Chapter 85 (Extra 8)
Jiaheng didn’t say anything, turning his head as if he hadn’t noticed the person behind him. His breathing grew heavier, and even his steps became heavier.
He hadn’t expected Yu Wuxia’s cultivation to progress so quickly. It was supposed to take ten years to take human form, but now it had only taken three.
Yu Wuxia must have already taken human form days ago, but he had been hiding it, deliberately deceiving him.
The person behind him remained silent for a moment, then slowly followed the tiger into the cave.
The light inside the cave was dim, as if stained by ink. The tiger lay down on a stone platform, as if sulking, without saying a word.
Yu Wuxia, pale-faced, sat opposite the tiger, admitting his mistake.
“Master, I didn’t mean to deceive you. I can only return to human form for one moment each day, so I didn’t tell you.”
In fact, he was afraid that if he told his master he had already taken human form, his master would abandon him.
He didn’t know his master’s current attitude towards him, so he had to be extremely cautious.
Jiaheng finally raised his eyes to look at him, his eyelids drooping, his expression hidden by the dense tiger fur on his face. “You still retain your previous memories?”
“Yes…” Yu Wuxia didn’t want to admit it, but under Jiaheng’s gaze, he couldn’t help but tell the truth.
It seemed he was always like this, unable to hide anything when facing Jiaheng.
Even though the person in front of him was no longer the lofty Immortal but just a tiger, his reverence for him remained unchanged.
Jiaheng had thought that once the relic cultivated back into human form, it would forget the past and turn into a baby, so he could take good care of it and be honest with Yu Wuxia.
But unexpectedly, Yu Wuxia remembered everything.
So…he really didn’t know what to say or what could be said.
The tiger felt a bit reclusive.
The reclusive tiger then put on a cold and aloof demeanor, ignoring Yu Wuxia. After asking this question, he turned his head and lay on the cool stone, lightly dozing.
Yu Wuxia opened his mouth but was speechless. He didn’t know what his master’s reaction meant and was too scared to breathe heavily, afraid that his master would find a fault and drive him away.
A quarter of an hour later, Yu Wuxia’s body transformed back into a relic with a “bang” and fell to the ground.
Jiaheng opened his eyes, looked at the relic on the ground without any emotion, picked it up with his mouth, and placed it on the stone platform.
When he turned around, he didn’t notice that the originally gray-brown relic had inexplicably turned red.
Even though his master had become a tiger, his mouth was still soft, and his tongue was also soft, seeming very kissable.
Yu Wuxia was delighted, and the silver light surrounding him began to flicker with joy.
Jiaheng walked out of the cave. The night was the best time for a tiger to hunt, with its senses particularly sharp. He lay in wait near the stream, waiting for prey to come for a drink.
Moonlight shone on the stream, reflecting shimmering waves. Occasionally, a fish would leap out of the water, seemingly playing joyfully. Usually, birds and beasts would come to drink by the stream, but tonight, despite lying in wait for a long time, Jiaheng didn’t see any prey. Tonight was indeed unlucky.
He returned with an empty stomach, not realizing that his erratic breathing while hiding in the grass had scared off the nearby animals.
It seemed that ever since he saw Yu Wuxia, he couldn’t calm down, though he hadn’t noticed it himself.
Fortunately, on the way back, he found a wild chicken killed by a previous beast’s hunt. He picked up the uneaten flesh and bones, barely filling his stomach.
The tiger returned to the cave but didn’t go in. Instead, he lay at the entrance, with fallen leaves and weeds perfectly covering his body.
He closed his eyes and fell asleep in the tranquility.
He didn’t know how long he had slept when he was awakened by the sound of grinding medicine. Raising his head, he first saw the wildly growing weeds, with golden sunlight streaming through, slightly dazzling.
The tiger lowered his eyelids and looked towards the sound, seeing Yu Wuxia grinding medicine with a stone.
Earlier, Yu Wuxia had stopped the bleeding on the tiger’s paw but hadn’t dared to apply medicine, fearing the tiger would discover his identity. But now that the tiger knew, he took the opportunity to gather herbs and grind them into powder to apply to the tiger’s paw.
“Master, have you lost all your cultivation?”
The tiger didn’t refuse his actions of applying the medicine nor did he respond, looking away into the distance.
Yu Wuxia awkwardly lowered his head. Perhaps due to his higher cultivation, he could now maintain his human form for longer periods. After applying the medicine, he asked, “Master, who hurt you?”
Jiaheng still didn’t speak. At that moment, a familiar scent of blood wafted through the forest. Jiaheng narrowed his eyes, his agile body leaping forward like the wind.
Yu Wuxia quickly followed behind, reaching a dense forest area with his master.
They saw a tigress trapped in a hunter’s trap, her back pierced by a blade, lying in the mud unable to move.
A tiger was trying to claw at the tigress, but couldn’t reach her, and instead, lost his balance and fell into the trap, his paw and chest pierced by knives, letting out a howl of pain.
Jiaheng circled the trap, the tiger inside growling menacingly, thinking Jiaheng was there to take advantage.
Jiaheng observed the tigers’ injuries. They were both trapped by knives and couldn’t move. He looked around, trying to find something useful, but there were only dead branches and leaves.
Yu Wuxia sensed Jiaheng’s blood on the tiger and glanced at the unhealed wound on its chest, realizing that this tiger had injured Jiaheng.
And now, Jiaheng wanted to save them.
Without asking, Yu Wuxia found a stone and threw it into the trap. The tiger initially endured the pain, pulling itself from the knives, protecting the tigress behind him, and growling at Yu Wuxia, trying to intimidate him.
When Yu Wuxia realized that the stones he had thrown hadn’t harmed the tigers, the male tiger’s roaring gradually subsided. The female tiger, despite the pain, pulled herself off the knife’s tip. Fortunately, the knife hadn’t damaged her vital organs, only piercing the skin on her back.
Seeing this, the male tiger immediately began licking the female tiger’s wounds, and she reciprocated by licking his.
Yu Wuxia, having stacked the stones sufficiently, watched the tigers licking each other’s wounds and estimated that they could climb out of the trap. He stopped throwing stones.
He looked at Jiaheng with a sense of accomplishment, his eyes conveying a desire for praise.
However, as usual, Jiaheng didn’t say much. His tail flicked slightly, and without even making eye contact with Yu Wuxia, he turned and left.
Yu Wuxia glanced at the tigers still engrossed in their mutual affection and then followed Jiaheng.
He felt a bit envious of the tigers, able to groom each other and express their affection, while he couldn’t even get his master to talk to him.
Could it really be as Si Lan said, that his master disliked him because of his bad temperament and inability to speak well?
Just as Yu Wuxia was deep in thought, his body suddenly underwent a change. He didn’t even have time to call out to his master before transforming into a relic and falling to the ground.
The last thing he saw was the ground covered in fallen leaves and Jiaheng’s receding figure.
Yu Wuxia felt a pang of sadness. He couldn’t move or speak now. The air around him was filled with the scent of earth, and with the wind blowing leaves everywhere, he feared that if he was covered by leaves, his master might not find him for a while.
As he was lamenting his situation, he suddenly sensed a shadow overhead, nearly blocking out the sky. In the next moment, something soft and warm enveloped him, picking him up in its mouth.
The breath from the other’s mouth was hot and engulfed his entire being.
The relic inexplicably began to glow red.
Master… Master had realized he had turned into a relic so quickly.
So, his master did care about him, just pretended not to.
Realizing this, the “red stains” on the relic floated gently, as if excited blood was coursing through them.
The tiger, naturally unaware of the relic’s changes, brought it back and then lay down on the stone platform to rest.
The relic focused intently on the tiger, and if his gaze could kill, the tiger would have long been dismantled and devoured.
His master, now in the form of a tiger, seemed kind-hearted but had lost his Buddhist compassion and no longer pursued cultivation, appearing content to remain an ordinary tiger.
Yu Wuxia hazily thought that if he wanted to be with his master in the future, he would have to take the form of a tiger.
He couldn’t help but recall the scene of the two tigers in the trap showing affection, causing the relic to glow even redder.
If his master would let him help groom him, he’d be willing to remain a tiger for a lifetime.
But now, his master wouldn’t even talk to him…
His master was so reserved, never saying much. How could he always guess what his master was thinking?
Perhaps he should follow the unreliable advice of that demon lord.
With this thought, Yu Wuxia felt much happier, and the relic seemed to move, almost like it was about to spin and leap.
Jiaheng, hearing the noise, glanced at the relic. After a moment of silence, he tucked his tail under himself, covering what needed to be covered.
Though he couldn’t hear the relic’s laughter, he could sense it was probably laughing mischievously.
“…” Yu Wuxia.
The next day, after Yu Wuxia transformed back into human form, he didn’t find Jiaheng in the cave, so he hurried out to search for him.
Lacking much cultivation, he could only rely on faint traces of aura to track Jiaheng, finding him slowly drinking water by a stream.
Yu Wuxia approached, but Jiaheng didn’t react, continuing to drink water.
Yu Wuxia thought to himself that his master had probably become so used to being an Immortal that he had lost all vigilance. Even when he got close, there was no reaction.
The tiger, after drinking, instinctively shook its fur and turned to see Yu Wuxia washing his face in the stream.
The tiger seemed to pause for a moment but still said nothing. As it turned to leave, Yu Wuxia’s voice rang out behind him.
“Master, I have many things I want to tell you.”
The tiger’s steps faltered slightly before continuing.
Undeterred, Yu Wuxia followed, saying, “Master, you said before that you did four things wrong regarding me. But I never thought you did anything wrong, nor did I ever blame you.”
The tiger, guessing what Yu Wuxia was about to say but not wanting to hear it, sped up, moving gracefully through the forest.
Once the veil was lifted, he knew what awaited them. He wasn’t resistant but wanted to retreat.
Or rather, he wanted to maintain the current situation.
Isn’t this just fine as it is?
Why do people always need to dig deeper?
Yu Wuxia, undeterred, chased after him, shamelessly saying, “Master, after turning into a relic, I’ve reflected on many things. I was too extreme back then, trying to change the six realms for my own sake.”
“I always thought you didn’t value me, that you hated me. But after reflecting, I understood your dilemma. For someone who tried to destroy your cultivation but claimed to love you, not killing him was already lenient.”
“But back then, I was foolish and couldn’t understand your good intentions. I forced you to be with me. If I had been smarter and understood your heart, we wouldn’t have ended up like this.”
The running tiger, hearing Yu Wuxia’s nonsense, couldn’t help but growl and glare back at him.
What nonsense was he spouting?
Why did it sound like they had long been secretly in love?
“Master, don’t ignore me. It makes me very sad.”
Jiaheng hadn’t expected Yu Wuxia to suddenly “act spoiled,” and almost stumbled.
This person was getting crazier.
The tiger ran out of the forest and into the fields, with Yu Wuxia chasing close behind.
He shouted, “If you won’t respond to me, I’ll kiss you every time you ignore me until you speak.”
“…”
Hearing this, the tiger slipped and fell into a ditch.
In the next instant, Yu Wuxia’s figure pounced, pinning the tiger into the dirt.
T/N: Hey there! There is plenty more where that came from, so stay tuned! And stay healthy! Straighten your posture, so some stretches and drink some water before continuing hehe~
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