Watching Xiao Qing run back onto Master again, Chu Jingzhuo fell silent.
The others' gazes went back and forth between Xiao Qing and Chu Jingzhuo, their hearts full of doubt.
"Are you sure the contract is signed?" Qin Yiwei couldn't help asking.
"…I'm sure," Chu Jingzhuo twitched the corner of his mouth and affirmed.
Wasn't the contract successfully signed?
Ever since the contract was signed, he could feel Xiao Qing's emotions.
And right now, Xiao Qing was especially happy and joyful, filled with affection.
But that affection was directed at Mu Shiyue!
That was a bit outrageous.
Shouldn't it be closer to him, the contractor?!
Under Chu Jingzhuo's complicated gaze, Mu Shiyue lifted Xiao Qing off her neck and handed it back to him, "This is your contractor."
But Xiao Qing flicked its tail, coiling around Mu Shiyue's wrist, hissing softly and absolutely refusing to leave.
Its beautiful little head rubbed back and forth against Mu Shiyue's palm, anyone could see it was acting spoiled.
The others looked at Chu Jingzhuo with sympathy.
His own contracted beast was actually closer to someone else!
However, since that someone else was their Master, everyone thought it's quite reasonable.
They couldn't help but inwardly marvel. Master's affinity with spirit beasts was too strong, to the point that she could even attract spirit beasts that were already contracted!
As expected of their Master!
Ke Chongbo's neck had just recovered, and his jaw almost dropped.
Never mind that the contract didn't even take an hour, the contracted spirit beast was actually closer to Mu Shiyue. This was simply too magical.
"My father's spirit beast only gets close to my father and doesn't give us a good look," Ke Chongbo couldn't help saying.
His father's spirit beast was a fourth-rank spirit beast, powerful and not young.
It had watched Ke Chongbo grow up.
But it's very aloof and would only get close to his father, its contractor.
"Of course that's different!" Though speechless, Chu Jingzhuo retorted instinctively. "It's not like you're our master!"
Ke Chongbo: "..."
That… was a bit too harsh, wasn't it?
"Ying!"
"Roar~"
"Hiss hiss~"
"Moo~"
Several cubs all made sounds at the same time.
Ke Chongbo: "..."
Although he couldn't understand them, they seemed to be mocking him.
"Are they… laughing at me?" He looked at the cubs in disbelief.
Everyone fell silent, their gazes drifting away, not daring to meet his eyes.
Although no one could understand what the spirit beasts were saying, after spending so much time with them, everyone could roughly guess their meaning from their reactions.
Not to mention that their reactions were so uniform, how could anyone not guess right?
Seeing everyone's reaction, Ke Chongbo's face turned green.
Was this collectively excluding him?!
"Ai ya, you saw wrong," Mu Shiyue patted his shoulder and comforted him without much sincerity. "They're all children, how could they have any bad intentions?"
"Exactly, why are you arguing with children?"
The others quickly echoed.
"They're all still little babies. You're an adult, don't fuss over it."
Ke Chongbo: "..."
He felt a bit dazed.
This kind of rhetoric was exactly like what parents of naughty children would say.
But what could he say?
They really were just ignorant little cubs!
Ke Chongbo's expression changed repeatedly, and in the end he grabbed Little Sesame in one go and frantically rubbed it from head to toe, venting his dissatisfaction.
Little Sesame's reaction was a bit slow.
Only after being rubbed all over did it come back to its senses, letting out "ying ying mm mm" sounds and starting to struggle.
"Hmph!" Ke Chongbo held onto it and rubbed it from head to tail again, his expression cold. "Serves you right for mocking me!"
Little Sesame couldn't struggle free at all and could only be frantically "manhandled" once, its fur completely messed up.
After rubbing Little Sesame, Ke Chongbo put it down and then grabbed Little Tiger Baby, who was trying to escape.
Little Tiger Baby reacted quickly, but not faster than Ke Chongbo, and fell into the same fate.
By the time it was released, all its fur was puffed up, like a feather duster.
"Roar~!" It bared its teeth angrily at Ke Chongbo, rushed over, hugged his ankle, and started gnawing.
But its little milk teeth couldn't bite through the skin of a Golden Core cultivator.
Little Sesame was also so angry that it rammed into his calf, only to knock itself into a tumble, so mad that it kept crying "ying ying."
Ke Chongbo then grabbed Ah Lang's head and gave it a thorough rubbing, kneading it until it kept crying "moo moo."
Finally, he stretched his "demonic claws" toward Xiao Qing.
However, his hand was stopped halfway by Chu Jingzhuo.
"Xiao Qing was just born," Chu Jingzhuo said disapprovingly. "It's still so small!"
Wasn't that so?
Xiao Qing was only as thick as a chopstick. If not for its bright color, it might not even be found if it fell on the ground.
Being stopped like this, Ke Chongbo could only unwillingly stop.
But after aggressively hugging three cubs just now, his mood had improved.
However, his mood improved, while the cubs got angry.
They were used to being held, but this was the first time they'd been rubbed so fiercely, their fur were all puffed up.
So now, when Ke Chongbo wanted to hold them again, they just ran off, only leaving him with round, fluffy backs.
Ke Chongbo also knew he'd angered the cubs. He wanted to placate them, but they gave him no chance at all!
After being given the cold shoulder by the cubs again, Ke Chongbo sheepishly went to Mu Shiyue for help.
"Sect Master Mu, what should I do?"
Since they're all children and it wasn't a big problem, Mu Shiyue readily helped.
She took several round objects of different sizes out of her storage pouch, "They like these."
Ke Chongbo looked closely and found the colors of these round balls to be quite bizarre.
Yellowish-brown with mottled dark green spots, they looked moldy.
As for texture, they were rather hard.
He sniffed and caught a strange smell.
The smell was a bit fishy, a bit stinky, and also like pork that had been left out in the summer heat for several days…
Multiple smells mixed together, extremely overpowering.
"Sect Master Mu, what is this?" Ke Chongbo almost retched, quickly moving them a bit farther away and asking with a bad expression.
"Steamed buns I made for them," Mu Shiyue said cheerfully.
"Steamed buns?!"
Ke Chongbo's voice cracked as he stared at her in disbelief, "These are steamed buns?!"
What kind of household has steamed buns that look like this?!
He couldn't help taking two of the round balls and knocking them together, then was horrified to discover that they were completely unscathed!
They were even harder than bricks!
This is a fucking steamed bun?!
Is Sect Master Mu fooling him?!
Facing Ke Chongbo's doubt, Mu Shiyue wasn't angry at all, just smiling, "They like eating them."
Ke Chongbo: "..."
He really wanted to keep questioning, but quickly came back to his senses.
This was Sect Master Mu, a powerful old ancestor, she's not someone he could casually question!
Maybe these "steamed buns" really were useful?
Oh right, he still had some beast feed in his storage pouch!
Thinking of this, Ke Chongbo's eyes immediately lit up.
His father's spirit beast liked this kind of beast feed so much, the cubs would definitely like it too!
However, when he took out the beast feed to tease the cubs, he discovered that.
The cubs still ignored him!