540: Chapter 390 540: Chapter 390 Ever since the Green Ox transformed, it no longer wanted to take the shape of an ox, preferring the appearance of a boy similar to Eryao’s past youthful form.
Now that it could speak human language, it felt exhilarated.
Eryao used to talk incessantly and all it could do was listen without responding much.
But now things were different.
When Eryao nagged, it would respond, and its responses were even more plentiful than Eryao’s.
The previously silent and honest Green Ox had become a chatterbox, which Eryao found even more annoying than before.
It used to never talk back when scolded, but now it would retort tenfold for every one sentence spoken to it, driving Eryao mad.
Sometimes, when Eryao hopped about in anger, he would unceremoniously slap Green Ox on the head.
Perhaps Eryao didn’t use enough strength, or it was just for fun, or maybe Green Ox’s resistance was just too strong.
The two pets of different varieties both took on the form of lively young boys, and Jiang Tang could feel their liveliness even from outside.
The two pets only fought each other for fun.
Jiang Tang’s avatars had no time to play with them, although they shared the same mind as Jiang Tang.
They even looked the same, with Jiang Tang and his avatars looking like triplets.
But the avatars didn’t talk much, focusing only on getting things done.
“Daddy, done being romantic with step-mom and decided to come see us now?”
Eryao’s expression was odd as he uttered these sarcastic words.
“Master missed us and is ignoring those step-moms!”
Green Ox joined in.
Jiang Tang looked at the two talking pets.
Ever since they started talking, they had become so noisy that sometimes he didn’t know what to do with them.
Jiang Tang had spent these three days entirely within the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space.
Of course, he wasn’t cultivating.
While the two pets were working in the space, he cooked delicious food for them.
“Daddy, how come your cooking skills seem to have regressed?”
When Jiang Tang heard Eryao asking this, he rolled his eyes.
He had condescended to the role of a cook, a Great Power Holder cooking for these heartless pets, only to hear them say his cooking had deteriorated!
Of course, Jiang Tang understood that the pets had become picky eaters because of the daily gourmet food prepared by Sun Zi’an.
“Eryao, maybe daddy is too busy romancing the step-moms to brush up his cooking skills, so let’s just make do with this unfamiliar cooking for now!”
Green Ox had also become sharp-tongued, much to Jiang Tang’s irritation.
He felt like thrashing them, those two rascals who needed a beating every three days to keep them in line.
However, Jiang Tang had never actually laid hands on the two pets.
True, he only fancied doing so in his mind.
Their loyalty was even more trustworthy than that of humans.
You can’t completely trust even the friends by your side, nor do you always have to rely on them.
When Jiang Tang first arrived in the Cultivation World, he hadn’t made any friends.
Later, he befriended Su Chang’an, then he got a senior sister, followed by Ye Tian, and naturally, these women came into his life.
But these two pets were bonded to him by contract and unlike those friends, they were his reliable aides.
“Here’s the deal, for these three days, each meal will be cooked by you two.”
Annoyed, Jiang Tang decided to play the hands-off shopkeeper.
“That won’t do, daddy, I’m so busy.
I do so much work every day, let Green Ox cook!”
Green Ox, recommended by Eryao, shook its head vigorously.
Even though it had taken on a human form, it had never cooked before and couldn’t tell apart the likes of soy sauce from vinegar—it couldn’t even differentiate salt from sugar!
“Daddy, if you make me cook, I might as well eat grass!”
Upon hearing Green Ox say this, Eryao flared up again, “Damn, why don’t you go eat grass every day?
You only mention eating grass when someone asks you to do work.”
“Eryao, I think you’ll do quite well with these culinary skills, I’ll take care of the tasks in the space for these three days.”
Jiang Tang knew that even with the increased land in the space, the tasks the two pets performed were done using spells that only required a flick of their fingers and did not involve physical labor.
If both pets could manage that, why couldn’t a Great Power Holder like him?
With just a simple gesture, he could finish all the space’s tasks, which no longer required the hard work they once did.
Jiang Tang knew he wasn’t professional enough as a farmer, but to have spells and not use them, wouldn’t that be stupid?
“Eryao, since you dislike the food your master makes, I think its cooking is pretty good!”
Green Ox’s schadenfreude tone was basically retaliation for the previous times when Eryao pushed him out and scolded him.
Now, he was no longer the ox that took insults without talking back.
“Damn it, you sick cow, are you asking for a beating?”
With such fury, Eryao didn’t care that he had only taken a few bites of his meal and reached out to hit Green Ox.
Green Ox wasn’t that dumb anymore, to act like a little wife when scolded or just take a beating.
Seeing Eryao’s hand coming at him, he quickly flew away with his bowl of food, no matter that he hadn’t finished eating.
He had no desire to go back to just eating grass; he’d endure a beating as long as he could fill up on this bowl of food.
Fortunately, he hadn’t talked much during the meal, and he had managed to eat quite a bit of the master’s cooking and even tucked away quite a bit of it in his bowl.
“Hey yo, you’re running away…, I’ll beat you to death, you dumb ox!”
Eryao, driven mad with rage, didn’t care about the issue of eating and chased after Green Ox to hit him.
When the Divine Dragon became angry, the sands of the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space rolled tumultuously.
Lightning and thunder clashed in the sky as Eryao used his thunderstrike spell to attempt to hit Green Ox.
And from time to time, he spat fire.
When Green Ox couldn’t dodge, he could only revert to his bovine form, which had very thick skin somewhat resistant to being hit.
But against the thunder and fire summoned by Eryao the Divine Dragon, Green Ox couldn’t match up, his power being so much lower, and his fur got singed.
You could see him grinning through his pain, panting heavily, the breath he exhaled was thick with smoke.
He felt like his skin was about to be cooked, and at that point, he knew he was in trouble and desperately begged the master for help.
Eryao used his spells so recklessly, focusing them all on his changed body.
Jiang Tang, wanting to prevent the crops in the space from being damaged, deployed a protective spell.
Eryao’s lightning could only strike Green Ox, and the flames he spat could also only burn him.
As two pets fought under their master’s watch, he sat there eating his meal, not intervening or taking sides.
He thought a little combat was good for them.
If they didn’t fight, as a master, he would have liked to give them a beating himself.
Now with his authority gone, would these two pets still listen to him in the future?
Jiang Tang calmly finished his meal, brewed himself some tea, and then took out the best wine from the space to enjoy.
Green Ox’s cries for help made him think it was time to step in.
The ox had turned into well-cooked beef, and he didn’t fancy eating his pet’s roasted meat.
Jiang Tang waved his sleeve gently, blocking the thick lightning Eryao was striking down with, liberating Green Ox from the calamity.
As soon as Green Ox felt the pressure lift, he immediately ate one of the Wound Healing Medicines his master had given him and swiftly flew away.
Hiding from Eryao, he didn’t dare to speak a word and became well-behaved.
“Hmph, let’s see if you still have a sharp tongue?
If it weren’t for the master, your meat would be my next meal!”
Eryao knew Jiang Tang’s limits.
His master’s impartiality had allowed him to vent his anger.
He was just furious with Green Ox, and if he had truly intended to kill the foolish ox, he wouldn’t have used just half his power, although this fifty percent was already more than enough for the simple ox to endure.
That was the punishment for his loose tongue!
In the following days, Jiang Tang did not make time for cooking, as eating had become less important to him.
While cultivating in the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space, he came across a shiny box.
Seeing the box, Jiang Tang felt elated.
Every time a treasure or secret manual appeared in the space, it would be in a box or a cardboard box.
Large items would naturally need a big cardboard box to accommodate them, and small precious items could be stored in a small box, like a secret manual or a less sizeable Magical Treasure.
When Jiang Tang opened the box, he found a book with a few words written on its cover.
“The Mystery of Formations”
Eryao and Green Ox followed behind, having made up after their fight.
Seeing these words, Eryao thought of his inheritance from Snow Dragon, recognizing that a powerful Array Master was just as valuable as a skilled Pill Alchemist.
Both were forms of Cultivation Power for cultivators, with the powerful ones preventing others from taking advantage and even making them acknowledge their prowess.
With this skill, one could roam freely in the Cultivation World, and as their capabilities increased, they could enhance their formation techniques.
Afterward, while he had gained the Divine Dragon’s spells, being an impostor that had mutated didn’t bless him with the heritage of formation techniques.