Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 458 The Strange Bird Bifang
[Three-year-old crawling to guard the tower] was completely confused. He counted on his fingers again and again before finally deciding to buy some gold to break the restriction on this spirit beast bag.

As the first "Spirit Beast Bag" to be known throughout the entire server, players who heard the news gathered around, and some even took the opportunity to start a live stream. Everyone wanted to know if the items obtained would be "bound" directly like in other games.

Even several NPCs came over to join in the fun!
Soon, amidst the anticipation of countless players and the eager attention of everyone, [Three-Year-Old Crawling Tower Guardian] raised enough money and looked excitedly at NPC Old Wang.

About ten minutes later, Old Wang released the restriction. As a golden light spread out like ink droplets into water, the spirit beast bag seemed to tremble.

Soon, everyone realized that this was not an illusion. The spirit beast pouch shook more and more violently, and then there was a loud bang. A wisp of gray smoke rose up, and a strange bird with gorgeous feathers appeared.

Its feathers are bluish-black with dark red patterns, looking both gorgeous and eerie. What's even stranger is that it only has one leg!

"Chirp—I'm finally out, hahaha!"

The strange bird speaks a language that players cannot understand, but thanks to the game's default translation, everyone can understand what it means.

When the smoke cleared, the strange bird saw its surroundings clearly, and its laughter stopped abruptly.

People, a lot of people.

They were all monks.

Although most of them are only at the Foundation Establishment stage, there are a few at the Golden Core stage and even the Nascent Soul stage!
Why are so many human cultivators surrounding me?!
The strange bird's large eyes were filled with confusion and fear. It cried out again, "Chirp chirp chirp—what do you want to do!?"

One mischievous player led the way with a lewd laugh: "Don't be afraid, we won't eat you, hehehehehe!"

"Insolence! Insolence! Insolence!"

The strange bird cried out, shook its head, and began spitting fireballs, indiscriminately attacking everyone around it.

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! It's turned red! Can I fight back!?"

When the strange bird attacks a player, a string of question marks above its head turns red. This was originally a judgment mechanism created by Fang Xianyu, mainly for protecting the people and native cultivators under the rule of the Taiyin Sect. Only when these people are attacked by an unknown target will that unknown target passively turn into a red name. Simply attacking a player will not.

The strange bird turned red because there were several NPCs among the onlookers. Even Old Wang was accidentally injured by the fireball. Fortunately, his cultivation was quite good, and he instantly left the area around the strange bird. At the same time, he rolled his eyes and complained, "How can this monster be so stupid? It should just starve to death!"

One player exclaimed, "I've identified it! It's a Bifang! A Bifang! I've never seen a species like it before!"

Upon hearing that it was a species they had never seen before, and considering it was also considered another player's "property," everyone kindly shouted, though the situation was chaotic due to the large number of people: "Don't kill it! Don't kill it! Subdue it first! What do we do? What do we do?!"

"Medicine! Force-feed the medicine! I still have several doses of anesthetic!"

"Holy crap, I can't get past it! It keeps breathing fire!"

"How about we knock him out first?"

"Tie up its muzzle!"

"My good friend, that's called a 'beak,' while mammals call theirs a 'mouth tube'..." "Don't worry about the details, haha!"

"Get out of the way! Let me handle this—"

A bald, muscular man suddenly emerged from the crowd. His extremely high health bar and disproportionately high mana bar clearly indicated his identity and lineage: a body cultivator with high cultivation and realm.

His eyebrows were thick and bushy, like two caterpillars, as if they were pasted on his face, which looked quite comical.

This signature style made him recognizable to many players.

"It's Wu Ke! The muscular brute who's the best in the entire server!"

"Oh my god! That straight gay guy?"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"He should be straight, but he looks very gay..."

"Ugh! It looks smelly!"

Just as the players were chattering away and the conversation was getting increasingly off-topic, Wu Ke had already delivered an elbow strike to the strange bird's chest, then flipped over and straddled it.
The enormous impact forced the strange bird to fall to the ground. It flapped its wings and struggled, but Wu Ke seized the opportunity and used his arm to pull up the bird's neck, locking its throat like a "strongman locking a man". Then, he forcibly pried open its beak and pressed its head to the ground, making its beak open as high as possible.

"Quick! Quickly administer the medicine!"

The players stared in disbelief until Wu Ke shouted, which snapped them out of their daze and elicited a chorus of "Holy crap!" Some quick-thinking players swiftly pulled out a cup of anesthetic from their backpacks, boldly stepped forward, and fed it to the player.

Seeing that the cup of medicine had been poured down his throat, Wu Ke snapped the strange bird's beak shut, then pinched its beak, held its head, and shook it hard, forcing the strange bird to swallow the medicine.

A chorus of praise erupted from the crowd, including "Angkor Wat is awesome," "Angkor Wat is so powerful," and "I bow down to philosophy."

In the distance, Fang Xianyu, who was watching this scene through the monitoring "network," shook his head sympathetically.

This strange bird is indeed a Bifang, a kind of innate demon beast that can breathe fire. It is a rare species, mostly living in Yanzhou, with a few living in Duguang Kingdom.

They are not particularly powerful, so they mostly live in groups and are extremely exclusive, known for being "homebodies" and rarely venturing out of their settlements. In terms of personality, they are especially irritable, prone to breathing fire at the slightest provocation, making them unsuitable for enslavement contracts.

Last week, Fang Xianyu had seen this bird at the home of an elder in the Taiyi Qiankun Sect. However, that elder raised it for food—even though it wasn't tasty, they believed that eating such creatures with innate intelligence could help with cultivation.

However, in general, Bifang birds are still rare within the sphere of human sects and forces. This one, for some unknown reason, appeared in the Misty Immortal Sect and was even locked in a spirit beast pouch. It even seemed to have been contracted—because its flight feathers had been plucked, so it could not fly. This is a common method used to deal with and control flying beasts during the taming stage. Otherwise, it probably would have flapped its wings and flown away the moment it saw so many players!
However, since its original owner is dead, it is relatively free. Just as NPC Lao Wang just said, signing a slave contract with a demon or exotic beast is a violation of the Taiyin Sect's laws, so Fang Xianyu is also very curious about what players should do in this situation.

"Cough cough cough..."

Surprisingly, the strange bird could cough, and its voice sounded very much like a human's, which everyone found odd.

At this moment, Wu Ke had already released his grip on the strange bird, because the special anesthetic took effect almost immediately. It was now lying limply on the ground, with only its eyes still glaring resentfully at all the players around it.