Junior sister, I really need to control you

Am I just imagining things? Or did my senior brother secretly practice some kind of technique that makes him more handsome?

Mu Xiaoyu scratched her head.

But as the spirit beast egg went from trembling to shaking noticeably, she had no time to pay attention to these things, and her mind was focused on the egg again.

After shaking the egg eighteen times, each time with a larger amplitude, several cracks appeared on its surface.

"I! I can feel it, Senior Brother!" Mu Xiaoyu excitedly grabbed Li Yinsheng's hand. "The Spirit-Devouring Fish inside is hatching!"

The next moment, the eggshell shattered completely, and a large-headed fish, about a foot in size, with a bright blue body and a pure white belly, jumped out.

Li Yinsheng raised an eyebrow slightly.

This spirit-devouring fish looks exactly like a whale shrunk to one foot in size, except that it has an extra layer of smooth, barely noticeable scales on its body.

As a spirit beast, even though it has just hatched, the Spirit-Devouring Fish can swim freely in the air.

After hatching, it circled around Mu Xiaoyu happily twice, as if it could recognize its owner.

Then it swam to its old shell, opened its mouth and bit down, swallowing its shell in a few bites.

The eggshell seemed to be an excellent tonic for the Spirit-Devouring Fish; as it ate the eggshell, its body began to swell.

After finishing the eggshell, the Devouring Spirit Fish had grown half a foot in size.

"Senior brother, Tun Tun still seems very hungry." Mu Xiaoyu rubbed her stomach. "Tun Tun and I are connected, and her feeling of hunger is transmitted to me."

"Have you already decided on a name?" Li Yinsheng asked.

"I've thought it through long ago!" Mu Xiaoyu said, taking out a sack of various snacks from her Qiankun bag with her left hand and several bottles of pills with her right.

"Come on, Tun Tun, let's eat together!" She put the snacks on the ground and opened the medicine bottle.

The Spirit-Devouring Fish, which was only a foot and a half in size, opened its mouth and sucked in all the snacks and pills, causing its size to swell by three points.

"Wow!" Mu Xiaoyu's eyes lit up. "Amazing!"

"What makes it so impressive?" Li Yinsheng couldn't help but ask.

"These snacks combined are as big as Tun Tun's body, and she ate them all in one bite, and she's still not full. Isn't that amazing?"

As Mu Xiaoyu spoke, she took out more snacks and pills.

"First of all, with your current body cultivation level, Junior Sister, you could have quite an appetite if you wanted to, but eating these ordinary foods wouldn't be of any use to you."

“Secondly, to judge how powerful it is, we need to see how effective the innate talent ‘Spirit Devouring Technique’ it shares with you is,” Li Yinsheng said.

"Hmm... I can feel her sharing her talent with me, but she's still very young, so she's not sharing much with me yet."

While feeding the Spirit-Swallowing Fish, Mu Xiaoyu said, "But she is still growing. As long as she eats enough, she will grow up quickly."

As she spoke, she opened several more bottles of pills.

These pills are of little use to her at her current cultivation level, but they are quite effective for the newly born Spirit-Devouring Fish.

After several feedings, it had grown to three feet in size.

After reaching this size, although Mu Xiaoyu continued to feed it snacks and pills, its growth rate slowed down significantly.

Li Yinsheng rubbed his chin: "It seems it needs to eat something better."

He looked at Mu Xiaoyu: "Junior Sister, didn't True Master Lan Xuan give you a demon core that was forty or fifty years old before? Did you use it to refine a weapon?"

Mu Xiaoyu shook her head: "Not yet."

"Then let your Tuntun try it and see if it likes it," Li Yinsheng said.

Mu Xiaoyu's eyes lit up, and she took out the demon core.

The moment the demon core appeared, the three-foot-long Devouring Spirit Fish suddenly increased its swimming speed and began to circle around Mu Xiaoyu, seemingly very excited.

"Here, Tun Tun, catch!" Mu Xiaoyu threw the demon core at the Devouring Spirit Fish.

The Spirit-Swallowing Fish swallowed the demon core, and its body began to grow rapidly at a visible speed. In less than half a cup of tea's time, it grew from three feet to five feet.

"It seems Tun Tun really likes demon cores." Mu Xiaoyu rubbed her stomach and took out a few pieces of pastry from Wuxia Peak to chew on.

As the Spirit-Devouring Fish grew, Mu Xiaoyu could feel that the Spirit-Devouring Technique she had shared was also gradually strengthening.

As a result, she felt a significant increase in her appetite.

"Hmm...it seems it hasn't reached its limit yet, and can still eat more," Li Yinsheng said.

"But I'm out of demon cores, and ordinary pills don't seem to be very effective for Tun Tun anymore," Mu Xiaoyu said, somewhat troubled.

But the mouth that was eating pastries didn't slow down at all.

Li Yinsheng smiled slightly: "It seems that the three demon cores that Fourth Senior Brother gave me can come in handy."

Those three demon cores were all taken from demon cultivators who were close to becoming great demons, and their quality was far superior to that of my junior sister's.

He originally planned to refine it into a pill and give it to his junior sister if he had the chance.

Now it seems there are even more direct uses.

He took out a demon core. Faced with a demon core that was close to that of a great demon, the Devouring Spirit Fish's first reaction was to move away. It darted to the corner of the stone chamber with a "whoosh".

However, after realizing that the demon core in Li Yinsheng's hand did not seem to pose a danger, it tentatively swam back, its dark little eyes seemingly revealing a human-like longing.

Just to be on the safe side, Li Yinsheng didn't throw the entire demon core to the Spirit Devouring Fish. Instead, he cut off a small piece from it and threw it over separately.

After consuming that small piece, the Spirit-Devouring Fish was indeed not as easy to refine as before, and its body began to radiate a bright azure halo.

"TunTun is using her talent for the Devouring Spirit Technique to refine the demon core!" Mu Xiaoyu said.

A look of anticipation appeared on her face—Great! Now I have this kind of refining ability too. I shouldn't have to worry about not being able to refine good food in the future, right?

After the time it takes for two incense sticks to burn, the Spirit-Swallowing Fish finally refined the demon core it had eaten, spun around happily, and its size increased a bit more.

Li Yinsheng followed the same method, repeatedly cutting off small pieces of the demon core to feed it to the spirit-devouring fish. After the fish refined the core, he would cut it into larger pieces.

After the entire demon core was fed to it in several batches, the Devouring Spirit Fish had grown to about ten feet in size.

Although its aura had not yet reached the level of a true human or a demon cultivator, it had already surpassed that of the spirit pet Xixia Carp that Kui Nian had taken out during the Dao Examination.

"Hmm... almost there. It was noticeably slower during the last refinement, so it seems to have reached its limit for now."

Li Yinsheng did not take out a second demon core: "Give it some time to adapt to its current state before continuing to feed it."

As a spirit beast, the Devouring Fish's potential is comparable to that of a great demon, but it shouldn't have reached this level all at once.

Mu Xiaoyu touched the Spirit-Swallowing Fish in front of her, which was already bigger than a carriage: "Swallow, you can't eat it today. You're a girl, you can't get too fat."

The Spirit-Devouring Fish nodded blankly.

She didn't know what fat was; she only knew that her master had ordered her not to eat anymore, and she was indeed a little full.

Mu Xiaoyu took out the spirit pet pouch that she had already refined and put the spirit-devouring fish inside.

Chapter 177 The Second Ancient Peach Tree Sacrifice to the Spirit

As Mu Xiaoyu was led out of the stone chamber by Li Yinsheng, she was still stuffing pastries into her mouth.

"Senior brother, I'm so hungry. I'm still hungry no matter if I eat pills or pastries..." she said while chewing.

"Junior sister, there's no need to worry. This is a side effect of the Devouring Spirit Technique talent you just received. You'll be fine once you get used to it."

Li Yinsheng said, "Anyway, with your current body-refining cultivation level, you don't have to worry about gaining weight no matter how many ordinary snacks and pills you eat."

"Hmm... Senior Brother, if I were to eat something like a Mother Worm or a Holy Son's Blood Egg right now, would I still have to worry about gaining weight if I didn't refine it in time?" Mu Xiaoyu asked.

“Once Tun Tun grows a bit older, we shouldn’t have to worry anymore,” Li Yinsheng said.

"Great!" Mu Xiaoyu cheered.

Shangguan Ling'er, who was meditating outside the stone chamber, opened her eyes and couldn't help but shake her head.

Normal cultivators only think about whether they can encounter such a treasure once in their lifetime, and they would never worry about gaining weight because they cannot refine it in time.

She looked up at Li Yinsheng and was slightly taken aback.

She wondered if it was just her imagination, but she felt that Li Yinsheng seemed to have gotten even more handsome.

He seemed to possess an air of unapproachable nobility that was more pronounced than usual...

Shangguan Ling'er shook her head, dispelling the strange feeling.

It's an illusion, it must be an illusion.

"Little Fish's spirit pet has hatched?" Shangguan Ling'er walked over and patted Mu Xiaoyu's head.

"Hmm! Sister Shangguan, let me show you, Tun Tun is such a good boy!"

Mu Xiaoyu released the Soul-Swallowing Fish, which resembled a miniature whale.

“Hmm… what a big fish head,” Shangguan Ling’er said with a smile, “it looks as chubby as a little fish.”

Mu Xiaoyu immediately touched her face in alarm: "Have I gained weight? Have I gained weight?"

Shangguan Ling'er covered her mouth and chuckled mischievously.

"Sister Shangguan!" Mu Xiaoyu puffed out her cheeks and glared at Shangguan Ling'er.

But when his gaze fell on Shangguan Ling'er's chest, he immediately felt somewhat deflated.

"Sister Shangguan, you're so big! When will I be able to be like you?" she couldn't help but ask.

Shangguan Ling'er glanced at Li Yinsheng subconsciously, her ears turning slightly red, and gently tapped Mu Xiaoyu's head, making a "thump" sound.

"What are you saying, little girl!" she scolded lightly.

Your senior brother is still here!

"As long as Junior Sister can cultivate the Earth Fire Tempering Technique to a sufficiently profound level, she will not only be able to be like Sister Shangguan, but may even surpass her."

Li Yinsheng encouraged him from the side.

Shangguan Ling'er's ears turned even redder.

But seeing Mu Xiaoyu's determined face, she couldn't help but send a telepathic message to Li Yinsheng.

"Yinsheng, since Xiaoyu cares so much about this, why not just give her some pills or secret techniques?"

"These pills and secret techniques aren't too expensive, and they don't have any side effects. They're much more reliable than using the Earth Fire Tempering Technique..."

Although she did not cultivate the Earth Fire Tempering Technique, she knew a little about it. The changes in appearance and figure brought about by this technique were merely an added bonus.