Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 331 Preparations Before the Beast Tide_1

Chapter 331: Chapter 331 Preparations Before the Beast Tide_1

Hua Yiyou had a long conversation with that young soldier, and after taking him outside the village to have a look around, finally convinced him that the village had not been destroyed. The young soldier, knowing the truth, let out a sigh of relief but then seemed lost. After sending him back to his room to sleep, Hua Yiyou stepped outside and spoke to Feng Yuan, who was coaxing Xiao Ji into sleep,

"Do you need me to arrange a guest room for you?"

After thinking it over, Feng Yuan refused,

"No need. I’ll just set up a tent in front of the Dream Stone, Xiao Ji, you can change back now. I can’t sleep with you when you’re this big."

Xiao Ji hesitated for a moment, looking around. Understanding Xiao Ji’s concern, Feng Yuan gently stroked the feathers on Xiao Ji’s neck and said,

"Relax, do you have so little faith in the barrier you set up for me?"

"Besides, I’m not completely defenseless now. If anyone tries to ambush me, they’ll regret it."

After some persuasion, Xiao Ji shifted back to its original form, and Feng Yuan picked up Xiao Ji, vigorously rubbing it for a while and said,

"Still feels so good to the touch~ It’s a pity that once you evolve, this won’t feel as nice~"

Xiao Ji, somewhat deformed from Feng Yuan’s rubbing, let out an indignant squawk and squirmed out of Feng Yuan’s embrace. Feng Yuan pointed at Xiao Ji’s head and said,

"Let’s go. Time to sleep."

Pouting, Xiao Ji closely followed behind Feng Yuan. Watching Feng Yuan leave, Hua Yiyou smiled and turned back to his own house.

"Where on earth did he run off to? He’s been out of sight for so long."

That evening, Yao Yin still hadn’t seen Feng Yuan return and complained to Guo Huai with some dissatisfaction. Glancing at Yao Yin, Guo Huai asked curiously,

"Why do you care so much about him?"

"Who cares about him! It’s just that if that guy doesn’t come back, I can’t even leave Yongning City!"

Yao Yin discontentedly pointed at the White Wolf Deity that was following her. That day, while Yao Yin had planned to leave Yongning City with Mo Ling for a stroll around, she had been stopped by the suddenly appearing White Wolf Deity just as she was about to exit through the city gate. After several failed attempts to sneak out of the city from different locations, Yao Yin had given up on the idea of leaving.

"Why don’t you talk to it?"

Guo Huai looked at Yao Yin, bewildered. Yao Yin glared at him and said angrily,

"Why don’t you talk to it for me! It ignores whatever I say! It’s just insufferably arrogant!"

"Is it really that exaggerated?"

Guo Huai looked doubtingly at the White Wolf Deity trailing behind Yao Yin. He had been busy all day experimenting with various alchemy techniques and hadn’t noticed when the White Wolf Deity that had been following him had disappeared.

"Ding~

Gentle reminder, the White Wolf Deity is one of the Divine Beasts that is extremely difficult to interact with. If you carelessly offend it, you know what the consequences of being targeted by a Divine Beast are."

(Really? Every time I saw it, it quietly followed me. I didn’t notice it had a bad temper.)

"Ding~

This system wouldn’t lie to you. You can try angering it and see, perhaps it won’t even show any obvious signs when it’s angry."

Looking at the White Wolf Deity, which appeared like a loyal big white dog, and aware of the terrifying power of a Divine Beast, Guo Huai still suppressed his self-destructive impulses and said to Yao Yin with conviction,

"You should speak to it yourself. How would it look if I did it for you? I’m going back to rest; a long day’s work has tired me out."

"Tch! Coward!"

Yao Yin muttered darkly at the departing Guo Huai. She looked at the White Wolf Deity disapprovingly and said,

"I’m going back to sleep too. What, you still want to share a bed with me? You lecherous beast!"

The White Wolf Deity glanced at Yao Yin and disdainfully emitted a puff of white air. Hesitant for a moment, Yao Yin dared not provoke the White Wolf Deity further. She glared at it and truly returned to her guest room. The White Wolf Deity didn’t enter either and disdainfully looked at Yao Yin before settling down beneath the porch at the entrance.

"Asshole!"

Yao Yin was certain that the White Wolf Deity’s glance just now meant ’see if you can sneak out from somewhere else if you dare.’

After closing the door, Yao Yin looked at the open window, took out a blue crystal-like object from her pocket, and placed it on the table. As soon as the blue crystal-like object appeared, the temperature of the whole room gradually began to drop. She glared through the window at the White Wolf Deity outside and forcefully shut the window.

Hearing the loud noise of the window closing, the White Wolf Deity’s ears twitched, but its closed eyes did not open; it just flicked its tail as if to show disdain for Yao Yin’s actions.

"Where do you plan to go? I believe you definitely can’t return to the army now,"

The next morning, Feng Yuan held Xiao Ji and went to see the young soldier, who scratched his head and said,

"I plan to stay here for the time being, wait until they forget about me, and then move on to another place."

"Are you so set on enlisting?"

Feng Yuan looked at the young soldier curiously as the latter sighed and said,

"All I have is a bit of martial skill; I can’t do anything else. If not this, then what?"

"Farming won’t do?"

The young soldier looked at Feng Yuan and said with a bitter smile,

"If I had land, would I be in such a state?"

"And... if you really had me farm honestly..."

Seeing Hua Yiyou about to speak, the young soldier hurriedly said, and Feng Yuan smiled and replied,

"But joining the battle means people will die. Wasn’t your squad an example?"

The young soldier scratched his head and said with a beaming smile,

"But it’s the fastest way to make a name for oneself."

Thinking about what would soon befall the Great Li Dynasty, Feng Yuan sighed and said,

"You stay here for now; after the beast tide passes, I’ll take you to meet Mo Li. He might be willing to take you in."

"Mo Li?"

The young soldier looked puzzled. Realizing that Mo Li was just a name he had privately given himself and that while those who knew him might understand, the man before him surely wouldn’t know who Mo Li was, Feng Yuan explained,

"That’s the Seventh Prince, the one currently in charge of Yongning City."

"Ah! Wait a minute, if he’s in charge of Yongning, wouldn’t the beast tide...?"

Feng Yuan looked at the young soldier, knowing what he was worried about, and said,

"Don’t worry, he has some matters to attend to outside; the beast tide won’t affect him."

Mo Li’s departure wasn’t a secret. Although Feng Yuan knew what he was doing, there was no need and he couldn’t casually reveal Mo Li’s whereabouts. Hua Yiyou sighed and said,

"I don’t know whether Yongning will still exist after this disaster."

Understanding Hua Yiyou’s meaning, Feng Yuan patted his shoulder and said,

"Life and death are determined by fate; sometimes, even if you know a disaster is coming, you are powerless against it. All you can do then is strive for peace of mind."

"Strive for peace of mind, huh..."

Hua Yiyou smiled and said,

"We’ve done all we could; the rest is up to fate. Enough talk, I need to go check on our food reserves."

The beast tide that the clairvoyant Ming Mengshi saw was set to occur the day after tomorrow. Early this morning, Hua Yiyou sent out all the village hunters because Feng Yuan had set up a barrier, leaving only two people to guard the village while the rest went out hunting.

"The beast tide shouldn’t last long; why are you preparing food for an entire month?"

The young soldier was puzzled because he was resting in Hua Yiyou’s house and had heard the instructions Hua Yiyou gave to the other hunters in the morning. Feng Yuan gently stroked Xiao Ji’s fluffy fur and said,

"After the beast tide, the Cangyun Mountain Range will be almost devastated. It would be abnormal to find any prey; I estimate there will be a serious shortage of food in the entire range and its surroundings for a while."

"Can’t the beasts killed during the beast tide be eaten?"

"No, don’t forget what that sphere you’ve got can do. Do you think the contaminated beasts are still edible?"

To prove to Hua Yiyou that there was something wrong with the beasts in the beast tide, Feng Yuan specially had Xiao Ji carry him back early in the morning with a live rabbit and a live wolf. In front of Hua Yiyou and the others, he fed a small piece of the spherical object he had taken from the young soldier to the live rabbit.