The next morning, Zhou Fan was once again awoken by the chicken.
"Brother Fan! That mean fox can speak now!" He said, looking out of breath. "She's even more rude now, you have to stop her!"
Zhou Fan got out of bed and followed the chicken into the yard without a word. There, the fox was sitting on the ground licking her paws.
"If it isn't the stupid chicken" She said, now in clear english.
"If it isn't the ugly fox." The chicken said without much confidence.
Zhou Fan walked past the chicken and the fox without saying anything. He would let them argue until they got tired and fell asleep.
In the meantime, Zhou Fan took a stroll around the manor. Although it wasn't too big, it was more than big enough for a walk.
As he arrived at the same pond as yesterday, Zhou Fan took a closer look at the water. After a while, the chicken's actions from yesterday made much more sense.
Since the entire manor had been strengthened by Zhou Fan, everything had changed. The water was now equal to the chicken in strength. That meant that it was equivalent to a normal chicken getting into normal water. As far as Zhou Fan knew, chickens couldn't swim.
Besides the water, everything else had also changed. Even with the chickens and the fox's strength, they couldn't cut down a tree. They may be able to dig a bit, but not too far down. They also wouldn't be able to fly since the gravity had increased.
Before, Zhou Fan hadn't even paid that much attention to it.
After seeing how the chicken and the fox made the manor so much more lively, Zhou Fan intended to create some more animals.
His first thought was deer and rodents. He would stay away from insects, but a mole or a rat didn't seem that bad. On second thought, a butterfly seemed like a good addition.
After thinking for a while, Zhou Fan decided to create a mole, a deer, and a butterfly, just to see how they fit in with the fox and the chicken.
The mole was small and brown with a white belly and claws. Zhou Fan gave it cultivation equal to the fox and the chicken, and it burrowed into the ground and moved away in order to develop its intelligence.
The deer was white and female. She didn't have antlers, and even Zhou Fan found her a bit cute. She was still a young deer, but she frolicked off in the distance once Zhou Fan gave her some cultivation.
The butterfly was the colors of a rainbow. Zhou Fan also found her somewhat cute. She flew off in the same direction as the deer once Zhou Fan gave her some cultivation.
It would take them about a day to fully develop their intelligence, so Zhou Fan headed back to the yard in front of his house.
Right where he had left them, the fox and the chicken were arguing. 30 minutes had passed and they were still at it.
As soon as the chicken saw him, he tried to bring him into their argument.
"Brother Fan, this fox just called me fat. Are you going to let her talk to your brother this way?" He said smugly.
"Yes." Zhou Fan said as he walked towards the chicken.
Before the chicken could react to what he said, Zhou Fan scooped him up and walked towards the side of the square yard in front of his residence.
"Me and this chicken are going to learn music, you're free to come with us." Zhou Fan said to the fox as he walked.
The fox didn't respond, but she followed him from afar. Just a few tens of feet from where the chicken and the fox were arguing, there was a table and some chairs. The table was rectangular and big enough to seat 16 people. Off to the side, there were a couple of stools and a big instrument.
Zhou Fan went to the big instrument known as a harp. He had been interested in trying to use Qi with music. He was also just interested in learning how to play instruments.
As he reached the stool and the instrument, Zhou Fan sat the chicken on the ground and took a seat. The chicken had calmed down from his earlier argument and obediently sat to the side, watching Zhou Fan.
Soon after, the fox arrived and calmly sat next to the chicken and licked its arms. It was more of a cat than a fox.
After he got comfortable, Zhou Fan started from the edge of the instrument and played the strings in order.
Ding! Ring! Ting! Fing!
The harps strings let out a slightly different sound each time. It went from high pitch to low pitch.
Dong! Rong! Tong! Fong!
Eventually, Zhou Fan had played all of the strings once. The chicken and the fox were still watching him silently.
Once Zhou Fan had thoroughly memorized the strings' sounds, he began to play a song. At first, it was slightly out of tune and offbeat, but Zhou Fan fixed his mistakes almost instantly.
Soon, a calming and soothing song that gave off the feeling of spring was heard all throughout the manor. As he continued, Zhou Fan got more of a feel for the instrument. After only ten minutes, he began to implement Qi into his song.
As he did so, the sound got clearer and the song felt more pleasant. Before they knew it, the fox and the chicken were moving their heads along to the melody.
Zhou Fan got better and better at playing the harp as time passed. After around an hour, some leaves shook and a new visitor made its appearance.
It was the deer that had yet to completely gain intelligence. Even so, it was attracted to the open land by the music. On the white deers head, the rainbow butterfly rested.
The way the deer walked towards Zhou Fan was in beat with the song. The butterfly on top of the deer's head was also moving its head to the melody.