The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

348: Baby Rui Beast

She was very curious about it as it was the first time a stone talked to her.
She needed to study it.

“Stop tapping me! Let me sleep woman! Don't think you can do whatever you want with me.
I’m not some random beast!”

The sweet voice sounded in Feng Wu’s ears.
It was most definitely talking to her.
Her eyes shone brightly as she tried to connect with the stone in the same way she would connect with the trees and flowers.

“Who are you?”

The little guy moved his ears in disbelief when the sound of her puzzled voice reached him.
This human could hear him!

“You – you can hear me talking?” He was shocked.
His big shining eyes stared out in disbelief.

“You can hear me!” Feng Wu was excited.
“Are you a rock? How are you able to talk?”

When the little guy inside the egg heard this, he nearly exploded.
“You’re blind! You’re a stone! Your whole family are stones! I'm a rui beast.
How dare you say I’m a stone!”

“Rui beast? You’re a legendary ancient rui beast?!” Feng Wu continued to transmit her voice to the stone.
She had read about them in the books from the library.

The books said ancient rui beasts were the darlings of heaven and earth.
They didn’t have any offensive skills, but they had long life spans and amazing support abilities, which could be categorized into three types: time, improvement, and resurrection.

Then there were those who were born all-knowing.
It didn’t matter if it was the ancient past or the present, these kinds of ruis knew everything.
This of course included all those god-level books on magic and swordsmanship, books on medicine and everything else that existed.
If it happened, then the rui knew it.
It was basically a living encyclopedia of world knowledge.

There were also those ruis that could predict the future.
If it wanted to, it could look at all the different paths in time.

In short, ruis had many amazing abilities, but they were all supporting ones.
Humans who coveted their abilities rushed into the spirit realm and captured many ruis.

The beasts in the spirit realm weren’t particularly united, but they were in agreement on one thing.
Any human who wanted to fight ruis were the enemies of all beasts.

Humans who tried to capture ruis were few and far in between.
Most people were sane and weren’t like that.
Only a small number of extremists would rely on the power of ruis to get them to the top.

Humans weren’t the only ones interested in the ruis though.
Others interested in them included the Blood clan from the Asura race, people from the demon race, and various other small and large races.

It was a divine beast with no combat abilities, but because of its wisdom and extraordinary support abilities, it was a highly praised and sought after beast.

The fact that all the other beasts loved and took such great care of ruis left all the other races in awe.

Normally it was strength that garnered respect.
So why did the other beasts so willingly protect the weak ruis? This matter ranked among the top ten mysteries of the world.

There was a rumor that ruis had something to do with the birth of beasts, so that was why beasts were so protective of them.
But when it came down to it, no one really knew.
The truth had never been recorded in any book.

Despite being protected by all the beasts in the world, ruis were hunted to near extinction.
Most refused to submit to their captures when caught.
The remaining rui beasts went into hiding over the years.
They had hidden so deep, no one had found them.
That was why Feng Wu was so surprised.

“Ancient? What year is this?” The little guy’s brain had been whirring away from the moment he opened his eyes.

The beast looked dazed after Feng Wu told him the time.
It had only been a bit since he had returned to his original state.
How did so many millennia pass in such a short period of time?

“It’s over! It’s been so many thousands of years? I don’t know if Xiao Momo is still waiting for me.
And my adorable Feifei and Lili.
You must not marry another! Oh! Wait for me my dears!” The little rui was very sad when he thought about his cute little plums.

There were few rui beasts left in the world, so mating was a constant issue.
Unlike other beasts, they could not interbreed.
Possession of such unique abilities meant they could only breed within their species.
The restriction was pressed on them by the world consciousness in order to limit other races from inheriting their abilities.

Think of the chaos that would envelop the world, if through their interbreeding, they created offspring with powerful offensive capabilities.
How could the world consciousness allow such a thing to happen?

“Why did you turn into a stone?” Feng Wu asked as she touched the stone, which now resembled a white eggshell to her.

“I’m not a rock; I just returned to my nascent state.” A sense of powerlessness came over the baby rui when he thought about it.
“I was tricked by a hateful demon.
The abominable guy tried to capture and enchant me with magic orbs so he could use me for own schemes.
But his thinking was way too much.
I’m amazing.
Did he really think it would be so easy to catch me?

I retreated to my nascent stage to escape his dark trickery.
In this state, behind this molded shape, nothing can hurt me.” The baby rui was quick to boast about his layered gem like shell.

“Then can you come out now?”

The baby rui became frustrated upon hearing the question.
“I can't! That mean guy hurt me with his magic orbs.
I have to wait for the demonic residual energy to dissipate first.