Maybe I shouldn't die.

Fang Yue came back to her senses when she felt the formation being triggered. It was already dusk. Looking up, the afterglow of the setting sun filled the entire sky, and the golden clouds were as gorgeous as brocade.

Looking at this beautiful scenery, Fang Yue felt a sense of tranquility in her heart. She rested in a daze for the whole afternoon. The restlessness and confusion in her heart had disappeared completely. She felt like she had been recharged and she came alive again.

The formation was triggered again, and Fang Yue put away the formation. Although she was inside the sect and the probability of encountering danger was relatively small, she also knew that once she fell into a daze, she would have no sense of her surroundings.

Just in case, she set up a primary defensive formation for herself. This formation was given to her by Hang Yitong. Hang Yitong was quite talented in drawing formations and could already draw several primary formations. The defensive formation given to her was one of them.

The one who triggered the formation was a Jiji monster. This creature was transparent and round. It was named Jiji monster because it made a "jiji" sound when kneaded.

This monster is somewhat different from the one Fang Yue saw in the Spirit Beast Encyclopedia. The Spirit Beast Encyclopedia says that the Jiji monster is colorless and has no attack power. It likes to eat things containing spiritual energy. Depending on the spiritual energy of the things it eats, it will change its own color to match the spiritual energy's attributes. After absorbing all the spiritual energy in its body, it will return to being colorless. However, the Jiji monster is greedy and it is rare to see a colorless one.

This Jiji monster was blue-green in color, and it must have swallowed some low-level spiritual creature in the water. However, Fang Yue was not curious about this. What made her curious was that this Jiji monster had two transparent horns on its head.

She couldn't help but pick up the Jiji monster. The Jiji monster was still young, only the size of a palm, and was round all over, and it was hard to see where its eyes and mouth were.

It was still quite cute. She felt itchy and gently stroked the horn of the Jiji monster. It felt hard, different from the soft and cold touch of its body.

"Ji" it cried as if it felt its horn being touched.

Fang Yue seemed to be able to hear its confusion from its cry. She suspected that she was overthinking it. The Spirit Beast Atlas said that the Jiji monster could not develop intelligence because of its low rank.

It’s all because the Jiji monster is so cute. Humans always imagine some heartwarming interactions with cute creatures. She couldn’t help but touch it again and again, and suddenly there was a lot of chirping sounds.

As if feeling a little guilty, Fang Yue took out a small piece of spirit stone after touching it enough and placed it in front of the Jiji monster. The Jiji monster moved to the spirit stone and slowly wrapped up the whole spirit stone. After swallowing the spirit stone, Fang Yue seemed to notice that the color of the little Jiji monster became a little greener.

She put the little Jiji monster back on the ground and planned to go back to the yard. After playing with the Jiji monster for a while, the sun had completely set and the sky began to darken. Now that she had recovered her spirit, it was time for her to go back and continue her practice.

On the second day, Fang Yue arrived at the Disciple Square a little earlier. Before entering the square, she saw a huge starling standing in the square from afar. Its feathers were mainly black and white, while its head, back and tail feathers had a few strands of dark blue. Under the light, the whole bird sparkled with a charming luster.

Fang Yue walked towards the starling. She knew yesterday that the means of transportation to Spirit Beast Peak today would be a spirit beast, but she had never imagined that it would be such a big starling.

Next to the starling stood a woman in white. She had a pretty face, skin as white as jade, a pair of bright eyes like autumn water, and long hair neatly tied behind her head. The ends of her hair fluttered in the wind, showing a sense of elegance and transcendence.

Walking up to the woman, Fang Yue bowed and asked:

"But Uncle Li?"

The woman nodded and said with a smile:

"You must be the nephew Fang that my second uncle introduced to buy the spirit earthworms! Nephew Fang has cultivated to the seventh level of Qi Refining at such a young age. He is truly a young and promising man with extraordinary talent."

Fang Yue blushed and complimented politely:

"My disciple is far inferior to my uncle. My uncle has already successfully established his foundation at such a young age. This is the true talent."

After they complimented each other for a few words, Uncle Li took Fang Yuefei to the back of the starling. The back of the starling was very spacious, and Uncle Li had laid a soft cushion and prepared a futon, which was very thoughtful.

After the two were seated, Uncle Li told the starling to take off. The starling was not flying very fast, but it was extremely stable. Fang Yue thought that this should be to take care of her disciple who was in the Qi Refining Stage.

Although the road to the Spirit Beast Peak was not far, it still took half an hour. Fang Yue and Uncle Li chatted for a while, and Fang Yue learned that the deacon who introduced Fang Yue to Uncle Li was Uncle Li's second uncle. The parrot was called "Pearl", and it had grown up with Uncle Li since childhood and was now a second-level spirit beast.

While chatting, they soon arrived at the Spirit Beast Peak. There was a protective formation outside the Spirit Beast Peak, and no one was allowed to enter at will. Fang Yue only saw a flash of light between the parrot's neck, and they had already entered the formation.

After Fang Yue got off the parrot's back, Uncle Li took out a jade bottle and poured out a few soybean-sized pills into his palm. Fang Yue saw a flash of light on the parrot's body, and its body shrank visibly until it was the same size as the parrot she had seen before, and then it stopped.

The parrot spread its wings and flew to Uncle Li's shoulder. After Uncle Li fed it the elixir, it rubbed Uncle Li's head with satisfaction and then began to comb its feathers.

Fang Yue was watching intently, and Uncle Li explained that if a spirit beast relied on its own cultivation, its progress would be slow, so some alchemists developed spirit beast pills.

The pills were made from a variety of spiritual herbs that helped spiritual beasts to cultivate. Eating them could improve the spiritual beasts' cultivation and was quite popular with them. Therefore, she used the pills as a reward and would feed a few of them to Pearl every time she carried someone. The two of them had a tacit understanding.

As they were talking, Uncle Li had brought Fang Yue to the Spirit Beast Garden, a place where spirit beasts were raised for sale. Uncle Li had already informed the steward of the garden in advance and would bring an outer disciple to buy spirit earthworms today.

Because they had greeted each other in advance, the deacon didn't say much when he saw Uncle Master Li and Fang Yue arriving. He took them straight to the courtyard where the spiritual earthworms were raised. The courtyard was full of spiritual soil, and there was not a single spiritual earthworm. Uncle Master Li explained that spiritual earthworms like darkness and often hide under the spiritual soil.

The deacon took out the token and pressed it on the shield. A doorway appeared on the shield that people could pass through. The deacon walked in first, and Fang Yue and Uncle Li followed quickly.

After entering the courtyard, the deacon took out some spiritual soil and scattered it on the ground. Soon, spiritual earthworms drilled out from the ground and gathered towards the spiritual soil.

The deacon signaled Fang Yue to make her own choice. Fang Yue only had a rough understanding of the Earth Spirit Earthworms, but didn't know much about spirit earthworms, so she was a little embarrassed. Seeing Fang Yue like this, Uncle Li suggested that he could choose for her.

Fang Yue readily agreed, and Uncle Li chose the strongest one. This earthworm was also the first to come out of the ground. Uncle Li explained that this earthworm was the first to sense the spiritual soil, which showed that its spiritual perception was very good, and it was so strong, which meant that it had swallowed enough spiritual soil.

This type of spiritual earthworm has a higher efficiency in fertilizing spiritual fields and a higher chance of breaking through mutations than other spiritual earthworms. Fang Yue was very satisfied and chose the one that Uncle Li liked.