Cultivating Immortality by Raising a Cat (GL) Chapter 41

To Xiong Lanlan, the saddest thing in the world was not having a person stinkier than poop on her foot. It was that she, who had been stung into tears by the stink, was still worried that moving carelessly might disturb that person’s drawing spiritual energy into the body. She could not bear to kick the stinky lump away and could only endure it by force.
The disciples who had originally gathered around Xiong Lanlan were a step slower than A-Bai, but they soon covered their noses and ran, retreating even farther than A-Bai. A vacuum area appeared around Xiong Lanlan in an instant.
Reality was so cruel it nearly broke a bear’s heart.
Fortunately, after only a few breaths, the black mud on Wang Minger’s body stopped thickening. Though the awful smell did not vanish, at least it was no longer endless enough to make a bear despair.
Very soon, Wang Minger, covered in stinky mud, opened her eyes. Her gaze was clear and bright, far more than before.
Xiong Lanlan wanted to ask Wang Minger what her condition was now, but the stink pressed so hard she could not open her mouth. Her eyes, already stung earlier, poured tears in large drops. Her whole bear face was wet and miserable.
Seeing Wang Minger open her eyes with a clear expression, A-Bai quickly threw several water balls at Wang Minger’s head.
The crystal-clear water balls burst above Wang Minger. Several streams of water rushed down from head to toe. Unfortunately, the stinky mud covering Wang Minger was extremely sticky. The streams only washed a few shallow grooves into the black mud. They did not even reveal a trace of clean white skin before sliding into the ground.
Wang Minger, who had just somehow succeeded in drawing spiritual energy into her body, was still a little dazed when she opened her eyes. In the next moment, there was stink and water, and the frightened little girl blinked, then burst into tears with a loud wail. By habit, she hugged Xiong Lanlan’s large leg.
Ahhh! The whole bear was about to explode!
At first, when Xiong Lanlan saw the water balls smash down, her tear-filled eyes had narrowed with joy, as if rescue had finally arrived. But that joy did not last a single breath. The black mud that had originally been stinking only on Wang Minger was washed by water. Mud and water flowed down together and soaked Xiong Lanlan’s whole bear paw. Before, the bear had only been stung into tears. This time, she truly wanted to cry. But even crying had been taken first by Wang Minger. The stinky lump she had gone soft-hearted and not kicked away was now mixed with water and plastered fully against her bear leg. At this moment, Xiong Lanlan deeply wished she were a bear with only three legs. Truly, she could no longer even cry.
Uh…
A-Bai, who did not control water spells very precisely, looked awkwardly at the person and bear crying together in the distance. She lifted a paw and smashed a string of extra-large water balls over.
This time, each water ball was five or six times larger than before. One after another, they burst over Xiong Lanlan’s head and drenched both bear and person completely. At least the stinky mud on Wang Minger and in the bear fur was washed away.
Xiong Lanlan quickly ran away from the stinky mud ground. She pulled the wet Wang Minger down from her leg fur, placed her to the side, and sat down on clean ground. Only after taking several deep breaths did she barely save herself from being stunk to death.
“Heh heh.” Gui Changshou specially crawled over and stretched his head long, moving his mocking face close.
Xiong Lanlan looked fragile on the outside, but inside she had completely exploded. Without wasting a single word, she used all her strength and struck out with one paw. The little turtle spun through the air and landed exactly in the stinky mud pit washed out by A-Bai’s water balls.
“Heh heh.” Xiong Lanlan wiped her face and looked at Wang Minger in a bad mood. “Did you succeed in drawing spiritual energy into your body?”
Wang Minger, who was lowering her head and squeezing water from her clothes, looked up. “So you cried because you were afraid I would eat you?”
“…” Was there really a problem with how she taught children?
Xiong Lanlan habitually covered the little girl’s face with one bear paw. Her whole bear face roared, “Who cried? Are you stupid? I was stunk by you!”
Unlike the paw she had used to send Gui Changshou flying, although Xiong Lanlan was always fierce toward Wang Minger, she always carefully controlled her strength. Mm… she probably controlled it at a level where the little girl could feel strength she could not resist, but would absolutely not be hurt at all.
Even now, when Xiong Lanlan had nearly been stunk unconscious and her leg fur had nearly been wiped out, the bear paw covering Wang Minger’s face still controlled its strength as usual.
But she had forgotten that the Wang Minger of now was no longer the same as before.
The little girl lifted a hand to block the bear paw. It looked just like her useless struggles every time before. But this time, she succeeded. Seemingly without much effort, Wang Minger pushed the bear paw away.
The great force coming from the bear paw made Xiong Lanlan stare at Wang Minger in shock. Was this still the little girl with thin arms and legs, the one Xiong Lanlan had always feared she might accidentally break?
Wang Minger was clearly surprised too. She froze with her small mouth half open, then added a little more strength. The bear paw… was pushed farther away by her.
After the first shock, Xiong Lanlan quickly understood. Wang Minger had successfully drawn spiritual energy into her body and entered Qi Refining. Although Xiong Lanlan was a demon, she had no cultivation yet, only brute physical strength. If she used the same amount of strength as usual against Wang Minger now, it was normal to be pushed away. At the same time, Xiong Lanlan also thought that if she used the strength she had used to swat the turtle, Wang Minger might not be able to push her away so easily. But for some reason, Xiong Lanlan lost interest. She gloomily withdrew her bear paw.
“Ha ha, Bearbear, if you are mean to me again, I will eat you!” Wang Minger only thought she had beaten Xiong Lanlan. She did not care that her face was full of both tears and water. She immediately smiled brightly, raised her head, and puffed out her little chest.
Xiong Lanlan: “…”
“Zihui, take the little girl inside and let those old Core Formation cultivators look at her. See if she can get a master.” As A-Bai spoke, she cast a spell from afar and made an ice shovel. She scooped up the little turtle, who had fainted from the stink in the mud pit, and washed him with water balls.
“Then these fish scales?” Zihui hesitated.
A-Bai waved a paw. “I am here.”
After saying that, she froze the whole stinky mud pit. The frozen chunk of earth floated up and was carried to the burning mountain of fish corpses.
The first time someone succeeded in drawing spiritual energy into the body, after spiritual energy flowed through the body and completed a great cycle back to the dantian, the body would naturally expel the extra matter that had built up inside. Wang Minger’s case was still considered good. If the person were older, the black mud expelled might be even more unbearably stinky. But false earth fire was not weak. These impurities gathered in the mortal world were nothing in front of false earth fire. The instant they touched it, they turned to ash, far worse than those fish corpses that still kept some shape after burning for so long.
Putting out the fire and cooling the remains after burning the fish was A-Bai’s job anyway. Drawing over some water to wash away the remaining ash and collecting the fish scales should not be too troublesome. Zihui thought for a moment and agreed to A-Bai’s suggestion. She casually tossed out a wind talisman to help dry Wang Minger and Xiong Lanlan.
But using a talisman could not compare with having someone with a wind spiritual root do it by hand. After a strong gust blew through, all of Wang Minger’s clothes had been blown stiff and tilted to one side. As for Xiong Lanlan, her bear fur all drifted to one side. Gui Changshou, who had just woken up, laughed himself unconscious again.
“Cough… It is fine. Come to my place first to change clothes, then I will take you to meet the Perfecteds.” Zihui awkwardly reached out and smoothed Wang Minger’s robe.
“…” Wang Minger looked at Zihui, then at Xiong Lanlan.
Xiong Lanlan turned her head away and refused to meet her eyes.
“Then Bearbear, cultivate well at home. When I come back, I want sweet bean buns. Mm…” Wang Minger first raised two fingers, but soon lifted one more and stressed, “Three!”
“I told you, you can only eat one per meal. You still want three? Your teeth will all fall out!” Xiong Lanlan could not help turning back and loudly refusing.
“Three! Or I will eat you!” Wang Minger answered loudly, full of pride.
Actually… after drawing spiritual energy into the body, she could move deeper into the valley to a place with slightly denser spiritual energy. She would not come back here to live.
Zihui’s lips moved slightly, but in the end, she swallowed the words back. Ying Fu had said that some words that made people unhappy should be spoken later if they were not especially necessary.
And so, Wang Minger, thinking she would return that night and eat three sweet bean buns, happily followed Zihui away.
After the fish corpses had burned for a while, the roasted-meat smell in the air was replaced by a burnt smell, and it was growing stronger.
A-Bai dismissed the disciples, but left only Lin Mianmian behind.
The previous times A-Bai had gone to Lin Mianmian’s house, she had always come in a hurry and left in a hurry, seeming to be angry with someone unknown. Lin Mianmian thought A-Bai had kept her behind because she wanted to say something. Unexpectedly, after the disciples gradually walked away, the little white rabbit turned, quickly hopped over, and hugged Lin Mianmian’s ankle.
“Mianmian, you will help me wash the fish scales later, right?” The little white rabbit looked up pitifully.
“Ah?” Lin Mianmian did not react at once. “The fish scales need washing?”
“Yes!” The little white rabbit nodded hard. “After they burn, those fish scales will be buried in the ash. Of course we have to take them out and wash them.”
“Why not use water balls to wash them? I saw you wash them very cleanly just now.” Lin Mianmian felt something was not right.
“…” It was all that little girl’s fault. Now A-Bai could not say she did not know water spells. She thought quickly. The paws hugging Lin Mianmian’s ankle did not loosen at all. “Then I will wash them. You help me wipe them.”
“They still need wiping? Would it not be faster to blow them with wind or dry them with fire?” Lin Mianmian had seen all kinds of abilities and felt more and more that A-Bai was suspicious.
“I have an ice spiritual root… I cannot blow wind or light fire…” The little white rabbit shook her ears, looking cute.
Lin Mianmian thought for a moment. “Then Senior Sister Yuan…”
So angry!
The little white rabbit let go and glared. “Do not mention her! Angry! Just tell me, will you help or not?”
Uh… had they quarreled?
Lin Mianmian had to admit that the angry little rabbit, with her fur puffed up, had a different kind of cuteness.
Half an hour later, Lin Mianmian somewhat regretted agreeing to this work because of that cuteness.
One hour later, Lin Mianmian began to suspect whether A-Bai had been unhappy the last few times she visited and was now deliberately messing with her.
Two hours later, Lin Mianmian felt this might be heaven’s punishment for being lured away by an outside wild rabbit and forgetting about the little calico at home.
After A-Bai put out the fire and washed away the ash, the fish scales were scattered all over the ground. Layer upon layer, they were piled thickly. Even though Lin Mianmian kept wiping without stopping, she had only cleared a small patch. Finishing all of them was still a far-off dream.