A Biography of the Liu Family in Peach Blossom Mountain

Chapter 4: Young Green Fox Cub

After killing the green fox, Liu Zhangxu carefully walked towards the cave where the green fox was located.

Approaching the cave, he looked inside and found that although the cave entrance was small, only allowing one person to pass through, the interior of the cave was winding and deep.

Liu Zhangxu held a shield in one hand and a sword in the other as he walked into the cave. After walking about thirty zhang (a Chinese unit of length, approximately 10 meters) inside, he found a palm-sized green fox cub on a pile of hay at the end of the cave. The green fox cub had already opened its eyes and curiously observed Liu Zhangxu.

Liu Zhangxu suddenly realized why the green fox's strength was so weak! It had just given birth recently and was in a physically weak state! That's why Liu Zhangxu was able to easily kill it.

Seeing this green fox cub, Liu Zhangxu felt extremely delighted!

He envied the members of his family who had Spirit Beasts, like his father Liu Shihao who had a Rank One High Grade Silver Ear Monkey.

His father treated the Silver Ear Monkey like a close brother! It accompanied his father throughout his growth, being the most loyal companion on his father's path of cultivation, and had helped his father overcome dangerous tribulations multiple times.

Liu Shihao expected his wives, concubines, and children to treat the Silver Ear Monkey as family! When Liu Zhangxu was young, it even helped him evade a fatal attack from a Demonic Beast! It was that incident that planted the idea in Liu Zhangxu's mind that he would also raise his own Spirit Beast in the future!

To establish a bond with a Demonic Beast, a cultivator needed to imprint their spiritual mark on the Demonic Beast's soul through their blood as a medium, allowing them to communicate with each other on a spiritual level.

However, most adult Demonic Beasts were difficult to tame due to their wild nature and strong independent consciousness. Only young beasts or beast eggs were easily tamed.

The green fox cub that Liu Zhangxu obtained had just been born, making it a good time to establish a bond.

Liu Zhangxu happily held the green fox cub in his arms and took out a jade spirit peach from his storage bag. The green fox cub quickly devoured the spirit peach.

After eating the spirit peach, it quickly became close to Liu Zhangxu. Liu Zhangxu named the green fox cub Xiao Qing.

On the flat ground, Liu Zhangxu set up a simple soul-binding formation.

Liu Zhangxu activated the formation and placed Xiao Qing on it. He used a sword to cut his wrist and let a few drops of his blood fall on Xiao Qing's forehead. He silently recited an incantation and used a hand gesture to imprint a strand of his soul into Xiao Qing's sea of consciousness, branding it onto Xiao Qing's soul.

Soon after, Liu Zhangxu's soul received a call from Xiao Qing. Liu Zhangxu told it that its name was Xiao Qing, and the Demonic Beast cub accepted the name.

Through their spiritual connection, Xiao Qing communicated with Liu Zhangxu, saying, "Hungry! Hungry!"

Liu Zhangxu took out a piece of Spirit Rice cake from his storage bag and fed it to Xiao Qing. Xiao Qing quickly finished the cake and fell asleep contentedly.

In addition to Xiao Qing, Liu Zhangxu also found many Demonic Beast and human bones in the cave, and he found two storage bags among them, presumably the belongings of low-level cultivators killed by the green fox.

After opening the storage bags, he found a total of 70 low-grade spirit stones of various attributes, two Yellow Rank Middle Grade cultivation techniques, "Azure Water Decision" and "Thick Earth Technique," one Rank One Middle Grade talisman pen, one book on talisman making, one book on spirit plants, one Rank One Low Grade Law Weapon, a piece of Profound Iron Sword, and a complete collection of spells for the Qi Refining Stage. The harvest was not much.

After searching and finding no valuable spiritual items, Liu Zhangxu carried Xiao Qing out of the cave.

When he reached the Spirit Tea Tree, he picked the tender leaves and put them in a jade box, preparing to go back and make spirit tea.

Finally, carefully dig out the spirit tea tree along with the surrounding spirit soil and place them in a dedicated transplanting jade basin, ready to be taken back to the family for transplantation.

By now, it was getting dark, and Liu Zhangxu had also finished today's demon hunting activity and was preparing to meet up and camp with the clan members.

The night in the mountains is very dangerous, as many fierce Demonic Beasts choose to come out and hunt for food at night. Since night hunting is disadvantageous for cultivators, for safety reasons, the clan's demon hunting team chooses to camp together, making it easier to deal with unexpected situations.

After communicating with Grandpa Liu Baichuan through a voice transmission talisman, Liu Zhangxu quickly found the gathering campsite of the clan's demon hunting team.

The campsite of the clan's demon hunting team was arranged on the mountainside of a small hill, and a Rank One High Grade Five Elements Concealment Array was set up.

After arriving at the gathering campsite and meeting Grandpa Liu Baichuan and the other clan cultivators, Liu Zhangxu briefly talked to Grandpa Liu Baichuan about today's gains.

Everyone also saw Xiao Qing hiding in Liu Zhangxu's arms and couldn't help but envy his good luck!

The Green Fox is famous for its ability to find spiritual treasures of heaven and earth. With Xiao Qing, Liu Zhangxu's ability to search for spiritual treasures of heaven and earth greatly improved.

Liu Zhangxu also asked the others if they had any spare Spirit Beast bags to sell to him. After all, it wasn't convenient to keep Xiao Qing in his arms all the time!

At this time, Uncle Liu Shijia took out a Spirit Beast bag from his body and said, "This is the Spirit Beast bag that my original Spirit Beast, the Golden Ape, used. In a battle with a Demonic Cultivator, the Golden Ape died in order to cover my escape. I don't have a Spirit Beast now, so I'll give you this Spirit Beast bag! Just give me three hundred Low Grade Spirit Stones."

Liu Zhangxu happily said, "Okay!"

Saying that, he took the Spirit Beast bag from Uncle Liu and took out three hundred spirit stones from his storage bag to give to Uncle Liu Shijia.

After taking the Spirit Beast bag in his hand, Liu Zhangxu used his divine sense to refine the Spirit Beast bag and put Xiao Qing into the Entering Spirit Beast bag.

After all the cultivators of the demon hunting team had gathered, Liu Baichuan called everyone together for a small meeting. The meeting mainly discussed the night watch and tomorrow's demon hunting activities, and reiterated some precautions.

He emphasized once again that as the distance from the clan gets farther, the demon beasts encountered during demon hunting will become more numerous and more powerful. Therefore, they must be more careful and not stray too far from the clan members to avoid encountering strong Great Monster beasts without the ability to rescue the clan members in time.

Finally, Liu Baichuan made specific arrangements for the night watch and guard duty of the clan cultivators.

The eight people participating in this demon hunting team were divided into two groups of four. Liu Zhangxu was assigned to the first half of the night watch tonight.

After the meeting, Liu Zhangxu found an empty space in the campsite as his resting place for the night. He released Xiao Qing from the Spirit Beast bag and fed her a piece of snake meat.

Liu Zhangxu was very satisfied with today's gains! For this reason, he decided to roast the killed snake meat to reward himself!

So, Liu Zhangxu took out many dining utensils from his storage bag, such as a spiritual wood table and chairs, jade plates, and a barbecue rack for the feast!

Then, he placed some spiritual peach wood charcoal under the grill, pinched a spell, and a red flame appeared out of thin air. This flame fell into the peach wood charcoal and immediately ignited.

He took out a large piece of snake meat from his storage bag, used a Rank One Low Grade Law Weapon kitchen knife to slice the meat into thin slices, placed them on the Spirit iron grill, sprinkled salt and seasoning herbs, and put them on the grill.

Before long, the aroma of the roasted meat filled the air.

(End of this chapter)