spirit stones are incredibly beneficial to her cultivation. If these things were swallowed by the gluttonous beast, they would simply be transformed into top-grade spirit stones again, making it all completely unnecessary.
In the end, the Taotie left behind most of the top-grade spirit stones. The others that had been left behind were swallowed by the Taotie.
Rong Xi didn't take a detailed count, but just by counting, she was certain that there were probably tens of thousands of top-grade spirit stones here.
Such a quantity of top-grade spirit stones would be impossible to gather even if the entire Qing Dynasty's coffers were emptied.
"Haha, it's really going to be a big deal!"
Rong Xi was overjoyed.
"Baby, let's go, back to the capital!"
Having acquired the Gluttonous Beast and amassed so many top-grade spirit stones, Rong Xi now possesses the confidence to return to the capital. From this moment on, she will wield immense power and influence in the capital.
Uh, that seems a bit too arrogant. It's better to keep a low profile.
After much deliberation, Rong Xi decided on the path she would take in the future. Being high-profile was unacceptable; a low-key and stealthy approach to development was the only way forward.
Now that she has Taotie as her backer, she is almost fearless of anyone.
However, Taotie is only one of the Four Ancient Fiends. There are at least three others as powerful as Taotie. Of course, some people, such as the woman who killed the baby's former master, although they did not control the Four Ancient Fiends, still had extremely powerful slave beasts at their disposal.
The baby carried Rong Xi back to the ground.
Magpie and Crimson Purple stayed far away, but they were both very uneasy and would occasionally pop out to see if Rong Xi needed their help.
Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, they ultimately had no way to use their martial arts skills.
"master!"
"Madam!"
Upon seeing Rong Xi appear, Magpie and Jiang Zi rushed forward, excitedly looking at her. As for the little lamb-like Taotie beside Rong Xi, it was completely ignored.
"Don't worry, don't worry, I'm fine!"
After Rong Xi comforted Xi Que and Jiang Zi, the two of them finally saw Taotie following beside Rong Xi.
"Master, what kind of spirit beast is this?"
Although to the two they looked it was a sheep, the sheep's wool was definitely not multicolored. Therefore, it couldn't possibly be a sheep; it was a spirit beast!
"That's right, it's a spirit beast called the Five-Colored Spirit Sheep!"
Rong Xi blinked and immediately gave Taotie a fake identity. Hmm, this is called playing dumb to fool the enemy.
"What an adorable spirit beast! Master, may I touch it?"
"Of course, feel free to 'touch' me!"
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