The Hehuan Sect Enchantress’s Short-Lived Spirit Pet 48p2

Chapter 48: Tribulation p2

Ji Ling’s junior sister was named Duanmu Ran, and her junior brother was named Guan Xiuwen. They were both smiling and looked very easy to get along with.

“Little Cat, you’ll have to call me Senior Sister from now on,” Xia Ye smiled brightly. Who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, the little cat would be a cat of their Medicine King Valley? Or was it that Master was more powerful? This ability to kidnap a cat was also first-class!

Ji Zhu: “…Oh, Senior Sister,” then she greeted the others one by one.

“Hey, so good!” Guan Xiuwen’s eyes lit up. He took out a magic weapon that looked like a boat and said to Ji Zhu, “This is a greeting gift for you. You can decide its size yourself. It can accommodate up to a hundred people at its largest. When you’re tired on the road, you can sleep in it and let it fly to its destination on its own!”

“!”

Isn’t this a magic weapon for long-distance travel!

Ji Zhu immediately took it, her tail held high as she said happily, “Thank you, Uncle Master! I like it very much!”

Guan Xiuwen smiled until his eyes and brows were gone. Just as he was about to touch her head, he was pushed aside by Duanmu Ran.

“Me, me, and me,” Duanmu Ran held a string of Buddhist beads in her hand. “This magic weapon is called the Xiaoming Qingxin Bead. It has the effect of suppressing evil and breaking illusions. You can keep it for emergencies!”

This is a life-saving thing! Ji Zhu also put it away, her tail flicking lightly. “Thank you, Aunt Master! Aunt Master is super nice!”

The others also gave Ji Zhu gifts. Speaking of which, there were really few people in this Medicine King Valley. Including Ji Zhu, there were now only six people and one cat in total, and there was also one locked up in the Hehuan Sect. It could be said that they were very few.

But there were also benefits to having few people. At least it was not that troublesome to get along. Ji Zhu was not yet a person and still needed to be taken care of, so she was arranged to be in Xia Ye’s courtyard. After she became a person, she could move to another courtyard to live on her own.

Although there were very few people in the entire Medicine King Valley, it covered a very large area. Besides the area where they lived, which was composed of many courtyards, the other nearby places were all planted with various spiritual herbs, and the daily care of the medicinal gardens was handed over to those paper figures.

Looking at the paper figures squatting in the medicinal gardens with small shovels and small hoes, Ji Zhu finally understood where Jiang Bai’s behavior of even exploiting paper figures came from.

The periphery of the Medicine King Valley was a huge and dense forest, with countless heavenly treasures inside. Of course, there were also many demonic beasts living in it, and the danger was not low.

Ji Zhu was new here. She was taken by Xia Ye to tour the Medicine King Valley. After knowing which courtyards belonged to Duanmu Ran and the others, and what the other areas were used for, she was taken back to her courtyard by Xia Ye.

Xia Ye had been holding it in for a long time. She took Ji Zhu back to her courtyard, slammed the door shut, and placed her on the table, saying anxiously, “Little Cat, tell me quickly what happened between you and that woman, Jiang Bai. How did you suddenly become Master’s disciple?”

She was about to die of curiosity! Ever since Jiang Bai had suddenly started to search for Ji Zhu five years ago, she had been scratching her heart and liver, wanting to know the whole story. But no one had told her, and she had also been worried that Ji Zhu would be in danger if she ran out on her own, and had also searched everywhere. Unfortunately, she had not found her, and for this, she had also been sad for a long time.

Fortunately, she had later received news from Ji Ling, saying that she had recently taken in a new disciple, and this disciple was a cat, and it was the cat that had been raised in the Hehuan Sect. She had immediately guessed that it was the little cat.

But Ji Ling had also warned them not to spread this news, so Xia Ye had no choice but to shut up and could only watch as Jiang Bai searched for the cat all over the world.

Hearing Xia Ye’s question, Ji Zhu dejectedly buried her head, clearly unwilling to say.

Xia Ye’s face immediately drooped. “Alright, if you don’t want to say it, then don’t. But Jiang Bai has been looking for you all these years. Are you sure you want to keep hiding?”

Hearing that the enchantress was looking for her, Ji Zhu’s heart moved, and her ears also twitched. But she quickly came back to her senses and snorted lightly. “Let her look. I won’t bother with her.”

This enchantress must have come to her senses in her spare time and felt bored without her to tease!

Xia Ye suddenly took out a piece of paper and handed it to Ji Zhu. “Here, she’s been looking for you for five years. What kind of temper has been going on for so long?”

In the past, Xia Ye had also seen how they got along. Although they would have some squabbles from time to time, they were all petty fights, and they would soon make up as before.

Ji Zhu looked up at the piece of paper in front of her. At the beginning, it was written with the big words “Missing Cat Notice.” Then, it described her appearance, and there was also a portrait of her. When she saw the portrait, Ji Zhu’s fur instantly stood on end. She bared her teeth and her eyes were fierce as she looked at the painting, wishing she could tear it!

“She’s a bastard!” Ji Zhu cursed angrily!

“Huh? What, what’s wrong?” Xia Ye was bewildered by her sudden curse, not understanding why she was so angry after seeing this thing.

Ji Zhu slapped the cat in the portrait with a paw and said through gritted teeth, “She drew me so ugly!”

The cat in the painting was even cross-eyed! At a glance, it looked like a retard! Not a bit of cleverness!

Xia Ye: “…”

She picked up the missing cat notice, looked at the cat on the paper, then at Ji Zhu, and after appraising it, she nodded.

Indeed, this painting was not even seventy percent as cute as the little cat. No wonder she was so angry.

“But it also says in here that she hopes you can go back on your own after you see it. She will definitely not make you angry again.”

Xia Ye extracted the key points for Ji Zhu. After all, Jiang Bai had posted it over such a large area, not only for others to see, but more importantly, for Ji Zhu herself to see.

“Hmph!” Ji Zhu turned her head, unwilling to look again. “She’s just a bad woman who can say nice things. I’ll never believe her words again!”

These sugar-coated bullets were no longer useful to her!

This enchantress had also promised her many times to stay away from Xiao Ge, but in the end, how much of it had she done?

Seeing her angry appearance, Xia Ye had no choice but to silently put away the missing cat notice. She sat down opposite Ji Zhu, bent down, and rested her chin on her two arms on the table. She looked up at Ji Zhu, and after thinking for a moment, she still decided to say a few good words for Jiang Bai.

“No matter what Jiang Bai did to make you angry back then, perhaps she has already realized her mistake and has sincerely repented?”

She now thought of the pale and decadent look on Jiang Bai’s face when she had seen her before, and she looked so pitiful.

Ji Zhu immediately stared at her, her eyes with a look that said, If you dare to speak for her again, I’ll break up with you!

Xia Ye: “…”

She silently shut up. Alright, anyway, she didn’t know the specific details of the matter, so it was better for her not to express her opinion.

“But if you don’t want her to know that you’re in the Medicine King Valley, you can’t show yourself as Master’s disciple for the time being.”

After all, others didn’t know, but Jiang Bai should know that the person locked up in their back mountain forbidden area was Ji Ling. If she said to the outside world that Ji Zhu was Ji Ling’s disciple, wouldn’t that be telling Jiang Bai outright: That’s right, the little cat was kidnapped by us!

She was really afraid that Jiang Bai would directly come and fight. With Jiang Bai’s unruly temperament, this possibility was not impossible.

Moreover, she still cared so much about the little cat.

“Oh,” Ji Zhu didn’t care about this. So what if she couldn’t show herself as Ji Ling’s disciple? And she didn’t know how long it would be before she walked out of the Medicine King Valley.

Xia Ye looked at her like this and sighed lightly, and then asked, “When are you planning to take the Shapeshifting Pill and take human form?”

Hearing her question, Ji Zhu suddenly hesitated. She lay down and rested her head on her legs, in a daze.

She had been a cat for so long and was already used to it. She was also used to the way she got along with them in a cat’s body. If she took human form, it would also mean that her lifestyle would undergo a world of change. She didn’t know how she should get along with them after she took human form.

She was very confused, and at the same time, she was also a little scared. When she was a cat, she could righteously escape many things, but after she became a person, she could no longer be like this.

“I… I’ll wait a little longer and consider it,” Ji Zhu said dejectedly. She was not yet mentally prepared for what she should do after she took human form.

Xia Ye raised her hand and rubbed her head, and chuckled softly. “It’s fine. Even if it’s always like this, it’s fine. Anyway, we will definitely take good care of you!”

Feeling the fluffy and soft touch under her hand, Xia Ye squinted her eyes and smiled happily. She even felt that it would be for the best if she were like this. After all, when she took human form, there would be no such fluffy little cat to pet.

Hearing her say this, Ji Zhu was slightly relieved. But although she had temporarily decided not to shapeshift, it was an urgent matter for her to break through.

Hearing that she was preparing to break through, Xia Ye immediately arranged it for her and took her to the back mountain of the Medicine King Valley. In the past, when they had broken through and accepted the lightning tribulation, they would be here.

A spirit-gathering formation had already been set up on the ground, and there were even several heaven-grade spiritual weapons placed there, which could allow her to block the lightning tribulation with spiritual weapons when she couldn’t hold on.

This was Ji Zhu’s first time experiencing a lightning tribulation. Not only was she nervous, but the others were also nervously guarding not far away. Their tense and worried expressions were even more heart-wrenching than when they were going through their own tribulations.

Ji Zhu lay in the spirit-gathering formation, and all the spiritual energy in her body was quickly mobilized, hitting the bottleneck of the Golden Core stage.

Because of the jiao dragon’s inner core from before, Ji Zhu’s breakthrough this time was very easy. In an instant, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the potential energy in them was constantly brewing. From time to time, crackling lightning would leak out from the tribulation clouds.

Ji Zhu concentrated her mind and gathered her qi. The spiritual energy in her body surged wildly. As the first purple, almost black lightning tribulation suddenly fell, the extremely strong pressure contained in it made Ji Zhu’s whole body ache. It was not until the lightning tribulation struck her body that her skin and flesh were instantly torn open, and only then did she understand that the little bit of pain from before was nothing.

She vomited a mouthful of blood and quickly took advantage of the gap between the next lightning to frantically absorb spiritual energy to nourish and repair her body. At the same time, the remaining energy of the lightning tribulation that had struck her was also constantly tempering her foundation.

Before her injuries could be repaired, the second lightning had already fallen. A huge, deep pit was smashed into the ground. Ji Zhu lay at the bottom of the pit, covered in injuries. She took out a handful of pills from her space ring and swallowed them with blood, trying her best not to let the spiritual energy in her meridians dry up.

As a lightning tribulation that was thicker and stronger than before fell, Ji Zhu only felt that her internal organs had been displaced, and the blood she spat out even contained fragments of her internal organs.

The tribulation clouds dissipated, and the sky returned to its bright and calm appearance. Xia Ye rushed down to the bottom of the pit at the fastest speed. Seeing Ji Zhu’s miserable appearance now, her eyes were red, but her eyes were also full of a gratified look.

The pure energy contained in the lightning tribulation began to quickly repair Ji Zhu’s injured body. The places where her skin and flesh had been torn open and were now hairless also gradually grew fine fluff, and the fur all over her body became more and more lustrous and smooth.

Although the lightning tribulation had passed, Ji Zhu was still lying at the bottom of the pit, sobbing softly, just short of wailing.

It hurt so much!

She had never experienced a lightning tribulation before and had thought that cultivation was good. But after being struck by a lightning tribulation once, Ji Zhu was instantly honest. How could it be so painful!

Seeing her like this, Xia Ye was both heartbroken and amused. She carefully picked her up and, after telling the other concerned people that there was nothing wrong, she took her back to her residence.

Ji Zhu felt the spiritual energy in her body. The energy in it was completely incomparable to when she was at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Ji Zhu snorted and stomped her foot hard.

From now on, she was a cat with a lifespan of five hundred years!

No longer a short-lived spirit pet!!