Please show your spirit to our ancestors

Chapter 11: Conquering the Spirit Bird
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"Chirp!"

The locust leader rolled on the ground after being slapped, shaking his head and shivering. Then he came to his senses and realized that even his life was in the hands of others. How could he have the right to avenge the third in command?
Immediately, it shrank its neck and rubbed against Wang Qianqian's legs to show its flattery and begging for mercy.

"Get lost." Wang Qianqian kicked it away with disdain. "You filthy little bird, if Master Jingyun hadn't insisted on keeping you, you would have been in my belly long ago."

The locust leader was indeed very smart and immediately realized who the real culprit was.

The round and round body rolled nimbly to Chen Jingyun's side, and began to rub against his thigh to please him.

"Locust, are you willing to be my spiritual pet?" Chen Jingyun asked with a smile.

"?"

The locust leader tilted his head with a dazed look on his face, as if he didn't fully understand.

"Master Jingyun, do you really think it can understand everything I say?" Wang Qianqian strode forward and grabbed the locust leader by the thick neck. "Although this first-level ferocious bird is quite intelligent, it is still far from truly understanding human language. It needs to be trained slowly."

"You have to use facial expressions, gestures, and intensified tone to convey your meaning so that it can roughly understand it."

As she spoke, Wang Qianqian used gestures and winks to let the locust leader roughly understand what Chen Jingyun meant.

“Cheep!!!!”

The locust leader was immediately unhappy. It angrily issued a series of protest chirps, as if to say, what kind of bird am I?

You actually want me to submit to you? Bah! A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated.

"I told you, this wild and ferocious bird is not easy to tame." Wang Qianqian showed a malicious expression and smacked her lips and said, "Don't bother with it. It's better to eat it to replenish your body."

When she spoke, she used rich expressions and gestures.

"Well, since it doesn't want to surrender, it can save a lot of spiritual rice." Chen Jingyun readily accepted the advice, "Miss Qianqian, I'll leave this locust leader to you to deal with."

"Thank you, Master Jingyun." Wang Qianqian was very excited. She took out a sharp knife and stabbed the locust leader's neck twice. She then took out a pottery pot and started to boil water. She hummed a tune and prepared the seasonings. "This bird is very plump. It's too crude to just grill it. First drain its blood and feathers, then add various spiritual herbs and stew them together. The taste will be the best."

Wang Qianqian expressed it vividly, and the locust leader also understood about 70% of the meaning.

When it thought that it would die so miserably, it immediately became cowardly. It felt that a good death was worse than a miserable life, and it struggled and chirped non-stop.

It means that the king is willing to surrender, willing to surrender!
"Alas, I still like your rebellious look just now." Wang Qianqian threw it at Chen Jingyun's feet with a look of regret.

Chen Jingyun did not dislike it, and picked up the leader locust with a gentle attitude: "In this case, from now on, you are our Chen family's spiritual beast."

"Chirp."

The locust leader was calling out weakly, and with a tuft of its iconic red hair burned off, the whole bird looked wilted.

"Don't be so depressed." Chen Jingyun said soothingly, "Follow our Chen family, at least you can have a stable meal, and you don't have to rely on plundering for a living."

As he spoke, Chen Jingyun took out a bowl of spiritual rice that he had prepared earlier and put it close to its mouth.

Choo Choo Choo!
Smelling the tempting fragrant smell, the locust leader immediately regained some spirit. However, he was bitten by a snake once and was afraid of ropes for ten years. He wanted to eat it but didn't dare to, so he tried it timidly.

"Stupid bird, your wings are already tied up. It only takes one blow to kill you. Why waste the drug?" Wang Qianqian kicked it unhappily. "If you don't want to eat it, I'll eat it for you."

This is precious spiritual rice.

As a poor and destitute cultivator, being able to eat a meal of spiritual rice occasionally is already a happy event. How can he be like Chen Jingyun, who has a fixed supply of spiritual rice and spiritual food every year.

For a moment, she actually felt a strange sense of envy for the stupid bird.

The locust leader staggered, unable to suppress his thirst for food any longer, and took a mouthful of the cooked spiritual rice.

Wow, this taste is so fragrant, glutinous and delicious, much better than hard raw rice grains.

It ate faster and faster, with its entire head buried in the bowl. Soon, it had finished the whole bowl of spiritual rice, smacked its beak, and looked as if it was still not satisfied.

Wang Qianqian, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

"Okay, from now on just be obedient and I guarantee you'll have something to eat." Chen Jingyun took the opportunity to gesture and draw a big pancake for it.

"Chirp." The locust leader was very happy eating the cake. He rubbed his bird head against Chen Jingyun, and their relationship became much closer all of a sudden.

Fourth uncle Chen Daoyuan had been watching with a smile on his face. He did not participate in the interaction between the young man and the locust until this moment when he spoke up and said, "This locust is indeed very clever and is worth taming. However, Jingyun, don't untie it for now. When we get to the market, fourth uncle will find a beast-taming ring for you." "Thank you, fourth uncle." Chen Jingyun bowed in gratitude.

Over the years, Chen has had opportunities to raise spiritual beasts.

However, there are many factors to consider when raising spiritual beasts, and it is not that simple.

Firstly, spiritual beasts often have a large appetite, and the higher the level of the spiritual beast, the higher the dietary requirements, so this expense cannot be saved in any way.

If a non-wealthy family of immortal cultivators cannot even afford to support people, how can they raise spiritual beasts?
Secondly, the effects of most spiritual beasts are not actually very strong.

In most cases, cultivators can do what spirit beasts can do. If there are extra resources, it is better to raise more people, even if it is to recruit family generals, sacrifices and other external aids, the cost-effectiveness is far better than that of spirit beasts.

In addition, the growth potential of most spirit beasts is not high, and their strength improves slowly. The training cycle is too long. Unlike human cultivators, they do not have external factors such as "Dharma, wealth, companions, and land" and can grow faster.

Of course, spiritual beasts also have their advantages.

For example, this locust leader is not only smart and clever, but can also be used to drive away other locusts, and even fight against some disasters such as "insects" and "rats". In this way, it is equivalent to indirectly increasing the output of spiritual fields and not wasting food to raise a useless spiritual beast.

It was for this reason that Chen Jingyun decided to capture the locust leader.

"Congratulations, Master Jingyun, on obtaining a spiritual beast." Wang Qianqian came forward with a flattering look, her eyes flashing with the light of spiritual stones.

Chen Jingyun understood and bowed, saying, "Thank you, Miss Qianqian, for helping my Chen family solve the problem of locusts in the spiritual fields and for helping me tame the spiritual beasts. This is just a small gift, please don't refuse."

He counted out three spirit stones and handed them over.

That's it?

Wang Qianqian’s eyes suddenly widened in disappointment.

You are so good, Chen Jingyun. You obviously look like a dandy young man, so why don’t you have the demeanor of those second-generation rich guys who spend a fortune on beautiful women?
"Miss Qianqian is indeed of noble character..." Chen Jingyun acted as if he was going to take back the small gift.

"No, no, no, I was just distracted." Wang Qianqian hurriedly snatched the three spirit stones. The next moment, she had already skillfully transferred them into the storage bag, and then smiled at Chen Jingyun, "Thank you, Master Jingyun, for the reward."

Three spirit stones are not a small number.

Especially for low-level independent cultivators, even if they work hard for a year, they may not be able to earn such a number of spirit stones or equivalent items.

She only worked for half a day and paid some inexpensive drugs, but she got three spirit stones, which could be considered a huge gain.

If she could earn this kind of income every day, Wang Qianqian felt that she could work until the end of time.

It can be seen that Chen Jingyun is actually not stingy.

Take this opportunity.

Wang Qianqian handed over the roasted bird meat in a servile manner: "Sir, try my cooking."

She climbed up the ladder and tried to gain Chen Jingyun's favor, hoping to have the opportunity to take on more lucrative tasks.

He has a bag full of spirit stones in his pocket!
What if he was enjoying the barbecue and gave her some melons and dates as a reward?

Chen Jingyun took the roasted bird meat and took two bites. His eyes suddenly lit up: "Miss Qianqian's roasting skills are pretty good."

The bird meat is roasted to be fragrant on the outside and tender on the inside, it can be said to be "delicious".

"Of course." Wang Qianqian was very proud. "As a casual cultivator, I don't have any servants to serve me. I have to do everything by myself. Over time, I will learn a little bit about everything."

"However, thinking back to the past, I, Wang Qianqian, also came from a famous family..."

Halfway through her words, she made an expression as if she wanted to say something but hesitated. Although she looked sad, she secretly glanced at Chen Jingyun.

Unexpectedly, Chen Jingyun didn't respond at all.

Not only did he enjoy eating the barbecue himself, he also tore some meat for his locust spirit pet.

The locust bird refused at first, after all, that was its third in command.

But after it couldn't resist the fragrance and took a small bite, it forgot all about the third in command and the fifth in command.

There are only two words in my mind - it smells so good!
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(End of this chapter)