"Squeak squeak squeak!"
The white mouse spirit trembled under the terrifying demon power of Elder Black Bear.
Mouse Pine, upon hearing the squeak, felt it was its distant relative and immediately pitied it.
So, it found a cool long bamboo leaf and tied it over its eyes as a blindfold, thinking if it couldn't see, it wouldn't feel pity.
Recently, after using his pupil technique, Mouse Pine liked to cool his eyes with bamboo leaves soaked in blue spiritual bamboo water, which made it much more comfortable.
"Eat it!" Elder Black Bear threw the white mouse spirit in front of the purple fire dragon fruit.
"If it turns out to be good, you've got a bargain!"
"If you don't die after eating it, I'll let you go back to the mountain."
It was clear that the white mouse spirit wasn't a Beast Taming Sect disciple but was caught just like the demons on "Fierce Tiger Peak," used for training by the sect disciples.
And now... before even meeting a disciple, it was caught by the Black Bear Monster to be used as an experimental guinea pig.
"Wuu!" The white mouse spirit began to gnaw at the purple fire dragon fruit with a face full of despair, not daring to defy. But after a couple of bites, it surprisingly found that this thing was actually quite tasty, feeling it didn't seem to be poison.
It seemed... I don't have to die!
It ate faster and faster, and before long, it completely devoured the mutated dragon bone flower.
Elder Black Bear and Lin Jing... carefully observed the little white mouse.
And as it finished eating, suddenly, the white mouse spirit felt a surge of heat in its body.
In the next instant...
Boom!
A terrifying aura suddenly rose from the little white mouse, soaring straight into the clouds!
Outside its body, purple demon power flowed quickly, and this tangible demonic power instantly transformed, forming a fearsome dragon-shaped skeletal creature.
"Roar!!!"
The skeletal dragon was immense in size, with scales shimmering with deep, mysterious red lights, akin to the most dazzling alien star in the dark night. Its dragon head was held high, with eyes like two burning purple flames, exuding an unassailable majesty.
The dragon's claw was sharp as a sword, gleaming with a cold light, slowly reaching towards Elder Black Bear.
"What on earth!" This transformation frightened Elder Black Bear completely; his vision went black, and all his pores stood on end, actually feeling a trace of fear before this terrifying dragon-shaped creature.
The massive dragon pupils of the purple skeletal dragon looked towards Elder Black Bear; he took a step back, feeling as if facing a formidable enemy, sweating profusely.
He panted heavily, but suddenly, coming to his senses, he cursed, and after touching the demon dragon, found it indeed merely an illusion—the so-called pressure was like water without a source or a tree without roots, essentially fake.
The effect of this purple dragon bone flower turned out to be making the consumer transform into a powerful demon beast capable of producing an intimidating effect.
"Damn it, what kind of strange and odd effects have you concocted!" Elder Black Bear was angry and humiliated, feeling it was incredibly embarrassing to be frightened by a little white mouse.
If he had known, he would have eaten it himself.
This time and the last, Elder Black Bear suddenly felt his dignity entirely lost before this Longevity Body and small mouse.
He slapped the purple skeletal dragon, and the illusion vanished immediately, leaving just a trembling little white mouse standing on the ground.
The little white mouse also had purple-red fruit juice all over its mouth, extremely gory...
Lin Jing and the mouse pine, after taking off the bamboo leaf, hesitated to speak but ultimately said nothing for the sake of the storage bag.
"Does it taste good?" After a pause, Elder Black Bear asked the little white mouse.
The mouse demon nodded tremblingly and licked its mouth.
"Alright, you can go." With a blow of his black wind, he sent the little white mouse flying towards a certain mountain peak.
"Seems like there's no side effect," Elder Black Bear said as if nothing had happened: "From the situation just now, it can synthesize the dragon bone flower probably around Qi Cultivation level seven, which is the late Qi Cultivation stage, but I can't wait, lend you the Daoist robe for a few days, by then help me to synthesize the dragon bone flower."
"Elder Black Bear..."
"What is it?"
"Ahem... could you give us some dragon bone flower seeds?" Lin Jing asked, "I found the effects of the mutated dragon bone flower seem to have some merits, maybe becoming one of the trump cards for future travels in the Cultivation Realm."
An illusion capable of frightening a Demon Core Stage demon beast should be quite useful when venturing out!
"Understood." Elder Black Bear pouted, but was equally surprised by the miracle of the purple dragon bone flower. If not for knowing the reasoning and witnessing the little white mouse's transformations, encountering it outside would indeed frighten him away.
Damn illusion!
Just then.
A rainbow streaked across the sky.
A blue-robed elder descended into the courtyard—Elder Yu.
He looked around the courtyard with surprise and suspicion, finally fixing his gaze on the Black Bear Monster, Lin Jing, and the mouse pine.
"I just sensed a sudden burst of terrifying aura, suspected of being a Nascent Soul Demon King's manifestation..."
"Old Black, why are you here, were you the one causing the commotion just now?"
Elder Black Bear didn't want to explain much: "Let's say that I came to visit the sect's excellent disciples, now that I have, there's nothing else."
After speaking, he took one last, meaningful look at Lin Jing and the others.
As if to say, when I find the storage bag, I'll come back for you.
Or perhaps saying, if you dare to spread what happened earlier, you're finished.
...
Elder Black Bear didn't linger, left directly, and Elder Yu, looking towards Lin Jing and the others, didn't dig deeper, his eyes soon drawn to the mechanical devices in the courtyard.
"Huh?"
The unfinished mechanical turtles didn't catch his attention, since they were still works in progress, but rather a peculiar long-tube mechanism caught his eye.
As an engineer himself, he naturally recognized from the littered devices that this one seemed to be the only nearly completed product.
"Your efficiency is quite high."
Elder Yu marveled again at Lin Jing's learning ability; in such a short time, he had already finished a simple mechanical creation, clearly having studied seriously.
"This is?" He picked up the mechanical bamboo spear Lin Jing had made.
Almost instinctively, he pressed the trigger of the mechanical bamboo spear, aiming at the sky.
"Elder Yu, don't!" Lin Jing, seeing this, felt his vision blur.
"Squeak!!!" The mouse pine also found its vision going dark at the sight———
In the next moment.
The mechanical bamboo spear activated, and the spiritual bean bombs inside the magazine entered a state ready to launch, then wrapped and whisked out by high-speed water flow!
Puff puff puff puff puff puff!!!
Intermittent blue water streams spurted the spiritual bean bombs into the sky.
"Water arrows? No, there's no water element pattern inscribed, something else in the water..." Elder Yu hadn't finished speaking.
Boom boom boom boom!
The spiritual beans in mid-air exploded one after another, the series of explosions causing a powerful spiritual power fluctuation, the sound echoing across the skies, and unleashing a wind rivaling wind-attribute magic, instantly uprooting the trees within a certain radius centered on Lin Jing's courtyard, leaving the roadside in disarray.
"..."
As several leaves slapped against Elder Yu's face, he looked at the surrounding ruin feeling the mechanical bamboo spear burning hot in his hands, and the vision darkened again... Are you two aspiring to use this thing to take down a Foundation Establishment demon beast?