PFC Chapter 422 Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold
Chapter 422 Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold
"Who is this...?" The people who came up behind Ye Qingshuang were a little surprised to see Hai Ling. Why did she bring someone back after going out?
After exchanging a few words with Ling Yi, Ye Qingshuang looked at Hai Ling upon hearing this, and immediately frowned.
Seeing her expression, Lin Chengtian asked, "Is something wrong?"
Ye Qingshuang remained silent, her gaze shifting downwards to Hai Ling's abdomen, her voice cold: "Spirit-eating worm."
Upon hearing the words "spirit-eating insects," Bai Qingjue immediately reached out and pulled away the white wine that was closest to Hai Ling.
Ye Qingshuang looked at Hai Ling: "How come you have spirit-eating insects on you?"
Hai Ling looked at Ye Qing Shuang with extremely complicated feelings.
Ever since learning of the danger of the spirit-eating worms, she has been unable to eat or sleep, and has been searching for a way to completely get rid of them, but to no avail. However, the people she met today were all different. One of them could suppress them, and the other knew what was inside her body at a glance.
"You are not from the Holy Yuan Empire." Hai Ling suppressed her thoughts and looked at the group, asking, "Why did you go to the island?"
“Young lady, I asked first,” Ye Qingshuang said. “If anyone should answer, it should be you.”
Hai Ling remained silent, only glancing at Ling Yi.
Ling Yi said, "We'll talk about it once we get to the island."
"Okay." Having received Ling Yi's reply, Ye Qingshuang didn't ask any more questions.
After the group quieted down, the sound of the wind became particularly noticeable. The little golden tiger flew at an extremely fast speed, and after leaving Cloudsea City, it only took half an hour to reach the sea area where Cloudsea Island was located.
As it approached the sea, the little golden tiger slowed down. Just then, a huge creature appeared on the sea below, and immediately after it appeared, it emitted a clear, ethereal sound.
"Golden golden golden golden golden, we meet again!"
Little Golden Tiger was speechless when it heard that voice, but its body honestly flew even lower.
"It's Whale Whale." Ye Qingshuang and the others walked to the edge of the little golden tiger's body and smiled when they saw the huge creature below: "Whale Whale, it's been a long time."
Whale is a level-1 beast that can understand human speech, but after the incident in Yunzhou, it lost Ling Yi and its friends who could talk to it. In addition, after returning to the deep sea, it no longer wanted to speak human speech.
Later, when they met Ling Yi again, because Ling Yi could understand animal language, and Jingjing had never spoken human language before, but this time...
"Okay, it's been a long time, no, we haven't seen each other for a while," Whale responded to Ye Qingshuang and the others in human language.
After saying that, before Ye Qingshuang and the others could respond, Jingjing sank into the water out of shyness.
Upon seeing this, Ye Qingshuang and the others smiled even more broadly and peeked out to call Jingjing out.
"That whale-like sea monster could speak human language?" Unlike Ye Qingshuang and the others who were excited, Hai Ling was extremely shocked to hear the whale speak human language.
Seeing her so shocked, Ling Yi was also a little surprised: "Earth-level beasts can speak human language, but there are no Earth-level beasts in Haizhou?"
From Yunzhou to Haizhou, Haizhou is the sixth state. After arriving here, most of the cultivators I saw were at the Yellow Spirit Realm. Those with higher talent had already entered the Profound Spirit Realm, and those with even higher talent should have entered the Earth Spirit Realm.
There should be Earth-level beasts among the cultivators at the Earth Spirit Realm, so there's no reason to be so shocked.
Seeing Ling Yi's seriousness, which suggested he wasn't joking, Hai Ling's expression became even more serious: "Haizhou does indeed have cultivators at the Earth Spirit Realm, but there are no Earth-level beasts."
“That’s not right.” Hai Ling said, walking to the side and looking down at the whale-sea beast: “I originally thought there wasn’t one, but now it seems there is one, it’s just that no one has noticed it.”
Upon hearing this, Ling Yi realized that Hai Ling mistook Jingjing for a beast from Haizhou. However, Jingjing was not actually a native beast of Haizhou; it had come all the way from Yunzhou. But there was no need to explain this to Hai Ling.
Thinking of what Hai Ling had just said, Ling Yi asked casually, "Since there are experts at the Earth Spirit Realm, why didn't they contract any Earth-level beasts?"
Hearing Ling Yi's question, Hai Ling sighed and then explained, "Those Earth Spirit Realm experts in Haizhou are not young anymore. They spent their entire lives using every means to reach the Earth Spirit Realm. Among the cultivators in Haizhou, they are top experts, but they still don't have enough Earth-level beasts. After all, Earth-level beasts of the same realm are stronger, and they cannot control them. In addition, no trace of Earth-level beasts has ever been found in Haizhou before. Searching is time-consuming and laborious, and even if they find one, they may not be able to catch it. Therefore, they can only form contracts with Profound-level beasts."
“If they don’t have it in Haizhou, they should be able to find it elsewhere.” Lin Chengtian, having overheard their conversation, chimed in, “Since they’re already at the top in Haizhou, why don’t they look elsewhere?”
Hai Ling glanced at Lin Chengtian and said, "Before Haizhou is Jingzhou. There are indeed Earth-level beasts in Jingzhou, but the top experts in Haizhou are only considered mid-level experts in Jingzhou. Few Earth Spirit Realm experts in Jingzhou have contracted Earth-level beasts. How could the people from Haizhou possibly find them?"
“That’s normal.” Ye Qingshuang looked at the group: “The further humans go in cultivation, the more difficult it becomes, and the same goes for beasts. Moreover, beasts are different from humans in one aspect.”
Hai Ling asked, "What?"
Ye Qingshuang said, "Beasts will occupy territory. The stronger the beast, the larger the territory it occupies. In its territory, other beasts are its food. It will not allow its food to be stronger than itself. Once it detects a sign of this, it will kill the other party before it becomes strong. As a result, high-level beasts will naturally become even rarer."
After hearing Ye Qingshuang's words, Hai Ling frowned: "This shouldn't only target Earth-level beasts, but also Profound-level beasts..."
“Strength determines everything.” Ye Qingshuang knew what Hai Ling wanted to say, and looked at her and said, “Earth-level beasts are stronger and faster. They can go further in a day and naturally occupy more territory. In the same forest area, ten Profound-level beasts can divide the territory and live in it, but Earth-level beasts can only have one. That’s the reason.”
Upon hearing this, Hai Ling remained silent.
"You guys chat," Ling Yi said to them, then leaped off the little golden tiger's back.
As soon as Ling Yi left, Ye Qingshuang turned to look at the sea below. Sure enough, as soon as Ling Yi went down, the whale that had been submerged in the sea resurfaced.
Ling Yi landed on the whale's back, and the whale was overjoyed: "Yi Yi, we've finally met again!"
"Hmm." Ling Yi responded calmly, then asked Jingjing if she had encountered anything on the way.
Upon hearing this, Whale immediately told Ling Yi about some of the things it had encountered on its journey. As a level-elemental beast, no beast on the way from Meteorite Continent could rival it. Other beasts would run away as fast as they could when they saw it, and dared not provoke it at all, so there was no danger. Whale told Ling Yi all the interesting things.
Ling Yi listened without saying much, occasionally responding. After Jingjing finished speaking, Ling Yi said, "This is not a place for you. Let's continue on our way."
When Whale arrived, it also noticed that it still hadn't encountered any Earth-level beasts after reaching this sea area. Hearing Ling Yi say this, Whale asked, "Yi Yi, are you going to stay here?"
"We're here to find something, and once we find it, we'll leave. We won't stay."
"I see," Whale said. "To avoid falling behind you, I'll continue on my way once we separate."
"Let's continue on our way now." Ling Yi looked at the island that appeared ahead and said calmly, "We've arrived."
Whale exclaimed in surprise, "So fast?"
They didn't spend nearly enough time together!
"Hmm." Sensing its surprise, Ling Yi smiled and said, "Little whale, let's keep going."
Ling Yi remembered that at first she said that Little Golden Tiger was not smart enough to recognize the little whale, but then the little whale asked her if she was not smart enough to recognize it.
This little whale is so sly and mischievous.
"Alright." The giant whale said sadly, "Then... let's meet again somewhere else."
"Okay," Ling Yi replied, then got off the little whale's back.
After Ling Yi left, the little whale first said goodbye to the little golden tiger, and then said goodbye to the others. After saying goodbye, it sank into the sea and left without lingering.
Seeing that Whale Whale left so quickly, Ye Qingshuang pretended to be sad and sighed, "It didn't stop at all, it didn't seem to care about leaving us at all." After saying that, before Ling Yi could speak, Ye Qingshuang continued, "Ling Yi, Earth-level beasts can transform into mimicry forms, why didn't you let Whale Whale transform into a mimicry form and follow us?"
In this way, the whales can not only follow them around, but also serve as their mounts when they need to cross the sea. They can be both companions and useful, which is great.
“No need,” Ling Yi said. “It’s better for it to stay in the sea.”
"Exactly, exactly." Little Golden Tiger wholeheartedly agreed with Ling Yi's words; it certainly didn't want that sly, mischievous fish following along.