ACER-Chapter 38: Little Furball

At the edge of the Absolute Forbidden Land, a small milk puppy with snow-white fur and a tuft of purple hair on its forehead was struggling to move its uncooperative four limbs, inching forward step by step.

Occasionally, its two fluffy upright little ears trembled and quivered, evidently her mood was extremely bad at the moment.

Suddenly being turned into some kind of thing of an unknown species, she was also very panicked.

But… in this kind of forest, there must be fierce beasts, demon beasts, spirit beasts, or the like, she would definitely work very hard to find the beasties.

However, after crawling for half a day, there was still nothing.

And those four limbs seem like they were newly installed and were being extremely uncooperative.

And tragically, in beast form, she recovered very quickly. Before long, she had crawled far away from her previous position and even crawled into a patch of grass.

The weeds in the grass were very tall. Because she was too small, she was hidden within them, and no one would notice her at all. Only when she struggled to crawl would there be a rustling sound.

Suddenly, she heard movement above her head. So she raised her fluffy little head and tried hard to look up. Through the overlapping grass and leaves, she vaguely saw a figure she hated the most.

It was this guy who made it so she still couldn’t go home.

Right now, she wished she could tear him apart with her claws.

When Xiao Jue came back again, he found that Di Yange’s figure was already gone from this place.

He swept the entire area with his divine sense and found nothing. On the ground, only the tattered set of clothes Di Yange wore was left behind.

He knew Di Yange was a very proud person, so how could she leave without clothes?

So she must have died.

She had already been eaten by the demon beasts here.

After all, this was the forest of the Absolute Forbidden Land.

Even the outer area was full of unimaginable danger.

He had only left for a moment to deal with that damned bloodstain. How could she die just like that? He had even arranged many things for her that he never got the chance to use.

Xiao Jue suddenly felt a bit empty inside his heart.

If he had known she would die so easily, he would’ve just temporarily used a cleansing technique.

After sighing regretfully, Xiao Jue once again rode his sword and prepared to leave.

And Di Yange was still crawling forward in the grass with rustling sounds. In her view, there’s no longer any intersection between her and Xiao Jue.

She was going to find a new way to seek death.

Damn it, she didn’t want to see Xiao Jue’s unlucky face again in this lifetime.

However, for someone burdened with misfortune, the more one didn’t want something, the more it would happen.

While Di Yange was still crawling, her small body suddenly lifted into the air, grabbed by a large hand holding the fur at the back of her neck.

Immediately after, she and Xiao Jue simply stared at each other, her small eyes blinking up at his big eyes.

When enemies come face to face, their eyes turn red. Di Yange waved her little claws angrily, but her small short legs were too short, and she ended up swinging at nothing.

Xiao Jue glanced at the little furball-like small beast and inexplicably felt that this little furball was quite like Di Yange.

They both seemed to equally hate him.

And she also had a tuft of purple fur on her forehead.

Of course, the two weren’t even the same species, so he of course wouldn’t think that they were one and the same.

But how could such a little thing with no spiritual power and no cultivation survive in the Absolute Forbidden Forest?

Suddenly, he wanted to keep her.

“Little one, from now on, you will follow me.”

“Zhi!!!”

Di Yange was so angry she screamed out.

Looking at this lively little furball, Xiao Jue thought that she was just as pitiful as himself.

He was all alone by himself, perhaps raising such a pitiful little furball could add some interest into his life.

So he lifted the little furball and flew toward the main city.

Now, Jianxin Sect had already been blown away. Even if it hadn’t, Xiao Jue didn’t plan on returning.

Originally, he had gone back to Jianxin Sect for Di Yange. Now that Di Yange was dead, there’s no meaning in going back.

Thus, he came to the main city where he had once lived, Dongchui City.

The once-glorious Xiao family had been here.

This was a small city in the east, its eastern edge bordering the sea, where many mortals relied on the water for their livelihood.

There were also legends of immortal islands on the sea, so many cultivators came because of it.

When Xiao Jue arrived riding his sword, it didn’t cause much of a commotion, because they had seen many cultivators before.

Only the mortals still looked at him with reverence in their eyes.

Xiao Jue carried the little furball into an inn before finally putting her down.

The moment she was put down, the little furball pounced toward him, that enthusiastic look made him unconsciously smile.

The strength that Di Yange had been saving for a long time were all released at this very moment. With a howl, she bit down on Xiao Jue’s wrist, then spat out repeatedly.

As expected of her, even after becoming a small beast, even while injured to this extent, she could still bite a Golden Core cultivator until he bled.

Clearly, her beast-form’s strength was very strong.

However, a small wound meant nothing to Xiao Jue.

“Hm?”

Xiao Jue looked at his own wound, instead of anger, he was puzzled. He grabbed the little furball and pried open her mouth, discovering that her extremely white teeth were completely intact and well.

Clearly, her teeth were very good.

He immediately felt surprised.

“What exactly are you?”

If she was an ordinary small beast, her teeth would’ve shattered long ago. Yet she actually could bite him until he bled, this little beast was definitely extraordinary.

As he spoke, Xiao Jue was about to pick up the little furball to examine her.

Di Yange became furious from the embarrassment and rushed forward first, scratching wildly at Xiao Jue’s face.

Xiao Jue hissed and grabbed the little furball.

At the same time, he used a water mirror technique to look at his face. There were actually quite a few scratch marks left by her little claws.

Xiao Jue lifted the little furball by the neck and said fiercely, “If you keep doing this, believe it or not, I’ll strangle you to death.”

Di Yange, the little furball, wished he would just do it already. But those few actions just now had once again exhausted all her strength, so she could only droop her little ears pitifully and let him hold her.

That small appearance of admitting fault once again pleased Xiao Jue.

And it also made the onlookers bleed from their noses.

“As expected of the Demon Emperor, he really knew how to bewitch hearts, almost causing my Dao heart to shake.”

“Fox spirit. So hateful, so shameless, so despicable… so cute…”

“I didn’t expect the Demon Venerable to like this kind of cute little beast, what a strange hobby. I’ve finally caught his weakness. One day I’ll make him pay.”

“The Demon Emperor and the Demon Venerable actually had this kind of past. Say, if the Demon Venerable knew this fox was the Demon Emperor, would he be so ashamed he’d want to die?”

Seeing that Luo Ziyin was still unconscious, everyone’s discussion grew more and more unrestrained.

It was at this moment, Long Yanche, who usually spoke the most, unexpectedly said nothing at all.

This made his fellow sufferers unable to resist taking a few more glances at him.

Now that one had already defected, Long Yanche who also had a deep grudge with the Demon Emperor, shouldn’t defect just because of a small beast, right?