Chapter 42: Looting

After switching the fire beast from his right hand to his left hand, he saw that the fire beast struggled even harder, but refused to lick the back of his left hand. Xiao Mian knew that his guess was almost right. But the fire beast couldn't speak, so how could he understand?

"Little guy! I know you can understand human words. If you understand, just nod! I will give you this golden liquid, how about it?"

Xiao Mian coaxed and deceived, which was just a helpless test. He didn't expect that the fire beast actually nodded repeatedly. What's more ridiculous is that it even arched its two front paws together, as if bowing to Xiao Mian. I don't know if it was asking Xiao Mian to let it go or asking Xiao Mian to give it that mysterious golden liquid.

Seeing that he could communicate with the fire beast, Xiao Mian became excited. He picked a red maple tree at random and flew into the dense tree canopy.

He planned to have a frank and in-depth communication with the fire beast.

After a long time, Xiao Mian leaned out of the tree canopy with a serious face, and the Fire Beast hid in the lapel of his chest, and did not run away even if he did not catch it. Obviously, the man and the beast have reached some kind of agreement - although even Xiao Mian himself found it incredible, the fact proved that the Fire Beast can communicate with human monks.

Xiao Mian also confirmed one thing: this little guy is the Fire Beast that he let go that day, it seems that he and it are really destined!

But the result of the communication obviously did not satisfy Xiao Mian. Through the nod or shake of the Fire Beast, Xiao Mian could only confirm that the mysterious golden liquid was not only harmless to the body but also should be of great benefit. As for the specific benefits, the Fire Beast nodded and shook his head, which made Xiao Mian laugh and cry.

However, one thing is certain: the Fire Beast has no resistance to this mysterious golden liquid at all, otherwise the Fire Beast, which has always been as timid as a mouse, would not have rushed up desperately just because Xiao Mian's right hand was stained with that kind of golden liquid.

That's simply a moth flying into the fire!

After thinking it over, Xiao Mian decided to take the Fire Beast back to the huge red maple tree and let it see the golden liquid first.

Not long after, on the big red maple tree where Xiao Mian had slept before.

But to Xiao Mian's surprise, when the Fire Beast saw the small hole where the golden liquid flowed out, although it was very excited at first, after it lay at the entrance of the hole and waited for a long time without a drop of golden liquid left, its expression became dim, and finally it simply returned to Xiao Mian's arms, no longer waiting for the golden liquid that would drip down at any time.

"What? Has the golden liquid here been used up?"

The Fire Beast nodded first, and then shook its head.

Here it comes again!

Before Xiao Mian could complain, the Fire Beast had already jumped down the red maple tree and pointed to a slightly golden soil for Xiao Mian to see. Obviously, the excess golden liquid dripped down the trunk to here, and after years and months, the soil changed color. Xiao Mian pondered for a long time, and suddenly asked: "Is this where the golden liquid dripped? You mean the golden liquid of this red maple has not dripped out yet, but it can only be used by itself. If it is collected too much, it will harm its normal growth?"

This time, the Firelight Beast nodded neatly.

"Can you tell which red maple tree has golden liquid?" Xiao Mian just asked casually, but the Firelight Beast nodded again, which made Xiao Mian puzzled, "Since you can tell which red maple tree has golden liquid, why don't you collect it yourself?"

Shaking his head, the Firelight Beast suddenly turned his head and spit out a flame towards a sturdy maple tree next to it. The flame was not big at first, but when it hit the maple tree, it suddenly became like fire in an oil pan. The red flame instantly wrapped up the red maple tree that required two people to hug, including the trunk and the crown, and burned happily.

Xiao Mian was stunned, and then he knew that something big had happened. Xiao Mian grabbed the troublesome fire beast and fled to the depths of the dense forest.

After a moment, a figure appeared in the sky, looking at the maple tree burning below silently.

"Fire beast? Fire beast and red maple are born and die together, how can it burn red maple for no reason? Besides, there is a fire beast in Huoyun Ridge?"

The person who came was only a Jindan strongman but not a Yuanying ancestor, and he had not yet condensed his spiritual consciousness. If the Yuanying ancestor was here, the fluctuations left by Xiao Mian just now would have been nowhere to hide when his spiritual consciousness swept over. Unfortunately, although the spiritual perception of Jindan cultivators is much more sensitive than that of foundation-building cultivators, they can only observe with the naked eye. After searching for a while without any results, the Jindan strongman turned his head to the north and looked for a while, as if he was constantly thinking about various gains and losses. After a long time, the Jindan strongman sighed and turned to fly to the south.

This Jindan strongman actually did not intend to rob the three thousand years of spiritual herbs again, and I don’t know what made him give up this greed.

After Xiao Mian escaped, he turned left and right to hide in the dense jungle, and even he almost turned around. He ran more than ten miles before he stopped. In this maple forest, more than ten miles is not as wide as the endless plains, which is enough to hide many people. Even if someone found the burning red maple, they haven't caught up yet, which means that they haven't been able to find their location.

After comforting himself, Xiao Mian caught the fire beast that started it all.

"You are really a troublemaker! I just asked you why you don't go find that kind of golden liquid yourself, but I didn't ask you to use fire to spray red maple! Okay! Now I know, it seems that you, the Fire Beast, have no other ability except spraying fire, and the red maple can't touch fire, once it touches fire, it will burn cleanly, right?" Seeing the Fire Beast nodded innocently, Xiao Mian asked unhappily: "Then if you can identify the red maple with golden liquid, and I will take out the golden liquid, this should be no problem, right?"

Nod!

The Fire Beast nodded repeatedly!

After that, the Fire Beast was responsible for finding the red maple tree containing golden liquid, and Xiao Mian used the Xuanfeng Sword to dig a small hole, and then saw the gurgling golden liquid slowly flowing out of the small hole. The Fire Beast wanted to go forward for a good meal, but was dragged aside by Xiao Mian, who filled a porcelain bottle with golden liquid. Then he dragged the Fire Beast, which was on fire, back and pressed its mouth on the small hole where the flow rate slowed down.

The Fire Beast didn't care to get angry with Xiao Mian, and just opened its belly to suck the golden liquid.

After a long time, when the golden liquid could no longer flow out continuously, the Fire Beast stopped sucking the golden liquid although it was reluctant.

Under the instruction of the Fire Beast, Xiao Mian found a red maple branch that was about the same thickness as the hole and sealed the hole.

After that, the man and the beast began to collect the golden liquid.

For three consecutive days and three nights, without sleep, the man and the beast actually cleaned all the red maple trees within a radius of ten miles. Even Xiao Mian didn't know how many pits he dug and how many holes he filled. In the end, all the empty porcelain bottles he brought with him were used up. Seeing the Fire Beast drinking the golden liquid like a life-threatening person, Xiao Mian thought that "if you don't take advantage of it, you are a bastard", so he also went up to drink two sips.

Xiao Mian, who was not well-informed, naturally did not know that this mysterious golden liquid was a rare and top-grade spiritual material in the cultivation world. It was because it required the right time, right place, and right people to create this spiritual material, and ordinary cultivators could hardly see it in their lifetime.

If Fu Qingqiong knew about Xiao Mian's large-scale plundering, she would probably criticize his heaven-defying luck again...