Battle Through the Heavens: Beginning the Road to Rise at Jia Nan Academy - Part 78

"Oh." After a long while, Zi Yan nodded as if she half understood.

She leaned close to Qin Chen's arm, stretched out a little hand, and gently poked Little Swallowing Heaven Python inside his sleeve. "So Xiaocai is the one controlling the body now?"

"That's right." Seeing her curious expression, Qin Chen could not help reaching out to rub the top of her head.

"Eek eek~"

Just then, Xiaocai seemed to sense something. Its tiny face furrowed slightly, and its previously closed vertical pupils suddenly snapped open, its clear eyes reflecting Zi Yan, who was right before it.

Xiaocai tilted its delicate little head, its tiny face full of innocent confusion.

How should it put this?

The little girl before it seemed to exert a pull from deep within its bloodline. It was not an intense fondness, but neither was there the slightest trace of dislike. Instead, it felt an inexplicable sense of closeness.

In the survival-of-the-fittest world of Magical Beasts, strength was the only universal language. So long as there was no irreconcilable hatred or deadly feud, most barriers could be erased through absolute power, much less...

Xiaocai already felt an inexplicable closeness toward the girl before it.

"Hello, Xiaocai." In the end, it was the lively Zi Yan who broke the silence first.

She took out a small jade bottle, white and lustrous as jade, and shook it before Xiaocai. Crisp clinking sounds came from within as she giggled. "How about it? There are tasty pills inside. Do you want them?"

Perhaps it was her childlike nature at work, or perhaps it was some unspoken mutual understanding. In any case, Zi Yan really wanted to tease this little snake that was even more "miniature" than herself.

For so long, she had always been the smallest among everyone around