"Where did this beast come from..."
Lingren, with a face full of frustration, looked at Momo beside him and asked, "Can I buy a piece of hotpot base and just melt it into its fish tank? Make it spicy enough to make it fly!"
"Damn panda super-evolved into an orca..."
Everyone who had just entered the banquet hall was stunned by Jellyfish Lady's outrageous comments, so much so that they were glued to the entrance.
The Jellyfish's ideas were utterly whimsical, but the people living in the Sichuan-Yunnan Basin probably wouldn't agree.
"Oh? Master Fuli is here! Quick, look at what I brought you, a 2002 Flying Moutai..."
Fat Cat scoffed at the Jellyfish Lady, then, upon seeing Master Fuli at the door, quickly put down his phone and picked up a box of Moutai and two boxes of tea leaves to give as a gift for the banquet.
And Jellyfish Lady, lying inside the fish tank, saw Lin Ying and Lin Bingyun arriving and immediately started sweating.
Under the gaze of everyone, it crawled out of the fish tank stealthily, picked up the tank, and jumped off the table onto the ground, briskly escaping with a "heave-ho, heave-ho."
"Don't mind it; Jellyfish Lady is originally from somewhere naughty, so it's normal for her to be a bit immoral."
Ansheng explained to everyone, then looked at the box of liquor Fat Cat carried over, with two boxes of tea leaves labeled from Xia Dong.
"Huiyuan Pit's Old Fir Water Fairy? Did you just blow up Principal Yang's safe?"
Ansheng inquired of Fat Cat with a peculiar expression.
He rarely drank except for socializing, so he wasn't familiar with the prices of aged alcohol, but when it came to Xia Dong tea leaves, Ansheng was quite knowledgeable.
The Old Fir Water Fairy from Huiyuan Pit starts at no less than four thousand, and the market price for high-quality ones easily exceeds ten thousand.
Two boxes of tea leaves, not too much or too little, just right at one pound.
"We couldn't possibly steal from Principal Yang; if he had those treasures, our Spirit Beast would have reported it a long time ago!"
Fat Cat said proudly, "We specifically targeted the to-do list at the Security Bureau and found the spoils from a metallurgical plant explosion. If their family had cash, we would have gifted Master Fuli a twenty-thousand yuan red envelope too...."
Some repeatedly warned, environmentally polluting illegal emitters often have Spirit Beasts visiting them to sell cute coaxing.
Fat Cat pointed with a hairdryer, and the metallurgical factory owner even leaked where their mistress lived, but since those items weren't suitable as gifts, Fat Cat tossed them into the ditch.
"This is Fat Cat, who you often see." After chatting with Fat Cat, Ansheng jumped onto Ah Qing's shoulder and began introducing Fat Cat to her.
"Master Fuli, happy birthday..." Liu Lingyu came forward with a big smile, and from her bag, took out a red envelope to hand to Master Fuli.
"Long life, Master Fuli." A distinguished guest came forward, offering a nine-tailed fox sculpture made of lightning-struck wood.
"Is that powered by wind or fire? I bet the lightning-struck wood is more technologically advanced with nuclear power!"
Ansheng joked at the guest, who had sold lightning-struck wood so much that they'd been sued by a neighboring province's Taoist temple.
"Oh! Pure natural lightning-struck wood, reborn after being struck by lightning, turning deadwood into living wood..." The guest raised their hand, solemnly introducing the nine-tailed fox sculpture in their hand.
In Taoism, lightning-struck wood refers to trees that are reborn after being struck by lightning; only those killed by lightning get charred and are no more than burnt wood and can't be crowned with the name of lightning-struck wood.
Giving a gift to a Taoist Sacred Beast, the guest dared not use a city power line to electrify it.
If the Alliance Hierarch found out, they'd probably take a knife to him.
"Old Wang, Snake Woman!"
After greeting the Taoist Alliance friends and introducing them to Ah Qing, Ansheng raised his arm and called a greeting to Wang Qiqi chasing the Ba Mountain Mosquito and Treasure Tree.
"Wow..."
Treasure Tree pointed at Master Fuli, swung the Ba Mountain Mosquito her mother gave her, and ran towards Master Fuli.
"They're, gluttons, annoying..."
Treasure Tree flipped over onto Ah Qing's back, clinging like a sloth, and watched Wang Qiqi and Snake Woman leading the Security Bureau gluttons warily.
"......"
Wang Qiqi, with a frustrated look, glanced at Treasure Tree hiding behind Master Fuli, saying, "Don't listen to her nonsense; she just tricked us into ordering two tons of high-purity Spirit Plants feed on the Security Bureau's procurement website, ate it, and flipped the table..."
"You're talking nonsense! I only ate twenty pounds!" Treasure Tree immediately released Ah Qing upon hearing those words, made a funny face, and began parkouring through the banquet hall, hugging her Treasure Tree Ant doll.
"You ate twenty pounds in one gulp! Now hurry and squeeze out some more Treasure Tree Spirit Liquid!"
Wang Qiqi caught up with Treasure Tree, grabbed her shoulder, and started coaxing her to be good and squeeze some out with a friendly smile.
"Your junior Treasure Tree used to be an unknown ancient tree living in the primitive landscape from the Paleozoic era."
Ansheng introduced to Ah Qing and her companions the true identity of the Treasure Tree that had just run past them:
"Don't underestimate the Treasure Tree, even if she's tiny, her family's kids can fight with the best in the Qinling Mountain Range."
"???
Ah Qing and her friends were utterly dumbfounded, looking at Treasure Tree who appeared no different to a human, frantically questioning.
Treasure Tree... fully human-like, could even run parkour in the hall with her little short legs.
Is she really also a Spirit Beast? Seriously?
Not many attended today's banquet, as some woodcutters and Li Wenkang and others were busy and tense at the Dragon Man Ruins.
Lu Tiannan was still in the Security Bureau catching up on the knowledge he missed after going up the mountain for years.
Su Qiyuan and Bai Tao, who should have been assigned to Treasure Tree, were temporarily recruited by Lu Tiannan.
Huhu Foundation shareholders, an anonymous butler who delivered a gift on behalf of the young lady, Miyel's video message, and a box of limited-edition coke all arrived at the banquet hall one after another.
"These... two calves, are they Spirit Beasts too?"
Ah Qing looked astonished, gazing at the takin and white-limbed wild cattle lying on the bench using concrete mixer sticks for a massage:
"No wonder... While plowing in the fields, the cattle would run to the shade to eat ice cream, and the plow somehow ended up on male students, exhausting them overturned."
Ah Qing raised her hand, narrating to the little fox, the scene where male students were so tired they rolled into a ditch with old eyes clouded.
Sometimes, Ah Qing could even see the takin standing upright, holding a plow while classmates pulled it, quickly finishing two acres of plowing before school ended.
"Impressive! If it were me, I'd go all out against them." Ansheng looked frustrated at the essential oil-back massaged takin. The takin, slightly guilty, turned his head away, stubbornly retorting, "Moo..."
I'm a cow, they're cows too, I just slightly switch shifts with them when tired.
Can't possibly exhaust me, the National One, to death, right?
"Right, right, you could be exhausted, how come I didn't just hammer you back in the day!"
Ansheng rolled his eyes, completely disbelieving the takin's blatant fabrications; a dignified Guardian Level Spirit Beast, actually claiming exhaustion from plowing, who are you fooling?
After introducing friends to Ah Qing and her companions, the morning unknowingly passed, and Ansheng indicated to Ah Qing from her shoulder to return to the banquet hall to prepare for lunch.
The McDonald's ice cream he'd just ordered was almost there.
However.
Ansheng hadn't finished his ice cream when Wang Qiqi and Ah Qing's phones rang one after another.
"Ah Qing! Urgent situation, emergency rescue, ten thousand fires eight hundred miles express!"
"School... school, hundreds of skunks have invaded the campus and are pooping crazily, wailing... my eyes hurt don't crash into my crotch I'm still a kid..."
Miaomiao's anguished voice came through the phone, startling Ah Qing with shock, Ansheng looked at the constantly screaming phone with a bewildered expression.
It wasn't just Miaomiao's monkey-like cries, from the crashing metal pan sounds, it seemed Miaomiao was headed to the cafeteria to eat when she encountered an alleged hundreds of skunk attack...
"What? Spirit Beasts are all rushing into the school, choosing hosts among students to nurture and honor Master Fuli's legendary feats of freeloading?"
"Unbelievable!"
Listening to Principal Yang's words, Wang Qiqi couldn't help hailing the Qinling Mountain Range Spirit Beasts as complete beasts.
It's the first time seeing Spirit Beasts knocking on each dormitory door after checking household registry, searching for a partner...
Due to their excessively unreasonable behavior, Wang Qiqi really struggled to find the right adjective.
Even working at the Security Bureau for so long, Wang Qiqi has never witnessed Spirit Beasts asking humans to form teams with them.