Shang Qingzheng's voice drew closer from afar, arriving with her footsteps.
Jiang Yang turned back with a smile. A graceful figure parted the clouds and trod upon moonlight, approaching gently amid the snowy white. Her Growth skirt fluttered down over her boots, and a long flute hung at her waist.
"No need for you to step in."
As he spoke, Jiang Yang addressed the little girl hovering in midair:
"I figured it out ages ago. I was just teasing you. You're Little Sixteen, aren't you?"
Indeed, Jiang Yang hardly needed to guess that the three-foot-tall child before him was the wildcat who had assumed human form—Chi Yu.
"Wah~"
Civet Sixteen cared nothing about any of that. Seeing that Jiang Yang had recognized her, she happily somersaulted in the air, pursing her lips and letting out an excited little howl.
Shang Qingzheng came over as well and said with a smile:
"That Pill you gave her was astonishingly effective. Not only did she take human form in one go, she also awakened her bloodline and established her immortal foundation."
"She only woke up a few days ago, and she still can't speak very clearly. She looks like a darling little girl, but she hasn't a scrap of manners."
She felt Civet Sixteen had been blessed with extraordinary luck. The last-Birth among her siblings, she had nevertheless been the first to awaken her bloodline, attaining foundation establishment cultivation before reaching adulthood. That profound pill deserved much of the credit.
Jiang Yang reached out to stroke Little Civet's head and said with a faint smile:
"She was a wildcat to begin with. Naturally, she can't change her habits overnight. How would she know human etiquette? You're asking a cat to do the impossible. Just teach her little by little."
Little Sixteen looked utterly