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  Mo Qingchen was really surprised that this person still remembered him, thinking that he also had good intentions, so he transmitted a message: "Thank you, Master Uncle, but this time I have made sufficient preparations to come here and absolutely cannot give up halfway."

  "After a long silence, the monk with a doll-like face spoke up: 'Suit yourself, no one will collect your corpse when you're dead!'"

  At this moment someone shouted: "It's open, the secret realm is open!"

  Mo Qingchen couldn't help but look back and saw a bright light appearing in front of the mountain, which was originally unremarkable.

  The light grew bigger and wider, soon connecting into a sheet of light.

  "Silence, everyone! Don't push, enter in the order you were previously arranged!" The voice of the Jiedan cultivator came over.

  Mo Qingchen followed the crowd in the previously arranged order towards the light screen, and several Jiedan stage masters of the Yao Guang Sect stood one zhang away from the outside of the light screen to prevent any accidents involving their own disciples.

  One by one, the monks stepped into the light screen and their entire figure disappeared out of thin air. Mo Qingchen took out a water grape from his storage bag and threw it into his mouth. Book fans also like to read:

  The water grape is a very suitable fruit for brewing wine, similar in appearance to the grapes of the mortal world. She has always been cultivated in her personal medicinal garden, where she uses the beautiful wine from the gourd to irrigate it every day. After over a thousand years, not only does the flavor become better, but it also gains the effect of calming the mind and soothing the spirit.

  After drinking a glass of water, Mo Qing swallowed hard and took a deep breath, feeling his heart relax a bit. He then stepped forward towards the light screen.

  As soon as she arrived at the light screen, she felt a gaze fall on her, and involuntarily turned her head to meet a handsome face with an icy and sharp jawline.

  Mo Qingchen was so angry that he wanted to slap his own head, because of the tension, he had forgotten this. He should have lowered his head and rushed in, why did he turn his head?

  Since he had been discovered, Mo Qingchen flashed a silly smile, knowing that he couldn't afford to offend him, and then didn't wait for the other person's reaction before diving headfirst into the light screen.

  "Junior brother, why does your face look so terrible?" A warm and gentle-looking Jikidan monk smiled.

  "Ha! Brother, didn't you see that little girl also participating in this trial? Humph, cultivating Qi to the 9th level, isn't she looking for death?"

  That monk burst out laughing: "I saw it early on, I was the one who brought her here. Younger brother, you can't see that you're quite concerned about that little girl."

  The doll-faced monk almost jumped up: "Who cares about her, I just think she's stupid, hum, it's good that she's dead. When the time comes, your precious chess piece will belong to me, and when the time comes, don't try to deny it."

  A warm and gentle-looking monk smiled and shook his head: "You're just being stubborn, but I did discover something interesting."

  "Huh? What's going on?" The doll-faced monk's expression improved slightly. After all, he didn't really care about the life or death of a little girl like her; it was just that she seemed interesting so he paid more attention to her.

  Another monk smiled and said: "You're not the only one who's been paying extra attention to that little girl."

  The monk with the doll-like face turned black, and another monk hurriedly said: "Didn't you notice that Ye Shidi's ice-cold face, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years, changed after he saw that girl?"

  The doll-faced monk sneaked a peek at Ye Shidi and said in a low voice, "Has it changed? I feel like it's still that dead face?"

  Another monk nodded and said: "Really changed. Colder!"

  Doll face repairman...

  Mo Qingchen only felt that his body was being sucked into a huge force, but he didn't feel any discomfort, as if his whole body was wrapped in a protective bag, and it even felt warm and cozy.

  Before she could even react, she felt a void beneath her feet and then fell with a thud.

  "Ah." Mo Qingchen called out softly, then realized that the sky was full of stars, and his surroundings were vaguely visible under the starlight.

  Mo Qingchen turned his head around and looked around, one hand pinched a large handful of talismans and the other hand buckled a bowl-shaped magic instrument.

  Nothing unusual, but what caught the eye was the dense branches swaying, and many leaves were still falling down with a rustling sound, and I found myself landing on a big tree!

  Having made sure of this, Mo Qingchu carefully descended the tree, holding his breath and cautiously looking around before finally letting out a sigh of relief and taking a step forward.

  Huh? Mo Qingchen paused for a moment, and his foot seemed to have stepped on something soft.

  She subconsciously thought she had stepped on some kind of cold-blooded animal, and the girl's nature made her instantly get goosebumps all over her body, but she suppressed her nausea and fear to lift her foot and look down.

  "It's just a bird's nest!" Mo Qingchen let out a long sigh, crouched down to examine it carefully, but found that there was still a bird in the nest.

  The bird's nest looks ordinary, but it actually has the extraordinary effect of withstanding divine consciousness. No wonder I didn't notice anything unusual just now.

  The bird was black from head to toe, only its beak was bright red. Looking at it again and again, Mo Qingchen felt that this was a... crow.

  Mo Qing's mind quickly flashed back to a piece of information he had read before, the Fire Crow, a first-class demon beast, whose adult strength could reach the late stage of human Qi refining.

  Mo Qingchen had seen it on a jade slip before, that demonic beasts could only awaken their spiritual intelligence when they reached the fifth level, and those below the fifth level were just relying on their instincts to cultivate. However, there were some demonic beasts that were born with wisdom, such as the demon fox.

  The Fire Crow is also one of them, although its strength is not high, it has a lot of spirituality, and even at the second level, it can speak human language, but due to the limitations of its innate talent, only one in ten thousand Fire Crows can break through to the second level.

  Mo Qingchen gazed at the unconscious Fire Crow, observing that its body was somewhere between juvenile and adult, but strangely, its cultivation had reached the peak of a first-grade Yao beast.

  Thinking that this was a secret realm, Mo Qingchen didn't find it strange at all. Just as he was about to get up and leave, the Fire Crow suddenly trembled and made an extremely faint sound, which sounded somewhat mournful.

  Although the fire crow looked unwell, its strength was still above its own. Mo Qingchen saw it move and immediately stood up, but unexpectedly the crow suddenly burst out, pecking her fingertips fiercely.

  Mo Qingchen felt a stinging pain at her fingertips, and with a flick of her wrist, the bowl-shaped magic tool flew out, but what happened next left her so stunned that she forgot to control the magic tool's attack.

  The fire crow, suddenly changing its dejected demeanor from before, stood there spiritedly, with one wing akimbo and its beak opening and closing as it loudly cursed: "You scoundrel! You knocked me and my nest down together, yet you still want to run away!"

  Mo Qingchen was shocked to discover that the Fire Crow wasn't actually speaking human language, but rather its words were directly echoing in his mind.

  Did... it just make a contract with itself?

  It didn't occur to Mu Qingchen until later that he had no experience in this aspect.

  Mo Qingchen was stunned, and the fire crow was still scolding incessantly, as if it would scold until dawn. Book lovers also like to read:

  "What...do you want?" Mo Qingchen really didn't know how to interact with a bird and spoke with difficulty.

  The black crow stopped for a moment and then cawed again: "You must apologize and compensate me for my losses!"

  Mo Qingchen's face turned black as he said, "I'm really sorry, I ruined your nest. How about I rebuild a new one for you?"

  The black crow's eyelid only lifted halfway, and he stared at her with the whites of his eyes: "Rebuild it, can you rebuild it well? Give me the watermelon you brought, or don't think about leaving!"

  "Water Plum Fruit?" Mo Qingchen only then remembered that he had eaten a Water Plum Fruit to relieve his tension when he was about to enter the secret realm, and this crow could actually smell it?

  "Don't pretend to be stupid, you just ate it a moment ago. If you didn't, I'll kill you!" The Fire Crow continued to glare at her with cold eyes.

  Mo Qingchen was amused by the sudden boldness of the bird, which said calmly and unhurriedly: "So you signed a contract with me just to get water grapes?"

  Although this crow is stronger than me, has it forgotten that once a contract is signed, humans and demons cannot harm each other? I'd be the strange one if I were afraid of it!

  "Of course, otherwise I wouldn't be speaking, how did you know what I wanted! Hurry up and hand over the watermelon, then get out of here!" Fire Crow said with a self-satisfied tone.

  Mo Qingchen calmly took out a string of grapes and threw them to the Fire Crow, seeing it chirping and eating with gusto, then turned around and left.

  He walked out for several dozen feet before turning back and saying: "Aren't you leaving yet?"

  "Why should I go?" asked Hei Wu Ya with a mouthful of food.

  Mo Qingchen suddenly laughed: "You don't know that by signing this equality contract, if I don't cancel it, you can't leave me far away?"

  Humans and spirit beasts can sign several types of contracts, such as master-servant contract, life-and-death blood contract, equal contract. Book fans also like to read:

  Ordinary masters obtain contracted spirit beasts, which makes the spirit beast obey its master unconditionally, even if it's told to go die.

  The contract is a voluntary agreement between two parties, once it takes effect, the human and spirit beast are bound together for life and death, sharing their lives. Most spirit beasts have a much longer lifespan than humans, making it difficult to get them to voluntarily sign such a contract, so soul contracts are extremely rare.

  Another is the equal contract, where humans and spirit beasts live together in a trial of strength, except that they cannot harm each other, no one can force the other to do things, similar to a friendship.

  It's precisely because of the two words "equality" that this contract has a unique aspect. At the time, the party that actively signed the equality contract did not have the power to cancel it, only the party being contracted could proactively terminate it, and the party that actively signed the contract could not proactively leave.

  It may be an illusion, but Mo Qingchen felt that the Fire Crow's face had turned even darker. Suddenly, it jumped up in anger and shouted: "Despicable, shameless, lowly! Quickly cancel our contract for me! F**k off, f**k off, f**k off..." Another string of profanities followed.

  Mo Qingchen couldn't understand how the Fire Crow, which had always lived in the secret realm, had learned such profanity. Could it really be self-taught?

  The sky was dark and the earth was dim when the black crow scolded, Mo Qingchen also came with a temper, laughing: "I'm in a bad mood now, can't cancel the appointment, if you don't leave, I'll take a step first."

  "Don't move!" The fiery crow shrieked, causing Mo Qingchen's head to ache.

  Mo Qingchen turned his head and walked away, only to see Huo Wu Ya rushing over in a fluster, saying: "You're ruthless! Fine, you can leave. This is for the best. From now on, I'll have you take care of my food and lodging."

  Mo Qingchen stumbled back a step, but instead of leaving, he sat down cross-legged and sent out a transmission talisman.