The Hehuan Sect Enchantress’s Short-Lived Spirit Pet 46p1

Chapter 46: Apprenticeship p1

When Ji Ling returned to the back mountain forbidden area, Ji Zhu was already sound asleep. From the way she would sniffle from time to time, one could get a glimpse of how restless her sleep was. She would even mumble “enchantress” and “bad woman” from time to time.

Seeing her like this, Ji Ling sighed lightly, reached out, and rubbed her head. She felt that it might not be a bad thing for her to leave Jiang Bai. From some of Ji Zhu’s habits, one could see how much Jiang Bai doted on her on a daily basis. But if she wanted to grow up, it would probably not work in that kind of environment.

If Ji Zhu had always been with the other party, she would probably never have grown up in this lifetime. She was too dependent on that Jiang Bai.

Ji Zhu’s dream was full of the enchantress not refusing to dual cultivate with Xiao Ge. And after that, the relationship between these two had become better and better. On the day they became Daoist couples, they had sent out invitations to the entire cultivation world, and the wedding was grand and solemn. Almost half of the great masters of the cultivation world had come to attend.

Ji Zhu shrank in a small corner, watching the enchantress and Xiao Ge entertaining the guests on the stage, so sad that she was about to cry.

The enchantress had already forgotten her and no longer needed her.

In the end, Ji Zhu was woken up by her own crying. When she woke up, there was already daylight shining into the cave, and it had even landed right on the bed. Ji Zhu lay on the bed, her stomach heaving from crying.

Ji Ling on the side shook her head helplessly. “Are you made of water? You can really cry.”

She had to hear her voice from time to time this night. Ji Ling was almost moved to compassion by her crying and began to doubt whether her actions were right.

But she needed company, and at the same time, this little thing also needed to grow up. This was clearly a very good decision.

Ji Zhu pouted. After finding that she was still in the cave, the feeling of grievance welled up in her heart again. The enchantress had not come to find her yet. She really didn’t want her anymore, did she? She despised her for being too weak and found it too troublesome to raise her.

Ji Ling took Ji Zhu out of the cave. Outside the cave, a stove had been set up at some point. The stove was still burning, and something was being boiled. In short, she could already smell the aroma.

Ji Ling carefully lifted the lid of the pot, ladled out the contents, and placed it on a slightly worn wooden table. “You can try it later and see if you like it.”

“What did you make?” Ji Zhu asked dejectedly.

“Pigeon soup. Very nourishing!” Ji Ling gave Ji Zhu a thumbs up.

Ji Zhu: “…”

She raised her head and looked around. “Does no one usually come here?”

“What, you miss your master?” Ji Ling said keenly.

“I don’t miss her at all! She’s just a fickle bad woman!” Ji Zhu immediately jumped up and retorted loudly!

“Alright, alright, you don’t miss her,” Ji Ling picked her ears. This little thing was quite energetic. “Since you’ve already said that she’s a fickle bad woman, why do you care if anyone usually comes here?”

Ji Zhu was so angry she scratched the ground. This person was hinting that she missed the enchantress!

“This fickleness, once you have it the first time, you’ll have it a second time. Don’t believe a person’s mouth. Women and men are the same,” Ji Ling slowly blew on her bowl of soup.

Ji Zhu: “…”

“She can leave you and let you run away the first time, and there will be a second time, a third time. Do you know why?” Ji Ling glanced at her sideways, her meaning clear.

Ji Zhu was choked for a moment, but in the end, she still asked in a muffled voice, “Why?”

“Of course it’s because you’re not the most important in her heart, at least not in the first place!” Ji Ling said with a slap.

Ji Zhu: “…”

The more Ji Ling said, the more resentful she became. Ji Zhu’s tail drooped and dragged on the ground, and the whole cat was listless and without energy.

Ji Ling was right. She was just a cat. To put it bluntly, she was the enchantress’s pet. Even if she was very good to her on a daily basis, she was still a pet. How could she care too much about her?

“You can just stay here. I won’t chase you away,” Ji Ling said with a “kind” grin.

Ji Zhu jumped onto the table, looked at the bowl of clear pigeon soup, sniffled, and then buried her head and started to drink it.

She didn’t want to think about the enchantress anymore! Even if she was a pet, she was the most ill-tempered one!

“Good girl!” Ji Ling touched her head and smiled slyly.

After Ji Zhu was full, Ji Ling said, “Do you want to be my disciple? I’ll teach you alchemy!”

Ji Zhu was still a little listless. Hearing this, she just said, “I’m Senior Yin Qing’s disciple. Can I still take you as my master?”

In a sense, she had already accepted Yin Qing’s inheritance, so she was naturally her disciple.

“What?!” Ji Ling exclaimed, “Dan Zong Yin Qing!”

Ji Zhu nodded. After she had obtained the inheritance, she had also started to try to refine pills for so many years. But she didn’t have much of a foundation, and now she could only refine some simple spirit-recovering pills.

When she learned that Ji Zhu had obtained Yin Qing’s inheritance, Ji Ling had a sour expression on her face, just like Xia Ye back then.

“Your starting point is really high,” this Yin Qing seemed to be an unconventional person, to have so easily passed on her legacy to a cat that had just started cultivating.

She held Ji Zhu up and examined her carefully. She had to admit that this little thing had some charm and was really cute. “You didn’t use your cuteness to confuse her, did you?”

She hadn’t thought that the dignified Senior Dan Zong would actually be a cute-thing-lover.

Ji Zhu said dryly, “That’s because she had no choice.”

Who let Yin Qing be so unlucky to have met them?

Ji Ling: “…” This was even more infuriating.

“Since you’ve already obtained Senior Yin’s inheritance, you must properly carry on her things! What are you doing lying here now!”

Ji Ling couldn’t bear to see her holding such a great resource and doing nothing!

“Quick, take me as your master. You’ll be a member of my Medicine King Valley from now on!” Ji Ling even personally prepared a cup of tea and placed it in front of Ji Zhu, just waiting for her to touch it symbolically with her paw, and she would gladly accept it!

To be able to obtain Yin Qing’s inheritance, her future achievements would be immeasurable. It was better to kidnap the cat into her valley as soon as possible!

Ji Zhu was a little bewildered. This was the first person to seriously want to take her as a disciple, and had even prepared the tea.

After thinking for a moment, Ji Zhu still carefully pushed the teacup in Ji Ling’s direction. “Master, drink.”

It was also a good choice to take Ji Ling as her master. After all, she would at least have a place to go. Since she had come to this world, she had been by the enchantress’s side. Now that she and the enchantress were in this situation, Ji Zhu felt that it was an urgent matter to find a place for herself.

Ji Ling immediately and with a grin picked up the tea and took a sip, and then said with a feigned profundity, “Since you have already taken me as your master, then I will also give you a greeting gift today!”

As she spoke, she took out a small jade bottle and gently shook it in front of Ji Zhu. “Do you know what this is?”

Ji Zhu looked at the small jade bottle, which had no markings, and its seal was also very good. She did not smell any scent.

She shook her head honestly, but her eyes were slightly bright.

Something that could be taken out by Ji Ling should not be bad, right?

Ji Ling smiled mysteriously, as if she were waiting for Ji Zhu’s excited appearance. “A Shapeshifting Pill!”

She caressed the bottle preciously. After all, a Shapeshifting Pill was not easy to obtain. She had only been able to refine it after obtaining a Shapeshifting Herb by chance.

Ji Zhu was stunned. She looked at the small jade bottle, and then at Ji Ling with some disbelief.

Ji Ling snorted lightly. “What do you think? Am I good to you?”

A Shapeshifting Pill was actually of little use to humans, but for demonic beasts, it was something that they could not ask for.

Ji Zhu nodded vigorously! Her eyes lit up as she looked at her.

It was important to know how difficult it was for an ordinary demonic beast to shapeshift. If it cultivated honestly on its own, it could only speak human language after its strength had reached the Golden Core stage, and it could take human form at the Soul Transformation stage. By the time it could cultivate to the Soul Transformation stage, who knew how many years had passed!

Ji Zhu had originally thought that she would never have the chance to take human form in this lifetime. Who knew that Ji Ling would give her such a big surprise!

But looking at it this way, whether it was speaking or shapeshifting, it seemed that nothing was obtained through her own efforts.

Ji Zhu thought for a moment and didn’t care much. So what if it wasn’t obtained through her own cultivation? What could it prove? It proved that her luck was good enough!

Ji Ling placed the Shapeshifting Pill in front of her.

“But you can’t eat it now.”

She could accept a cat staying with her. If she took human form and the two of them lived together, Ji Ling would only feel uncomfortable.

I can’t eat it now…

Ji Zhu’s spirits instantly drooped. The tail behind her swayed from side to side. If she couldn’t eat it, didn’t that mean she still had to be a cat?

But although she was disappointed for a short while, she quickly accepted it. She had been a cat for so many years and was already used to it. She had once thought that it would be fine if she were a cat for the rest of her life.

“There’s another reason why I’m not letting you eat it now,” Ji Ling said slowly. “What if you suddenly break through and attract a lightning tribulation?”

Wouldn’t this be telling Jiang Bai and the others that Ji Zhu was here?

This wouldn’t do. She had just deceived them.

At that time, if they knew that she had even deceived her juniors, and it was even spread to Ji Wuhui’s ears, how much face would she have?

Ji Zhu blinked and looked up at the sky. It seemed to be true. After all, this was still within the scope of the Hehuan Sect. If a lightning tribulation was attracted, it would still alert the people of the Hehuan Sect.

“Put it away. You can eat it when the opportunity is right in the future,” Ji Ling said slowly.

“Oh,” Ji Zhu had no objections. When she put the thing into her space ring, Ji Ling noticed the thing hanging from her neck and first held up the space ring.

“My Medicine King Valley’s ring. How do you have it?” There was even the special spiritual herb logo of the Medicine King Valley carved on it.

Now that Ji Zhu had a lot of fur, sometimes the things hanging from her neck would be covered by her fur, and one wouldn’t be able to see them if they didn’t pay attention.

“It was a gift from Xia Ye’s junior sister! I think her name is Shao Lian?” Ji Zhu said with some uncertainty after thinking for a moment. After all, they all called each other Senior Sister and Junior Sister, and rarely called each other by name!

“You don’t even remember the name of the person who gave you something,” Ji Ling flicked her head in annoyance. “Little ungrateful one.”

Ji Zhu was wronged, but she was also a little guilty, so she didn’t dare to say anything more.

“But… you didn’t remember wrong. Her name is indeed Shao Lian. She’s my junior sister, Duanmu Ran’s disciple,” Ji Ling said with a grin.

Ji Zhu: “…” So she had deliberately wanted to knock my head!

She put down the space ring and instead held up the golden ingot to examine it carefully. It was round and small, and looked very cute.

But…

“Isn’t this the Hehuan Sect’s sect token?” Ji Ling said. She used her spiritual energy to investigate it, and the precision of the design inside was clearly not something that an ordinary token could compare to. She could enter this forbidden area, so it seemed that it was because of this.

“Mm… a gift from the enchantress,” speaking of the enchantress, Ji Zhu’s voice was much more muffled.

Ji Ling: “…”

Can this thing be given away so casually?

Ji Ling looked at Ji Zhu with an indescribable expression. It seemed that this little thing was much more doted on than she had thought.

Her fingertips flipped gently. Looking at the words “Little Cat” carved on the bottom of the golden ingot, she said, “Your name is Little Cat?”

Ji Zhu: “…Mm, they call me that.”

Ji Ling tsked and shook her head. This name was a bit too casual. The name Ji Zhu was more like it.

Since she had already taken her as her master, Ji Ling naturally had to teach her well. So she began to take her all over the mountains, one thing was to let her get familiar with the terrain, and another was to test her basic skills.

Every time she pointed at something, she would have Ji Zhu say one, two, three, four, five. Fortunately, Ji Zhu had been taught a lot by Qiong Yin for so many years, and in addition, with the things that Yin Qing had passed on to her, she could still speak coherently about most of them.

Ji Ling was very satisfied with her. At least her basic knowledge was quite solid. Next, she would take Ji Zhu to find all kinds of spiritual herbs every day, let her refine the most suitable pills according to the existing spiritual herbs, and would even bring back some spiritual herb seeds and specially open up a piece of land for Ji Zhu to plant and take care of.

Ji Zhu only had paws and no hands?

It’s fine! Just let her use her spiritual energy to complete various tasks such as weeding and tilling the soil.

If she didn’t want to harm those fragile spiritual herbs, then Ji Zhu had to learn to use her spiritual energy more finely, which was also Ji Ling’s purpose.

Alchemy also required a certain timing and heat. It had almost harsh requirements for the use of spiritual energy. The quality of a pill had a great relationship with your use of spiritual energy. If you used it well, you could even bring out the greatest effect of the medicinal properties of the spiritual herbs.

This was a hardship for Ji Zhu. She really got up earlier than a chicken and slept later than a dog every day.

No, she didn’t even get to sleep. At night, she had to use the time to cultivate.

Ji Zhu: “…”

It was even more sad than the time when she had been required by Ji Wuhui to attend morning class! The leisurely days of the past were gone forever!