Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 505 Light is Fried Chicken
It's unclear how they communicate with their meows and howls, but after waiting outside the barrier for less than an hour and witnessing Lu Weilou being beaten three times, Amber angrily jumped out of the barrier.

"I've taught it everything I needed to, but it's too stubborn. I can't control whether it learns or not!"

After saying that, Amber's face darkened, and she leaped out of the house in a few bounds.

"Hey! Hey! Officer Mimi!"

Seeing that Amber was so angry, [Handsome Guy] was afraid that he would lose favorability points, so he shouted several times but couldn't stop her.

Once Amber was completely out of sight, he turned around, furious, "Lu Weilou! Are you fucking a donkey?! Do you know how much I spent to hire this teacher for you?!"

Lu Weilou couldn't understand what "Handsome Guy" was saying, so he lay down, turned his buttocks towards him, and impatiently slapped the ground back and forth with his thick tail.

[Handsome Guy] got even angrier: "Damn it! I really owe you something!"

Despite his anger, he had already made up his mind when he consulted Amber. Forcing things wouldn't work, and besides, Lu Weilou was now considered an intelligent being. He couldn't be "tamed" like a wild animal. It would be better to release him back into the wild.

So, [Handsome Guy] quickly contacted a group of relatives and friends, and, amidst cursing and swearing, transported the cage containing Lu Weilou to the wilderness hundreds of miles away from the Taiyin Sect.

When the barrier was removed and the cage was opened, Lu Weilou merely watched the "handsome guy" warily without making a move.

But after [Handsome Guy] and the others left, and no one appeared until dark, Lu Weilou realized that [Handsome Guy] really intended to let him go.

Then, he tentatively reached out with his paws to explore the "invisible wall," and when he found that the "wall" was gone, he excitedly jumped out of the cage.

The free wind in the mountains blew his slightly disheveled fur to one side.

Lu Weilou ran wildly for a long time, and enthusiastically chased rabbits and pheasants for a while before finding a moss-covered rock to lie down on, lazily squinting his eyes.

Why does the rabbit under its paws smell so fishy and stinky?

Lu Weilou couldn't help but compare it to the food he was fed when he was imprisoned by two-legged beasts. It was very fragrant and flavorful, and some of it even left a warm feeling in his stomach after eating it.

According to the abnormally powerful kitten that later explained it, it must have been "spiritual energy".

What is "Reiki"?
"Spiritual energy can make you live longer, it can make you stop risking your life to hunt, it can make you stronger and more powerful, and you won't be afraid of fire or water anymore..."

"But I'm not afraid of water..."

Communication between demon cultivators differs from that between humans. When they were still wild beasts, communication between them relied mainly on body language and body odor (pheromones). After they gained sentience and became demon cultivators, they were able to convey "information" through demonic power.

Although this method of conveying information is not as clear and far-reaching as that of the Quanxian tribe, which can communicate over hundreds of miles, it is rather vague, more like a transmission of pressure or feeling. However, it is still much clearer than the "communication" between animals. Therefore, even if Lu Weilou could not accurately understand the information that Amber had conveyed to him, he could naturally grasp the general concept—this is why the first step for a beast to become a demon cultivator is to awaken its intelligence. Without awakening intelligence, one cannot even understand such conceptual things, let alone restrain one's instincts to cultivate.

Silently chanting about spiritual energy, Lu Weilou, lying on the rock, suddenly had an idea and began to try to sense what Amber called "spiritual energy."

On the other side, the handsome guy, who had tearfully seen Lu Weilou off, looked utterly dejected, like someone experiencing their first heartbreak at the age of blossoming romance. His friends and family had spent days trying to comfort him, but all they could hear when he logged on was him muttering about Lu Weilou, each time with tears welling up in his eyes, "It's all gone, all gone. All those spirit stones I spent so much money on cat food every day, it was all for nothing, waaaaaah..."

A relative, unable to bear it any longer, suggested, "If all else fails, why don't you take some gifts and go visit them? After all, you two have been through thick and thin together. At worst, you'll just die again and wait for the resurrection cooldown! If you manage to win them over, you'll have a demon cultivator in training as an NPC with perfect intimacy with them!"

Another friend offered a terrible suggestion: "Generally, we consider this stage of the plot to be the 'wife-chasing-after-the-wives' stage, and it's super standard! Look, in the early stages, they were imprisoned for love; in the middle, they were in a love-hate relationship; and now, in the later stages, they're full of regret. It's progressed to the 'wife-chasing-after-the-wives' stage. Judging from the current popular romance novels with tragic endings, the proportion of happy endings is much higher than the proportion of tragic endings. Keep it up! Spend money to buy her some good food every day, and one day you'll be able to soften your sister-in-law's heart!"

[Handsome Guy], who had never read any stories about wives chasing after their husbands, was completely stunned. He broke down and shouted, "What the hell are you thinking! Lu Weilou is a man!?"

To everyone's surprise, the relative revealed a smug look: "A male? Wouldn't that be even better?"

In short, his relatives and friends still don't know what decision "Handsome Boy" made that day. They only know that just three days later, they saw "Handsome Boy" with a happy face and Lu Weilou following him to the police station to register.

Previously, Lu Weilou was kept in a cage at [Handsome Guy's] home and posed no threat, falling under the category of "no action unless reported." But now, if Lu Weilou is to move freely in Chang'an, he has to register with Officer Mimi. And since he's an intelligent being, he has to attend three days of classes to learn some basic public security regulations of Chang'an—for example, he must at least know that he cannot treat intelligent species as prey, cannot hunt in Chang'an, and cannot defecate, urinate, bite, or bark indiscriminately...

Initially, Lu Weilou did not want to settle in Chang'an City; he preferred places in the wilderness where there were fewer people.

But wild rabbits and pheasants don't taste good at all, while the food that the two-legged creatures offer up every day is just too delicious...

In just three days, Lu Weilou completely surrendered.

Of course, as he gradually became able to sense spiritual energy, his mind became clearer and clearer, and he slowly realized that it was because of the two-legged beast that captured him that he had become like this.

As Amber said, this is an immense favor.

If Lu Weilou had never gained his intelligence, he might not have been able to perceive the difference. But once his mind gradually became clearer, when he recalled the days when he lived a life of hardship and uncertainty in the mountains, he was unwilling to return to that state.

He could have endured the darkness if he had never seen the light.

……

A week later, at [Handsome Guy's] request, Amber came again to reinforce Lu Weilou's lessons. Although Lu Weilou still couldn't speak, he could already have simple conversations with Amber. He had even learned the flower language that [Handsome Guy] used—at least he could understand it without any problems.

Amber stared wide-eyed, her small, delicate cat face filled with shock. Pointing at a bag of fried chicken that Lu Weilou had specially pulled out from his treasure-hiding spot as a "gift" for Amber, she asked, "You mean, the light in your heart is fried chicken!?"