Mortal Bones

"Chiji..."

When the little monkey saw the mountain-moving ape on the ice, his eyes were filled with fear and he struggled to climb off Xu Taiping.

"Don't worry, I'll take you there."

Xu Taiping patted the little monkey's head gently, then poured his spiritual power into his feet, and then his body flew out like the wind, and arrived in front of the mountain-moving ape in the blink of an eye.

At this time, the mountain-moving ape had burn marks all over its body. It was already dying, and it was completely trying to hold on to see the little monkey.

"Chiji..."

At this time, the little monkey jumped off Xu Taiping, rushed to the mountain ape, and hugged its face with both hands.

Then Xu Taiping saw two monkeys, one big and one small, and they started to communicate "chichijiji".

"The old monkey is explaining the funeral affairs to the little monkey, but I don't know exactly what was said."

Fairy Lingyue seems to be able to understand some monkey language.

Xu Taiping didn't really care what the two monkeys were talking about, but the scene in front of him still reminded him of his grandfather.

After all, that was how his grandfather told him what happened after his death on that windy and snowy night.

"You...youth..."

At this moment, the mountain-moving ape seemed to have finished explaining to the little monkey. He gently tapped the little monkey's head with his finger, then looked at Xu Taiping and said:

"Can you... help me take care of... my child? I can... let it form a soul contract with you and serve you for a lifetime..."

Xu Taiping already knew about forming a soul contract with a spirit beast, but he didn't expect that such an opportunity would come to him one day.

Fairy Lingyue didn't interrupt, but just watched quietly, obviously letting Xu Taiping make his own choice.

"What about you? Are you willing?"

Xu Taiping did not directly agree or refuse, but looked at the little monkey.

Upon hearing this, the mountain-moving ape immediately whispered a few words to the little monkey, as if conveying Xu Taiping's words to the little monkey.

"grumble……"

After hearing what the monkey said, the little monkey turned around and hugged the monkey's head. However, under the persuasion of the monkey, it quickly turned around and looked at Xu Taiping, and nodded.

"Then you can follow me from now on."

Xu Taiping nodded.

Seeing how pitiful the little monkey was, he actually couldn't bear to leave it in the mountains.

The process of concluding a soul contract is very simple. The mountain-moving ape takes a drop of the original demon blood from the little monkey and drops it on Xu Taiping's palm, and then asks the little monkey to swear an oath.

After concluding the soul contract with the little monkey, Xu Taiping clearly felt that he could use his own thoughts to issue orders to the little monkey, but of course he would definitely not do so.

A large part of the reason why he took in the little monkey was out of sympathy rather than needing a spiritual beast.

The reason why a soul contract should be concluded is because according to the regulations of Qingxuan Sect, spiritual beasts cannot enter the territory of Qingxuan Sect without a soul contract.

The mountain-moving ape must also know this.

"juvenile……"

At this moment, the mountain-moving ape suddenly put his hand into his mouth, took out a piece of transparent crystal ore, then gently waved his hand and threw the piece of ore, which weighed more than a hundred kilograms, in front of Xu Taiping.

"This thing is yours..."

The mountain-moving ape pointed at the piece of ore that rolled to Xu Taiping's feet.

"What is this?"

Xu Taiping was a little confused.

"Ice Soul Moon Spirit Stone?"

At the same time, Fairy Lingyue on the side exclaimed.

"The Ice Soul Moon Spiritual Stone is a material for casting spiritual weapons. It is very rare and is considered a very valuable ore in my original practice world."

She then explained to Xu Taiping.

"Spiritual soldier?"

Xu Taiping was also surprised when he heard this.

According to his current understanding of magic weapons, weapons in the spiritual world are divided into magic weapons, magic weapons, spiritual treasures and legendary fairy treasures.

Spirit weapons are a type of spirit treasure, specifically weapons with extremely strong attack power.

You know, let alone spiritual weapons, he has never seen even a magic weapon, let alone spiritual weapons.

"Hurry up and collect it. After the third stage of the Earth Fruit Transformation, use this Ice Soul Moon Spiritual Stone as nourishment and choose a spiritual mountain to plant it. Maybe you can breed a top-grade spiritual weapon with special abilities."

Fairy Lingyue said slightly excitedly.

If it were in her original world, a piece of Ice Soul Moon Spirit Stone would not excite her so much, but it was different in this continent. The Ice Soul Moon Spirit Stone was as precious as the Ice Soul Fairy Spirits in their world. stone.

"Chi chi chi..."

Xu Taiping just picked up the ice soul moon spirit stone, and the heart-rending screams of the little monkey rang out on the ice in front of him. When he looked up, he saw that the mountain-moving ape had closed his eyes.

"Finished."

Fairy Lingyue's tone was a little desolate.

Next, Xu Taiping found a way to bury the body of the mountain monkey in the forest, and took out the python skin and demon gall of the fire pattern python, and then returned to Qingzhu Residence with the little monkey.

…

In the bedroom.

"Little monkey, my name is Taiping, from now on you will be called Ping An, right?"

Xu Taiping put the little monkey on the table and wrote the word "peace" on the paper with a brush.

"Jiji."

The little monkey nodded while holding the piece of paper.

It seemed to understand the meaning of Xu Taiping's words.

Then, Xu Taiping brought some more food to the little monkey.

Perhaps he was too tired. After eating a plate of mutton, the little monkey fell on Xu Taiping's bed and fell asleep.

"Taiping, we can plant ground fruits."

Fairy Lingyue's soul appeared next to Xu Taiping.

"Um."

Xu Taiping nodded expectantly.

…

late at night

"Sister Lingyue, the hole is dug."

In the elixir garden, Xu Taiping dug four holes, one large, three small, and four in the open space that had been reserved long ago.

"The east side belongs to wood, which is responsible for hair growth. Put fire lingzhi in the small pit, which can breed treasures that increase the speed of practice."

"The north belongs to water, which governs harmony. Putting gold, silver, money, and silk in the small pit can breed treasures for healing and repair."

"The west side belongs to gold and is for killing. If you put Shuo Feng beads, tiger head, tiger gall, snake head, and snake gall into the small pit, you can breed precious weapons for killing."

Under the guidance of Fairy Lingyue, Xu Taiping poured the prepared items into three small pits in sequence according to different directions.

"Finally, put the Ksitigarbha fruit into the main pit and wait for three months."

After filling in the three small pits, Xu Taiping took out the Ksitigarbha fruit and carefully placed it into the main pit.

"Xiao Taiping, see you in three months."

The shadow of Fairy Lingyue floated above the main pit, smiling and winking at Xu Taiping.

"Well, sister Lingyue, see you in three months."

Xu Taiping nodded.

After the second transformation of the Ksitigarbha fruit, it will take three months for the fruit to mature. Fairy Lingyue had already explained this to Xu Taiping in advance.

"Speaking of which, it's time to buy seeds for the medicine garden. Although the harvest of Nine-leaf Perilla last year was good, if you just rely on the merit earned from selling Nine-leaf Perilla, you can still have a balance of one hundred merit coins."

After planting the Ksitigarbha fruit, Xu Taiping looked at the medicine garden that had become bare after selling the nine-leaf perilla and muttered to himself.

"Including the merit coins I got from the ghost ghost and the tiger demon, I still have about 500 merit coins left on me. Although it is enough for future expenses, it is not enough to buy medicinal materials and exercises. Look. I’ll have to plant some more valuable medicinal materials this year.”

While he was thinking this, he returned to the bedroom.

Now he has a deep understanding that cultivation requires not only talent and perseverance, but also money, lots and lots of money, and in Qingxuan Sect, money is the currency of merit.

"Three months, it should be very soon, right?"

Xu Taiping muttered something softly and then closed the door.