Chapter 018: Not Returning for the Night
Qiong Yin, who had returned from shopping with her junior sisters, saw Ji Zhu squatting at the entrance of her room, and then saw Jiang Bai leaning against the wall not far away. She fell silent.
Her gaze repeatedly swept over them. Sensing the subtle atmosphere between them, she asked hesitantly, “Did you two fight again?”
Ji Zhu turned her head to the side.
Jiang Bai: “…”
Why is this question so subtle? A fight? What is there to fight about with a cat? It can’t even speak, so how could we fight?
The silent attitude of these two made Qiong Yin’s eyes curve into a smile. She held up two skewers of candied haws and handed one to Jiang Bai, saying with a grin, “A-Bai, have something sweet to cheer up.”
Looking at the plump, red candied haws in front of her, Jiang Bai averted her gaze and crossed her arms. “Childish. That’s something for kids to eat.”
“Delicious things can naturally be eaten by everyone. Who made a rule that only children can eat this?” Seeing that she didn’t want it, Qiong Yin turned and came to Ji Zhu, handing the candied haws to her again. She said softly, “Little Cat, have some candied haws.”
Ji Zhu looked at the bright red candied haws in front of her. Her nose could even smell the sweet and sour aroma. Even though her mouth was already watering, she still snorted coldly and turned her head away, indicating that she wouldn’t eat it.
If the enchantress doesn’t want it, I don’t want it either! Especially since it was offered to me after the enchantress rejected it. Why should I pick up what the enchantress doesn’t want?
Seeing their reactions, Qiong Yin was stunned for a moment. After a moment of hesitation, she put the candied haws to her mouth and took a bite. It was sweet at first, then sour on the inside. The combination of flavors was quite good. Why didn’t either of them want to eat it?
After finishing one candied haw, and seeing that neither of them wanted it, Qiong Yin put the other intact skewer into her storage space. Then, with the candied haws in one hand and Ji Zhu tucked under her arm in the other, she said to Jiang Bai, “Then I’ll take Little Cat into my room to play. You can play by yourself.”
Jiang Bai: “…”
She watched as Qiong Yin, with Ji Zhu tucked under her arm, kicked the door open, went in, and then kicked the door shut.
Jiang Bai turned and went back to her room with a blank expression. Looking at the candy beans scattered all over the floor, she rubbed her temples with a headache. With a wave of her hand, the candy beans were instantly crushed into dust and disappeared.
In Qiong Yin’s room.
Ji Zhu lay listlessly on Qiong Yin’s bed, her ears drooping, looking dispirited. Even her tail had stopped flicking.
Qiong Yin looked at her little appearance, unsure of what had happened between her and Jiang Bai. Even when she had been angry before, she had never been like this.
However, she didn’t know that no matter how angry Ji Zhu had been with Jiang Bai before, it was the kind of anger that made her want to bite her. This kind of anger would naturally fill her with energy. But this time, she was angry because Jiang Bai had scared her to tears!
She was so scared she was on the verge of a heart attack, and she had cried a lot. All her strength was almost cried out, so naturally, she had no energy now and didn’t even want to move.
Qiong Yin ate the entire skewer of candied haws, then took out the other skewer from her storage space and handed it to Ji Zhu again, saying with a smile, “Are you sure you don’t want it? I bought it especially for you two.”
Ji Zhu turned her head to look at the candied haws, then turned her head back, the whole cat spread out like a pancake, indicating that she had no appetite.
Although she wanted to eat it a little, she felt she didn’t have the strength to bite.
Qiong Yin sighed deeply and asked in confusion, “Why did you two fight so fiercely this time?”
Ji Zhu naturally couldn’t answer her.
When it was time to sleep at night, Ji Zhu was still lying on Qiong Yin’s bed with no intention of moving. Qiong Yin felt that this was a tricky situation, not like their usual petty squabbles.
In the past, no matter how angry Ji Zhu was, she would return to Jiang Bai’s side when it was time to sleep. But now, she hadn’t moved at all!
And she hadn’t even eaten dinner!
It was extremely strange. Qiong Yin had never seen Ji Zhu so angry that she wouldn’t eat.
“Little Cat, shall I send you back?” Qiong Yin asked tentatively.
Ji Zhu shifted her body to lie on her side with her back to Qiong Yin. She even pulled a corner of the quilt over her belly, showing with her actions that she didn’t want to go back.
Qiong Yin blinked at her action of covering herself with the quilt. If it weren’t for the fact that she had helped Ji Zhu heal after she came back, she would have almost suspected that she was a person!
This act of covering her belly was too human-like! Did she learn it from Jiang Bai?
Although she was puzzled, seeing that Ji Zhu was unwilling to go back, she naturally wouldn’t force her. Instead, she happily got into bed and held Ji Zhu, stroking her head and saying with a grin, “That’s great, a cat has grown in my bed too.”
Ji Zhu: “…”
Heh, humans.
And on the other side, Jiang Bai, who was guarding an empty room alone, looked at the door that remained motionless. She frowned, snorted coldly, and with a wave of her hand, slammed the door shut and even locked it, making it difficult for anyone to push it open.
This time, she did not choose to sleep again, but sat cross-legged on the bed to meditate and cultivate. Perhaps because she was a little restless, she had to regulate her breathing for a long time before she could enter a state of cultivation. Various colors of spiritual energy floated in the air and drifted towards her, and were then absorbed into her body and transformed into her own spiritual energy, circulating in her meridians.
Other single-attribute or dual-attribute spiritual roots had to spend time separating the attribute spiritual energy that they could absorb from the mottled spiritual energy of the world every time they cultivated, but Jiang Bai did not need to perform this step.
She was a rare chaotic spiritual root, and all kinds of spiritual energy in the world could be used by her, and her cultivation speed was even faster than anyone else. However, correspondingly, for such an existence that went against the heavens, the lightning tribulation for each of her advancements was also much more dangerous than that of ordinary people.
When it was discovered that she was a chaotic spiritual root, Ji Wuhui’s first reaction was to hide her. Before she had the ability to protect herself, there was no news of her being a chaotic spiritual root.
The appearance of a genius would naturally attract the attention of the vast majority, and correspondingly, the sect she belonged to would also rise with the tide. This would naturally infringe on the interests of some people. When she did not have the ability to protect herself, it was extremely easy for her to be nipped in the bud.
The public’s impression of Jiang Bai might still be at the Golden Core stage, but the fact was that two years ago, Jiang Bai, who was not yet a hundred years old, had already broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, becoming an existence that was difficult for her peers to match.
A hundred-year-old Golden Core was already very rare. A Nascent Soul under a hundred years old, how terrifying was that talent?
Time passed extremely quickly in cultivation. In the blink of an eye, the sky outside was already bright. Jiang Bai opened her eyes, and a glowing spiritual feather landed on her shoulder. She picked up the spiritual feather and injected spiritual energy into it, and the spiritual feather instantly turned into a stream of light and wrote in front of her.
Looking at the handwriting on it, it was a message from Su Xin, saying that they would arrive in Wu City in the evening and that they should not worry.
Finally receiving Su Xin’s message, Jiang Bai was relieved. She got up and went out to find Qiong Yin to tell her the news.
But when she arrived at the door of Qiong Yin’s room, the door was tightly closed, and she didn’t know if Qiong Yin was in the room.
Jiang Bai knocked on the door, and Qiong Yin’s soft voice came from inside, telling her to just push the door and come in.
Hearing this voice, Jiang Bai directly pushed the door open and strode in. When she saw that Qiong Yin was still lying in bed, she frowned. When she saw Ji Zhu sleeping on Qiong Yin’s pillow, she pursed her lips, her gaze as sharp as a knife, piercing towards Ji Zhu.
Qiong Yin rubbed her eyes and stretched a little. “Junior Sister, it’s been a long time since I’ve slept so comfortably. How about Little Cat sleeps with me from now on?”
Jiang Bai: “…”
My First Senior Sister has fallen!
She looked at Ji Zhu again, only to see Ji Zhu’s ears twitch. Feeling that it was noisy, she pressed her ears with her front paws and continued to sleep, completely ignoring the incoming Jiang Bai.
Jiang Bai: “…”
A whole night has passed, and her temper still hasn’t subsided?
“Don’t even think about it!” Jiang Bai snorted coldly. Under Qiong Yin’s gaze, she directly picked Ji Zhu up, turned, and walked out the door, leaving Qiong Yin with a cold back.
Qiong Yin blinked lightly.
Ji Zhu’s eyes widened, looking at her four dangling legs, baring her teeth in anger.
What’s wrong with this enchantress!
