Eternal Beast Taming Family

Upon hearing Chu Zu's sudden interruption, both Chu Jingyu and Chu Qinhui were visibly taken aback, and then looked at the offering table.

They bowed towards the offering table; for their world,

With frequent natural and man-made disasters, people die quickly. In order to ensure the continuation of their bloodline, both noble families and ordinary people will arrange for their children to get engaged and have children when they are fourteen or fifteen years old.

Although sixteen was a little late, it wasn't too late, so it was acceptable.

The two of them wouldn't go against Chu Zu's wishes just because of a little bit of time.

Therefore, Chu Jingyu naturally responded, "As Chu Ancestor commands."

Chu Qinhui, who remained silent, sighed inwardly, noting that Chu Zu was becoming more and more like a living person.

Seeing that Chu Zu had no further arrangements, Chu Jingyu asked Chu Qinhui to guard the ancestral hall for him.

Then he got into the carriage and headed towards Qingsha Village along the newly built "road".

……

The weather on this grassland is always foggy, day and night, and you can't see the sun or moon when you look up.

After exploring the surrounding area, Chu Shengyuan and the two pythons returned to the place where they had first come to the grassland.

He feared that when the passage reopened, he wouldn't be there, and thus would miss the chance to go home.

In the past four days, he has finished eating all the snacks he brought with him in the jade pendant, and now he has to eat the various colored berries that grow on the grass of this grassland.

However, he could refuse to eat these berries. If he used the source stones in the jade pendant sparingly, they would be enough to sustain him and the two source beasts for a very long time.

However, the lack of taste in his mouth for so long became unbearable for him, so he tried almost every kind of berry in the vicinity.

Chu Shengyuan lay on the soft grass, gazing intently at the colorful clouds behind the thin mist, each cloud representing a very powerful source beast.

He thought with a touch of envy that if he were like those 'jellyfish' source beasts, he could simply feed on the light spots emanating from these strange grasslands and roam freely.

Although he couldn't figure out what the grass beneath him was, Chu Shengyuan cleverly dug up a large patch of it and put it in his jade pendant, hoping to take it home.

After finishing his cultivation for the day, Chu Shengyuan stared blankly ahead. If he remembered correctly, he was pulled in from here by a tentacle.

I don't know when that passage will reappear.

He idly poked at a group of 'little jellyfish' gathered around him. They had been attracted by Chu Shengyuan while he was absorbing the Source Stones, and after Chu Shengyuan fed them some Source Stone shards...

They then stubbornly stayed around Chu Shengyuan, even more clingy than a pet dog.

Just as Chu Shengfan was playing with these 'little jellyfish' to pass the time,

As if the heavens had heard his prayer for the passage to reopen, a crack appeared out of nowhere in the void.

Through a narrow crack, roughly the width of a palm, Chu Shengyuan could see several familiar-looking servants nearby.

Clearly, the servants had also noticed the crack appearing. One of them hurriedly ran up the mountain, while the other two shouted something to Chu Shengyuan on the other side of the crack.

Unfortunately, the passage didn't seem to be fully formed yet, so Chu Shengyuan couldn't hear what they were shouting.

No matter, Chu Shengyuan stared intently at the crack in front of him. He threw a blade of grass from beside him into the narrow crack and found that it landed safely on the other side of the passage.

Immediately afterwards, Chu Shengyuan grabbed a fist-sized, light blue jellyfish from beside him and made a throwing motion towards the spatial rift. Like the blade of grass, the jellyfish successfully landed on the other side of the spatial rift.

Seeing their little friend run to an unfamiliar place, the other 'little jellyfish' also curiously moved towards the crack.

However, before they could follow, a flash of purple lightning appeared in the void, and the rift closed again much faster than it had opened.

Chu Shengyuan stood there stunned, his initial excitement instantly plummeting.

The crack was too narrow and lasted too short a time; he simply couldn't squeeze back in.

However, he was an optimist and quickly cheered himself up.

His choice was not wrong. As long as he waits patiently, there is still a chance that this passage will open, and he will not be trapped on this grassland forever.

……

In the bright and clear hall, the county magistrate of Paper Hawk County, somewhat annoyed, put down his writing brush.

"How many of the aristocratic families that the Huo family summoned to the frontier returned?"

Another middle-aged man, who looked rather thin, rubbed his hands together and answered in a low voice, "According to current statistics, there are fewer than a hundred people."

The county magistrate frowned in displeasure. "The Huo family has gone too far. If it were like the Liu family, where only some commoners and low-level contract masters died, it would be fine."

"They've gone too far, targeting all the lower-ranking aristocratic families. So many have died; I'll still have to explain myself to the higher-ups."

Another elderly man with white hair inside the house said helplessly, "This matter is alright, but now there is an even more troublesome matter in front of us."

"What is it?" The county magistrate's expression instantly turned serious and solemn. If the old man in front of him was talking about something troublesome, then it really couldn't be a small matter.

"Too many family patriarchs have died, and the fortune of the entire Paper Hawk County has greatly declined. The barrier formed by the fortune is now very unstable, and many passages have begun to appear within the boundary. If it is not dealt with as soon as possible, there is a risk of the boundary being broken."

Upon hearing the old man's words, the county magistrate's face darkened. He was filled with regret, wondering how he could have been so bewitched as to accept that "Yang-depleting ginseng." Now he had to clean up the mess left for the Huo family.

"Has the Huo family patriarch returned? I can't be the only one cleaning up the mess he's created, can I?"

The lean man lowered his eyebrows. "So far, the Huo family hasn't given any definite news. However, the Huo family seems to be very quiet lately, and no members of the main branch have been seen appearing outside."

The county magistrate narrowed his eyes, and said thoughtfully, "You mean, the Huo family might now be nothing more than an empty shell?"

The white-haired old man's eyes narrowed, as if he had finally figured something out.

"Logically speaking, even if the patriarchs of those minor families die outside the boundary, it will only cause the boundary membrane to tremble, creating a few cracks and shaking the area inside the boundary. They will recover after a period of recuperation."

"Only if the Huo family's source artifacts and main lineage had left our Paper Hawk County would this kind of boundary-breaking tremor make sense."

The county magistrate's face turned ashen with anger. If the main branch of the Huo family really left, he would inevitably be accused of negligence in supervision.

All the hard work and dedication he had put into Paper Hawk County over the past century was ruined in an instant. With the county magistrate in disgrace, even his family could no longer do everything they could to save him.

He gritted his teeth. "Come with me to the Huo family first, and we'll find out their true strength."

The other two people in the room had no objections and followed him out of the county government office.

Enraged, the county magistrate naturally didn't stroll over leisurely. As soon as he stepped out of the county office, a large bird with three heads, gray-white wings, and a length of about seven or eight meters appeared in front of him.

The county magistrate stepped onto the back of the giant bird, which then flapped its wings slightly and soared into the sky in the blink of an eye, flying towards the Huo family's complex.