Chapter Ninety-six: Following Closely

  Perhaps the roasted fish was too delicious, and the little panda looked at Ye Chen with shining eyes until it had eaten six fish, then patted its belly contentedly and lay down to rest by a small pool not far from Ye Chen.

  Ye Chen roasted the fish twice, and only then did he finish serving the little panda. Ye Chen was just looking at the little panda's silly and lovely appearance, and suddenly felt a pang of sympathy, so he caught a few more fish and roasted them again, most of which were thrown to the little panda.

  Looking at the satisfied little raccoon dog, Ye Chen couldn't help but smile and stopped paying attention to it. Instead, he stared at the flames in front of him, lost in his own thoughts. After all, he had been living in a daze for half a month, leaving Ye Chen feeling somewhat disoriented.

  The little bear's interruption made Yexin's mood inexplicably better, and he should think about what to do next. Sword City was a must-go destination, after all, Xiaoxue's matter was the top priority, and there were no other important things left.

  But wanting to find Xiao Xue is also extremely difficult, and it's not something Ye Chen can do just because he wants to. It's said that the three layers of Tianjian City are deadly every year, and Ye Chen's first-stage congenital realm strength going in would be a fatal blow.

  So now Ye Chen's most important thing is to improve his own strength, only when the strength goes up can he have the opportunity to enter the Sword City, and then he will have the opportunity to touch that big array, and then he will have the opportunity to open it.

  This series of opportunities, the difficulty that comes with them, makes Ye Chen feel overwhelmed, wanting to complete it, relying solely on his current strength, is absolutely impossible, this point Ye Chen still has some self-awareness.

  Looking at the little panda lying comfortably by the pool, a stream of spiritual energy from heaven and earth rushed towards the small green bamboo stick in the little panda's hand. The bamboo stick had only nine bamboo leaves, neither more nor less. Each time one leaf was plucked off, another grew back on, which was quite strange.

  Ye Chen felt incredulous, knowing that the bamboo stick in Xiao Xiong's hand was no ordinary object, but absolutely a treasure of the highest level. However, Ye Chen didn't have any desire for it. On the path of cultivation, possessing treasures could provide a shortcut, but that kind of shortcut would make one's foundation unstable.

  One person and one panda spent the night like this, and early the next morning, Ye Chen woke up from his meditation, feeling surprised at the density of spiritual energy here. One night's cultivation had actually increased his internal strength by a lot.

  Ye Chen stretched his waist, then took a look at the little panda that was still sleeping soundly, smiled and wanted to leave this place. Although the spiritual energy here was rich and suitable for cultivation, he couldn't stay here for long, and had to go to Sword City.

  Ye Chen had just lifted his foot when he heard a rustling sound. The little panda had already stood up, with an urgent look on its face. As for the sin of Ye Chen hurting it earlier, the little panda had long since forgiven him. After eating that roasted fish, the rest were not even worth looking at.

  What if this person leaves, what about his own roasted fish? So the little bear is very anxious and doesn't want Ye Chen to leave. The lovely and silly face on his cute face is calling out urgently.

  Ye Chen looked at the anxious little raccoon dog and couldn't help but laugh, this little guy really didn't hold grudges, yesterday it was desperate to get away, but after one meal of fish, its allegiance had changed and now it wouldn't let Ye Chen leave.

  Ye Chen smiled at the little panda and said, "Still want to eat fish?" Looking at the little panda's drooling face, he knew that this guy was crazy about eating fish. However, Ye Chen had no intention of cooking now, as the flames here had long been extinguished.

  The little bear cat nodded heavily, obviously drooling over the roasted fish, not forgetting for a moment that if this person left, where would it go to eat? The little bear cat's silly face was full of anxiety.

  "Hehe, I'm out of food, I have to leave now. It was nice meeting you, but our fate isn't that deep yet, so it's goodbye for now." Although Ye Chen liked the little bear cat, since the great disaster, humans and beasts had been at odds with each other, and humans generally held grudges against demonic beasts. Even Ye Chen wasn't an exception, so he didn't have any thoughts of taking the little bear cat with him despite his affection for it.

  Of course, even if Ye Chen wanted to take away the little panda, the little panda might not agree. These spiritual beasts that open up intelligence are the most difficult to tame. Ye Chen had a premonition, and now he couldn't even set up the beast-controlling array, let alone truly control the beast?

  Watching Ye Chen leave, the little panda looked entangled, looking at the clear small pool, then looking at the direction where Ye Chen was far away, and finally with a determined look, the bamboo pole in his hand swung, a green light flashed from the bamboo pole.

  A green glow sank into the water, and this originally clear pool of water instantly turned emerald green. It immediately began to rotate, and a pale green jade platform rose from the water. The little panda made a gesture with its hand, and the palm-sized jade platform appeared in the little panda's hand.

  He pressed the bamboo pole onto the jade platform, and strangely, a green light emanated from between the jade platform and the bamboo pole. After a while, the light disappeared. The jade platform had merged with the bamboo pole, as if they were originally one thing.

  The surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy crazily surged towards the jade platform and bamboo pole in Xiao Xiongmao's hands, with dense, visible waves of air flow that Ye Chen could clearly feel without taking a few steps.

  Ye Chen looked at the crazily surging heaven and earth spiritual energy in astonishment, this degree of absorption of heaven and earth spiritual energy Ye Chen had never seen before. He turned his head to look at Little Bear Cat, only to see Little Bear Cat's serious face staring at the bamboo stick in its hand, a sense of pressure emanating from it, making Ye Chen somewhat taken aback.

  "This bamboo pole is really not an ordinary product! Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh, looking at this crazy absorption of the heaven and earth spiritual energy bamboo pole, Ye Chen even had a desire to take it for himself, as soon as the idea came up, it was suppressed by Ye Chen."

  This treasure of the world has a moral person living in it. If it is forcibly seized, what difference does it have with Lu Tianfu and others? Although Ye Chen doesn't think he's a good person, there's still a bottom line to being human. If this were an evil god or a depraved human, Ye Chen wouldn't feel any psychological pressure from seizing it by force.

  But although the little bear cat had previously offended itself, this subsequent demand for food revealed its true nature, still a pure and natural little monster, not that kind of evil spirit, and even in this short period of time, Ye Chen could feel that the little bear cat did not have any hatred towards him.

  The spiritual energy of the heavens and earth was quickly absorbed by that green bamboo pole, and the little panda shouldered the pole, grinned at Ye Chen with its mouth open, stood on its hind legs, and walked towards Ye Chen in imitation of him.

  This similar performance made Ye Chen laugh, but the little bear didn't feel it, and still had a self-satisfied expression, walking to Ye Chen's side, pointing at himself, then pointing at Ye Chen, and finally pointing at that pile of flames that had already burned out, with a greedy look on his face.

  This simple gesture made Yexuan suddenly understand that this little guy actually wanted to roast fish for itself, and it even wanted to follow him, not afraid that he would roast it.

  Ye Chen smiled and said: "What, you want to follow me?"

  The little panda seemed to understand what Yexin said, and nodded hastily. After thinking for a moment, it plucked a bamboo leaf from the green bamboo pole, and handed it over to Yexin with a painful expression.