A Guide to Raising Your Natural Enemy - Chapter 90

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90. Looking For Spirit Grass

A romantic candlelight dinner was prepared with the utmost care, yet it ended up frightening the man he liked . . . . Edgar coiled his massive body and sat on the side quietly with his head on top of his body; his mood was not particularly beautiful.

Although Shu Shu was startled, but he actually calmed down quickly and then sat beside the table. "Why did you make the room like this?"

"It's nothing." Edgar replied. "You’ve been in a bad mood lately, so I had the chef make you something delicious. "

"So that’s the case." Shu Shu turned his gaze toward the table and found that there was indeed a lot of fine food arranged on the table. Although it did not smell good because it was a little cold, but he did prefer to eat food that had cooled down a bit, and this one was just right.

With such a thought, Shu Shu forked a piece of meat and put it directly into his mouth. Then he narrowed his eyes contentedly—it was really delicious.

"Your mood hasn’t been too good recently. What's going on?" Seeing Shu Shu eat happily, Edgar asked.

Hearing Edgar ask this, Shu Shu, who was still very excited just now, at once looked as deflated as a balloon with no gas. "I’m indeed very worried. There’re so many fallen beasts, ah . . . . How long will it take me to restore their beast cores?"

Could he still have free time in the next ten years?

It turned out that Shu Shu was worried about this . . . . Edgar somewhat wanted to laugh, but his current physical condition made him unable to laugh, and it seemed weird to simulate the laughter with spiritual power. In the end, he only said, "You don't need to worry about this. I’ll handle this matter later on. Inevitably there’ll be a way." Once his body had completely recovered, this thing would be handled by him. How could he let Shu Shu continue to be busy all the time?

After he recovered, his spiritual power would be much stronger than Shu Shu’s, and he should be able to help those people restore their beast cores much faster.

Edgar looked at Shu Shu gently. He knew Shu Shu's character; hearing him say so, Shu Shu would surely hug him gratefully and then said, "Edgar, you’re really good," or some other words.

As a fallen beast, he could only count on such intimacy now.

However, Shu Shu did not react like what Edgar hoped for or say the words Edgar wanted to hear. On the contrary, he fixed his attention on the flower vase, unable to take his eyes off it.

Edgar could not help but feel a little nervous and then spoke again, "Aren’t these flowers very pretty?"

Flowers? Shu Shu paid attention to the flowers inserted in the vase and immediately said, "They’re not pretty at all; they’re very ugly." There were many kinds of flowers on the earth, and there were even more varieties of flowers in the Beastman Empire. As a daemon who had taken illustration lessons in the bridal class of the Imperial College, he had to say that the flowers Edgar inserted haphazardly were really very ugly.

Shu Shu stared at this flower vase, but what he actually stared at was the little grass in the flower vase.

Faint spiritual power lingered on this unremarkable little grass. Although Shu Shu did not recognize it and could not name it, but he knew that this was a spirit grass.

He had just heard from Jones and the old doctor that the Beastman Empire might have spirit grass. He did not expect to see it so soon!

As Shu Shu looked at the spirit grass with excitement, he also felt some regret. When he was on the Gass Planet, he should not have stayed only in his own small piece of land. If he had known earlier that there was spirit grass in this world, he would have definitely looked all over the place for it.

Spirit grass was a good thing that could increase cultivation, ah! If there was spirit grass, he might not need to cultivate! When Shu Shu secretly followed his owner to read a self-cultivation novel, the one he envied the most was not the protagonist who struggled arduously all the way and finally climbed to the top. Instead, it was those secondary immortals who were able to advance in rank by taking drugs.

Anyway . . . spirit grass might be useful to fallen beasts too?

Staring at the spirit grass, Shu Shu’s saliva was about to flow out.

Edgar, however, fell silent. He wanted to be a bit romantic, but as a result . . . . Obviously, his romantic preparations had utterly failed.

"From which neck of the woods did you get this grass? Are there more of this kind of grass?" Shu Shu asked Edgar while holding the spirit grass.

"It’s others who got it. I also don't know where the place is specifically." Edgar replied. "This kind of grass with spiritual power is very special?" Although this grass had spiritual power, but its spiritual power was very weak. He felt that there was nothing extraordinary about it.

"These are all treasures!" Shu Shu searched out all kinds of alchemy knowledge he had obtained from the red bead in his mind and slowly explained them.

Edgar had heard Shu Shu speak a bit about this before, but at that time, Shu Shu only mentioned it briefly. As a result, it was only now that he finally got the details.

Edgar wondered from where Shu Shu knew so many things . . . . He was very curious but did not question Shu Shu closely.

"This is indeed a good thing." Edgar agreed with what Shu Shu said and also realized the preciousness of this kind of spirit grass. "I’ll have people go look for it again."

"Beastmen who have never cultivated, even if they see a spirit grass in front of their eyes, they won’t be able to recognize it, ah!" Shu Shu said with some frustration. Suddenly, he had an idea, "Otherwise, let's go look for it together? "

"Then I’ll arrange it. "Edgar said.

"Okay." Shu Shu nodded. He knew that Edgar's so-called arrangement should be to find some people to accompany them, and he had no opinion at all on this—having servants was indeed a good thing, ah!

Edgar quickly made some arrangements. After Shu Shu woke up the next day, he was informed that he could set off at any time.

He could go out and have fun? Shu Shu at once nodded excitedly. "Let's go then!"

Edgar and Shu Shu took an aircraft and left the place where they had lived for quite a long time. After leaving, Shu Shu discovered that although he had not seen any plants because their lifepod had fallen into the desert, but other areas on this planet were actually covered with all kinds of plants. It was just that these plants did not look very good and only had a single variety.

No wonder Edgar would stick such ugly flowers in the vase before. The reality was that there were too few good-looking plants on this planet!

Shu Shu sat in the aircraft and looked at everything outside. In passing, he felt the change of spiritual power, and his mood was getting better—after they left the desert, the spiritual power in the air unexpectedly became more and more rich.

The spiritual power in the desert was richer than on the Gass planet, and the spiritual power in other areas on this planet was absolutely incomparable than on the Gass planet.

The little snake was also in a good mood. He had been staying in the desert since he was born and had never seen the outside world. Now that he suddenly saw it, he was not about to blink—snakes did not have eyelids and could not blink, but they were not real snakes, so they could blink like humans.

Edgar and Shu Shu’s first stop was the place where the soldiers had helped pick some flowers for them before. It was a large oasis located in the middle of the desert. It looked very beautiful and was alive with all kinds of living creatures . . . .

As soon as the aircraft stopped, Shu Shu jumped down from it and then strolled around the oasis excitedly. He really liked the small lake in the middle of the oasis. "The scenery here is really good . . . . Is there fish in the water?"

Edgar was silent. He knew that Shu Shu's focus always stood out from the masses.

"I'll help you catch some fish." Edgar said, the huge snake body sliding into the water right away.

Upon seeing this, Shu Shu immediately asked the soldiers who came with them to arrange the prepared table and chairs and take out the solar grill as he waited for Edgar to catch some fish back.

The time Edgar spent staying in the small lake was much longer than Shu Shu had expected, but when Edgar came out of the lake, he did live up to expectations and brought some fish back.

After Edgar crawled out of the lake with one fish in each of his four paws, he spoke to the soldiers who came with them, "There’s nothing to do here for the time being. You go eat something on the aircraft."

"Yes, Your Imperial Highness." Hearing Edgar say so, the soldiers soon left, allowing Edgar and Shu Shu to live in a two-person world.

Shu Shu only thought that Edgar made those men leave because he felt that their presence was irksome. Not thinking much about it, he picked up the fish that Edgar had caught and sorted them out while saying, "You should make them kill the fish first before letting them leave . . .” Not to mention that the fish here were strange-looking, the size was also quite big. It was not very convenient for him to handle them.

"I found something good and want to show it only to you." Edgar said, opening his mouth and abruptly spitting out some aquatic plants.

These aquatic plants looked very ordinary, but they all had spiritual power! Shu Shu was stunned seeing these aquatic plants and couldn't care less about half of the fish he had sorted out.

"The spiritual power under the water is very rich. There’s an area there where many of such aquatic plants grow." Edgar said. He initially wanted to catch some fish first after going under water just now, but then he sensed an area with very rich spiritual power, and so he went over to investigate first. Afterwards, he also picked some aquatic plants, and only before he was about to go ashore did he leisurely catch some fish.

"I don't know what this is, but it has spiritual power. Would you say that this is that kind of elixir which will increase cultivation sharply after you eat it?" Shu Shu looked at Edgar excitedly.

"I saw fish eat the surrounding aquatic plants, so this thing should be non-poisonous." Edgar said. He noticed Shu Shu's coveting look and simply ate one first. "I'll try it first."

The snake mouth was not convenient to taste, but Edgar felt that the aquatic plant should not taste good at all because it was a little rough and scraped his throat. However, after eating . . . the aquatic plant that had just been consumed entered the stomach, and a streak of spiritual power at once spread over Edgar’s chest and abdomen. This spiritual power was not particularly rich, but it was still a lot, which made Edgar feel at ease all over.

After waiting for a while, besides feeling comfortable, Edgar still had no other reaction and did not feel out of sorts the slightest either. He immediately said, "This spirit grass is edible." With that said, Edgar tore a bit of the tenderest stalk and leaves of the spirit grass and gave them to the little snake inside the small box on the side.

That's right, they took along the little snake with them on their trip this time, but the treatment that the little snake received was obviously not very good—Edgar put him in a transparent box that had been filled with water.

The simple little snake was not displeased at all; on the contrary, he loved the box very much . . . . After Edgar threw the aquatic plant in, he ate it happily.

Edgar was all right after eating it, and so was the little snake. Shu Shu also didn’t hesitate to pick up an aquatic plant and eat it.

Immediately after the aquatic plant was swallowed down into the stomach, a streak of spiritual power appeared within Shu Shu's body. Shu Shu's cultivation speed had always been very slow. Such an experience of suddenly getting so much spiritual power was particularly precious and exciting to him. He hurriedly stuffed some more aquatic plants into his mouth again.

Edgar also ate a big mouthful, and his mouth was so big that he directly ate multiple times the amount that Shu Shu ate, making Shu Shu can’t help but feel rather dissatisfied.

"There’re still a lot of aquatic plants below. If you still want to eat, I'll go and get them for you again." Edgar said.

"It’s unnecessary for now. So much spiritual power is enough for me to absorb for a long time." Shu Shu smiled at Edgar, but his face abruptly changed, and then he covered his belly.

"What happened? Stomach ache?" Edgar asked worriedly. Unexpectedly, a second later, Shu Shu abruptly turned into a little hamster in front of him.

The little hamster lay supine on the ground, staring skyward with his four feet flailing; his state looked very bad . . . . Edgar only felt that the blood in his whole body seemed to stop flowing. "Shu Shu!"

What’s the matter with Shu Shu? Weren’t those aquatic plants non-poisonous? He had eaten a lot and was obviously fine! Edgar carefully placed his snake tail on Shu Shu's belly and inputted his spiritual power into Shu Shu's body to check. Once he checked, he discovered that Shu Shu’s sudden change into the original form should be caused by the body’s inability to digest the sudden influx of energy.

The little hamster’s body was full of spiritual power brought by the aquatic plants, and under the rampaging spiritual power, the little hamster started to thrash around.

Looking at the little hamster, Edgar was extremely distressed. Unfortunately, he could not even hug him. He could only use his snake tail to gently caress and stroke the little hamster while helping him absorb the excess spiritual power.

It was at this time that Edgar discovered that the child in Shu Shu's belly seemed to be absorbing this spiritual power as well.

Moreover, this unborn child absorbed the spiritual power even faster than Shu Shu.