The Emperor of the Three Realms

chapter 196

What's wrong?" Dan Fei was slightly surprised to see Jiang Chen's sudden appearance outside of his character.    

Jiang Chen said in a low voice, “There are spirit rank spirit beasts in front, and more than one.”    

"Certainly that?" A shocked expression emerged from Dan Fei's eyes when she heard Jiang Chen's words. He hurriedly asked, “You can feel it? How far away is it? Are their children with them?”    

Jiang Chen furrowed his brows while pondering and smoothed them slightly after a while, “They've already left. Not young, all creatures mature spirit rank.”    

“Oh, not young? Too bad." Disappointment flashed across Dan Fei's pretty face.    

“I think you've gone crazy because of your desire to have a spirit animal baby? If there is, how do you steal it? Do you want to be attacked by a crowd of spirit animals?”    

Dan Fei stuck out her tongue while chuckling, “How can one get a tiger cub other than to enter the tiger cave?” Some risks should be taken to get a baby spirit animal.”    

Every time this woman spoke of a spirit animal baby, her clear eyes would shine with an extremely strong light that definitely did not appear normally.    

This expression was as if a landlord or an old bag of money was staring at a pile of gold, silver, and jewelry with sparkling eyes.    

“This woman is usually delicate and polite, but she is actually scary when she goes crazy.” Jiang Chen earnestly warned himself that he had to control this woman's impulse. Otherwise, if he lost control and barged into the residence of spirit beasts without a second thought, he might be able to cause the two of them to lose their lives.    

A spirit rank beast had a pure bloodline.    

Sometimes the rules of the world are amazing. Whether it was a human practitioner or a spirit beast, the purer the bloodline, the stronger its strength, but the weaker its reproductive ability.    

For a spirit beast with a pure bloodline, its shortest reproductive cycle was ten or twenty years. Those with longer cycles can reach thirty to fifty years. There were even some spirit beasts that only had the chance to breed once every hundred years.    

Therefore, in the world of spirit beings, if you touch the child of a spirit being who is in reproduction or feeding his children, it is worse than taking action against the creature itself.    

Once the spirit beast found out that its children had been stolen, its level of revenge would reach a very crazy level.    

It was because of this consideration that Jiang Chen continued to warn himself that he had to carefully control Dan Fei's impulses.    

After they walked all day, they saw that the night slowly began to fall. It just so happened that there was a large piece of rock in front. Large rocks are naturally embedded in sloping slopes, forming a unique landscape.    

“Let's spend the night here. This was a rough and jagged mountainous area ahead. The endless mountain range will likely greatly complicate the situation.” Jiang Chen made a suggestion.    

To be honest, he was already mentally prepared for Dan Fei's refusal. What did not occur to him was that Dan Fei actually nodded, “Then let's rest here for tonight.”    

This labyrinth is strange. The air temperature is high during the day, but the air is quite cold when the mountain breeze blows at night.    

Jiang Chen was fine as his clothes could withstand a bit of cold. Dan Fei's clothes did not cover the part between her thighs and calves at all. He wrapped his arms around his legs as he curled up, buried his head between his legs and tried his best to ward off this bone-chilling cold air.    

Who would have thought this cold air would get worse as the night passed?    

Towards the end, even Jiang Chen could not help but circulate the spirit power within his body to warm himself up. He looked at Dan Fei only to see her trembling in the wind, her body began to shiver and tremble.    

However, Dan Fei had a stiff upper lip. He did not make a sound even though the weather was very cold.    

Jiang Chen suddenly recalled that there were some equipment in the storage ring that Gouyu had prepared. He did not care about it then and simply threw everything inside.    

He opened it to see that Gouyu had been meticulous enough with his preparations. There was even a wool blanket inside!    

Jiang Chen took out a blanket and walked in front of Dan Fei, throwing her around with an easy wave of his hand. “Cover yourself. Speak if you are cold, you almost turn into a quail because of shivering.”    

Jiang Chen shook his head and returned to where he was sitting. He took out a long robe and put it upside down in front of him. He leaned against the large rock and slowly sank into meditation again.    

That night was not peaceful. Jiang Chen felt the spirit beast pass by several times as he meditated, sometimes close, sometimes far away.    

The close ones flew past them within just five hundred meters.    

Jiang Chen almost wanted to wake Dan Fei up a few times and leave a place where trouble was likely to find them. But in the end, he held back. If these spirit beasts were to appear frequently, sooner or later one of them would find him.    

However, these spirit beasts never stayed silent when they passed by. They were clearly not interested in human blood and flesh.    

“What causes these spirit creatures to appear so often?” Jiang Chen could not understand it, but he did not dare to relax his vigilance.    

The night finally passed. When the morning rays illuminate the hillside, the cold night air immediately disappears and returns to a comfortable temperature.    

Jiang Chen opened his eyes to see Dan Fei had already prepared breakfast.    

The woman had clearly come with preparations, she had prepared a luxurious feast. Jiang Chen walked over and helped himself just like that.    

Dan Fei handed me a cup of juice from an unknown fruit and said gently, “Thank you for your blanket.”    

“Then should I thank you for your breakfast?” Jiang Chen smiled lazily and gulped down the juice in one gulp. “We are heading west today. Maybe, we can really find a spirit animal baby for you if we are lucky!”    

Jiang Chen was not joking. There were at least seven or eight spirit rank monsters coming from the northwest direction during the last day and night, rapidly heading south.    

Perhaps, the two of them could really take advantage of this opportunity to enter when the spirit beast mansion was empty.    

However, this opportunity must be captured at the right time. Otherwise, they would be in a troubled world when the spirit beasts returned.    

Of course, it was an unknown factor whether there were young spirit beasts left behind by those spirit beasts or not.    

When Dan Fei heard the word spirit animal baby, her eyes twinkled, “Jiang Chen, do you have any suggestions?”    

“Seven or eight spirit beasts moved quickly southward during the last day and night. I speculated that something must have happened in the south, or would have happened. These animals are coming from the northwest, so I think their home should be in that area. If we were to be careful and travel towards the northwest, maybe we would really meet the spirit animal house with her children if we were lucky?”    

Dan Fei's eyes sparkled, “Jiang Chen, this is a good idea. Were there really seven or eight spirit beasts passing by yesterday?”    

“Don't say you don't feel it.”    

“I only felt two of them.” Dan Fei answered honestly, a light of joy shone from her beautiful eyes. “Jiang Chen, to think that your consciousness is this strong and sensitive. Looks like I already asked the right person when I recruited you!”    

“Stop kissing me. We agree if there really is a baby spirit animal, it's yours if there's only one. If there is any extra, the rest is mine.” Jiang Chen brought up his condition.    

Dan Fei started, “What do you want with a spirit animal baby?”    

Jiang Chen laughed easily, “Why don't I want it because you guys want it? If I remember correctly, my knowledge of spirit beasts should be stronger than the two of you.”    

Dan Fei was at a loss for words.    

He thought for a moment and then nodded, “How about this? The first is mine, the second is yours. If there's a third one, it's yours. The fourth is mine and so on and so forth. Other than the first, all the odd numbers are yours and the even numbers are mine. How about that?"    

Dan Fei didn't want to suffer any losses, so, she emphasized a certain sentence after submitting her proposal, “Don't bargain if you're a male. Don't forget, I'm the one who paid your entrance fee!”    

Jiang Chen was silent. This woman really did not want to be lacking in anything.    

Although Jiang Chen had accepted Dan Fei's invitation to the Autumn Hunt, he also had a certain purpose on this journey.    

The goal was a spirit rank beast.    

Whether it was life or death, they were all targets of Jiang Chen.    

After entering the spirit realm, he was well aware of how important the spirit rank spirit beast core was. Mortal level beings were worthless, but spirit level beings could not be mentioned simultaneously.    

The core of the spirit rank beast embodies a rich spirit power. It was the most coveted nutritious supplement by all practitioners. The cores were some of the best items to help form the spirit sea and increase spirit power.    

However, Jiang Chen still had a slight polite demeanor and he could not challenge every inch of the ground when he saw Dan Fei so seriously. He could only take one step back. “Remember, I'll hold back your words. Otherwise, if that were the case, you wouldn't have gotten a single spirit animal baby.”    

Dan Fei giggled, “Bad child, am I someone as hostile as that?”    

“Maybe not, but you turned into a completely different person when calling a spirit animal baby, as if you had gone crazy. We should set the terms clearly at first and then use politeness in making this agreement.”    

Dan Fei's beautiful and clear jade hand whipped out a few strands of wind-blown hair into a mess, but she wasn't angry at Jiang Chen's words at all.    

They both had breakfast, packed up and left again.    

“Jiang Chen, I have a method of observing baby spirit animals. Coupled with your outstanding sensing skills, which makes our cooperation perfect without trace.” Dan Fei was very excited.    

However, Jiang Chen was not as optimistic as him. Putting aside the matter of whether the spirit beasts that had left had babies or not, wouldn't they have a friend who was guarding their home if they had a baby?    

Even though these spirit beasts were at the initial or even mid rank of spirits, their combat strength was quite astonishing.    

Especially when they were protecting their children, their powerful combat strength would increase explosively.    

Therefore, ordinary adventurers would rather fight humans with the same strength than face angry spirit beasts.    

The two actually found two houses of spirit beasts using the method that Dan Fei mentioned. However, there were no babies in their homes.    

Although there were some good items in their nests, some spirit rank flowers, grass, and medicines, Dan Fei was very uninterested in all of them because there were no spirit animal babies.    

Although Jiang Chen had absolutely no interest in mortal rank cores, he took everything in the spirit rank, even if it was only flowers and grass.    

“Heh heh, Jiang Chen, I think you look at money like shit.” Dan Fei finally found an opportunity to dig up Jiang Chen.    

Jiang Chen rolled his eyes. “Sister Dan Fei, your tongue level is too low. If you want to make me feel sarcasm, you have to practice your skills.    

Dan Fei instantly became mute. He discovered that this man was invincible when he wanted to be shameless.