Faced with A Xiao's invitation, Pan Long thought for a moment, then accepted.
Seeing that Pan Long seemed friendly and there would be no fight, the Stone Deer Little Qing breathed a sigh of relief. She transformed into a black-haired girl with hair falling to her shoulders. If not for the pair of dark green antlers atop her head, she would have looked just like an ordinary person.
Pan Long couldn't help glancing at her antlers twice. Little Qing noticed and shrank back slightly. "My cultivation isn't high enough. I can't completely take human form yet..."
"Most Monsters refine things like their claws, fangs, and horns into magic treasures. Why haven't you?"
"I... These aren't actually horns."
"Huh?"
"I only look like a deer. I'm really a piece of stone."
Pan Long froze, then laughed despite himself.
He realized he had jumped to conclusions. She had always looked like a deer, but she was, after all, a stone carving. Was a Stone Deer a deer? That was a philosophical question. Biologically, at least, she was stone, not a deer.
Sun Wukong looked like a monkey too, but he was no ordinary monkey. He was a Spiritual Stone Monkey, a rare being born of heaven and earth, not a beast at all. Strictly speaking, Monkey Brother was also a stone that had become a spirit, not a monkey that had become one.
After that little exchange, the three of them went inside.
A Xiao's home really did deserve to be called a humble abode. Though it was winter, there wasn't even a stove for warmth, and a faint musty smell hung in the air.
Once they were seated, A Xiao used Magic Power to boil a pot of tea and poured a cup for each of them.
Pan Long didn't rush