Beastmaster of the Ages - Chapter 7457

Chapter 7371: Xiao Jiu Joins the Team

The answer was obvious.

To pique Xiao Jiu’s interest, Aurora went to great lengths, pretending to be nonchalant as she recounted the news.

Xiao Jiu was almost completely turned away from Li Tianming, so her expression couldn’t be seen, but when she heard “a hundred times,” the black mist at her tail rose slightly, drawing closer to Li Tianming and the others.

The depths of the galaxy, which had been churning with black mist just moments before, were now quiet except for the sounds of Li Tianming and Aurora’s conversation.

At this moment, Aurora once again held Yin Chen to her ear to listen.

“What?” Aurora suddenly looked surprised and looked up at Li Tianming, saying, “More than a hundred times! According to Yin Chen’s rough estimate, it’s about a thousand times the combined size of the Greater and Lesser Divine Treasure Star Systems!”

“What?! How long will that take?” Li Tianming was almost stunned upon hearing this. This news even made his head buzz. He added, “I thought the Greater and Lesser Divine Treasure Star Systems already had a huge amount of Divine Treasure Stones, but I didn’t expect there to be something even more outrageous?”

However, beneath this astonishment was Li Tianming’s desire to keep Xiao Jiu from running around.

Regardless of whether Xiao Jiu returned or not, as long as it knew this news, Li Tianming knew it would definitely go and would know where to find it.

Sure enough!

At this moment, one of Xiao Jiu’s parts of its body lifted up.

Li Tianming could observe it out of the corner of his eye, but he didn’t know if it was the carrier of ‘eyes’ or ‘ears’.

In any case, Xiao Jiu began to show interest.

Li Tianming dropped the pretense and immediately called out, “Xiao Jiu, did you hear that? So many Divine Treasure Stones are definitely enough for your next stage, so don’t wander off. Let’s run around systematically, and next stop we’ll go there for a feast!”

“Who said I wanted to go with you? I’m not really that keen on eating there,” Xiao Jiu grumbled. “It’s only a thousand times the size of the Divine Treasure Star System, not even enough to fill my stomach right now…”

“Ah? That’s such a pity. Since you’re not going, I’ll have to give up on that mine. It’s a shame about the crunchy Divine Treasure Stones and the fragrant dark energy. I’ll just have to watch you disappointedly from the Qianfeng Eternal Empire…” Li Tianming sighed slightly, seemingly helpless.

“Originally, I didn’t care about this little mine, but considering your help in finding the Divine Treasure Star System and your sincere invitation, I’ll reluctantly go with you.” Xiao Jiu turned her head away, her tightly closed eyes squinting as she observed Li Tianming.

However, just as Xiao Jiu finished speaking, another untimely sound rang out.

*Gurgle…*

As it spoke, this sound suddenly emanated from its massive body.

It sounded like someone was hungry, and the sound was as loud as thunder, instantly echoing throughout the universe, impossible to conceal.

Seeing that Li Tianming didn’t respond immediately, Xiao Jiu seemed a little anxious, pressing, “Hey! Are you going or not? If not, I’ll leave.”

But at this moment, Li Tianming appeared somewhat troubled. After listening to Yin Chen’s words for a few moments, he frowned slightly and said helplessly, “This place isn’t something we can just go to whenever we want… It’s clearly owned.”

“What do you mean, we can’t go? Then what are you talking about!” Xiao Jiu exclaimed, its eyes wide like a beacon.

“It’s not that we don’t want to go, but we can’t go directly. Think about it, the Divine Treasury Star System has already been conquered by me. Bringing you from the Heavenly Emperor Sect is like coming home for dinner. But I’m only a newcomer to the Qianfeng Eternal Empire; I don’t have much of a foundation there.” Li Tianming stroked his chin.

“Tsk! A mere third-level star system? You think taking me there will solve everything?” Xiao Jiu said disdainfully.

“It’s not that simple. We need to plan this carefully.” Li Tianming shook his head and continued, “That place even belongs to the Qianfeng Eternal Empire. They have dedicated personnel responsible for mining there, and they’re all from the army of this third-level star system empire. They’re incredibly powerful, with quite a few light-year giants. Even the ordinary soldiers in that army are at the Heavenly Venerable level, beings who have lived for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.”

At this moment, Xiao Jiu’s gaze became serious, as if she was already seriously considering how to get her hands on this Divine Treasure Stone.

Aurora continued, “The light-year giants stationed there are actually a minor problem. If someone were to launch a direct attack on such a crucial location, they might provoke even stronger figures from the Qianfeng Eternal Empire, and that would be the real trouble.”

“Therefore, a direct attack is unlikely to succeed for us at the moment. We need to think of another way.” Li Tianming nodded, speaking seriously.

At this point, he stopped pretending, because he knew that Xiao Jiu had already taken the bait.

Therefore, Li Tianming immediately began to consider the feasibility of obtaining the Divine Treasure Stones, which was more important.

After learning about the large quantity of Divine Treasure Stones, Xiao Jiu would obediently choose to go to the Qianfeng Eternal Empire without Li Tianming having to persuade it.

And the best way for it to go to the Qianfeng Eternal Empire was to go with Li Tianming!

After all, without the golden platform of the Giant Source, Xiao Jiu would really have to cross the gap between the outer and inner borders on its own. Not to mention what obstacles it might encounter along the way, the distance itself wouldn’t be something it could reach in a short time.

“Yin Chen, you continue over there and explore everything thoroughly. See if there’s any gap where you can squeeze Xiao Jiu into that mine,” Li Tianming said after thinking for a long time.

“Okay, wait!” Yin Chen replied.

At this moment, Xiao Jiu knew Li Tianming’s thoughts, and Li Tianming also knew Xiao Jiu’s decision.

One wanted to take it away, and the other wanted to go with him.

However, Xiao Jiu still didn’t face Li Tianming directly; its illusory expression was slightly turned away, somewhat awkward.

“Little Nine, if we find a way to infiltrate, do you have any ideas on how to get in?” Li Tianming asked casually.

“Spit it out,” Little Nine glanced at Li Tianming.

Li Tianming wasn’t annoyed. He smiled and said, “What I mean is, I want to see if, after you enter my body, I use the Void Universe Constellation technique to achieve the same unseen effect? That way, we can infiltrate many places undetected to search for the Divine Hidden Stone.”

“No need for that trouble,” Little Nine looked up at Li Tianming.

Then, its vast, boundless body transformed into a giant funnel.

This funnel was terrifyingly large, but it quickly formed a vortex on Li Tianming’s chest.

Whoosh!

As the black mist containing dark energy swirled within the vortex, Little Nine instantly vanished into it.

“Huh?” Li Tianming was somewhat astonished.

Little Nine had simply entered his symbiotic space.

The last time Xiao Jiu entered the companion space, it was still in an unhatched state and leaned over Miao Miao’s body.

After that, its several leanings over Miao Miao were only through dark energy, not through its own body.

After realizing what was happening, Li Tianming was almost ecstatic!

This was a sign of progress in the relationship between Xiao Jiu and Li Tianming, as well as with the other companion beasts.

With the first time, there was no fear of a second or third, right?

Li Tianming believed that as long as Xiao Jiu entered and exited the companion space more often, it would eventually integrate into it.

At this moment, Yinghuo, who had been resting with its eyes closed, suddenly sensed a familiar aura.

When it opened its eyes, it was dumbfounded, “Huh? Xiao Jiu is back? Or is it its true form?”

Even Miaomiao was startled awake, its eyes glazed over, “Xiao Jiu? It’s not going to come and torment me again this time, is it?”

“Whoosh!! Xiao Jiu is back! Welcome, Xiao Jiu!” Lanhuang was running wildly around the companion space, cheering.

Jiji, although feeling some instinctive fear of Xiao Jiu, still forced a wave and greeted it.

The others, including Xixi, Xianxian, and the three little sixes, were also greeting Xiao Jiu.

It looked like a long-lost child returning home.

Inside the companion space, Xiao Jiu was essentially in the Guanyin Realm. Although it was also a large mass of black mist emanating extremely dangerous dark energy, at least it didn’t encroach on the space of other companion beasts.

Despite the enthusiasm of the crowd, Xiao Jiu remained indifferent, finding a corner to stay in and ignoring everyone.

“Tsk! Annoying. If it weren’t for the Divine Treasure Stone, I wouldn’t have come in,” Xiao Jiu complained, but then peacefully closed its eyes to rest.

“Sleeping as soon as you arrive, could it be that when Xiao Jiu wasn’t fully hatched, it possessed you, you lazy cat, and got infected?” Yinghuo glanced at Miaomiao beside her.

“Brother Chicken, you can’t blame me! I said I was even more tired after being possessed. Maybe Xiao Jiu is even lazier than me,” Miaomiao protested indignantly.

The area around Xiao Jiu was still filled with various noisy chatter.

For example, Xi Xi boldly reached out her chubby little hand to poke Xiao Jiu’s black mist body, while the three mischievous little sixes flew around Xiao Jiu, playing rock-paper-scissors to decide who would wake him up.

Of course, most of it was just joking, and they didn’t disturb Xiao Jiu’s rest too much.

“Little brother Xiao Jiu must be very tired being out there all alone, right? Now that you’re back here, rest well. Your older brothers and sisters are here. Sweet dreams…” Xi Xi boldly patted Xiao Jiu’s body and returned to her gray coffin.

At this moment, Li Tianming was in an extremely good mood. This was a huge step forward in his relationship with Xiao Jiu.

It meant that Xiao Jiu trusted Li Tianming and was even willing to enter the companion space.

Li Tianming immediately took advantage of this rare opportunity.

“Without further ado, let’s go to the Qianfeng Eternal Empire!”

Immediately afterwards, Li Tianming dragged Sui Shenyao, who was chatting enthusiastically with Wei Sheng Mo Ran, back with him.

After Aurora and Sui Shenyao returned to Li Tianming’s side, the group headed to the Burning Spirit Realm together to use the newly established Void-Stabilizing Butterfly passage.

Back in the Burning Spirit Realm, Li Tianming saw four turbulent passages beneath the Void-Stabilizing Butterfly mother butterfly, one of which was fiery red.

He immediately stepped inside and was instantly enveloped in golden light.

…

A quarter of an hour later, Li Tianming emerged from his private room within the Myriad Sects Battle Hall.

Li Tianming exclaimed in surprise, “Such a long distance, and it only took a quarter of an hour! No wonder it’s the Void-Stabilizing Butterfly given to me by Ling’er!”