Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 16: A new general joins the westward team

The Phoenix clone completely inherited the original body's talent for hidden weapons. With one golden nail, it broke the ox-tailed tiger's spine. Dang Kang tore it with all his strength and cut its neck. The beast's limbs twitched twice and it soon fell in a pool of blood.

Dang Kang was also a juvenile. He had seen tigers and bison before, but this was the first time he had seen a tiger with a bull's tail. Moreover, the tiger's roar was extremely loud, but the roar of the guy he just killed sounded like a dog's bark.

It took a branch and poked the beast's body. After confirming that it was dead, it gave the phoenix clone a questioning look, as if to ask, "Aren't you well-read? What the hell is this?"
In fact, when the ferocious beast's limbs were twitching, Deng Chanyu's real body at Sanshan Pass had already started looking through the Book of Strange Things.

The Great Shang Dynasty's Storing Room is indeed impressive. This book of rare species may not record all the precious species in the world, but it at least records most of them.

She quickly found the answer and told it to Dang Kang through the mouth of her clone.

"This guy should be called '彘'. It sounds like a pig, but it actually has nothing to do with pigs. It just likes to eat pigs."

The clone said as he looked towards Dang Kang.

Dang Kang grumbled, "I'm not a pig! I'm the auspicious beast Dang Kang!"
The clone spat out another golden nail at the pig's forehead, and after making sure that there was no life, it landed on the ground.

After this guy died, he emitted a foul smell, as if he had been dead for a long time, which made Phoenix lose his appetite.

"It stinks so much. This thing must not be eaten. Let's go and look for this guy's cave. Maybe there are spoils in it." said the Phoenix clone.

Dang Kang has grown so big without anyone feeding it. It has certain hunting abilities and a very sensitive nose.

It sniffed the road twice, and while the Phoenix clone was wandering around in the sky, it had already found the pig's cave in a mountain stream.

"Be careful, there seems to be someone inside."

Dang Kang was very confused and didn't quite understand what species humans were.

Unable to explain it clearly in a few words, the Phoenix clone could only vaguely say, "Just be careful. Watch my gaze and do what I tell you. Don't yell until I say something. Keep a dignified expression. That's it."

Dang Kang, with a stern face, was exploring the way ahead.

Soon, they came to the depths of the cave. When Kang jumped up, he gathered all his strength and smashed a huge rock that was blocking the road with one palm. The smoke and dust cleared, and a middle-aged man with gorgeous clothes, but looking a little dusty, walked out from behind the rock.

Hmm? Kang turned around and looked at the Phoenix clone. "Is this the person you were talking about? It doesn't look like anything special."

San Yisheng, the senior official of Xiqi, straightened his clothes.

He was ordered by Xibohou Jichang to mediate the conflict between Nanbohou and Chaoge. To put it bluntly, he was here to persuade Nanbohou to surrender. Can you defeat Chaoge? I am 85 years old and I don’t dare to resist. Where do you get the confidence from? In order to prevent the suffering of all people, surrender quickly.

Nanbo Hou ordered his two hundred princes and barbarians to block the east-west roads. San Yisheng didn't want to waste time talking to the small princes, so he simply took the small road. As a result, he ran into danger on the road, got separated from his men, and was finally captured by a pig and taken to a cave. It has been three days.

At this moment, the Xiqi doctor rubbed his eyes. What did he see? A living phoenix?!

Dang Kang also recognized it and knew that it was an auspicious beast that blessed a good harvest.

If this combination is brought back to Xiqi, it can at least be equivalent to an army of 100,000.

He immediately put the matter of Nanbohou in second place.

"Two divine beasts, I am San Yisheng, the senior doctor of Xiqi, and my lord." Before he could finish his words, he saw two divine beasts, one on the left and one on the right, circling around him, a living man, and looking behind him.

Dang Kang couldn't understand his human language, but the Phoenix clone could. Deng Chanyu also wanted to be friendly with Xiqi, but the existence of the clone was of great importance, so she tried her best to conceal it from Deng Jiugong. Facing a stranger like San Yisheng, there was no need to say anything more.

She stretched her neck and looked behind San Yisheng.

Behind Doctor Xiqi, I saw a pool made of stones and soil. There was a thin layer of water in the pool, very little. Judging from the layout, it should be used to collect some spring water flowing down the mountain wall from the mountain stream above.

At this time, a small animal was lying in the spring. Feeling the scrutiny of the Phoenix clone and Dang Kang, the small animal quickly stretched out its red tongue and licked the spring water twice.

The little animal looks like a little tiger, with colorful patterns on its body and a tail that is longer than its body.

Hey! This little guy is pretty good-looking!

Deng is obviously a beauty fan. She plays with colorful stones every day. Now she likes everything that emits colorful light and feels that she has a connection with it.

This guy is much more handsome than the previous pig, but he looks very small, even smaller than the phoenix clone.

The main body was flipping through the book again.

Dang Kang called out twice, "Boy, do you want to come with us to collect semen?"

The little beast let out a dissatisfied "wooo", I am a girl!
San Yisheng saw their relationship rapidly heating up and felt something was amiss. He couldn't help but say, "You two divine beasts may not know that this little fellow is Zou Wu, one of the rare benevolent beasts in the world. That pig must have some hidden agenda by capturing us."

He rescued Zouwu on the road. At that time, Zouwu was entangled by a python and was about to die. It was this Xiqi doctor who drew his bow and arrow, shot the python to death and saved Zouwu.

This is the benevolent beast, which he originally planned to take back to Xiqi.

As a result, he was caught by Zhu again. According to his understanding, Zhu was probably greedy for Zou Wu's body, but Zou Wu was too young and he wanted to raise him for a while.
These words were rather obscene, and he would never say them in front of the two divine beasts.

Deng Chanyu also found information about Zouwu. It is indeed a famous benevolent beast, the so-called "will not eat any beast that does not die of its own accord." When Zouwu grows up, it is larger than an ordinary tiger, with swift limbs and can travel a thousand miles a day.

She was quite interested in this. In the Investiture of the Gods world, almost everyone with a name or surname had their own exclusive mount. Someone like Zhao Gongming, who only realized he had no mount when he was about to leave the house and had to grab a random black tiger, would be so embarrassing.

But at the moment, this Zouwu is indeed young. If you don't count its tail, it is about the size of an ordinary person's pillow. It is indeed not suitable to be a mount.

The Phoenix clone called out twice, which meant to ask, "Little girl, can you fight in water?"
The Book of Strange Things says that Zouwu can go into the water. I don't know whether it's true or not, but it's extremely uncomfortable for a phoenix with fire attributes to go into the water. She will never go into the water unless it's absolutely necessary.

Little Zouwu looked at the beautiful Sister Phoenix and nodded ignorantly, indicating that he had some ability in water combat.

The Phoenix clone immediately made the decision, Zuo Wu, come with me.

With me, a master who has read a lot, Dang Kang who is very tanky, and Zou Wu who knows a little about water combat, and another one who can fight well, our team of divine beasts will be officially formed!

　The Zou Wu in The Crimes of Grindelwald is the Zou Wu, but it was imagined by foreigners and its appearance is different from that recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

　　
　
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