Mistaking My Wife for a Spirit Pet - Chapter 18
Chapter 18
“Young City Lord?”
Nan Zhi spoke up to remind her. Seeing Yu Shu’s distressed expression with her flushed cheeks, she asked again:
“Has your old injury flared up?”
She held out her hand and waved it in front of Yu Shu.
Yu Shu pursed her lips and smiled faintly. She took Nan Zhi’s hand and said softly, “I’m fine.”
Nan Zhi discreetly pulled her hand away. She suppressed the strangeness in her heart and once again held out the Mermaid Flower. “Would the Young City Lord like to take a look?”
Yu Shu responded and lowered her eyes to look.
A well-defined hand opened up. A pink, delicate little flower lay quietly in her palm, making her fingers look like green onions.
Yu Shu couldn’t help but raise the corner of her lips. She reached out her hand and said gently, “Thank you…” Before she could finish, her expression froze, and then she frowned. “This flower is not right.”
Nan Zhi didn’t understand. “Not right?”
Yu Shu bent her finger and infused a wisp of spiritual energy into it.
In an instant.
The pink little flower in Nan Zhi’s palm wilted, turned to ashes, and dissolved into the West Sea.
Nan Zhi looked at Yu Shu in shock, her voice choked. “Is this a demon…”
Yu Shu said slowly, “It’s contaminated with demonic energy. It can’t be used for artifact refining.”
“…”
Nan Zhi couldn’t help but let her face fall.
The first thing she thought of was—
If it’s contaminated with demonic energy and can’t be refined, does my reward of a hundred thousand spiritual stones still count?
She pondered with a heavy face, her heart sinking halfway.
It definitely doesn’t count. There’s no such thing in the world as asking for a reward when the mission isn’t completed.
She sighed, her voice strained. “Then let’s go back?”
Yu Shu gently shook her head.
Nan Zhi was confused. “Why?”
All the Mermaid Flowers in the West Sea are contaminated with demonic energy. What does this Young City Lord plan to do if she’s not going back?
She saw the Young City Lord’s eyebrows relax. She curled her lips and called out, “Nan Zhi.”
“Hmm?”
“The Mermaid Flower is useless. The Parasol Tree Spirit can still be tried. Are you willing to come with me?”
Nan Zhi’s brows furrowed. She began to think very seriously.
Parasol Tree Mountain, the southernmost part of the Nine Provinces.
The Phoenix Clan and various other wind-riding demons lived there. It was truly tens of thousands of miles away from the West Sea.
Nan Zhi was very hesitant. Not only was it very far away, but it was also the home of the Phoenixes.
She wasn’t very keen on dealing with this clan. After all, Feng Zhiwei still hadn’t returned the heart-protecting dragon scales.
“Young City Lord, I’d rather…”
Yu Shu suddenly spoke. “The heart of a flood dragon.”
Nan Zhi’s words took a turn. She responded, “Okay.”
It was like looking at a flower through a fog across the waves. Yu Shu couldn’t help but curl her lips. She always felt that Nan Zhi’s smile this time was much more genuine.
In fact, it was fine if the Mermaid Flower was gone.
There was no need to go to Parasol Tree Mountain at all.
But—
The lucky cat that lived across the street often said, “Marry the person you like.” At first, she didn’t take it seriously, but the beginning was just the beginning. Now, it was different.
Nan Zhi’s engagement had been broken off decades ago. She had seriously considered this person’s persistence.
This person’s cultivation was decent, her looks were her type, and she even liked her single-mindedly.
It’s hard not to take another look at this person.
Yu Shu thought, If an azure dragon and an azure worm can become a couple, why not a dragon-tiger struggle?
It’s not impossible for her to give Nan Zhi a chance now.
So, she said, “Then let’s set off.”
Let’s go somewhere far away and extend the time limit of this opportunity.
“Let’s go, Young City Lord.”
Nan Zhi nodded. In an instant, she transformed into an azure dragon. She lowered her head slightly and wrapped around Yu Shu, who was looking up at her.
As a water creature, her swimming speed was several times faster than her flying speed. Soon, she took Yu Shu and leaped out of the West Sea.
Riding the wind, she dispersed the clouds that had gathered above.
At this moment, the person on her body made a move.
She was embracing her, her cheek pressed against her body. The shallow breaths also followed.
This posture was a little too intimate.
Nan Zhi’s body stiffened.
The person above her quickly spoke. Her voice was very soft, as if she was pleading, “Don’t torment me anymore.”
“…”
Nan Zhi sucked in a breath.
So strange.
The Young City Lord’s personality had become gentler recently, so much so that she once thought the Young City Lord was originally like this—that’s a lie.
The scenes of her being pranked were still vivid in her mind.
No matter what, the Young City Lord can only be a mischievous little tiger. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. Maybe in two days, she would start tormenting her again.
She couldn’t figure out Yu Shu’s thoughts and was too lazy to guess. Although she didn’t know why Yu Shu said that, she still responded, “Okay.”
There was no conversation along the way. Yu Shu lowered her eyes and intermittently patted Nan Zhi.
She didn’t know how much time had passed.
The light pats turned into strokes. The scene in front of them went from the murky seawater to a golden coast. They were gradually getting closer to the coast.
Suddenly, a rough voice came.
“I don’t know how to pilot a flying boat—”
The person hadn’t arrived yet, but the voice had. Before they could react, a huge black metal object fell from the sky.
Yu Shu’s vision went black.
The last thing she remembered before fainting was Nan Zhi’s almost broken voice.
“Young City Lord—”
“Plop.”
A huge splash of water erupted, and a few people all sank to the bottom of the sea.
The seawater was murky, with one wave rolling after another.
The instincts of a water creature made Nan Zhi’s consciousness quickly clear up. She anxiously looked around, her heart pounding like a drum.
In the deep sea, where the seaweed was lush, the white-clothed woman’s eyes were closed as she continuously sank.
The slightly glowing Water-Repelling Pearl kept floating up.
Nan Zhi’s pupils shrank. She leaped up and drilled into the alluring, beckoning seaweed patch.
It’s over, everything’s over.
The thing she feared most has happened.
It’s a well-known fact that the Young City Lord is the precious jewel of Yulin City. It’s a well-known fact that nothing can happen to the precious jewel.
Nan Zhi tremblingly placed Yu Shu on the shore, her heart beating violently.
Her eyes were closed, and her face was pale.
Nan Zhi held out her index finger and placed it under Yu Shu’s nose.
No breath.
She looked on in disbelief. Finally, she gritted her teeth, put her hands together, and pressed on Yu Shu’s chest.
Her lips met Yu Shu’s, giving her breath.
Once, twice, over and over again.
A long time passed, so long that Nan Zhi felt hopeless and was on the verge of going crazy.
And then—
Her shoulder was pushed away.
She had a look of shock, while the person who was supposed to be unconscious had a red face and said in a low voice, “Stop kissing me.”
“…”
Nan Zhi didn’t know whether to be angry at Yu Shu’s misunderstanding or to be happy that she was fine. In the end, joy won.
She tucked Yu Shu’s loose hair behind her ear and said softly, “It’s good that you’re okay.”
The precious Young City Lord is fine. Our Dragon Clan won’t have to move to the border to mine as compensation.
Yu Shu turned her head away, her face and earlobe unable to hide the redness. She subconsciously rubbed the rough sand with her fingertips.
Once, twice.
She tried to release her shyness.
She did intend to give Nan Zhi a chance, but not this kind of chance.
Nan Zhi hadn’t even truly expressed her feelings to her yet, and she was already taking advantage of her like this.
She’s a lustful dragon, as expected. She wants to get married, and she wants to dual cultivate even more.
However, the romantic atmosphere was quickly broken.
The culprit—a rough male voice laughed loudly and shouted to the sky, “I’m finally out!”
Yu Shu and Nan Zhi both frowned and looked over at the same time.
On the shoreline, in front of the black metal object.
A rough man was crying to the sky. The two people who walked out from behind him also couldn’t help but wipe away their tears.
The three of them quietly cried together in a scattered mess.
Nan Zhi: …
Yu Shu: …
Nan Zhi knew this group of people. It was the trio from the Profound Sword Sect. But… how did these people get here?
Before she could ask, Chen Xuexue, who was not far away, spoke. “Fellow Daoist, you’ve also come to this place.”
With that, Chen Xuexue took a step, trying to walk over.
Nan Zhi immediately frowned. She bent her middle finger and touched her thumb, muttering a spell.
In an instant, a shielding barrier appeared around her.
The Young City Lord was always delicate. Not only did something happen to her under her watch, but she also didn’t want others to see her disheveled appearance.
Thinking this, she once again condensed spiritual energy in her fingertips.
Drainage spell, purification spell, and so on…
Before she could finish casting, Yu Shu grabbed her hand. She shook her head and said, “There’s no need.”
Why?
Nan Zhi even felt that it wasn’t enough, so she cast a rejuvenation spell. Finally, she took a close look before letting out a sigh of relief.
The Young City Lord was still the delicate Young City Lord.
However, she still felt a little guilty. “It was my dereliction of duty that caused the Young City Lord to suffer this unexpected disaster.”
Her voice was very sincere, and Yu Shu felt the same way. She couldn’t help but curl her lips, but her tone was one of disapproval. “What does this have to do with you?”
Nan Zhi didn’t understand. Nan Zhi was shocked.
Yu Shu stood up and explained, “This has nothing to do with you. Why are you taking responsibility?” Finally, her face flushed, and she turned around and said, “I wasn’t being mean to you just now.”
Nan Zhi: …
The feeling of guilt was scattered by the Young City Lord’s cat issues.
Nan Zhi couldn’t help but inwardly complain. The Young City Lord’s words have been getting stranger lately. Maybe her cat issues are getting worse.
It’s okay. I can endure it, for the sake of the heart of a flood dragon.
She put on a relieved smile and asked, “Does the Young City Lord feel better now?”
The Young City Lord didn’t turn around. She covered her slightly red earlobe and pressed her palm against the barrier, avoiding the question. “Dissolve it.”
“Crack.”
The barrier shattered in response.
At this moment, the trio from the Profound Sword Sect outside peeked out furtively. As the leader of the trio, Chen Xuexue, she stepped forward and bowed to apologize. “I’m sorry. We couldn’t get through the miasma forest, so we took the flying boat. Due to improper operation, we… Young City Lord?”
Chen Xuexue was shocked and overjoyed. “We finally found you!”
“Found?”
Yu Shu was confused at first, but then she found the identities of these three people from a corner of her memory.
“Did Master Lingxu send you here?”
Master Lingxu, an esteemed guest of Yulin City and the master of the Profound Sword Sect trio.
Fang Datong, who was well-developed in his limbs, was the first to grab the right to speak. “Yes, the Young City Lord has been out of contact for the past few days, so the City Lord has sent people to various places in the Nine Provinces.”
Yu Shu suddenly realized. It seemed that she had forgotten to inform her parents about the new route. The truth was—she didn’t really want anyone to delay her trip to Parasol Tree Mountain with Nan Zhi.
It had taken a lot of coaxing from her just to go to the West Sea to see the Mermaid Flower.
And Parasol Tree Mountain…
The matter of the Mermaid Flower was over. If she went to Parasol Tree Mountain alone with Nan Zhi, her parents would have a hard time not being suspicious.
But now was not the time to let others know.
After all, this was just an opportunity. What the future holds is still unknown.
For now, she just wanted to see how far Nan Zhi could take this opportunity.