"All right, I'll take it! This one, then. Thank you."
Cao Zhi smiled. "To earn Yu Se's favor is this little dog's good fortune. Do you know how to raise a dog, Yu Se? If not, I can have someone teach you the basics."
Verdant Green Maiden shook her head. "No need. Only the strong are worthy to follow me. Dogs are no exception!"
"Hmm?"
Cao Zhi stared, stunned.
Verdant Green Maiden glanced at him. "What, don't like it? Worried about your dog?"
"How could I..."
Cao Zhi shook his head helplessly.
"Don't worry, don't worry. I'm not some cruel person! I'm only saying. Sure, this little dog will have to endure hardship and toil as it trains with me, but it'll gain plenty from it!"
"Who knows? Maybe one day it'll even become a Dog God!"
Verdant Green Maiden played with the little dog, wiggling her fingers at it, while Cao Zhi fell silent.
A Dog God?
He glanced at the dog, which was fawning over Verdant Green Maiden, and said nothing.
So... a Dog God with such humanlike intelligence?
Never mind. There was no need to understand the Immortals' affairs so clearly.
Now that she had a dog, Verdant Green Maiden didn't stay in Jianye any longer. After packing her belongings, she went to bid Cao Zhi farewell.
"Yu Se, if you leave now, I fear we may never meet again in this lifetime!"
Cao Zhi sighed.
Verdant Green Maiden rolled her eyes. "Why so gloomy? It's not as if I won't come to sweep your grave! Be sure to put some good things in your tomb. Don't disappoint the Goddess Empress!"
Cao Zhi nodded. "Of course."
Verdant Green Maiden swung herself onto Old Yellow Ox's back and patted its shoulder, about to leave, when Cao Zhi called