Mistaking My Wife for a Spirit Pet - Chapter 24
Chapter 24
Yulin City, the City Lord’s Manor.
The Lucky Cat and the Good Fortune Koi were sitting together, shocked and questioning the money-spending little tiger.
“Shu Shu, you’re saying—that you lost all your spiritual stones, spiritual flowers, spiritual herbs, and other valuable materials on this trip?”
“But you got a few paper talisman figures and a clay tiger statue in return?”
“And a lover?”
The little tiger nodded seriously, her eyes filled with joy.
The Lucky Cat: …
The Good Fortune Koi: …
What should they say? They knew the Dragon Clan was poor, but how could they be so shameless?
Song Cai smacked her head in frustration. She regretted it. “I should have rushed there overnight to teach that dragon a lesson!”
Li Yu stood up and said sullenly, “She probably hasn’t gone far. We can still catch up now.”
Yu Shu’s movements paused. She stopped teasing the clay tiger statue. She looked up and asked, “Wait, what are you looking for her for?”
Song Cai and Li Yu said in unison, “Of course, to help you teach that dragon who scammed you of your money and heart a lesson—”
Yu Shu frowned and subconsciously retorted, “She didn’t scam me of my money or my heart.” Nan Zhi is very good. How can you just casually use such bad words?
“A few talismans and a clay statue in exchange for all your valuables?”
Yu Shu argued again, “Not all of them. I brought a small amount on this trip, just a few things. I gave them to her willingly.”
Song Cai and Li Yu: …
So she brought a small amount? If she had brought the entire Yulin City, would she have given the entire city away?
“Fine, we’ll believe you for now that you did it willingly.” Song Cai gritted her back teeth. “Then contact her now and let us get a good look at this dragon you willingly gave your things to.”
Yu Shu was a little tempted, but she still shook her head. “She should be busy.” Finally, she added, “In a while.”
“…”
She’s quite understanding.
But Song Cai’s fists were itching, and Li Yu’s face wasn’t looking any better.
Who could understand?
Their friend, who was obsessed with artifact refining and rarely left the city, went on a trip and lost all her valuables. She brought back some worthless trinkets and an inexplicable lover?
And she was even very protective of her. She wouldn’t let them see her and wouldn’t even contact her.
Song Cai was so angry she laughed. She looked to the side at Li Yu, their eyes silently communicating.
Song Cai: Should we go find that dragon and beat her up to vent our anger?
Li Yu: No, Shu Shu will get angry.
Song Cai: Then what should we do?
“What are you two discussing behind my back?” Yu Shu frowned. After carefully observing the undercurrents between the two, she said with unease, “She’s very good. My words just weren’t good enough. Don’t go looking for her behind my back.”
Song Cai: …
Li Yu: …
The cat and the fish were silent. After the silence, they were a little unwilling. They all asked, “Why have we never seen you protect us like this?”
Yu Shu immediately felt guilty. She lowered her eyelids and subconsciously touched the clay tiger statue.
Suddenly, she remembered the smiling look on Nan Zhi’s face when she gave her the clay tiger statue.
How could Nan Zhi be so bad…
She had never asked her for anything, and she even said devotedly that the money she earned should be hers.
Yu Shu looked up again, her heart filled with a soft emotion.
She said seriously:
“Yes, I am protecting her.”
“You two are not allowed to bully her behind my back.”
Song Cai was speechless, and so was Li Yu.
The two of them looked at each other, and a thought rose in their minds simultaneously—to teach Nan Zhi a lesson behind Shu Shu’s back.
That hateful dragon actually deceived Shu Shu to this extent.
…
Fengliu Mountain, the peak.
Dark clouds gathered, and lightning clouds for the tribulation gathered. A terrifying aura spread from above.
The hand seals that Nan Zhi made were dazzling. Suddenly, she raised her arms and gathered spiritual energy at the top of her head.
“Bang—”
The thunderbolt fell, breaking her protective spell. Nan Zhi didn’t slacken. She shook her hands and cast the spell again.
This was the lightning tribulation from a Nascent Soul cultivator ascending to a Soul Transformation cultivator. There were twelve of them in total. She had already experienced it once decades ago.
Decades ago, she failed the tribulation. Her realm was unstable. It just so happened that her heart protection dragon scale was pulled out, and her realm dropped significantly. Her cultivation fell from the peak of Nascent Soul to the early stage of Nascent Soul. It had taken her decades to climb back to the peak of Nascent Soul.
At first, she wasn’t completely confident about ascending to Soul Transformation, but the Young City Lord came to her rescue.
That Thunder Dragon Root Bone was a very good thing.
“Bang—”
Second tribulation, just need to be skilled. However, this time was a little different. The thunderbolts in the sky were even more terrifying, with a destructive stance.
Nan Zhi let the spiritual energy pour in. She wanted to see how far the spiritual energy accumulated in her sea of consciousness could take her.
“Rumble, rumble, rumble.”
The lightning clouds crackled. Another thunderbolt descended, even more turbulent than before.
Nan Zhi frowned. She looked up at the sky, silent.
She admitted that she was a little crazy.
Feng Zhiwei had pulled out her heart protection dragon scale, and Feng Zhiwei had ascended to the middle stage of Soul Transformation.
While she was making money in the secret realm, she was also cultivating. She wanted to pay off the debt of those five spiritual mountains at all times.
She thought that if she paid off the debt, her clansmen would have more confidence and would not be wronged anymore. Would Feng Zhiwei still have a reason not to return the heart protection dragon scale?
“Boom—”
Thunderbolt,
Pitter-patter.
Nan Zhi raised her hand to control the water and transform the thunder. The massive thunder was weakened a little. At least this time, the thunder in the later stages was even more turbulent. Was she on the wrong path?
Without the heart protection dragon scale to protect her, her entire body was shattered.
At the tenth thunderbolt, it had already exceeded her imagination. She had indeed gone crazy.
She looked at the massive thunder and actually felt a little happy.
Besides being happy, she also hoped—
She hoped that after successfully ascending to Soul Transformation this time, she could properly apologize to the Young City Lord.
“Rumble, rumble, rumble—”
The world spun, and her bl00d surged.
In the second before she fell unconscious, Nan Zhi struggled to curl the corners of her lips.
Middle stage of Soul Transformation, success.
…
She didn’
know how long it had been. When she woke up again, Nan Zhi found that her body was covered in a thick layer of dirt.
A few Mountain Return Sparrows were throwing clods of dirt at her, seemingly trying to bury her.
“…”
Nan Zhi closed her eyes, her head hurting.
This clan, though weak, was quite vengeful.
She flicked her finger and the Mountain Return Sparrows all retreated. They even knew that the Dragon Clan would not hold a grudge against them. Before they left, they even fanned a handful of ash at her.
Nan Zhi laughed. She stood up and dusted the dirt off her body. Her eyes followed a clod of dirt as it fell, and she looked at it closely—
It was a paper crane folded from a Speed Talisman.
Without guessing, she knew it was a disciple of the Celestial Brush Sect. Just like her, she was too poor to afford a communication jade. It was probably her good junior sister—Su Qingyi.
Her fingers moved slightly, and she unfolded the talisman. Her junior sister’s distressed voice immediately rang out. “Senior Sister, please come and take charge of the situation. I can’t hold on any longer in Chunlai City.”
It was truly too bitter. Nan Zhi couldn’t help but smile.
She didn’t know if the feng shui was bad. For every ten disciples they recruited, two troublemakers would appear, just like the troublemaking brats in their Dragon Clan. The sect’s leader—old man Changling—was a hands-off manager. And she had always been in the secret realm and rarely returned to the sect. So, the second junior sister, Su Qingyi, became the babysitter.
Recently, the Immortal Sect Grand Meeting was held once every hundred years. Nan Zhi didn’t know what Su Qingyi had gone through, but her voice sounded like she had aged by a few hundred years.
Thinking this, Nan Zhi said softly, “I’m coming.” Her voice was recorded. She refolded the talisman paper crane and sent it off.
The paper crane with the Speed Talisman flew faster than she did.
Nan Zhi flew for two days and arrived at Chunlai City. Before she had time to rest, she rushed to see what was bothering Su Qingyi.
A disciple of the Yushan Peak, a Fox Clan member named Si Yaoyao.
Before she even entered the door, Nan Zhi was hugged by the leg. The fox rubbed her snot and tears onto her skirt, whimpering, “Senior Sister, you have to help me seek justice…”
The corner of Nan Zhi’s mouth twitched. She first kicked her away, then calmly sat back at the table and asked, “Justice for what?”
Si Yaoyao looked like she was acting all prim and proper. “She, she, Senior Sister, I…”
“…Alright, shut up.”
Just listening to Su Qingyi’s complaints was already harsh on her ears. Now seeing her in person was a direct hit.
To summarize it in one sentence—
She ran, she chased, but she couldn’t escape. Or, it was just because she looked at her one more time in the crowd.
Si Yaoyao, the most beautiful brat of the Fox Clan, was praised by her clansmen every festival. “You’re so flirty.”
Unfortunately, as soon as she entered the city, a butterfly from the Huanzong stole her thunder. The butterfly’s clothes were so beautiful that people couldn’t take their eyes off her. She immediately decided to go and compete to see who was more beautiful. Who would have thought that the butterfly would pinch her nose and avoid her as if she were a plague?
The butterfly flew while saying, “You stupid, flirty fox, I can fly.”
At that moment, perhaps the heavens were looking out for the butterfly. Luminous and beautiful, the sun cast a layer of radiance on her face. Her exquisite collarbone was faintly visible as she flew up, as were the beautiful curves hidden under her thin clothes.
Si Yaoyao’s heart stopped. However, the butterfly on the side was still adding fuel to the fire. “If you have the guts, come and chase me, you flirty fox.”
At first, Si Yaoyao was not convinced. Later—
The most beautiful butterfly in the crowd praised her! She called her flirty.
On the first night she entered the city, Si Yaoyao immediately announced that she had fallen in love at first sight. Then, the climax of the story began.
The fox, who fell in love at first sight, snuck into the beautiful butterfly’s room at night. From then on, there was another lovesick fox in the world.
Of course, Su Qingyi didn’t know this, but later—
The Immortal Sect Grand Meeting Golden Core group started its competition. The next morning, Su Qingyi, who had been waiting for Si Yaoyao for a long time, was anxious. She and a hundred other disciples of the Celestial Brush Sect searched for a day and found that Si Yaoyao, who was supposed to be on stage, had run to the medical hall, saying that she had been poisoned.
Su Qingyi: What kind of poison?
Si Yaoyao: The butterfly’s charm is poisonous.
Everyone fell over laughing.
Later, Su Qingyi tearfully complained to her, and she also fell over from the shock.
“You have already forfeited one match. If you make another mistake in tomorrow’s match, you will lose your qualification to participate. I hope you will take the next matches seriously.”
“Senior Sister, how can I compete? I’m still seriously poisoned to this day…” Si Yaoyao covered her face and cried.
Nan Zhi immediately held her breath. This junior sister had once gone into a trance. Now, as soon as her emotions got high, she would unconsciously emit the Fox Clan’s aura.
“…You are indeed seriously poisoned.” The kind of poison that makes you lose a screw.
Si Yaoyao nodded seriously at her words, her eyes sincerely fixed on Nan Zhi.
A vein on Nan Zhi’s forehead throbbed.
Enough already.
“You should stay here and recuperate. I have already sent a message to the Fox Clan. I believe that your clansmen will come to heal you and detoxify you soon.”
The Fox Clan…
Si Yaoyao, who only wanted to attract the butterfly, widened her eyes and sat up from the bed in shock. “No, Senior Sister—”
Nan Zhi pretended to be deaf, waved her hand, and went out. “Junior Sister, you don’t have to thank me. It’s what I should do as your senior sister.”
As soon as she left the medical hall, a breath of fresh air came to her.
Nan Zhi shook her marinated skirt. Only then did she have time to take a good look at Chunlai City.
Recently, cultivators from all over the world had gathered in the city, and it was overcrowded. Those who flew in the sky, those who walked on the ground, and those who swam in the water.
The pedestrians were shoulder to shoulder. Unfortunately, Nan Zhi was bumped into by a woman.
Nan Zhi frowned. The woman sniffed.
The woman’s pupils shook. She quickly covered her mouth and nose, then let out a disgusted sound and ran away quickly, as if she was very disgusted.
Nan Zhi: …
Did she really smell that bad? Maybe just a little bit.
“Pff.”
A bright sneer suddenly rang out.
Nan Zhi felt something and looked to the side.
By the Chunjiang River, a gentle breeze blew. A woman wearing a white conical hat stood on the bank. Next to her was a charming and beautiful person.
Nan Zhi guessed that the laughter was probably from the latter.
She looked behind them. A hundred or so grim-looking guards were seriously protecting the two of them.
Nan Zhi was silent. She vaguely remembered that this kind of display was only seen on those few phoenixes at Parasol Tree Mountain.
But these two didn’t seem to be phoenixes.
She didn’t think too much about it. She immediately turned around and continued to deal with the next troublesome matter.
However, after she left, the charming woman spoke. “As soon as she entered the city, she went to find a beauty. Someone even threw themselves into her arms in public. She really is a dragon.”
“Let’s not talk about that for now.”
“She gave Feng Zhiwei her heart protection dragon scale decades ago to show her love. She clearly has the idea of having a beautiful woman on each arm.”
“Unlike our Tiger Clan, we have upheld the concept of one person, one lifetime, one partner for thousands of generations. Shu Shu, we can’t be good with her.”
Yu Shu glanced at her faintly. “Are you a Tiger Clan member?”
“I spoke too quickly, haha.”
“Heh.”