"Cheng," Ruth shouted again, "if you've got the guts, give us some roast meat to try! Don't just tease us with that aroma!"
Cheng Xiaofan laughed heartily at her words. "You say I'm poisoning you? Aren't you afraid I'll poison you all to death?"
Ruth paused for a moment before replying, "Cheng Xiaofan, I know you want to fight us, the non-human cultivators, in reality. You definitely wouldn't poison us."
"Unless you're a coward, you wouldn't resort to poison!"
Cheng Xiaofan chuckled again. "Ruth, it seems you understand my personality quite well. You're right, I do want to see how powerful you non-human cultivators really are."
"As it happens, I've just roasted a piece of river monster meat. I'll give it to you. I hope you don't all die before I come out of this desert oasis, or I'll be too disappointed!"
He immediately picked up the freshly roasted river monster meat, extracted some of its spiritual energy, and, through the torn opening, tossed it towards the cave where Ruth was.
The spiritual energy contained within this river monster meat was extremely precious.
He didn't want these non-human cultivators to consume it and increase their evil power.
*Bang!*
The roasted piece of river monster meat fell from the sky, landing right in front of Ruth.
Staring at the fragrant roasted meat that had landed before her, Ruth felt as if she were dreaming.
It wasn't that she was surprised Cheng Xiaofan would actually send her meat, but rather she was shocked that he could throw food to her from within the desert oasis.
"Big sister, this Cheng guy seems to be very close to us!"
A woman said, her face filled with shock. "If he were far away, he wouldn't have been able to throw such a large piece of meat here!"
Ruth nodded. "This desert oasis is too strange. If it's near us, we can't seem to reach it. But if it's far away, it's truly right beside us!"
"Otherwise, this Cheng Xiaofan wouldn't have pulled our three younger sisters into the oasis and gotten them killed!"
She picked up the piece of meat and weighed it in her hand. "This piece of meat is at least ten pounds, enough for us to have a good meal!"
Immediately!
Ruth took out a knife from her person, cut the roasted meat into ten pieces, and distributed one to each of them.
One of the women took a bite and exclaimed repeatedly, "This meat tastes absolutely delicious! I've never tasted such delicious meat before!"
Another woman said, "Did this kid bury internal organs in the tomb he built for the river monster? So, the meat from the river monster's body was all collected by him."
"This Cheng Xiaofan must have already collected a lot of treasures in the desert oasis!"
Ruth gnawed on the roasted meat in her hand and said, "From what I understand, as early as the Qing Dynasty in China, one of our Great Britain missionaries, in a dream, entered a prehistoric oasis on Earth."
"And following the hints in the dream, he obtained eighteen demonic beasts!"
"That missionary then used eighteen bronze coffins to contain those demonic beasts and came to Fuzhou, near this Gobi Desert in China."
"Who would have thought that after so many years, Cheng Xiaofan would awaken the eighteen demonic beasts in the bronze coffins, thus opening this desert oasis!"
She gritted her teeth and said, "No matter how Cheng Xiaofan awakened the demonic beasts, once he comes out of the oasis, we must snatch those treasures from him!"
...
"Heh heh, you think it's that easy to snatch things from me?"
At this very moment, Cheng Xiaofan had finished eating and drinking his fill. Hearing Ruth's words, he couldn't help but sneer and say to himself.
In his mind, he was the one who snatched things from others; no one had ever dared to snatch things from him.
That's right, the mobile phone on Ruth, and Reyerd's phone, were the same model. He should get it from her later.
Mobile phones like this were truly rare. He should take it back and give it to his White Goddess.
Some things, if you don't snatch them, it's a waste!
Thinking of Zhou Zhizheng, those special soldiers, and his own Sky-Breaking Eagle, Cheng Xiaofan was not anxious at all now.
With his top-tier intuition, his Sky-Breaking Eagle and Zhou Zhizheng were completely fine.
Cheng Xiaofan had always relied heavily on his intuition.
After withdrawing his divine sense from Ruth, he lay down on a flat patch of green grass.
The fresh air, mixed with the scent of flowers and the aroma of grass, made Cheng Xiaofan feel exceptionally comfortable.
This reminded him of his childhood, when he often slept in the mountains with Luo Yang and Feng Xigua, just for the smell of earth and grass.
For this, he had been spanked many times by his mother with a bamboo stick.
She would say, "What if you're surrounded by wolves from the mountain in the middle of the night?"
Thinking of the various interesting events from his childhood, Cheng Xiaofan couldn't help but laugh.
As he laughed, he drifted off to sleep.
In his dream!
He rolled over on the ground and transformed into a golden dragon.
The golden dragon lay on the grass, occasionally raising its head to look towards the mountaintop.
The moon climbed into the sky, and a few cranes shuttled back and forth in the clouds beneath the moon, like patrols guarding something on the mountaintop.
*Roar!*
Cheng Xiaofan let out a dragon's roar that could split clouds and shatter rocks.
He leaped up and flew towards the towering peak.
He wanted to see what treasures lay on the mountaintop that those cranes guarded day and night, flying around the summit incessantly, without even resting.
As soon as he reached the summit, the cranes, which had appeared docile and serene, suddenly erupted with fierce killing intent. With a shrill cry, they all pounced on Cheng Xiaofan.
Cheng Xiaofan flicked his dragon's tail, sending the cranes that lunged at him to the side.
Angered by Cheng Xiaofan's fierce counterattack, the cranes spat out strings of fireballs from their mouths, attacking from different directions.
A large expanse of golden light erupted from Cheng Xiaofan's body, extinguishing the fireballs.
With a sweep of his dragon claws, gusts of fierce wind, accompanied by terrifying whistling sounds, flew out from beneath his claws, sweeping the cranes tens of meters away.
"Jee—"
The leading crane let out an angry cry and spoke in human tongue, "Audacious wicked dragon! This is a sacred immortal land, not a place for any creature to trespass. If you know what's good for you, retreat far away immediately!"
At this moment, Cheng Xiaofan's eyes spotted a circular seat carved from profound jade in the center of the peak, about a meter high, surrounded by carvings of auspicious cloud patterns.
Circles of spiritual mist coiled around the base of the seat.
Was this the profound jade seat where Emperor Shennong used to cultivate and meditate?
As the information fed back into his mind, Cheng Xiaofan's eyes lit up. Disregarding the crane's challenge, he somersaulted in mid-air and immediately resumed his human form.
Then!
He swooped down from the sky and, with another flip, sat cross-legged on the profound jade carved seat.