Mistaking My Wife for a Spirit Pet - Chapter 48
Chapter 48
So fearless, so pretentious. Yu Shu only felt that the dragon in front of her was especially excessive and especially annoying. She turned her head away and said in a low voice, “I’m not talking to you anymore.”
Nan Zhi couldn’t help but laugh. She said softly, “Don’t be angry. How about we go somewhere else to take a look?”
“No.” Yu Shu was too lazy to pay attention to her. She even walked a few steps forward, intending to get away from this dragon.
Nan Zhi took the opportunity to wrap her arm around Yu Shu’s waist, not giving up. “Come on.”
Yu Shu’s expression was blank. She symbolically struggled a few times and then leaned against Nan Zhi, but her mouth was still stubborn, stating, “I’m not going.”
She had no choice but to go.
Instantly—
The stars moved and things changed, and frost replaced the dew.
The surroundings were a sea of white, and the temperature dropped sharply, becoming cold.
Yu Shu was in a daze for a moment. She said in surprise, “…What is this?”
“Wind and Snow Pass,” Nan Zhi answered.
The Cicada Shell talismans that the old man from Changling had drawn were only four. After using two, she accidentally found the trick. But… the old man from Changling’s talismans only had one left, but she had made many of her own talismans. Although the effect was not as exaggerated as the one from the Eastern Sea to Tianshan, it was more than enough to cross the distance from Tianshan to Wind and Snow Pass.
She took out a cloak and wrapped it around Yu Shu, explaining, “We came at just the right time. This is the most beautiful season at Wind and Snow Pass.”
Yu Shu pursed her lips and didn’t say anything.
Yulin City was like spring all year round, while the Wind and Snow Pass was bone-chillingly cold. Having grown up in a place with a comfortable temperature, she couldn’t stand it, but the cloak blocked most of the cold, and Nan Zhi’s embrace was also very warm.
She turned her head away, and a few snowflakes happened to fall on her eyelashes.
She started to feel cold again.
However, her ears were covered. She looked back and saw that the tip of Nan Zhi’s nose was also a little red from the cold. She said, “Wind and Snow Pass gets colder every year.”
Yu Shu nodded. She blinked and enjoyed the warm temperature on her ears. She said, “Mm, it’s a little cold.”
Nan Zhi didn’t say anything. She made a hand sign and began to carve a spell formation. The layers of the formation ran under Yu Shu’s feet.
“Still cold?”
A wave of warmth came over her. Yu Shu wanted to say something but stopped.
“What’s wrong?”
Yu Shu opened her mouth and said something that had been in her heart for a long time. “You’re different from the spell cultivators I’ve seen.”
Nan Zhi was confused. “Am I?”
“They don’t have these strange and weird formations.”
Nan Zhi couldn’t help but laugh. She explained, “Yes, my spell formations are the worst among the personal disciples.”
Yu Shu frowned. Her original intention was not to belittle Nan Zhi.
Among her peers, Nan Zhi was clearly the most dazzling one. Those rumors that were spread were just malicious people trying to slander her. When she heard Nan Zhi describe herself as “the worst,” she felt—
Upset.
Nan Zhi was clearly the most amazing, which was why she had thought of Nan Zhi to go to the Western Sea.
She grabbed Nan Zhi’s hand and said in a very serious tone, “You’re not the worst. On the contrary, you’re already very…”
Nan Zhi didn’t care much. She raised her chin slightly, signaling Yu Shu to look ahead. “Look.”
Not far away, there was a lifelike snow sculpture of a small beast. The loose snowflakes drifted down, landing on the snow sculpture and forming layers of frost.
Nan Zhi walked forward. She looked at the white mountains and fields and said to herself, “I come here every year.”
“Every year?” Yu Shu couldn’t help but ask, “Why?”
“Because of it.” Nan Zhi smiled shyly at Yu Shu. She squatted down, placed her palm on the snow sculpture, and gently patted it. “Good boy.”
Yu Shu frowned again.
Nan Zhi called out again. The next second—
The crisp sound of ice cracking rang out, and fine lines appeared on the snow sculpture. From head to toe, a layer of cracks appeared.
A small beast with a pure white body walked out of the ice.
It turned out that this was not a snow sculpture, but a small beast that had entered a state of hibernation. The small beast’s actions later proved Nan Zhi’s words. They seemed to be very familiar with each other. The small beast, which had just woken up, shook off the ice shards on its body, pounced on Nan Zhi in the snow, and rubbed against Nan Zhi in a fawning manner.
“That’s enough, that’s enough.” Nan Zhi made a sound of pleading. Seeing that it didn’t work, she lowered her voice and scolded, “Good boy!”
“…”
Yu Shu was even more unhappy. Although this term sounded like something you would call a cat or a dog, if she had been called it, Nan Zhi wasn’t allowed to call anyone else that.
She pursed her lips, full of resentment.
The resentment seemed to have solidified. Nan Zhi subconsciously looked to the side. Her expression suddenly stiffened. She reached out and pushed the enthusiastic small beast away. She asked, “What’s wrong?”
Yu Shu bit her lip.
She couldn’t say something like, “Don’t call it ‘good boy,’ call it ‘ugly,'” after all, this small beast wasn’t ugly at all.
What should she call it?
“Call it Little White.”
Nan Zhi was completely confused. She couldn’t keep up with Yu Shu’s thoughts. “What Little White?”
“It’s called Little White.”
Nan Zhi and the small beast looked at each other. She forced a smile, full of confusion. “…Why?”
Yu Shu answered seriously, “It’s all white, so it’s called Little White.”
Nan Zhi couldn’t understand, and the small beast didn’t agree either. It scratched the ground with its paws and snorted to protest.
But from the Young City Lord’s expression, she wouldn’t back down.
Nan Zhi looked down at her nose. She picked up the small beast and hung it in her arm. “Little White.”
The small beast immediately protested. For it, its name was a matter of principle. It had been thinking about it every year.
Nan Zhi completely ignored it. She leaned closer to the small beast’s ear and whispered, “Don’t be like this. Give me some face. I’ll give you everything later.”
The small beast hesitated for a while and then snorted.
Nan Zhi understood. The next second, she held the small beast and walked toward Yu Shu. She said seriously, “Little White, shake hands.”
The small beast looked at Yu Shu and its body stiffened.
Yu Shu’s face was full of black lines. She inexplicably felt a subtle feeling, as if Nan Zhi really treated this small beast as a “cat or a dog.”
“Left hand.”
The small beast shakily raised its left paw.
Nan Zhi looked at Yu Shu with anticipation. Yu Shu naturally knew what she was anticipating, but… she always felt that she had discovered something.
So, she extended her hand—
The small beast put its paw on her palm and patted it.
“Good Little White, you’re so good.”
Yu Shu: …
So, this “good” only applied to cats and dogs?
Her face was dark. She felt that something was wrong, but she couldn’t figure out where the emotion was wrong.
And Nan Zhi—
She held the small beast’s two front paws and made a begging gesture toward Yu Shu, stifling a laugh. “Little White is so good, Young City Lord. Can you give it two Purity Pills as a reward?”
Purity Pills?
She had a bottle of them. It wasn’t because they were too precious and she only had one bottle. In fact, they were too common, which was why she only had one bottle left.
Yu Shu didn’t think too much. Looking at the small beast’s expectant eyes, she just treated it as a “reward” as Nan Zhi had said.
After that, the small beast was so happy that it spun in circles on the spot after getting a bottle of pills. Nan Zhi added many more bottles of unknown pills, and the small beast rubbed against her skirt like a child.
As a demon, Yu Shu really couldn’t stand seeing a fellow small demon like this. But Nan Zhi didn’t realize the problem at all. She patted the small beast’s head and said, “Alright, alright. Lead the way.”
Having received many bottles of snacks, the small beast led the way with satisfaction.
Yu Shu still didn’t understand what was going on. She asked, “Where are we going?”
To find something.
There were many natural treasures at Wind and Snow Pass, but most of them could only be found by the native Wind and Snow Beasts, and most of them were hidden by the Wind and Snow Beasts. Nan Zhi’s initial intention of befriending the Wind and Snow Beast was indeed for this reason, but her original intention had changed later, after all, she couldn’t stand being looked at by a cute small beast with sparkling eyes.
Now that Yu Shu had asked, she deliberately created suspense. “Guess.”
“I hate you.”
Nan Zhi couldn’t help but laugh out loud. She grabbed Yu Shu’s hand, knowing when to stop. “The Snow Lotus that other cultivators often talk about are as numerous as the hairs on an ox, but the ones that grow on Wind and Snow Pass are different.”
Yu Shu glanced at her, pretending to be uninterested. “How are they different?”
Nan Zhi pursed her lips, creating suspense again. “Guess.”
Yu Shu was truly provoked. She shook off Nan Zhi’s hand and started to walk forward.
Nan Zhi was quick to react and immediately grabbed Yu Shu’s hand. “You won’t be able to find them by yourself.”
“I’m not looking for Snow Lotuses.”
“Then what are you looking for?”
Yu Shu’s steps paused. She was angry at Nan Zhi for always provoking her, and she was also angry at herself for always being affected by Nan Zhi’s few words. She gritted her teeth and asked in a low voice, “Do you have to provoke me?”
No.
Nan Zhi thought that she just couldn’t help but tease her when she saw these clever and innocent expressions.
So, she glanced at the hopping Wind and Snow Beast. Her gaze finally fell on the wrist she was holding, and her voice softened. “I’m not provoking you. Next time, I’ll answer every question. I won’t create any more suspense.”
Yu Shu glanced at her sideways.
Nan Zhi provoked her every time, and she fell for it every time. As for this “next time,” she didn’t care much.
She snorted and asked, “What’s the difference?”
“They taste better.”
Yu Shu: …
She gave Nan Zhi a strange look. In her knowledge, this dragon didn’t care about food.
Nan Zhi raised her eyebrows. “They’re also very helpful for refining.” They could be sold at a high price to artifact refiners, and it seemed that the person in front of her was also a foolish and rich artifact refiner.
This made Yu Shu curious. “I want to see.”
Nan Zhi didn’t create any more suspense. She took a long stride and led Yu Shu forward. It wasn’t long before they arrived at the small beast’s territory.
It was messy, with ice shards hanging above, and below were all the natural treasures it had collected. As soon as they entered, they had to bend down and step carefully.
Soon, Yu Shu saw the different Snow Lotuses. She picked one up and said knowingly, “So this is the Snow Lotus you were talking about.”
“You recognize it?”
Yu Shu chuckled. She said, “It is indeed very helpful for refining, but if we’re talking about benefits, the Ancient Life Flower is much better.”
Nan Zhi: …
She understood.
The foolish and rich artifact refiner would buy them at a high price, but the Young City Lord was different. The Young City Lord would choose the Ancient Life Flower, which was tens of times more expensive.
As expected of a top artifact refiner, she pursued perfection.
“But…” Yu Shu held the flower stem, and a look of confusion appeared on her face. Her voice was very soft, and she asked very seriously, “Can this really be eaten?”
Their eyes met. Nan Zhi pursed her lips and blinked.
Should she continue to create suspense?
“Of course.”
She took the Snow Lotus. Yu Shu’s gaze followed it closely. “Which part can be eaten?”
Nan Zhi subconsciously looked into Yu Shu’s eyes. So, she gave up the idea of creating suspense to annoy Yu Shu and took out a small knife.
The stem and leaves were shredded by the blade. She carefully removed the sticky threads. Slowly, a crystal-clear jade-like stem was cut out.
She said, “This is the part.”
But Yu Shu didn’t answer for a long time.
She couldn’t help but look up. The Young City Lord was graceful and charming in her words, her lips were slightly parted, and her almond-shaped eyes were sparkling with anticipation.
She looked like a good child waiting to be fed.
So good that it made one’s heart itch.