185: The first time I saw a spirit stone from a beast's hand

“Chirp chirp? (Do I still need to buy a ticket?)”

The Spirit Water Winged Beast’s language was similar to bird calls, a series of chirps and squawks. Through the system, it was translated to what it meant.

The Spirit Water Winged Beast seemed to only be complaining and wasn’t actually asking Lin Feng, because the next second, it took out spirit stones itself: “Chirp chirp. (Give me a ticket.)”

Lin Feng: !

This was the first time Lin Feng had seen spirit stones from a fierce beast.

Spirit stones were mainly the common currency in human society and were not what fierce beasts were accustomed to using; their primary trade items were beast crystals and spirit herbs.

He hadn't expected this Spirit Water Winged Beast to actually take out spirit stones first.

Astonished as he was, if there was money to be made, he had to make it:

“Welcome aboard this train. Please sit tight and hold on.”

This was Lin Feng’s second time selling a train ticket to a fierce beast.

The first was the Little Ice Fox, and the Little Ice Fox was already a regular customer, often coming to ride the train and even depositing many beast crystals with him.

He wondered if this Spirit Water Winged Beast would become his future regular customer.

As per usual, Lin Feng first used the “Eye of Truth” provided by the system to check the life story of this Spirit Water Winged Beast.

“Warning! Warning!”

“This fierce beast is not a native species. There is only one of its kind in the entire forest Outside the 155 Fortress!”

This was the first time the system had popped up a warning when Lin Feng was checking a passenger’s life story.

Hiss... What did “not a native species” mean?

Did it mean it shouldn’t be here?

But many fierce beasts were products of mutation, not the original animals.

Lin Feng was a bit confused; he wasn’t very familiar with this apocalyptic world. And in an apocalypse, the ecosystem would surely be diverse, with all sorts of mutated fierce beasts emerging endlessly, and even humans like 0827, whom he had seen that day... He would set that aside for now, but there was more than just this one difference between this fierce beast and the other fierce beasts in the forest, and one point made Lin Feng particularly concerned.

This fierce beast had actually stayed in the core zone since birth and had never gone out.

This... No matter how powerful a fierce beast was, it was very fragile when first born and had to slowly ascend from the first tier.

During this period, the safety of the cub was very difficult to guarantee. Even if the mother of this fierce beast was powerful, it would eventually have to go out to forage for itself.

It couldn't always be protected by its parents.

Moreover, the system had just warned that this fierce beast was the only one of its kind in the entire forest. If it were in modern times before his transmigration, it would be rated as a first-class protected animal, so where would its parents come from?

Could it be that this fierce beast’s mother, like the Little Ice Fox, died in childbirth after giving birth to the cub?

It couldn't have just popped out of a rock, could it? It wasn't Sun Wukong.

The life story that the “Eye of Truth” could see was viewed from the perspective of the observed individual itself. The Spirit Water Winged Beast’s memories were very blurry when it was first born, so Lin Feng couldn't clearly see how it came to this forest.

He only knew that it usually liked to stay in those pools of water, and the higher its level, the longer it stayed in the pools.

That pool of water seemed to have a peculiar effect, capable of accelerating the Spirit Water Winged Beast’s cultivation speed.

In that case... that pool of water might really be a treasure?

Lin Feng only found it suspicious but didn’t think much of it, simply continuing to observe the life story of this Spirit Water Winged Beast.

The surrounding fierce beasts mostly lived on land, so this Spirit Water Winged Beast didn’t have many friends. However, as it gradually ascended to the tenth tier, its friends increased.

Fierce beasts in the apocalypse, like humans, revered the strong.

This Spirit Water Winged Beast usually cultivated in the pool water, taking about thirty years to go from birth to its current tenth tier.

This was already considered an outstanding achievement among ordinary fierce beasts.

However, it was still a bit behind the Little Ice Fox.

After getting its ticket, the Spirit Water Winged Beast walked into the train, wanting to see what was so strange about it.

Why were the fierce beasts in the core zone all afraid of this train and dared not approach it?

It clearly wasn't scary.

After looking around, it found a seat and sat down. Since it was bored, it decided to cultivate for a while there.

It was fine if it didn’t cultivate, but once it did, it was genuinely shocked.

How could the spiritual energy inside this train be so abundant?!

It was too incredible!!

The Spirit Water Winged Beast almost opened its eyes, but it held back. Since it was shocked by the abundant spiritual energy, it couldn't waste its cultivation time on the train.

It turned out that there was such abundant spiritual energy on this train, but the fierce beasts didn't dare to approach, so they didn't know.

Fortunately, it came aboard.

When the Spirit Water Winged Beast first got on the train, it was very aloof, but now it couldn't remain calm at all. If it weren't for wanting to absorb more spiritual energy, it would have opened its eyes long ago to see where this spiritual energy was coming from.

Of course, it didn't plan to tell other fierce beasts about the abundant spiritual energy on the train; after all, they were all its competitors.

The Spirit Water Winged Beast could clearly feel that the spiritual energy it absorbed in just a few minutes of cultivating on the train was more than what it usually absorbed in a month of cultivating outside. Not only that, but it was also much more than cultivating in that pool of water.

It usually lived in the pool water not only because it could breathe underwater but also because the spiritual energy in the pool water was a bit more abundant than on land.

Hmm... roughly three to five times more.

That's why its level could rise faster than ordinary fierce beasts.

But the speed of cultivation in the pool water compared to on this train was like comparing a small witch to a great wizard!!

The Spirit Water Winged Beast completely forgot everything it had thought before getting on the train. The only thing it wanted to do now was cultivate! Cultivate intensely!

If it let such abundant spiritual energy go unabsorbed, then it shouldn't be called a Spirit Water Winged Beast; it should be called a foolish Water Winged Beast.

“Destination reached. Passengers, please disembark.”

No matter who it was, the maximum travel time was fifteen minutes. After fifteen minutes, spiritual energy could no longer be absorbed by the passenger.

After realizing that its Qi Cavity could no longer absorb spiritual energy, the Spirit Water Winged Beast opened its eyes. Its eyes were large and full of spirit, but at this moment, it didn't know where to look, because the driver’s seat of the train was blurry, and it couldn't see if anyone was there.

“Chirp chirp chirp? Chirp chirp. (Can I take another ride? I’ll buy a ticket.)”

Indeed, whether human or fierce beast, once they experienced the benefits of the green train, they were unwilling to get off.

But Lin Feng still had to regretfully tell it:

“A passenger can only ride the train once within twenty-four hours.”

The Spirit Water Winged Beast became anxious upon hearing this: “Chirp chirp chirp chirp? (Can I pay more?)”

“No. A passenger can only ride the train once within twenty-four hours.”

The Spirit Water Winged Beast seemed very disappointed after seeing this text, sighed, got off the train, and left.