Zhu Wuneng tucked the little grey bird into his shirt and returned to the quarters the Gu King had arranged for him.
Seeing the half-dead little grey bird, Zhu Wuneng scratched his head and muttered, “You're a bit ugly, but at least you aren't as disgusting as those bugs. I guess I'll keep you.”
At this, the rather wilted little grey bird rolled its eyes.
It had some nerve calling anyone else ugly given what he looked like.
Just then, Zhu Wuneng pulled a recovery pill from his storage bag. “Xiao Huihui, you're in luck to have met me. I'm a good pig...”
With that, Zhu Wuneng reached out, pried the little bird's beak open, and stuffed the pill inside.
Boom...
The pill had barely slid down the little grey bird's throat before she could even react.
In an instant, her entire body went completely stiff!
Her tiny neck stretched out straight as a board, her feathers puffed up completely, her legs kicked, and her eyes went wide and round.
Her belly visibly swelled and grew burning hot, her entire body instantly inflating a whole size.
“My goodness, Xiao Huihui, what's wrong with you? Are you stuffed?”
Watching Xiao Huihui's sudden transformation, Zhu Wuneng couldn't help but cry out in alarm.
Nearly bursting from the swelling, Xiao Huihui twitched in agony, cursing him to high heaven in her mind.
You're the one who's fucking stuffed! Your whole family is stuffed!
I'm fucking dying, and you think I'm stuffed!
“What do I do? What do I do? You silly bird, if you couldn't eat that much, you should have said something...”
Zhu Wuneng paced back and forth in a panic as he watched Xiao Huihui.
Xiao Huihui: “...”
If I could talk, I would have cussed you out long ago.
“Never mind, I'd better take you to a doctor!”
Seeing Xiao Huihui swell larger and larger, looking like she was about to explode, Zhu Wuneng said helplessly.
Just as he was about to reach out and pick her up, a grey light flashed across her body.
The explosive energy of the pill actually began to circulate within her body.
Zhu Wuneng's eyes lit up. “My goodness, you're actually glowing...”
Xiao Huihui had already passed out from the pain, but her body stopped expanding.
Zhu Wuneng poked her with a finger. “She should be fine now. She's fallen asleep...”
The unconscious Xiao Huihui: “??”
...
“Hey... did you hear? The Gu King gave that stupid pig a ton of spirit stones.”
At that moment, several Foundation Establishment stage Southern Frontier cultivators were whispering among themselves.
“I heard the Gu King offered him Gu worms, but the stupid pig didn't even want them. Those were 4th-rank Gu worms, and he actually turned them down...”
“Exactly. I've never seen anyone so foolish. If he refined a 4th-rank Gu worm, his cultivation could easily rise to the Golden Core stage...”
Well, they couldn't possibly understand the world of a fool.
“Since that stupid pig is from the demon race anyway, do you think it would be fine if we stole his spirit stones?”
Just then, a man with sharp, monkey-like features spoke up.
Hearing his words, the other Foundation Establishment stage cultivators exchanged glances and nodded one after another.
No power, no backing, no friends or relatives...
This was practically a fat sheep delivering itself to their doorstep!
No sooner said than done. The group quickly made their way to the outside of Zhu Wuneng's quarters.
“Chi Ya, how are we going to steal them? We can't just barge in and rob him. If the Gu King finds out, we'll definitely be punished!”
One of the cultivators asked the sharp-featured man.
Chi Ya's eyes-darted around. “We'll use a Theft Gu to steal the stupid pig's storage bag. As long as we aren't caught red-handed, we can just deny it.”
The Theft Gu could steal things silently, though it lacked any offensive capability.
With that, Chi Ya reached out and summoned a 1st-rank Theft Gu.
Chi Ya felt that using even a 1st-rank Gu worm against that stupid pig was a bit of a waste.
Under Chi Ya's control, the Theft Gu flashed and slipped into Zhu Wuneng's quarters.
...
“Xiao Huihui, you're in luck. I have plenty of demon beast cultivation techniques here... On our way to the Imperial City, our Great Sect Master killed some demons and plundered them, and then he gave them all to me...”
Hearing Zhu Wuneng's description, the image of a ferocious, terrifying pig-headed man formed in Xiao Huihui's mind.
But before the image could fully solidify, Zhu Wuneng's voice rang out again: “Don't go thinking our Great Sect Master is cruel. It was actually those demons who tried to rob us first, so the Great Sect Master had to kill them...”
The ferocious pig in Xiao Huihui's mind immediately morphed into an upright and heroic pig-headed man.
Just then, Zhu Wuneng spoke again: “Actually, to this day, I still don't know... is our Great Sect Master a human? Or a monkey?”
Xiao Huihui's eyes instantly went wide.
The image in her mind shifted back and forth, until her head began to spin. In the end, she gave up trying to picture him.
“Take a look. Which technique do you like? Pick one, and I'll teach you,” Zhu Wuneng asked.
Xiao Huihui slowly hopped around the table, looking them over.
Eventually, she chose a technique suitable for birds.
Zhu Wuneng then began to instruct her on how to cultivate.
“First like this... then like that...”
Xiao Huihui stared at Zhu Wuneng in utter speechless frustration. What he was teaching was completely different from what was recorded in the jade slip.
If she actually followed his instructions, she would undoubtedly cultivate herself to death.
Deciding to ignore him entirely, Xiao Huihui began to cultivate according to the instructions on the jade slip.
“Wow... I really am a genius! You learned it the moment I taught you!”
The moment Xiao Huihui opened her eyes, she heard Zhu Wuneng's astonished cry.
Xiao Huihui really wanted to tell him that this had absolutely nothing to do with him...
Just then, Zhu Wuneng said, “Xiao Huihui, you must be hungry. Let me find you some bugs to eat!”
Xiao Huihui flapped her wings, signaling that she didn't like eating bugs.
Zhu Wuneng chuckled. “Look how excited you are! I'll go find some right away!”
Xiao Huihui froze. His power of comprehension was truly on another level!
As Zhu Wuneng turned around, he reached into his storage bag to find some bait to catch the bugs.
But the moment his hand touched the storage bag, he felt something soft underneath his palm.
Instinctively, he grabbed it.
Looking down, his eyes lit up. “Xiao Huihui, you really are in luck. Look... what's this?”
With that, Zhu Wuneng held the Theft Gu up to Xiao Huihui's beak.
Xiao Huihui looked at the bug pinched between Zhu Wuneng's fingers in confusion. Is this a bug?
She had never seen one like this before.
Although she originally had no desire to eat, the sight of the Theft Gu in Zhu Wuneng's hand changed her mind.
She couldn't help but swallow. It actually looked quite delicious.
Chomp...
Before she even realized what she was doing, she had leaned forward and swallowed the Theft Gu straight from Zhu Wuneng's hand.
So full? And so delicious...
At the same time, she felt a stream of pure spiritual energy being absorbed into her body.
Xiao Huihui gave her legs a satisfied stretch.
Was that really just a bug?
After feeding Xiao Huihui, Zhu Wuneng looked around the room and frowned.
There were way too many bugs here. They were even crawling all over him.
It seemed he needed to do some pest control.
He then pulled two detoxification pills refined by Lu Ming from his storage bag, popping one into his own mouth.
Before Xiao Huihui could react, he stuffed the other one directly into her beak. “Xiao Huihui, this is a detoxification pill...”
Having just swallowed the detoxification pill, Xiao Huihui was startled. She was terrified of nearly bursting again; that previous sensation had been absolutely miserable!
But as the pill entered her body, there was no discomfort at all. In fact, it felt rather pleasant.
In an instant, Xiao Huihui realized it was because she had started cultivating.
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