Qin Ran woke up and found that the sun had retreated to the windowsill. It was about noon. He was about to get up when he suddenly found something pressing on his chest. He looked down and saw a cat.
"I was wondering how I could empathize with the Great Sage. It turns out it was you who did this!"
He just had a dream in which he was pressed under the Five Finger Mountain by Tathagata Cat Ancestor.
He reached out and poked the cat's head. Considering that it had taken the food attack from Li Shiyin for him, Qin Ran didn't bother with it. He gently picked it up, put it on the bed, and got up to go out.
But Zhuifeng also woke up. A good cat never sleeps in. It got up, shook its body, stretched, and then jumped off the bed.
Qin Ran turned around and saw that the little guy was full of energy. He couldn't help but sigh, it was worthy of being a seventh-level monster, its recovery ability was too strong.
Kieran opened the door and stepped onto the balcony. He looked out at the open landscape ahead and felt instantly refreshed: the forest, the grass, the breeze.
The mud pit in the middle of the grass is already very obvious. It seems that the silly apprentice did not slack off today, and the mud pit is obviously bigger.
He looked closely and saw mud constantly being thrown up from the mud pit. As he watched, his brows gradually frowned. What kind of digging was Li Shiyin doing
"Li Shiyin?!" he shouted loudly.
After a while, a clay figure jumped out of the mud pit over there and shouted towards us: "Master... are you awake?!"
"How are you digging?" Qin Ran asked.
"What?" Li Shiyin pretended to be deaf, "Master, what did you say? I can't hear you."
Qin Ran's face darkened. Li Shiyin's body had been strengthened many times. Not only was it far superior to that of ordinary mortals, but ordinary foundation-building cultivators were probably far inferior to her. With such a physical condition, how could she not hear clearly what was said at such a distance
He flipped down the corridor, used his magical steps, and changed his figure in two steps and came in front of Li Shiyin.
"How are you digging?" he asked again.
"Just..." Li Shiyin was startled and lowered her head quickly, like a child who had done something wrong, and made a digging gesture, "Dig like this."
Qin Ran looked down into the mud pit and saw that there were indeed several broken shovels lying in a mess.
The silly apprentice is either working or playing, just like a Husky with excess energy, playing without restraint.
"How did the shovel break?"
Li Shiyin did not answer.
“I let you control your strength, I let you control your strength, is this how you play?” Qin Ran frowned.
Li Shiyin still didn't answer.
Qin Ran was so angry that he glared at her and said, "The hoe and shovel are broken. I wonder how you are going to dig from now on."
"Then there's no need to dig." Li Shiyin muttered quietly.
"Just dig it for me with your hands!" Qin Ran scolded.
He turned and walked towards the house, took two steps, and looked back.
Asked: "What did you have for lunch?"
"I haven't eaten lunch yet." Li Shiyin replied.
Qin Ran took a deep breath and shook his head: "I really owe you!"
After all, he cooked a meal. The silly disciple ate three bowls of food in a row as if nothing had happened. He smiled foolishly and said, "I didn't eat last night. I was starving."
"Who cooked last night?" Qin Ran couldn't bear to watch.
After dinner, Li Shiyin continued to dig a hole. In order to prevent her from doing anything else, Qin Ran supervised her from the side.
While supervising, he took an axe and cut bamboo, prepared bamboo strips, and weaved the cage.
There were still two plants of the Crane Crown Immortal Grass alive, and originally four plants had sprouted, but he was busy with Li Shiyin's foundation-building these two days and didn't pay much attention to it, so two of them were sun-dried to death.
He planned to weave a bamboo cage to block out the sunlight a little.
After making the bamboo strips, he began to weave the cage. He bent and pulled the long bamboo strips, attracting the attention of Zhuifeng. It came over, chasing the bamboo strips and having a lot of fun.
Qin Ran didn't notice it at first, until the bamboo stick became shorter and Zhuifeng's playfulness affected his operation, he noticed that Zhuifeng used the bamboo stick as a cat toy.
However, Zhuifeng is a cat and it is normal for him to like moving things. He didn't take it seriously at first and even consciously used a bamboo stick to tease Zhuifeng.
But as he played, he always felt something was wrong.
After a while, he finally realized that Zhuifeng was not a cat! This guy was a level 7 demon beast! It was a Xuanming Spirit Tiger!
"Hey! Wake up, you are the demon king!" Qin Ran grabbed Zhuifeng's cat head to stop this guy from playing.
"Ugh... Ouch!"
Zhuifeng thought Qin Ran was playing with him again, so he bared his teeth and claws, scratching and biting Qin Ran's hand.
Qin Ran looked at the silly Zhuifeng in his hand and fell into deep thought... No, he couldn't let such a powerful monster degenerate into a pet that only knew how to act cute.
He began to think about what is the difference between humans and animals.
There are many answers to this question, such as wisdom, tools, morality, etc. But Qin Ran remembered a point made by psychologists on Earth: language is the biggest difference between humans and animals.
It is because of language that people have thinking and civilization. People first have language and then have language nerve centers. When a baby is born from the mother's womb, his brain is not fully developed. It will grow with the growth of the person until the age of eleven or twelve. And the language nerve center develops during this period along with the first language, the mother tongue.
Language is the fundamental difference between humans and other creatures.
Especially in this world, the monsters in this world can become very powerful, and can go up to the sky and into the earth, and move mountains and seas. However, monsters have no civilization... or in other words, monsters do not have their own civilization. The establishment of monster civilization relies on human language.
Monsters can become very powerful, but they are always monsters. No matter how powerful a monster is, its best destiny is always to become a mount for a powerful human.
Qin Ran lifted Zhuifeng up, looked at this cute little guy, and came up with a bold idea.
Monsters are monsters after all, and they are much smarter than animals... What would happen if I taught this little guy to talk
Generally speaking, for monsters to speak, they need to practice, transform into human form, and then blend into the human world and learn human language, only then can they speak.
What would happen if you directly taught a beast in animal form to speak
Qin Ran thought it was a good idea.
He quickly put Zhuifeng on the chair he was sitting on and signaled it not to move.
However, Zhuifeng acted like a normal cat and thought he was just playing around, jumping around chasing after his hand.
After several attempts, Qin Ran realized that this would not work. He had to let Zhuifeng understand what he meant before he could teach it.
However, the methods of training cats and dogs on Earth are essentially the same as Pavlov's dog training, which utilizes conditioned reflexes. Cats and dogs actually do not understand what people mean. They only know that doing so will earn them rewards and make their owners happy, and that's all.
Qin Ran didn’t want to use this method to train Zhuifeng. The intelligence of a level 7 demon beast was not worth teaching him to speak in a human way.
As he thought about it, he suddenly realized that he was in the world of cultivating immortals, and there were some unconventional methods.
For example, spiritual consciousness!
Dan Feng has a magical skill that allows him, who is only in the foundation-building stage, to possess spiritual awareness.
Thinking of this, he quickly led out his spiritual consciousness, drilled into Zhuifeng's sea of consciousness, and used his spiritual consciousness to tell Zhuifeng what he wanted him to do.
“Ah… Ah…”
Li Shiyin was digging the soil in a mud pit with great effort, when she suddenly heard the master’s voice “Ahh…” coming from above.
"What is the master doing?"
She was very confused, so she jumped hard onto the wall of the pit and crawled along the wall to the ground.
Then…
She saw Zhuifeng sitting upright on a chair, and the master half-knelt in front of it, opening his mouth wide and making sounds, then closing his lips from time to time and making the following sounds:
"Ah... Ah... Mom... Is it... numb..."
The scene was so outrageous that Li Shiyin opened her mouth wide and stood there for a long time.
"Master... Master... You... You, what are you doing?" Shocked the stupid apprentice for fifteen years!
"Ah?" Qin Ran was startled by the sudden voice. He turned around and saw Li Shiyin. He replied, "I'm teaching Zhuifeng how to speak."
But when he saw that Li Shiyin's expression was different, he followed her gaze back to himself, and gradually discovered something extraordinary, and his expression became more and more wonderful.
"Hey, no, Shiyin, let me explain!"