"Yeah, I've got a few" He had a few from the massive pile armaments his master left him.
"I've got a few too, at the count of three inject some spiritual power into them and light it up then throw them into the sky" The two had transferred most of their weapons into their storage rings so they didn't need to use the Heaven-defying artifact.
A lot was needed to create a explosion and noise loud enough to scare it away.
"Okay" He Li seemed to be enlightened and understood what she was trying to do.
"1...2...3!" The two inserted some spiritual power to activate the explosives then threw them into the sky.
The caracal's hair stood up and it fled frenziedly, it had been alarmed by the foreign noise since it had never heard anything like that throughout it's life.
"Let's get going just in case their are any foolish and curious spirit beasts" The two descended and hurried their advance, it was dawn already anyways.
However, Zi Hua jinx her words.
A spirit beast with a wolf like body, fox like head, bird like beak and an eagle's wings appeared.
It's fur was the same color as the desert sand, if it wasn't for it's brown highlights, it would've been mistaken for a gust of sand as it sped across the desert plain.
Living up to the name of 'a foolish and curious spirit beast' the Dune Wolf Griffin naively flew into He Li.
It's speed was so incredible that it swept up sand dunes wherever it goes, which also meant that it was much more difficult for it to stop.
The Dune Wolf Griffin sat up with his head still dizzy causing it to swing round and round, an extremely cute scene.
Seeing that, Zi Hua couldn't hold herself back and went into fangirl mode, disregarding He Li, with his cultivation he would be alright anyways.
"Aww, you're so cute, come here, let me pet you" Zi Hua gave it a bear hug despite it being almost twice her size.
The Dune Wolf Griffin wasn't like other spirit beasts and had retained a innocent nature so it welcomed Zi Hua's pestering.
He Li who had been thrown aside "..." -_-
He could only give a helpless smile upon discovering that he couldn't compare to a cute spirit beast, but seeing its gullible character, he could only concede defeat, even he was having Zi Hua's obsession rub off him, whether it was due to the cute spirit beast or because of Zi Hua. ;)
"Do you want to bring it along? It must've been attracted here due to the noise, bringing it along won't be too difficult since it's a High Stage Saint ranked spirit beast, though it seems that it's still rather young" He Li proposed, he has subconsciously started to care about Zi Hua's happiness after staying together with her for the past few days.
"Yay, if you don't mind that is, you like furry spirit beasts right?" Zi Hua inquired, she didn't want him to force himself if he didn't like spirit beasts.
"I'm fine with them, they're quite cute actually, at least when they're not trying to eat us like the one before"
"Haha, Xiao Sha, from now on, do you want to come along with us?" Zi Hua faced the Dune Wolf Griffin's shiny eyes and asked.
"Woof!" It nodded its head and wagged its tail cheerfully.
He Li stood at the side, finding no problem in the name that Zi Hua had given the spirit beast.
"Come on then!" Zi Hua got it to stand up properly and it journeyed with them.
The still angry three rebelling teenagers - I mean spirit beasts back in the Heaven-defying artifact felt a sense of crisis so they hurriedly went to the screen that Xiao Shen had set up earlier in hopes of them calming down their anger a bit, which projected what was happening outside...