Playing with fantasy beasts in the martial arts world

Chapter 4 Madam, you're a water-type Palu!
"Just consider us as having passed through a boundary gate!" Cha Nan didn't intend to waste any more words explaining from the beginning. After a while, Guo Fu would naturally understand everything once she got used to it. After all, she was just a little slow-witted, not mentally challenged.

"Alright, have some dried fruit to restore your strength and health!" Cha Nan handed the stir-fried dried fruit, along with the stone plate, to Guo Fu.

Guo Fu looked at the sticky, limp dried fruit roasting on the stone plate and had no appetite at all. In the past, if someone had given her this kind of thing to eat, she would have thrown a tantrum long ago.

But with just one sentence from Cha Nan, even though she had some physical resistance, her hand involuntarily reached out, picked up two pieces of dried fruit, and stuffed them into her mouth with a frown.

"Ugh! So sour!! Do you have any maltose?" Guo Fu looked at Cha Nan with teary eyes. She was a woman in her early thirties, but she had the innocent charm of a young girl and the air of a powerful emperor. Cha Nan was quite tempted by her appearance.

However, he has one advantage: if the girl doesn't move, I don't move; if the girl moves first, I'll riot.

As a successor to the new century, he never takes the initiative to fire the first shot.

"No! Also, how are you feeling?" Cha Nan was the type who wouldn't hold back even when his senior slapped his arms and thighs, so of course he wouldn't soften his stance this time. He was only concerned about whether the Palu-transformed Guo Fu could restore her health by eating, just like the normal Palu.

Guo Fu was stunned. Tears welled up in her large eyes, misty and glistening, but she held them back. She gathered her inner strength to feel the effects and immediately turned her sorrow into joy, saying, "How amazing! My injuries are mostly healed!"

"What did you give me to eat? Was it some extraordinary spiritual fruit?"

In the world of martial arts, there are usually some rare and exotic flowers and fruits. Eating them can either heal wounds and remove poisons, or increase internal strength. In short, they are all quite rare.

"You're so kind of you, giving me all these wonderful things. When I get back to Xiangyang, I'll definitely ask my mother to thank you properly!" Guo Fu said with a radiant smile.

Cha Nan thought of Huang, the model worker from the previous version, and upon hearing this, she couldn't help but have a slightly distorted thought. She couldn't help but show an expression that said, "You are such a filial daughter, I am very pleased."

"Eat more if it's useful. After you're better, come with me for a walk outside!" Cha Nan placed the whole plate of dried fruit in front of Guo Fu, without immediately asking about martial arts.

He had tried. Although Guo Fu was his Palu, he couldn't use her skills before riding her, so he had to start learning martial arts from scratch. It was definitely a systematic thing and couldn't be accomplished overnight, so he decided not to rush it.

The most urgent task is to collect some materials with Guo Fu, and ideally find a teleportation point to obtain technology points and then build the Palu Terminal.

Then you can consider crafting or finding new Palo Balls and capturing other usable Palos.

Guo Fu ate about half of the dried fruit, then tore open a corner of her skirt with a ripping sound and wrapped up the rest of the dried fruit: "Could I leave some for my younger brother and sister? They're injured too. I... I'll trade you Nine-Flower Jade Dew Pills!"

Cha Nan: "This won't work on them!"

In the technology tree of the mythical beast Palu, there is a part on making potions, including healing potions, but those are things that can only be thought of after development.

Putting aside the hassle of collecting materials, just unlocking the technology points in the tech tree is enough to give you a headache.

After all, Cha Nan couldn't level up, and looking at Guo Fu, who was a Palu, she couldn't level up either. This was probably the constraint they faced as outsiders. Although they had come to this world and possessed some characteristics of the mythical beast world, they hadn't fully integrated into it.

"Are you all better? If you are, let's go out for a walk!" Cha Nan continued.

Guo Fu nodded, obediently got up, and walked out of the cave with Cha Nan.

Stepping out of the cave, sunlight spilled onto the moss-covered stone platform. A white ribbon of water cascading from the cliff tore through the valley mist, its thunderous roar rolling along the mountainside. Withered old pines emerged from the rock crevices, their gray bark cracked with age-old furrows, and their twisted branches splashed water droplets like shattered silver.

Rotten wood was half-submerged and half-floating at the edge of the pool, and green moss spread along the branches that were submerged in the water, turning the pool into a deep emerald color.

The mountain spring seeping from the crevices of the rocks gathers into a trickle at the edge of the pool, then meanders downwards, flowing along the tiered, verdant ancient forest towards the unknown distance.

"So beautiful!" Guo Fu couldn't help but exclaim.

She had traveled the world with her parents and Ke Zhen'e since she was a teenager, so she was quite knowledgeable. However, the real mountains and forests were mostly not as beautiful as she had imagined. Not to mention the various snakes, insects, and rodents, the dense vines and the thorny, poisonous grass and roots would immediately shatter people's beautiful fantasies about the wildness of nature.

However, the forest in the world of Mythical Beast Palu is like a filter of reality; although it is just as dangerous, its beauty is not diminished.

"By the way, you can swim and dive, right?" Cha Nan remembered that Huang Rong was a good swimmer, and she could move freely in the sea like a sea sprite. Guo Fu also grew up on Peach Blossom Island, so she should also be an excellent swimmer.

Guo Fu proudly raised her snow-white chin, and smiled, revealing two shallow dimples. "Of course, the two brothers, Da Wu and Xiao Wu, have never beaten me. When Mother took us to search for treasure at the bottom of the sea, I always won!"

This statement can only be taken halfway, after all, Da Wu and Xiao Wu are both seasoned sycophants, and it's unknown how much effort they would put in when compared to Guo Fu.

"Then I'll trouble you to go down into the pool and see if there's a wooden box inside!" Cha Nan said. Cha Nan had jumped into the water before and vaguely saw the shadow of the treasure chest, but her diving ability wasn't good enough to sink, so she could only sigh in vain. Now that Guo Fu, a humanoid Palu who is proficient in swimming, has this important task, of course, should be transferred to her.

There are five types of treasure chests in the world of Phantom Beast Palu. The most basic one is a wooden chest, which can be opened freely. It usually contains Palu Balls, basic materials, etc. If you are lucky, you may get a Phantom Beast Egg, but the level will not be high.

Then there are the bronze, silver, and gold treasure chests, which will have different levels, colors, and the difficulty of obtaining the map itself, and will improve the quality of the items inside. However, each chest requires a corresponding key or lock-picking tool.

Finally, there are special treasure chests that require specific job characteristics to open, which generally only appear in dangerous high-level maps. Cha Nan is not currently counting on these.

Given Cha Nan's current limited resources, the most cost-effective option is the basic wooden treasure chest.

Guo Fu leaped into the air, using her light-footed skills to step on the treetops and land in front of the pool. She gazed at the deep, somewhat dark pool and hesitated before looking at the clothes on her body.

Without a close-fitting swimsuit or suitable swimming gear, she felt a little embarrassed to go into the water.

"Go down! Don't worry, I won't look at you." Cha Nan said, turning around and turning her back, making a gesture that she would never peek.

Guo Fu opened her mouth as if to speak, but then stopped herself.

A few affected and arrogant words were already on the tip of his tongue, but looking at Cha Nan's rather dashing figure from behind, he inexplicably swallowed them back.

She's thirty years old now, no longer a naive seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl. She knows when to swallow, when to spit, and when to hesitate.

After hesitating for a moment, she generously took off her more cumbersome and warm clothes, and then, wearing only her inner lining and undershirt, quickly jumped into the cold pool. Her cheeks were flushed red, which was even more obvious and beautiful against her snow-white skin and the cold pool water, just like the peach blossoms that bloom in the early spring when the weather is still chilly.

Taking a deep breath, her snow-white skin became even whiter under the stimulation of the cold water. Guo Fu tied her hair up in the water and then plunged downwards.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes...

Even though she didn't float to the surface, Cha Nan wasn't worried at all.

After all, Guo Fu's health points hadn't dropped at all on the team panel.

Five minutes passed before Guo Fu finally surfaced, her snow-white arms carrying a golden wooden box and a silver box that shimmered with purple light.

Shipped!
Cha Nan was overjoyed.

Guo Fu first threw the two boxes ashore, and then leaped out of the water, her arms, which looked slender but were well-proportioned and fleshy, trembling slightly.

The pool here never sees sunlight, and the temperature in the mountains and forests is low, so you can imagine how cold the water is at the bottom.

If she hadn't been skilled in internal martial arts, she probably would have been frozen unconscious before even reaching the bottom of the water.

Cha Nan kept her promise and didn't even glance at Guo Fu. She ran happily to the wooden box, rubbed her hands together, and began to pray before opening it.

The silver treasure chest can be seen and touched, but it cannot be opened, so it will be stored aside for now.

The main course was that wooden treasure chest that didn't need a key.

Rubbing his hands like a fly, Cha Nan circled the treasure chest twice, gathering his good fortune.

Seeing that Cha Nan didn't care about her at all, Guo Fu, who had been silently picking up her dress to put it on, couldn't help but sob softly.

In a short while, she had experienced a series of ups and downs, narrowly escaping death. Now, she inexplicably felt a good impression of the dark-skinned young man in front of her, but he ignored her and only used her as a tool. How could she not feel wronged?
"How annoying! Just as annoying as Yang Guo... no! Even more annoying than Yang Guo!"

Guo Fu felt a surge of resentment, but her body instinctively moved closer to Cha Nan, clutching the clothes, wanting to see what was in the boxes that made him so concerned, yet he didn't even care about her first.

If Da Wu and Xiao Wu saw her cautious, aggrieved yet approaching demeanor at this moment, their Dao hearts would probably shatter instantly.

After all, who can stand it when the unattainable white moonlight becomes someone else's little simp?
Let alone Da Wu and Xiao Wu, it's not even certain whether Yang Guo can withstand it!

(End of this chapter)