The Hehuan Sect Enchantress’s Short-Lived Spirit Pet 9

Chapter 009: Letting Off Steam

Ji Zhu was successfully provoked by the enchantress, her fur standing on end. She glared resentfully at Jiang Bai’s enchanting and beautiful face. How can someone with such a beautiful appearance have such a black heart!

She’s always calling me useless. Even if I wasn’t useless to begin with, I’d become useless from her constant scolding!

When the others saw Jiang Bai bring the plate of fish in front of her and then begin to patiently and meticulously pick out the bones, they were all somewhat surprised.

Although Jiang Bai was relatively friendly to the disciples in the sect, they had never seen her look so gentle and focused. It seemed the Young Sect Master was truly very, very good to the kitten.

They thought with a hint of sourness in their hearts that although they had known the Young Sect Master longer than the kitten, their treatment was not as good as the kitten’s.

Jiang Bai first picked out a small bowl of fish meat and pushed it in front of Ji Zhu, adding at the end, “With such a big temper, you’ll have a short life.”

Ji Zhu, whose anger had already subsided a lot seeing her pick out the fish meat, really wanted to go up and bite her when she heard this! This enchantress truly couldn’t say anything nice! Her life was already short, and she still had to provoke her!

Ignoring her, the truly hungry Ji Zhu buried her head and began to eat the fish meat seriously. Jiang Bai had picked it very carefully. Even after finishing the small bowl, Ji Zhu didn’t find any remaining small bones.

Savoring the taste, it was just like the food she ate in the Hehuan Sect, with a light, sweet flavor.

It wasn’t until Ji Zhu had finished the entire fish and, full and yawning, had her mouth wiped by the enchantress with a handkerchief, that the sleepy cat was lifted from the table and placed on her lap. Only then did Jiang Bai start to eat herself.

Su Xin watched Jiang Bai’s actions from the side, then looked at Ji Zhu, who had fallen into a deep sleep on her lap, a hint of worry in her eyes.

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After finishing their meal and settling the bill, they left the inn. Ji Zhu was still not fully awake and was carried in Jiang Bai’s arms as they traveled, hoping to reach the next town before dark to find an inn to stay for the night.

The group did not fly on their swords again, but instead walked all the way. Some with simple and romantic dispositions were occasionally attracted by the flowers and plants on the roadside. After waking up, Ji Zhu would also occasionally join in the fun, getting particularly excited when she saw something she had never seen before.

Jiang Bai felt that Ji Zhu’s unworldly, country bumpkin-like behavior was a bit embarrassing.

The spirit pet of the dignified Young Sect Master of the Hehuan Sect is an ignorant little country bumpkin. If word of this got out, would I still have any face left?

They managed to reach the next city before dark, but when it came to finding lodging, they encountered some trouble.

“Enchantresses! It’s that group of enchantresses from the Hehuan Sect!” Someone immediately recognized them as people from the Hehuan Sect based on the white narcissus embroidered on the chests of their clothes, and their attitude towards them was extremely hostile.

However, although their attitude was hostile, their eyes were lewdly sizing them up. From time to to time, they would exchange glances with others, all revealing a knowing smile.

Hearing them being called enchantresses, the people of the Hehuan Sect initially felt nothing. But their unrestrained leering and fantasizing truly angered them, and their faces turned cold.

Su Xin looked at the men surrounding them with indifference and sneered, “What are you so afraid of? Are you worried that we might take a liking to you?”

Although the Hehuan Sect was named “Hehuan” and mastered various dual cultivation methods, and never shied away from using dual cultivation to improve their strength, it didn’t mean they were not picky.

Furthermore, even if they dual cultivated with someone, it was based on mutual consent. When did it become these people’s turn to ridicule and mock them?

The group of men’s faces changed at her words, and as if she had hit a nerve, they became angry from embarrassment. “Get lost! You’re not welcome here! I don’t want this place to be tainted by you!”

“Meow! Meow meow!”

Ji Zhu suddenly jumped down from Jiang Bai, barking furiously at the men, her cat face full of anger. On what grounds do these people look down on them? They haven’t done anything to harm heaven or reason, nor have they dug up their ancestral graves. Besides, the people of the Hehuan Sect are clearly very good. On what grounds are they being slandered and insulted!

“Where did this beast come from? Get lost!” a foot kicked directly at Ji Zhu.

Jiang Bai hadn’t expected Ji Zhu to suddenly rush forward. Seeing that the man was about to kick Ji Zhu, her expression turned cold. Although no one saw her move, the man suddenly let out a miserable scream. The splattering blood splashed onto the faces of the onlookers, still warm from leaving the human body, searing their faces.

The crowd was stunned for a moment. It was only when they saw clearly that the man’s leg had been cut off and he was lying on the ground, wailing in pain, that they seemed to wake from a dream and retreated in a hubbub, keeping a great distance from Jiang Bai and the others.

Jiang Bai picked up the already stunned Ji Zhu, her hand stroking her intermittently. She looked down at the man on the ground, his face pale with pain, and said in a cold and distant voice, “Just now, who did you call a beast?”

Su Xin was also startled by her sudden move for a moment, but in the end, she had no intention of intervening and watched silently from the side.

“You are unworthy of being a cultivator!” the man clutched his severed leg and said through gritted teeth. He had never thought they would attack at the slightest disagreement. Wasn’t it their tacit understanding not to harm mortals?

A cool arc formed on Jiang Bai’s lips. “I asked, who did you call a beast just now?”

Seeing her completely unmoved, the man finally gritted his teeth, glanced at Ji Zhu in her arms, and said with humiliation, “I was talking about myself.”

Jiang Bai nodded in satisfaction. “Do you still think we’ve tainted this place?”

At this moment, the crowd of onlookers who had witnessed this were all silent as cicadas in winter, not daring to make a sound, which made the man’s words even clearer.

“No, it was I who tainted it.”

Jiang Bai looked up at the innkeeper in the crowd. The innkeeper felt a chill run up his spine from her gaze and quickly kicked the waiter beside him, shouting angrily, “What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and get the immortals’ rooms ready!”

The waiter stumbled from the kick but didn’t dare to delay. He quickly smiled apologetically at Jiang Bai. “Honored immortals, please come in, please come in.”

Jiang Bai tilted her head slightly. Qiong Yin stepped forward and fed the man a pill to stop his bleeding, but his leg could not be saved.

Qiong Yin took one last look at the neat cut on the wound, slightly surprised. Has A-Bai’s strength improved again? I was so close just now, yet I didn’t even notice how Jiang Bai attacked.

After this incident, everyone looked at them with fear in their eyes. Who would dare to shout at them, calling them enchantresses, and look at them with such lewd gazes?

Ji Zhu was held in Jiang Bai’s arms, the whole cat still a bit dazed, staring blankly with her eyes. But her mind was filled with the image of the man’s lower leg separating, without any hesitation, as if cutting tofu. But cutting tofu wouldn’t cause blood to splatter…

This was the first time she had seen Jiang Bai in action… and the first time she saw blood…

Qiong Yin led the other junior sisters into the inn, while Jiang Bai and Su Xin waited outside. Sure enough, not long after, a team in uniform rushed towards them. Before they even arrived, their angry shouts could be heard.

“Who dares to injure someone in the city!”

When they got closer, all they saw were two young and beautiful women and a pool of blood on the ground.

The face of the man leading the team changed drastically when he saw them. He was also a cultivator, but with his strength, he couldn’t see through the strength of the two in front of him, which meant there was only one possibility.

Their strength was far above his!

“A citizen of your city spoke rudely to the people of my Hehuan Sect. Our Young Sect Master merely gave a small lesson. What, are you going to arrest us?” Su Xin said coldly.

Every city had a city guard team responsible for maintaining order. They had been waiting here for them on purpose.

The man’s face darkened upon hearing this. Logically, they should arrest them, but the problem now was that their strength simply didn’t allow it. But if they just let them go so openly, how would they explain it to the onlooking citizens?

“You provoked first, and we taught a lesson later. Let’s consider this matter settled. If you insist on pestering us…” Su Xin’s voice gradually turned cold, and the unspoken words were self-evident.

The cultivation world had always been about the law of the jungle, where the strong were respected. With strength, one had a greater say. Even with the citizens watching, the man had to take a step back and cup his fists. “Since that person provoked first, then Your Excellency’s actions are justified. We won’t disturb you two any longer.”

With that, he quickly retreated.

Throughout this, Jiang Bai had not said a word. Seeing the matter resolved, she carried Ji Zhu and walked slowly into the inn. After the previous incident, everyone avoided her like the plague, hastily making way for her.

“A-Bai, your room is here,” Qiong Yin led Jiang Bai to the innermost room on the third floor. The furnishings in the room looked more exquisite than in an ordinary room. A bed was placed by the window, and a screen separated the bathing area, looking clean and tidy.

After Qiong Yin left, only the two of them remained in the room. Ji Zhu had long since recovered, but after recovering, she was still very confused by Jiang Bai’s actions.

So what if that person called me a beast? Didn’t the enchantress herself call me a little beast before? Why did she get so angry when someone else said it, and even crippled one of his legs?

Jiang Bai looked down at the unusually quiet Ji Zhu and said faintly, “Are you scared?”

Ji Zhu tilted her head. It was impossible to say she wasn’t scared. After all, she was still someone who had just transmigrated from a society with a sound legal system and had not yet adapted to the survival rules here.

Moreover, she was so close, watching the other person’s leg separate with her own eyes. The visual impact was really huge, okay!

But to say she was really scared…

Ji Zhu nodded, then shook her head.

So far, she hadn’t seen any intention from Jiang Bai to harm her.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Bai was silent for a moment, a cold smile appearing on her enchanting and charming face. “In the future, you will often see situations like today. It’s not impossible for someone to die in front of you.”

“How dare they insult the people of my Hehuan Sect? Do they really think we have no one?”

Ji Zhu didn’t doubt that situations like this would happen often in the future. But after hearing Jiang Bai’s words, she looked at her with some confusion.

Hmm? Did she really attack because that person insulted the people of the Hehuan Sect? But there were many other people in the crowd who also insulted them. Why didn’t I see her deal with them all?

However, while she was still confused, she heard the enchantress suddenly shout coldly, “Aren’t you most fond of Senior Sister? Why are you still here instead of going to find her!”