Mistaking My Wife for a Spirit Pet - Chapter 36

Chapter 36

Song Cai nagged until her throat was dry, but her friend covered her ears and didn’t listen.

Seeing this, she stopped talking. She pulled her friend’s hands away from her ears and asked, “When it comes to the Mountain-Returning Sparrows, don’t you feel annoyed at all?”

A few little birds were chirping lively and vividly, saying every single bad thing about Nan Zhi. Did her friend really not have any thoughts about it? She watched carefully, not wanting to miss a single change in her expression. But—

Yu Shu’s eyebrows were gentle. She spoke in a soft and sweet tone, “Then what do you want me to do?”

Song Cai’s ears softened. She spoke in a softer tone, trying to explain, “What if you go to Xuanming Mountain and see for yourself?”

Yu Shu shook her head and refused. “I’m not going.”

Song Cai’s expression was blank. She quietly looked at Yu Shu.

Yu Shu didn’t accept the accusatory gaze. She subconsciously placed her hand on the table. She didn’t know what she was thinking, and repeated, “I just don’t want to go.”

Song Cai was speechless again and even started to get annoyed at her friend.

In their eyes—

Her friend, who was inexperienced in the world, went out of the city and returned with nothing valuable. She brought back some worthless objects as if they were treasures, and traveled thousands of miles from Yulin City to Chunlai City.

And Nan Zhi—her romantic history was well-known. She and the other person involved, Feng Zhiwei, were involved in a mess at Xuanming Mountain, causing the Mountain-Returning Sparrows to spread rumors everywhere.

She frowned, and said, not giving up, “Mountain-Returning Sparrows…”

Yu Shu looked up and emphasized and explained to her friends, “Mountain-Returning Sparrows have a grudge with the Dragon Clan. Nothing they say about the Dragon Clan can be taken seriously.”

Song Cai: …

Of course, she knew that their words couldn’t be taken seriously, but it was a fact that Nan Zhi and Feng Zhiwei had left their friend and gone to Xuanming Mountain.

“Shu Shu, are you saying—”

“You’re just going to let this continue and let her come back and lie to you again?”

Yu Shu subconsciously argued, “She has never lied to me.”

Nan Zhi had never lied to her, and the words of the Mountain-Returning Sparrows couldn’t be taken seriously.

She just didn’t want to go to Xuanming Mountain. This person didn’t even have the thought of traveling with her, so how could she want to see her at Xuanming Mountain?

But her friend didn’t understand and kept nagging her. Their thoughts were diametrically opposed to hers, and it was truly noisy.

She didn’t want to listen anymore and was too lazy to explain. She sighed, got up on her own, and walked outside, saying, “I’m not talking about this anymore. The materials have arrived. I’m going to refine a magical artifact.”

Song Cai was stunned for a moment. She closed her eyes with a headache. “This is really…” Her left shoulder suddenly sank. Song Cai looked sideways. It was Li Yu, who had been silent all this time, placing her hand on her shoulder. Seeing this, she couldn’t help but ask, “What’s wrong?”

Li Yu stood up. She said seriously, “The words of the Mountain-Returning Sparrows really can’t be taken seriously.”

Song Cai: “Of course, I know that, but…”

Li Yu lightly nodded and hummed. She looked at the courtyard outside and said in a deep voice, “We should stop it.”

Song Cai looked up in confusion. “What?”

“The rumors.”

“The Dragon Clan is a soft persimmon, but Yulin City is not.”

Song Cai was silent for a moment. She suddenly stood up and agreed, “You’re right.”

Those Mountain-Returning Sparrows should be taught a lesson. The Fushishan Tiger Clan, who hired storytellers in teahouses to spread rumors, should be knocked down a peg. The dragon and phoenix that were troubling her friend should be…

There was nothing she could do.

Her silly friend would be unhappy.

And that friend, Yu Shu, whom she was afraid would be unhappy, returned to the courtyard and sat in front of the stone table, mesmerized by the sound of water flowing from the rock garden.

She understood every word her friends said. Even when she was alone, she was no longer as firm as before. Her thoughts began to drift towards what they said.

The words of the Mountain-Returning Sparrows were indeed embarrassing.

But no matter how embarrassing it was, it wasn’t baseless.

The water from the rock garden flowed intermittently. The sound of wings flapping came from the sky. The weather today wasn’t too hot, which kept her mood from falling to the bottom.

But—

The annoying Nan Zhi always made her angry. Today was no exception.

She sighed. She finally decided not to continue wasting time and prepared to go refine a magical artifact, but her fingertips stopped as they reached into her storage bag.

In the area where important artifacts were placed, there weren’t many items. Three small paper figures were lying there quietly, looking very conspicuous.

On a whim, she took out the paper figures and placed them on the table. She quietly watched them. One second, two seconds, they began to move.

They bent their legs and knelt down, bowing.

They said noisily, “I was wrong, I was wrong~”

They were also very annoying, just like Nan Zhi.

Yu Shu subconsciously reached out her fingertip and flicked one of the little figures. Seeing it fall to the ground and struggle, she said coquettishly, “What’s the big deal?”

It was too much.

What would happen if she just told her the truth?

She wouldn’t have insisted on following her to Xuanming Mountain. That place had been desolate for many years. She wouldn’t have bothered her about going together.

But the paper figures that Nan Zhi folded kept admitting their mistakes.

At this, she couldn’t help but curve her eyes and let out a soft snort.

However, her good mood didn’t last for too long. The cat who brought good fortune rushed over. She stood up in confusion and asked, “What happened?”

Song Cai hesitated to speak. “Xuanming Mountain mystic realm… it collapsed.”

Yu Shu’s mind suddenly went “boom.”

Her not-so-good mood collapsed with Song Cai’s words.

Xuanming Mountain mystic realm.

The two of them had just jumped out of the water mirror when the entire passage shook. Nan Zhi immediately stopped. She said belatedly, “Wait…”

The plants and trees had lost all their vitality. The bodies of ordinary birds lay on the ground. The water from the spiritual spring was dry. A rumbling sound came from the jungle not far away.

Xuanming Mountain mystic realm a hundred years ago was not like this.

“No…”

Nan Zhi turned her head to look.

Her face was pale. Her gaze was fixed on the south. She kept shaking her head.

“What’s wrong?”

Just as she asked, a red light appeared. A fire phoenix appeared in the sky, soaring into the clouds in a hurry.

Nan Zhi’s expression froze. A bad premonition suddenly descended. She stared at Feng Zhiwei’s figure. One second, two seconds. A green light flashed. A green dragon suddenly appeared in the sky, chasing after the light and shadow of the fire phoenix.

In an instant, she arrived at a place full of weeds and vines. Nan Zhi stopped at the outer edge and held her breath.

Something was wrong.

She quickly grabbed Feng Zhiwei’s shoulder and said in a deep voice, “Don’t move.”

The Dragon Clan’s five senses are exceptionally gifted, and because of this, they couldn’t go in.

Feng Zhiwei turned her head.

After a second of silence, the vines surrounded them.

“Zhiwei?”

A clear and cold female voice.

Feng Zhiwei’s gaze returned to normal. She walked forward. “Yes, it’s me.”

Nan Zhi withdrew her hand. Her eyes were full of suspicion. *This back-and-forth conversation couldn’t reassure her—*but the person inside might be Feng Zhiwei’s lover, whom she couldn’t talk about.

She frowned. She pinched a spell seal with her fingers and slowly walked in. Her spiritual energy also slowly probed inside.

First, there were the scarred vines, then the tangled and slender roots, and then the white flowers, both wilted and in bloom.

Swaying in the wind, they kept hooking onto her clothes.

Is it a flower demon?

Nan Zhi patted the flowers away from her clothes and continued to walk in. The further she went in, the clearer Feng Zhiwei’s voice became.

It was low and gentle, and she was coaxing her softly.

Nan Zhi slowed her steps. She couldn’t help but think—

This phoenix usually speaks like a knife in the wind, yet she has this kind of tone?

She took a few steps forward and looked up.

It was a very gentle flower demon, but just as Feng Zhiwei said, you could tell with just one look that she didn’t have many days left to live.

The flower demon couldn’t maintain her human form. Half of her body had turned into roots. Unlike Yu Shu, who had turned into a little tiger after being injured in the mystic realm, this situation was the most serious.

No wonder Feng Zhiwei was so anxious.

Because the entire mystic realm had become the flower demon’s nourishment. The longer the flower demon lived, the more desolate the plants and trees in the mystic realm would become.

And now—

The roots spread to her waist, and her human form was above the flower bud.

Nan Zhi thought that she had exaggerated. In this situation, she was just waiting to die. She couldn’t save her. She could only extend her life by a few days.

However, this wasn’t a reason for something to be wrong.

“Someone!”

“It’s Nan Zhi, my friend.”

The flower demon’s expression froze. She stiffly looked up.

At the same time, Nan Zhi also looked at her.

Time passed. The flower demon frowned, and so did Nan Zhi. She stepped forward and quickly grabbed the flower demon’s hand, pressing the spell seal she had already prepared into it.

The flower and the bird both changed their expressions because of this action. Feng Zhiwei even more so. She pushed Nan Zhi’s hand away and asked in a cold voice, “What are you doing?”

“Zhiwei…” The flower demon cried out in pain and called out weakly.

Feng Zhiwei instantly grabbed Nan Zhi’s hand back. Spiritual energy condensed in her palm. She used force to pull her away. Her voice was sharp. “Let go!”

Nan Zhi was in so much pain that she let go of her hand. She pressed a calming spell on Feng Zhiwei’s forehead. She gritted her teeth and said, “Wake up! She’s a demon! Ugh…”

She lowered her head in disbelief. A feather, like a knife, was plunged into her abdomen. Her green clothes were stained with bl00d, making them even darker.

She was crazy. It turned out the one who wasn’t sober was her.

She slapped Feng Zhiwei on the shoulder with the back of her hand. The flower demon behind her swayed. The roots swayed alluringly, intending to attack.

Nan Zhi frowned. She was on high alert.

The reason she continued to walk forward even after she realized something was wrong was because of the Young City Lord—

The magical artifacts that the Young City Lord gave her were all good.

In an instant, the wind whistled. Sand furiously drilled in. Rain dropped down. And this place, entangled by vines, rumbled.

The momentum was great. The flower and the bird were stunned.

Nan Zhi didn’t understand why Feng Zhiwei could be so crazy as to fall in love with a demon.

They are not of our kind, so they must have a different heart. All demons are lunatics.

Ever since the Demon Lord had the ambition to sacrifice all things in the Nine Provinces to ascend thirty thousand years ago, demons have been people who everyone wanted to kill.

Her expression was blank. She waved her spiritual energy, trying to kill the flower demon in the mystic realm. As for this phoenix who had gone astray, she would be returned to Phoenix Tree Mountain.

“Boom, boom boom…”

The spiritual energy from the mystic realm was used to defend against her, and the entire land was on the verge of collapsing.

Nan Zhi looked at the flower demon from a distance.

She formed a seal with her hand and chanted a spell. Flower petals fluttered and exploded gorgeously in the air.

“Bang—”

Demonic energy erupted and splattered.

The entire mystic realm quickly withered, and inside the flower bud, only a struggling white parasitic worm was left.

Nan Zhi walked closer and picked up the parasitic worm.

“Ugh…”

A painful sound rang out.

She looked sideways. Feng Zhiwei fell to the ground, clutching her chest and spitting up bl00d. But she clearly didn’t hit her too hard.

“It is our duty to eradicate the remaining demons, but you…” She paused in her words and slowly walked forward. “You used vitality as nourishment and kept her here. Even with the protection of Phoenix Tree Mountain, you won’t be able to bear the curses of the Nine Provinces.”

However, that phoenix seemed to have not heard her. She painfully grabbed the bl00d-stained withered leaves on the ground and kept spitting up bl00d.

Nan Zhi couldn’t bear to criticize her anymore. She injected spiritual energy into her, trying to make her feel better. She asked in a gentle voice, “Are you feeling better?”

“A Zhi…”

The address she hadn’t heard for a long time was called out. Nan Zhi was stunned. She immediately squatted down and supported her shoulder.

And Feng Zhiwei supported herself on the ground. She kept coughing up bl00d and also shed tears. No one knew except for the dirt that received everything.

Her breath was weak. She said in a low voice, “What should I do?”

Nan Zhi sighed. She didn’t understand how Feng Zhiwei could love to this extent. She was clearly a demon. How could she fall in love with her despite the tragic past? But the next second, she realized she had misunderstood.

Feng Zhiwei looked up. Her eyes were a little red. The phoenix, who was usually proud and beautiful, looked fragile. Her voice was low and sorrowful:

“The Heart-Guarding Dragon Scale is gone.”

“What should I do…”

Nan Zhi frowned. She didn’t understand what Feng Zhiwei was saying.

What she wanted to say was—

Didn’t the phoenix feather compensate for it?

And, she wasn’t that concerned about it anymore.

She said, “That matter is already in the past.”