Pengpeng was a juvenile White Jade Rhinoceros. When the sunlight was warm and the breeze gentle, its favorite thing to do was squint, eat grass, and bask in the sun.
Today, as usual, it walked to its usual spot to eat grass and bask in the sun. The wild chrysanthemum leaves were fresh, tender, and juicy, making it happily swish its tail as it ate all the way to the riverside...
Just moments ago, everything had still been perfectly normal—until the taste in its mouth suddenly seemed wrong...
Pengpeng smacked its lips, puzzled. Why did the grass in this spot taste so terrible? And why was it impossible to chew?
Then it lazily opened its eyes and saw a shocking sight, dealing the little White Jade Rhinoceros an enormous emotional blow.
What it had been chewing in its mouth was not grass, but a human cultivator’s hair...
Human cultivators... They were terrifying human cultivators. Supposedly, they would skin White Jade Rhinoceroses like them, drink their blood, and break off their horns.
Thinking of this, Pengpeng hurriedly spat out the hair, continuously going, “Ptui, ptui, ptui!” Its eyes grew moist as it fearfully burrowed into the grass and lay on the ground, sobbing, “Waaah, waaah, waaah.”
“You chubby little thing, you were the one gnawing on my hair just now, right?” Yuan Wu patted the enormous creature in front of her. Even a juvenile White Jade Rhinoceros was as big as a pig, and this tiny patch of grass could not conceal even a third of it.
The enormous creature did not react, firmly adhering to the principle that as long as it could not see her, nothing was wrong.
Yuan Wu was speechless. She picked up a wooden stick and poked the creature’s rear. “Hey, hey!”
The enormous creature wriggled farther inside, lowered its tail to cover its rear, and continued not reacting.
The gesture made Yuan Wu laugh. She changed positions.
“Hey, look up.”
A shadow covered the Little White Jade Rhinoceros. It innocently raised its head, then clutched its head and burst into tears, whining and sobbing nonstop.
Yuan Wu rolled her eyes. “You’ve got some nerve crying! Look at what you did to my hair—it’s covered in saliva. I was standing right there, and you genuinely didn’t even look at me before opening your mouth wide and taking a bite. Honestly, you’ve got two eggs growing on your face—you can blink, but you can’t see.”
Yuan Wu pointed out the saliva still clinging to the hair on her head for the Little White Jade Rhinoceros. It reeked of drool—absolutely foul.
The Little White Jade Rhinoceros curled into a lump, sobbing pitifully as it wiped away its tears with its short hooves in an extremely humanlike manner.
Seeing it cry endlessly in such a booming voice gave Yuan Wu a headache. Although this spot was somewhat far from the White Jade Rhinoceros herd, such a loud commotion would still attract their attention.
Still, having this lone Little White Jade Rhinoceros appear here was truly heaven-sent. Yuan Wu’s eyes shifted as she decided to employ the cattle-feed strategy.
She pulled out the cattle feed she had prepared long ago, poured it into a basin, and held it out in front of the Little White Jade Rhinoceros. “Stop crying. I’ll treat you to something delicious.”
🟡PS: Don’t worry about why I have a basin. Yuan Wu’s Storage Bag has everything.🟨
A mixture of grains and dried hay filled the entire stainless-steel basin. A large peony was carved into the outside of the basin, bearing a familiar emblem.
The Little White Jade Rhinoceros stared at the large basin of fragrant food and swallowed. It stopped wailing, but remained very wary. After taking one look, it turned away and refused to look at it again.
Yuan Wu smiled. Who would have thought this little thing was so determined? She wanted to see how long it could hold out.
“Oh my, what’s that smell? It smells absolutely amazing. Tsk, tsk, tsk, there’s dried fruit, grass, wheat, and Punan flowers in it, too.” Yuan Wu held the basin, her face covered in exaggerated expressions, and spoke to the Little White Jade Rhinoceros in an utterly irritating tone.
The Little White Jade Rhinoceros covered its ears with its hooves, trying to block out Yuan Wu’s voice. Suddenly, some unknown devilish force pried open its mouth.
It was stunned!
No, seriously—what kindhearted person pries open a rhinoceros’s mouth to force-feed it?
A large mouthful of food was stuffed into the Little White Jade Rhinoceros’s mouth. Instinctively, it chewed, and then there was no stopping it. The more it ate, the more delicious it became; the more delicious it was, the more it ate.
Thus, the scene became one of Yuan Wu desperately feeding it while the Little White Jade Rhinoceros desperately ate, until an entire basin of cattle feed was gone.
The Little White Jade Rhinoceros let out a satisfied belch, making a contented sound.
Seeing this, Yuan Wu tried to cozy up to it. With a smile🔵that looked like a sinister grin in the Little Rhinoceros’s eyes🟦, she said, “Little cutie, this stuff is delicious, isn’t it? As long as you come with me, you can eat this every day from now on~”
Hmph!
The Little White Jade Rhinoceros was not stupid. How could it possibly sell itself for a single serving of food?
It lay on the ground and pretended to be dead.
Yuan Wu naturally knew that the Little White Jade Rhinoceros would not agree to this. She was merely laying the groundwork for her next argument.
“How about this? I’ll give you a bag of this stuff. Take it back so your family and friends can try it, too. You can’t keep all the food for yourself, right? And don’t worry that it’s poisonous. Look, you’ve eaten so much and nothing has happened. If it were poisonous, you’d already be dead, wouldn’t you?” Pretending to be a wonderful person, Yuan Wu took out another large bag of cattle feed.
She even kindly loaded the cattle feed onto the Little White Jade Rhinoceros’s back and secured it in place.
The Little White Jade Rhinoceros was fooled just like that. Carrying the cattle feed, it walked back step by step. Along the way, it stopped and looked back at Yuan Wu, only to find that she was gone.
Using the Seven-Step Art, Yuan Wu had reached the White Jade Rhinoceros herd long ago. She needed a backup plan; relying solely on that Little White Jade Rhinoceros would not be enough.
First, she needed the leader of the White Jade Rhinoceroses to lower its guard around her. But that would be difficult, since the leader seemed to have been hurt by humans before.
She needed to wait for the right opportunity.