Chapter 102: The Pentagonal Heavy Lizard Hatched
Chapter 102: Chapter 102: The Pentagonal Heavy Lizard Hatched
Plowing fields, farming, cultivating, and nourishing his vitality.
Returning home, Chen Mo cultivated for a while before taking out the *Tier One Spiritual Array Outline* to read and study again. Although it did not record any other Spirit Arrays, its theoretical knowledge was quite detailed. Starting tomorrow, he would be specially learning the way of Arrays from a Spirit Array Master. For Chen Mo, who had little Talent, the more complete his grasp of the knowledge, the faster he would absorb the teachings!
He read like this for three hours.
As evening approached, Chen Mo’s train of thought was interrupted by a flurry of urgent pecking. He furrowed his brows, not knowing what tricks Kang had up its sleeve to disturb him at this hour!
He stood up and opened the door. Kang, who was now taller than Chen Mo and boasted muscles more solid than a human’s, spread its wings and tried to pull him along.
"What is it?"
"CLUCK! CLUCK! CLUCK!"
The bird seemed incredibly excited. Leaving no time to explain, it hurriedly urged Chen Mo to follow. One man and one chicken soon arrived at the chicken coop.
At this moment, Chen Mo finally realized what had happened!
An egg-yolk-yellow reptile was curled up, its eyes not yet open. Its mouth was still moving, continuously chewing on the broken eggshells. This newly hatched Demon Beast was covered in slime. Its head bore five symmetrical sharp horns, and its tail was extremely long, making up half its body length and looking quite powerful!
"It actually hatched?!"
Chen Mo had almost forgotten about this matter. He had originally bought it for twenty taels of Spiritual Sand. After handing it over to Kang and its roosters for so long without any activity, he assumed it had died in the shell. He never expected that, after a few months, it would actually hatch!
Of course, what he didn’t know was that ever since one of the three rooster brothers was taken away and eaten, the remaining two had been desperately incubating this Demon Beast Egg. They were exceptionally respectful toward Kang, terrified that they would be the next ones eaten!
Over the past few months, the second batch of chicks had also grown to half a person’s height. These young hens had absolutely no resistance in front of Kang; if the other roosters wanted to handle reproduction, they simply couldn’t get past it! Now that the Pentagonal Heavy Lizard had hatched, the roosters seemed to feel a sense of vindication, clucking proudly at Kang.
Seeing that the broken eggshells were almost finished, Chen Mo stepped into the coop and picked up the little lizard, which was barely the size of his palm. The little guy hadn’t even opened its eyes yet, but sensing an unfamiliar presence, it began to struggle desperately. It twisted its body, trying to break free.
However, the pair of large hands held it like a vice, rendering it immobile. It opened its mouth to bite, but apart from a CLINK, nothing happened.
"You need to recognize who your master is," Chen Mo said.
Spiritual Qi gathered at his fingertips. Starting from the infant Pentagonal Heavy Lizard’s head, he began to stimulate it with the Vitality Technique. A moment later, the Demon Beast that had just been trying to break free was now paralyzed with comfort in Chen Mo’s hands. Even when Chen Mo placed it on the ground, it rubbed against him and crawled right back up into his hands.
"Sure enough, no living creature can resist a massage!"
Chen Mo was truly impressed. He wondered which genius Cultivator had invented the Magic known as the Vitality Technique; its effects were surprisingly good!
"HISS~ HISS!" the Pentagonal Heavy Lizard let out a low cry.
Having raised chickens for so long, Chen Mo guessed the reason as soon as he heard it. He carried the Pentagonal Heavy Lizard back to the house, cooked a bowl of Spirit Rice Porridge, set it in front of the creature, and fed it bit by bit.
This Demon Beast was still exceedingly weak, so taking care of it required extra caution. However, even though it hadn’t opened its eyes yet, eating was purely instinctive for it!
"Cluck... cluck, cluck."
Kang poked its head over from behind Chen Mo, quietly watching the Demon Beast youngling drink the rice porridge. As it watched, it unknowingly started to drool.
SMACK!
Chen Mo delivered a backhanded slap to its head. "If you dare eat it, I’ll eat you."
"Cluck... cluck, cluck, cluck... cluck, cluck."
"No eggs either!"
Kang looked wronged, feeling quite angry at Chen Mo’s chicken-deceiving behavior. As a form of protest, it polished off all the remaining Spirit Rice Porridge in the pot.
Once it finished eating, Chen Mo patted Brother Chicken on the shoulder and said, "Will you ever be short on food in the future? I’m leaving it to you. You’re responsible for training it. When it grows strong, the two of you can go hunting together!"
"Cluck, cluck, cluck."
Seeing it reluctantly agree, Chen Mo scooped up the Pentagonal Heavy Lizard youngling and placed it on Kang’s back. But at this moment, the little lizard began to struggle violently once again, letting out piercing cries.
"What’s going on?! It refuses to go?"
The instant Chen Mo’s palm touched it again, it quieted down. It even rubbed its head against him affectionately. The Vitality Technique truly had a tremendous affinity-building effect!
Helpless, Chen Mo had no choice but to keep the creature on his person. Fortunately, the little thing wasn’t very big right now; he didn’t feel its weight at all while carrying it in his pocket.
The joy of hatching the Pentagonal Heavy Lizard didn’t last long, and what remained was a return to his dull and tedious life of cultivation. As darkness fell, Chen Mo sat cross-legged and began his breathing exercises.
Spiritual Qi passed bit by bit from the Low Grade Spirit Stone in his hand into his body. At this moment, the lizard youngling—which had been dozing in his pocket with its eyes closed—seemed drawn by something. It quickly crawled onto Chen Mo’s palm and used its tongue to continuously lick the fist-sized Low Grade Spirit Stone!
"Is this useful to you?"
However, the moment Chen Mo stopped cultivating, the Spiritual Qi radiating from the Spirit Stone came to an abrupt halt. The Pentagonal Heavy Lizard, confused, turned its head to search around. Chen Mo tried cultivating again. The lizard youngling, which had just been acting like a headless fly, finally found its target once more and continued licking the Spirit Stone.
"Goodness! You’re just taking a free meal!"
Regardless, the dissipating Spiritual Qi wouldn’t have integrated into his body anyway; it would have been wasted regardless. Now that the Pentagonal Heavy Lizard was absorbing it, the Qi had found another use! The little lizard licked for a long time until it was utterly exhausted, eventually falling asleep on Chen Mo’s arm.
Early the next morning, Chen Mo tucked the lizard youngling, which was clinging to him, into his pocket. He cleared the weeds in the Spirit Field and cast a rain spell. After making himself lunch and eating early, he set off for the White Snake Marketplace.
When he arrived at the Master’s Mansion, he happened to see Ban Xiaowei returning from outside, looking refreshed.
He thought to himself, "As expected of a Cultivator from Purple Cloud Peak, he is busy with arduous cultivation every day."
"Fellow Daoist Ban!" Chen Mo stepped forward to greet him.
The other party furrowed his brows and asked in return, "Why do you have the aura of a Demon Beast on you?"
"A Demon Beast?" Chen Mo paused for a moment, then took the sleeping little lizard out of his pocket. "Do you mean this?"
"A Pentagonal Heavy Lizard?!" Ban Xiaowei subconsciously took two steps back, a ripple of shock appearing on his unusually calm face.
"Do you recognize it, Fellow Daoist Ban?"
"Where did you get that?!"
"I bought it in the Marketplace," Chen Mo replied, a bit confused by the intense reaction.