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Chapter 286 - 286 Minister under the Skirt (8)
Chapter 286 - 286 Minister under the Skirt (8)
Chapter 286: Chapter 286 Minister under the Skirt (8)
Silver light flashed through the air, and the four people suddenly discovered that, unbeknownst to them, their surroundings were filled with silver threads, glimmers of light sliding along them with a chilling aura.
And the woman wasn’t floating in midair, she stood upon a pentagram formed by the intersection of the silver threads.
Was this a Xuan Artifact?
No!
How could a Xuan Artifact not emanate any Xuan Qi?
The four of them felt a chill in their hearts, seeing the Tianjin Mouse almost within reach, yet they were unwilling to give up.
It’s just a little girl, they couldn’t possibly be afraid of her, the four of them thought.
With this thought, their confidence returned.
“Squeak Squeak—”
The ignored Tianjin Mouse suddenly let out a heaven-piercing screech, the sound tearing through the sky, causing heaven and earth to tremble in response.
A majestic power radiated from the Tianjin Mouse, its body glowing with a lustrous white light, making its fur look even softer.
“It… it has completed its advancement!”
“How can it be so fast!!”
The Tianjin Mouse’s fiery red eyes fixed on the four men below, and with a raise of its claw, it came crashing down fiercely.
“Run!”
The Tianjin Mouse leaped into action, and the surrounding silver threads swiftly retracted, making space for it.
The men were chased all over the place by the Tianjin Mouse, previously they could join forces against it, but now they couldn’t even fight back.
After the Tianjin Mouse’s advancement… it had become a Divine Beast!
The Tianjin Mouse was determined to kill these despicable villains who had attempted to harvest its heart, the utmost evil!
In short order, the Tianjin Mouse crushed the men one by one under its paw.
Its body suddenly shrank, and before Chuzheng could blink, the Tianjin Mouse had disappeared from sight.
Chuzheng: “…”
I haven’t even touched it yet!
Chuzheng landed on the ground, walking back to where the Tianjin Mouse had vanished. The ground was indented with a huge pit from the Mouse’s pressure, and inside it was an origami figure…
So pitiful.
These people had an unknown background, yet they managed to sneak into the Secret Realm.
“Squeak squeak squeak…”
Soft sounds came from near her feet.
Chuzheng looked down and saw a cat-sized ball of fur squatting there, all golden with fiery red eyes staring at her, full of scrutiny and curiosity.
The Tianjin Mouse didn’t look like a mouse at all, more like a hamster, round and cuddly, extremely cute.
Chuzheng: “…”
It looks so soft!
I want to touch…
I want to pet…
Chuzheng rubbed her fingers together, squatting down to pick up the Mouse, stroking it from its back to its tail.
Oh my!
This touch!
This softness!
Chuzheng’s face tensed as she completely mauled the Tianjin Mouse.
This is it!
I could stroke this for a year!
“Human, what are you doing!” The Tianjin Mouse was utterly confounded from being petted, questioning with dissatisfaction.
“You can talk?”
“Nonsense, I’m a Divine Beast now, what’s so strange about talking?” I could speak before too! Unenlightened human, hmph!
Chuzheng with a serious face: “Can you grow bigger?” You’re a bit small!
“…” The Tianjin Mouse’s eyes widened as it yelled, “Why should I! Let go of me!”
Chuzheng would not let go, grabbing and tousling it wildly.
Tianjin Mouse: “…”
Humans are so terrifying.
“Why have you become so small, you were so grand just a moment ago.”
“…”
The Tianjin Mouse’s cheeks puffed up in anger, its fiery red eyes glared fiercely, appearing ferocious yet cute.
Did it want?
Did it want?
“Transform for a bit.” While no one’s around, I want to roll around on it!
“I can’t.” The Tianjin Mouse barked back, puffed up with anger.
“Why not.”
“…” The Tianjin Mouse turned away its head and after a while huffed, “I’m too full, I have indigestion.”
It was already on the verge of advancement, just short of that final step.
The power contained within Fire Crystals is vast, eating ten at once, how could it not be stuffed?
“Oh,” Chuzheng rubbed its belly.
“…What are you doing!” The Tianjin Mouse held its stomach with its little paws, looking like a violated housewife.
“Helping you digest,” Chuzheng said earnestly.
“…” This Human must be an idiot, huh!
The Tianjin Mouse had just shown its divine might because it was leveling up, but because it ate too much, the side effects had become apparent, and Chuzheng was holding it, so it had no way to struggle free.
What was most important was that this Human’s strength was surprisingly great.
Damn it!
It had just escaped the wolf’s den to enter the tiger’s lair.
“Human.”
The Tianjin Mouse’s eyes spun round and round.
“Do you want treasures?”
“No,” you’re the treasure, what do I need anything else for?
“…” How could there be a Human who doesn’t like treasures! “I can take you to find lots of treasures, are you really not interested?”
“Are they like that wildflower?” I don’t need wildflowers, they’re not as comfortable to touch as you, no thanks.
That kind of wildflower… which wildflower?
It took the Tianjin Mouse quite a while to realize that the wildflowers Chuzheng was talking about must be the Cloudflame Flowers it had traded for earlier.
Are those wildflowers?
Could they be wildflowers!
“Those are Cloudflame Flowers!” The Tianjin Mouse roared: “Don’t you understand? They’re very precious!”
“Oh.”
They look so ordinary and yet are so valuable, that’s quite an effort.
Unable to tempt with treasures, the Tianjin Mouse huffed and puffed and curled into a ball, allowing Chuzheng to rub it into a round shape.
As a mouse under someone’s roof, one must bow one’s head!
Once it digests those Fire Crystals, it’ll show this petty creature, hmph!
Carrying the Tianjin Mouse, Chuzheng went to pick up the wildflowers in high spirits—after all, she had paid for them.
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Chuzheng had separated from the main group and was too lazy to find them.
After all, she wasn’t the Grand Imperial Princess.
So there was no need to go looking for trouble there.
This Secret Realm was huge, and Chuzheng, with no sense of direction, wandered aimlessly inside.
Actually, she would rather stay in one place, quietly petting fur until it was over.
But staying in one place would lead to encounters with various kinds of messy Xuan beasts, which got irritable at the sight of a person, attacking without even a greeting—it was quite annoying.
“Will you eat?” Chuzheng piled Fire Crystals in front of the Tianjin Mouse.
The Tianjin Mouse rolled its eyes: “Won’t eat!”
But its paws took possession of the Fire Crystals nevertheless.
It wasn’t going to eat now, but later!
“How come you have so many Fire Crystals?” The Tianjin Mouse was curious, as Fire Crystals weren’t pebbles you could pick up by the roadside.
Fire Crystals had to be forged in the magma of volcanoes and, after hundreds of years, would finally form.
This stuff was truly precious, or else it would have been nibbling on Fire Crystals to level up long ago; compared to Fire Crystals, Cloudflame Flowers really were just wildflowers.
“Picked them up.”
Given by Bastard, no different from picking them up.
“Hah, take me to pick some up too,” it said.
“Your luck’s not as good as mine.”
“You look down on people!”
“You’re not a person,” Chuzheng sincerely reminded.
“…”
The Tianjin Mouse was infuriated into a ball each time.
When night fell.
Chuzheng and Tianjin Mouse rested on a large tree, with the mouse being soft and warm, Chuzheng held it and refused to let go—the Mouse combined all its strength to kick but couldn’t escape her clutches.
The Mouse was infuriated to death.
Sounds of rustling rose from the jungle below.
“Someone’s coming,” the Tianjin Mouse suddenly said.
The noise grew closer, and from the sound of it, there was more than one person.
“Do you want to eat them?”
The Tianjin Mouse: “…”
When had it ever shown a desire to eat people?
It didn’t have that kind of hobby!