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Ye Xiao was very confused at this time. This little creature was really very strange.

He again tore off a piece of meat from the roasted bird but this time he didn't threw it near the strange creature. He kept holding the piece of meat and signalled at the strange creature to come near him and eat it.

That strange creature again seemed to hesitate. But then again it started to move forward slowly as if it was afraid that Ye Xiao will attack him. When the strange creature reached near his hand it suddenly pounced at the meat piece, grabbed it and ran back to where it was standing before.

Ye Xiao was again startled by this action of the strange creature.

Although this was very a very small creature and it looked very week too and maybe it was also a new born baby but it has a very high intelligence.

After eating that piece of meat, it again looked at the roasted bird. Ye Xiao again tore another piece of meat, held it in his hand and signalled that creature to come and it. That creature again came near him, pounced at the meat piece and ran back.

This cycle continued over and over again until there was only last small piece of roasted bird was left. This time that strange creature didn't went back. It slowly ate the last piece of meat near Ye Xiao and after eating it again looked at other bird's corpse and then moved its gaze to look at Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao laughed bitterly and said, "Although your body is very small, your appetite is not small at all. It will take some time to roast them. Wait patiently."

"Chii chii!"

After hearing what Ye Xiao said, that strange creature looked at the body of remaining birds and tried to say something.

Ye Xiao didn't understand what it was trying to tell him so he again said, "I already told you to wait. It will take some time to roast them. If you can eat raw then go and eat it."

And only one breath later, Ye Xiao's mouth could be seen wide open. He again witnessed a miracle.

When Ye Xiao told the strange creature to eat the body of bird's raw if it can. At the next moment, the strange creature's both hand seemed to convert into two vine and it began to move toward the body of two birds. That vine then wrapped the two body. And just after that those two body transformed into dried up corpses. Only the outer skin and bones left.

Seeing this how can Ye Xiao will not be surprised. This was too much of a coincidence.

"This..... how can this be?"

"Isn't this the power of devouring?"

"This little creature also has the power of devouring. I can't believe it."

Ye Xiao was first startle for a moment and then exclaimed loudly.

He again looked at the strange creature and found no change in it. He sighed a little and then again as if he thought of something, his eyes shone a bright light as he looked at the strange creature.

"Little fellow, do want to follow me? Come with me. You'll get to eat and devour as much as you want." Ye Xiao thought of what will happen if this creature also devoured many other powerful beings and creature. Didn't it mean it also had unlimited potential of growth. He immediately made a decision to let this strange creature follow him and then they will kill and devour together.

What kind of life that would be?

"Chii chii!"

That strange creature thought for a while and then nodded its head.

Ye Xiao was overjoyed when the strange creature agreed to follow him.

"Tomorrow, we will kill some more creatures but those will be no ordinary creature but magical beasts. We will hunt second rank magical beast tomorrow. You can devour all of them. I don't need these low rank magical beast after all. Come here, I will take you to a magical place. You will definitely like that place."

That strange creature nodded its head and then walked forward. Its hand was still converted into vines. Those vines moved toward Ye Xiao's waist and wrapped it and then with its help it moved upward and landed on Ye Xiao's shoulder.

When it's vine wrapped around Ye Xiao's waist, he was first s

startled. Fearing that this creature will try to devour him. He wanted to shook it off but then realised that it was not the case.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

After that creature landed on Ye Xiao's shoulder, it looked at him. It looked like this creature was ready to go the magical place that Ye Xiao talked about.

Seeing this Ye Xiao also nodded his head and with a woosh sound he vanished from the cave.



_The world inside the Heavenly Pearl._

At the middle of the beautiful grassland, a figure appeared out of nowhere. On the shoulder of that figure was another figure. But this figure was very small.

Ye Xiao looked around him and then asked to the strange creature, "How is it? Isn't it a beautiful place?"

"Chii chii!"

That strange creature cried out in excitement as it looked at a certain direction.

Ye Xiao followed its gaze and found out that it was looking at the direction of forest. Ye Xiao didn't find it strange after all this little creature was related to the trees and forest.

That strange creature wanted to run toward the forest but Ye Xiao caught it and said, "Where are you going? We have to go back tomorrow so that we can hunt more second rank magical beasts. So don't go anywhere for now and stay here."

"Chii chii!"

That strange creature's face was filled with anxiousness at first as it wanted to go into the forest as soon as possible but after it heard what Ye Xiao said, it hesitated a little and finally calmed down with a disappointed face. It lazily jumped from his shoulder and walked toward the beautiful flowers which was blooming in the grassland.

It then sit down on the ground near a beautiful flower with a disappointed face and suddenly as if it smelled something special, it jumped up in excitement. That strange creature hurriedly held the flower near it and smelled the fragrance of flower and started jumping. It continued to do this type of action for a while.

Ye Xiao walked near the strange creature and said, "I knew it you will definitely like this place. Now let me give you a name."

That strange creature suddenly became silent as if it was waiting for Ye Xiao to give it a name.

"How about Little Yellow?" Ye Xiao thought for a while and said.

"Chii chii!"

That strange creature cried in dissatisfaction.

"Oh! you don't like this name. Then how about tree human?"

"Chii chii!"

That strange creature sook its head in disagreement.

"Then human tree?"

"Chii chii!"

"Yellow tree?"

"Chii chii!"

"Yellow vine monster?"

"Chii chii!"

"Then I'll call you little yellow and it is final." Ye Xiao said and after hearing it that strange creature again showed its dissatisfaction but Ye Xiao ignored it.

Seeing that Ye Xiao was not responding to it, it slammed both of its small foot to the ground in anger and then again sat down near the flower, admiring its beauty.

Ye Xiao also walked toward the Jade Lotus. When he went there his mouth again become wide opened.

He planted a single Jade Lotus here but now there was ten of them. And all of them were of fourth rank medicinal herb.

He never thought that not only this grassland has the ability to evolve the medicinal herbs, it also had the ability to multiply it.

It's only been six days since he planted the third rank Jade Lotus here and now after six days there were ten of them and all of them were of fourth rank. It was really very difficult to understand.

After staring at those Jade Lotuses, Ye Xiao entered into the first floor of the Nine Story Pagoda and started meditating.

In the world of Heavenly Pearl, there was no sun and moon. So night also never descend here but mysteriously there was always light here as if a sun was above one's head.

Ye Xiao opened his eyes as he thought that it was about time to return. He exited the Nine Story Pagoda and came to the Grassland. Here, he searched for Little Yellow and was surprised to find that Little Yellow was currently sleeping on top of the flower and strangely it never fell down from it. And four or five flowers were surrounded it from four sides like a guard.

Ye Xiao went toward it. He extended his hand toward Little Yellow to wake it up but just as its hand was about to touch the Little Yellow, four thorns was thrown toward his hand from the four flowers at lightning speed.

Ye Xiao went near it and extended his hand toward Little Yellow to wake it up but just as its hand was about to touch the Little Yellow, four thorns was thrown toward his hand from the four flowers at lightning speed.

"Damn it!"

"Ahh!"

Ye Xiao cried out in pain. This never happened to him before. When he was planting the Jade Lotus there, he touched some flowers at that time, but nothing happened at that time. And now, as if these four flowers were treating him as an enemy.

His both hands was pierced by the thorns and he felt like thousands of ants were biting him. And what is most terrifying about this was that he felt like not only his physical body, his soul was also being bitten.

The pain was unbearable. He was agonized by the pain and was suffering. He felt like he was about to die but some mysterious force suddenly entered his body and in that instant, all the pain disappeared.

After a moment, when he felt some strength coming to him, he can opened his eyes and saw that Little Yellow was beside him and staring him with somewhat worried face.

Only when he felt like he can move his body did he stand up and looked at those flowers with terror. When he looked at his hands, he found something sticky on the wounds there. When he touched those sticky things with his hands and probed it only then he found out that it was the saliva. Saliva of Little Yellow.

Yesterday, when he was still in the forest, at that time he saw with his own eyes that the saliva of the Little Yellow was very beneficial for the growth of plants and herbs but he never thought that it can even heal the injuries.

Sometime later, all the wounds of his hand recovered and his hands become like what it was before the thorns from flowers pierced.

"Little fellow, thanks a lot. Otherwise I would have died from that unbearable pain." When Ye Xiao talked about the pain, there was still a lingering fear in his eyes.

"Chii chii!"

Little Yellow prattled a little and raised his head with a proud look and then waved its little hand. At that time, those four flowers, that was still looked like a guard, without any motion returned to normal. It began to move right and left just like all other flowers.

Seeing this Ye Xiao, who just thanked and prised Little Yellow, erupted with anger. He suddenly understood that all of these things happen because of Little Yellow. He endured those unbearable pain and suffered from it only because of Little Yellow.

"You....I just suffered so much because of you." Ye Xiao shouted in anger.

"Chii chii!"

Little Yellow acted as if he didn't understand what Ye Xiao was shouting.

You are very good. I know you have very high intelligence unlike those magical beast in the forest. You understood very well what I am telling."

"Chii chii!"

"Stop acting like this. I don't know how you changed the nature of those flowers but.." Ye Xiao was still shouting at Little Yellow when he realised something and stopped.

"But...wait. You...you changed the nature of those flowers." Ye Xiao said lightly.

"Chii chii!"

Little Yellow nodded its head this time in agreement. It accepted that it changed the nature of those flowers for some time.

"Didn't it mean that you can create many traps with those type of thorns. If it is really like this, we can hunt not only rank two magical beast with ease, we can hunt even third rank and fourth rank magical beasts. At that time, after devouring them, my cultivation will increase by a who knows how many times. Hahaha."

Ye Xiao immediately began to imagine many things and started laughing like a madman.

"Chii chii!"

Little Yellow pulled Ye Xiao cloths and shook its head.

"What? What are you trying to say?" Ye Xiao looked at Little Yellow but he didn't understood what it was trying to say so he asked again.

Little Yellow, after seeing that Ye Xiao didn't understand him, it pointed toward the flowers and then pointed at his hands and then nodded his head and then again shook his head.



"What are you telling? Say it clearly." Ye Xiao still didn't understood what Little Yellow was trying to say so he felt annoyed.

Seeing this reaction from Ye Xiao, Little Yellow also felt a little bit angry. Its hand instantly transformed into vines but this time, the top of vine was like a thorn, it rose up and pierced into Ye Xiao's hand.

"Ahh! What are you doing?"

Ye Xiao shouted in pain. But then again he felt as if something was trying to communicate him. When Ye Xiao carefully concentrated and tried to listen, he felt an unclear thought in his mind. He was shocked to find that this unclear thought belonged to the Little Yellow.

He looked at little Yellow who was staring at him and then again tried to concentrate on listening what Little Yellow was trying to say.

"I...flower...trap...thorn...yes...other...no...only...thorn...here...special...different."

Ye Xiao was shocked to find out that by piercing its vine in his hand, Little Yellow was able to communicate with him in human language.

I don't know what type of creature is Little Yellow but it is really very amazing and mysterious creature.

He listened to it for ten or twelve breaths of time and finally deduced out something from it.

"So you are trying to tell me that you can only form this type of trap here, from these flowers because they are special and different from any other things. And you can not create this type of thing outside from ordinary plants and flowers. You can only change their nature a little bit." Ye Xiao said after understanding it from what Little Yellow was trying to tell him.

"Chii chii!"

Little Yellow nodded its head and confirmed Ye Xiao words.

"Oh! so it is like this." Ye Xiao felt a little disappointed but again he felt happy because he gained a mysterious follower.

"Forget it. Let's go. Today is the last day of the first round of the competition and we are far away from the periphery of the Cloudsmoke Forest. We will first rush toward outside and if we encounter any magical beast that we can hunt, we will kill them and you can devour them. Ok." Ye Xiao said and looked at Little Yellow.

"Chii chii!"

Little Yellow nodded his head and again jumped on his shoulder with the help of vine hands.

Ye Xiao then took his leave from the world inside the Heavenly Pearl and appeared again in the small cave. Then he rushed toward the outside of the Cloudsmoke Forest with his full speed.

In his path, whenever he encountered any second rank magical beast, he will kill them. Then he will take out the beast core from the body of the magical beast and store it and let Little Yellow absorb them and whenever he encountered any third rank or above magical beast, he would always avoid them. Because of the aura of stronger magical beasts, there were no ordinary creatures and first rank magical beast here.

When it was about to be evening, he finally crossed the wall of fog and then again rushed toward the outside of the forest.

"BOOM!"

When he was about to exit the Cloudsmoke forest, he heard a loud explosion from a certain direction. Ye Xiao stopped in his track and after hesitating for a while, he decided to look for it and ran toward that direction.

In his way there, he met many other participants including Chen Xiang, Xu Qing, Feng Lin, Lu li and many other participants but he didn't saw Lin Hao.

All the other participants also saw him but they ignored him and continued on there way toward the direction from where that explosion sound came. Only Chen Xiang, after seeing Ye Xiao, looked at him with hatred in his eyes.

When they reached at the place of explosion, he saw that around the fifty meter of radius, everything was destroyed. Be it trees, grasses or any magical beasts, nothing was there. Only two figures were present and fighting with each other in the sky.

"Look they are flying in the air. They are Martial King Realm experts."

"No, they are Martial Emperor Realm experts."

"How do you know?"

"Look at their terrifying battle strength. Everything is destroyed here. I once saw the fight between two peak Martial King Realm experts but they were not as powerful as the two of them. Clearly they are cultivators above the Martial King Realm. What does it mean? It means that they are Martial Emperor Realm experts."

"Oh!, so that's how it is."

"Yes."

"But why are they fighting?"

"You asked me, who would I ask? How would I know why fighting?"

Participants present there began to talk about the two experts who were fighting.

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Ye Xiao also looked at the two experts. One was a slightly fat man with a blade in his hand and the other one looked like a skeleton. He was very thin but the look in his eyes were filled with evil light.

"Hey, do you know who they are?" A young man's voice sounded next to Ye Xiao's ears.

Ye Xiao turned to look and saw that this was a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old. Ye Xiao replied, "No, I don't know them. Maybe they are two sect leaders of the five great sects."

"No, they are not. I know every one of the Martial Emperor Realm Experts of our Azure Dragon Country. There are only Seven Martial Emperor Realm experts in our Azure Dragon Country. Five of them are from the five great sects and two of them are from the Imperial Family. In the Imperial Family, the current emperor is one of the Martial Emperor Realm Expert and another one is the ancestor of the Imperial Family. Be it any one, one thing is common in everyone of them and that is they all are the martial artist of only First Stage of the Martial Emperor Realm."

"But from the looks of these two's fighting prowess, they are at least at the Third Stage of the Martial Emperor Realm." That young man said.

"How do you know that these two people are the martial artist of at least Third Stage of the Martial Emperor Realm? You are only a Qi Condensation Realm cultivator. You definitely did not have the ability to see through these two experts." Ye Xiao asked suspiciously.

"Oh! this. Hehe, Of course I can not see through them. I'm sure about this because..."That young man said until here and stopped then again continued to say, "because my grandfather is a martial artist of the Martial Emperor Realm."

"....."

Ye Xiao looked at him with a strange gaze. He didn't believe what that young man said to him. If his grandfather was really a Martial Emperor Realm martial artist, why would he be here, participating in the competition.

"Heh, you don't believe me right?" That young man also saw Ye Xiao's strange expression and laughed, "Let me tell you, sect master of the Profound Sky Sect is my grandfather. My name is Wen Xiang. Very few people knows me after all not everybody had seen be even once. You are a lucky fellow. You got to know me, Wen Xiang. Haha." Wen Xiang laughed with a proud expression.

"If you are really what you are telling me who you are then why are you here, taking part in this competition." Ye Xiao looked at him suspiciously.

"Hehe, I sneaked out from the sect. I rarely come out from the sect. My father and grandfather never let me come out. They always say to me that when I at least become a Origin Core Realm martial artist. Only then will they give me the permission to go out. Humph!"

"So you just sneaked out from there just because of it."

"Hehe. I just wanted to have some fun. Who would have thought that we will encounter these two Martial Emperor Realm experts here."

"Yeah! that's true."

In the sky, two Martial Emperor Realm experts were fighting very intensely. The shock wave that was coming out when they fought was like a destroyer which was destroying everything in their way.

"Zhang Qing, do you really want to fight with me to death. If this continued, we'll both die here."

"Bo Xi, I already said before, give me that thing and I'll stop fighting otherwise today, even if I die here, I'll take you down with me."

"You are insane."

"So what if I am."

Two figures that were fighting with each other talked while fighting through which everyone got an idea of who they are.

The fat man's name was Zhang Qing and the skeleton man's name was Bo Xi. They were fighting so intensely because of some sort of treasure.

Zhang Qing slashed with his blade toward skeleton man, Bo Xi.

Bo XI dodged to the side and strikes with his palm. That palm collided with Zhang Qing's shoulder and a cracking sound came out from there. His shoulder dislocated and a crack also appeared. Zhang Qing was thrown backward but just as he was thrown back by the palm strike, he also slashed again.

Bo Xi's eyes flickered with fear. He hurriedly dodged again but even then the slash landed on his fingers and two of his fingers were cut down.



"Ah! wait wait. I'll give you that thing. But You have to give me half of it." Bo Xi shouted loudly. He was afraid that if this continued, he'll die here without any burial ground.

Zhang Qing who was thrown back was about to come near Bo Xi and slash again but at that moment, he heard Bo Xi. He stopped and said, "That thing is something that I risked my life to obtain. You were the one who stole it from me. I'll not give you even a fraction of it."

"Either you give me half of it or let's truly fight to death . I am not afraid. Come, come at me." Bo Xi also shouted in anger and he was again ready to fight.

Seeing this Zhang Qing hesitated a little and then said, "Ok ok. I'll definitely not give you half of it but let's both take a step back. I'll give thirty percent of it."

"No, fifty percent."

"Thirty five percent and that's it."

"No, I'll take minimum forty percent and if you are not ready then let's fight and let the fight decide who will obtain that thing."

"Ok ok, forty percent. I'll give you that much. Now give me back that thing."

"Not now, first, we'll return to the Lingwu Country and then we'll device it."

"Ok then, let's return there first."

When their conversation came to end, they didn't even looked down and flew away.

"Lingwu Country?" Ye Xiao was shocked to find out that those Martial Emperors were not from the Azure Dragon Country. They were from a different country known as the Lingwu Country.

"You don't know? Lingwu Country is one of the biggest country that comes under the Grand Xia Empire. Our Azure Dragon Country is one of the smallest country of the Grand Xia Empire." Wen Xiang said.

"How do you know about the Grand Xia Empire." Ye Xiao asked. As far as he know, from the letter that was left behind by the first ever Peak Martial Emperor Realm expert of the Azure Dragon Country, Mu Chen that no one in the Azure Dragon County knows about the existence of the Grand Xia Empire.

"Oh! this. You don't know." Wen Xiang looked at Ye Xiao strangely and then said, "Grand Xia Empire organises a competition among all the country that comes under it every ten years. And the champion as well as top ten can get the qualification to enter the Royal treasury and choose one thing from there."

"So that's how it is." Ye Xiao nodded his head in understanding, "Do you know how long it is until the next competition organised by the Grand Xia Empire."

"Not long. It will be held again in two years." Wen Xiang replied.

Ye Xiao nodded his head and looked at other participants who were leaving this place. The fight was over and all peoples were going back.

"Heh, brother, I am also going. Let us meet again in the future." Wen Xiang also bed his farewell to Ye Xiao and left.

Ye Xiao also looked here and there and seeing that there was not a single person present here, he also started to walk back but just as he was about to walk back, a yellow flash flashed near his shoulder and in the blink of an eye, it appeared twenty meters away from Ye Xiao.

"Little Yellow, what are you doing? Come back, we have to go." Ye Xiao shouted and ran toward Little Yellow.

"Chii chii!"

When he reached there, Little Yellow pointed at something on the ground in front of him.

Ye Xiao looked there and saw a red substance which was flickering with light red light.

"Do you know what this thing is?" Ye Xiao asked.

"Chii chii!"

Little Yellow ignored him and picked up that red substance and then swallowed more than half of it. After swallowing the large half of that substance, it gave the leftover to Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao took it from Little Yellow and when he touched it, he felt it was like jelly. He looked at it for a while, hesitated a little and swallowed it.

The moment he swallowed that jelly like thing, he felt a vast energy exploding in his stomach. He felt like as if he was about to explode.

He hurriedly sat down and started circulating the First Layer of the Nine Dragon Universal Circulation Technique.