The Wind Suddenly Rose (4)

After that, with Ye Jingxuan's diligent "help," Li Bai spent a full year atoning for stealing and eating chickens and ducks.

On the day he set off up the mountain, Li Bai carried his packed little bundle and stared at the smiling Ye Jingxuan behind him. Overwhelmed with gratitude, he paid respects to all eighteen generations of Ye Jingxuan's ancestors before reluctantly heading up the mountain.

Ye Jingxuan did not take it to heart at all. While Li Bai had his back turned, he quietly followed after him.

The moment they entered the mountains, Li Bai shed his disguise and returned to his demon form. His grayish-brown fur gleamed beneath the sunlight, his wolf ears stood sharply upright, and his pace quickened considerably.

He had long noticed the little tail behind him, but he did not stop him. Peach Blossom Grove was the Immortal's territory; ordinary people could not enter at all. At most, this brat would make it to the mountainside before crying all the way back.

Yet he had not expected Ye Jingxuan to truly follow him through mountains full of peach trees, avoiding the tangled vines all the way, without showing the slightest sign of getting lost.

It was not until they reached the depths of Peach Blossom Grove, where an Immortal's courtyard surrounded by a bamboo fence and filled with the fragrance of peach blossoms appeared before them, that Li Bai was completely dumbfounded.

He abruptly turned around, dragged Ye Jingxuan out from his hiding place, seized his ear, and snarled in a low voice, "What are you following me for?! This is the Immortal's residence, not somewhere you can barge into whenever you please!"

Ye Jingxuan grimaced in pain and scrambled to pry Li Bai's claws away. When he could not, he simply lowered his