Chapter 318: Realm of Fallen Immortals Serial

"Lu Ya? That name sounds a bit familiar."

Reincarnating as a bird suppressed Li Fan's ability to think quickly, and he vaguely felt as though he had heard that name somewhere before.

After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't recall it.

Angered, he started clawing at the little boy's hair again. Seeing that the boy didn't react, Li Fan viciously pecked him hard with his long beak.

"Ouch! It hurts!" The little boy finally withdrew his gaze from Lu Ya's receding figure.

However, he mistakenly thought Li Fan was urging him to look for food, and hastily placated him, "Alright, alright, I know you're hungry. We'll go find something to eat right now."

"Xiaohong, let's go!" The boy patted the wings of the red-crowned crane beneath him.

The crane obediently flapped its wings, its form shifting from stationary to swift once more as it continuously swept past the clouds.

Amidst the howling wind, Li Fan faintly heard the little boy muttering regretfully, "Senior Brother Lu Ya is both handsome and kind, and now his strength has become so formidable. He's simply too perfect. If everyone in Ningyuan City knew, they'd definitely be very happy. It's just a pity I don't know why Senior Brother suddenly holds such deep hostility towards Mr. Bai, refusing to let me go back or even send any flying message talismans…"

The boy's brows were tightly locked, his face filled with a troubled expression completely mismatched for his age.

Meanwhile, Li Fan's body suddenly stiffened.

Ningyuan City, Mr. Bai.

These two terms instantly activated the memories deep within his mind.

A thin, weak figure with somewhat yellowish hair suddenly surfaced before Li Fan's eyes.

"It's him?"

"This plot of the Beast Taming Sect is actually a direct continuation of the one in Ningyuan City?"

"The beggar boy from back then is now able to control such a powerful exotic beast. Judging by the aura just now, that tiger-faced, human-bodied exotic beast has a strength at least above the Nascent Soul realm. How many years have passed?"

"However, the Beast Taming Sect's Cultivation Technique has long since disappeared; perhaps there is a possibility that the controlled Spirit Beast can be even stronger than the Cultivator themselves."

"Mr. Bai… It's this mysterious fellow again."

"Why is everything I experience every time I enter the Realm of Fallen Immortals related to him?"

"Once is a coincidence, but twice or three times, and one cannot help but harbor suspicions."

Numerous thoughts surged into his mind in an instant. Amidst the emotional turbulence, Li Fan felt as though the tiny bit of energy he had just accumulated was quickly exhausted once again.

His eyelids drooped uncontrollably. At the moment before falling into a deep sleep, he seemed to see that blurred figure once more.

…

Li Fan was woken up by a sweet fruit being fed into his mouth.

As the fruit entered his stomach, waves of warm currents washed over his entire body, allowing Li Fan to quickly shake off his drowsiness.

Opening his eyes and looking over, he saw the little boy sneakingly squatting on the ground, using spiritual plants taller than himself to conceal his figure.

From time to time, he picked one or two plump, round red fruits from them and handed them to Li Fan.

Li Fan was not polite at all, swallowing them directly into his stomach.

His strength seemed to have grown a bit larger again. Li Fan continued to scratch the boy with his claws, signaling him to bring more.

The boy shuttled continuously through the spiritual fields, taking all the most thriving fruits and handing them over for Li Fan to enjoy.

While thoroughly satisfying his appetite, Li Fan also found the little boy much more pleasing to the eye.

"Alright, that's almost enough. If we keep stealing, too many missing ones will get us discovered."

"Hehe, let's change places."

The boy straightened Li Fan, who was somewhat full and sitting a bit crookedly on top of his head.

Without summoning the crane, he stepped on the wind beneath his feet and dashed straight toward the next patch of fields.

Thus, after looting several places, they unexpectedly ran into another group.

"Xu Ke, why are you here?!"

A voice suddenly came from behind the little boy, giving him a start.

However, after turning around and seeing the other person's appearance clearly, the boy let out a sigh of relief.

Glancing at the other person, the boy named Xu Ke made a gesture for silence and lowered his voice, "Of course it's the same as you, giving special treatment to my companion Spirit Beast."

Extremely dissatisfied that his feeding process had been interrupted, Li Fan shot a malevolent sideways glance at this person named Song Yang.

Slender in build with a sinister gaze, he did not look like a good person.

Coiled around his neck was a black two-headed snake.

One head had its eyes tightly closed, while the other head was staring intently at Li Fan, constantly flicking its snake tongue.

Xu Ke subconsciously gathered his hair together to hide Li Fan.

Meanwhile, Song Yang looked at Xu Ke with utter disdain, as if he had heard some monstrous joke, "The same as you? Do you even deserve to?"

"My companion Spirit Beast is a descendant of the Black Water Serpent god Zhulong Jiuyin, with limitless potential. Achieving the Soul Transformation realm in the future is a certainty. It wasn't full, so it's only natural that I ran over to give it a little extra meal."

"As for that freakish bird of yours, what kind of thing is it? One look and you can tell it has no powerful Bloodline at all."

"As the saying goes, dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, and a mouse's son can only dig holes. Xu Ke, you wouldn't happen to think you can turn your fortunes around just by relying on some mangy bird, would you?"

After all, Xu Ke was just a child. Hearing his companion Spirit Beast slandered, he couldn't help arguing, "My bird isn't bad either! Everyone says it's a descendant of a divine bird, and in the future—"

Before he could finish speaking, he was crudely interrupted by Song Yang.

"A descendant of a divine bird? Which divine bird? A Phoenix? A Vermilion Bird? No matter how you look at it, this freakish bird of yours looks nothing like them!"

"You didn't actually take casual words of comfort from others seriously, did you? How stupid!"

Song Yang sneered and mocked, and even the two-headed snake draped over his body coordinated with a mocking expression.

"You're talking nonsense!" Xu Ke's face flushed crimson, his voice suddenly raising by several degrees.

However, as if deliberately trying to infuriate Xu Ke, Song Yang not only didn't stop, but instead mocked him even more viciously.

Above Xu Ke's head, Li Fan, who was already somewhat impatient, felt an inexplicable anger flare up in his heart upon hearing himself slandered by this skinny bamboo pole in front of him.

Just as he was about to make a move, he was forcefully pressed down by Xu Ke.

"Little fellow, don't be impulsive. You can't beat that snake. Besides, the Sect's laws prohibit internal fighting among Disciples. Anyone caught will be severely punished without leniency. Those who start the conflict first will face even heavier penalties."

"We just won't pay him any mind."

Xu Ke's voice resounded simultaneously in Li Fan's heart.

How could Li Fan, who had gone through Reincarnation for a hundred lifetimes, fail to see that this fellow named Song Yang was deliberately looking for trouble?

Yet possessing the freakish bird, his temper was naturally like this—irascible and prone to anger.

Fortunately, Xu Ke used both hands and exerted all the strength he could muster, barely managing to suppress Li Fan.

Otherwise, Li Fan would have already charged forward.

Paying no more attention to Song Yang's sneers and jeers, Xu Ke ignored everything and left with his head down.

Song Yang watched Xu Ke's receding back, a flash of cold sinister intent passing through his eyes.

To placate Li Fan, Xu Ke took him to raid several more circles of spiritual fields.

With his stomach filled with spiritual plants of various varieties, Li Fan gradually calmed down.

For the next period of days, Li Fan spent his time eating, drinking, and growing sturdily in this manner.