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Translator: Tamon
Translation Checker: Silavin
Chen Changan went inside the temple to resume nibbling at the tiger leg.
The meat was damn succulent, tender and aromatic, juicy yet not fat, so chewy and it didn’t stick between the teeth; a gourmet ingredient.
The foxtail was looking down as it leaned on the wall.
Chen Changan noticed, chuckling, “Foxy, what’s wrong? A plant yearns for meat?”
Foxy swayed then pointed at Ling Bao’er as if to say, [Boss, I want talent too.]
Chen Changan chuckled. [Last night it had gain consciousness and now it wants talent. The kid sure has ambition.]
The foxtail had been an average weed just yesterday. It would’ve taken it centuries, if not eons, to awaken by herself without Chen Changan’s intervention.
Chen Changan pointed and a golden light fell on the foxtail.
He was keen on knowing if raising the foxtail’s aptitude and getting it to cultivate would earn him domain points as well. He wouldn’t mind giving the same treatment to all herbs in the garden, even the sacred fig.
With the golden light seeping over the foxtail, it wrapped around it like a cocoon, making it fall asleep as it improved its nature.
Chen Changan let Foxy do its thing while he returned to more important matters, eating.
As for Ling Bao’er, she was cultivating inside the garden.
Chen Changan had another mini goal, while Ling Bao’er was fully committed to reach Nascent Soul Stage.
[Master wants me to get to Nascent Soul. I can’t let him down!]
While Chen Changan was enjoying his meal, he suddenly raised an eyebrow. He felt Ling Bao’er’s aura changing. Her cultivation grew another layer, and with it came the system’s notice and 100 more domain points.
He smiled. Taking disciples was the best way to enlarge the Absolute Domain. [If one disciple earns me so much, then what about a hundred? Better yet, a hundred thousand!]
How many domain points would he get from just one round of advancements? Chen Changan could hardly imagine it, but he curbed his ramping enthusiasm soon after.
[I got an Absolute Domain on me, making me invincible, so why the hell am I going hungry? Taking disciples is only allowed once the candidates pass strict conditions.]
Chen Changan was in no rush, not aiming for anything big. He was going to take his time to slowly and steadily expand Absolute Domain across the whole Nine Province Continent. He was just an unambitious deadbeat.
At the same time, the three demon kings appeared just outside the immortal temple. They hid their auras and spied from the shadows.
The sight had them all gasping. “There’re spiritual herbs everywhere, like a natural sanctuary! There’s actually such an amazing place on Soaring Immortal Mountain!”
“That’s the little girl who underwent the lightning tribulation.” Touba Ye sent.
“Is she maybe the fallen immortal treasure?” She Zini asked.
Hong Yi’s sharp eyes glinted, peering at the little girl’s secrets.
The reddish tail swayed as she frowned, “She doesn’t give the aura of an immortal treasure, but looks to be made of flesh and blood. And from her spiritual power, she ought to be a human in the Golden Core Realm.”
Ling Bao’er’s keen senses picked up on the hidden three demon kings.
“She’s so sharp she actually found us!” Hong Yi panicked and winced, darting her eyes elsewhere.
Ling Bao’er shook her head, “I had the strange feeling someone was spying on me. Was I just feeling things?”
“She’s no immortal treasure. I peered through her nature and she’s not just at Golden Core Stage, but of incredible talent, a heaven’s chosen of humankind!”
Hong Yi’s eyes were ablaze, “I won’t fight over the immortal treasure, but the girl, I have to have her.”
Touba Ye huffed, “The girl is reserved and her body unsullied. For her to live through that horrible lightning tribulation, she has to be a top chosen even among Serene and Ghost Provinces. How could she just be yours? I want her as well. You take the immortal treasure.”
Hong Yi sneered, “And what’s a boorish ox demon supposed to teach her, to flex?”
“The heavenly fox cultivation method is the only one suited for her.”
She Zini decided to take action instead of arguing with them, shooting inside the immortal temple’s garden.
“She Zini, you rotten bastard!”
Hong Yi and Touba Ye raged, thinking She Zini wanted to make his first move on the girl.
Such a godlike heaven’s chosen would definitely become a power to be reckoned with, after a careful upbringing of course. She was way more important than some immortal treasure.
They couldn’t let She Zini steal her. Touba Ye and Hong Yi cut him off before he could reach the temple.
“She Zini, you got some nerve!” Hong Yi growled.
She Zini snickered, his snake tongue flicking.
“And? No amount of honor matters if I get the girl.”
Touba Ye’s voice rumbled, “I refuse to believe she would take a snake as master.”
“Touba Ye, I am a python, not a snake. And aren’t you just a bull, and Hong Yi a fox?”
(Tamon: fox here can also mean sly and cunning.)
Hong Yi rolled her eyes at the two demon kings’ crude language.
Touba Ye’s voice was grave, “Hong Yi, She Zini, we haven’t fought for centuries. Let’s have a fair game. The strongest shall take her as a disciple. What do you guys say?”
“It’s on.”
“Yeah, good idea.”
Hong Yi and She Zini agreed.
