Genius Beast Tamer

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The next morning, the Tian family was still calm, and there was no news of the family head Tianba being "robbed". It was probably because Tianba had already claimed that he was about to run out of lifespan because he could not provide the immortal energy needed by the Great Luo Golden Immortals and needed longevity pills. Now it was just a case of his illness becoming real.

Because he had previously wanted to perfectly deceive his son, spreading the news of his fake illness throughout the entire Immortal Realm, even if he revealed what happened last night, it wouldn't be any better. If he said he was injured by someone who had "robbed" him, then his previous claims would be exposed as a lie. Besides, even if he told the truth, who would believe that a Great Luo Golden Immortal would be so mistreated by someone he had never even met? So it was better not to say anything. The only change was that what was originally just a pretense to find the Longevity Elixir had now become a genuine search.

As soon as it was light, Han Rou took Tian Xie and the infant Tian Miao to the Han family. When she left, Tian Feng wanted to see her off, but she coldly declined.

A huge red sailboat flew through the air, while Han Rou gently coaxed Tian Miao in her arms from inside the cabin.

The Tian family is located in Canghai City, north of the Immortal Realm Island, while the Han family is located on Immortal Wind Island, which spans more than thirty islands of the Immortal Realm Island. It is hundreds of millions of miles away from the Tian family. Even a high-grade immortal artifact like this red sailboat would take more than a month to travel there. Han Rou has been married into the Tian family for seven years, but she has only returned to the Han family three times. The journey is long and the round trip takes too long, which is why Han Rou rarely returns to the Han family after she gets married. Once was for her return visit to her parents' home, once was when Tian Xie was born, and once was when Tian Xie was three years old. So Tian Xie has only seen her maternal grandfather twice, and she has no memory of the one time when she was just an infant.

As for the time when she was three years old, Tianxie remembered it vividly. Before meeting her maternal grandfather, she had heard rumors that he was a fierce man with a fiery temper, and no one dared to provoke him. However, the meeting was unexpected. Her grandfather treated her very well and was a kind old man, a stark contrast to the stern head of the family. She only stayed for one day that time, and the only members of the Han family she met were her maternal grandfather and her deceased maternal grandmother's younger brother, who was also her great-uncle.

Tianxie lay on the deck and muttered, "When I left the Tian family, I heard that the patriarch had sent out many people to search for the elixir of immortality. He seems to be getting more and more anxious. It seems that the patriarch really doesn't have long to live."

Hua Qianye raised an eyebrow and smiled, "Are you worried about him?"

Tianxie scratched his little head, a hint of embarrassment appearing on his rosy face. He pouted and said, "Although he won't admit it, he is still my grandfather. Although he doesn't like me very much, and of course I don't like him much either, so we're even. However, because Dad cares about him a lot, I'm still a little worried."

"Even if you're worried about him, there's nothing you can do. You can't even solve your own problems, so how can you worry about others?" Hua Qianye lay flat on the deck, lazily basking in the sun.

Tianxie's lips twitched slightly. "No matter what, you're still a soul without a body, almost like a ghost. Sunbathing in broad daylight, don't you get dizzy? You look so comfortable!"

"I'm a spirit, not a ghost, so what am I afraid of the sun?" Hua Qianye's expression of enjoyment was even more exaggerated.

Tianxie rolled his eyes and pouted, "Get to the point, are you going to help me or not?"

"Help you with what?" he asked lazily, his eyes narrowing into slits, a hint of cunning in them. He had made a promise to her in his dream last night, but the little girl clearly had no recollection of the dream at all.

"Help me become stronger! If I become stronger, I can protect the ring, protect you, and protect my brother." When Tianxie mentioned his brother, his gaze turned somewhat somber as he looked towards the cabin.

Hua Qianye's expression was somewhat strange. This morning was the first time he had seen her younger brother. The little guy was actually even less talented than this little girl. He didn't even have immortal bones. If he didn't even have immortal blood, then he would be a complete mortal and would not be able to use immortal pills to transform immortal energy.

Seeing that Hua Qianye did not answer, Tianxie assumed that he still wanted to make a deal. He took out the small cloth bag she was carrying and said as he did so, "Because I don't have to go back to the Tian family anymore, I have taken everything I need. I don't have any good stuff, all my belongings are here. I can give them all to you in exchange for helping me get rid of the stigma of being a good-for-nothing and becoming stronger."

Hua Qianye remained lying on the deck, glancing sideways at what the little girl had pulled out...

Rabbit dolls, wooden pig carvings, tiger-head shoes, flower-shaped mirrors... all things that girls would play with!

"Is this all you have?" Hua Qianye felt like she had swallowed a toad whole.

"These were all made by my mother and father on my birthday, they are all my treasures!" Tianxie touched the rabbit doll, the wooden pig carving, and so on with great affection.

Hua Qianye initially wanted to tell her to keep it herself, but seeing the reluctance in the little girl's eyes, he suddenly felt playful. He reached out, and a beam of black light shot out from his finger, collecting everything in Tianxie's little cloth bag into his ring.

"Ah! You really want it!" Tianxie lowered her head in defeat. After realizing that the black light that had taken away her "treasure" came from the ring, she asked in confusion, "Isn't the ring on my hand?" She even held up her hand to indicate that the black ancient ring on her finger was still there.

Hua Qianye chuckled evilly, "I am now the controller of the ring. You cannot use it without my permission, but you don't have enough immortal energy to begin with. Your ring is just an ornament, like a shell. When I want to use it, it will naturally serve me. But don't worry, what I have in my hand is just an illusion. What I took away still went into your ring."

"But do you really want all this stuff?" Tianxie looked at the empty little cloth bag on his back, his face full of pain.

"Didn't you make this deal yourself? I think..." He paused, then with a wave of his hand, a small rabbit doll appeared. He tugged at the rabbit's ears, raised an eyebrow, and smiled, "This little rabbit does look quite like you, it's quite fun!"

Tianxie pouted, reluctantly saying, "This was made by my mother herself. Don't pull its ears so roughly, it'll break. I don't usually take it out!"

"Didn't you want to trade it to me? Now that you've given it to me, it's mine. I can do whatever I want with it, it's none of your business!" Hua Qianye mischievously pinched the little rabbit's ears hard. In reality, he couldn't touch any physical thing at all; he was just messing around with an illusion of a little rabbit.

Tianxie, unaware that this wasn't her little rabbit's true form, nervously watched Hua Qianye, afraid he would damage it. However, she couldn't ask for it back. More important than the little rabbit was becoming stronger. Initially, she thought the other party wouldn't even look at her things and was worried they wouldn't agree to the trade. Now that they agreed, she should be happy.

Tianxie gritted her teeth, and just as she was about to endure it, with a "ripping" sound, Hua Qianye tore off one of the little rabbit's ears.

"Oops, I've ruined it." Hua Qianye looked at the rabbit ear she had torn off and said with a hint of resentment, "Your mother didn't sew it securely!"

"Hua Qianye! You owe me my little rabbit!" Tianxie rushed over angrily, clenching her little fist to teach the other party a lesson, but her punch missed. She had obviously taken the extremely realistic soul body as a real existence.

"Little girl, in the Immortal Realm, everyone uses magic. Your fists won't work there. Don't think that just because I'm a soul, I'm not afraid of you. I could just grab any immortal and beat you black and blue with a simple spell. I only broke my own things, why should I compensate you for your little rabbit?" Hua Qianzui narrowed her phoenix eyes, her blue eyes filled with a deep smile.

"You!" Tianxie angrily withdrew his little fist. He couldn't hit the other party, nor could he do anything to them. He was the one who agreed to the exchange, and the little rabbit was originally his. What the other party broke was his own thing. Tianxie ignored Hua Qianye, turned his back, propped his cheek on his hand, and said awkwardly, "I've given you everything I have. Now you should tell me how to help me become stronger."

"Little girl, is this how your mother raised you? Speaking with your back to someone, isn't that incredibly rude? I can break a contract anytime!"

"Breach of contract! You've ruined my little rabbit, and you still dare to say you've breached the contract!" Tianxie turned around angrily, glaring at Hua Qianye, but a hint of joy flashed in his eyes. A perfectly intact little rabbit doll was floating in front of Hua Qianye.

Tianxie reached out and pulled the little rabbit doll into his arms, shaking it from side to side for a while. Finding it completely undamaged, he asked in confusion, "Didn't you break it?"

Hua Qianye raised the corners of her mouth and did not answer. Instead, she reached out to hit Tianxie. Tianxie said urgently, "Why are you hitting me!" But as soon as she finished speaking, the hand that was supposed to hit her face passed right through her face, as if it did not exist at all.

Tianxie then suddenly realized, "Right, you're a soul, you can't touch any physical objects. But what was that I just saw?"

"It's just an illusion." Hua Qianye raised an eyebrow and smiled. "However, it's not that I can't touch everything. The blue spirit flower in the ring, or other things that already exist in the ring, things that seem to be one with me, I can still touch."

"Oh! So you were just playing a trick on me!" Tianxie understood everything, but he got even angrier. He glared at Hua Qianye, but he couldn't do anything to her, so he could only make an angry face.

Hua Qianye's expression suddenly turned stern. The little rabbit that Tianxie hadn't even warmed up in his arms was sucked away by a suction force and flew into the ring on Hua Qianye's finger.

"I didn't do all this just to mess with you, there's another reason. If you want to become stronger, you can't play with these little things anymore, what you need to play with is..." He pointed his finger in front of Tianxie, and a bunch of weapons appeared.

Spears, halberds, clubs, axes, forks, tridents, hooks, lances, rings, knives, swords, crutches, axes, whips, maces, hammers, clubs, pestles—all kinds of weapons. As long as Tian Xie knew them, they were all there. And there were countless others that Tian Xie didn't know. Just the knives alone numbered in the dozens, including broadswords, short knives, and small knives. Fortunately, these were all suspended in the air in front of Tian Xie. If they had all been smashed onto the ship at once, the ship would probably have fallen apart.