Near the Sunset Mountain Range.
I didn't disturb Ye Qingxian's spell.
Tracking the pawprints of a Tricolor Cat from more than twenty years ago was no easy task.
Ye Qingxian had chosen the clumsiest method, but also the most effective one.
She followed the Tricolor Cat's pawprints, tracing them step by step.
There was one good thing about this.
I could see with my own eyes what my mother had gone through all these years.
The downside was obvious, too.
We certainly wouldn't find Cat mother in just a day or two.
Ye Qingxian made her calculations. Even at their fastest, she estimated it would take a week.
"Can't we go a little faster?"
Looking at Junior Sister's tear-filled eyes, Ye Qingxian swallowed the words about how the rules of the lower realm forbade her from using great divine abilities. "Five days. At most five days, and I'll help you find your mother." If there was no way, couldn't she find one? Junior Sister was about to cry. Even if she had to punch a hole in the sky, she'd get it done.
I pressed my lips together and said nothing.
Ye Qingxian had clearly had enough. She could only raise her hands in surrender. "Three days, three days. Will that do? My—Little Ancestor."
"Surely you're satisfied now?"
I jolted when I heard my childhood nickname. It still felt a little strange. I shot her a glare. "I should never have told you that name."
Ye Qingxian could only plead her innocence. "You called me Wanwan, too."
"Why should only the prefect be allowed to light fires?"
"That still doesn't make it okay." It was the first time someone other than my parents had called me by my childhood nickname, and I was so embarrassed I could die. Even my