Protect Our Chief

Chapter 939 - 41: Sudden Wealth! Divine Martial Recruit Training Camp Begins (2)

"Of course it’s very rare." Jii Wuchen stroked his white beard and explained kindly and patiently, "Moon Rabbits are way too eye‑catching in color, their combat power is very weak, and on top of that they’re picky eaters. It’s hard for them to survive in the wild, so nowadays wild Moon Rabbits have basically died out.""However, while Moon Rabbits aren’t strong in combat, they’re very good at cultivating medicinal herbs, and they have a natural sensitivity to the properties of Spiritual Medicine. The herbs they grow are of higher quality than those of ordinary Spirit Plant Masters. Some special varieties of Spiritual Medicine can only be grown by Moon Rabbits. Right now in the Immortal Court’s Hundred Herbs Garden, there’s a whole group of Moon Rabbits kept specifically to grow Spiritual Medicine."

"In addition, out in the wild, Moon Rabbits are also first‑rate at finding Spiritual Medicine; they can basically pinpoint any precious herb in one shot."

Jii Wuchen’s range of knowledge was clearly very broad; once he started talking about Moon Rabbits, he spoke with great assurance and detail.

He even told Wang Anye a story: "It’s said that back in the days of the Divine Martial Dynasty, His Majesty the Saint Emperor had an Immortal Consort whose pet was a Moon Rabbit, and she doted on it extremely. The Moon Rabbits kept in the Immortal Court nowadays are said to be the bloodline descendants of that very Moon Rabbit."

Wang Anye nodded very earnestly to show he had taken it in, then very naturally asked, "So... does Moon Rabbit taste good?"

Hearing this, the Moon Rabbit shivered all over, its eyes widening in terror as it stared at Wang Anye.

Jii Wuchen’s eyelids twitched. He carefully studied Wang Anye, only to find a face full of innocence and purity, as if he had just asked a perfectly proper question, with no idea how savage his words sounded.

Jii Wuchen was speechless, but still nodded. "It tastes good. And it’s a great tonic."

Anyone could guess that since Moon Rabbits love eating Spiritual Medicine, a lot of medicinal power accumulates in their bodies. Add to that the fact that rabbit meat is naturally tender and smooth, so of course it’s delicious.

Back in the day, he had a "friend" who was very curious about the taste of Moon Rabbit. One midnight that "friend" snuck into the Hundred Herbs Garden, quietly pinched a rabbit and slipped out, only to be chased for over ten thousand li by the officials in charge of the garden brandishing Medicinal Hoes, almost not living to see the next day’s sun.

The Moon Rabbit looked fearfully at Jii Wuchen, then at Wang Anye, and then quietly shuffled its butt backwards, a bit farther from Wang Anye, then a bit farther again, its heart crying rivers of tears.

Aunt Yao Yao, this world is so dangerous, it really wants to go home...

At this moment, Wang Shouzhe’s voice suddenly rang out.

"Rabbit, you really know how to grow Spiritual Medicine?" Wang Shouzhe looked at it and asked, "Can you grow Vermilion Fruit?"

The Moon Rabbit was like a condemned man granted amnesty and frantically nodded its head.

Yes! Of course it can! Not only can it grow Vermilion Fruit, it can grow lots and lots of kinds of Spiritual Medicine!

At a time like this, whether it became some little concubine or not was completely unimportant. Keeping its little life was what mattered most.

"As long as you can grow it, that’s fine." Wang Shouzhe nodded, then asked, "Are you willing to stay with the Wang Family and help us grow Spiritual Medicine?"

The Moon Rabbit hurriedly nodded.

What a joke, would it dare say no? Couldn’t it see that fox staring at it like a hungry tiger eyeing prey the whole time? If it dared say it wouldn’t, that fox would definitely be the first to propose eating it!

"If you’re willing, that’s good. From now on you’ll stay in the Wang Family’s herb garden and help grow Spiritual Medicine. As long as you work hard for our Wang Family, we won’t treat you badly. Once you’ve interacted more with our Wang Family’s Spirit Beasts, you’ll understand this."

Wang Shouzhe patted the Moon Rabbit’s long ears and soothed it with a couple of sentences.

He could tell this Moon Rabbit’s intelligence wasn’t low, and it clearly understood human speech; it just couldn’t talk.

He actually felt a bit regretful in his heart.

He’d heard that rabbits reproduce very fast. Unfortunately, there was only this one big rabbit. If there were a few more, and they could be paired up to breed, then maybe before long they’d have a large population. By then, putting one in each of the clan’s Spirit Fields—wouldn’t that be wonderful?

Forget it~ one is one~

Elder Wuchen had already said that wild Moon Rabbits were extremely rare. Being able to run into even one was already pretty lucky. He’d just let it stay in the Wang Family’s largest herb garden in the future.

Although Wang Shouzhe had said they wouldn’t treat it badly, under the wary gaze of Ancestor Fire Fox Yuwen Chiwei, the Moon Rabbit still didn’t feel the slightest sense of safety.

To prove its value, it bustled about diligently afterward, leading the Household Generals around and sweeping up a huge pile of Spiritual Medicine, only then feeling slightly more at ease.

During this time, another group of Household Generals had already dug up the explosives that had been buried, and Wang Anye stuffed them back into the Storage Ring. This made the Infinite Treasure Ring grumble with resentment nonstop, complaining that the tiger was too useless—why couldn’t it have held on a bit longer, why couldn’t it have waited until all the explosives went off before dying?

Unfortunately, no matter how much she brooded, there was nothing she could do.

By now, with the efforts of the many Household Generals, the Golden Tiger King’s corpse had finally been hacked into many parts: tiger hide, tiger bones, tiger blood, all sorted and packed up. The biggest portion was the tiger meat—over ten thousand jin of it, piled up to fill several carts to the brim.

This was meat from a Tier Seven Ferocious Beast, enormously beneficial to Black Tortoise Cultivators’ cultivation—a top‑tier treasure that you could hardly buy for any price. After all, domesticated Tier Seven Great Demons were Clan Guardian Spirit Beasts, it was basically impossible to kill them for meat, and wild Tier Seven Great Demons were not that easy to encounter either. Look at the Wang Family; they’d explored several thousand li into the Outer Domain and only just ran into a single Tier Seven Great Demon, right?