Kitty and the Big Wooden Frame

The next day, early in the morning, Chasing the Wind, who was sleeping curled up on the grass below, was mercilessly awakened by Qin Ran to start his journey of reform through labor.

Chasing the Wind shook off the dew on his body, and the clumps of fat meat shook with him. He looked at Qin Ran innocently with his little eyes, trying to act cute.

Qin Ran ignored him and went to the storage room to find some wooden boards. He pounded and nailed them into a large wooden frame, then installed four wheels to make a simple cart.

He found a rope and tied the wooden cart to Chasing the Wind.

Although Chasing the Wind was already two months old, he was only the size of a big cat or a young dog. Qin Ran deliberately nailed the wooden box very large. So after tying the cart and box together, compared to the box, Chasing the Wind looked extremely small and pitiful.

When Chasing the Wind was dragging the wooden box with great effort, he was seen by Li Shiyin, who felt quite sympathetic. She asked Qin Ran, "Master, isn't this too much?"

Qin Ran was dismantling the floorboards in the room. Hearing this, he glanced at Li Shiyin, and the killing intent in his eyes made Li Shiyin hurriedly shut up and not dare to speak again.

Dan Peak was very lively now, and there was a lot to be done. Li Shiyin also had her own things to do. She went to the storage room to get her tools for digging the lake, changed into simple work clothes, and continued her journey of digging the lake.

There were paw prints from Chasing the Wind all over the house, on the walls and floor. Nothing could be done about the walls upstairs, after all, there was still a floor above, and the walls could not be dismantled. But the floorboards downstairs could be replaced.

Qin Ran planned to dismantle the flooring and re-lay it. When relaying the floorboards, he could also rearrange the various formations in the room.

The formations on the first floor were arranged when he first started studying formations, very simple and crude. This was a good opportunity to rearrange them.

After spending some time, Qin Ran had dismantled all the floorboards. He then sorted them out, put them in the wooden frame, and had Chasing the Wind drag them away and pile them up on the grass outside.

At first, Chasing the Wind felt it was difficult to just drag the wooden box. But as the medicine power and spiritual energy in his body were absorbed, the weight of the garbage he dragged became heavier and heavier. By now, he could already pull a whole cart of wood.

After dealing with the items inside the house, whether useful or useless, piles were stacked on the grassland outside. Qin Ran then used magic to completely clean out the interior of the house.

Looking at the empty room, Qin Ran's heart also became empty, but strangely, he did not feel so sad.

"Sigh..." He let out a sigh, turned around and went out the door, saying to Chasing the Wind, "Let's go get some more boards."

At this time, Long Qiqi walked over. She wasn't very sure when she asked Qin Ran, "Is this how you cultivate?"

"The house was torn down by a silly dog, I had no choice." Qin Ran glanced obliquely at Chasing the Wind. Chasing the Wind bowed his head aggrievedly and licked his fur. Seeing Long Qiqi, Qin Ran suddenly remembered something and asked, "Where did you rest last night?"

Last night he was so angry he had forgotten to arrange for her accommodation.

"I'm a snake. Where can't I sleep?" Long Qiqi replied.

"That makes sense..." Qin Ran nodded, but he pointed at Chasing the Wind and said to Long Qiqi, "Remember his bitter lesson. Don't mess with the stuff in the research building over there. He only ate useful pills. There are still many poisonous and waste pills over there..."

"I'm not stupid..." Long Qiqi looked at Chasing the Wind and commented so.

She had wandered around in the morning and found that everyone was quite busy. It seemed that only she, a snake, was free. She felt it was not good, as if she was an outsider. So she asked, "Can I help with what you guys are doing?"

"You can if you want." Qin Ran held a knife in his hand, looking like a farmer. As he gestured with his finger, he said to Long Qiqi:

"You can dig the lake with Shiyin, or you can dig the foundation here. I plan to build two rooms for you two beside this. You can also go and tidy up the mud Shiyin piled over there and clean out the garbage, rocks and other debris inside, I plan to fire bricks and stones from the mud to build dams and pavilions."

Long Qiqi thought for a while and said, "Then I'll go sort the stones."

"Okay, up to you," Qin Ran nodded. Only then did he say, "As the saying goes, everything you do while walking, sitting or lying down is cultivation. Just now you asked if this was cultivation. Now I'm telling you, this is cultivation."

Long Qiqi nodded thoughtfully.

If the four different creatures at Dan Peak were regarded as a family of four, then the mother and younger brother would be the same kind of muscular silly ones, while the father and sister would be equally cunning. Long Qiqi's temperament was similar to Qin Ran's, smart enough. With Qin Ran's simple explanation, she immediately understood.

After Qin Ran left with Chasing the Wind, she immediately revealed her original shape and went to the edge of the mud pit to carefully sort out the soil and stones with her snake tail.

Qin Ran chopped down some suitable trees to make floorboards for the room formations, removed the branches and leaves on site, made them into boards, and then used magic to quickly dry the boards. After they were shaped, he had Chasing the Wind drag them back.

With magic and cultivation level, doing these things was very fast. He finished dismantling the flooring in the morning and now had the floorboards ready before noon even arrived.

After a simple meal, Qin Ran went upstairs in the research building to prepare materials for the formations. Chasing the Wind was dragged away by Li Shiyin to help transport mud and sand.

Arranging formations was a huge job that required a lot of time and effort. In the whole afternoon, Qin Ran only managed to prepare all the materials for the formations.

In the evening, just after sunset, the exhausted people of Dan Peak sat on the grass outside eating hot pot.

Qin Ran took some ingredients from the refrigerator that were not yet spoiled, prepared seasonings, sliced meat, and separated vegetable leaves to make an entire hot pot from another world.

The three humanoid creatures sat around it. Chasing the Wind, who didn't like hot pot, carried his own food bowl over and placed it in front of Qin Ran, indicating he wanted his feed pills.

Qin Ran threw slices of meat into the hot pot and when he lowered his head and saw Chasing the Wind's expectant look, his face remained cold as he said, "No!"

Chasing the Wind then fawned around Qin Ran's calves, while meowing "meow meow".

After another day of labor reform, Chasing the Wind had absorbed most of the medicinal power and could no longer be called a fat tiger. He should be called a strong tiger now. In fact, he had clearly grown visibly bigger.

Seeing Chasing the Wind's pitiful state, Li Shiyin pleaded for him, "Chasing the Wind worked very hard today, Master, please stop teasing him."

"I think he did try his best." Long Qiqi also helped to speak nice things about him, trying to get closer to Chasing the Wind through this.

Only then did Qin Ran take out some feed pills from the Universe Bag and put half a bowl for Chasing the Wind.

"Do you eat feed pills?" Qin Ran asked Long Qiqi.

Long Qiqi held her chopsticks and stared at the meat in the pot. She replied, "I'm human, not your spirit beast."

"The feed pills are very good for demonic beasts," Qin Ran added another sentence, but did not try to persuade her further.

Long Qiqi secretly glanced at the pills in Chasing the Wind's food bowl, somewhat tempted, but still turned her attention to the pot.

There were no chili peppers in this world. The chili peppers for the hot pot were cultivated by Qin Ran himself, who found suitable plants, selected and improved them over generations. Recently, the chili peppers grown were finally considered edible, but still very spicy.

For Long Qiqi and Li Shiyin, this hot pot could be considered a blessing, as it was probably the first hot pot in this world.

The three people eating hot pot were tortured by the overly spicy chili peppers and kept panting. Chasing the Wind, who was bloated with pills, completed his task in just a few seconds. Feeling that he had only padded his stomach a little, he circled around Qin Ran's legs whimpering, begging for more. Qin Ran was unable to resist and gave him a few extremely spicy slices of meat from the hot pot. After eating them, Chasing the Wind also started panting.

Time entered the summer. In the evening sky there were wisps of grayish-blue clouds. On the edge of the forest, people sat on the grass eating hot pot. A cool breeze was blowing, gently swaying the shallow grass.

They talked, they laughed, they were noisy, they dripped sweat as they relaxed, spending an ordinary day-to-day moment in this dangerous cultivation world.

"Awoo..." The spicy peppers tortured Chasing the Wind so much he ran around wildly before "splash" jumping into the river.

"Chasing the Wind, say something!" Long Qiqi had heard that Chasing the Wind could speak without transforming, and she was very curious.

"Master, this piece of meat is mine..." Li Shiyin was fighting with Qin Ran over some meat to eat.

Qin Ran?

Qin Ran had a new family.