Captured by the Three-legged Birdman?
This piece of news slightly altered Ye Lingyue’s expression.
"Those beasts live in the cliff caves in the middle reaches. If you move quickly, there might still be ti to rescue her, otherwise..." Long Sixuan shrugged.
Little Zhiyo, so angered that she was about to pounce, was held back by Ye Lingyue.
"Let make this clear, don’t even think about touching Long Baobao on this journey, get lost!" Ye Lingyue snapped coldly.
Long Sixuan gave Long Baobao a sidelong glance and chuckled disdainfully. He dropped the skeleton of his servant and left.
"Zhiyo (Why let that big villain go?)" Little Zhiyo’s blue eyes brimd with indignation.
"The man is sowhat strange." The one answering was Feng Xun.
Ye Lingyue nodded.
Just now, upon hearing Little Zhiyo’s words and learning of Long Sixuan’s deeds, she had wanted to kill Long Sixuan with an arrow.
But at that mont, the Qian Cauldron in her palm trembled, issuing a warning, as if to tell Ye Lingyue that Long Sixuan was not to be killed.
Since Ye Lingyue obtained the Qian Cauldron, its anomalous movents had been few and far between, each signifying a different implication.
Given that Little Wuya’s life and death remained uncertain, and Long Baobao’s injuries also required further treatnt, she decided to let Long Sixuan go for now.
"Let’s find a clean place first to treat Long Baobao, and figure out a way to rescue Little Wuya," Ye Lingyue said in a grave voice, with Feng Xun carrying Long Baobao, the three of them heading to the cave where the Lightning Mink had been.
When he woke up, it was already deep into the night.
The wound on his arm had been treated, dicated, and although sowhat inconvenient to move, it was no longer a major issue.
It was then that he realized he had been returned to the entrance of the Lightning Mink’s cave.
This was a relatively safe and concealed place nearby.
Long Baobao looked around, seeing Ye Lingyue and Feng Xun, but Little Zhiyo was nowhere in sight.
Ye Lingyue and Feng Xun were examining sothing.
"Little Stead Bun, don’t force yourself to get up," Ye Lingyue said upon seeing Long Baobao trying to sit up, hurrying over to persuade him to lay back down.
"Sister Yue, I’m very sorry about Little Wuya," Long Baobao said dejectedly, hanging his head; Ye Lingyue had lent him Little Zhiyo and Little Wuya, but he had let Little Wuya be captured.
"It’s okay, it and Little Wuya have a deep bond, and it can sense that Little Wuya isn’t in imdiate danger. It’s too dark to search now, we’ll look for Little Wuya once dawn breaks," Ye Lingyue consoled Long Baobao. "Also, about the Little Lightning Mink you wanted to keep earlier, I’ve examined them, and one of them can survive. Would you like to keep it?"
Ye Lingyue saw the look of utter despair on Long Baobao’s face and felt pity for the little guy.
She also knew that Long Baobao was giving up on himself because of his earlier mishaps, dragging his companions into trouble and being unable to seek revenge on Long Sixuan.
"It’s still alive? Can I see it?" Long Baobao’s eyes imdiately lit up upon hearing this.
Feng Xun approached, in his palm was a tiny Black Lightning Mink.
"This little one has an exceptionally strong life force."
There had been a little episode concerning this litter of Little Lightning Minks.
Most of the newborn minks of this litter were weak and, after being hit by Long Sixuan’s arrow and falling to the ground, had almost all died.
Only one black one among them had a faint breath left when Ye Lingyue and Feng Xun arrived.
Seeing this, Ye Lingyue, moved by compassion, attempted to treat it.
However, when Ye Lingyue used the White Tripod Breath to treat it, the little one showed no reaction.
In the end, even its last breath faded away.
Watching the little creature’s body gradually grow cold, Ye Lingyue was about to give up reluctantly when suddenly she felt a streak of Black Cauldron Breath inside the Cauldron Breath penetrate into the black mink’s body.
With the entry of the Black Cauldron Breath, the previously lifeless black Lightning Mink ca back to life. However, it was bizarre that the black Lightning Mink had no body temperature nor a heartbeat.
It was like a corpse, but it was truly alive again.
Ye Lingyue was utterly puzzled. This black Lightning Mink had beco a unique Corpse Beast on the mainland.
But these doubts beca less important when she saw Long Baobao carefully taking the mink into his hands, and his eyes regained their brightness once more.
Long Baobao tentatively touched the little black mink, which opened its eyes looking still very weak, perhaps hungry, it opened its mouth and nibbled on Long Baobao’s fingers with its gum, not yet grown teeth, as if searching for milk to suckle.
It had taken Long Baobao to be its birth mother.
Its dependent appearance gave Long Baobao a very special feeling.
He stamred up.
"Sister Yue, can I keep it?"
"Yes, its life is yours from now on. However, Little Stead Bun, this little one’s body is quite special, so it might bring you so unnecessary trouble in the future," Ye Lingyue reminded.
This little black mink had revived after absorbing her Black Cauldron Breath.
Ye Lingyue felt that its body must be hiding so secret.
"I want to keep it; I’ve even thought of a na for it already, and I will strive to beco stronger and stronger," Long Baobao said with determination.
Ye Lingyue and Feng Xun were happy to see Long Baobao perk up suddenly.
"What na? Tell us," said Ye Lingyue, no longer objecting and joking with Long Baobao.
"It resurrected from death, so let’s call it Little Corpse," said Long Baobao earnestly.
In the mont he nad the black Lightning Mink, the unbreakable bond between Long Baobao and Little Corpse was destined.
Years later, a stunningly beautiful man would appear, always with a Corpse Demon Weasel perched on his right shoulder.
That man and mink ultimately beca a legend.
And the Rift Valley Sand River was exactly where the legend began.
The trio rested overnight in the River Valley.
By daybreak, the area around the River Valley was shrouded in damp fog.
In the early morning, Ye Lingyue and Feng Xun searched around and found a Four-direction Boat buried in the sand not far from the Lightning Mink’s cave.
It looked like sothing left behind by unfortunate people who had perished in the area before.
Since Little Zhiyo’s and Long Baobao’s Four-direction Boat had been destroyed, they worked together to repair and refurbish the found Four-direction Boat.
After Ye Lingyue’s treatnt, Long Baobao was able to get up.
Long Baobao temporarily switched into clothes with pockets and placed Little Corpse inside one.
"Let’s head back to the Four-direction Boat first. When we reach the Middle of the river, we’ll see if we can find Little Wuya," said Ye Lingyue, pushing the Four-direction Boat into the sand river; the three of them in two boats entered the Rift Valley Sand River once again.
Not long after leaving the River Valley, the Four-direction Boat entered the middle of the Rift Valley Sand River, where more nurous and more dangerous Fierce Beasts of the sand river made their ho, including the Three-legged Birdman as one of them.
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