"Come out, you've been following me for so long, aren't you tired?"

After Lu Zhaoran finished speaking, he looked up at a big tree.

Xingchen also looked up at the tree with her, but she didn't have Lu Zhaoran's ability and didn't find anything.

"With Xiao Fei around, I'm not tired."

A handsome young man landed with the sound.

"It's you!"

Xingchen recognized the boy in front of her; wasn't this the boy who had successfully made a contract with another spirit that day?

As for that little Fei.

Xingchen glanced at the spirit beast following the boy.

A dark green, transparent crystal resembling a giant piece of jade was embedded in its forehead, making the name "Little Jade" quite fitting.

“You’ve been with us the whole time, how did you manage to hide yourself?”

As they were speaking, Xingchen made a swift move, the knife moving with lightning speed to the boy's neck.

"What is the purpose of following us?"

"I...I...I..."

"Xingchen, put the knife down first."

Lu Zhaoran looked at the boy trembling with fear and felt somewhat helpless.

Xingchen is a bit too reckless.

He looks to be the same age as Lu An and Wang Mo, but his behavior and actions are ruthless beyond his years.

After escaping danger, the boy fearfully moved closer to Lu Zhaoran, hoping to get her protection. However, he found that the girl's gaze was becoming increasingly vicious, and he dared not move under her stare.

"Okay, now tell me."

“Sister Lu, I didn’t mean any harm. I secretly followed you because I was afraid you wouldn’t let me. You sent everyone back, including those who wanted to follow you. But I came here to dig for pearls on my own.”

"You're talking nonsense. Everyone left willingly."

Xingchen immediately began to refute his words.

The boy shrank back, not daring to refute her. After all, she swung the knife too fast, and who knew if his head would be on the ground next time.

"Stars."

Lu Zhaoran called out to Xingchen to stop her, then gestured to the boy to continue.

Xingchen handled this matter very well; it's impossible for her to bring those people with her.

Merchants are driven by profit. Saving them was already an act of great kindness and merit on her part. She couldn't possibly bail them out afterward. With Xingchen's help, forcing them to leave was much easier than her personally making an example of them. To morally blackmail her, one must first be able to physically blackmail her.

"Sister Lu, I... that..."

"Is there something you're embarrassed about about going there to work as a pearl farmer? If you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to. You can tell me about your hiding methods first."

Seeing the boy stammering and his face turning red, Lu Zhaoran thought of changing the question.

"It's not something I can't say, it's just... I've never been able to afford food, so... that's why I thought of going there to beg for a living."

As for the invisibility technique, Xiao Fei taught me. Sister Lu, Xiao Fei is amazing! It can even fly. I was able to keep up with you all this way because of it.

Lu Zhaoran looked at the boy's body, which had hardly any flesh on it, and remained silent for a long time.

In this world where fairies reign supreme and humans are treated like dogs, simply surviving is already a difficult task for them.

"Um... Sister Lu... can I come with you... I... I've finished all the food you gave me. I've been a homeless child since I was little. Sister Lu, I don't want to go hungry anymore."

As soon as he finished speaking, the boy's stomach rumbled loudly, as if it understood human speech.

"..."

What can we do? Let them stay. Consider them another test subject. They've successfully formed a contract with a spirit, so they have power. As for how things will develop afterward, keeping them here will allow us to observe.

"What is your name."

"what?"

"Your sister asked your name."

"Oh, oh, oh, my name is Xiao Qi."

"Xiao Qi? That's awful, it sounds like a dog."

"..."

Xingchen's words were full of malice, which made Xiaoqi lower her head in embarrassment.

"A name is just a string of symbols that represent you. If you become famous in the future, then that name will be admired by thousands."

Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Lu Zhaoran spoke up to ease the tension, and casually tapped Xingchen, the naughty kid, with a small tree trunk.

Xingchen wasn't angry even after being hit. This time, perhaps she learned her lesson, because she stopped making sarcastic remarks and causing trouble.

Lu Zhaoran stopped paying attention to it. This child was usually so well-behaved and obedient, so she didn't know why he was targeting Xiao Qi like this.

"By the way, does anyone know if there are any human settlements around here?"

After Lu Zhaoran and his group left the desert, they kept wandering around in this jungle.

The power she absorbed here recently has restored her to the King rank.

Next, she needs to find the person who can help her go back.

"Sister Lu, I know, I know."

When asked about this, Xiaoqi quickly and enthusiastically answered.

He went to the desert to dig for pearls on his own, so he naturally knew the way.

"Alright, I'll teach you some spells in the next few days. Once you've practiced enough, you can lead the way, and we'll leave this place together."

----

For the next few days, they swept through the forest like bandits, returning to their true selves.

In the entire forest, anything that could walk would run away as fast as it could when it saw the three of them.

……

"good."

As Lu Zhaoran watched Xingchen and Xiaoqi become more and more proficient in using magic, he felt a sense of pride from the bottom of his heart.

Her experiments and her students were very successful.

"I didn't find any spirits of higher level than these two in this forest."

Lu Zhaoran temporarily abandoned the idea of ​​changing their monsters, as both of these monsters had been exceptionally high in level along the way.

Those monsters who have been formally recruited are not simple monsters.

"Sister Lu, can we go to Yue Lin City now?"

Xiao Qi looked at Lu Zhaoran with expectant eyes.

In the past few days, after the three of them finished eating the food they brought from the desert, they ate wild fruits like savages, or caught a few animals to roast and eat.

This tastes... None of the three of them are good cooks. Sister Lu and Xingchen can eat anything as if they have no sense of taste, but he can't eat it. He's starving.

"Ah."

After receiving Lu Zhaoran's promise, Xiao Qi jumped up and down with joy.

"It's worthless."

Xingchen muttered a disparaging remark about Xiaoqi.

Although the sound was soft, Xiao Qi must have heard it, but he didn't care. In any case, Xingchen only gave Sister Lu a nice look; he didn't care whether anyone else was alive or dead.

"Oh right, Sister Lu, what about Xiao Fei and Xiao Cui? Xiao Fei can become invisible, but not for too long, and Xiao Cui can't even become invisible."

Xiao Fei is Xiao Qi's spirit, while Xiao Cui is Xing Chen's spirit. Xing Chen only got that name because of Xiao Fei; Xiao Qi kindly gave it that name, and Xing Chen had no intention of doing so at all.

"I can shrink them down and make them invisible."

"Get smaller?"

"Puppet Technique, Mist Concealment".

Lu Zhaoran used the magic of Yuan Ge and Gui Guzi. The combination of the two made it easy to control something so that it could shrink or become invisible.

"Wow! It really shrank! Wait, it disappeared!"

"You can find their location by using the contract to sense their presence."

Xiaoqi and Xingchen obediently did as instructed. Both of them are very quick learners, and they soon grasped the meaning.

"When we get to crowded places, you'll have to carry them yourselves because they've shrunk and walk too slowly."

"Mmmmmmm!"

Xiao Qi happily hugged the shrunken Xiao Fei and spun around in circles; the two of them, one human and one monster, were quite harmonious.

Xingchen ignored Xiaocui, and Xiaocui didn't dare to go forward and let Xingchen hug her.

Fortunately, there's a kind-hearted guy named Xiao Qi who can manage to put them all on his head.

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