The sky was clear and the air was fresh. The palm-sized Fang Wei was pulled by an ox cart slowly towards the town outside the forest. Traveling with him were dozens of low-level spiritual creatures that were crowded and noisy in cages.
However, the journey was not peaceful for Fang Wei.
"Hey, why do you look different from us?"
"Are you a first-level white rabbit? You shouldn't be very old, right? I left some grass leaves on me, do you want to nibble on them?"
"How did you become like this? You won't be okay with this look. I'm telling you, I heard that people out there like spirit creatures that look special. They'd better have big eyes like this, colorful hair, and yes, a rounder face. We've all been captured, and only if we become prettier can we be picked up by a good owner."
"By the way, do you know how to do a double kick? I heard that rabbit spirits can do this?"
Perhaps because his appearance was slightly different from other spirit creatures, he was surrounded by this group of spirit creatures. Many of them even looked at him with sympathy and often came to talk to him, showing their care for this "ugly spirit creature."
Fang Wei tried to get information from the mouths of these spiritual creatures, so he did not refuse to communicate with them. However, he soon discovered that what these spiritual creatures knew was very limited, not much different from Baibai and Dandan.
Looking at this group of silly spirits using boring words to bother their contracted masters, Baibai and Dandan were already so angry that they started chattering and yelling, not realizing at all that they were actually the same kind as them.
Fang Wei listened to the quarrels in the cage and in his mind with both anger and amusement. At this moment, he actually felt a sense of reality in his heart. He knew clearly that he had really returned to the Xuanqing Continent, and the problem of the giant beast that had oppressed him and everyone else had finally been solved. The remaining quarrels didn't seem to be a big deal.
However, he could not understand or agree with this kind of transaction of buying and selling spiritual creatures. There are ways to allow spiritual creatures to survive better in the Xuanqing Continent and to allow humans and spiritual creatures to coexist peacefully. It just takes time.
And he is now adapting to this new Xuanqing Continent.
Perhaps because they had consumed too much energy previously, the creatures in the cages gradually calmed down in the second half, and began to fall asleep in groups of three or four. Fang Wei was finally able to calm down as well, sitting quietly beside the cage and observing the situation outside.
For Fang Wei now, it is not impossible to escape from the cage, but it requires some effort. He is planning a way to escape in his mind, and is ready to find a way to escape when he reaches the vicinity of Hanxi City. When he leaves, he will also release these spiritual creatures. Where they will go next is not something he can worry about.
Fang Wei and his companions spent the next three days on the road. The two men escorting them would only stop the ox cart on the roadside to rest at night, and then continue to rush towards Hanxi City at dawn. The places they passed on the way gradually became familiar to Fang Wei. In his early years, when Fang Wei was the master of both the evil and spiritual ways, he had traveled all over the Xuanqing Continent, and he had been to Hanxi City countless times. Seeing that the scenery on the road was gradually becoming familiar, he could also judge that he was not far from Hanxi City.
As if to confirm Fang Wei's guess, on the morning of the fourth day, Fang Wei, sitting in the cage, saw the ox cart slowly driving into a bustling town.
However, the scene in the town was still a little surprising to Fang Wei. In addition to humans, there were many spirit creatures in the originally ordinary town. Some of these spirit creatures were in the form of animals, some were in the form of plants, and some were even spirit objects or mountain spirits. They all lived together with the humans of Xuanqing Continent in this town. Some spirit creatures were still in their original form, while others, like the group of spirit creatures in their cages, had been specially transformed into human forms, but they still retained their own characteristics, such as some had wings on their backs, some had horns on their heads, and some had tails or their bodies were still translucent and looked like spirits.
The sizes of spiritual creatures vary. Some are only the size of a palm like Fang Wei now, while others are as tall as two people and have to bend over to enter roadside shops.
Looking at this prosperous scene, Fang Wei was stunned for a long time. When he just woke up, he had heard Baibai and Dandan say that the spiritual creatures came to Xuanqing Continent from the Spirit Realm, but he did not expect that in just a hundred years, people and spiritual creatures would be able to reach this point today.
He had reason to believe that people would not have such an accepting attitude towards spiritual creatures in the beginning. After all, there had been black snakes and giant beasts, so people would have been wary. The spiritual creatures had originally formed a covenant with people in a relatively unequal and safe way, but living in this way in the Xuanqing Continent was a completely different situation.
It wouldn't be so easy if someone hadn't deliberately made it happen.
As for who was the person who caused the Xuanqing Continent to make these changes, Fang Wei had some guesses in his mind, but he didn't dare to make a conclusion.
After entering the town, Fang Wei was already prepared to escape from the cage. Probably because the people who were going to harvest the spirits had not arrived yet, the two men took the cage into a restaurant in the town after entering the city. The two men sat in the hall drinking and waiting, and then they gave the cage containing the spirits to the waiter of the restaurant and locked it in a room.
Fang Wei stayed quietly in the cage the whole time. The other spirit creatures probably recovered their energy and started to make noise again, but Fang Wei ignored them. Only after the waiter put the cage away, locked the door and left, did Fang Wei raise his eyes and transform himself into a faint peach blossom. Then he used the vine transformed from his hair to prop open the keyhole of the cage.
Although Dandan and Baibai are only the weakest first-level spiritual creatures, they have always been by Fang Wei's side for thousands of years, and have lived with the Jiuxiao White Dragon, a tenth-level spiritual creature, for many years. Through what they have seen and heard, their spiritual power has become quite pure. It's just that they cannot use this power in combat, so it is not difficult to unlock the door at this time.
Fang Wei used a faint spiritual power to prop open the keyhole and walked out. Turning back, he found that the spiritual creatures in the cage had not reacted at all. They seemed to be still talking and making noises or doing their own things. Now they were all stunned when they saw Fang Wei opening the cage. Dozens of surprised eyes were staring at Fang Wei.
"Aren't you a rabbit? How did you become a peach blossom spirit?"
"Wait what did you just do?"
"How did you get out?"
Everyone was about to start arguing again, but Fang Wei gently made a gesture to silence them, and the other spirit creatures immediately quieted down. Even they themselves didn't know why they listened so much to the words of this spirit creature of unknown origin, as if he had some strange power that could soothe people.
They calmed down and looked at Fang Wei. Fang Wei then pointed at the window that had just been propped open by another peach blossom branch and said, "Hurry up and escape. If you have nowhere to go, you can ask for directions to Xuanling Pavilion. It should be safe there."
Many spiritual creatures still didn't react, so Fang Wei repeated it before they finally responded. They thanked Fang Wei excitedly, some quickly turned around and ran for their lives, while others simply changed back into animal form and quickly jumped out of the window.
Of course, there were also spirit creatures that remembered the Xuanling Pavilion, and before leaving, they did not forget to ask Fang Wei: "Well, aren't you leaving?"
Fang Wei should have left here as soon as possible and went to Xuanling Pavilion to look for Hua Shi, but Fang Wei had no such plan. When he was brought into this restaurant not long ago, he saw a familiar face in the lobby, so he temporarily changed his mind. He smiled at the white mouse spirit creature who asked him this question, and whispered: "I still have things to do here, so I won't leave for the time being. If you are going to Xuanling Pavilion, maybe we will have a chance to meet again in the future."
The white rat hesitated for a moment and finally did not continue to persuade. It just called out "Benefactor" and then turned around and jumped out of the window.
Fang Wei still stayed in the room, and only after all the other spirit creatures had left did he quietly change back into the appearance of a rabbit spirit. Using the speed of a rabbit, he lightly crawled out from the gap in the door, stepped on the beams and returned to the lobby of the restaurant.
The lobby was a bit chaotic now. It seemed that a fight had just taken place some time ago. When Fang Wei arrived, many tables and chairs had been overturned. In the center of the chaos, the two men who had escorted Fang Wei and the others all the way were now lying on the ground with their hands on their stomachs. They were now begging for mercy with their faces frowned in pain from the man holding the sword in front of them.
The man holding the sword had a handsome face and exuded a stern aura. Although his temperament had matured and changed a lot, Fang Wei still recognized his identity quickly.
This person was none other than Zhou Li, a disciple of the three great spiritual families of Xuanling Pavilion and the head disciple of Hanxi Sect.
Fang Wei was not surprised that Zhou Li appeared here. This place was originally the territory of Hanxi City. As a disciple of Hanxi Sect, Zhou Li would definitely patrol here frequently. Fang Wei had already noticed him when he was trapped in a cage and passed by the restaurant lobby.
In the past, Zhou Li and Hua Shi had been traveling together since they left home to attend the Spirit Transformation Conference. They had always had a good relationship. Even though they later joined their own sects, they often kept in touch and had carried out many missions together. Fang Wei was with Hua Shi back then, so naturally he knew Zhou Li very well.
At this time, Zhou Li was speaking coldly to the two men, "Forty years ago, both the Spiritual Path and the Evil Path have warned everyone that spiritual objects cannot be traded as commodities, and spiritual objects cannot be captured in improper ways. Where did you hear all these words? Trading spiritual objects within the boundaries of the Hanxi Sect, do you really think that the Hanxi Sect can't see anything?"
The two men listened to Zhou Li's words and begged for mercy repeatedly, trying to shrink their tall bodies into a ball.
Zhou Li frowned unhappily, watching the two men kowtow until their heads turned red, and then he said a lot of words of admonition, and finally said: "Soon there will be disciples from the Hanxi Sect to take you away. When you get to the Hanxi Sect, tell my master."
When the two men heard this, their expressions changed again, and they seemed extremely afraid to go to Hanxi Sect.
However, Zhou Li had no intention of changing his mind. He continued, "Before that, take me to see those spiritual creatures and release them all. If you delay any longer and the evil master comes, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as going to Hanxi Sect to see my master."
Fang Wei was standing on the beam, and when he heard the word "evil master", his eyes changed slightly.
At this moment, the two men who heard Zhou Li's words also changed their expressions and asked hurriedly: "Evil, the evil master Hua Shi is here too?"
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