Chapter 164: Do You Really Not Need It?
“Is Bai Dou actually reliable?”
The three fellow disciples followed behind Bai Dou. If they weren’t encountering massive man-eating flowers, they were running into highly venomous golden ants.
Lin Qingyue, who had just barely escaped the pursuit of a swarm of demon beasts, finally reached the end of his patience. He grabbed Bai Dou and demanded, “Bai Dou, tell me, you didn’t get the wrong way this time, did you?”
Bai Dou looked innocent. It was really trying its best to recognize the path!
Bai Dou babbled and gurgled a stream of sounds. Lin Qingyue remained skeptical, looking in the direction it was pointing with little trust.
“You aren’t looking for the Millennium Soul Nourishing Wood; you’re looking for treasures you like, aren’t you?”
The three of them had encountered danger everywhere they went following Bai Dou. However, it had to be said that alongside the danger, they had also harvested quite a lot.
In the swarm of giant man-eating flowers, they had inadvertently discovered a large amount of floral nectar; in the golden ant nest, they obtained several pieces of Spirit Marrow. In short, they hadn’t returned empty-handed.
Therefore, Lin Qingyue was rather doubtful about the path Bai Dou was pointing out this time.
“Bai Dou, do you really like these things?”
Ye Jingxian placed the items they had obtained earlier in front of it. Bai Dou nodded in admission.
Ye Jingxian gently patted Bai Dou’s little head. “Let’s go find the Soul Nourishing Wood first, and we can come back to find what you like afterward, okay?”
Bai Dou babbled another incomprehensible string of sounds at Ye Jingxian. The three looked at each other; they couldn’t understand it.
“Lin Shixiong, Bai Dou doesn’t have a contract, right?” Yu Qianqian suggested. “If you formed a contract with Bai Dou, wouldn’t you be able to understand what it’s saying?”
Bai Dou understood her words. Its small mouth pouted, and it looked at Lin Qingyue and Ye Jingxian with teary eyes.
Before it could even start wailing, Lin Qingyue recalled the dream he had that day—the yellow sand sweeping through, the sky filled with dust.
His gaze toward Bai Dou had been complicated these past two days.
Bai Dou seemed to be a spirit pet, but in reality, it was more like his child. They raised it like a child, and since the matter of a contract had been set aside, no one had mentioned it again.
Pulling Bai Dou tighter into his embrace, Lin Qingyue said helplessly, “I won’t contract you. Don’t be sad, okay?”
There was no helping it. If Bai Dou were angry or furious, it would be fine, but the little thing would just pout and cry, making it impossible for anyone to harden their heart against it.
“Don’t cry, don’t cry. We’ll give you an extra share of the things we got today, alright? Bai Dou, you don’t look good when you cry. Come on, smile.”
Lin Qingyue rubbed Bai Dou’s head and suddenly realized that its hair had actually grown thicker.
“What’s wrong?” Ye Jingxian and Yu Qianqian looked at him.
Lin Qingyue smiled. “Bai Dou isn’t a little baldy anymore.”
That one sentence made Bai Dou stop crying, its eyes filled with accusation at his words. It chattered angrily. It jumped down from Lin Qingyue’s arms and put its hands on its hips.
“Eh, it even has a waist now,” Yu Qianqian remarked in surprise.
Ye Jingxian spoke a word of justice: “Bai Dou has always had one, it just wasn’t very obvious before.”
Bai Dou stayed angry for a moment, then hopped onto a large green leaf nearby. It tugged and pulled at it, digging into the center of the giant grass stalk until it pulled out a palm-sized little creature.
Only then did Lin Qingyue and the others realize that a small Flower Spirit was hiding in the center of the grass.
Suddenly exposed by Bai Dou, the little Flower Spirit’s eyes went wide as it tried to hide its body.
Yu Qianqian asked, “Is this a Mayfly Flower Spirit?”
“Mn.” Lin Qingyue nodded. He had only seen them in books before. Legend had it that Mayfly Flower Spirits were almost extinct.
The reason this creature was called a Mayfly Flower Spirit was that its lifespan was like that of a mayfly—very, very short.
However, unlike the insect, the Mayfly Flower Spirit possessed a miraculous ability. They could trade with humans to exchange for lifespan. Yet, no one knew how they fulfilled these trades; there were almost no relevant records in ancient texts.
Some once said that they gradually went extinct precisely because of this ability.
Lin Qingyue snatched Bai Dou back into his arms. “Bai Dou, you didn’t exchange anything with it, did you?”
He was worried and frightened. For the first time, he wanted to hit someone—no, he wanted to hit Bai Dou.
“You…” Lin Qingyue was furious. He turned to Ye Jingxian and said, “Da Shixiong, you handle the discipline in the future.”
It seemed Bai Dou wouldn’t do without a proper education. If they didn’t teach it, it might be tricked into losing its little life later on.
Seeing Lin Qingyue’s dark expression and sensing his anger, Bai Dou babbled at the Mayfly Flower Spirit.
“We didn’t trade lifespan.”
“Ah! You—you can actually talk!” Yu Qianqian was startled and hurriedly hid behind Lin Qingyue.
“Is being able to talk strange?” The Mayfly Flower Spirit didn’t understand.
Of course, being able to talk wasn’t strange, but you are just a spirit, and a short-lived Mayfly Flower Spirit at that. Speaking should be a fantasy for you.
Lin Qingyue and Ye Jingxian were also shocked. After all, a Mayfly Flower Spirit speaking was fundamentally impossible.
As if seeing their confusion and realizing they didn’t intend to harm it, the Mayfly Flower Spirit flew out from the grass core.
“I have lived for two hundred years, and learning to speak only took one day.”
Hearing that it had lived for two hundred years, the trio’s first reaction was to grip their swords tighter. Ye Jingxian quietly stepped in front of Lin Qingyue and Yu Qianqian.
A two-hundred-year-old Mayfly Flower Spirit. How many people must it have traded with? What was traded? They didn’t dare to imagine.
They all coincidentally took a step back. The Mayfly Flower Spirit was right beside them; if not for Bai Dou, they never would have discovered it.
Seeing them guard against it, the Mayfly Flower Spirit was very puzzled. It looked at Bai Dou. “You are afraid of me? Why?”
“Shouldn’t you be happy? I can grant you many wishes. As long as you desire it, I can make it happen.”
“We just need to hand over our lifespan, is that it?” Lin Qingyue asked the unspoken part.
The Mayfly Flower Spirit tilted its head and gently shook it. “Why call it ‘handing over’? It is merely returning the lifespan that belongs to me.”
The three remained silent. They could not agree with these words.
The lifespan of a Mayfly Flower Spirit was destined from the start. Trading with humans to exchange for lifespan using its ability sounded eerie enough, let alone the fact that it believed it was merely taking back what was its own.
Legend had it that anyone who encountered a Mayfly Flower Spirit, aside from making a trade, could never say anything else about it.
Lin Qingyue said, “We don’t want anything. We won’t make any deals.”
Worried that Bai Dou had been ignorant and made a trade, he asked again, “You didn’t trade lifespan, but did you trade anything else?”
The Mayfly Flower Spirit paused slightly, pointing at Bai Dou. “It is just a spirit.”
“We know,” Ye Jingxian said.
“So what are you worried about?” The Mayfly Flower Spirit flew to the top of the grass, looking down at Lin Qingyue and Ye Jingxian. “Don’t you want the Ten Thousand Year Soul Nourishing Wood? I know where it is!”
Lin Qingyue’s first reaction upon hearing this was to look at Ye Jingxian. Even though the other party hadn’t mentioned it, he was afraid he would ask. With his Da Shixiong’s personality, once feelings were involved, his brain definitely wouldn’t be thinking clearly.
He denied it. “Who told you we wanted the Ten Thousand Year Soul Nourishing Wood?”
“Do you really not need it?”
The Mayfly Flower Spirit’s voice came through with extreme temptation, a deep, bottomless vortex hidden within its eyes.
It asked once more, “Do you really not need it?”
Everyone who entered this place had desires. No one was without wants.
As long as there was desire, there would be a trade.
“I have lived for two hundred years. This is the proof. The proof of desire.”
A deal would eventually be reached between them, each taking what they needed.
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