Little Girl sat on a stool taller than she was, holding a mortar and crushing the pills Big Ping'an had refined.
When she saw the boy arrive, she looked up.
"Oh, it's you. Where have you been these days?"
"I've been practicing boxing at home."
For some reason, Zhang Ningyuan was willing to tell Little Girl the truth about his affairs.
He did not know why. Perhaps it was because she was young, or perhaps because she looked a little simple-minded.
Little Girl picked up a yellow pastry and broke it in half.
She handed him one half and ate the other herself.
"Boxing? Is it fun?"
"No, it's painful."
Remembering what he had been through these past days, Zhang Ningyuan felt as though it had been a nightmare.
Little Girl stuffed the pastry into her mouth, puffing her cheeks out, and spoke indistinctly.
"Then why... don't you learn some other spells?"
"I'm suited to boxing."
"Oh~"
"What spells have you learned, then?"
Little Girl thought for a moment. "The Five Elements Art Niu Niu taught me. I can call little people to help this fairy fight."
"What else?"
"That's all."
"Then what cultivation level are you at now?"
"This fairy doesn't know. Niu Niu hasn't told this fairy."
Zhang Ningyuan looked at the little one before him. "Then haven't you ever tried cultivating yourself?"
Little Girl tilted her head. "Niu Niu and Big Ping'an said this fairy has been affected by the Nine Stars Aligned, the Sun and Moon Cycle, changes in the climate, melting ice and snow, rising sea levels, and the fortune of the world...
"So this fairy's cultivation will progress very, very slowly."
Zhang Ningyuan: ...
Little Girl swallowed the pastry.
"Is that true?"
"Big Ping'an would never lie to this fairy."
Zhang Ningyuan smiled helplessly,