The four divine beasts?!
Leading the spotlight back to Xun Ying.
"Baobao are you done analyzing it yet?" Xun Ying poked Baobao in the head with a stick she found out of nowhere.
Baobao pouted, glaring at her. {Why don't you do it?! Baobao is suffering from injustice!}
Xun Ying sighed and banged the stick on the barrier-like spell. And then the barrier disappeared. "..."
{···}
"Baobao is the spell broken?"
{Don't talk to me! Why can the spell break with just one hit of yours?! What the hell are you?! Poor Baobao had studied the spell for a long time only to be broken with one tap of yours. The world is so unfair!!! Baobao want justice!!!}
"...so it really is broken."
Xun Ying looked at Baobao and had a look that expressed, "you are useless".
{You are the one that is weird! Baobao isn't useless, it is just that your abilities are beyond what normal humans would do. Just who are you?!}
"... A saint."
{Peh! What saint, you are clearly a devil who likes to bully people for no particular reasons! Baobao is not convinced!}
Xun Ying shrugged her shoulder and walked on.
{Hey! Listen to people when they talk!}
Baobao disappeared and was back to being the system in her head.
Xun Ying walked towards the gate.
{Ah Ying, this gate requires a password to open and is-}
"Open Sesame!" The gate opens.
{...}
"Well looks like we are in."
{...you are definitely not an ordinary human.}
"Welcome to the throne of Eververse, coming here you have faced the illusion spell and summoning of some sort. Well done, young cultivator."
"...I haven't started cultivating yet."
"...?!!!"
Then Xun Ying heard a bang.
Four clumsy figures stood up, only to step on each other and fall down before starting to bicker with each other.
"Zhu Que, ya chicken! How dare ya step on this one's tail?!"
"As if you didn't step on my beautiful wings, stupid ugly snake! And I have no blood relationship with those chickens, you no brain lizard!"
"How dare you this one is a dragon, even the long in m name means dragon!"
"Whatever you are still an ugly green lizard-like snake."
"Xuan Wu! You stupid turtle! Get off me! You are so heavy!"
"Bai Hu, you bastard! Get your stupid paws off me!"
"Grr! Stop you stupid turtle, you are ruining by perfect fur!"
"You can't hit me anyways, hee!"
"You!"
Soon the figures come into view.
The four divine beast...cubs?!
There was a turtle, a chicken, white kitten and a lizard-like greenish-brown snake. All of them had big eyes which are glaring at each other as if they saw their mortal enemies.
{Ah Ying, they are the divine beasts.}
[Pfft! The four divine beasts?! Bahahahaha!!! Are you sure your information is accurate? Ahahahaha]
{Erm...my information is always 99% accurate but I had no idea if this information is actually accurate, I'm starting to doubt myself, I do I really have an IQ of 270?}
[I think your IQ is 250 instead! Ahahahaha!]
{?!}
Xun Ying smirks, look like Baobao didn't discover the joke.
Author: I'll explain. In China when you wanted to curse someone you would use 250 (pronouncing it as er-bai-wu) which also usually means idiot or stupid. And to respond to this comment/remark, people would usually yell back, "You are 250, your whole family is 250!!!" or "Bai-Che!" which means one who eat for nothing or also idiot in a case..
{What?!}
Author:Oops look like I turn on the speaker mode before and forgot to mute the microphone. Ahem. Looks like Baobao knew about this. This author will now retreat…
{Ah Ying!!!}
[...look Baobao looks like they notice us.]
{What?}
Xun Ying smirks again, what a simple minded idiot, a system with an IQ of 270? Hee! It was more like 250! Self-mission accomplished: distract the idiot.
The chicken stumbled and stood up and look at the 'intruder' in shock.
"Hey, it's time for real business, there is someone here."
"Humph, we will continue this fight later on."
"You got this right."
"Anyways, welcome to the throne of Eververse …infant?!"
"What?!" The head of the snake popped up.
"The contestant this time is an infant!!!" The turtle said in surprise.
"Humph, she could be a cultivator and age exceed the way the age she really is." The kitten grumbled but you can still see a bit of surprise in his eyes.
"Nope, it's not possible, even if a cultivator is to go back, the maximum limit of the aging policy is age 5 not a day old. Cultivator would not be interested in being an infant again since they usually cannot move. Look at the infant there is no sense of any spiritual energy on her. Except that aura…" The turtle murmured.
"Old turtle are you sure about it?" questioned the snake.
"What you doubt my info?! I'm the wisest out of the four of us as they say."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"I think you are looking for a beating." replied the kitten.
"Che! Why don't you look at it yourself! Humph!"
"..what the old turtle said was correct, this child… is exceptionally special."
The other two nodded in agreement after a while.
"Child, report your name," the snake spoke.
"Xun Ying, a few days old… I think," Xun Ying replied communicating with the four beasts with her soul.
"Xun Ying…"
"Yes, Xun as in seeking and Ying as in shadow, the translation of my name is to seek the shadow and conquer the light."
"Hu, an arrogant name I see, we'll see if you can live up to your name." said the kitten.
"Well I think she can for some reason my instinct is telling me to not make an enemy out of the child." said the chicken.
"Anyways, we'll introduce ourselves. I'm Zhu Que, the vermillion bird, or what you called phoenix or the origin of flame, the flame's child and etc." said the chicken.
"I'm Xuan Wu, the black tortoise, the mother earth's partner in creation, the protector of defense and etc." said the turtle.
"This one is called Qing Long, the azure dragon, the conqueror of wind and sea, predator of the wild fantasy and the King of strength and etc." said the snake.
"Remember this one's name, I'm Bai Hu, the brave warrior of the world, the royal White highness,and etc."