Chapter 395: Chapter 325: Always Respectful
They arrived at a massive special building pavilion, and upon entering, they found that it was... a cute pet zoo?
There were various types of cats, dogs, and rabbits darting in and out of climbing frames, chasing balls around. The small animals closer to Yan Qing and the others even lay down on the ground, revealing their bellies, so adorable that Murong Hui was drooling... Hmm?
"Weirdo, hurry up and find a way to open this transparent curtain wall."
Murong Hui swallowed a mouthful of saliva:
"Tonight I want to eat rabbit!"
All the small animals were enclosed by the glass curtain wall, inaccessible from inside or outside. No need to try; the glass curtain wall was indestructible. Yan Qing scanned the area and found a podium-like place. On the podium was a transparent glass panel, and when Yan Qing touched the panel with his wristband, pet photos and names suddenly appeared, with the title "Select Your Treasure Hunt Expert." There were twenty pet slots per page, with a total of five pages.
Each pet slot included "Treasure Hunt Rate," "Combat Power," and "Speed" as three attributes, all generally balanced, leaving no loopholes to exploit. Yan Qing casually selected a cat named ’Three-Floral Goddess,’ and suddenly heard the ceiling of the pet plaza creaking open, dropping a large pile of items, including dried meat, dried fish, cat sticks, catnip, meat bones, and carrots. But the most eye-catching was the item flickering with an orange-red flame.
The pets swarmed in, those who could grab something immediately gnawed, those who couldn’t started scrambling. Cat punches, dog back kicks, rabbit collisions, and eighteen martial arts all came into play for a lively chaos.
In the midst of the commotion, a tabby cat carrying a card dashed out, the glass curtain wall easily parted like water as it passed through, dropping the card and wagging its tail towards Yan Qing in celebration.
Yan Qing reached out to scratch its chin, and it affectionately nuzzled against the palm of his hand.
Murong Hui was so charmed that her heart melted; she went over and grabbed one of its meat paws: "Look, it insists on coming with me!"
Everyone watched as the tabby cat’s other three meat paws gripped the ground firmly, claws extended. Ying Rushi delivered a karate chop, only then did Murong Hui let go, prompting the tabby cat to rush back inside eagerly, fearing being caught by the mean woman for constant coercive petting.
Yan Qing touched the card, which flowed into the wristband, making him glance down in surprise:
"Accumulated Avalanche: Consume a puppet card to transfer its attribute values to another puppet card."
The strategic value of this card is undeniable; for example, if Yan Qing wants to change formations, he can directly transfer the properties of the Ascension Dragon Attendant to the new core puppet, minimizing losses. Of course, he can now transfer a higher attribute puppet to the Ascension Dragon Attendant, making sure he doesn’t lose out.
As Yan Qing pondered, there was a sound of knocking on glass beside him. Murong Hui was seen tapping on the glass curtain wall, drawing the attention of the dogs inside, taking out a sausage and swirling it with a cunning grin: "Hehe, how could a junior understand the usage of such a rare treasure? Hand it over to Grandpa, and you can still get a sausage, isn’t that wonderful?"
Yan Qing and Ying Rushi eyed Murong Hui showing off, not expecting a dog to actually be enticed, dropping the treasure in its mouth, barking towards Murong Hui.
Grandpa Murong Hui did not go back on his word, generously splitting the sausage in half, half for the little dog and half for himself. Yan Qing thought if he were a dog, he’d surely curse; this person is so bad, embezzling fifty percent, but both the little dog and Murong Hui were happily eating, like siblings not seen for years.
After bidding farewell to the little dog, Murong Hui picked up the treasure dropped on the ground, and when Yan Qing and Ying Rushi came over to look, their expressions subtly changed. It was a white jade pendant, with ink flowing, constantly transforming inside the pendant, at times into beasts, at times into celestial phenomena, seemingly displaying the myriad things of the world.
"True Spiritual Jade!" Ying Rushi’s tone couldn’t hide a trace of envy: "There’s Foundation Establishment resources here?"
"So this is the True Spiritual Jade?" Murong Hui lifted it for observation.
"You haven’t seen it before? Haven’t you asked Purple Tribulation Zhenren to see?" Ying Rushi was somewhat surprised.
"I did, but Grandpa didn’t agree, fearing I’d steal it. Later, I searched the ancestral home thoroughly but still couldn’t find it, only to casually take Grandpa’s jewelry to wear, and then forgot about it," Murong Hui said.
"No doubt about being the Foundation Establishment Messenger, they really have a good eye," Yan Qing admired.
"True Spiritual Jade is equivalent to ten thousand Spiritual Jade, but its value is far surpassed. For you, Hui, having this True Spiritual Jade means you don’t have to worry about endurance in battles; just grip this True Spiritual Jade tightly and you’ll be continuously replenished," Ying Rushi explained, "It’s best to tie it with a rope and fix it in the palm or somewhere similar."
"It’s so practical!" Murong Hui was amazed.
Then she did something that stunned everyone: she directly broke the True Spiritual Jade into half, then split the remaining half into two parts.
"Here, this half is mine, you each take a small part."
Murong Hui extended her hand, with two small parts of True Spiritual Jade in her palm. Ying Rushi instinctively glanced sideways but Yan Qing directly took both parts. He glanced at Ying Rushi, unceremoniously saying: "You don’t want it, right? Then I’ll take them all."
"No way!" Murong Hui grabbed Yan Qing and furiously knocked him: "That part’s for Little Fox!"
"Do you want it or not?" Yan Qing asked while getting punched, "You’re not the type who says no but actually wants someone to force it into your hand, are you, pretending after benefiting, right?"
Ying Rushi listened, dumbfounded, and after a complex look at Yan Qing, she reached out to take a small part of True Spiritual Jade: "I want it!"
Yan Qing grabbed her wrist: "Given something by someone else, shouldn’t you say something?"
Always proud of her complete manners, Ying Rushi was unexpectedly a bit embarrassed, "Thank you, Hui."
"Not right, why didn’t that weirdo thank me?" Murong Hui discovered the blind spot: "Remember to say it loudly, respectfully."
"I don’t have to say it, I didn’t want it, you’re the one who insisted on giving it to me."
"Ah!? When did I insist on giving it to you! Aren’t you the one who said it yourself, taking advantage and playing the victim, you little brat!"
"Ah hey, you caught me."
"Shameless!"
Yan Qing pointed to his own bandaged face, with an expression that screamed ’are you dumb’: I don’t even have a face, your words don’t affect me at all.
For the first time, Murong Hui disastrously lost in a war of words, and shouted angrily, "I’m not talking to you anymore!"
"Where do we go next?"
"Next, we go... ahhhhh!"
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With the chime of midnight, Yan Qing’s puppet grid expanded to the third grid, and they immediately took down the demon squad they had long been targeting, obtaining a Flame Inheritor card.
He finally left behind the Ascension Dragon Attendant, snowballing a 1800/1600 Dragon Attendant onto the Ascension Dragon Attendant, boosting its stats to 4200/3200. However, the revival and Soul Dragon Attendants derived from Ascension Dragon Attendant wouldn’t inherit these stats, only inheriting the 1400/1400 return from the dead stat.
Yan Qing calculated that this growth rate wasn’t slower than Ye Si’s mechanism lineup, although Ye Si developed seven to four thousand physiques at once, he only had one Ascension Dragon Attendant.
But with such combat power, tomorrow they could challenge a three-transformation big team.
As soon as he opened the door to the hot spring cabin, Murong Hui sprinted towards the indoor hot spring inside, her clothes flying off on the way, and by the time she landed in the misty hot spring, the last piece of her undergarment hadn’t even landed on the ground.
Ying Rushi quickly went forward to pick up the clothes on the ground, closed the wooden door of the hot spring, paused for a moment, and asked, "Is she always like this with you guys... yesterday too?"
"More or less." Yan Qing replied casually, suddenly remembering something: "But don’t go telling them!"
"If you really knew how to avoid suspicion, you wouldn’t have stared just now." Ying Rushi said with annoyance.
"I was admiring her beauty."
"Weren’t you watching the whole time?"
"That’s continuous admiration."
"Hmph, didn’t expect you to be this kind of person." Ying Rushi placed the clothes aside, searching through the food supplies in the cabin: "No wonder you were flirting with the Red Snake and now with the Black Wolf."
"You might not believe it," Yan Qing said earnestly, "but they actually flirted with me first."
Ying Rushi raised her eyebrows: "So you admit you have a relationship with them beyond teammates?"
"Um." Surprisingly caught in a word trap, Yan Qing silently opened a fridge and took out two cans of cold beer, tossing one to Ying Rushi.
Ying Rushi opened and drank it, seemingly having been to the Demon Gathering Land for drinks before: "You came here yesterday?"
"To be precise, the day before yesterday now."
"So you have to stay three more days." Ying Rushi shook the beer can, saying, "Hui can leave tomorrow, I’ll have to stay four more days."
"As you said, Ying Le is outside, would Little Mischief be in danger going out?"
"Avoid the east exit, leaving from other exits should be fine, the Demon Gathering Land perimeter is too vast for Baibao Guards to block. Besides, Ying Le has no reason to target Hui, unless she wants to make an enemy of Purple Tribulation Zhenren."
"That’s good, we’ll see her off tomorrow."
"Have you fallen for her?"
"Don’t you like her?" Yan Qing retorted.
"Answering a question with a question isn’t a good habit." Ying Rushi brushed back a lock of hair, and as she relaxed in the safe cabin drinking, she couldn’t help but unwind a bit. Looking at Yan Qing lying on the sofa slightly fatigued, she made up her mind.
"Yellow Dog," Ying Rushi said, "after Hui leaves tomorrow, let’s part ways."
