Chapter 3 Zhong Jiuli: Can I Not Have a Wife?

Zhong Jiuli was woken up by a piece of meat being shoved into her mouth.

She opened her eyes angrily and found it was that little guy again.

Bai was startled by the woman who suddenly opened her eyes, and almost spilled the large bowl he was holding.

Zhong Jiuli's expression was unfriendly, and a flash of murderous intent crossed her eyes. She realized that she had been too soft-hearted during the day.

This little white tiger actually dared to come back.

Bai also sensed the murderous intent in the woman's eyes. Her throat tightened, and she unconsciously swallowed.

Animal instincts terrified her, and Bai chickened out. She slowly put down the large wooden bowl in her hand and quietly moved her feet toward the cave entrance.

"Sorry to disturb your sleep. I just wanted to feed you something. If you're not hungry, that's fine. My mother is calling me home to sleep."

"Stop!" A hoarse female voice rang out from inside the tree hollow.

Zhong Jiuli propped herself up and sat up, and as she stood up, blood oozed from the wound on her shoulder again.

"Come back and feed me!"

Bai stopped in his tracks, frozen at the cave entrance, unwilling to move.

Zhong Jiuli frowned as she looked at the snow-white tiger cub under the moonlight. "Don't make me say it a second time!"

[Bai Ye, you should still go. I have a feeling she's going to kill the tiger.]

"You still dare to talk back? It was you who sent me here. This guy wants to kill me every time he sees me." Bai Ye's voice was full of resentment.

She shuffled over to the woman, glancing at her naked body before lowering her gaze to the dry grass on the ground.

"Although it's the height of summer, the mountain nights are chilly; you'll easily catch a cold like this, senior..."

Zhong Jiuli's eyes twitched, and the cold expression that had been maintained on her face cracked slightly.

A flash of white light appeared in the dim tree hollow, and a white robe suddenly appeared, with a faint spiritual light shimmering on it, making it appear extremely extraordinary.

"Put it on for me," Zhong Jiuli commanded in a hoarse voice.

Bai also asked in a low voice, "Shouldn't you put some medicine on your wound first, senior?"

"No need, just wipe the bloodstains off for me."

Zhong Jiuli's voice was cold, and Bai felt that if he asked one more question, he would be thrown out again.

Bai picked up the clothes from the ground and clumsily tried to put them on the woman. She probably realized that this woman didn't even have the strength to dress herself.

As the furry tiger claws tugged at her clothes and the paw pads inadvertently brushed against the woman's full breasts, Bai clearly felt the woman's muscles tense instantly, and a fleeting murderous intent.

She immediately took a step back, raised her paws above her head, and blinked her innocent big eyes at her: "I didn't mean to touch you. It's really inconvenient for paws to wear clothes. I don't wear any myself."

"Continue!" Zhong Jiuli closed her eyes helplessly, feeling the furry claws roaming over her body.

Fortunately, the little tiger didn't have the stench of a demon beast; instead, it carried the fresh scent of soapberry and a faint aroma of meat, which wasn't unpleasant to smell.

Otherwise, once she recovers from her injuries, she will definitely tear this audacious little tiger to pieces.

"Alright!" Bai let out a soft breath and wiped away non-existent sweat from his forehead.

"Feed me." Zhong Jiuli leaned against the pile of withered grass. Even in such an environment, she did not appear destitute, but rather exuded an indescribable air of nobility.

"Playing dead. Who wrote this female lead? Don't let me find out, or I'll definitely go and kill that author." Bai thought to himself.

She picked up the large bowl and used her claws to hook pieces of meat towards the woman's lips.

Zhong Jiuli frowned even more, looking at Bai Ye's paws with disdain.

"Go find a pair of chopsticks!" It was still a command.

Bai also ground her back teeth as the system called out in her mind, "[Five Body Tempering Pills, Body Tempering Pills.]"

"Okay, I'll go find it for you right away!" Bai Ye raised the corners of her mouth, revealing a standard eight-tooth smile. After saying that, she turned around and jumped out of the tree hole.

Bai didn't go far, casually pulling two sturdy grass stalks from the bushes to use as chopsticks.

She leaped back into the tree hollow. The woman was pale, her eyes closed, leaning against the haystack, her long, dark hair cascading down like a waterfall, as if she had fallen asleep again.

Bai also softened her footsteps, carefully approaching and placing the grass stick on the large wooden bowl.

The woman did not open her eyes during this time, and Bai was certain that she was asleep. She quietly stood up and retreated step by step towards the cave entrance.

"Where are you going?" The woman's voice suddenly rang out, startling Bai Ye so much that he bristled once again.

"Senior isn't asleep... I thought you were asleep, so I wanted to go home. I'll feed you then," Bai muttered softly.

She moved to sit down next to the woman, holding the large wooden bowl in one paw and clumsily gripping the chopsticks with the other, trembling as she brought the meat to the woman's lips.

Zhong Jiuli didn't cause any trouble this time. Bai fed her a bite, and she quickly finished the whole bowl of meat.

Bai also held the empty bowl and asked softly, "Senior, are you full? I have to go back now. If my mother finds out that I sneaked out in the middle of the night... I won't be able to bring you food tomorrow."

Zhong Jiuli did not reply, and the tree hole fell into an inexplicable silence.

Without being told what to do, Bai dared not leave. The woman gave her a terrifying feeling. Her mountain-like aura made it hard for her to breathe.

"Thank you." Zhong Jiuli turned her head away, her loose black hair covering half of her face and her slightly reddened ear tips.

The two words seemed to be squeezed out from between teeth, so stiff it was frightening.

Bai was momentarily confused, thinking she had misheard. The other person wasn't thanking her; instead, they were telling her to kneel down.

She was still in a daze when she saw that Zhong Jiuli had already lay down with his back to her. In the moonlight, the woman's back view revealed a hint of inexplicable embarrassment.

"Aren't you leaving yet? Are you waiting for me to throw you out?" Zhong Jiuli's voice rang out again, no longer as hoarse as before, but with a hint of coldness.

"Let's go right away." Bai leaped out of the tree hole as if his pants were on fire, and ran wildly on all fours, narrowly making his way home before the campfire went out.

She had just lain down on her small bed, her breath still ragged, when the courtyard gate creaked open, and Bai Shu returned home under the moonlight.

Bai immediately slowed her breathing, pulled the blanket over her lower abdomen, and pretended to be fast asleep.

Sure enough, the footsteps gradually approached her room. Bai Shu quietly pushed open the door and saw Bai Ye lying on the bed, fast asleep. She gently closed the door and went back to her own room.

Bai lay on the bed with her eyes closed, her little ears twitching slightly as she listened to her mother's footsteps fading into the distance until they disappeared completely.

Her tense body finally relaxed, and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Luckily, she hadn't been discovered, otherwise she would probably have been grounded tomorrow and wouldn't be allowed to go out for half a month.

She knew her mother was worried about her.

The White Tiger Tribe is located on the outskirts of the wild mountains, separated from the true deep forests by countless dangerous places.

Most of the monsters on the outskirts are low-level creatures, and any child in the tribe with a bit of cultivation talent can handle them on their own.

But Bai Ye, unfortunately, was a child without any talent for cultivation.

Bai clenched her small fists; now, she also had the opportunity to cultivate.

She asked in her mind, "Xiao Wang, are you there?"

[Yes, it is white.]

"I was too busy during the day and didn't have time to ask you what the transmigration into a book was like, and what book I transmigrated into?"

[The book the host transmigrated into is titled "I Became King of Kunxu Continent," and the original female lead is a little white tiger, who is none other than the host!]

"What?" Bai jumped up from the bed, his amber eyes shining brightly in the darkness, like two blazing flames.

"I'm going to be a king on the Kunxu Continent?" Bai muttered softly.

Even without reading the book, she could guess that it was definitely a female protagonist's power-up novel. Looks like she's got the Phoenix Overlord script!

"Interesting!" Bai Ye grinned, his little teeth showing, unable to suppress the smile on his face.

The system didn't know what Bai was happy about, but as long as the host was happy, she could focus on completing the mission.

"By the way, let me see the original work," Bai said in a low voice.

Sorry, Aya, you need to unlock the story yourself; I only have the table of contents here.

The system pulled up the long table of contents, and at this moment only the first chapter was unlocked, while the rest were grayed out and locked.

Looking at the endless gray table of contents in his mind, Bai's lips twitched. More than a thousand chapters, how padded must the plot be?

Don't worry, Aya, as you complete each story milestone, a portion of the content will be unlocked.

"Tsk!" Bai also curled his lips in disgust, stretched out his paw and poked the first chapter titled "First Encounter" to read the story content.

The more I looked at her, the stranger her expression became. The plot described in the book was almost identical to what had happened today.

In other words, she was still following the plot of the book even though she didn't know the story.

The only difference is that the female protagonist in the book fell in love with the ruthless woman at first sight, while she did not.

"Zhong Jiuli!" Bai also murmured the name, "Xiao Wang, I feel that her name is so much more domineering than mine. She seems more like the protagonist."

[Ah Ye's name is also very nice! Zhong Jiuli is your wife, you are both main characters.]

"Can I forgo a wife and just dominate the continent?" Bai asked tentatively.

【No, Ah Ye, all your missions are related to the female lead. If you don't want your wife, you won't get cultivation resources.】

"Alright, let's go to sleep." With that, Bai lay down and stared blankly at the roof beams under the moonlight.

She couldn't sleep for a moment; in the more than a thousand chapters of the table of contents, Zhong Jiuli's name appeared with an alarmingly high frequency.

Bai still doesn't know what those strange titles mean. However, she must keep her distance from the female lead to avoid becoming a love-struck fool who only knows how to be close to women.

No, time is of the essence, how can she possibly sleep!

Bai also sat up, closed his eyes, sat cross-legged, placed his hands in a mudra on his knees, and skillfully began to practice the "Qi Cultivation Technique," a basic exercise that even a three-year-old child in the desolate state could do.

Yet, she had tried this basic technique hundreds of times without success. Whenever the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered towards her, it could only float on the surface of her body and could not be absorbed.

But tonight was different. As she closed her eyes and circulated her inner energy, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth instantly gathered towards her. The subtle spiritual energy struggled to circulate once along her meridians, which had only a tiny opening, before entering her dantian.

Sensing the faint, almost invisible wisp of spiritual energy in her dantian, Bai's eyes lit up with joy. She became even more determined to complete the mission and obtain the five Body Tempering Pills.

Time passed slowly, the night outside the window gradually faded, and the morning light shone through the cracks in the window onto the little white tiger who was sitting with its eyes closed in meditation.

Bai, who had been cultivating diligently all night, slowly came to an end. The moment he opened his eyes, a glint of light flashed in his amber pupils.

"Hoo!" Bai also exhaled a breath of stale air, jumped off the bed, and stretched his body, his joints cracking.

Inside the main room, Bai Shu had already prepared the meal. When she saw Bai Ye come out of the room, she greeted him with a smile, "Go wash up and have breakfast."

"Good morning, Mother." Bai responded and obediently went to the yard, filled a basin with water from the water vat, dipped her two furry paws into the water, and scooped up the water to wash her face.

After washing up, Bai returned to the main room, climbed onto the square table, squatted on the stool, held its large bowl with its two front paws, and almost buried its pink nose in the porridge.

The thick, white meat porridge in the bowl glistened with oil, and wisps of spiritual energy emanated from it. Bai ate without looking up, knowing that it was made from high-level demonic beasts and spiritual herbs that her mother had specially found for her.

Bai Shu pushed a plate of roasted meat in front of Bai Ye, saying, "Eat more meat so that our A Ye can grow up quickly. When we grow up, Mother will find a powerful Daoist partner for us A Ye, and then A Ye can eat roasted meat every day."

"Thank you, Mother!" Bai slowed down her eating, raised her fluffy little head, and stared unblinkingly at the young face in front of her with her big amber eyes.

In recent years, without the uninterrupted daily supply of demon beast meat, no matter how much Bai trained, he would never have been able to develop his current strength.

To be honest, even she herself didn't know how many years she had been in this world. When she first regained consciousness, she was in and out of sleep, and all she knew was that she was curled up inside an egg.

One day, a bright light appeared before her eyes, and the eggshell that had been protecting her shattered with a "crack," and Bai hatched. The first thing she saw was the big turtle that had been incubating the eggs.

That was the first time she met Long Jiao. Long Jiao was so surprised when she discovered that she had hatched a tiger cub that she was stunned for a long time.

Long Jiao only came to her senses when Bai Ye made a "gurgling" sound in the water.

Knowing that tigers cannot survive in water, she had no choice but to reluctantly give her newborn Bai to Bai Shu to raise.

Because of her arrival, the tribe was renamed the White Tiger Tribe.

The people in the tribe welcomed her arrival. The aunts would give her dried meat to eat and let their children play with her.

"Eat slowly. Your mother is going into the mountains with your Aunt Wu today. Don't wander off outside the tribe, understand?" Bai Shu gently rubbed Bai Ye's little head and carefully instructed him.

Distracted from her thoughts, Bai also came back to her senses and obediently nodded in response, "I know, I will stay at home obediently and will not go anywhere."

She readily agreed, and as soon as Bai Shu left, she picked up the bowl and gulped down the meat porridge in a few large mouthfuls. Then, she deftly filled the remaining porridge and roasted meat into a large wooden bowl and sneaked out of the tribe.

She deliberately avoided the usual routes and took a long detour before finally reaching the tree hollow.

Zhong Jiuli was awakened by a rustling sound. The morning light slanted in from the cave entrance, falling on the little white tiger standing against the light, as if gilding her with a layer of gold.

The little white tiger was tightly clutching a large wooden bowl in its arms, its chubby little face seemingly straining as well.

It actually looks... kind of cute.

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