The elders were confused. One of them looked directly at Tian Shen and asked.
"What is your tamed beast trying to say?"
"S-she, she's hungry."
Tian Shen answered the elders while inwardly grumbling to the little fox.
'Can you please not bully me like this!?'
The elders, though still dubiuos, didn't dwell on it.
A few elders muttered confused things about Cultivation techniques deviation, while others just frowned.
Tian Shen, meanwhile, gave her the most helpless look he could manage without weeping.
Inside his sleeve, the chick—Drowsy—was now fast asleep, a tiny golden halo forming over its head as it sleeped.
He tightened his sleeve discreetly and stood up straighter.
Elder Hui scowled.
"Even if your arrays fail, the divine tribulation was no illusion. Maybe—maybe Something descended from the heavens."
"And yet we can detect no spiritual creature, no divine inheritance, not even a trace of a summoning circle."
