God of Pets

Chapter 284 is right here.

"Battalion Commander Chen, aren't you going to cross the river yet?" Mei Qingta looked at Chen Guan and said coldly.

"I will cross the river." Chen Guan no longer hesitated and walked towards the stream, intending to use the Pure Yang Sword Immortal's secret technique to cross the river. He was not going to gamble on his extremely Yin physique.

However, when Chen Guan walked towards the stream, he felt that the blood spirit mushroom on his chest was automatically releasing its vital energy, which flowed into Chen Guan's body.

Chen Guan was overjoyed, because he discovered that the Blood Spirit Mushroom automatically emitted vital energy because it absorbed vital energy from the outside world.

"The Blood Spirit Mushroom can absorb the Yin energy in the stream." The closer Chen Guan got to the stream, the more vital energy the Blood Spirit Mushroom emitted. A warm current filled Chen Guan's body, making him feel warm and comfortable.

With a thought, Chen Guan did not use the Pure Yang Sword Immortal's secret technique. Instead, he walked to the place where Bai Yueguang and Zhu Hongzhi had crossed the river earlier, and, imitating them, jumped, intending to leap across the river.

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Just as Chen Guan leaped onto the stream, he suddenly fell into the water, his body drifting with the current towards the cave in the mountainside.

Everyone was shocked, and Zhu Hongzhi and Bai Yueguang ran towards the stream.

Without hesitation, Zhu Hongzhi leaped down the stream, relying on his True Understanding of the Sun and his Vajra Body, and managed to reach Chen Guan in the water. He grabbed Chen Guan by the collar and pulled him to the shore.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Chen Guan coughed up some water on the shore and seemed to be fine.

"Battalion Commander Zhu, thank you. I just slipped a little, it's nothing." Chen Guan was genuinely grateful to Zhu Hongzhi, as it was extremely rare for someone to be able to save someone from the water under such circumstances.

However, he deliberately fell into the water not to test Zhu Hongzhi and the others, but to observe Mei Qingta's expression.

People often only reveal their true thoughts when they achieve their goal.

In the instant he fell into the water, Chen Guan was certain that Mei Qingta had indeed come to kill him; Mei Qingta's eyes at that moment couldn't lie.

Mei Qingta's expression had returned to its usual indifference. He leaped across the stream to the other side, and it was unclear whether he used a pure Yang or pure Yin secret technique.

"Since everything's alright, let's go." Mei Qingta called to the three of them and they continued walking inside.

"Battalion Commander Chen... be careful on the road..." Jiang Tianqing seemed to have noticed something and called out to Chen Guan from behind.

Chen Guan waved his hand without saying anything, but he understood what Jiang Tianqing really meant.

The little horse, which had been drinking water by the stream, slowly followed.

But he didn't get close; he just followed them from a distance. When Chen Guan and the others walked, Xiao Ma walked; when Chen Guan and the others stopped, Xiao Ma stopped.

"Ignore it," Mei Qingta said after a moment's thought.

The four continued walking, with Xiao Ma following closely, neither getting too close nor too far away, as if he were monitoring them.

The number of stone lingzhi mushrooms in the valley is increasing, and stone lingzhi mushrooms under a thousand years old can hardly be seen anymore. Everywhere there are black stone lingzhi mushrooms as big as millstones.

They avoided the location of the stone spirit mushroom and walked forward for an unknown amount of time, only to find that the valley in front of them suddenly narrowed, with the distance between the mountain walls reduced to only about three or four meters.

A huge, dark red Ganoderma lucidum stood between the two walls like a stone pavilion. To go deeper, one had to pass under the huge, dark red Ganoderma lucidum.

When Bai Yueguang and Zhu Hongzhi saw the giant Ganoderma lucidum, their eyes widened in astonishment. They had never even heard of such a large stone Ganoderma lucidum before.

How many tens of thousands of years must it have taken to grow to be this huge? "Commander Zhu, you have a protective technique, you can go first," Mei Qingta said calmly.

Zhu Hongzhi was about to go over when Chen Guan grabbed his arm.

"No need to go any further, let's stay here," Chen Guan said, looking at Mei Qingta.

"What does Battalion Commander Chen mean by this? Do you want to disobey my orders?" Mei Qingta remained expressionless.

“You didn’t come here to explore. There’s no one else here now. If you want to kill me, do it right here. Don’t bother going any further in. And don’t even think about killing me here. If you want to kill me, do it yourself,” Chen Guan said.

"Sure enough, falling into the water was intentional. Battalion Commander Chen really had good intentions." Mei Qingta did not deny it.

"You probably didn't expect that I could actually cross the stream, did you?" Chen Guan didn't wait for his answer and continued, "Who sent you to kill me?"

Mei Qingta said calmly, "I am here to take your life, naturally on orders from above."

After saying that, he said to Bai Yueguang and Zhu Hongzhi, "You two kill Chen Guan together, and then you can each return to where you came from. Battalion Commander Bai will return to the Imperial Guard, and Battalion Commander Zhu can go and rebuild the Black Tiger Regiment."

"Do you take us for three-year-old children? If you really had orders from above, you would have killed Chen Guan long ago. Why go through all this trouble? I'm afraid you'll silence us after Chen Guan dies," Zhu Hongzhi said coldly.

Bai Yueguang remained completely unmoved and still stood on Chen Guan's side.

As Mei Qingta unbuttoned her uniform, she sighed and said, "I originally wanted to do it cleanly and neatly so as not to get my hands dirty. Since you are so ungrateful, I guess I'll just have to work harder."

He took off his shirt, folded it, and placed it on a nearby rock. He then placed his hat neatly on top of his uniform before turning around to look at Chen Guan and the other two.

"Let's all come at once, don't waste time." Mei Qingta stood there, looking at Chen Guan and the other two as if they were dead fish on a chopping board.

Chen Guan and the other two exchanged glances and slowly approached Mei Qing Pagoda.

The fighting prowess Mei Qingta had previously displayed made them dare not be careless in the slightest.

Although the three had never fought side by side, they were all extremely talented individuals. In an instant, they seemed to have developed a tacit understanding, simultaneously summoning their pets from different directions and launching a coordinated attack on Meiqing Tower.

Zhu Hongzhi summoned a large black tiger, the signature spirit pet of the Black Tiger Legion, which was originally named after this black tiger spirit.

The Black Tiger Spirit is a peerless spirit, produced in Tiger Mountain. The tiger spirits on the mountain range from rare to peerless, but there is only one peerless one, which is the king of tigers in Tiger Mountain.

After the Black Tiger King was killed, a new Black Tiger King would be born every few months.

Since its inception, the Black Tiger Gang has guarded Tiger Mountain for many years and has obtained quite a few peerless black tiger pets, but only some core members and high-ranking members can obtain black tiger pets.

Zhu Hongzhi's move actually summoned four black tigers, which surprised even Bai Yueguang and Chen Guan.

Little did they know that Zhu Hongzhi had four black tigers not because he owned them himself, but because several of his comrades had entrusted their black tigers to him before they died in the battle of the Secret Spirit Tide.

At that time, almost all the pets that could die had died. Their black tiger was also seriously injured and lost its fighting ability before it was taken back. Before those comrades died, they would entrust their seriously injured black tigers to the surviving comrades. One person passed it on to the next. Eventually, several comrades transferred the black tigers that had accompanied them all their lives to Zhu Hongzhi.

(End of this chapter)