God of Pets

Chapter 179 Digging Peonies

After the two men came out of the Wild Ghost Cave, Jiang Qiemo said goodbye and left without asking Chen Guan to fight him again.

"Sure enough, it was right not to tell you what happened later." Chen Guan watched Jiang Qiemo's back as he left, and silently praised his own wit in his heart.

Chen Guan had no plans to go back, as he still had to go to Mudan Mountain to dig the fairy peonies.

He is not as leisurely and elegant as Qing Zhilan, who can wait for two or three years to fight Jiang Qiemo.

Chen Guan just wanted to awaken again as quickly as possible, the faster the better.

After applying medicine, the wounds on my body healed quite well. In fact, they had already formed scabs before applying the medicine.

Chen Guan discovered that his body's ability to recover was much stronger than before. He didn't know if it was the benefit of the secret method or some other reason.

Apart from being remote and having difficult roads to travel, Mudan Mountain is actually not very dangerous. The secret spirits you can encounter on the road are all below level 10.

Even the secret spirits on Mudan Mountain are like this. Their levels are not too high. The little flower demons of level one or two are the main secret spirits of Mudan Mountain.

The little flower demon has basically no attack power. Wherever there is a fairy peony, there is a little flower demon. She lives purely on the nectar and pollen of the fairy peony.

Chen Guan had only seen the appearance of the little flower demon in the database before. It was only after coming to Mudan Mountain that he saw her true appearance.

The little flower demon is only the size of a palm and looks like a flower fairy. She wears flowery clothes and has a few petals stuck on her back. Those petals are the wings of the little flower demon, allowing her to fly in the air.

Logically speaking, even if this kind of secret spirit is of lower level, lower quality, and weaker ability, some people will keep it as a pet if they think it is cute.

Unfortunately, the little flower demon herself has a serious problem. She has many disgusting-looking sores on her body, including her face and hands, and they also emit a foul odor, making it difficult for people to get close to her.

A secret spirit like this has no ability, no appearance, and no value. No one cares about it, and no one is even too lazy to kill it.

Fortunately, the little flower fairies do not actively attack humans. When Chen Guan rode his white horse up the mountain, he saw many little flower fairies flying around in the peony bushes collecting pollen and nectar.

It’s just that the smell is not very pleasant. I don’t know why the rare and beautiful peony, which is as fragrant as the sky, has to be accompanied by such a disgusting little flower demon.

The further Chen Guan walked, the more confused he became. Aside from harmless spirits like the Little Flower Demon, he hadn't spotted any threatening spirits. As he neared North Peak, he couldn't help but wonder, "Is what the Holy Horned White Deer wants really that simple?"

I feel like there is a problem, but the fact is that there is no problem at all.

Chen Guan waited until he reached the North Peak and soon found the celestial peony that the Holy Horned White Deer had mentioned.

Although the fairy peony looked beautiful, what made Chen Guan recognize it at a glance was a stone next to it.

Just as the Holy Horned White Deer said, this fairy peony grows next to the cliff, and right next to it is a big rock more than one meter tall, which can be seen at a glance.

From a distance, the stone looks like a person standing beside a cliff, gazing at the distant sky and universe.

Because the rock is long and slender, it is relatively symmetrical on the top but very thin at the bottom. When viewed closely, it looks like a pencil, with only the tip of the pencil connected to the cliff.

It looked as if a slight breeze could blow it off the cliff, but the stone remained standing there without moving an inch.

"Such a strange stone, you can tell it's this one at a glance. No wonder the Holy White Deer was so sure that I wouldn't make a mistake. It's really difficult to find another stone like this." Chen Guan saw that there was only a peony next to the stone, and the branches were full of bright red peonies in full bloom, so he thought it must be this one.

I didn't dare go directly over. I observed it from a distance for a while, but I couldn't see anything special about the Fairy Peony. Aside from the exceptionally elegant blossoms and the velvety texture of the petals, it didn't exhibit any other unusual features of a rare treasure. It was quite ordinary. Even its fragrance wasn't particularly strong, and anyway, it couldn't be detected from such a distance. I observed it quietly for a while longer, but still found nothing unusual, nor did I see any hidden spirits nearby.

Chen Guan was still worried, so he summoned Ming Fei to see if there was anything wrong with the fairy peony.

Ming Fei looked at it for a long time, then asked Chen Guan suspiciously, "Why do you think there's something wrong with it? How do you know there's something wrong with it?"

"Because the person who asked me to dig it out has problems, I don't believe it has no problems." Chen Guan told Ming Fei the whole cause and effect of the matter.

Ming Fei frowned and looked at it for a long time before she said with a strange look on her face, "You're right. There's definitely something wrong with that Holy Horned White Deer, but I really can't see anything wrong with this Heavenly Fairy Peony either."

"Why don't you dig it out and take a look?" Chen Guan said.

Ming Fei rolled her eyes upon hearing this. "I just saved your life, do you still have any conscience? Are you trying to use me as cannon fodder again? I won't go. You have so many pets, why do you want me to go for such a small matter?"

"I treat you as a human being. The others are just animals. How can they have the ability to complete such a complicated task and dig out the peony with all its roots and stems intact?" Chen Guan said with a smile.

"No." Ming Fei sat down directly without giving Chen Guan any face.

Chen Guan was not annoyed, nor did he force Ming Fei. He summoned a red-skinned Yaksha pet and asked it to hold a small fork and circle around the fairy peony and the big rock for a few times. After seeing that there was nothing unusual, he let the red-skinned Yaksha start digging near the fairy peony.

Things went unexpectedly smoothly. The red-skinned yaksha quickly dug out all the soil near the fairy peony. Chen Guan didn't let it dig the soil closer to the roots, so it was still wrapped around the roots.

Unable to see what was wrong, Chen Guan asked the red-skinned yaksha to carry the fairy peony out with its roots and soil.

The moment the Fairy Peony left the earth, Chen Guan felt that the entire Peony Mountain shook as if there was an earthquake.

But the feeling was very light and only lasted for a moment. If you didn't pay attention, you wouldn't feel it, and you might even think it was an illusion.

But Chen Guan frowned, summoned the paper man first, grasped the hilt of the purple feather blade with his fingers, and quickly scanned the surroundings.

He doesn't have many pets he can use now, and they can't be of much help in the real battle of the Warring States Period. Chen Guan doesn't want to use them as cannon fodder.

Those ordinary pets are much weaker than Chen Guan in combat and can't be of much help. Ming Fei is the last trump card. If something happens, there is still one card left to use.

If Rouge and Ghost Eye cannot be summoned, it is better to let the paper man come out to absorb experience and level up faster.

But Chen Guan didn't find anything wrong. The red-skinned Yaksha had already come over with the fairy peony, and nothing happened over there.

Chen Guan controlled the red-skinned Yaksha to follow behind him holding the fairy peony, and went along the mountain back the way he came. He did not encounter any secret spirits on the way, and the journey was unexpectedly smooth.

Until we got off Mudan Mountain, everything remained the same.

But Chen Guan felt something was wrong. He thought for a moment and finally figured out why he always felt something was wrong.

Since he dug out this fairy peony, he hasn't seen another little flower demon along the way.

There were originally little flower fairies everywhere on Peony Mountain, but on the way down, not a single one was seen.

(End of this chapter)