Fate Trading System – Chapter 95

Plan A

Rise in Another World 7

Nan Cheng

After Su Xin and Little One finished sharing and eating the meat of that snake, Su Xin wiped her hands with a handkerchief, then had Little One lift its paw.

Little One stopped its preparing-to-lick motion and obediently stretched out its paw.

“Little One, do you have a home?”

There must be big cats among kittens, right? Su Xin thought about how Little One appeared around her as a cat, and was so badly injured, looking like it had been bitten.

It’s very likely that Little One is a small demon beast from this secret realm, hunted and then escaped.

Little One didn’t seem to understand if it understood Su Xin’s words, just quietly looking at Su Xin with its blue eyes, with a confused appearance.

“Ah, acting cute is shameful, you know.”

After Su Xin finished wiping Little One’s paws, she hugged it in her arms.

Cuddling and petting cats is addictive. Su Xin kept nuzzling against the extremely good-feeling fluffy Little One, playing with the cat’s paw pads.

Little One was unusually well-behaved, not resisting at all, obediently letting Su Xin pet it, nestled in Su Xin’s arms, watching the firelight.

The secret realm suddenly shook once, Little One alertly pricked up its ears, Su Xin stroked its fur, telling it it’s alright.

Su Xin guessed that the Lu Yin Secret Realm had probably closed.

As Su Xin expected, it was indeed so.

The people of the four great families were counting their respective family members on the outskirts of the secret realm.

Until the last moment, no one saw Su Xin come out.

Duanmu Qiao sighed, it was still like this, nothing had changed.

Duanmu Qiao felt somewhat sad, but only somewhat.

It was just an insignificant daughter after all, Duanmu Qiao watched the entrance of the secret realm disappear, feeling a bit dazed.

He actually couldn’t even remember what that child’s mother looked like anymore, only remembering that she was very beautiful, everyone said so.

But he found that no matter how he tried, he couldn’t recall her appearance, or when and how they had met.

Duanmu Qiao shook his head, no longer thinking about it.

When Duanmu Yao’s mother learned that her daughter hadn’t come out either, she wailed and cried uncontrollably.

Every time they went in, more or less some people would be lost, of course, there were instances of zero casualties, but they were few.

The people of the four great families certainly didn’t want their children to come to harm, but that feeling was also very complex, wanting to use a righteous reason to eliminate those useless ones, pruning branches and leaves for the family’s development.

This time, the one who won first place was Mu Yao, as everyone had expected.

The Mu family was preparing to discuss that marriage arrangement with the Duanmu family. Now the situation was very clear, the sixth young lady Duanmu Furan had already died in the secret realm, so this marriage arrangement couldn’t continue, naturally it had to be canceled or the person changed.

The Duanmu family had no objections either, after all, from the very beginning, it seemed a bit unfair, it’s just that the Mu family never brought it up, so the Duanmu family also just left it at that.

No one grieved or felt sad for the death of the Duanmu family’s sixth young lady, instead there were quite a few who cheered.

Su Xin was leisurely in the secret realm, this secret realm was very large, but with Little One guiding her, she wouldn’t get lost. With Little One around, she also hadn’t entered any more strange secret realms.

Su Xin didn’t choose to challenge everywhere, but chose to first find a place rich in fire elements to carry out her own improvement.

Su Xin felt like she had obtained a golden finger, which was Little One.

Because of their shared element, the human and cat were very close.

Because Little One was also of the fire element, it naturally needed to find a place abundant in fire elements to cultivate, but Su Xin discovered that it seemed to have limited knowledge of this secret realm, as if it only knew part of the way.

Su Xin was confidently sure she wouldn’t enter another secret realm, but she was proven wrong.

Little One innocently looked at her and meowed, indicating that it hadn’t explored this area yet.

Su Xin deeply inhaled the cat’s scent, letting the GPS representative Fourteen help her out of the predicament.

Little One seemed to be walking based on feeling, wanting to go to a place it felt drawn to.

Su Xin, disheveled, followed it, cleaning up messes along the way behind them, and fighting with various strange demon beasts.

Then she prepared those things that could be eaten, serving her cat master.

“Here, Little One, I’ve never waited on anyone else like this in all my life.”

Su Xin sliced a piece of meat, blew on it to cool it down, then placed it in front of Little One.

After Little One elegantly finished eating the meat, it licked Su Xin’s palm as if to comfort her.

“Oh my, when you lick like that, I’m helpless.”

Su Xin washed her hands clean and then rubbed the cat’s fur.

She seemed to understand a bit of those cat slaves’ hearts now. Little One tilted its head and looked at her with blue eyes, its pink cat tongue licking her palm. She wished she could lift Little One up to the heavens.

How could there be such an adorable creature in this world?

Little One seemed to have finally found the place it was looking for and stopped.

It was beside a waterfall, water pouring down.

How strange.

Su Xin sensed the fluctuations of magical elements in the air. This was clearly a place with water, yet it was abundant in fire elements.

This place seemed to be a paradise of water and fire elements. They intertwined and mixed in the air, very lively.

Su Xin rubbed the cat’s head, and after making sure there was no danger around, she wanted to take a bath first before starting to cultivate.

To get here, they had been walking in the secret realm for almost half a month, killing many monsters along the way, and their bodies were already sticky.

If Su Xin was a water element user, it would have been fine, she could bathe herself anytime. But she only knew a bit of fire, and although Little One was a fire element demon beast, at these times, when fighting, it only stood aside and watched. When there was no danger normally, it couldn’t even spit out a small flame.

Su Xin discovered this point when Little One demonstrated it itself. That time, a chicken-like thing had died, and Little One seemed very hungry, eagerly bringing over some dry branches.

Su Xin was plucking feathers and draining blood when she turned her head to see Little One trying to light the fire pile. It seemed to want to blow out a breath, but only a few sparks flickered, not even a tiny flame appeared.

Little One’s eyes were wide open, looking very sad.

It noticed Su Xin watching it, turned around and ran away, who knows where to.

Su Xin felt that the fragile cat heart must have received an incredibly huge shock.

The aroma of roasted chicken lured the sad Little One back. It looked deflated, lying on the ground with a very depressed appearance.

Su Xin felt heartbroken seeing this, picked up Little One to comfort it, telling it that she liked it the most.

Little One may or may not have understood, it jumped onto Su Xin’s body, licking her face.

Su Xin coaxed it to eat and even fed Little One some blood, only then did it return to its usual self. However, when traveling, its speed became a bit faster.

Su Xin tested the water temperature, it was a bit cold, but quite good for her.

Su Xin took off her clothes and got into the water, washing herself with delight.

Su Xin originally wanted to beckon to Little One, to have it come down and bathe together, but then remembered that cats don’t seem to like bathing much, they prefer to clean their own fur with their tongues.

Su Xin thought about it and still didn’t call out.

Little One stood by the water’s edge, watching Su Xin who was very happy in the water. It licked its paw, and sneakily stretched out its paw to touch the water.

“Want to come down?”

Su Xin waved to Little One.

Little One stared at her blankly, its pair of deep blue eyes reflecting Su Xin’s image.

The girl frolicking in the water had a very beautiful pair of eyes, her long black hair spread out in the water, floating in the water, looking like gorgeous seaweed, emitting a deep glow.

Su Xin’s face was undoubtedly very beautiful, inheriting her mother’s flower-like beauty.

The reason the original owner wasn’t noticeable before was because she was too timid, causing others to easily overlook her face.

After being washed by that pool of water last time, although Su Xin didn’t soak her face in it, her face had also improved somewhat, looking much more radiant.

Little One shook its whiskers, then happily ran towards Su Xin.

It indeed disliked water, disliked being all wet, but it very much liked the person in the water waving to it, a very very good person.

Su Xin caught her little cat, laughed seeing its wet appearance, then let Little One stay on her shoulder as she scooped up water to wash herself.

Little One seemed unable to stand steady on her, slipping down to her chest, clinging there.

Su Xin held it properly, Little One stretched out its tongue and licked Su Xin, licking her lips.

Su Xin was stunned for a moment, then hugged Little One and laughed, kissing Little One’s lips, indulging in cat-kissing.

Little One seemed startled, let out a cry, ran down from Su Xin’s body, and at a very fast speed ran to the shore, drying its fur.

“Could it be that it’s shy? Come to think of it, I still don’t know if Little One is a male or female cat.”

Su Xin rubbed her chin, thinking she’d check later.

Little One, for some unknown reason, just wanted to run joyfully. It was a strange feeling, all brought about by that girl laughing in the water.

At this moment, Little One didn’t know that there was a very indecent thing waiting for it.

Little One meowed helplessly as its legs were spread apart, then Su Xin let it go.

“It’s a little female cat.”

Su Xin looked at Little One, who had already scampered up a tree with its fur somewhat puffed out, and rubbed her nose. Little One hadn’t scratched her.

Su Xin sat cross-legged on the ground and began to enter a meditative state.

After she went in, she discovered a strange phenomenon. In the place where she stored fire elements, there seemed to be silver dots flickering, but the light of those silver dots was fleeting. Before Su Xin could properly study it, she was already drawn to the surging fire elements.

Little One had already jumped down from the tree, circling around Su Xin, then closed its eyes.

This person seemed a bit naughty, but Little One still didn’t dislike her.

Su Xin lost track of time a bit, the fire elements here were too abundant, seeming endless, so there was no need to worry about running out.

Su Xin entered a meditative state every day, exiting when tired to sleep, then continuing to meditate after waking, as if she had become somewhat obsessed.

Each time, it was Little One who worked hard to lick her awake, then made her prepare something to eat.

Su Xin’s spirit was unusually excited, but her body was slowly weakening, she couldn’t go without eating.

There were fish in this water, Su Xin finally caught some fish to let Little One taste it.

Little One seemed to really like it, finishing one and still meowing to indicate it wanted more.

After satisfying it, Su Xin continued to enter the cultivation state, while Little One hugged the fish and looked at her with some concern.

Su Xin’s thoughts were pure, just wanting to become stronger.

Continuously absorbing and refining, expanding her storage capacity, as well as her ability to control fire elements.

Su Xin was joyfully absorbing fire elements, unaware that Little One outside was almost dying of anxiety.

Su Xin’s face was flushed, seeming to have entered some strange state.

Little One knew that if this continued unchecked, Su Xin might unknowingly explode and die.

That would be terrifying. Little One hadn’t worried about this before; this was a great place suitable for their cultivation, for beasts that is, but Little One hadn’t expected humans to be like this when they entered.

Little One hadn’t been here before, it was only comparing based on memory.

After finding that it couldn’t wake Su Xin up no matter what, Little One shook its ears and thought of an idea.

Its fuzzy fur pressed close to Su Xin’s lips, the high temperature in the mouth made the cat’s tongue very uncomfortable, but it still persisted, anxiously watching the person who had saved it.

Su Xin only felt that something of hers was slowly being sucked away, that violent feeling gradually disappearing, replaced by a sense of calm.

Su Xin suddenly opened her eyes, saw the magnified cat face in front of her, and realized the situation before her.

Huh???

Little One noticed she was awake, withdrew its tongue, licked Su Xin’s face, comforting her.

Su Xin’s mouth twitched. Her first kiss in this life was taken by a cat?

Meow meow meow?

Seeing Little One’s happy appearance, after petting it contentedly, Su Xin began to recall the recent situation. How did it feel a bit like she had gone into a cultivation deviation?

Su Xin went to the river, scooped up a handful of water to wash her face, and calmed down.

“Do you know what happened?”

Su Xin looked at Little One, Little One shook its head, indicating it didn’t know.

“I see…”

Su Xin rubbed her chin, then suddenly looked at Little One.

“Did you just shake your head? Can you understand what I’m saying?”

Little One nodded.

Has it become a spirit?

Su Xin lifted Little One up, examining it from left to right.

Little One lazily licked its paw, spitting out a small flame.

Su Xin noticed that the flame shape between its eyebrows was becoming increasingly vivid.

“Could you understand what I was saying from the beginning?”

Little One shook its head, then hesitantly nodded.

Su Xin rubbed its fur, didn’t continue meditating, but instead focused intently on watching Little One.

Little One just lay on the ground, with red dots flowing into the small flame shape on its brow.

I see… Su Xin felt that her Little One would definitely become a super amazing cat in the future.

Su Xin couldn’t remember how long they had stayed here, only that one day, she discovered that Little One could actually speak.

Shocked, when Su Xin heard it, she was somewhat dazed.

Little One told Su Xin that its name was Nan Cheng.

Wow, such a poetic name.

Nan Cheng said it was a nine-lives cat, but its memories were still fuzzy, only remembering that it had escaped to this place.

A nine-lives cat, huh. Su Xin looked at Little One’s single tail, then recalled when they first met, Little One’s severed tail.

Little One still rarely spoke. Su Xin, looking at its cat form, still found it hard to view it as someone who had once taken human form.

Little One said it was very weak now, unable to return to its original place, and also unable to transform into human form.

Su Xin pinched its paw, smiling and saying, then let’s become stronger together.

When the fire elements in this place gradually became depleted, Fourteen told Su Xin that five years had passed.

Su Xin had grown a lot, but was still a spirited young woman, wearing all black, with a red silk ribbon tying her long hair, holding her sword, carrying her cat, looking exceptionally dashing.

Su Xin and Little One left this place, going to the area outside the secret realm.

Little One mostly expressed itself by meowing, and when it found it couldn’t express itself clearly, it would speak human language.

Little One’s voice was soft and tender, with a unique cat-like quality, but Little One seemed to dislike its own voice very much. It wasn’t very easy for Su Xin to hear it say even one sentence.

Su Xin didn’t understand cat language, but strangely, she just knew what Little One’s meows meant. Different tones and numbers of meows expressed different meanings.

The human and cat ran wild in the secret realm, gathering herbs, teasing magical beasts, and fighting to improve their abilities.

Su Xin created her own sword technique, which was really awesome.

It was combined with her magic for use. During this time, Su Xin discovered something strange.

After killing a wind-element bird, Su Xin found that the silver dots in her body began to become active.

If she wasn’t mistaken, it was probably wind-element magic.

Su Xin was bewildered, wondering what was going on. Actually, the silver light had flickered several times before, but it had been overwhelmed by the red light, so Su Xin had ignored it.

Su Xin tentatively waved her hand towards the distance, then ran over to look. She found that on a tree in the distance, there was a faint mark that looked as if something had slashed across it.

Such an unexpected stroke of good fortune?

Su Xin sat down on the spot, entered a meditative state, and reached out to touch the silver light dots in the air. Those light dots flickered and drew close to her palm.

Su Xin began to absorb them, but found that the silver light and fire light inside her body started fighting, forcing her to exit that absorption state.

Su Xin licked her lips, feeling alternately scalding and painful, but the fire element still had the upper hand, after all, there was more of it.

Su Xin clutched her stomach and continued to enter the meditative state.

The silver light dots actively entered her body, as did the red light dots, as if they were going in to fight.

Su Xin became angry and used her spiritual power to suppress them.

Her body, how dare these little things come to torment it?

Little One wanted to help, but found it couldn’t do much, only circling around Su Xin, occasionally meowing a couple of times.

Su Xin was breaking up the fight. The fire element, like a naughty child, clearly wouldn’t rest until it drove out the foreign wind element.

The fire element was strong and domineering, while the wind element was equally unyielding; even though it had fewer companions, it still wanted to fight.

Su Xin was the one suffering, feeling as if her head and stomach were about to explode.

If elements could be personified, it would probably be something like this:

Fire element: Get lost, I was here first.

Wind element: Oh.

Fire element: Are you leaving or not? If not, I’ll hit you.

Wind element: Oh.

Fire element: I’m hitting you now.

Wind element: Oh.

Su Xin clenched her fists, unable to tolerate it any longer.

If you fight again, all of you get out, damn it.

The fire element was the most obedient to its controller, stopping its agitation. The wind element followed suit and stopped as well, quietly staying in Su Xin’s body, with the wind element and fire element clearly separated.

Su Xin wiped the sweat from her forehead, Little One licking her hand.

How long is ten years? Inside here, Su Xin could hardly feel the passage of time.

This time she could live for two hundred years, barring any unexpected events.

Ten years was only one-twentieth, one-twentieth of her life, feeling so insignificant, yet time passed so quickly.

Soon it would be time for the Lu Yin Secret Realm to open again, and Su Xin decided to leave.

There was nothing left for her to plunder in this small secret realm.

Five years was enough for her to tread every part of this place, including the Peach Blossom Spring she encountered when she first entered.

It was false that there was nothing inside the Peach Blossom Spring; Su Xin still wanted to curse when she recalled it now.

The Peach Blossom Spring she entered last seemed harmless, with falling petals in profusion, beautiful beyond the mortal realm.

Su Xin caught fish for Little One and found that there was even a kitchen inside this Peach Blossom Spring, with seasonings in the kitchen that looked very clean.

Su Xin only borrowed the kitchen. Although she really wanted to use those seasonings, for safety’s sake, she didn’t touch them.

The fish looked very fresh, and Su Xin tried it, it shouldn’t be poisonous.

Little One hugged the fish and ate happily. Su Xin had always slept in the wild and never had the chance to sleep in a bed. Now seeing a bed inside the Peach Blossom Spring, she lay down to sleep together with Little One.

A Peach Blossom Spring within a Peach Blossom Realm, a peach blossom dream within the Peach Blossom Spring.

Su Xin couldn’t remember what she dreamed, but she woke up feeling hot.

It should be known that she was a fire-element magician, and unless it was scorching high temperature, she wouldn’t feel hot, but now she felt very hot, as if she had taken some kind of drug.

Su Xin propped herself up to check on Little One. Little One looked fine, it shouldn’t have been affected.

Su Xin’s movement startled Little One awake. It looked at Su Xin, meow meow meow?

Su Xin got it down from the bed, letting it go out.

Little One refused, circling around Su Xin.

Su Xin had no strength to drive it away, Little One jumped on the table, squatting and watching Su Xin.

Su Xin couldn’t bother with so much, undid her silk garments, loosened her hair, not letting Little One see her face.

This kind of thing was better resolved by oneself.

Su Xin ordered Little One to turn around, Little One remained unmoved, even anxiously meowing, as if wanting to pounce over.

Su Xin bent down her body, black long hair flowing over her white face, trembling and whimpering.

Peach blossom dew flowed faintly, there was a strange smell in the air.

Little One licked its paws, jumped onto the bed, circling around Su Xin’s side.

Su Xin frowned, looking very uncomfortable.

She put on her robe, hugging the cat tightly in her arms.

“Meow meow meow?”

“It’s nothing, I’m not hurt.”

Su Xin’s voice was a bit hoarse, she rubbed the cat’s soft fur, nuzzling it.

Now it seemed not so uncomfortable, although Su Xin said she would resolve it herself, she hadn’t started yet.

“I’m just feeling a bit unwell, it’ll be fine if I endure it.”

Little One licked Su Xin’s face, then lapped at the sweat on her forehead, its movements very gentle.

Su Xin suddenly tightened her arms, startling Little One.

“You go out and wait for me first, I’ll be fine.”

Can’t hold it anymore, Su Xin’s eyes were a bit vacant, what a terrible place this was, she really shouldn’t have come in, her initial premonition was indeed correct, this wasn’t a proper Peach Blossom Spring at all.

The fire elements in the air all became active, the air gradually warming up.

“What on earth is this ghostly thing?”

Su Xin gritted her teeth, urging Little One to leave quickly.

The scene that followed was really too inappropriate for children, truly unsuitable for kids to see, and the same for little cats. Su Xin still wanted to maintain a very high-class image.

“You look very uncomfortable, I want to stay with you. What if something happens to you?”

This time Little One couldn’t help but speak human words, expressing its thoughts.

Su Xin took a deep breath, painfully moving her body to turn her back to Little One.

Little One looked at Su Xin’s fair back, taut from her movements, her beautiful shoulder blades looking as if they were about to take flight.

Meow meow meow?

Su Xin held back from making any sound, only fine, broken whimpers disobeying their owner’s wishes and escaping from between her lips.

This was Su Xin’s first time doing such a thing. Usually, she wasn’t a person with many needs. When she was with her lover, she had them, so why would she need to do it herself?

As the peach blossom fragrance grew stronger, Little One breathed out small flames.

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