Cold Priest VS Ancient Ferocious Beast

It was already dark, and the tiger-faced Qiongqi flew through the air with its huge wings flapping. Su Qingchen, riding on Qiongqi's back, looked very comfortable.

They looked down at the brightly lit temple and could vaguely hear the clamor of singing and dancing from the grand occasion.

By the Duling River, the water is inky and unfathomable.

In the monster forest opposite, eyes of various shapes and colors flashing with strange light appeared.

"It feels like a lifetime ago." Su Qingchen took a deep breath in the gentle evening breeze.

"I haven't been here since I caught you. It's been hundreds of years." Su Qingchen lamented the passing of time.

Mo Zhu didn't know why Su Qingchen came this time, and didn't dare to respond.

"Why would a ferocious beast that would bite even me when it gets angry let those water monsters go without a word?"

"The Celestial Army is not good at naval warfare. Under the circumstances at the time, this exchange was the most effective way to avert danger."

Mo Zhu explained.

"Ah."

Su Qingchen had to admit this fact.

"Do you have any sense of the Duling River now?" Su Qingchen looked at the flickering eyes in the monster forest opposite.

"Yes." Mo Zhu answered honestly.

"Do you want to go back?"

Su Qingchen's attention seemed to be attracted by something, and he just looked at the monster forest without even looking at Mo Zhu.

After returning from the South China Sea, Su Qingchen did not feel any joy of victory. In the end, he relied on the roars of a monster that was judged to be untamed. How could this be considered a victory?

He only knew that he was in a bad mood, and the source was Mo Zhu, or himself.

During so many wars, he was also wondering why monsters needed to be tamed by the immortals, why the immortals were the masters and the monsters were the slaves, and whether monsters would be more willing to become monsters.

"Slave, I don't want to go back." Mo Zhu's answer was firm.

Su Qingchen fell into a hesitant silence.

"Look at these spiritual erheliums." Su Qingchen said as he walked towards the river, and Mo Zhu followed quietly.

There are many spirit stones placed in different containers by the river. Some are in the grass, some are in the cracks of the rocks, and some are in the shallow water.

"These are used by the little immortal officials to trap spirit beasts. I used to use the spirit leaves of the brown sugar tree and the recipe in the book to put the spirit erbium here."

Su Qingchen felt a little happy when talking about his childhood.

"How did you get here? I never asked you."

Su Qingchen was really curious.

"I smelled a scent I had never experienced in the Monster Forest. At that time, I was injured and not yet... tamed. My mind was confused, and I simply followed my instinct and walked to the river. Monsters know not to enter the Duling River, but that smell would make them... unable to control themselves."

"Can you smell these spirit elixir now?"

"I can't smell it." Mo Zhu shook his head.

"Of course you can't smell it! These aren't used to catch Qiongqi."

Su Qingchen felt a little proud of having played a trick on Mo Zhu.

"Is it easy for you to go to the Monster Forest now?" Su Qingchen asked again.

"...Yes." Mo Zhu's heart was a little hanging.

"Do you know why I asked you to come here?"

Su Qingchen raised his head and looked at him seriously through the night.

"Slave...I don't want to go back."

Mo Zhu didn't know how to make Su Qingchen believe him, so he could only repeat this sentence.

"You've grown so big now, and you've been cultivating in the Immortal Realm for so many years. There shouldn't be any monsters on the other side that can check and balance you. Are you sure..."

Before Su Qingchen could finish his words, a black halo surrounded Mo Zhu. He shrank himself into a Qiongqi cub and climbed onto Su Qingchen's shoes to get into the demon-controlling bag on his waist.

"You're cheating! You're cheating!"

Su Qingchen still had a lot of sad words to say, but Mo Zhu used this trick directly, leaving Su Qingchen speechless.

"You go down."

Su Qingchen shook his legs and shook Mo Zhu to the ground.

Mo Zhu fell head over heels and hurriedly stood up to chase Su Qingchen.

Seeing Mo Zhu like that, Su Qingchen's mood improved. He spread his legs and ran forward along the Duling River, teasing Mo Zhu.

Mo Zhu chased after him with a howling sound on its four short legs and a pair of wings that could hardly flap.

"Alright, alright, stop chasing me. Stop, stop, stop!"

Su Qingchen ran for a while and felt a little out of breath.

"You can run quite fast even with such short legs."

Su Qingchen blamed Mo Zhu again.

Seeing that Su Qingchen stopped, Mo Zhu tried to pull off his shoes and climbed onto him.

"Okay, okay, come and lie down for a while."

Su Qingchen sat on the ground and lay down on the soft grass.

Mo Zhu quickly found a comfortable position for himself at the crook of Su Qingchen's neck and rubbed Su Qingchen's chin with his head.

"Ouch, it itch!"

Su Qingchen rubbed Mo Zhu's head with his chin in disgust.

"Do you think that if you turn into a cub, I won't say what I want to say?"

Su Qingchen looked at the stars over the Duling River.

"But you were the one who said you didn't want to leave. I brought you to cross the Spirit River, and you refused to leave. I didn't force you to stay."

"Awoo, awoo." Mo Zhu responded actively.

"Alright, since you insist on following me, I won't even think about sending you back, but you can't even think about going back either! Got it?!"

Su Qingchen seemed a little angry when he spoke the latter part.

"Awoo, awoo." Su Qingchen received two more responses that he could only understand himself.

Then he responded with "Yeah!" according to his own understanding.

Then the fairy and the young beast just lay there in the quiet air.

"Woo..." A very low and secret sound came from the other side of the river.

Mo Zhu, who was still lying comfortably on Su Qingchen's neck, immediately turned into a tall human figure in a circle of black smoke, protecting Su Qingchen behind him, and looking vigilantly towards the opposite bank.

"Did you hear that?" Su Qingchen asked cautiously.

"Ah."

"What is it?"

"An ancient ferocious beast, now an adult."

"Isn't that about the same size as you?"

Before Mo Zhu could answer, the ground beneath his feet began to shake.