Cultivation through Skin Making - Chapter 706 - 249. Controlling the Li Family, Forming a Bond with Ice Phoenix (7.0K words - Subscription Requested)_4
Chapter 706: 249. Controlling the Li Family, Forming a Bond with Ice Phoenix (7.0K words – Subscription Requested)_4
Xiao Bing sneaked away quietly.
In the beginning, it wasn’t planning to intervene.
After having a fight with the Long Night Emperor, it developed a reluctance towards “magical battles.”
But soon, it realized… this wasn’t a fight, it was simply bullying.
Xiao Bing changed its mind, flew out of the chaotic space currents, and fiercely bullied the Cultivators of the Changfeng Immortal Dynasty who were besieging Song Yan, feeling quite satisfied inside.
It also saw its family member.
A very peculiar family member.
A family member with another divine soul hidden inside.
Initially, it felt very strange, but when the elder told it, “Yes, this is your family,” Xiao Bing understood.
At this moment, when Xiao Bing saw its family member flying up and landing beside it, it affectionately let out a sound, “Chirp~~~”
Song Yan looked at this divine beast that could accompany him, protect him, and ensure he wouldn’t be harmed, feeling very happy.
What’s more, he was pleased to see that the elder had been very thoughtful.
Ever since Xiao Bing was born, the elder deliberately avoided teaching it “reading,” and “normal divine sense communication,” even though Xiao Bing could actually learn these very quickly. He didn’t teach, wanting to pass the opportunity onto the next generation of the Li Family’s heir, to make the bond between him and Xiao Bing even closer.
Xiao Bing: “Chirp~~”
Song Yan took out an introductory book in starry sky script, shook it at the Ice Abyss Phoenix, and then slowly approached, sitting down by its cloud-born talon, opening the book, and pointing to the first word on the page saying, “One.”
Having said that, he conjured a phantom of a rabbit in the void.
Then continued, “Two…”
Two rabbit phantoms.
The Ice Abyss Phoenix curiously craned its head over and began to learn.
…
A month later…
The Li Family servant bringing food to the Ice Abyss Phoenix was dumbfounded at the shocking scene before them.
The Phoenix suddenly transformed, taking on the form of a giant wolf with three heads and six arms, and began to devour the roasted demon pig brought to it.
When it took a bite of the demon pig, it was a wolf, and when it swallowed, it turned into a three-headed six-armed tiger.
Song Yan held his book.
Hmm…
Lately, he’d been teaching some idioms.
This starry sky script also had idioms akin to “wolfing down food.”
After Xiao Bing learned this word, it started doing this.
…
In the following days, various bizarre events began to occur in the Li Family.
One day…
The old trees of “Qixia Forest” were suddenly all hammered deep into the ground by some mysterious power, causing flaws in the sword array, and Li Kongming hurriedly led people to replant the trees.
Song Yan looked at his book, which was open to “carved into the wood three points deep.”
…
One day…
Suddenly, the Li Family’s dining hall was locked down by a mysterious array. From the outside, that array formed the shape of a giant pancake, and the pancake array had an attracting effect, causing any cooked food in the dining hall to be immediately drawn into the giant pancake array…
And at the other end of the pancake array was Xiao Bing’s mouth.
Song Yan laughed and said, “Hmm… ’painting a pancake to stave off hunger,’ understood quite well.”
Xiao Bing happily wagged its head, feeling that this person was so nice. Despite it causing trouble, this person never scolded it; instead, he cooperated with it.
…
Xiao Bing continued learning…
When it learned “waiting for hares beside the stump,” it cleared the entire forest, turning every tree into a stump, and then waited quietly for hares to run into them; when it learned “the book contains a house of gold,” it diligently clawed out a small secret realm, linked it with the book, and then placed gold inside the secret realm; when it learned “the book contains beauties like jade,” it transformed into a palm-sized Xiao Bing Sparrow, standing in the middle of the book pages, holding its head high, hopping left and right while looking up at Song Yan holding the book pages.
Song Yan couldn’t help but laugh.
He was very happy to spend its childhood with such a powerful and terrifying divine beast.
…
Xiao Bing’s learning ability was undoubtedly extremely terrifying, and besides learning, it also mastered many abilities on its own without a teacher.
There were only a few days left until the date agreed upon with the elder for a match.
During this period, Song Yan was completely living “eating the same table, sleeping in the same place” with Xiao Bing, spending day and night together, inseparable, one could say… Song Yan not only became Xiao Bing’s first teacher but also its first friend.
All of this was naturally arranged deliberately by the Li Family’s ancestor, Li Shanhai. After all, although he could pour all his efforts into nurturing such a realm spirit life with the realm domain, he couldn’t ensure the realm spirit would be bound to the Li Family, especially after his passing.
Therefore, he racked his brain to pave such a path for his descendant, Li Xuanchan, for the family’s prosperity and continuity.
And Song Yan did not disappoint his expectations.
Today, when Song Yan woke up, he suddenly noticed that something seemed off with Xiao Bing.
He sharply glanced up and finally realized what was wrong.
There was a mysterious pattern like a totem on Xiao Bing’s forehead.
Song Yan said curiously, “Xiao Bing, you’re amazing, what new power have you comprehended?”
Xiao Bing replied, “A name, I wrote your name.”
Song Yan was stunned, carefully recognizing it, and was speechless.
Xiao Bing had woven the three characters for “Li Xuanchan” into a mysterious totem using the most obscure words in starry sky script, then with a sudden tap of its claw.
This tap directly penetrated Song Yan’s body, reached his divine soul, and took a fragment of Song Yan’s soul as if taking something from an adult, then embedded the soul fragment onto the written characters, then lowered its head, forehead to forehead with Song Yan.
Song Yan felt a thread of soul fragment coming from Xiao Bing and forming a peculiar bond with him.
Xiao Bing said happily, “Brother Xuanchan, if someone bullies me in the future and I can’t beat that bad guy, the extra power will be transferred to Brother Xuanchan. Brother Xuanchan, you’ll protect me, right?”
Song Yan felt uneasy inside, but with an arrow on the bowstring, he couldn’t stop halfway; he could only seriously nod.
Yet immediately afterward, he thought for a moment and asked, “Xiao Bing, what if a bad guy attacks me and there’s extra power left?”
Xiao Bing seemed momentarily confused, clearly only having thought “Brother protects it,” but not “it protects Brother.”
After a moment, it responded, embarrassed, “Then… then it should also transfer to me.”
Song Yan laughed.
Doesn’t this mean that, although his offensive means were still “early realm,” his defensive means were already “early realm spirit?”
As for Xiao Bing…
In this fifth-level cultivating profound land, the only one known so far that Xiao Bing couldn’t beat was probably the Long Night Emperor, right?
He’d have to be out of his mind to go fight the Long Night Emperor, wouldn’t he?
Although Xiao Bing wrote the name “Li Xuanchan,” it connected to his divine soul, which gave him an immunity token.
…
…
In these past two months, Song Yan spent happy and peaceful days.
But everything is coming to an end.
Because Li Shanhai could no longer hold on.
During these three months, he didn’t use favors to contact so-called friends to help take care of the Li Family.
Though the old fellow did have some friends, in the Cultivation Realm, it was common for people to take advantage of others’ misfortunes, and he wouldn’t announce his death to the whole world.
In these three months, he organized some of the Li Family’s books, secrets, undiscovered but possibly valuable items, and handed them to Song Yan.
Then, it was time for the match.
In the grand chess game of the great road, playing once taught the heir this way of magical battle, and let himself die in pursuit of the great road, thus, it was also without regrets.
