Chapter 65 - 65

Jiang Tang…

no response.

Eryao rushed over, hugged him, and tears started to drop, falling on Jiang Tang’s face.

Unfortunately, Jiang Tang completely lacked any sense of it, his face still ashen, but already devoid of the initial gold and purple hue.

“Moo moo moo…”

Little Blue Ox, from its previous cheerful and happy expression, started to cry with Eryao, teardrops falling from its cow eyes amidst the sadness…

Eryao tried to shake Jiang Tang, but received no response, and cried out in sadness, “Daddy, what’s wrong with you?

Respond to me, what should we do now?

You’re not really dead, are you?

Woo…”

Although Eryao cried and called out like this, due to its contract with Jiang Tang, it could feel that Jiang Tang was not dead, just severely injured and slowly recovering.

Maybe he was unaware of the outside world, or perhaps he was aware but unable to respond.

After crying for a while and growing tired, Eryao looked around the space with a vacant gaze, then noticed the crops, the Spirit Valley Seeds that had ripened.

“Daddy, I will cook for you…”

Eryao found a pot, harvested some of the matured rice with a spell into the pot, added water, and then sprayed its Spiritual Fire.

In just a moment, fragrant rice was ready.

“Daddy, time to eat…”

Jiang Tang still gave no response.

Eryao fed him a little, but saw that he didn’t chew the rice in his mouth.

Helpless, it remembered it was also hungry and began gobbling down the food.

In no time at all, only a few mouthfuls of rice were left in the pot.

Eryao then thought of Jiang Tang, opened his mouth, and found that the rice which hadn’t been chewed earlier had disappeared.

“Hehe, Daddy, can you eat rice now?”

Jiang Tang again didn’t respond.

At this moment, Eryao realized something; it fed the remaining few mouthfuls to Jiang Tang.

Though Jiang Tang didn’t respond and his mouth didn’t move, the rice in his mouth automatically got chewed, disintegrated, and made its way into his stomach.

Eryao also fed water to Daddy, and he could drink it down.

With this discovery, Eryao wasn’t as sad as before and sat down to think.

“Moo moo moo moo moo…”

The Green Ox had been concerned about the crops all this while.

Seeing that Eryao had woken up, it thought that maybe it could help with the farm work now?

“You want me to harvest the crops?

What a waste of talent!

You useless thing, after cultivating for so long, you can’t even do these things for yourself.

You still need to bother Eryao, a mere dumb ox.”

Eryao rambled on for a bit, making the Little Blue Ox lower its head.

Though it was a beast, it didn’t have that kind of legacy!

It hadn’t awakened any Secret Manuals or anything like that.

Its entire cultivation was just working in the space, eating Spirit Grass to increase its Cultivation; reaching the Gathering Spirit Phase was already quite good.

In front of Eryao, the Little Blue Ox felt a bit inferior, and regarding its scolding, it could only lower its head and meekly endure.

“Ahh, forget it.

In light of your diligent labor, I’ll reluctantly do it!

First, let me be clear, I’m not helping you.

I’m just doing work, work.”

Eryao gave the Little Blue Ox a glance, cast a spell, and all the matured rice in the space went into a jute sack that Jiang Tang had stored there.

The Green Ox, happy to see those rice seedlings, scurried over to eat.

After filling its belly, it went aside to drink water.

Leaving some rice seedlings uneaten, it lay down to sleep.

“Hey, you lazy bug!

I’ve finished harvesting the rice.

Aren’t you supposed to plow the field?

Why are you sleeping instead?”

“Moo moo moo moo moo moo moo”

Now, Eryao also understood, grasping what Little Blue Ox meant, and gave it praise, “Not too dumb, you can level up.”

Little Blue Ox nodded, “Moo moo moo moo moo”

“Go on then, hurry up!

Otherwise, leaving such a big empty space in the space is a waste.

You need to level up and come back to plow.”

“Moo…”

Little Blue Ox closed its eyes and started its leveling up.

After enduring a scolding from Eryao, it felt quite happy knowing it could level up.

It had gained praise from Eryao, and it thought that once its master woke up and saw it had leveled up, he would be pleased!

Eryao felt quite bored, as Little Blue Ox was leveling up and there was no one to play with.

It looked at Jiang Tang and remembered that every time master farmed, there would be Pills, Secret Manuals, Magical Treasures and such popping out in the space.

But when it just harvested the rice, it did not see any!

Looking at the space filled with abundant Spirit Grass, Eryao thought of helping its master, who might need Pills given his current condition.

Eryao cast a spell, sowed new seeds on the recently harvested land, and planted rice again.

Then it watered the seeds, of course with its Water Spray Spell.

Having done all this and feeling tired, it lay down beside its master to sleep.

Time passed unknowingly.

Eryao awoke beside its master and found the Little Blue Ox was still leveling up.

It shook its little head; too weak, it had not yet finished after such a long time.

Suddenly, Eryao saw an item in the middle of the space’s rice field that it did not remember seeing when scattering the seeds.

Among the green shoots of the rice, it found a box.

Eryao used the suction spell to draw the box over, opened it, and to its delight, found Pills inside.

“Spirit Supplement Pill, hahaha, Master is saved!”

One of the reasons Eryao was so happy was because when she tried to wake Jiang Tang, she discovered his storage bag was missing.

This meant that all the pills, secret manuals, and the like were all gone.

The magical treasures were gone, and the two Exotic Flames that Master had subdued had also disappeared.

Eryao had always found it strange but couldn’t ask Master about it.

Now, seeing the pills, she placed one in Master’s mouth, hoping that after he consumed the pill, he would recover quickly.

Eryao felt that one pill was not enough, so she put two more into Master’s mouth.

Then she ate two herself, and the box was empty.

Eryao noticed that after eating the pills, Master’s complexion seemed a bit rosier.

With this observation, Eryao’s spirits were lifted.

Having just eaten the pills, she didn’t pause to cultivate and recover her strength.

Instead, she used a spell to mature the Spirit Grass grown by Little Blue Ox in the space.

Then she diligently continued to sow and water, tending to the space’s crops more lushly than even Little Blue Ox had done.

Only then did Eryao feel tired, and she lay down beside Master to rest, closing her eyes to recover her spiritual power.

Some more time passed.

“Moo, moo, moo…”

Little Blue Ox improved its level and felt more agile, frolicking and bellowing joyfully.

“What’s all the fuss about?

It’s just a common upgrade.

How high can your cultivation really be?”

Eryao, awakened by the noise and still groggy, scolded Little Blue Ox fiercely.

“Moo…”

Little Blue Ox didn’t care about Eryao’s scolding and ran over to hug Eryao.

Eryao transformed back to her original form, a tiny bird, and Little Blue Ox hugged her so tightly that it was suffocating.

“You big oaf, you want to flatten me to death, don’t you know your own weight?

All brawn and no brains.”

Eryao had noticed that Little Blue Ox had grown a bit larger, of course weighing quite a bit more, and that it had now reached the Insight cultivation level after its upgrade.

Little Blue Ox let go of Eryao and happily jumped around the space.

“Take it easy!

Don’t eat the crops haphazardly, and don’t trample them.”

Little Blue Ox nodded to Eryao and feeling hungry, went to eat some leftover hay.

Eryao observed the crops again, noting the newly planted Spirit Grass looking green and lush.

She saw a box rising within the space.

Eryao wanted to shout with joy, drawing the box closer and opening it to find Recovery Pills.

This type of pill could quickly heal people with severe injuries or various cultivation levels, beasts, demons, ghost cultivators—anyone who suffered severe injuries could soon recover after consuming these pills.

“Hahaha, Master is saved!”

Little Blue Ox, sensing Eryao’s joy, also jumped around happily: “Moo, moo…”

Eryao knew she was also injured and needed such a pill, but since she could slowly recover after waking up, she didn’t necessarily require the pills.

She could just eat some Spirit Grass in the space.

But Master was different; he was unconscious and needed to receive nutrition and pills to help him recover as quickly as possible.

Eryao placed a pill in Jiang Tang’s mouth, allowing it to dissolve and be swallowed naturally.

Then she too consumed a pill and, still not reassured, gave another one to Master.

After taking the pill, Eryao began to close her eyes and cultivate to heal her body.

While Eryao was healing, Little Blue Ox lay quietly aside, guarding over Master and Jiang Tang.

Noticing some crops had matured, and knowing it could not harvest them, Little Blue Ox could only sit anxiously on the side.

When hungry, it would eat grass; when thirsty, it would drink water.

When tired, it would sleep, cyclically repeating this process.

Each time, it found more ripe crops, and Little Blue Ox, ignorant in harvesting, grew increasingly vexed.

So, it shook Eryao a bit.

“You big oaf, I was sleeping so nicely, dreaming of eating meat, and here you come, stealing my dream meal.”

Eryao had always longed for meat.

Having recognized Jiang Tang as her master shortly after birth and entering this space, she had always eaten only vegetation, like grass and Spirit Valley.

She craved meat desperately, dreaming of it.

After waking, Eryao found that her cultivation had recovered and her body had grown larger.

“Humph, you big oaf, your cultivation isn’t as high as mine, is it?”

“Moo, moo…”

Little Blue Ox bowed its head, initially happy with its size increase after leveling up, but now it felt inferior seeing that Eryao was still larger and had higher cultivation, hanging its head in shame.

“Alright, alright, I won’t hold it against you considering your hard work…”

Before Eryao could finish speaking, she saw so many mature crops in the space that hadn’t been harvested.

She began to grumble: “You big oaf, all you know is eating.

So many crops are ripe, and you can’t even harvest them.

What a waste of land.”

At Eryao’s rebuke, Little Blue Ox crouched even lower: “Moo…”

“I’m not dealing with a dunce who can’t speak human language.” After saying this, Eryao harvested all the ripe crops, bustling about, seemingly even more industrious than an actual ox.

After gathering the crops, she diligently continued to sow and water them….