Three or Four Year Old

In the dark world, Chasing the Wind did not find anything useful when chasing the wind, but he discovered a new playmate - Liu Xiaoji.

In the past, Liu Xiaoji always stayed in that thunder-struck willow tree, and Chasing the Wind rarely saw him. This time when he saw him, he realized that Liu Xiaoji had grown so big... he must be three years old already!

Chasing the Wind is only four years old!

The two of them should be playmates of the same age.

"I'm older than you, you have to call me brother."

Chasing the Wind squatted on the ground, Liu Xiaoji floated in front of his big head, level with him, and he said seriously to Liu Xiaoji, "Brother!"

Liu Xiaoji was very well-behaved and obediently called out, "Brother!"

"Hahaha... good good!" Chasing the Wind was very happy. He waved to Li Shiyin who was dancing a sword in midair and shouted, "Shiyin, Shiyin, he called me brother!"

Li Shiyin was too busy to pay attention to him. He looked at Liu Xiaoji again and asked, "Are you in a primordial spirit state?"

"Yes."

"Why aren't you a tree?"

"Because I cultivate human methods."

Chasing the Wind lifted a paw and lightly touched Liu Xiaoji, wondering, "Why do you have a physical form?"

"Master said my primordial spirit is special."

Chasing the Wind looked towards the lake. Over there, Qin Ran was holding a hoe under the Devouring Demon Willow tree, digging the ground, not knowing what he was going to do.

"What else is special about you?" He withdrew his gaze and asked Liu Xiaoji.

"I can turn into many primordial spirits, and I can also devour spirit qi and things containing spirit qi..." Liu Xiaoji said seriously, "My primordial spirit also carries electricity."

"Wow..." Chasing the Wind was dumbfounded and said, "You were born with lightning!"

Liu Xiaoji immediately split into two, then blinked into four, then eight. Although Liu Xiaoji was increasing in number, he was getting smaller and smaller, and by the time he split into sixty-four, he was no bigger than Chasing the Wind's eyes.

This state reminded Chasing the Wind of Liu Daoji in the past, when Liu Daoji was like this in his ghost space.

He pointed at Liu Xiaoji with his big paw and shouted at Li Shiyin in the sky, "Shiyin, Shiyin, he... that villain..."

Li Shiyin still didn't have time to pay attention to him. He looked at Liu Xiaoji. Liu Xiaoji was trying his best to restore himself into one person. He asked, "Are you a villain?"

Liu Xiaoji returned to his original state and shook his head. "I'm not a villain. The original Liu Daoji is already dead. I am a newly born primordial spirit. I am Liu Xiaoji. Master gave me this name. I evolved from Liu Daoji's old primordial spirit."

It was so convoluted that Chasing the Wind barely understood the gist of it. What he actually cared about was the sentence "I'm not a villain." He nodded and said, "As long as you're not a villain, that's good. If you're not a villain I won't hit you, don't be afraid."

"I'm not afraid," Liu Xiaoji said.

"Then try devouring some spirit qi again."

Liu Xiaoji shook his head. "I'm constantly devouring spirit qi all the time, but you can't see it. If you want to see me devouring spirit stones, I don't have any spirit stones."

"Spirit stones?" Chasing the Wind was startled. He raised his fuzzy big paw to his tiger amulet around his neck, wiped it, and took out a spirit stone. He handed it to Liu Xiaoji and said, "Here, try it, I have a spirit stone."

His amulet had long been replaced by Qin Ran with a material that could carry spatial formations, giving him a small universe bag. So that he could store some private... private tiger little stuff.

Liu Xiaoji took the spirit stone from Chasing the Wind's big paw, wiped it on himself, then put it in his mouth and took a bite, biting out a gap. He chewed with crunching sounds in his mouth, like eating candy, bite after bite. After just a few bites, he had eaten up the whole spirit stone.

"Wow... you're so powerful!" Chasing the Wind's eyes widened and he shouted to the sky again, "Shiyin, Shiyin, Liu Xiaoji can eat spirit stones!"

Li Shiyin still didn't pay any attention to him.

He looked at Liu Xiaoji again. "What do you mean your primordial spirit also carries electricity?"

"Hand..." Liu Xiaoji gestured for Chasing the Wind to lift his paw. He pressed his tiny hand on Chasing the Wind's paw pad. Then his whole body shuddered, with blood-colored lightning rippling.

The electric current came and went.

Chasing the Wind's paw twitched as his hand was numbed by electricity.

"Interesting." Looking at his electrically burnt paw pads, he couldn't help but admire, "You were born with lightning!"

Looking at Chasing the Wind's paw pad which had only blackened slightly, Liu Xiaoji felt a little frustrated... That blow just now was actually his utmost effort already, but it had only injured Chasing the Wind’s skin and fur.

"You're the one who's really amazing." He said to Chasing the Wind.

"Why?" Chasing the Wind didn't understand. "I don't even have electricity."

After chatting for a while, the two three or four year old kiddos walked towards Qin Ran, because Liu Xiaoji sensed that Qin Ran had dug up his roots.

At this time, Qin Ran had just put down his hoe. He took out a beehive from his universe bag, held it in both hands and compared it to the hole he had dug, as if adjusting the angle.

"Dad, what are you holding?" Chasing the Wind asked.

"Beehive." Qin Ran replied.

"Bees? Why aren't they flying?"

"These are just bee pupae, baby bees that can't fly yet." Qin Ran found the right position and put the whole beehive into the hole.

"Are they honey bees? Will we have honey to eat in the future?"

"Not honey bees. They also eat honey."

"Oh..." Chasing the Wind disappointedly responded.

Qin Ran took out a porcelain bottle from the universe bag, and dripped two drops on each bee pupa.

"Dad, what are you dripping?"

"Spirit water..." Qin Ran replied. "Dad uses it to cultivate spirit medicines."

"Is the beehive a spirit medicine?"

"It counts!"

As Qin Ran spoke, he put the spirit water away and took out a dagger. He aimed at the pad of his middle finger, made a cut, and fed each bee pupa a drop of his essence blood.

"Dad, why are you feeding them blood?"

"This is the method of cultivating spirit beasts... to turn them into spirit beasts and prevent them from running around freely and harming people randomly."

Qin Ran put the dagger away, circulated his techniques, and the wound quickly healed.

He turned to look at Liu Xiaoji and said, "Your rootlets absorb spirit qi from the spirit veins under Dan Peak... I buried this bee nest above your rootlets in the hope that you nourish them with the spirit qi. Do you understand?"

Only then did Liu Xiaoji understand why his roots were dug up. He nodded and replied, "Understand! Master!!"

Qin Ran used his hands to shovel the dug soil to cover the beehive. Chasing the Wind hurriedly lay down and helped Qin Ran shovel mud with his big paws.

"Dad, what kind of bees are they?"

"Don't messily cover them, leave room for them to breathe..." Qin Ran patted Chasing the Wind's big paw and heard his words. He raised his head to look at Chasing the Wind's silly big head, smiled and said, "Tiger Head Wasps. They are called Tiger Head Wasps, Phoenix Wing Tiger Head Wasps."

"Is it the same tiger head as me?" Chasing the Wind looked at Qin Ran with wide eyes.

Qin Ran laughed loudly and said, "Bigger than your tiger head."

Chasing the Wind compared the size of the beehive and his own head, feeling that Dad was wrong and his own head was still a little bigger.

Father and son worked together to build a nest for these Phoenix Wing Tiger Head Wasps.