"From the black market website of another city," Li Cunxu casually explained.

Long Xiaoxiao's intuition told her that Li Cunxu's answer was not sincere, and she quietly moved closer to Chen Lu.

This was Li Cunxu's fault; knowing the dragon race's intuition was sensitive, he remained nonchalant.

A day passed.

Early in the morning, the little white spider brought Li Cunxu two good news.

"What's the good news?"

"I mutated into another type of Slime."

Li Cunxu went to the surface to check, a yellow Slime with a durian shell on its shoulder.

[Pet Beast]: Unnamed Slime

[Attribute]: Wood Type

[Talent]: Same Kind Division

[Skill]: Durian Armor

"Another Slime undiscovered by humans."

Seeing the skill 'Durian Armor,' Li Cunxu could hardly hold back.

"Could it have mutated from eating durian?"

"Yes."

"Even eating durian can cause mutation, truly the pet beast with the most genetic diversity, Xiaoyi, give it a name."

"Since it mutated from eating durian, let's call it Durian Slime."

"There's something else, I tied up a strange creature, it doesn't quite look like a bad beast."

The little white spider took Li Cunxu to the durian grove, where a white silk cocoon was tightly wrapped around something on the branch of a tall durian tree.

Li Cunxu waved his hand and threw a water ball, severing the branch; before the branch and the silk-wrapped creature could hit the ground, a large water ball emerged from the ground to catch it steadily.

The little white spider peeled back the silk to reveal the face of an unknown creature, cute and docile, with a durian decoration on its head.

"Could it be?"

Li Cunxu leaned in to sniff, and the little creature shrank back in fear.

He smelled a faint durian scent on it.

"It really is it."

The little white spider asked confusedly, "What kind of creature is it? From the first moment I saw it, I felt like eating it."

The little creature trembled uncontrollably, clearly hot weather, yet showing the chills of winter upon its body.

"It actually understands human language, it's so smart."

Wild pet beasts can't understand human language without human guidance, except for one type, those that receive ancestral knowledge transmission, and those that can receive ancestral knowledge are the best of their kind.

Therefore, whether a wild pet beast can understand human language can partially measure its intelligence.

Li Cunxu wanted to comfort the little creature by patting its head, but it only trembled more.

"It is a very rare pet beast born among trees and flowers, called 'Tree Spirit.' Tree Spirits have the ability to make trees grow rapidly, their agricultural value is very high, comparable to a vein of minerals, and this Tree Spirit emits a faint durian scent, indicating it is a durian tree-shaped Tree Spirit."

"As for why you want to eat it? This is because of the special nature of Tree Spirits, eating it can increase the pet beast's intelligence and wisdom."

Li Cunxu thought to himself, "If Xiaoruan eats it, its intelligence might increase significantly, soon it could learn human language."

He thought like this, but he wouldn't actually do it.

The little white spider asked, "So that's it! No wonder I wanted to eat it at first sight, but why does it feel like something bad will happen every time I want to eat it?"

Li Cunxu said, "Tree Spirits are the darlings of nature, eating or killing them will cost you luck."

Not only will it cost the pet beast's luck, but also the Beast Master's luck will be deducted.

So Beast Masters are generally very cautious when encountering Tree Spirits, fearing they might accidentally kill it, of course, also because of the high value of Tree Spirits.

"Don't be afraid, little one."

No matter how much Li Cunxu comforted it, the Durian Spirit was still terrified.

This Durian Spirit was extremely fearful.

Li Cunxu was very worried it might get scared to death.

"Why does it feel like you might get scared to death? Don't be like that!"

Even if it's too late to release it now, if the Durian Spirit is released and can't shake off its fear and dies from fright, Li Cunxu would still bear seventy percent of the responsibility for its death.

Li Cunxu took the Durian Spirit back, drawing the attention of the two women.

Under the soothing sound of Chen Lu's ethereal deer call, the Durian Spirit finally calmed down.

The Durian Spirit liked Chen Lu but didn't like Long Xiaoxiao, which made Long Xiaoxiao very disappointed.

Li Cunxu comforted, "Maybe the dragon bloodline in you makes the Durian Spirit uncomfortable."

Tree Spirits fear dragons; once Tree Spirits were widespread across the Divine Guard Continent. Why are they so few now, unable to form pairs even among the same type of plant species? It's all the fault of the Dragon Race.

The Dragon Race once nearly ate Tree Spirits to extinction.

The bad luck of eating Tree Spirits also showed on the Dragon Race.

The former continent overlords had to sign contracts with humans to maintain the Dragon Race's past glory.

"How's Little Medicine Deer doing?"

"Little Medicine Deer's self-healing ability is good; it recovered from its injuries yesterday."

"How about you? Did you rest well? Regained your energy?" asked Li Cunxu to Chen Lu.

"Rested well, full of energy."

Li Cunxu then turned to Long Xiaoxiao.

"How about you?"

"Same as sister."

"Great! I can entrust you with a task then."

Li Cunxu took two pickaxes from his back, handing a larger one to Chen Lu and a smaller one to Long Xiaoxiao.

Chen Lu and Long Xiaoxiao accepted them with some confusion.

"What are these?"

Chen Lu looked down at the pickaxe and asked in bewilderment.

"Self-rescue and rescue others!"

Chen Lu: "Self-rescue?"

Long Xiaoxiao: "Rescue others?"

"To leave this secret realm, we must find a realm rift or the realm's core. We can't stay here motionless, but the surface is too dangerous for us, so we'll dig a tunnel and go underground."

"Don't you want to rescue the innocent people dragged into the secret realm by the Celestial Sweeping Comet? Once we're out, we can seek aid from Tongdu to more efficiently rescue everyone trapped in this secret realm."

Xiaoruan brought ten pickaxes, and with a nod from Li Cunxu, Xiaoruan tossed them in front of Little Medicine Deer.

"These ten are yours, don't look around, I'm talking to you, Little Medicine Deer."

Long Xiaoxiao reminded, "Brother, Little Medicine Deer only has deer hooves, not hands, it can't hold a pickaxe, let alone ten pickaxes."

Li Cunxu patted Long Xiaoxiao's head, "Silly, there's a skill called Vine, Little Medicine Deer can control vines to pick up the pickax."

"Why did you give me such a big pickax?"

Chen Lu compared the height of the pickaxe to herself, estimating it to be about one and a half meters long.

Li Cunxu said, "You're being silly too! This pickax is for your Mo Lan Mechanism, this way, you can dig tunnels and train your Molan Eye."

Chen Lu put down the pickaxe, although she was a Beast Master who received pet beast feedback, holding this pickax was still quite tiring because its handle was made entirely of iron.

"Where did you get this all-iron pickax?"

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