Looking at the spiritual herbs within the Spirit Herb Garden, Mofeng stood outside with eyes glowing, saliva constantly flowing from his mouth as he muttered happily.
"Slurp~"
"Slurp~"
Hastily sucking back his drool and wiping the corner of his mouth with his short, chubby, fair little hand, Mofeng eagerly crawled inside.
"These fruits look so pretty!"
After crawling into the Spirit Herb Garden, Mofeng looked at a tree less than two meters tall right in front of him, laden with round, crimson fruits, and let out a chuckle.
With a couple of quick scrambles, he climbed up the tree.
Cupping in both hands a red fruit larger than his own head, he plucked it from the tree and eagerly began to eat.
"Wow!!!"
(*>ω<*) With a single bite, Mofeng's eyes lit up again.
The sweet juice tasted better than any fruit juice he had ever drunk.
This nameless fruit was definitely more delicious than any fruit he had eaten in his past life.
Mofeng wore a silly grin as he heartily feasted on the red fruit in his hands.
That red fruit, which looked larger than his head, was devoured by Mofeng going all out in less than ten seconds, vanishing straight into his belly.
Afterward, looking at the hundreds of tempting fruits hanging on the tree, Mofeng entered a sweeping spree.
In less than half an hour, Mofeng had practically swept clean every single one of the hundreds of red fruits across the entire tree.
Gazing at the two remaining round, flushed fruits before him, Mofeng's little face showed a trace of hesitation.
He looked down at his slightly bulging little belly, then back at the final two fruits, and the hesitation on his face grew deeper.
"I'm a little too full to eat."
"Little belly, you can do it!"
"Only these two left, let's finish them all!"
Looking at the two extremely tempting red fruits swaying in the breeze before him, Mofeng reached out a little hand to gently pat his small belly, then picked the two fruits and quickly devoured them into his stomach in no time at all.
"Phew~"
"I'm stuffed."
Only after eating every single one of these red fruits did Mofeng lie back against a tree branch, patting his slightly distended little belly with complete satisfaction and a blissful expression on his face.
"Ah, cozy~"
"These fruits really are delicious. After eating them, my body even feels all warm inside."
"I feel like I've gained a lot of strength."
"A treasure, truly deserving to be called a treasure!"
"If I were to eat my way through this entire place, who knows, I might even attain the Dao and become an immortal."
Having eaten and drunk his fill, Mofeng lay back comfortably on the tree branch to bask in the sun while pondering things.
"Oh no, sounds like someone's coming."
Sensing voices coming from outside the Spirit Herb Garden, it sounded like two women.
Hearing the voices, Mofeng climbed down from the tree and scurried deep into the Spirit Herb Garden.
Even though he encountered many delicious and tempting spiritual herbs along the way, he was already full.
Besides, since he was staying here now, there was no need to rush.
"Ah!!!"
"Xiaoqing, why are Her Excellency's Chiyan Fruits all gone?!"
A young maiden dressed in white arrived at the Spirit Herb Garden and let out a scream as she stared at the bare Chiyan Fruit tree before her, stripped completely of every single fruit.
Standing beside Xiaobai was a young maiden wearing a green long skirt with two braided pigtails—whom Xiaobai called Xiaoqing—who looked toward the Chiyan Fruit tree upon hearing Xiaobai's scream.
"Ah!!!" "How are they gone?"
"They were clearly all here yesterday."
"What do we do, what do we do, Xiaobai? Are we going to be executed by Her Excellency?!"
Xiaoqing and Xiaobai were the maidservants guarding this Spirit Herb Garden, and they came to inspect the garden once every day.
Never in their wildest dreams did they expect that the Demon Emperor's back garden, which no one in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths dared to touch, could actually have items stolen from it.
Furthermore, it was the Chiyan Fruit that their revered master, Di Cangli, was particularly fond of eating.
Seeing this sight, the two maidens Xiaobai and Xiaoqing felt their vision blur and the world spin before fainting from sheer fright.
The red fruits Mofeng had sneaked and eaten were precisely the Chiyan Fruits spoken of by Xiaoqing and Xiaobai.
As the two little maidens, Xiaoqing and Xiaobai, scared themselves into fainting, the thief of the Spirit Herb Garden officially entered the view of the Demon Emperor Palace.
Consequently, Mofeng, having ventured deep into the Spirit Herb Garden, began a battle of wits and courage with the women stationed permanently inside.
After all, Mofeng dared to sneak in and eat spiritual herbs despite knowing there were many guards here for two reasons: first, his Chaos Immortal Body.
With the Chaos Immortal Body, he had nothing to fear even if he courted death.
After all, dying once made him stronger by a fraction.
Second, it was because he was currently just an infant; even if discovered, he could play dumb and feign ignorance.
After all, who could possibly mistake an innocent little baby like him for that damned herb thief? What kind of bad intentions could such a naive and innocent little baby possibly have?
On the other hand, the reason he wasn't completely reckless was this:
Although his Chaos Immortal Body allowed him to grow stronger the more he died, his current Chaos Immortal Body was only at the elementary level of a hundred-death immortality.
It looked like he could die a hundred times.
But what if, after truly dying a hundred times, the Chaos Immortal Body still hadn't upgraded, and dying again meant he would genuinely be kaput?
Besides, while he loved courting death, playing it safe was also his hobby.
A good blade had to be used on the cutting edge, not on the hilt.
And now, having entered Di Cangli's back garden, Mofeng officially kicked off a game of wits and courage against the Red Fox Guard.
Anyway, whenever he found a blind spot in their line of sight, he would slip out, pluck a few spiritual herbs, and bolt, leaving the Red Fox Guards—who constantly patrolled the Spirit Herb Garden—with zero reaction time.
By the time they actually reacted, the spiritual herbs were already gone right under their noses.
Truthfully, the Red Fox Guards couldn't really be blamed for failing in their duties.
The Red Fox Guards stationed inside the Spirit Herb Garden cast their divine senses without a single moment of rest, day or night. Each was responsible for a specific sector, completely shrouding the entire Spirit Herb Garden in divine sense.
Yet what these Red Fox Guards could never have imagined was that there would appear in this world an old schemer capable of completely evading divine sense without detection.
Thus, even after mobilizing all the Red Fox Guards in the Spirit Herb Garden, none of them discovered Mofeng, that cunning old schemer.
In any case, having made his home in the Spirit Herb Garden, Mofeng found life immensely cozy.
Whenever he woke up, he would go out and play wits and courage with the Red Fox Guards; the moment they weren't patrolling his area, he would slip out of his tree hollow and start stealing spiritual herbs.
When he was full, he would sleep.
What surprised Mofeng the most, however, was that right in the center of the Spirit Herb Garden, he had discovered a Spirit Spring located less than a hundred meters away from the tree hollow where he lived.
The spiritual liquid gushing from that Spirit Spring and the dense spiritual energy caused every pore on Mofeng's body to open up in absolute comfort, greedily absorbing the spiritual energy.
Hence, ever since discovering the Spirit Spring, Mofeng's daily routine—aside from pilfering spiritual herbs—consisted of coming over to the Spirit Spring to secretly drink the spiritual liquid gushing from the spring's eye.
That massive pool of spiritual liquid was rapidly refilled every single time, even after he drank a full one percent of it.
That sweet and refreshing spiritual liquid tasted more delicious than any beverage he had ever consumed.