Chapter 524: Chapter 538 Poor Piggy
“Why is the pig crying?” Mu Can looked on in confusion at Wang Cai.
This was no ordinary wild boar; at the very least, it was one at the All Things Realm level.
A wild boar king? Or perhaps an ancestor of the wild boars, now crying like a child?
What was going on here?
“Hey, you, the wild boar, why the tears?” Wang Cai couldn’t stand it any longer and moved closer to ask.
“Woo woo woo, I am the wild boar king, after all. You tied me up and want to eat me; where’s my dignity in that?”
The wild boar, upon hearing Wang Cai’s words, cried even louder, and for a time, the entire New World echoed with the sound of its wailing.
A group of creatures who had long settled here came over one after another, eager to see what was happening.
“Shut up for a second, I might not eat you,” Mu Can said, his face expressing helplessness, as he had never planned on eating the wild boar he had captured.
First, because this wild boar was the only one he had forcibly drawn from the All Things Realm into the Wuwei Realm, which was somewhat pitiful.
Second, because he wanted to extract some information about the forbidden zone from the wild boar.
The secretive forces running out of the forbidden zone and seizing the cultivators’ territory was, in itself, an unreasonable affair.
Considering the turmoil in the forbidden zone had lasted for hundreds of years, what were these creatures doing coming out now?
As soon as Mu Can stated he wouldn’t eat him, the wild boar immediately stopped crying and behaved like a good boy.
Unlike the other White Tiger and Azure Dragon, this wild boar had completely driven humans out of the city and left some to serve him specifically.
He didn’t cause slaughter in the cultivators’ city; that was a key reason why Mu Can had decided not to kill him outright despite being able to.
“I ask, you answer. Get it wrong, and you die, got it?” Mu Can asked.
The wild boar nodded desperately, clinging to the luxurious happiness of staying alive.
“I’m asking you, what happened in the forbidden zone? Why have all of you run out?” Mu Can directly posed the question he was most eager to know.
“Something changed inside the forbidden zone. I felt something was off and ran out. If I hadn’t, I might be dead by now.”
The big wild boar seemed dejected, obviously reluctant to have left the forbidden zone, since it was his homeland.
“Do you know what changed?” Upon hearing this, Mu Can guessed that it could very well be related to the matter King Yan had told him about. Could it be that those great powers couldn’t wait any longer and intended to make their move prematurely?
“Many Beast Kings at my level were captured and never returned. The force that took them is very secretive, probably an indigenous force within the forbidden zone.”
The wild boar was eager to tell Mu Can everything he knew, regretfully the information was not of much use to Mu Can.
“Sigh, I thought you knew a lot, but it seems there’s no point in keeping you alive now,” Mu Can sighed and spoke softly.
“No, no, no, don’t kill me, I know many things, like, for example, there’s a forbidden place in the forest I rule over.”
The wild boar was clearly very afraid of death; as soon as Mu Can talked about killing him, he became so frightened he started speaking incoherently.
“Oh? What kind of forbidden place?” Mu Can continued to inquire. The forbidden zone was already a Cultivator’s taboo, so a forbidden place within the forbidden zone could only be affiliated with those terrifying forces.
Those forces were even more secretive than one another, and they even had the Underworld’s Yellow Springs under their thumb, not to mention the participants in the tremendous battles between Yin and Yang that he had heard about from the old monk.
“It’s a mysterious place where all creatures, including myself, cannot enter,” reminisced the wild boar, recounting everything he knew.
As it turned out, the wild boar was originally just an ordinary wild boar who had the special fortune to be born in the forbidden zone, which destined him to an extraordinary life.
After eating a fruit when he was young, his life underwent a transformation.
He had even awakened Spiritual Wisdom and been able to absorb Spiritual Power, which allowed him to become the sovereign of his forest.
The forbidden place was where he found the fruit, but unfortunately, once he gained the strength, he could no longer enter that area, as if it was locked behind a layer of fog, with no visible path to access it.
However, in the days that followed, the wild boar discovered traces of human activity within that area.
One night, a group of soldiers dressed in black emerged from the region as if they were about to join a battle somewhere.
“I secretly followed them from behind, but before I knew it, I was knocked out. Right before I lost consciousness, I vaguely heard a phrase.”
“This little fellow is also one of ours. Let him off this time, and if there’s a twist of fate, let him contribute a roasted meal to us.”
That phrase threw the wild boar into panic; after all, he had cultivated up to the All Things Realm, and yet he had been knocked out without the chance to resist.
“A wild boar of the All Things Realm is just food in their eyes; what kind of people are these?” Mu Can pondered deeply.
Although he was prepared to face his enemies in the future, he never expected to encounter one as powerful as this.
The wild boars of the All Things Realm, even the headmaster would not be able to knock them out without their noticing.
“I’m telling the truth, please don’t eat me,” the wild boar wailed and pleaded.
Originally, it fled the uninhabited region to avoid becoming food, but now it fell into Mu Can’s hands and could still turn into a meal.
“Am I destined to end up on a dining table my entire life?” Imagining itself being butchered and roasted over the flames, the wild boar shivered at the terrifying scenario.
“You won’t be eaten, but you have to give me a reason not to eat you,” Mu Can said, pretending to be cold.
He never intended to kill the silly wild boar, but he certainly wasn’t going to let it off that easily.
“Reason, reason, what else can I do besides eat?” The wild boar said sorrowfully, thinking for a long time without coming up with a reason for Mu Can not to eat it.
To think that a creature from the All Things Realm would be driven to such a state—if this got out, the whole uninhabited region would mock the wild boar.
“You said all you do is eat, if you’re just wasting food, what’s the point in keeping you?” Mu Can asked, raising an eyebrow.
“I’ll acknowledge you as my master! You can ride on my back when you go out,” the wild boar thought hard and finally remembered seeing someone riding a white elk flying over the uninhabited region.
Suddenly, it realized it could also serve as a mount, couldn’t it?
Hearing the wild boar’s suggestion, Mu Can’s expression faltered as he envisioned himself riding atop a giant boar; the scene didn’t seem too appealing.
Wang Cai next to him snickered, and the other creatures that had gathered around also laughed quietly.
It seemed they all pictured Mu Can traveling on the back of the wild boar.
“Yes, I can also be a mount, and I can carry many people at once; I am useful, please don’t eat me.”
The wild boar hadn’t noticed Mu Can’s expression and kept on talking excitedly as if it was thrilled to have discovered its role.
Finally, it wouldn’t become someone’s roasted meat.
“Shut your mouth,” Mu Can said with a face full of black lines. If he really rode the wild boar out, he’d probably be mocked for life.
Other people’s mounts were Divine Beasts like the Azure Dragon or the White Tiger, and there he was, riding an unsightly wild boar.
Hearing Mu Can’s words, the wild boar immediately shut up; it knew its life was in the hands of the young man before it.
“I’m not eating you for now, but I will seal your strength first.” Mu Can waved his hand lightly, and the Origin Power of the interface turned into chains within the wild boar’s body, suppressing its strength from the Wuwei Realm down to the Freedom Realm.
Learning that Mu Can wouldn’t eat him, the wild boar didn’t care about its strength; being alive was fortunate enough.
“It looks like there really is a problem with the uninhabited region.” Mu Can released the wild boar from its bindings.
The wild boar looked around the New World, without the slightest desire to flee; instead, it slowly approached Mu Can.
“You’re really not going to eat me?” The wild boar asked as it got close to Mu Can.
“Besides being afraid of being eaten, what else can you do? Tell me how you managed to break through to the All Things Realm?”
Mu Can looked at the wild boar, full of vexation; how could such a simpleton break through to the All Things Realm?
Why is it that despite his hard work, he has been stuck in the Wuwei Realm, with all the Spiritual Power he absorbs being devoured by the Great Taoist Rift?
“I just kept eating and eating, and then I broke through; I don’t know how it happened either.” The wild boar scratched its head.
It wasn’t lying at all; it had just been eating continuously and never encountered a bottleneck until it reached the All Things Realm.
“Get lost!” Mu Can cursed, feeling annoyed. It seemed unfair; this pig didn’t even practice cultivation and yet managed to reach the All Things Realm.
“This wild boar’s meat must be of good quality,” Wang Cai quipped sardonically nearby.
Looking at the wild boar, not one of them didn’t feel a mix of envy and jealousy.
Compared to them, the pig seemed like the protagonist, making it to the All Things Realm just by eating.
It was enough to anger the Heavenly Dao itself.
“Don’t eat me, please,” the wild boar almost cried out again upon hearing Wang Cai scare it.
“Stop scaring him, Wang Cai. He’s pitiful enough, look at how timid a creature of the All Things Realm has become.”
Mu Can spoke up as the giant wild boar nodded vehemently beside him.
“We still need this wild boar to guide us in the uninhabited region; I want to check out its den to see what’s going on.”
Mu Can said after some thought.