An Important Pet

"Kill you?"

You Su looked surprised. "Who wants to kill you?"

Bai Ze pursed his thin lips and stammered, "I... I can't say..."

"Can't you say?"

Bai Ze cast a pleading look at You Su and nodded his small head.

"I didn't expect that even now, you would still be hiding something from me." You Su feigned disappointment.

"No, that's not it..." Bai Ze looked very troubled, biting his lip as he said, "I just didn't want to drag you into this..."

"Damage?"

You Su sighed, "I know even if you don't say it, the person who wants to kill you is that friend you mentioned— the Palace Lord of Dragon Seeing Palace."

Bai Ze was immediately terrified, his bright eyes filled with disbelief.

How did you know?!

"If we're talking about being implicated, then I'm afraid I've already been implicated by you." You Su didn't answer, but sighed again, "But similarly, you've also been implicated by me, which is why you've ended up in this situation. We'll settle our debts, so neither of us has really implicated the other. You can't say things like that again."

Bai Ze was deeply moved after hearing this, feeling that You Su was only saying it to comfort her. Thinking about their current situation, the girl's eyes immediately welled up with tears, making her look pitiful.

"Alright, tell me everything about you and the Palace Lord of Dragon Seeing Palace, so I can help you."

You Su gently raised her hand and ruffled the girl's hair.

His actions unexpectedly caused the girl to burst into tears. Self-reproach, fear, and all sorts of suppressed emotions welled up and streamed down her cheeks. As Bai Ze wiped away his tears, he asked intermittently:

"Why are you so good to me... sob..."

You Su chuckled softly and patted the girl's head gently, as if tapping it.

"What a stupid cat."

This time, Bai Ze neither argued nor got angry at You Su's joking and scolding, but instead asked with a snort:

"Because Pearl is You Su's kitten, right?"

"I can't afford to keep such a big cat."

"I can be very small!"

"But you can eat just as much as you did when you were a baby."

"You eat so much yourself, what's wrong with sharing some with me!" Bai Ze said angrily, making a move to bite You Su's hand.

You Su chuckled and pulled her arm away, but Bai Ze took the opportunity to jump into You Su's arms. This time, however, she didn't just lean on him, but hugged him tightly.

You Su felt the fragrance of the girl's hair filling his nostrils, and the warmth of her body emanating from his arms.

You Su was slightly alarmed by the girl's return to him. He said he did this only so that the girl wouldn't feel too guilty, since he also bore some responsibility for her situation.

But the girl was trembling slightly in his arms, as if she were sobbing. How could he, in this desperate situation, be so heartless as to push her away?

You Su couldn't figure out how he viewed Bai Ze either; he only felt that after this misunderstanding, he had come to regard Bai Ze as an important person.

No, it's an important pet.

The girl who jumped into my arms at that moment was essentially a clingy kitten.

Thinking of this, he felt a little more at ease and gently patted the girl's perfectly curved back to comfort her.

Once his emotions had calmed down, Bai Ze raised his head, his eyes red and swollen, and stammered out:

"Actually, I know... she might not be my friend..."

Why do you say that?

"Because during the time she spent with me in Azure Mountain, I saw her admiring a portrait and muttering something to herself, so I quietly went up to her."

You Su frowned slightly. "What portrait?"

"Let me finish... She reacted strongly to my arrival. At the time, I just thought the person in the painting looked like her, so I asked her who she was and if she was her daughter."

You Su was startled and turned to look at the girl nestled in his arms. He naturally recognized who the person in the portrait who looked so much like Ganlong Venerable was.

It's far away, yet right before my eyes.

Could Bai Ze really be that wicked woman's daughter? Even tigers don't eat their cubs, so a tigress should do the same...

"But she said no, and then burned the painting right in front of me. I said the person in the painting was just as beautiful as her, why did you burn it? The look in her eyes then terrified me. She said... she said..."

What did she say?

You Su took the initiative to hug the trembling girl tighter, trying to soothe her fear.

"She said he was her enemy... someone she had to kill."

You Su's heart skipped a beat. An enemy?

These two identities left him increasingly confused.

"I hadn't done any human transformations before, so I confidently declared that I would avenge her once I saw her enemy. She smiled and patted my head; at least her eyes weren't so frightening anymore."

"She taught me cultivation, but I couldn't learn it at all. My powers are all innate; the wind and snow obey me, and I was even born with the ability to speak. I couldn't understand the complicated things she talked about, but she was very persistent, as if she was determined to teach me, and she would ask me questions all the time."

I couldn't answer, so I just gave random answers. She seemed to value my answers, often pondering them for a long time, and occasionally I even satisfied her. Seeing her happy, I pretended to follow her in her spiritual practice. Later, she said she had important matters to attend to and couldn't stay with me any longer, so she left. But I felt that she thought I was too stupid to be taught, so she gave up on teaching me."

The more details Bai Ze described, the stranger it seemed to You Su.

"How did she teach you spiritual practice?"

"It's just about studying, and then having me do what she says."

Do you remember the contents of the book?

"I don't remember, it was something about meridians or something." Bai Ze frowned his handsome brows.

Upon hearing this You Su was greatly alarmed, because this was not at all a beautiful story of a Void Realm expert attempting to tame a unruly newborn Divine Beast!

Beasts are beasts; their meridians are vastly different from humans. How can one teach beasts using human cultivation Cultivation Method? If they could communicate, why would beasts need to transform into humans?

Moreover, teaching by reading aloud is no different from playing the lute to a cow, except that the cow will at least make a few rhythmic moos.

Judging from what this Ganlong Venerable has done, You Su feels that she is more like seeking confirmation from Bai Ze about something!

As a teacher, how could he not see through Bai Ze's feigned learning? Since he couldn't teach him, why force him? So those questions about that Cultivation Method weren't about whether Bai Ze was listening or not, but rather Ganlong Venerable was asking them for himself!

Bai Ze is definitely not a simple Bai Ze!

"Then how did you later discover that you could transform into a human?"

"She left... and I became lonely again. In addition, fewer and fewer people came to Azure Mountain after that, so in order to make her look at me with new eyes, I no longer held back and worked hard to absorb the Mystic Qi between heaven and earth every day, growing bigger and bigger every day."

Until one day, when I accidentally discovered that I could turn into a human, I saw my own reflection on the ice and realized that I actually looked exactly like her enemy!

Thinking about this still terrifies me, so I've decided I'll never transform into a human again, and I'll never let anyone know my secret! Otherwise, not only will I lose my only friend, but he'll also kill me..."

You Su then understood why Bai Ze was so worried about others knowing that she could transform into a human.

But now it seems that Bai Ze, who thought he had hidden something well and was wholeheartedly protecting this 'friendship', had not hidden anything at all. The other party already knew that she was her enemy, which is why he chose to approach her.

You Su sighed softly, "Even if you couldn't transform into a human, she would still find a way to kill you. She left not because she was disappointed in your inability to cultivate, but because she knew you couldn't, so she could leave in peace."

Bai Ze was surprised to hear this, seemingly having never considered such a thing. You Su then told the girl everything that Ganlong Venerable had said in the Divine Radiance Stone Forest after she jumped into the Black Well. He also told the girl that Ganlong Venerable was the mastermind behind the Snow Mastiff Sect's thirty-year exodus to the far north snowfield, and that his claim of going to the Palace Lord of Dragon Seeing Palace to ask about the truth was utter nonsense, because the other party was the mastermind himself.

The girl then realized that she had been kept in the dark all along.

This friendship was not only fragile, but also false; only she herself considered it a precious bond.

"No wonder she always told me to be braver... I won't die if I jump..."

At this moment, the girl's face showed no fear, but rather a deathly stillness.

She never imagined that she had been plotted against by this so-called friend since then. Even the fact that she dragged You Su down into this dark and desolate place was secretly manipulated by her.

All of this was done so that she could commit suicide without being entangled in the Heavenly Dao consequences of killing herself.

"Why... why..."

You Su hugged the girl who was on the verge of collapse, feeling that the girl was in a terrible state.

Bai Ze's past seems to have taken on a different meaning.

The story of Bai Ze being nearly killed by a poisoned sacrifice and then being carefully cared for and ultimately cured by Ganlong Venerable is likely that the poisoned sacrifice was actually her doing. She simply discovered that poison couldn't kill Bai Ze, so she deliberately took care of him to gain his trust.

It was precisely because of the power of the Divine Radiance Stone that Bai Ze was easily deceived and willingly kept the smuggled contraband for her. The Soft God Powder that caused it to lose its power and its mind must have been made by her as well.

Those conspiracies and schemes seem to be gradually coming to light.

To this day, it remains unknown why Ganlong Venerable harbors such murderous intent towards this girl who looks remarkably like himself.

Even after turning her into trash and leaving her in the snow for thirty years, when she saw a girl who posed no threat to her, she still plotted to make her commit suicide.

You Su had a vague feeling that the reason why Ganlong Venerable was murderous towards Bai Ze was related to the Crimson Hell he was in, the Divine Radiance Stone that had been smuggled in to fill the heart of the Divine Mountain since thirty years ago, and even the enemies that Archimedes Venerable was facing who were secretly plotting... all of these things were indistinctly connected.

What exactly happened thirty years ago?

"I'm so sorry, I'm the one who got you killed... This place is definitely a death trap, we're all doomed, meow..."

Bai Ze cried in despair, heartbroken and devastated.

You Su personally wiped away the girl's tears. The girl's cheeks were so soft and tender, and her tears looked like melting snow.

"Don't be afraid. This place may be a death trap for others, but it's not for me."

His words of comfort were delivered with unwavering certainty, while behind him, a dazzling display of blood streaks danced wildly.

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