"Water Hui... The Southern Dynasty's Records of Strange Things says that a water hui becomes a jiao after five hundred years, and a jiao becomes a dragon after a thousand; another five hundred years makes it a horned dragon, and a thousand makes it a winged dragon. This is the aquatic spirit creature it describes."
Pei Ye's eyes widened. "It's that miraculous?"
"Made-up nonsense."
"Oh."
"Such naturally born Spirit Profound creatures no longer exist in the world, and ceased to exist long before the author's time, at the very least," Black Cat said. "But I encountered two, a male and a female."
She gazed quietly at the sky. Little Cat had been rather silent over the past two days; what she had seen this time seemed to have stirred many thoughts.
"It's all right. They're exactly what we're investigating now." Pei Ye patted her. "Sooner or later, the water will recede and the stones will show."
As they talked, Pei Ye stopped walking. The signboard of the Mount Tai Medical Tower stood before him.
He went inside and gave his name, and someone led him upstairs to that familiar Medical Pavilion.
He pushed open the door. Sure enough, the young woman in plain, clean clothes was alone in the quiet room, standing amid a tableful of medicinal ingredients and instruments, fiddling with something.
It was always so exceedingly quiet here. The faint medicinal fragrance brewed an atmosphere that relaxed one's bones and body upon entering.
Qu Xin turned to glance at him. "I told you to come the day before yesterday. Why are you two days late?"
Pei Ye said nothing. He simply took off his shirt, spread out a surgical cloth himself, and obediently lay facedown on the bed.
Then he raised his head. Qu Xin looked at him,