The daily life of the crew of "Beasts".

Chapter 206 Extra (Ancient Chapter 4: Unrecognizable)

After the Pixiu brothers fell into a deep sleep,

Under the continuous sunshine, the ice and snow melted, and the earth was full of vitality. In the blink of an eye, countless seasons have passed, and the mountains and rivers are green, the streams flow, and birds and beasts roam freely, creating a thriving scene once again.

On an inconspicuous hillside, a paw suddenly bursts out of the ground, and rays of sunlight shine down, illuminating its blue and white fur.

"Ah~ I slept for so long."

With a push of its claws against the ground, the soil churned up, and Tianlu emerged. The ground on either side of him was then pushed open, and Baijie and Bixie emerged separately.

The three brothers climbed out of the tunnel and stretched their bodies, which hadn't moved for a century. Compared to before they fell asleep, they had all grown significantly.

Bixie glanced around, but the place was empty, and he didn't see any familiar figures. "Big Pink hasn't come back yet. Let's go find her."

Tianlu was scratching behind his ear with his paws when he heard this and was taken aback. "Where's the big red guy?"

Bai Jie yawned and looked over when he heard the conversation.

“She won’t wake up anytime soon, so let’s make a mark and come back when we find the big pink guy.”

Bixie bent down and took out a seven-colored seed. The other two brothers had no objections. The three beasts came to the edge of the pit they had climbed out of, their three little heads huddled together looking down. They quietly dropped the seed, covered it with a handful of soil, and blocked out the last bit of light...

"time to go."

Bixie turned and left, and Baijie subconsciously followed. Tianlu took two steps and stopped, turning back to look at him with reluctance.

"Wait for us to come back."

After speaking softly, he leaped up and caught up with his two brothers.

……

After hundreds of years of evolution, the surrounding environment has become very unfamiliar to the Pixiu brothers. In the lush forest, Bixie bent down to search for traces of Chaos' departure.

"The big guy must have gone in this direction."

Although all traces of it had been erased by time, he could still roughly determine the direction in which Chaos had left. Upon hearing this, Tianlu immediately ran to the front.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"

Gollum-

Before he could run two steps, his stomach growled in protest, a strong feeling of hunger surged up, and his steps involuntarily slowed down, or even stopped.

"Uh, let's find something to eat first, I'm so hungry."

Bai Jie walked up helplessly, "Tianlu, are you hungry again?"

"I haven't eaten for hundreds of years, isn't it normal to be hungry!"

"Stop arguing, let's hurry up and find something to eat," Bixie called out, and set off with his two younger brothers.

The roads in the deep mountains are complicated and difficult to travel. Coupled with the drastic change in environment, they were unfamiliar with the terrain and took detours, which further depleted their energy.

Moreover, they hadn't seen any trace of Jin Yu along the way. Tian Lu even turned over the ground to check, but still found nothing. Instead, the evil spirits were still numerous.

"Aaaaaah! Where did the golden ball go?!" Tianlu plopped down on the ground, hungry, tired, and dejected. Bixie brought over a demon and placed it in front of him.

"Eat this first to fill your stomach. You've already eaten Bai Jie."

Upon seeing the evil spirit, which was purple all over and emitted a strange smell, Tianlu's face immediately turned the same color as the spirit's body!

"It looks awful! I don't want it!"

"That's because you're not hungry yet." Bixie said irritably, stuffing the evil spirit into his mouth and swallowing it in one gulp.

Just then, the grass nearby rustled, and Bai Jie's exclamation rang out. "Tianlu Bixie, come quick!"

Upon hearing the sound, the two brothers immediately ran over. Through the bushes, they found Bai Jie lying on the edge of a slope, peering down. Faint voices could be heard coming from the direction he was looking.

"What are you looking at, Bai Jie?" Tian Lu curiously jogged over, and when he saw the scene down the slope, his mouth immediately opened slightly, revealing a look of surprise.

The two younger brothers looked shocked. Bixie also stepped forward suspiciously and looked down. Rows of wooden houses were being built, surrounded by a large field, and strange creatures were turning over the soil.

While the Pixiu brothers were asleep, humans appeared. They were numerous and took everything they could find, eating and stealing.

A human walked by, carrying a wooden basket filled with glittering gold and jade on his back. Tianlu's eyes lit up involuntarily.

"So many golden balls!"

He took a deep breath, but instead of the scent of gold and jade, a strange odor assaulted his nostrils, making him gag. "Ugh, these weird things stink, they smell like mud..."

Bixie frowned. "They look ominous. Let's take a detour." With that, he got up and left.

"Ah, but I'm so hungry." Tianlu's ears drooped, but he still followed listlessly.

"I'm hungry too," Bai Jie complained, rubbing her stomach.

The three brothers walked a little further and brought back a few evil spirits. The purple spirits looked unappetizing, but there was nothing else to eat.

Tianlu forced himself to take a bite, "Ugh! It stinks, it tastes awful!"

"Then go eat the stinky mud," Pixie said calmly.

Bai Jie, his face contorted, swallowed an evil spirit and nodded upon hearing this, "Yes!"

Gold and jade in the mountains became scarce, or even nonexistent. The three brothers could only eat evil spirits to fill their stomachs as they traveled. Even Tianlu had to adapt.

A few days later...

"Look, I caught a big one!" Tianlu shouted excitedly, standing on a demon several times his size. Meanwhile, Baijie struggled to drag a wild boar out of the bushes.

"Wow! What a huge piece of meat!" Tianlu exclaimed, immediately abandoning the evil spirit and running over.

Bixie watched in disbelief as they feasted on the wild boar, while the few evil spirits he had captured looked utterly pathetic.

I was... outshone...

She felt a little lost because her younger brother was growing up.

After finishing all the food they had caught, Bixie lay listlessly on the ground, looking rather dejected.

It seems that Tianlu and Baijie don't need my care anymore...

Just as he was thinking this, a commotion suddenly came from afar, accompanied by two cries of pain. It was clearly the voices of his two brothers. Bixie quickly got up and rushed over there.

Parting the bushes, Bai Jie and Tian Lu, hanging together in a strange posture by a hemp rope, appeared before them. Upon seeing this, Bi Xie quickly walked over. They were overjoyed to see their savior arrive.

"Pull out evil spirits! Pull out evil spirits! Quickly, save us!"

Tianlu, with one paw tied in a rope, thrashed about wildly, the rope swinging back and forth. Baijie, whose tail was also tied, almost cried out in pain.

"Ouch! Don't move! That hurts!"

Bixie stood up and helped them up, reaching out his claws to try and untie the knots in the snare. He had never seen anything like it made by humans before. As he studied it, he said, "This must be a trap made by those mud people. I'll untie it for you."

After putting his two younger brothers down, and watching Tianlu comfort the crying Baijie, a slight smile unconsciously appeared on Bixie's lips.

Those two idiots need to be kept an eye on.

The scene shifts, and several more days have passed. The three brothers continue their journey and finally emerge from the forest. Bright sunlight streams down, and a bottomless cliff lies before them.

"It's so deep." Tianlu peeked out, but the deep darkness swallowed up the light, and he couldn't see anything below at all.

“There’s no other way, we have to jump.” Bixie glanced around, took two steps back, bent down to gather strength, and said, “I’ll jump first, you guys follow.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly exerted his strength to run forward, and with a swing of his limbs, he rushed to the edge of the cliff and leaped into the air. His red figure crossed the abyss and landed steadily on the other side of the cliff.

Pi Xie breathed a sigh of relief and turned around, saying, "Phew~ It's not difficult, come over here quickly!"

Tianlu had been eager to try it out for a while, and upon hearing this, he immediately responded, "Okay, I'm coming right now!"

Without taking a running start, he leaped across the cliff, landing just short of falling off the edge. Bai Jie followed closely behind, ready to jump as well.

However, at that moment, the rock beneath Tianlu's feet suddenly shattered, and he lost his footing, his body sliding uncontrollably down the cliff.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

"Tianlu!"

Bai Jie and Bi Xie cried out in alarm at the same time. Tian Lu instinctively reached out to grab the rock wall, but only managed to grab a few pieces of rock before falling into the abyss!

"Tianlu!!"

As his brother's voice faded into the distance, Tianlu stared wide-eyed, desperately flapping his claws and flaring the wing membranes under his armpits, but he continued to fall downwards in vain!

"Aaaaaah! I can't fly! I'm going to die!"

A strong wind swept across his face, and his screams echoed repeatedly through the rock face. A tree branch quietly extended and stopped in his path as he fell. Tianlu slammed into it with a thud, and the branch bounced him up and down before he finally regained his balance.

Tianlu raised his head, looking dazed; the ordeal had scared him half to death.

"saved……"

"You're welcome."

"Eh!"

He was startled and turned his head to look. There was a tree with a strange face growing at the bottom, and the branch that caught him was derived from his body.

"An old tree spirit?!"

"Hmph, ignorant little thing."

The old tree spirit snorted when it heard the name, but there was no malice in its tone. It bent a branch to put Tianlu down before proudly introducing itself in a delicate voice.

"Listen carefully, my name is Qing, Tian, ​​Shu!"

"A tree that thrives on sunny days?!" Tianlu exclaimed in surprise. "Doesn't it grow on cloudy days?"

……

Meanwhile, at the top of the cliff...

"Bai Jie, I'm going down to find Tian Lu. You stay there and don't move."

"But……"

"No, but... Tianlu, that idiot, has already fallen. You can't let anything happen to you!"

"Hmm, okay... alright..."

A gust of wind swept across the cliff, and the thick darkness below filled the beast with fear. But remembering that Tianlu was still below, Bixie resolutely grabbed onto a protruding rock and climbed down.

Under Bai Jie's worried gaze, he gradually disappeared into the abyss.

……

Back at the bottom of the cliff, Tianlu, like a demon-slaying creature, came to the side of the rock wall and struggled to climb up using the protruding rocks. Qingtianshu raised an eyebrow at this.

"Oh, little one, do you want to go up?"

“Bixie… Baijie… They’re still waiting for me up there!” Tianlu said with difficulty, moving inch by inch with weak hands and feet.

I have to go find them!

wow-

The rubble slid down, the rock supporting his body loosened, and Tianlu slid back to the ground in a flurry of activity, leaving the Sky-Supporting Tree helpless.

"Alright, alright, it's fate that we met. Here, have something to eat."

Upon hearing about food, Tianlu turned around almost instinctively, and seven colorful gems were placed in front of him by a tree root.

"This is a precious gem that grants abilities when eaten; it might even give you the ability to fly."

"Really?!"

Tianlu was overjoyed. Seeing the other party nod, he immediately took a piece and stuffed it into his mouth. As the precious jade entered his stomach, a surge of power rose up, and golden light burst forth from his body, enveloping his entire body!

The intense light blinded the towering tree, and sensing the aura, he exclaimed in shock, "This is it, the teleportation technique!"

Tianlu stared in surprise at his own claws. As the intense light subsided slightly, the Sky-Supporting Tree immediately opened its eyes and said, "Try it!"

"Hmm!" Tianlu clenched his fist and activated his ability. In an instant, he rose up and disappeared from the spot. When he could see clearly again, Tianlu saw a red figure on the rock wall.

"War off evil spirits!"

A familiar voice suddenly appeared, and Bixie turned around sharply, "Tianlu?"

However, there was nothing behind him, as if the sound had never existed...

Is it an illusion?

At the bottom of the cliff, Tianlu bounced twice on a tree branch, and the Sky-Supporting Tree opened its eyes and explained quietly, "It can only be activated once."

Tianlu, unwilling to give up, suddenly looked up and shouted, "Again!"

After a new precious jade was swallowed, it shone with golden light, and its size suddenly increased several times over, and it was still slowly growing larger!

"Make the jade bigger!"

Two seconds later, the golden light disappeared, and Tianlu shrank back to its original size. Qingtianshu hurriedly revised the draft, "Uh, but it can only be changed for two seconds!"

"Come again!"

After swallowing another precious jade, Tianlu instantly emitted a burst of lightning.

"Thunder and Lightning Jewel!!"

"However, it can only generate static electricity."

Its fur stood on end, and the little Pixiu became fluffy.

“Come again!!!”

"Breathes fire!" He almost burned himself.

"Spit out water!" It's no use.

"A thousand-mile eye!" (Cross-eyed)

"Hears that can hear everything!" One of his ears has become bigger than his head.

After consuming a series of useless jade pieces, Tianlu instinctively reached out with his right claw to grab them, but he caught nothing. The jade pieces that rushed up had already been eaten by him.

Tianlu retracted his claws, and when he thought of his brothers waiting for him and that there was no more good food, he looked pitifully at the Sky-Supporting Tree with tears in his eyes.

"Is that all?"

“Uh… the last one…” The Sunny Tree tremblingly took out the last piece of precious jade, its face withered and its bark dry.

"Aging?!"

He took the jade in a daze, pursed his lips, closed his eyes and put it in his mouth. It still shone with golden light. He felt the power in his body and slowly lifted off the ground and into the air.

"Ah—! Finally..." The Optimus Prime's dull eyes lit up, "Flight!"

The next second, Tianlu's ascent stalled, stopping less than ten centimeters above its feet.

"Uh, low-altitude flight technique."

"It's completely useless!!"

……

The perspective shifts to Bixie's side, where he is inching his way down the cliff face. The wind howls as it sweeps across the precipice, and a chill seeps into his bones.

"Tianlu...I'm coming to save you..."

Bixie muttered slowly, his claws cautiously probing downwards. However, when he stepped on the fulcrum, the rock beneath his feet suddenly shattered under the weight!

Oops!

Before he could even process the thought, his claws slipped off the rock wall, and his body plummeted into the bottomless darkness!

"Ugh—!"

The instant the sound rang out, a figure swooped down from the sky, catching him at a speed even faster than the falling evil spirit, and then soared into the sky!

Bai Jie, who was still anxiously waiting on the edge of the cliff, suddenly felt a blur before his eyes, but when he looked up, he found nothing.

……

"Who are you?"

Bathed in the warm sunlight, with a gentle breeze blowing, the figure reflected in the wide eyes of the demon-like creature was neither a deer nor a deer, with golden antlers on its head, clear gray eyes, and blush-like patterns on its fair cheeks.

He turned around, squinted, and smiled. "Hello, my name is Four-Faced Beast!"