Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 657 - 658 Xiao Ji and Mona Lia_1

Chapter 657: Chapter 658 Xiao Ji and Mona Lia_1

"Good night~"

Feng Yuan said to Mona Lia, while Xiao Ji nestled in his arms, looking exhausted. The Illusory Sound Parrot, for some reason, squeezed itself among the little messenger birds. Watching the little flock resting around the parrot, Feng Yuan found it rather amusing.

Mona Lia seemed puzzled as she looked at Xiao Ji in Feng Yuan’s arms and waved her hand as if beckoning it to come and rest with her. Glancing at the yellow flower beneath Mona Lia, Feng Yuan said with a smile,

"No need, it will sleep with me."

Mona Lia sat on the succulent-like petals, looking at Xiao Ji with confusion. Hearing Xiao Ji’s refusal to chirp, Mona Lia waved at Feng Yuan and carefully lay down amid the petals. For her, waking up to such drastic changes around her was bewildering. Without Feng Yuan and Xiao Ji, she truly did not know what to do.

Although she could sense concern from others, she couldn’t be sure of their sincerity. She trusted Feng Yuan simply because his strength was evident, and someone of that caliber had no reason to play tricks with her.

Xiao Ji moved toward the blanket and took another look at Mona Lia, who was now curled up within the petals. The yellow flower slowly closed. Xiao Ji, although worried that Mona Lia might compete for Feng Yuan’s attention, was well aware of her current condition; it was much like what Dreaming Dragon Baby had gone through once.

Hesitating for a moment, Xiao Ji nudged Feng Yuan. Confused, and not knowing what it wanted, Feng Yuan watched Xiao Ji gesture and said, somewhat speechlessly,

"You want her to sleep with us? Stop it, she’s so small, I could squash her if I rolled over in my sleep."

Xiao Ji glared at Feng Yuan discontentedly. It wasn’t much bigger than Mona Lia, after all. Feng Yuan yawned and touched Xiao Ji, saying,

"If you want to stay with her, go now. Otherwise, it would be pretty rude to disturb her after she falls asleep."

Xiao Ji shook its body discontentedly and jumped onto the table. Feeling something tapping on the petals, Mona Lia carefully unfolded them and saw Xiao Ji. Rubbing her eyes, Mona Lia chirped questioningly, as if to ask Xiao Ji what it wanted.

After a while, Feng Yuan saw Xiao Ji curled up into a bright yellow fluffy ball next to Mona Lia. He found the scene quite humorous. Mona Lia happily leaned against Xiao Ji after retracting her petals, and Feng Yuan whispered,

"Since that’s the case, I’ll indulge you."

"Why are you still not up? Didn’t you say we were going to look around today?"

Guo Huai entered the room, pushing the door open without knocking, as his irritation seemed to get the better of him. He didn’t bother to knock since he knew that guy definitely wouldn’t have any bad sleeping habits. Upon scanning the bed, Guo Huai found it odd that Feng Yuan wasn’t there.

Scratching his head, Guo Huai said, puzzled,

"Did that guy get up already? Then why isn’t he anywhere to be seen?"

"What are you up to?"

Hearing Feng Yuan’s voice, Guo Huai turned around warily, only to find no trace of him behind.

"Look on the table, man. Where are your eyes?"

Upon hearing Feng Yuan’s words, Guo Huai turned to see the small dog with black and white fur, lying sideways on the table while staring at him.

"You! Why did you change into that?"

"Xiao Ji wanted to rest with Mona Lia, what about it?"

"No, I mean, why did you turn into this?"

Guo Huai said in exasperation as he glanced at Xiao Ji and Mona Lia lying on the stomach of the small dog, which yawned and said,

"Just assuming the Wolf God form. It’s more convenient, what’s wrong?"

"Can’t get Huskies out of your head, can you? Why do you look like a Husky?"

Guo Huai stretched out his hand curiously, only to have it blocked by Feng Yuan’s raised paw as he tried to poke his own belly.

"This is skin! The kind you need to spend money on, okay?"

"Skin..."

Guo Huai looked at Feng Yuan with some speechlessness, remembering the purpose of his visit. He spoke irritably,

"Alright, get up. Breakfast is ready. Eat up quick; we still have to check out the ruins."

"Okay~"

While responding, Feng Yuan gently shook his body. Xiao Ji and Mona Lia were both startled awake by his movements. Seeing them groggily rubbing their eyes, Feng Yuan hopped down from the table and said,

"Wake up! It’s time for breakfast."

Seeing the restored human form of Feng Yuan, Guo Huai turned and left the room. The little messenger birds lined up, preening their feathers. The Illusory Sound Parrot glanced at Feng Yuan and continued to feign sleep. The Little Green Snake gently tapped Pomiti with its tail to wake her up, and she drowsily followed behind, appearing groggy and unrested.

After breakfast, Feng Yuan had planned to suggest another competition, but Mo Li’s words immediately dashed his plans.

"Cheng Yong said they could arrange a boat to take us."

"Isn’t that inappropriate? Aren’t they busy transporting goods right now?"

"It’s not that critical. According to them, this trade seems to be just a probe, and everyone has brought out not too many goods. Moreover, they’re not all concentrated in Pearl Town."

"It’s not tense to the point of needing to call in a small boat for transportation; it’s just a bit short on hands."

Hearing Mo Li’s explanation, Feng Yuan thought about it and realized something,

"I remember now, they do have small boats, but they didn’t use them yesterday. I had forgotten."

"After all, it was the first meeting, and appearances matter."

Mo Li said with a smile. Yesterday, they had also gone along with the Maritime People to the Stone Giant City. At that time, they rode on a large vessel provided by the Maritime People. Truth be told, even Mu Nanyu and the others were quite astonished because, in their eyes, the Maritime People and Aquatic People moved through the sea relying on those water element Spirit Beasts.

Who would have thought that they actually had larger and more luxurious ships than those of the land countries? Plus, at the time, the Maritime People had dispatched several Legendary Spirit Beasts along with over a dozen Legendary Level Spirit Beasts as the escort fleet, which thoroughly intimidated the Omeilians.

Thus, during the first round of negotiations, those Omeilian nobles didn’t dare to stir up trouble. As for the Lord? Upon learning that everyone was there for mutually beneficial trade, he completely forgot the former unpleasantness.

Even after appraising some of the materials the Maritime People brought, the Lord seemed to value the trade even more than the Maritime People did. As for the life supplies the Maritime People and Aquatic People obtained?

In the Lord’s eyes, that was no issue at all. At least with the Maritime People and Aquatic People guarded by deities that can be called land on water, they weren’t a force he could provoke easily. Furthermore, finding out they had island habitats and were far on another continent, the Lord felt even more at ease.

Anyway, those Maritime People and Aquatic People certainly wouldn’t threaten the security of his territory. As for the possibility of them invading their lands in the future? That was out of the question. To the entire Omeilia region, those Maritime People were total outsiders. If they dared to occupy Omeilian land, they would face an attack from most countries in the Omeilia Region.

As for why not all? The Lord believed there would always be some oddballs doing strange things—that kind of ’shame’ among lords wasn’t something he could manage.

As for the Maritime People and Aquatic People, they were very excited. Although traveling to and from Omeilia took a long time, it seemed that the Lord wanted to maintain trade on equal terms over the long term, which was much better than the troublesome Divine Land Region. If it weren’t for Feng Yuan’s words before, they would have given up on the trade with the Divine Land Region altogether.

"Speaking of which, where do they plan to trade those specialties?"

Guo Huai asked Feng Yuan curiously, as this branch of the Aquatic People from Pearl Town used to trade with towns in Nanyu Kingdom, but now with Nanyu kingdom destroyed, their trading locations would likely change. At least the former territory of Nanyu Kingdom, in its war-torn state, definitely wasn’t suitable.

"They’ll probably head south, maybe Nan Huang or something. At least that will cut off the maritime trade of Great Li," Feng Yuan thought for a moment and said with a mischievous grin. Mo Li laughed and added,

"Thanks to you, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to do this."

After all, no one expected that Great Li’s maritime trade depended on the Maritime People.