Looking at the large water vat before them, its surface worn and old, and smelling the sweet fragrance of wine in the air, everyone was dumbfounded!
"Holy crap!" Ke Chongbo's jaw nearly hit the ground. "Where did this thing come from?! Does the Treasure-Seeking Mouse really have its own space?!"
Qin Yiwei wasn't much calmer either.
She had heard of Treasure-Seeking Mice having a space for storing treasures, but this was the first time she had seen it with her own eyes.
It was such a tiny little ball, yet it actually had such a huge portable space!
No wonder everyone wanted a Treasure-Seeking Mouse, this was far too magical!
Jiang Yunnuan grabbed Qin Yiwei's shoulder, nearly fainting, "My god! This little thing actually hid such a huge vat inside its body!"
She had heard earlier that the sect had gotten a Treasure-Seeking Mouse.
But after seeing what the Treasure-Seeking Mouse looked like, she had actually felt a bit doubtful.
This little fluffball was so tiny and so cute, what kind of attack could it possibly withstand?
If another spirit beast or cultivator slapped it once, it would be flattened, right?
And this little thing had slept so openly for several days, there was no sign of vigilance at all.
Yet who could've imagined that such a small body could be hiding so many things!
Xin Jinrui was also stunned, "I heard Master say before that many spirit beasts have a portable space, but this…"
Mu Shiyue had told them that many spirit beasts possessed a portable space, but the space wasn't large and couldn't compare to storage pouches refined by artifact refiners.
Didn't Little Sesame use its space to steal those people's storage pouches before?
But having a portable space didn't mean it would be used.
Using a portable space affected a spirit beast's strength.
After all, opening and using a space consumed spiritual power.
Spirit beasts weren't like humans, who needed to make use of all kinds of heavenly materials and earthly treasures to improve their cultivation.
Spirit beasts didn't have intelligence as high as humans, but their bodies were strong enough that simply absorbing the spiritual qi of heaven and earth allowed them to grow.
So their spaces basically had no chance to be used.
Moreover, they didn't have the same hoarding habits as humans, things like the teeth, fur, and bones of prey were useless to them.
Aside from a small number of spirit beasts and demon beasts, most of them didn't like eating rotting flesh.
If they encountered heavenly materials and earthly treasures, they would immediately eat them, there's no way they'd keep them.
All in all, spirit beasts' portable spaces were basically useless.
If left unused for a long time, the space would shrink more and more.
Adult spirit beasts' spaces were almost nonexistent, so many cultivators didn't even know this was a thing.
—If Mu Shiyue hadn't told them, they wouldn't have known either.
So much knowledge had been lost.
Thus, seeing this Treasure-Seeking Mouse take out such a large vat, everyone was dumbfounded.
Not only them, even Mu Shiyue herself was surprised.
Just now, this little thing had been squeaking at her, complaining that it had been chased by many people, and in the end it had run into a group of monkeys' territory.
Originally, it only wanted to escape, but that group of mischievous monkeys had picked fruit and thrown them at it, frightening it.
If it hadn't run fast enough, it might've been bullied to death by those monkeys.
So it followed the scent to where those monkeys brewed wine and carried away one large wine vat!
Because Treasure-Seeking Mice had an innate sense for various treasures, it knew that this wine was good stuff.
Many spirit beasts wanted to steal a drink, but those monkeys were especially fierce, anyone who dared approach would just be asking for a beating!
The Treasure-Seeking Mouse hadn't planned to do this either, who told those monkeys to bully such a small mouse?
After that, in order to evade those monkeys' pursuit, it ran outside the Myriad Beast Forest and ended up here.
It had to be said, the hundred-fruit wine brewed by those monkeys was really delicious.
Even though it was stored in its space, the Treasure-Seeking Mouse was still tempted by the smell.
So it couldn't help taking a small sip.
But it hadn't expected the aftereffect of the wine to be so strong.
It got drunk after just a single small sip.
Otherwise, how could it have been caught by a few cubs?
What it had never imagined was that besides a few cubs, there were also several ferocious large spirit beasts here!
This was truly entering a wolf's den!
Luckily, it met Mu Shiyue.
Mu Shiyue made it feel very comfortable, and it had slept here for so long without encountering any danger. That rare sense of ease and comfort made it want to stay.
Running around every day wasn't the main issue, the key was that it's often hunted!
Clearly it hadn't done anything, yet it was always being chased.
Human cultivators wanted to catch it and put it to work.
It had previously had an elder of its kind who seemed to have been captured by human cultivators.
A few years later, that elder apparently died while treasure-hunting.
It was scared to death by that!
It absolutely didn't want to be caught by human cultivators!
So, in order to stay here, it took out the wine vat it had carried back.
In the words of human cultivators, this was sincerity!
Looking at the large vat and thinking of what the Treasure-Seeking Mouse had said, Mu Shiyue twitched the corner of her mouth.
"Didn't you say you didn't want to be caught by human cultivators to work? Then what are you doing now?" she said to the little fluffball that had hopped back onto her palm.
"Chi chi chi…" The Treasure-Seeking Mouse looked small, but it was actually already a third-rank adult spirit beast.
Moreover, it's far more intelligent than most spirit beasts.
It squeaked indignantly, righteously confident.
—It wasn't caught! It stayed of its own accord!
"What's the difference?"
"Chi chi chi…"
The difference is huge!
One was passive, the other was voluntary, how could they be the same?
As a Treasure-Seeking Mouse that everyone coveted, it's extremely sensitive to all kinds of auras.
Mu Shiyue gave it a very good feeling.
It liked Mu Shiyue's warm and tolerant aura very much.
And she didn't let other spirit beasts bully it, allowing it to rest properly.
That's already enough!
"…" Mu Shiyue was speechless.
She didn't know whether to call this little thing clever or naive.
"If you followed other cultivators, they'd also give you time to rest," she said.
Cultivators weren't stupid, they wouldn't kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.
"Chi chi chi…" Would you make me go treasure-hunting?
Mu Shiyue fell silent for a moment, "That, I wouldn't."
She herself didn't like to grind nonstop, so naturally she wouldn't force others to grind either.
Whether disciples or spirit beasts, she let them live according to their own wishes.
"Chi chi chi!" Then isn't that enough?
Meeting the little fluffball's trusting gaze, Mu Shiyue was momentarily at a loss for words.
"Chi chi chi…"
The little fluffball pointed at the water vat on the ground and squeaked.
Everyone's attention shifted away from their master.
No matter how many times they saw it, they would still be shocked by their master's unobstructed communication with spirit beasts, but after being shocked so many times, they had gotten used to it.
Right now, what they cared about most was this vat of wine!
"It smells way too fragrant!"
Not only them, even Hu Niu, who usually stubbornly stayed in its room, came out.
The Iron-Eating Beast and the Spotted Spirit Cow also arrived.
Even the Black Abyss Falcon perched on the tree, its eyes fixed tightly on the vat of wine.
If Mu Shiyue hadn't been there, everyone might've already rushed forward to fight over it.