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Li Shizhou suddenly felt dizzy and his ears were ringing.

The long howl could actually attack his soul, but fortunately he recovered in less than half a breath. Upon closer inspection, he saw that the Purple-Eyed Beast looked somewhat listless, with Leng Ning'er in its mouth, and was about to turn around and run away.

Yuan Zhan was still clutching his head and wailing, while Pei Ze had just been seriously injured and had not yet recovered.

Leng Ning'er, who was in the beast's mouth, was in even worse shape. She was the one with the lowest cultivation level among them and had been injured before. She had already fainted, but fortunately, she was covered by a golden soft armor that actively protected her, which prevented her from dying immediately.

Li Shizhou was extremely anxious and hurriedly manipulated the Blood Spirit Sword to block, leaving another large gash on the Purple-Eyed Bixiong beast, but it did not hit a vital spot.

The one-eared, purple-eyed beast at the foot of the city wall let out a mournful roar and exploded with a bang.

The beast blasted a hole in the city wall and its defensive formation, and the purple-eyed beast leaped out of the gap with Leng Ning'er in its mouth. A flash of yellow light appeared on its body, and it disappeared outside the city.

Li Shizhou quickly flew off on his sword to give chase.

"Junior brother, catch."

Pei had recovered and tossed the two items over.

Li Shizhou took it and glanced at it; it was a jade bottle and a white bead.

He flew and looked around, using the white beads to track Leng Ning'er's location.

The jade bottle contains a spiritual liquid called "Return to Origin Dew," which can quickly restore magical power.

Once outside the city, Li Shizhou followed closely behind, while the Purple-Eyed Bixiong beast continued to roam underground.

His Mo Li Beast could indeed use earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magical creature), but it was only a level two demon beast, so Li Shizhou dared not release it to pursue him.

After chasing for five or six hundred miles, Leng Ning'er finally stopped moving, indicating that the monster had returned to its lair.

Li Shizhou had previously used the "Spirit-Slaying Sword" and had consumed a lot of his magic power in the pursuit. He first opened the jade bottle, tilted his head back and drank a mouthful of the Returning Origin Dew, and then summoned his dog to burrow underground.

The dog carried him down for a full two miles before suddenly plummeting downwards, falling more than twenty feet before landing on the ground.

Upon closer inspection, he saw that it was an underground cave that stretched for seventy or eighty feet in length and twenty feet in height, with a fiery blaze inside.

Not far away, two purple-eyed beasts on the ground were waving their giant hands, trying to break through Leng Ning'er's golden transparent soft armor.

The two purple-eyed mythical beasts are one large and one small.

The large one was the level four purple-eyed beast that had kidnapped Leng Ning'er.

The smaller one is only at the peak of level one; it must be a cub of this group of demonic beasts.

No wonder they risked their lives to kidnap cultivators; it seems they were using them to help their cubs advance in cultivation.

His appearance immediately startled the two demonic beasts.

The two beasts stopped attacking Leng Ning'er, their fur stood on end, and they let out low growls at Li Shizhou, who had just appeared.

Enemies meeting are bound to be furious, and a great battle is about to break out.

The purple-eyed beast took the initiative, leaping out in a golden blur with a powerful push of its hind legs.

Li Shizhou calmly put away the dog and flew into the air, enveloped in the miasma of the Hidden Dragon.

There was only one injured demon beast left. He dodged inside while simultaneously casting the "Spirit-Slaying Sword" spell.

A moment later, a sword rang out.

Having suffered losses before, the male Purple-Eyed Jade Beast knew the power of this supernatural technique, so it hurriedly burrowed underground and refused to come out.

Li Shizhou hovered in the air for a while and observed that the male Purple-Eyed Beast had fled in haste and had not taken its cub with it.

So he flew down to the ground and lifted the scruff of the neck of the purple-eyed beast cub.

The cub initially had a fierce look in its eyes, but after being slapped, its eyes immediately cleared, and it whimpered and howled for help.

After a short while, the male Purple-Eyed Bixie emerged from the ground and gazed at the black mist from afar.

After glancing at it a few times, a hint of resentment flashed in its eyes. Then it burrowed back into the ground, and a moment later, it took out a corpse from its mouth and placed it on the ground before slowly retreating to a distance.

Li Shizhou used his divine sense to probe and found that it was the corpse of a cultivator.

The skin and flesh had been dried by the wind, and the exposed neck was pitch black, indicating that the person had died of poisoning. A storage bag and several spirit beast bags were hanging on the body.

"So these purple-eyed beasts are all spirit beasts."

Li Shizhou suddenly realized that the corpse must be the owner of the spirit beast.

The fact that the master died but the spirit beasts are still alive indicates that the cultivator did not control the spirit beasts through a blood pact, and that these spirit beasts have regained their freedom.

He flew over cautiously, used his magic to isolate the storage bag before opening it, and searched inside for four black wooden plaques.

"Beast God Card".

Li Shizhou recognized the wooden plaque. This item could seal a part of a demon beast's soul inside, and the life or death of the demon beast whose soul was sealed would then be in the hands of the plaque's owner.

Once sealed, the demon beast's soul will merge with the Beast God Token.

Even after its owner dies, the wooden plaque remains the lifeblood of the monster.

Upon seeing the wooden sign, the purple-eyed beast showed fear in its eyes, then lowered its head and forelimbs to the ground to show its submission.

Seeing this, Li Shizhou was overjoyed. It seemed that this demon beast was willing to offer up its weakness to become his spirit beast in order to protect its cub.

So he first checked each of the four wooden plaques, and then dripped blood to refine and bind them to his master.

Two of the wooden plaques were empty, presumably belonging to the two female purple-eyed mythical beasts.

The other two pieces indeed contained parts of the divine souls of demonic beasts, one strong and one weak.

With a mere thought, he could obliterate the demonic souls on the wooden plaque, causing the two demonic beasts to die instantly.

Li Shizhou put the "Beast God Token" into his storage bag, fed the Purple-Eyed Bixiong a few healing pills, and then took two spirit beast bags off the corpse.

Now was not the time for the two new demon beasts to recognize each other as masters. He put the two demon beasts into their respective spirit beast pouches and turned to look at Leng Ning'er.

Leng Ning'er was still unconscious on the ground.

Just then, the golden panel refreshed.

[Daily Opportunity Information]

[Area: Five li]

[Danger: Beneath the earth's fire, four miles away from you, a piece of fire essence is being nurtured. Obtaining it can be used to refine magical artifacts.]

"It's a pleasant surprise."

The temperature of this earth fire is too high; even with the strength of a level two demon beast like Gou'er, he probably can't retrieve it.

Li Shizhou then released the Purple-Eyed Bixiong beast again.

"About four miles underground, there is a piece of fire essence. Please retrieve it for me."

This monster already possessed a high level of intelligence, and having spent a long time with humans, it understood the message after hearing it only once.

Perhaps to make a good impression on its new owner, it vanished underground in a flash.

A little over fifteen minutes later, it indeed carried a fiery red crystal to the ground. Most of its fur had been singed, clearly indicating that it had fought desperately just now.

Li Shizhou nodded in satisfaction, put it back into his spirit beast pouch, and then took the crystal into his hand.

It was about the size of a fist, and felt warm to the touch. He played with it for a while before putting it away.

Then, carrying Leng Ning'er in one hand, he rode the dog out of the underground and switched to a flying chariot, heading towards the Yuan family's main city.

After a while, Leng Ning'er woke up and asked blankly, "Where am I?"

Li Shizhou recounted the events in a slightly abridged version.

"Hmph, why did it take you so long to rescue this fairy?"

Li Shizhou was speechless.

Leng Ning'er smiled slyly: "Since you have two more spirit beasts, lend them to me to play with, and this fairy will not hold it against you."