Chapter 131: Little Green Meets Little Blue

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Yu Wenjing rubbed his nose, looking somewhat troubled.

How could Yu Bin be so different from his father?

Yu Zhiye had been a greedy, shameless wretch. If he had been given such an opportunity to curry favor with the powerful, he would have rushed forward without hesitation. The main reason he had agreed to enter the dungeon with them back then was his greed for the resources produced within an S-rank dungeon.

Who could have guessed that he would gain none of the treasures and instead lose his life?

He had left behind a widow and an orphan. His wife was utterly useless; the moment she heard that her husband was dead, she had fainted from fright. After waking, whether she was pretending or truly deranged, she certainly looked half-mad.

Yu Bin, a seven-year-old boy, had grown up overnight after losing his father and finding his mother half-insane.

Now, he faintly possessed the sense of responsibility expected of an adult.

Yu Wenjing sighed inwardly. But Sister Yan had already spoken, ordering that the little bean follow Duoduo. He did not dare plead with Sister Yan. He was just considering whether to send his younger sister to make the request instead—after all, both his sister and Sister Yan were women, and surely women could communicate more easily with one another?

A cool, indifferent voice reached his ears.

“Since he is determined to join the hunting squad, have him go through the normal procedure.”

There was no change in Yu Yan’s expression.

Yet when her eyes passed over the little boy, a hint of appreciation flashed through them.

At such a young age, he already knew how to earn his own living. What a good child!

Later, she would ask Duoduo whether she was interested in organizing a youth hunting squad. With Duoduo’s strength as an early fourth-rank cultivator, combined with the protection of a fifth-rank Bloodthirsty Spirit Vine, entering an E-rank dungeon would be extremely safe.

At most, one or two nests of Profound-rank monsters would appear inside an E-rank dungeon, and their ranks would not exceed the fifth rank.

A mere handful of Profound-rank monsters, scattered across the boundless world within a dungeon, had an exceedingly small chance of being encountered.

Even if they were extraordinarily unlucky and came across one, Duoduo would still be capable of putting up a fight!

As long as the children selected were not noisy, reckless little brats, escorting a group of them in and out of a dungeon should not pose much danger. If Yu Yan still felt uneasy, she could simply send Xiao Qing along with Duoduo.

Speaking of Xiao Qing, because its strength had previously been too low, Yu Yan had left it and Yun Duo’er behind in the Spirit Plant Minor World when she entered the Firefly Soul-Devouring Sea.

Perhaps driven by resentment, it had frantically refined the high-rank Qu Ru flesh obtained from its parents within the Spirit Plant Minor World.

It had now broken through to the Profound rank and become a fourth-rank Qu Ru.

However, its new realm was still unstable, so Xiao Qing could only remain in the Spirit Plant Minor World to consolidate its cultivation. After leaving the Firefly Soul-Devouring Sea, Yu Yan had not yet found the opportunity to meet it—but last night, Xiao Qing had faintly sent her a message through their mental link.

Its realm was nearly stable, and it would soon be able to come out and serve its master!

Speak of the devil, and he appears.

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Just as Yu Yan thought of her daughter and Xiao Qing, Yun Duo’er came toward her carrying a plate of wheat cakes.

The moment she met Yu Yan’s eyes, Yun Duo’er instinctively raised a brilliant smile.

“Mom, Grandma said you hardly ate anything this morning. These two wheat cakes are for you, so you can fill your stomach.”

At the same time, Xiao Qing’s cheerful voice rang out in the sea of consciousness.

“Master, my realm has stabilized!”

“I’m now an early fourth-rank spirit beast. Hurry and let me out.”

Yu Yan accepted the plate from Yun Duo’er and ate the love-filled breakfast her daughter had brought her. At the same time, with a slight movement of her thoughts, a blue-eyed green sparrow no bigger than a fist flapped its wings and expertly flew onto Yu Yan’s shoulder, settling itself there.

Xiao Qing looked little different from before. It still had a body covered in crow-blue feathers, while its sharp beak had shifted from dark blue toward black.

Only the edges of its crow-blue plumage now shimmered with a faint azure glow.

They flickered beneath the sunlight, dreamlike and illusory.

Its pair of pitch-black Qu Ru eyes had changed after its advancement to the Profound rank. Everything beyond the pupils had transformed into a deep, crystalline blue—the color of the sky, profound and vast, as though containing the boundless power of the laws of wind.

“Master, I can now release one hundred and thirty-eight wind blades at once.”

“I’ve also awakened the Windwalk skill. With Windwalk active, my speed increases more than threefold.”

“After advancing to the Profound rank, the bodies of our Qu Ru kind grow more than ten times larger. Our physical strength, speed, and attack power all surpass those of the third rank by an immeasurable margin. This appearance is the result of shrinking myself more than tenfold.”

“I’m no longer a useless bird. You can’t abandon me like you did the last few times and go risk your life in dungeons by yourself.”

Yu Yan: “…”

“You were never a useless bird.”

Xiao Qing blinked its avian eyes, clearly not believing a word of it.

If it had not been useless, why would its master have left it behind and ventured alone into the dungeon worlds? Her words were merely meant to comfort it.

Wait—something seemed wrong.

Xiao Qing stiffly turned its head. Its azure-wrapped eyes met another pair of enormous blue-crystal vertical pupils head-on.

“!!!”

“Master, danger! Run!”

“Huh?”

Yu Yan was somewhat bewildered. Following Xiao Qing’s gaze, she saw Xiao Lan. She immediately found the situation both amusing and exasperating.

“Xiao Qing, this is Xiao Lan, my newly acquired spirit beast. You are both my beasts, so don’t be nervous.”

Xiao Qing was on the verge of tears.

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In truth, the moment the words left it—or rather, the moment the thought formed—it knew it had made a fool of itself.

It still could not speak. Only spirit beasts that advanced to the Earth rank and signed either a master-servant contract or an equal contract with a human could unlock the ability to use human language. Communication with its master was possible only through the mysterious channel connecting a master and their spirit beast.

But that was not the point.

The point was that it had sensed an extremely familiar human aura coming from this giant lizard, which was a peak seventh-rank creature!

It was the unique scent of its master.

Sure enough, the moment its master spoke, she confirmed that the giant lizard was also her spirit beast.

Yu Yan gave the two little ones a simple introduction. A humanlike look of disdain flashed through Xiao Lan’s vertical pupils.

Hmph. It was nothing more than a timid fourth-rank avian creature!

It had eaten countless birds like this inside the Firefly Soul-Devouring Sea.

So little meat, and so many coarse feathers that they got stuck between the teeth—it was not even worthy of being considered food…

How could Xiao Qing fail to sense the giant lizard’s contempt?

It was so furious that it nearly toppled backward. The excitement it had felt upon advancing to the early fourth rank vanished without a trace, replaced by gnashing resentment.

One day!

Its rank would surpass that of this big brute with powerful limbs and a simple mind.

When that day came, it would pierce the creature until it rolled across the ground and begged for mercy beneath a storm of countless wind blades. How dare this damned brute look down on the Qu Ru clan? It would surely pay the price!

Well, since they were both the master’s spirit beasts, Xiao Qing would still spare its miserable life.

At that moment, the pride belonging to the Qu Ru bloodline was awakened within Xiao Qing.

As the descendant of a ninth-rank Earth-level Qu Ru, the supreme aerial monarch of the S-rank dungeon’s desert oasis, Xiao Qing possessed a dignity that would not tolerate being trampled upon.

Yu Yan sensed a little of the silent exchange passing between the two small creatures.

She did not particularly care.

Competition provided motivation for advancement. As long as they did not truly come to blows and force her, as their master, to bear the loss of one of her spirit beasts, Yu Yan would not interfere in their “little” friction.

At present, what concerned her more was another matter…

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