Chapter 154: Only Regretting That It Had Grown Wings
At this moment, the basin of foul-smelling food, like pig slop, was placed before the three of them.
Li Yingling merely glanced at it and calmly made a casual excuse:
"I am a snake. I don't eat vegetables. What's the difference between this soup and something purely vegetarian? Whoever wants to eat it can eat it."
Cui Hao glanced sideways at his senior martial sister. This kind of flimsy excuse was not at all her usual standard.
Clearly, his senior martial sister wasn't making an excuse, but was giving this water buffalo a way to save its life.
If this cow failed to see reason, his senior martial sister would certainly not mind opening its eyes elsewhere.
Hearing this, the water buffalo frowned slightly but said nothing, merely turning its gaze to the other two.
While his senior martial sister was still exercising restraint.
Cui Hao spoke first. He frowned and said with displeasure:
"Look at this mouth of mine. Do you think it's meant for eating vegetables? You're being too stingy. Can't you get us some pure meat to eat? I'm not eating, not eating."
Hearing her senior martial sister and junior martial brother both find excuses, Lin Luoyu glanced at the basin of food on the ground, intending to use a similar excuse.
She suddenly remembered that she was now a cow, and that cows eat vegetables!
She looked up, only to find that not only was the water buffalo demon staring intently at her, but her senior martial sister and fifth martial brother were also watching her, as if waiting for her to take a bite.
At that moment, she felt a sense of being betrayed by her own sect.
What?!
This water buffalo demon might not know she was human, but did her senior martial sister and the others not know? If they couldn't stomach this, did they expect her to be the one to?
And such a large basin at that. Was she supposed to eat it all by herself?
Couldn't they have shared the hardship?
The water buffalo demon waited for two breaths. Seeing that Lin Luoyu neither spoke nor moved, its expression also stiffened as it asked in confusion:
"This grass is the best grass to be found in this area. They won't eat grass, and you're a cow, you won't eat it either?"
Lin Luoyo hesitated for a moment, then试探性地开口道: "This grass..."
Cui Hao cut off Lin Luoyo before she could spout nonsense, explaining for her:
"Eh, Second Bull was so frightened that he's half-scared and half-silly, not to mention his stomach was scared too. He can only eat dry food recently, not wet food. You're a cow too, you should know about that, right?"
Hearing this, the water buffalo showed an expression of understanding and nodded lightly:
"Since you don't have the good fortune to eat, then don't blame me for not hosting you properly."
"See that highest mountain? Walk in that direction, go around the peak, and you'll see a small green forest. Great Martial Demon King is in a pool over there."
The water buffalo pointed to the tallest peak among the distant, rolling low mountains.
Cui Hao nodded quickly: "Got it. We shouldn't delay, so we'll be off now."
Hearing this, Lin Luoyu breathed a sigh of relief. As long as she didn't have to eat it, she quickly prepared to follow her senior martial sister.
"Eh! Wait!" the water buffalo suddenly shouted.
The three stopped in their tracks. Li Yingling looked calmly at the water buffalo.
The water buffalo felt a chill on its head. It didn't dare say more and just trotted into a nearby cave.
After a short while, it came out with a bundle of dry grass and stuffed it directly into Lin Luoyu's arms.
Its tone was sincere: "Take some, for the road."
The owl stood to the side, watching the water buffalo captain enthusiastically send off the three departing demons.
Even after the owl could no longer see their figures, the water buffalo captain was still staring in the direction the three demons had left.
The owl shrank its neck and said with some confusion: "Captain, those three demons... there's obviously something wrong with them, right?"
The water buffalo retracted its gaze and looked at the owl that had spoken:
"Isn't that stating the obvious? Not one of those three demons acts like a demon."
"Then why did you really give them the real location?"
"Just now, when that snake looked at me, I felt my head would fall to the ground the next second. We're probably no match for them even if we all joined forces. Do you want to live, or do you want Great Martial Demon King to live?"
The owl glanced at the surrounding little demons, answering the question with silence.
The water buffalo sighed and said: "Then isn't that settled? It's time to let Great Martial Demon King pull his weight for us, isn't it?"
The owl agreed with this sentiment. It nodded up and down, but soon, it could no longer nod.
"However, failing to report what we know is not good. If Great Martial Demon King is fine, he might come back to trouble us. So, we should still report it."
As the water buffalo spoke, it naturally put its arm around the owl's shoulder. A smile appeared on its bovine face as it said:
"What do you think, Kitty?"
The owl's two eyes looked at the water buffalo with great shock: "You want me to go and inform them?"
"Mm! Worthy of being the demon I've taken a shine to, truly smart."
The owl naturally knew this mission was a bit life-draining. It was an owl, not a cat; it didn't have nine lives. Besides, if it ran into them, even nine lives wouldn't be enough for those three ruthless individuals to crush.
It asked in a shocked tone: "Why!?"
Hearing this, the water buffalo's hand naturally moved to the owl's back and felt around, especially stroking the smooth wings several extra times.
The owl: "..."
This was the first time the owl felt disgust for having wings and being able to fly.
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Under the night sky.
The owl flapped its wings and took flight.
It tried its best to avoid the direction the three demons had just left.
A human Foundation Establishment cultivator, without the support of a spiritual treasure, can only stay airborne briefly and cannot fly for long periods.
As long as there was no Golden Core True Person among those three, its ability to fly was still a life-saving trump card.
Naturally, if there was a Golden Core True Person among the three, then the previous statement could be considered unsaid.
The owl's gaze swept across the ground below, carefully searching every inch of the terrain ahead.
If it saw those three demons, it would have to turn and leave without hesitation.
Suddenly, the owl felt its head get viciously struck by something.
It felt a rush of blood and qi in its head.
Only one thought remained in its mind—It's bad! I've been tricked!
Li Yingling grabbed the owl's wings and flew directly toward the hiding place of her junior martial brother and sister.
Cui Hao was hiding on the side of a cliff. He saw a figure approaching rapidly. Only after the figure stopped did Cui Hao get a clear look.
His own senior martial sister, with a calm expression, was holding the unconscious owl by its wing. After tossing it onto the ground, she said calmly:
"As expected."
Lin Luoyu nodded lightly. As expected of Senior Martial Sister, her plans were foolproof.
Cui Hao glanced at the owl and curiously reached out to stroke its head.
From the moment he first saw the owl, Cui Hao had wanted to touch it. The situation back then hadn't allowed it, but now he reached out and touched it. He had to admit, the texture was truly excellent.
Perhaps... I should pluck its feathers?
Lin Luoyy glanced over a couple of times. Seeing the blissful expression on her fifth martial brother's face as he stroked the owl, she felt that Cui Hao was... a bit too relaxed, without any sense of tension from being deep behind enemy lines.
She looked at her senior martial sister and asked softly, "That water buffalo is already suspicious of us. Can this surprise attack still succeed?"
Li Yingling looked at Lin Luoyu. Her junior martial sister's talent was a bit better than her junior martial brother's, but her level of ideological awareness was somewhat low.
She replied with certainty:
"Of course, it can succeed. This owl is the water buffalo demon's justification to the so-called Great Martial Demon King."
"Whether the intelligence is delivered or not doesn't matter to the water buffalo demon. What matters is that he sent someone."
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