Chapter 317 - Soft Heart (1/2)

Qiao Mu had lived in these quarters for nearly five years. Winter had left and spring had come, spring had left and summer had come, but her pale-colored clothes remained the same.

However, her abode flourished with every year, green vines sprawled across the walls, and the small flowerbed encircled by a fence was planted with several flowers that could grow in a snowy environment.

The courtyard was not too big, but nature thrived everywhere the eye could see.

Over these past years, Qiao Mu’s small figure grew and grew, and she had to switch batch after batch of clothing.

Qiao Mu told her Master that she did not need so many clothes since she was always cultivating inside the mystical treasured land night after night. Why would she need so many changes of clothes?

However, she could not stop her Master’s intense desire to dress her disciple. Hence, a lot of the clothes from eight or nine years of age were thrown to the bottom of her wardrobe without a day of wear.

This was because she often entered closed-door cultivation for months on end and would not leave the mystical treasured land until her clothes had shrunk immensely. As a result, the batch of clothes Master just replaced ahead of time did not suit her by then.

When night had fully set in the courtyard, Qiao Mu was sitting by herself in her room and bandaging the green-headed eagle lying p.r.o.ne on the table with a clean roll of cloth.

After grinding some superior grade medicinal powder, she sprinkled it onto the eagle’s wound, causing it to twitch a few times.

“Stop moving.” Qiao Mu tapped its head and wrapped the cloth around its injured wing.

“My arrow back then wouldn’t hit your owner even if he didn’t dodge it,” Qiao Mu softly murmured. “I just wanted to scare that guy but didn’t expect him to use you as a s.h.i.+eld.”

She stroked the eagle on its head before standing up and was.h.i.+ng her hands in the nearby basin.

However, too many, far too many people in this world were selfish like that, so Qiao Mu was really not too surprised when that happened.

Thud thud thud! A round of urgent knocking was heard from the door.