Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 21

Yan Zhuguang closed her eyes and slept properly. By the time she woke again, the numbness from being frozen had mostly eased.
Yun Mixue had driven the cold air out of her body and left behind a gentle thread of spiritual energy to repair her body. Yan Zhuguang herself had the Wood Spirit Body, so the repair process was shortened even further.
So now she was almost completely well.
Yan Zhuguang turned over, got off the bed, and moved her limbs.
The system popped out. “Host, didn’t you promise Senior Sister that you would not run around? Where are you going?”
“I will look around this cave residence.” Yun Mixue had prepared several extra sets of clothing in the room. Yan Zhuguang changed out of the clothes she had dirtied, put on a new white dress, opened the door, and walked out of the side room.
Perhaps because Yun Mixue lived alone, there were not many rooms in Ice-Snow Cottage, but there were quite a few gardens.
When Yan Zhuguang opened the door, what entered her sight was a small garden. It was just like the icy world outside, a field of white. Only a few bits of green showed faintly here and there, brightening the eyes.
The corridor between the garden and the side room seemed to be a dividing line. The garden clearly looked cold, but the corridor was warm like spring. There was not the slightest chill.
Earlier, she had gone out in a hurry and had not looked properly at the surroundings. Yan Zhuguang stood in the corridor and looked around. She did not plan to stroll through the snow-white garden, so she chose a direction and walked along the corridor.
After several turns, Yan Zhuguang unknowingly arrived at a larger garden. The scenery here was far more stunning than that of the small garden by the side room.
Clusters of small snow-white flowers bloomed in great abundance, yet they were only decorations in the garden. In one corner bloomed a cluster of large double-petaled scarlet flowers, passionate as fire, as if they would melt this little world of ice and snow.
There were not only red flowers. The garden also had purple, blue, yellow, and pink flowers blooming in circles and clusters, filling the eye with bright color.
Of course, the most eye-catching thing was still the huge white tree in the center, taller than the buildings. It seemed carved from warm jade. Every branch stretched at just the right angle. Its small oval leaves were also snow-white, and among the branches and leaves hung transparent fruits the size of fists.
Inside each fruit, the round white pit and the fruit’s veins could be clearly seen. Outside, the fruits were like crystal, with sharp edges and planes. A thin scatter of frost dotted their surface. They looked delicate and beautiful.
“Is this the fruit tree she mentioned?”
The system also hesitated. “It… it should be?”
Its tone lacked confidence.
Yun Mixue had said there were a few fruit trees in her courtyard. Yan Zhuguang had walked from the side room’s garden to the large garden and had so far found only this one.
“Host,” the system asked carefully, “are you sure you want to use that to fill your stomach?”
Based on its understanding of Host, the system felt she would absolutely dare say yes.
Sure enough, Yan Zhuguang asked back, “Why not? Wasn’t Senior Sister the one who told me to pick fruit if I was hungry? Since I have her permission, why can I not eat it?”
The system thought, see? I guessed right.
Then it said, “But Host, that is a Crystal-Edged Heaven Frost Fruit. Eating it can briefly improve comprehension. Using it as something to fill your stomach would be such a waste.”
Yan Zhuguang smiled. “Then look. In this Ice-Snow Cottage, other than Crystal-Edged Heaven Frost Fruit, what else can fill the stomach?”
The system scanned all the gardens in Ice-Snow Cottage, then got stuck.
“Mm? Say it.”
The system hesitantly said, “Other than Crystal-Edged Heaven Frost Fruit, there are Blood Branch Fruits, Green Glaze Hundred Flavor Fruits, Lotus Rhyme Splendor Seeds…”
Every single one was a spiritual plant with extraordinary effects.
Looking at it this way, perhaps only this Crystal-Edged Heaven Frost Fruit tree before them was relatively more suitable for filling the stomach, because it bore more fruit than the other trees.
Yan Zhuguang was not surprised by this result at all. Yun Mixue was a Nascent Soul cultivator. How could fruit trees planted in a Nascent Soul cultivator’s garden be ordinary?
So from the beginning, Yan Zhuguang had not planned to follow Yun Mixue’s words.
Using these fruits to fill her stomach would be far too wasteful. No matter how calm Yan Zhuguang’s mindset was, she would not pick and eat precious spiritual fruits Yun Mixue had carefully tended.
As for what she had said to the system earlier, that had only been a joke to scare it.
The system: …
Putting aside the effects of the Crystal-Edged Heaven Frost Fruit tree, as an ornamental plant, it was also an extremely beautiful spiritual plant. Yan Zhuguang stood by the garden and admired it for a while, then circled along the corridor around the large garden.
The rooms facing the large garden should be the main rooms of Ice-Snow Cottage. The central room was likely where Yun Mixue lived.
Yan Zhuguang looked at it from a distance and did not approach rashly. She turned in another direction and went elsewhere.
After walking several loops and memorizing the positions of these rooms, Yan Zhuguang had a rough outline of the whole Ice-Snow Cottage in her mind. Then she stopped strolling through the courtyard and turned back to her side room.
“Host was memorizing the layout of Ice-Snow Cottage just now? Actually, with the mini-map, there is no need to go through so much trouble.”
Yan Zhuguang said, “I am not used to relying completely on outside objects.”
In truth, she had already forgotten the mini-map existed.
“Host, I heard that.”
The system could not help laughing. It had not expected its all-knowing Honored Host to have moments of muddle too. Why did it want to laugh a little?
No. For Honored Host’s pride, it had to hold back.
Host, do not worry. I am a system that has undergone strict training. I absolutely will not laugh at you.
Then Yan Zhuguang turned off thought communication.
The system: Host is angry from embarrassment.
Yan Zhuguang’s expression did not move. Only two pretty patches of red rose on her cheeks. Mm. It was definitely not embarrassment. It was from the snow wind.
She coughed softly and said in a serious tone, “Do not disturb me. I broke through too quickly earlier. To avoid an unstable foundation, I need to consolidate my cultivation.”
“Oh.” The system cared very much about Honored Host’s cultivation. Once Yan Zhuguang said that, it obediently shut up. It also turned off its voice to avoid accidentally disturbing Host.
Yan Zhuguang sat cross-legged and meditated, sinking her mind into cultivation. Her spirit immersed itself in the heavenly Dao’s insight, and her awareness of the outside world dropped to its lowest point. Her body did not move at all.
The system became a little bored.
It wandered around in its little world, wanting to find something to pass the time, but not daring to disturb Host. So it thought of its proper duty as a system: the white moonlight.
The system stretched its perception outward and probed toward the place where Yun Mixue was.
What was Senior Sister busy with now?
Before long, a man’s voice entered its perception.
“Junior Sister brought back a servant disciple from a small sect?”