Airport. As soon as he stepped off the plane, a chill wind felt like a sharp knife cutting into his skin, causing it to ache slightly.Xiao Yu adjusted his collar and walked off the plane. The weather...Chapter 717: Token of Appreciation
"Chirp..." After the female eagle moved aside, two soft chirping sounds came from beneath her. Xiao Yu realized that two golden eagles with just a bit of down had appeared underneath her.
However, as soon as Xiao Yu saw these two baby golden eagles, his brows furrowed. One of them kept chirping while the other lay on the ground, head drooping and motionless, showing no sign of life whatsoever.
"Gurgle..." Upon seeing this, the male eagle's anxious voice sounded again, and he nudged the unmoving baby golden eagle with his beak before turning to Xiao Yu and nodding persistently.
The female eagle also seemed to understand her mate’s meaning, weakly chirping at Xiao Yu.
Seeing the eagles’ situation made Xiao Yu sigh. It turned out that even these creatures were not exempt from parental love; despite sustaining such serious injuries herself, this female eagle was only concerned about her two baby golden eagles.
It turned out that yesterday, in a blink of an eye, Xiao Yu had healed the male eagle's wounds, leaving a deep impression on him. In the morning, when both golden eagles went out to forage, a snow leopard attacked their nest. A baby golden eagle was about to be devoured by it when the female eagle returned and managed to save her child despite being severely injured herself. She also killed the snow leopard and threw its body off the cliff.
When the male eagle rushed back upon seeing this, he went berserk. However, the baby golden eagle was critically injured and about to die; thinking of Xiao Yu’s miraculous healing from yesterday, he flew at top speed to fetch him over.
Seeing the eagles’ current situation, Xiao Yu understood their intentions and walked up beside them, squatting down to look at the motionless baby golden eagle.
In his Yin-Yang Eye vision, Xiao Yu saw that death energy was spreading from the baby golden eagle’s body, forming a bird-shaped aura of death just one head away. Clearly, this little bird would die very soon.
However, seeing that the death energy around the baby golden eagle hadn’t fully formed yet, Xiao Yu sighed in relief. Although it was just a bird, the male eagle had helped them yesterday, and now he needed their help again. This might be what one called karmic ties! Therefore, Xiao Yu must save this little golden eagle.
"Eyes of Life—Open"
Seeing the death energy around the baby golden eagle intensifying, Xiao Yu didn’t hesitate and muttered softly to himself as a mysterious white pattern extended from his eyes toward the baby golden eagle on the ground.
When the mysterious white pattern touched the little golden eagle, the death energy around its body quickly dissipated. In just a moment, all the death energy on the little golden eagle vanished completely, and the severely injured little golden eagle lying on the ground slowly opened its eyes.
"Chirp chirp..." After opening its eyes, the little golden eagle looked around in confusion. When it saw the female and male golden eagles beside it, it immediately let out two soft chirps.
Upon seeing the condition of the little golden eagle, both the large golden eagles instantly emitted a long cry toward the sky. The male eagle’s golden eyes revealed a hint of gratitude towards Xiao Yu. Although it was just a bird, it seemed to have some spiritual awareness at this point, which is why it had sought out Xiao Yu to rescue the little golden eagle.
When Xiao Yu saw that the little golden eagle had regained consciousness, he couldn’t help but smile slightly. However, upon seeing the female eagle’s condition, he hesitated for a moment before moving the mysterious white pattern onto her body.
The little golden eagle was still relatively small and easy to treat, so even though Xiao Yu used his Life Eye on it, he didn't experience any discomfort.
When Xiao Yu’s Life Eye moved over to the female eagle, her injuries began to heal rapidly. In just two minutes, Xiao Yu felt a momentary dizziness, prompting him to quickly withdraw the Life Eye.
It turned out that this golden eagle was large in size and had severe injuries. Even with Xiao Yu’s current capabilities of the Life Eye, he couldn’t completely cure her. However, after withdrawing his Life Eye, the wound on the female eagle's chest had already healed completely. Only its wings were still drooping from incomplete recovery, but Xiao Yu estimated that this injury wouldn't cause any major issues and would heal with some rest.
After Xiao Yu withdrew the Life Eye, the female eagle wobbled to her feet despite only having recovered eighty percent of her strength. Although she was still a bit weak, at least she no longer faced an immediate life-threatening situation.
The male eagle happily let out a long cry upon seeing this scene and nodded towards Xiao Yu before flying off toward the cliff below.
Shortly after, the male eagle returned with its talons carrying a bloody meat chunk weighing around thirty pounds.
After returning to where Xiao Yu was, it placed the meat in front of him and nodded. Then, using its beak, it pushed the meat towards Xiao Yu.
Upon seeing this gesture from the male eagle, Xiao Yu couldn’t help but chuckle and shake his head as he said, "I don't need it, you guys eat."
Hearing Xiao Yu's words, the male eagle looked at him in confusion. Seeing that Xiao Yu didn't touch the meat, it picked up the chunk with its beak and put it beside the female eagle.
The female eagle looked at the meat in front of her. She grabbed a chunk with her sharp claws, held it firmly with her beak and tore off a piece as thick as a chopstick.
"Chirp chirp..." Upon seeing the meat in the female eagle's mouth, the two golden eaglets stretched their necks out and called loudly like featherless chickens.
Seeing how the eaglets were behaving, the female eagle put the meat strip into the beak of the more subdued one.
With a soft whoosh sound, the half-foot-long meat strip was swallowed by the golden eaglet. Seeing this, the other golden eaglet also called anxiously, "Chirp chirp..."
The female eagle tore off another meat strip and fed it to the second eaglet. After eating five or six strips of meat each, the two eaglets finally stopped squawking and quietly hid under the female eagle.
Seeing that the eagles had eaten their fill, the female eagle started eating herself as well. She ate about a quarter of the 20 to 30 pounds of meat before stopping. Since she hadn't eaten anything all day and had been involved in a fight, losing so much blood, although her injuries were now over eighty percent healed, her body was very weak. Therefore, she didn’t show any restraint while eating.
"Alright, there's nothing more to do here; take me away." Seeing that the eagles had eaten their fill and were out of danger, Xiao Yu nodded his head. He sent an invisible ripple of energy into the male eagle’s mind.
After hearing what Xiao Yu said, the male eagle nodded at Xiao Yu before flapping its wings to signal him to climb on top.
Xiao Yu leaped onto the back of the male eagle. The male eagle stood by the edge of a cliff, crouched down and tightly flapped his wings twice as he took off into the air, carrying Xiao Yu towards the distance.
The male eagle didn’t return to Mount Everest with Xiao Yu; instead, it flew him up to the peak of Great Snow Mountain. Everywhere was covered in white snow, making it a world of white. The temperature here must have been minus twenty or thirty degrees Celsius, and even at his level, Xiao Yu could feel a chill.
Standing on the mountain peak, Xiao Yu was very puzzled. This definitely wasn’t the direction he wanted to go back in. He didn't understand why this golden eagle had brought him here.
After all, there were virtually no people around; besides being able to see a lake from atop the mountain, nothing else could be seen anywhere.
The area was shrouded in fog, as if one was standing on top of clouds when standing at the peak.
The golden eagle示意Xiao Yu從它的背上下來後，自己飛身進入了雲霧之中。看到金色的大鷹飛走，Xiao Yu冇有任何動作，雖然他不知道這隻大鷹把他放在這裡乾什麼，但他知道這隻金雕不會害他，所以他站在山頂上靜靜地等待。
況且，即使把他在這種地方留下，或者直接丟在珠峰的頂點對他也冇有任何影響。
過不多時，一個巨大的黑影穿過雲霧飛了過來。Xiao Yu一看，這隻黑影正是那隻金雕。
此時，這隻金雕飛行得非常緩慢，如果不仔細看的話，就像是靜止在半空中一樣；而且它的頭一直低著，好像隻是依靠感覺來飛行似的。
當金雕飛到Xiao Yu身邊時，它悠然降落下來。
落在蕭煜身邊的金雕才抬起頭來看著他。當他抬頭的時候，Xiao Yu才發現這隻金雕的嘴上叼著一朵白色的花。
"Snow Lotus Flower" When he saw the flower in the golden eagle's mouth, he exclaimed. With his knowledge of medicinal herbs and Judge Cai’s memories, he instantly knew that this was a Snow Lotus Flower that had been growing for at least three hundred years.
The golden eagle put the snow lotus flower down by Xiao Yu's feet and then grabbed onto Xiao Yu's clothes with its beak, pulling on them.
"Is this for me" When he saw what the golden eagle was doing, Xiao Yu asked it.
As if understanding his question, the golden eagle nodded at him. Seeing that, Xiao Yu bent down and picked up the snow lotus flower. As soon as he held it in his hand and brought it close to his nose, a fragrant aroma filled his nostrils.
"A four-hundred-year-old Snow Lotus Flower!" Smelling this fragrance, Xiao Yu nodded silently to himself.
‘Only such remote places could possibly have such divine plants! ’ Looking at the snow lotus flower, he sighed inwardly.
Simultaneously, he recalled the medicinal power contained within the golden eagle’s body. This golden eagle had obviously eaten Snow Lotus Flowers before and that particular snow lotus flower must have been at least five hundred years old. Although most of its medicinal value was wasted, this golden eagle clearly relied on that snow lotus to grow into what it is now. Moreover, when Xiao Yu treated the golden eagle’s injuries earlier, he had catalyzed the remaining medicinal power in the golden eagle. Xiao Yu.Seeing the elder smile and nod to him, Xiao Yu also smiled and returned a nod."What's that smell It's so pungent!" At this moment, one of the people playing Mahjong—two girls and a boy—all co...