CHAPTER 89: XIAO XI: SOUL INCOMPATIBLE

Ruan Chanchan turned to look at the woman beside her, jumping slightly when Priestess Yuan exclaimed all of a sudden.

Seeing her reaction, Priestess Yuan smiled apologetically before saying to her, "Don’t worry; I have a way to get this done. You just need to teach everyone how to drink boiled water! Leave the rest of the matter to me."

After she finished speaking, she turned around and rushed to her cave, where she called Chief Xie to discuss the matter of boiling water. She had heard about this boiled water in the Beast Temple in passing, but she didn’t hear the exact term, which caused the confusion when Ruan Chanchan mentioned boiled water. What she heard at the beast temple sounded a lot like frog water—because of this, Priestess Yuan had a hard time making the connection, but now she knew that those people were actually talking about boiled water!

This was a great discovery and needed to be shared with Chief Xie!

Priestess Yuan left in a hurry, and Ruan Chanchan could only stare at her back. She shook her head and returned to the cave, where she ran into Ruan Zeqiu, who was pacing around in the cave worriedly. When he saw his sister return, he heaved a sigh of relief. He walked to the entrance of the cave and asked, "Is Nan Wu alright, Sister?"

"She is fine." Ruan Chanchan then relayed what happened at the Nan family’s cave, and Ruan Zeqiu sneered.

"I bet that old mer thought that you didn’t do a good job and tried to do his own thing. If Nan Wu was not a good person, I would have left her to die just to teach a lesson to her foolish father," said Ruan Zeqiu with a snort. "He really thinks that he is smarter than everyone else in the tribe."

Ruan Chanchan shook her head helplessly. She said to him, "Alright, stop getting angry. There is no point in getting angry." Of course, she knew that Father Nan didn’t trust her. However, Ruan Chanchan didn’t have the energy to get angry at that mer. She might as well spend it on something useful, like looking for a herb that she could use to make up for the blood loss that Nan Wu suffered from after getting injured. The woman lost a lot of blood while on the journey back to the tribe; in fact, Ruan Chanchan was surprised that Nan Wu even survived till she arrived at the tribe.

But then again, the physique of a beast woman was different from that of a human.

Maybe that was what helped Nan Wu survive the ordeal.

Ruan Zeqiu didn’t say anything and silently agreed. He simply told Ruan Chanchan that he was going to hunt for beasts and would return by the evening. Once Ruan Zeqiu left, Ruan Chanchan finished the rest of the omelettes that she had cooked. Though they tasted nowhere near as good as the chicken eggs, or maybe it was she who was not used to eating them. However, there was only instant food in the first level of her supermarket, along with some day-to-day medicine. She just couldn’t continue to eat instant noodles all the time, could she? She needed to eat some meat and something more nourishing.

I really miss rice, the glossy, chewy rice. Ruan Chanchan thought with a nostalgic expression on her face. She looked at the meat in the corner of the cave and sighed. But of course, with her current situation, it would be a long time before she could even see a grain of rice.

As long as you work hard, you will be able to eat rice. Darling~

Ruan Chanchan turned around and looked at Xiao Xi, who had finally returned; seeing him pop out after vanishing for so long, Ruan Chanchan was not even surprised. She simply rolled her eyes and asked him, "Where did you go missing to? Can you even tell me where you go every time I faint? I am not getting angry at you, but I just want to know where you disappear every time. I mean, at least this way I will be prepared if you go missing the next time I wake up after fainting."

Xiao Xi turned embarrassed when he heard her question. He blinked his eyes and replied, "Darling, it’s nothing. The last time I tried to punish someone who hurt her, but as a first-level system, I am not allowed to use the punishment system on anyone unless you are in danger. This time around, it was due to your low spiritual energy. You and I are connected. If you are stronger, then I will grow stronger as well, but if you grow weak, then I will get weaker as well. Last night, your energy was really unstable. I could only shut my system down until you recovered a little bit of your energy."

"If not, I am worried that you would have fallen even sicker."

Xiao Xi was really worried. Last night, when he saw that Ruan Chanchan’s soul was becoming more and more incompatible with her body, he could only leave and wait a little for her soul to become stable once again.

When Ruan Chanchan heard that Xiao Xi had disappeared because she was really sick, her heart turned warm. As someone who lived alone for ages, this subtle care was the very thing that Ruan Chanchan wanted more than anything. She nodded and then said to Xiao Xi, "Thank you."

"Hehe, there is no need for you to say thank you. This is what I should do, darling." Xiao Xi’s entire figure turned red as he twisted around in the air. He then looked at her and asked, "But where are you going? I think I heard you say something about going out and taking a look."

"I want to go and take a look to see if there are any herbs that can be used to help someone recover from blood loss." Ruan Chanchan glanced at Xiao Xi and continued, "Nan Wu lost too much blood; since we took the responsibility to take care of her injuries, we might as well make sure that she recovers from her illness."