Wang Yin, Murong Xue, Xu Ying, and Yuan Xiao lined up and walked towards the second elder's platform one by one.
On the way, they happened to pass by the stage of the Fourth Elder Tianchou. The Spirit-Eating Marten that was originally gnawing on the low-grade spirit stone on the stage suddenly stood up, holding the low-grade spirit stone in its hand and remained motionless.
Only its little head turned slightly as the four people walked, and its nose sniffed several times continuously.
Wang Yin, Murong Xue, and Xu Ying had all walked over. Murong Xue and Xu Ying thought the Soul-Eating Marten was quite cute and reached out to tease it, but the Soul-Eating Marten showed no reaction and ignored them.
When Yuanxiao just walked to the front of the stage, the spirit-eating marten jumped up, ran onto Yuanxiao's shoulder, and sniffed at Yuanxiao's neck, face, and collar, which scared Yuanxiao.
The fourth elder shouted, "Come back!" But the Spirit-Eating Marten just raised its head and looked at the fourth elder and still did not jump back.
The fourth elder immediately confirmed his guess. This kid either had a magic weapon or a high-grade spiritual stone! The spirit-eating marten is a special species. It does not have much attack ability and is almost useless in fighting.
But because it is naturally very sensitive to spiritual energy and is good at drilling through mountains and digging holes, its greatest role is to find spiritual stone veins or treasures rich in spiritual energy. It is an auxiliary spiritual beast that is only somewhat useful to the sect.
Spirit-eating martens feed on spiritual stones and spiritual energy, and they have a large appetite. Generally, only sects can afford to raise them. Moreover, although the higher the grade of spirit-eating martens, the stronger their treasure-hunting ability will be, their appetite will be greater.
They need to be fed with medium-grade or higher spiritual stones, which is a headache for sects.
Moreover, finding mineral veins and treasures depends more on chance. It is not certain that you will find treasures or mineral veins if you have spirit-eating martens. In addition, the reproduction ability of spirit-eating martens is very poor, and their number in the world of immortal cultivation is extremely small.
Therefore, they are not popular even in the sects of immortal cultivation. Only a few sects have one or two low-grade spirit-eating martens.
Now the spirit-eating marten was lying on Yuanxiao's shoulder, holding onto his collar and not letting go, sniffing around his neck, occasionally stopping with an intoxicated look on his face, which made Yuanxiao laugh and cry.
Yuanxiao didn't know why the spirit-eating marten was sticking to him, but the Fourth Elder knew his pet very well. He thought that the spirit-eating marten must have discovered the residual spiritual energy on Yuanxiao's body, and that it was of a high grade, so it dropped the low-grade spiritual stone in its hand and went to get closer to that aura.
Tianchou has made up his mind. Maybe his chance to break through the realm and advance to the middle stage of foundation building lies with this kid! If there is such a chance, while this kid has not yet been accepted as a disciple by a master and has no one to protect him, he must get this opportunity no matter what!
Yuan Xiao had no choice but to hold the spirit-eating mink with both hands, forcefully pulled it off his shoulders, and put it back on the platform in front of the fourth elder. He also considerately stuffed the half piece of low-grade spirit stone back into the spirit-eating mink's hands. The little guy was very unwilling, and his little claws had torn his clothes just now.
"We'll meet again if we're lucky. We should be in the same sect and see each other again in the future!" Yuanxiao didn't care whether the Spirit-Eating Marten could understand or not. He touched the Spirit-Eating Marten's head and comforted him. After that, he walked towards the second elder to register.
The spirit-eating marten wanted to jump onto Yuanxiao's shoulder again, but the fourth elder picked up a stick and knocked on the table. The spirit-eating marten really calmed down and didn't dare to leave.
Maybe it was brought up with sticks. But it threw the half of the low-grade spirit stone in its hand on the table. It was obvious that it was no longer in the mood to eat.