The daily life of the crew of "Beasts".

Just as Bai Jie was admiring his good looks, a sudden sound from the side caught his attention. He saw that Bi Xie had found a piece of wood from somewhere and placed it on the ground. Bai Jie was a little puzzled about what Bi Xie was going to do, but he soon got the answer.

"Swish swish swish swish swish." The evil spirit extended its sharp claws and swung them at the wood, sending wood chips flying. In no time, the wood was shaved into a cutting board.

Bai Jie was completely bewildered, but that wasn't all. Bi Xie picked up the mushrooms and wild vegetables and placed them on the cutting board. Then, he skillfully began to chop the vegetables with his claws!

Solution: Question mark?

Bixie continued his jaw-dropping actions, stuffing the chopped mushrooms and wild vegetables into the chicken's belly, then picking up a lotus leaf and wrapping the chicken up tightly.

Bai Jie: Why does this method seem so familiar?

After Bai Jie saw Bi Xie start digging in the soil and wrapping the excavated soil around the lotus leaf, he remembered: Damn! Beggar's Chicken!

Bai Jie finds this ridiculous: the original story doesn't mention any talent for cooking! Where did you learn it from?! This is way too advanced for your time!

Before this outrageous act of warding off evil spirits had even stopped, he picked up licorice and the leftover wood and started... drilling wood to make fire!

Bai Jie: Uh, if Bixie can even make beggar's chicken, then knowing how to start a fire by rubbing wood is perfectly normal! If you had this skill in ancient times, Dijiang wouldn't have starved to death!

Bai Jie's mind was racing with a frenzy of thoughts; he suspected that Bi Xie was also a time traveler.

After hesitating for a moment, Bai decided to test the waters. He stepped forward, stared at Bixie, and uttered, "Heavenly King covers the Earth Tiger."

"Huh?" Bixie looked up, completely bewildered.

"Pagoda suppresses the river demon."

This time, Bai Jie was confused. He subconsciously looked in the direction from which the voice came, and then he realized that it was Tian Lu, who had just finished taking a shower, who had answered his signal.

Bai Jie had begun to doubt Pi Sheng. He felt there was something wrong with this world: Could it be that the three of us brothers were all time travelers?

"Bai Jie, how do you know this?" Bi Xie asked Bai Jie in confusion: "Bai Jie was just born, how could you know such a thing?"

"Ah, well, I already knew that." Bai Jie felt a little guilty. Something felt off: Shouldn't it be "fellow countrymen meeting each other with tears in their eyes"? Why would he ask such a question? Could he not be a time traveler?

"Oh, is that so…" Bixie thought for a moment and quickly came up with a reasonable explanation: "It seems that Heaven and Earth have instilled some modern knowledge in you, Baijie."

All the innate divine beasts in the world possess the attribute of being born with knowledge. Tianlu Bixie also knew a lot of things from birth. However, Bixie could not understand why the world would instill such strange things into Baijie.

Bai Jie looked at the evil-repelling creature that he had already imagined and decided not to test it for now: anyway, there would be plenty of time to get to know each other and there would be plenty of opportunities to test it.

"Alright, it's ready to eat." After roasting the wrapped mud balls in the charcoal fire for a while, the beggar's chicken was finally done.

Bixie handed the beggar's chicken to Baijie. "Ouch, it's so hot!" Baijie took it instinctively and gasped as he was burned. The beggar's chicken slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.

With a snap, the mud covering the beggar's chicken cracked open, revealing the lotus leaves beneath, and a fragrant aroma wafted out.

"It smells so good!" Bai Jie sniffed, the tempting aroma making him even hungrier.

"Ah! Never mind!" Bai Jie peeled off the lotus leaf, grabbed the chicken, and started gnawing on it, panting as he ate, clearly burned quite badly.

After wolfing down the food, Bai Jie ate nearly half of the chicken and finally felt full.

"Glug, Bai Jie, are you done eating?"

"Hey!" Bai Jie then noticed that Tian Lu was staring at him longingly, swallowing hard.

Tianlu: Seeing my little brother eating so deliciously makes me so hungry, but I have to wait until Baijie finishes eating before I can eat, boohoo.

"Well, you can have the rest." Bai Jie handed over the remaining half of the chicken.

"Mmm, okay." Tianlu's eyes lit up as he took the chicken and started eating, while also picking up the bones that Baijie had left behind.

"What a waste, these are edible too." Tianlu stuffed the bones into his mouth and then made a crunching sound as he chewed them.

Bai Jie was dumbfounded: "Are you really a dog?! You'll eat any bone! Are you really that indiscriminate in your hunger?!"

After staring speechlessly at Tianlu for a while, Baijie shook his head and walked over to Bixie. Then, he pulled out a chicken leg and a chicken wing from somewhere (well, he had just torn them off when he handed the chicken to Tianlu).

“Bixie, you haven’t eaten yet, have you? Here, have some.”

Bixie was stunned for a moment, not expecting Baijie to leave him food.

"You should eat Bai Jie yourself," Pi Xie said, indicating that he didn't need it, but Bai Jie insisted.

In the end, Bixie couldn't resist Baijie's persistent pleading and ate the chicken legs and wings: the food his younger brother fed him was still very delicious.

After a while, Tianlu finished the half chicken (including the bones), but he still felt he hadn't eaten enough: "This little bit isn't even enough to fill a tooth gap."

"I still want to eat, Bixie," Tianlu said pitifully to Bixie. It would have been better if he hadn't eaten, because now he was even more craving it.

"Then let's go catch some fish to eat." Bixie looked at the stream and felt there should be fish in it.

"Okay, I'll catch the fish, and Bixie will do the work." After saying that, Tianlu plunged into the stream to catch fish.

As the sun sets and night falls, the bright moon hanging high in the sky casts its light, illuminating the dark woods.

A campfire crackled and popped, its flames flickering and casting long shadows that illuminated three animal figures beside it.

Bai Jie lay on the ground, still burping after eating and drinking his fill. It has to be said that Bi Xie's cooking skills were truly excellent. Even though the fish in the stream were small and had many bones, they were still made extremely delicious in Bi Xie's hands. Even though Bai Jie was already full, he couldn't help but show off two more.

"Ah~ I'm so sleepy." After a long day of activity and now that she's full, Bai Jie feels drowsy: Why am I still eating and sleeping all the time?

After silently criticizing himself, Bai Jie prepared to sleep, but just as he was about to drift off to sleep, he was startled awake by a sentence from Tian Lu.

"I'm so bored, I don't want to sleep, I'll play on my phone for a while."

Bai Jie: What the heck! A cell phone!?

Bai Jie suddenly sat up and looked at Tian Lu. Then, he saw Tian Lu pull a Nokia phone out of his chest hair!

Bai Jie was completely bewildered: Wait, what's going on?! The chef's exorcism wasn't enough! Tianlu, you pulled out a phone too! And how did you pull that out, from some kind of four-dimensional chest hair?!

Bai Jie felt that he was more shocked today than in a year in his previous life. Tianlu Bixie's actions really amazed him.

"Calm down, calm down," Bai Jie muttered to himself, thinking carefully: Given the current situation, could it be that he was in the plot after chapter 500 of the manga? But that doesn't seem likely. If it were really in this time period, Tianlu would have taken out a smartphone, not a Nokia.

Just as Bai Jie was brainstorming, a voice suddenly rang out: "Bai Jie, are you trying to play games?"

"Ah!" Tianlu's sudden question caught Baijie off guard, and he instinctively let out an "ah".

"Bai Jie, do you want to play on your phone?" Tian Lu moved closer to Bai Jie, repeated what he had said before, and handed the phone to Bai Jie.

"No need for this, but Tianlu, where did you get this phone?" Baijie wasn't in the mood to play with his phone; all he wanted to do was figure out where he had transmigrated to.

"Ah, you mean this? I got it from the Mudman."

"Mud Man?"

"Yeah, even though those mud people smelled bad, the things they invented were really fun."

Bai Jie: Thank you for your praise. I was a mud person in my past life too.

"Then, may I go and take a look?"

"Huh? This." Tianlu didn't expect Baijie to suddenly make such a request, which put him in a bit of a predicament.

"Those mud figures in Baijie are nothing to look at. They not only smell bad, but they'll also grab you with red ropes, take you back and lock you up, and not even give you enough to eat."

Bai Jie: Just how much of a problem do you have with humanity?!

Although she was inwardly complaining, Bai Jie outwardly appeared obedient, saying, "But I really want to go."

"Um, this." Looking at Bai Jie's expression, Tian Lu felt his heart melt: his little brother is so cute!

"Alright, let's go check out the city of the Mud People then."

“Okay.” Bixie, who had been watching for a while, agreed immediately upon hearing Tianlu’s words. He didn’t care where his brother went; he would go wherever his brother went.

Late at night, the campfire was extinguished. Bai Jie lay on Tian Lu's stomach, too excited to sleep. He was thrilled at the thought of entering a human city in a couple of days: "I never thought I would be in the modern world. I just don't know which era it is. But no matter which era it is, it's better than the ancient times. I would be driven crazy if I went to the ancient times where there was no electricity or internet."

As his thoughts raced, Bai Jie gradually felt sleepy, slowly closed his eyes, and drifted off to sleep.

The Baijie Mini-Class is now in session: How to make Beggar's Chicken. To make Beggar's Chicken, we first need to prepare three-dimensional materials: soil, lotus leaves, and a marinated young hen.

After preparing the ingredients, begin cooking. Stuff the chicken feet into the chicken's cavity, then stuff in shiitake mushrooms for added aroma and ginger to remove any fishy smell. Next, position the chicken head upright and wrap it in a lotus leaf to form a circle.

To ensure food hygiene, a layer of kraft paper needs to be wrapped around the outer layer of the lotus leaf and secured with silk thread.

Then comes the much-anticipated mud ball making: mud is spread on the surface to form a smooth, round ball, which is then placed in a charcoal fire to bake. Once the mud is dry, it's done!

Breaking through the soil and unfolding the lotus leaves, a delicious-looking beggar's chicken was freshly baked, making even Tianlu next door drool.

As for the amulets made from them, those were a makeshift version created out of necessity due to limited resources.