Fast Travel: Endangered Pup Rescue Project

Chapter 734: Cultivation Ghost Mother
When he woke up again, Song Xia looked around in panic, and then saw Shuangzhi and Rukawa lying beside him, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where is this?"

"It should be an ancient monument. After the sandstorm stopped that day, it swept us here. I was afraid of further danger, so I dragged you in here."

Song Xia's eyes were full of curiosity: "I didn't expect there is such a place in the middle of the desert."

Shi Shuangzhi was also full of praise: "Looking at this building, you can tell how glorious it was in the past. But now, it has become a forbidden place for monks. I don't know if it's because the cultivation level of monks nowadays is too low, or the environment was better back then, or both."

Song Xia listened and nodded: "Have you checked nearby?"

Shi Shuangzhi shook her head: "No, I'm afraid something might happen to me, and then there will be no one to take care of you and your brother."

"Well done." Song Xia touched her head, full of pity, "Your cultivation is too low now, it's not advisable to take risks. Wait until your brother wakes up, and then we can go exploring together."

"Ah."

Shi Liuchuan seemed to be afraid as well. When he woke up, his eyes were full of fear. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Song Xia and Shi Shuangzhi were safe and sound.

"Eat something first, then look around." After surviving a great disaster, Song Xia cooked a lot of delicious food. Now that Frost Branch's soul body has become much more solid, she can eat most things.

But as they were eating, the three of them felt something was wrong.

"Come out!" Song Xia shouted softly, and then saw a snow-white little animal staring at them with big watery eyes and an innocent face.

Shi Shuangzhi fell in love with it as soon as she saw it: "What a cute little beast! But how did it survive in a place like this?"

"Mom, do you know what breed it is?" Shi Liuchuan really couldn't tell.

However, Song Xia looked at it carefully and she was still unsure: "I don't know him."

She said, holding up a roasted chicken leg to tempt, "Come here."

The little beast was very alert, and even took two steps back when looking at her. However, it seemed reluctant to give up the delicious food in front of it, and its nose twitched and its eyes struggled.

"Eat it, it's not poisonous. My mother's cooking is the most delicious." Shi Shuangzhi looked at it with a smile. She didn't expect that the little beast was not afraid of her at all and jumped directly onto her knees.

Song Xia was very surprised that there would actually be a day when she would be disliked. It seemed that this was her daughter's fate.

"What do you want to eat?" Shi Shuangzhi asked it, pointing at the feast in front of it. The little beast drooled at the chicken leg in Song Xia's hand.

Song Xia was almost laughing out of anger, but there was no way she would really bother with a little animal, so she handed it to her daughter.

"You!" Frostbranch took it, then touched the little animal's nose, and then fed it little by little.

It seemed that the little beast had not eaten such delicious food for a long time. After tasting it, it began to gobble it up. A chicken leg was not enough to fill its teeth, so Frost Branch simply gave it the whole chicken, but soon only a skeleton was left.

Frostbranch looked at its still flat stomach and was curious about where the whole chicken it had just eaten had gone.

It looked eagerly at the grilled fish in Song Xia's hand again, but Song Xia didn't give it to it this time: "I can give it to you, but you have to lead us later to find the things we asked you to protect." After hearing this, the little beast stopped looking at her, only stole a glance from time to time, and then whimpered towards Shi Shuangzhi in a baby voice.

Shi Shuangzhi's heart softened when she heard this, but she still shook her head cruelly: "No, these things are made by mother, only mother can make the decision."

Shi Liuchuan asked curiously: "Mom, how do you know it is a guardian beast?"

"In the vast desert, there are not even snakes, insects, rats or ants to be seen. Its existence is very telling. Moreover, its fur is so shiny and smooth. There must be some treasure keeping it alive." Song Xia said as he took out the insects he had stored on the outskirts of the desert and started roasting them. The fragrant aroma filled the entire space.

"Really not eating? The people who left you here wanted you to wait for your destined one, right? Don't you want to confirm whether we are the destined one you are waiting for? Little guy, the world has changed now. If we leave, you may not be able to wait for others for the rest of your life."

Upon hearing this, the little beast looked at the sky blankly, then looked at them blankly, and mist suddenly began to fill its watery eyes.

Shi Shuangzhi looked at him distressedly: "What's wrong? Don't cry! If you want to eat, I'll give it to you. It doesn't matter if you don't lead the way."

Song Xia did not stop her daughter's actions. She knew why her daughter was so soft-hearted, because no one knew how long the little beast had been stationed in this uninhabited forbidden area. If they had not been brought here by the sandstorm, the little beast's final fate might have been to disappear along with this world. It was really pitiful.

With food at its fingertips, the little beast quickly forgot its sadness, and in the end most of what Song Xia made went into its stomach.

After the rest, the three decided to start exploring this place. The little beast did not leave, so Shi Shuangzhi held it in her arms. She was the weakest, so she walked in the middle. Shi Liuchuan strongly requested to go in front, so Song Xia followed behind.

The place where they had just been seemed to be a large hall. Apart from the entrance that Shi Shuangzhi brought them in, there was only another door leading inside. The little beast had also come out from here just now.

The passage was very long and dark. Shi Liuchuan felt the wall and saw carved murals on both sides. When he shone a torch on them, he saw that the carvings were of flowers, birds, fish and insects, but they looked very strange, very different from the spiritual beasts and herbs of today.

"They should all be crops from ancient times. I just don't know who the owner of this place was back then."

"It must be very extraordinary to have been preserved until now. I wonder if we can find anything useful in it."

The three continued walking forward and came to another hall. This hall was obviously much better preserved, with exquisite carvings and sculptures everywhere. There was a large altar in the middle, which looked like a place for some kind of ceremony, but there were still no signs of life here, which meant that the little beast did not usually stay here. There should be other passages, but they could not see any signs of passages.

So the three of them separated to look for the mechanism, and finally set their sights on the altar in the center.

"Don't you need some kind of sacrifice?"

Hearing this, the little beast turned over with a roar, seeming to be very disdainful of this speculation.

Song Xia glanced at it and said, "Why not just smash it?"

The little beast immediately became anxious again, but Song Xia ignored him: "Anyway, we can't find it no matter how hard we try. I guess no one will come here in the future. Instead of burying it under the yellow sand, we might as well try our luck."

"Squeak..." The little beast jumped onto the altar, very angry at what she said.

Song Xia raised an eyebrow: "Why, you want to stop me? Can you beat me?"

The little beast bared its teeth at her, and then, under the comfort of Master Shuangzhi, resigned itself to inputting spiritual power into the altar. Then the entire altar began to sink, and Song Xia and the others fell directly down because they were not prepared.