Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 67 Sugarcane Spirit and Bamboo Fairy

"Cabbage! Slow down! I'm out of mana!"

Seeing that her blue aura was almost depleted, Bai Chenxue flew down from the sky to the ground and started yelling at the little white dog, Baicai, who was running around on the ground.

Upon hearing this, the cabbage, which was running around happily, twitched its ears and then let out a reluctant bark. It turned its head to look at Bai Chenxue, but instead wagged its tail and continued to dart deeper into the bamboo forest.

"This little brat! He's not even a teenager yet and he's already so rebellious!"

Bai Chenxue cursed angrily.

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a human voice was heard coming from deep within the bamboo forest.

"Hey hey hey! Where did this stray dog ​​come from?! Don't bite me! Go away! Go away!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Chenxue thought to herself, "Oh no!" and hurriedly chased after him into the bamboo forest.

This bamboo forest is quite a distance from the Taiyin Sect's headquarters, and there are no markers for miles around on the shared map among players—meaning that no player has ever been here before.

Therefore, that human voice was most likely from some randomly appearing NPC!

"Whose child is this?! Take him back right now! Or don't blame me for being rude!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Chenxue anxiously parted the dense bamboo and discovered that Bai Cai was chewing on a black stalk!

The source of the human voice was none other than the black stick that the cabbage used to grind its teeth!
Although the black leather pole had no facial features, it somehow gave Bai Chenxue the feeling of being "expressive." It said, "Oh? A human cultivator? Is this your dog?"

Bai Chenxue was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "Ah, ah, yes, you... are?"

A voice, feigning authority, came from the black leather pole: "Ahem! I am Xi Zhuqiu Zhuxian. Are you a disciple of the Guangcheng Sect in the north?"

"Bamboo... Immortal?"

Bai Chenxue said blankly, "But aren't you sugarcane?"

The black sugarcane was so angry that its entire stalk shook: "How dare you! I am clearly the Bamboo Immortal!"

"Bamboo...is there anyone like you?"

Bai Chenxue looked at the black sugarcane in front of her, which seemed particularly thick and clumsy compared to the lush and slender bamboo around her, and found it all very unbelievable.

While sugarcane and bamboo do look somewhat alike when their branches and leaves are removed, the difference between sugarcane and bamboo growing in the ground is enormous! The former has a dark purple, thick, and clumsy stalk with short internodes, and the sugarcane leaves at the top are exceptionally large and grow in a cluster. The latter, on the other hand, has a bright green stalk, slender and long, with longer internodes and branches and leaves growing between them.

Most importantly, the sugarcane in front of us is only four or five meters tall at most, while the bamboo around us is at least ten or twenty meters tall!

You're telling me you're bamboo?
Of course, "Ten Continents Chronicles" is an MMORPG game with a cultivation theme, so it's fine for sugarcane to become a spirit. But for a sugarcane spirit to insist that it is bamboo is just absurd.

Did drinking too much nuclear wastewater cause mutations?

The sugarcane spirit, who called himself the "Bamboo Fairy," replied confidently, "Of course I am! Aren't I one?"

"Don't listen to its nonsense, it's just a sugarcane!"

A soft, delicate voice came from beside my feet, its gender indistinguishable, sounding somewhat like a child's.

Bai Chenxue looked down and saw that a large hole had appeared near the root of the sugarcane, and a small animal that looked neither like a cat nor a mouse was lying at the entrance of the hole.

The little animal was much larger than the cabbage, covered in golden fur that looked shiny and smooth. As soon as it appeared, it startled the cabbage, which was gnawing on sugarcane to grind its teeth, so much that it tumbled several times.

"You're talking nonsense! I'm called 'Bamboo Immortal'! I'm bamboo! Bamboo!"

"Don't deceive yourself, it's useless. 'Bamboo Fairy' is just your name."

"Aaaaah, you damn rat!"

"I'm a golden bamboo cat, not a mouse." "Then I'm bamboo too!"

"You are sugarcane."

With a "snap," a dark brown root, enraged, burst out of the soil and slammed towards the golden-haired bamboo rat.

The golden-haired bamboo fox was clearly used to this. It skillfully shrunk into the cave, and the bamboo fairy's roots only got air, eventually falling to the cave entrance and raising a cloud of dust.

The cabbage, who had been standing still for a long time, was so frightened that it cried out and scrambled into Bai Chenxue's arms, its round body trembling uncontrollably.

After the bamboo fairy retracted its roots, the golden-haired bamboo weasel emerged again and calmly rebuked, "You frightened the child."

"Give!"

With a snap, a sugarcane suddenly appeared in front of Bai Chenxue. It was much smaller than the sugarcane that called itself "Bamboo Fairy," and was only one meter long.

Zhu Xian said proudly, "Juicing it will definitely awaken your dog's intelligence. If you combine it with some other mild natural herbs, the effect will be even better."

"This is……"

"My child!"

Bai Chenxue's eyes widened in surprise: "?"

The golden bamboo rat beside it explained in a soft voice, "This is an apology to you. It's a hundred-year-old spirit sugarcane that it raised itself. Just accept it. It's quite rare."

"Thank...thank you?"

Bamboo Fairy seemed to snort as if it were exhaling from its nostrils—even though it didn't have nostrils at all.

Bai Chenxue picked up the spirit sugarcane, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Uh... excuse me, what does it mean to awaken intelligence?"

Zhu Xian glanced at Bai Chenxue with disdain: "Aren't you a cultivator from the Guangcheng Sect? Don't you know that?"

Bai Chenxue said embarrassedly, "I am indeed a cultivator, but not from the Guangcheng Sect, but from the Taiyin Sect, and I've only been a disciple for a few days..."

The golden-haired bamboo fox asked in surprise, "Huh? So you were able to draw qi into your body in just a few days?"

Zhu Xian muttered to herself with disdain, "Taiyin Sect? What kind of lousy sect is that? I've never heard of it before."

As it spoke, it looked at Bai Chenxue with even more disdain: "What about your master? Didn't he tell you anything? Didn't he intend for you to awaken this stupid dog's intelligence? If you're not going to cultivate beast taming, then what are you raising a dog for?"

"My master..."

Bai Chenxue thought about Jia Xiaoren, who had been working hard in Chang'an City for the past few days and had gained weight from the exhaustion, and gave an awkward laugh: "Haha, my master has been quite busy lately. As for the cabbage... its mother gave it to me, so I've been raising it. I really don't know how to raise it. Senior, what do you mean by awakening its intelligence? Does it mean that the cabbage can cultivate like you? And what is beast taming?"

The bamboo fairy was delighted by the repeated calls of "senior." It shook the leaves on its head and said, "Since you have so sincerely asked me for guidance, then I, in my great mercy, will impart some common knowledge to you! Hmm... cough! cough! cough! My throat is a little dry, and I'd like to drink some of the spiritual spring water from the mountaintop..."

Upon hearing Zhu Xian's almost explicit "hint," Bai Chenxue, thinking she had obtained a hidden NPC quest, immediately became excited: "I'll go get it right now!"

The golden-haired bamboo fox quickly called out to Bai Chenxue, and pulled out a bamboo tube almost as big as its body from somewhere. It handed it over and said, "Climb up the rocks over there, and there's a spiritual spring at the very top. Here's a bamboo tube for you to use first."

"Thank you, Senior Bamboo Fox!"

Bai Chenxue grabbed the bamboo tube and quickly flew towards the mountaintop on the wind.

Seeing the young cultivator's eagerness, the golden-haired bamboo fox's eyes filled with kindness, and it murmured to the bamboo fairy, "This child is quite polite."

Zhu Xian nodded in agreement: "Her aptitude is also good. She's only at the Qi Refining stage, yet her Wind Control Technique is already so masterful. It's truly rare... Of course, she can't compare to me, but among humans, she's already quite good."

"By the way, where exactly did the Taiyin Sect come from?"

(End of this chapter)