Cultivating Immortality by Raising a Cat (GL) Chapter 47

The gray kitten lightly stepped along Feng Liang’s shoulder. Now and then, it leaned in and rubbed Feng Liang’s cheek with its furry face. If Feng Liang cooperated and lifted her face, the gray kitten would raise its head too and kiss her with its little mouth. The person and cat played the kissing-back-and-forth game with great joy, and Feng Liang’s hand could not stop taking out bits of meat.
Lin Mianmian looked at Little Gray with a gentle gaze that carried obvious envy. When she turned back to the little calico in her arms, there was inevitably a desire she could not put into words.
Yuan Zhaoyang could not understand what these people and cats were thinking. This childish kissing back and forth actually made them so happy. But what Lin Mianmian was hoping for now was not hard to see.
Truly too childish.
Yuan Zhaoyang shook her head, jumped out of Lin Mianmian’s arms, quickly walked to the door, scratched open a crack, and slipped inside.
Although Yuan Zhaoyang had turned into a cat to rub against the fragrance during this period, had kept the appearance of a kitten so Lin Mianmian would not be sad, and even worked hard every day to be a cat that looked like a cat, a cat demon’s dignity was still necessary, all right?
Taking the initiative to kiss someone was simply too absurd.
All right. Lin Mianmian had always known her little calico was a shy little cat with a strong personality. She also knew it was not very possible for her to be as close to people as Little Gray. But the little calico had firmly refused with action, and before leaving, she had even given Lin Mianmian a look as if she were looking at an idiot. Lin Mianmian really felt… a little hurt.
“Come, come. I will lend you Little Gray for kisses.” Feng Liang, who had been lost in cat kisses, finally sensed that something was wrong with Lin Mianmian. Ah, had she done something that made this owner and pet awkward? Looking at the disappointed Lin Mianmian, Feng Liang took Little Gray from her shoulder and apologetically handed it over.
“…” Lin Mianmian accepted Little Gray and held it in her arms, stroking it. But she did not hurry to lift it high and play kissing.
Feng Liang was about to say something else when a yellow shadow darted over from the side. Shocked, she had not even had time to step back before a fat yellow fur ball hugged her leg.
“Meow meow meow!” Without the calico restraining it, Fried Dough, who had long been greedy for the bits of meat in Feng Liang’s hand, rushed out at the first chance.
“This…” Feng Liang looked confused and gently shook her leg.
“Meow! Meow meow! Meow meow meow!” The fat yellow cat hugged her leg, raised its head, and rubbed. Meat, meat, meat!
“Pfft…” Lin Mianmian could not help laughing at the yellow cat’s silly appearance. “It is probably craving the meat in your hand. Among all the little animals that often come to the courtyard, it is the greediest. It only picks meat to eat. Look how fat it is.”
“Oh, oh, it wants meat.” Feng Liang patted her chest and took out some meat from her purse. “I thought it wanted to bite me.”
“It is quite good and does not bite people.” Lin Mianmian mechanically rubbed Little Gray in her arms and smiled. “At first, its temper was a little bad. It raised its paws at the slightest thing. Later, I do not know what happened, but it became better and better behaved. Oh, except for being picky.”
“What is wrong with being picky? Eat. There is plenty.” Feng Liang smiled as she crouched and stuffed a piece of meat into the yellow cat’s mouth. While she was at it, she stroked its fur twice.
The yellow cat tasted the meat and found it was not bad. Although it could not compare with what the calico gave it every time it finished pooping inside the house, it was much better than what the human in this courtyard cooked every meal.
Meat today, eat today. Only a foolish cat would not eat.
The yellow cat, who had been fed quite a bit of Moonlight Powder by Yuan Zhaoyang, cleverly began copying Little Gray’s earlier actions.
Grab the leg, rub the face, give a kiss.
Spin, jump, kiss again.
Step onto the shoulder, lean close, kiss, kiss, kiss.
A fat yellow fur ball used all kinds of poses and angles to show closeness to Feng Liang.
Unlike Little Gray’s confused, stumbling, adorable kisses, the yellow cat’s kisses were smooth as flowing clouds and moving water, passionate as a storm. Feng Liang simply could not stop taking out meat.
“Ha ha… Hahaha… Has this cat become a spirit?” Feng Liang held the fat cat head that kept pressing against her face and laughed so hard at the yellow cat that she almost could not breathe.
“Pfft. It likes you.” Lin Mianmian pinched Little Gray’s furry ears in her arms and unconsciously glanced at the tightly shut door. She felt a strange disappointment.
Feng Liang still kept a trace of reason under the yellow cat’s wild kisses. She felt around in her purse, took out the last piece of meat, and put it in Lin Mianmian’s hand. “I do not believe it likes me. It clearly likes meat. Try it. Feed Little Gray a piece of meat, and it will kiss you too.”
After saying that, Feng Liang shook the bottom of her purse at the yellow cat that was still kissing her face. “Look, no meat left.”
The yellow cat’s kissing stopped all at once. Stepping on Feng Liang’s shoulder, it leaned over and looked into the purse. Mm. No meat.
“This cat… is far too realistic…” Feng Liang watched the yellow cat jump to the ground and then watched helplessly as it began circling Lin Mianmian.
“Hmph. Do not give it any. Hurry and feed Little Gray. Little Gray is still better. It kisses people even without meat, and with meat, it kisses even more obediently.”
Lin Mianmian pinched the piece of meat in her hand and looked at Little Gray, who was obediently lying in her arms with its head lifted, quietly watching her.
Little Gray tilted its head and stuck out the tip of its little tongue.
Lin Mianmian’s foot felt ticklish. She looked down and saw the yellow cat sitting properly beside her foot, head raised high, looking at her seriously.
The yellow cat lifted both front paws and bowed.
All right. Everyone seemed to like meat. Lin Mianmian could not help looking again at the door.
The door remained tightly shut.
Lin Mianmian tore the meat into two halves. One half went to Little Gray, and the other was stuffed into the yellow cat’s mouth.
Little Gray licked its lips, then staggered up along Lin Mianmian’s arm, trying hard to lift its head. Unfortunately, its neck seemed a little short.
“Lower your head. It is short and cannot reach,” Feng Liang reminded her.
“…I did not feed it meat because I wanted it to kiss me.” Lin Mianmian felt a little embarrassed. It was simply strange to keep holding meat in her hand.
“It does not want to kiss you because you fed it meat either. Little Gray is naturally cute and loves being close to people.” Feng Liang smiled warmly. “Do not make the little kitten too tired.”
Lin Mianmian lowered her head again and looked at Little Gray in her arms, who was clinging to her clothes and trying hard to climb upward.
It was so small, with gray fur and a white belly. Its fur was fluffy, and the way it tried hard to get close to her was so cute it made her heart tremble.
As Lin Mianmian watched, she lowered her head without realizing it.
Just then, Lin Mianmian seemed to hear a small sound from the door. Out of reflex, she looked toward the door. At some unknown time, the door had opened a crack. Lin Mianmian followed the crack downward and saw that at the very bottom, the little calico was standing behind the crack, looking at her.
For some reason, Lin Mianmian jolted. Her head, which had been lowered, suddenly straightened again.
Little Gray, who had been trying hard to get close for a kiss, froze. It lost its grip and rolled back into Lin Mianmian’s arms.
Lin Mianmian quickly held the kitten more securely to keep it from falling. After holding the cat properly, she looked toward the door again and saw that it was tightly shut once more. It was as if the door that had opened a crack, and the little calico behind it with half her body faintly showing as she stared at Lin Mianmian, had only been an illusion.
Whether it was an illusion or not, the yellow cat knew.
The yellow cat, which had still been hesitating over whether it should kiss Lin Mianmian once after eating her meat, gave up on that thankful thought the instant it sensed the calico’s aura suddenly appear.
What a joke. Usually, if the human in the courtyard petted it two times too many, the meat it got from the calico would become a circle smaller. If the calico saw it kiss this human, the next piece of meat it received after pooping would probably become much smaller.
The fat yellow cat cleverly pulled away from Lin Mianmian at the first moment, pretended to be a passerby cat, and walked far away.
Yuan Zhaoyang quietly crouched behind the door, feeling a little irritated.
After refusing Lin Mianmian with action, Yuan Zhaoyang had felt uncomfortable ever since entering the room. She could not help releasing her divine sense.
The yellow cat’s fancy kisses truly opened Yuan Zhaoyang’s eyes. She always felt that the Moonlight Powder she had fed it had all been wasted on this kind of evolution.
Aside from the yellow cat that had suddenly charged out, Lin Mianmian’s envy and disappointment had both been seen by Yuan Zhaoyang.
As a cat demon with a bottom line, Yuan Zhaoyang could not kiss Lin Mianmian like an ordinary cat that knew nothing. But she also had not intended to stop other cats from kissing Lin Mianmian, if that could make her a little happier.
That was right. At first, Yuan Zhaoyang truly had thought that way.
As for why the door had opened a crack when Lin Mianmian lowered her head to cooperate with Little Gray, Yuan Zhaoyang did not know anything about that.
Letting Lin Mianmian discover that the cat at home was watching right when she was about to be kissed by an outside cat was definitely not something Yuan Zhaoyang had deliberately caused.
Through her released divine sense, she “saw” Lin Mianmian straighten after meeting her gaze and return Little Gray to Feng Liang. Little calico Yuan smoothed the fur on her ears and could not hold back a soft hmph.
In the courtyard, Lin Mianmian’s ears moved, and her lips curved slightly.
The meat had been fed, Lin Mianmian had also refused the kitten’s kiss, and Feng Liang left with a confused Little Gray in her arms.
When Lin Mianmian returned to the room, the little calico had already curled in her usual spot on the bed, as if the glance through the crack in the door truly had been Lin Mianmian’s illusion.
Lin Mianmian blew out the candle, climbed onto the bed, and poked the cat ball. “Asleep?”
A quiet cat. A beautiful back.
“Do not worry. I will not use meat to lure you into kissing me,” Lin Mianmian said to herself while stroking the cat. “If you kiss for meat, that is not loving me. That is loving meat. I understand. I understand it very clearly. I will not do that…”
Little girl, can you sense the sour smell in your own words? Yuan Zhaoyang sighed softly in her heart.
She felt an inexplicable guilt.
But guilty about what?
What was there to feel guilty about?
Time slowly passed. Night gradually deepened, and the two breaths on the bed became slow and steady.
The tiny fur ball moved, stood up, and slowly walked to the sleeping person’s face.
Yuan Zhaoyang lifted a paw and stepped on Lin Mianmian’s left cheek, the one Little Gray had almost kissed.
White, soft, tender, springy…
Tch. Yuan Zhaoyang pushed aside a few strands of hair hanging over Lin Mianmian’s face and stepped on her cheek two more times.
It really was quite soft.
Yuan Zhaoyang stepped lightly for quite a while longer before curling back in her original place.
In the dark, Lin Mianmian slowly opened her eyes and moved her cheek, which had grown a little sore from being stepped on by the cat.
So what kind of hobby was this, that her calico cat got up in the middle of the night instead of sleeping and stepped on her face?
All right. The feeling of soft paw pads patting her face was actually not bad. Although the cat did not kiss her, coming over in the middle of the night to pat her like this also counted as a kind of attention, right?
Lin Mianmian comforted herself this way and slowly fell asleep.
On the fifth day after Little Gray was sent to stay with Feng Liang, Xiong Lanlan finally succeeded in drawing spiritual energy into her body. She became the second of this batch of new disciples to do so. Nearly twenty days had already passed since Wang Minger had drawn spiritual energy into her body.
After another half month or so, Gui Changshou entered Qi Refining and became the third to draw spiritual energy into his body.
Wang Minger, Xiong Lanlan, and Gui Changshou’s success was encouragement, but also pressure. The cultivation mood in the outer valley grew stronger by the day. Whenever the disciples went to collect rations every few days, their topics mostly circled around their feelings and insights about cultivation.
In this strangely serious and tense mood, almost like facing the college entrance exam, one disciple after another successfully drew spiritual energy into the body, crossed the line between the mortal world and cultivation, and entered Qi Refining.
This batch of new disciples had sixty-seven in total, including humans and demons. They came to the outer valley in late autumn. Before winter arrived, six successfully drew spiritual energy into the body. When winter came, it should have been a cold season for hiding away, but the disciples seemed awakened by the freezing winter wind. Almost every day or two, someone succeeded in drawing spiritual energy into the body. On good days, two succeeded on the same day.
By the time spring began, only thirteen people remained at the very outer edge of the outer valley, still working hard to draw spiritual energy into their bodies.
Lin Mianmian was among them.