Cultivating Immortality by Raising a Cat (GL) Chapter 30

To be honest, A-Bai had originally only wanted to come watch how Yuan Zhaoyang, who had not turned into a cat in so long, would get along with Lin Mianmian, who Yuan Zhaoyang said smelled unbearably fragrant.
When Yuan the calico heroically saved the beauty, A-Bai had watched with great joy. When Yuan the calico sprayed Lin Mianmian’s face with bun crumbs, it had been a little worrying. A-Bai, who had been laughing so hard her stomach cramped, had not expected Yuan Zhaoyang to have so little calm after turning back into a cat. She had been very afraid Yuan Zhaoyang had not suppressed her cultivation and that the bun crumbs would shoot Lin Mianmian right into the wall so hard she could not be scraped off.
After watching up to this point, A-Bai already felt that the trip was worthwhile, completely worth the high-level invisibility talisman on her body. As for that final cat-flipping and fur-blowing… A-Bai expressed that she had truly seen nothing. Hahahahahaha!
There was no time to raise a cup in celebration of Yuan Rice Ball’s new name. A-Bai rubbed her furry face, which was almost cramping from laughter, and nimbly moved along the wall past those two fools, slipping out of the room through the half-open wooden door.
Yuan Zhaoyang, who was furious, did not notice at all. As for Lin Mianmian, she did hear a faint sound in the room. But after glancing around and seeing nothing, and after the sound quickly vanished, she did not pay attention to it again.
After all, the little kitten in front of her looked a bit unhappy. What happened to the obedient little cat? She could not truly be shy just because Lin Mianmian looked at her once, right?
“Rice Ball?” Lin Mianmian slowly approached and stretched out the hand of friendship.
Should she beat Lin Mianmian straight to death? Or only beat her half-paralyzed? Yuan Rice Ball’s whole body was heating up. The last bit of reason she had left was almost burned away. Her little claws, digging into the table, were almost sinking into the wood.
At this critical moment, knocking came from the door, mixed with a voice both the cat and the grass in the room knew well.
“Is anyone here?” A-Bai crouched at the door, one paw on the frame, pretending to be an innocent passerby.
She had come to stop a tragedy. Hello, almost-murderer and almost-victim. No need to thank her.
The calico kitten standing at the table corner slowly turned her head, sharp eyes looking straight toward the little white rabbit at the door.
A-Bai worked hard to look open and calm. At a time like this, if she showed even a trace of a smile or a bit of unnaturalness, she would become the second victim in this room.
Fortunately, for now, Yuan Zhaoyang only seemed to be examining her and had not grown angry from embarrassment. That meant the first step had passed. Next, she had to save Lin Mianmian.
“No one,” Lin Mianmian said, knowing nothing about A-Bai’s life-saving grace. She remembered very clearly the matter of the ghost licking her two nights ago.
Little girl, where was your conscience? Had Xiong Lanlan eaten it? A-Bai looked shocked.
Do not think that just because you stare at me with that little mouth slightly open, I will treat you as a cute foolish rabbit and forget that you are a Core Formation great demon.
Lin Mianmian hardened her heart. From the booklet on drawing spiritual energy into the body beside her, she took out the white hair she had found on her wrist that night. “Look at this. What is it?”
“What?” A-Bai secretly glanced at Yuan Rice Ball. Of course she could smell that this was Yuan Zhaoyang’s fur, but Lin Mianmian did not seem to know that.
“This is your evidence!” Lin Mianmian crouched and placed the white hair in front of A-Bai. “It is one thing to run into my room in the middle of the night and pretend to be a ghost… but why did you lick me? Do you know what that is called where I am from?”
“Hehe, evidence.” As soon as A-Bai heard this, she understood everything. Very interested, she followed Lin Mianmian’s words and asked, “What is it called?”
“Breaking into someone else’s room in the middle of the night and licking them! Where I come from, that is called taking liberties! You would be arrested by the officials!” Lin Mianmian had originally felt a little embarrassed accusing a rabbit of taking liberties by licking her, but seeing A-Bai’s uncaring look, she said it in anger.
“Oh, so it is called taking liberties. I understand taking liberties… It means ruining your innocence. If others found out, would you be unable to marry? How pitiful…” A-Bai slowly spoke word by word. From the corner of her eye, she saw the little calico on the table slowly relax. Her tail drooped, and her body began to curl into a small ball. A-Bai knew Lin Mianmian had passed this crisis.
A-Bai knew Yuan Zhaoyang could of course hear the exaggeration in her words. But Yuan Zhaoyang was this kind of cat, strict with herself and forgiving of others. A lick could actually balance out being seen… A-Bai truly felt a little pain for Yuan Zhaoyang’s straightforward emotional sense.
“It is not to that point… These are not the same thing…” The more Lin Mianmian listened to A-Bai, the stranger it sounded. Was this an apology? Why did it sound so odd?
“In any case, licking you was wrong. Deep at night, sneaking into a little girl’s private room, seeing all of her sleeping appearance was not enough, and still licking her, tsk tsk tsk… truly frightening.” How could A-Bai give Lin Mianmian a chance to lower Yuan Zhaoyang’s guilt? What a joke. If Lin Mianmian got beaten to death in a moment, that would be stupid. “Were you scared? So pitiful… Will you be afraid to sleep every night now? Afraid some pervert will come again?”
It was not that exaggerated.
The more Lin Mianmian listened, the more wrong it sounded. She looked at the hair on the ground, then at A-Bai, and finally asked hesitantly, “You mean… that was not you the night before last? This fur is not yours? If it was white and could turn invisible, who else could it be besides you?”
Oh, this little girl was not that stupid after all. A-Bai smacked her three-petal mouth. Before she could speak, a white shadow pounced over.
Lin Mianmian never expected the kitten she had just picked up to be so brave. In that stunned moment, Rice Ball had already leaped onto A-Bai and stomped heavily several times.
“Hey, hey, no, no. You cannot step on this one.” Lin Mianmian hurriedly picked up the little calico before A-Bai could explode and tucked her safely into her arms. Only after that did she free one hand to casually smooth the fur on A-Bai that the little calico had messed up. Helplessly, she said, “Aiya, you are a Core Formation great demon. How could you fail to dodge a little kitten?”
How could A-Bai dodge? When Yuan Zhaoyang pounced over, she had transmitted a voice saying that licking Lin Mianmian at night had been A-Bai’s idea, yet now A-Bai was calling the cat a pervert. Was she asking to be beaten? A-Bai thought about it and found that it was true. She felt too embarrassed to dodge, so she got stepped on a few times.
So it was her fault for not dodging? Did these two still have a conscience?
A-Bai watched Yuan Zhaoyang nest obediently in Lin Mianmian’s arms like a true innocent kitten, as if nothing had happened. None of the earlier drawn-sword, tense, murderous air remained. Oh! Those little claws were even hooked tightly onto the girl’s robe. Did Yuan Zhaoyang really think she was a kitten frightened by this Core Formation great demon? And Lin Mianmian! Ingratitude was her! If A-Bai had known, she would not have come out. She would have watched Yuan the calico burn Lin Mianmian to ash.
A-Bai’s dissatisfied gaze was too hot. Lin Mianmian could not pretend not to see it.
“You are already a Core Formation great demon. You would not fuss with a mortal-world kitten, right?” Lin Mianmian reached out pleasingly and smoothed A-Bai’s fur a little more.
A-Bai turned over and stepped on Lin Mianmian’s hand with one paw. “Hmph. Now you remember I am a Core Formation great demon? What about when you accused me earlier?”
“All right, all right. Then let the two matters cancel each other out, okay?” Lin Mianmian protected the soft little kitten in her arms and coaxed, “It is so tiny and soft. It could not have hurt you by stepping on you, right? How about this? When there is a chance, I will make shredded-chicken cold noodles for you. Did you not say last time that you wanted to eat them?”
The one falsely accused of licking you was A-Bai. The one beaten was also A-Bai. How did the two things cancel out? Did Lin Mianmian not know how to keep accounts?
A-Bai rolled her eyes, but then received Yuan Zhaoyang’s voice transmission. “Let go of her, and the matter of you secretly following me this time will be canceled.”
“Hehe… What following you…” A-Bai transmitted back, but her eyes could not help looking elsewhere.
“Oh. Originally, I was only guessing. You should not have knocked at the door so openly for no reason. Now it seems it was true.” Yuan Zhaoyang had been angry and anxious before, so she had not thought carefully. Now that her anger had gone down, this was naturally easy to think of.
Living with the same cat for a hundred years was truly not a good thing. It made being seen through too easy.
A-Bai thought about the scene she had seen earlier and felt this trade was still quite worthwhile. She would also carry the blame for licking Lin Mianmian, then.
So Lin Mianmian did not know what the little rabbit had thought of while staring blankly for a moment, but suddenly A-Bai became very easy to talk to and released her paw.
“Remember. Shredded-chicken cold noodles. I will get the ingredients, and you make them for me.” A-Bai snorted. She looked at Lin Mianmian, who held Yuan the calico tightly, then looked at Yuan the calico lying soft in Lin Mianmian’s arms.
She was not playing with them anymore! It hurt her eyes!
A-Bai came in a hurry and left in a hurry. Only after she left did Lin Mianmian belatedly begin thinking: what had A-Bai come for? It seemed… she had only come to be stepped on?
Speaking of being stepped on, Lin Mianmian took the little calico from her arms, held her in her palm, and lightly tapped her little head while teaching her, “Rice Ball, you cannot step on whoever you catch. Earlier, when you stepped on Fried Dough, it was so much bigger than you. If you fought, you would suffer a loss. And A-Bai too. This is a cultivation sect. Not every creature that looks like a small animal is a small animal. Maybe it is only a great demon that looks like a small animal. Do you understand?”
So she did know that some things that looked like small animals could be great demons? It really did not show. Also, who was called Rice Ball?
Yuan Zhaoyang silently complained as she turned around in Lin Mianmian’s palm and faced away.
“Be good, Rice Ball. I will work hard to protect you.” Lin Mianmian truly felt that the tiny little calico curled in her hand was too cute. Especially because after turning around, Rice Ball had not run away but was still crouching in her hand. It was unbelievably obedient. Even her back was beautiful. Like a little ball, a little rice ball.
With that spiritual-root aptitude of yours, who is protecting whom? Yuan Zhaoyang complained in her heart, but when Lin Mianmian reached out one finger and carefully smoothed the fur on her back, she did not dodge nimbly.
Forget it. It was only smoothing back fur. Just now… Yuan Zhaoyang had also pressed against Lin Mianmian’s chest. These humans casually stuffed small animals into their arms. They were truly shameless.
If not… if not for the fact that she had been forced to touch Lin Mianmian’s chest… she would not let Lin Mianmian off so easily for the bad things she had done earlier. She also would not have let A-Bai, who had seen that matter, get off cheaply. Hmph, at least half of A-Bai’s fur should have been burned bald! It was all this bad girl’s fault, making Yuan Zhaoyang swallow down this breath. Hmph. Her chest was so small, thinking about it, it was not worth it at all. Still, it was rather soft…
Lin Mianmian stroked twice and saw the little calico shrink even smaller in her palm. The kitten was warm and hot, and as she shrank, she even buried her face under her two paws, as if regretting something. It was truly too cute.
Lin Mianmian felt that after meeting such a cute little calico, she was not far from becoming a total petting maniac.