Chapter 235 - Radish’s Indignation (2/2)
Lonemoon gesturing for everybody to leave. Then, he helped Chen Ge out of the pit and instructed Yu Hong, “Go to the Heavenly Gate and see if Blackie is there. He should be on the way. Lan Hua is a demon so we won’t be able to help him much with recovery.”
“Yes!”
The few of them returned to Shen Ying’s rear hall, discussing along the way but coming to no clear conclusion. What exactly was Xuan Tong trying to tell them?
“Shen Ying.” Lonemoon did not know what to do, so he nudged the person who had not said a single word since they left Xuan Tong’s. “Who do you think kidnapped Shortie? Or do you have any idea what the aura that Lan Hua encountered was?”
“I don’t know.” Shen Ying shook her head. After thinking for awhile, she said, “But what Boss Lan was talking about is probably related to this flower.” She retrieved a vase from underneath the table and placed it on top of the table.
Everyone: “…”
Wasn’t this the vase on Xuan Tong’s window sill? Why did you bring it here? How did nobody notice this?
“What’s wrong with this flower?” Lonemoon studied it closer. He was just about to activate his immortal Qi to get a closer look.
“A flower!” Radish jumped out of nowhere, as if activated by some sort of command. It sprang onto the table and stared at the vase. “All wild flowers should die – Little Big Sister is mine!” It raised its leaves and charged toward the flower.
“Radish!” Lonemoon exclaimed. This little rascal! He quickly pulled Radish back.
But Radish’s leaves had already slammed down on the flower in the vase. Its leaves had immortal Qi too! Lonemoon watched, expecting the fragile red flower to be crushed. Suddenly, the flower released a gust of grey air which not only dissipated the immortal Qi on Radish’s leaves, but sent him flying backward!
There was a loud crash. Radish hit the wall and became flattened, as if it just encountered an explosion. The impact was so great that a Radish-shaped dent appeared on the wall.
“Radish!” Everybody called.
Everybody in the house was shocked. They rushed forward. Lonemoon activated his earth-elemental technique to peel Radish off the wall, Its pale-white body was now dyed purple.
Radish’s entire body seemed to have been struck by something. It stared at Lonemoon blankly. After awhile, as if realising that it hurt, it began to wail so loudly that the walls shook. It turned to bury itself in Shen Ying’s arms. “Wah… Little Big Sister… Little Big Sister, it bullied me! It hurts! It really hurts! Ah¬”
The leaves on its head leaked with drops of water that it looked a bit like it was raining. Shen Ying frowned and pulled Radish away from her body in disgust. “It’s so ugly!” She handed Radish over to Roasted Chicken Gal, who was standing beside her
“Wah¬” Radish hugged Chengyu and cried even harder.
Radish never felt this hurt since it first met Shen Ying. The vegetation spirit was a pure one, and it only began to form a child’s character recently. Although its gender was uncertain, all the disciples in the sect were ladies. What’s more, Radish was good with its words so that all the disciples liked him. Apart from Lonemoon and a few others who were jealous of it, everybody else was kind and accommodating toward it. This being the first time Radish got attacked in this manner as well, by a wild flower that had no sentience, no less. No wonder Radish was this hurt!
“Alright, alright, be good, Radish!” Qi Chengyu comforted it for a long time before Radish finally stopped crying.
Shen Ying pointed at the vase on the table. “Did all of you see that?”
Everybody in the house had a sombre expression on their face as they nodded. They surrounded the vase and watched as the flower changed before their eyes. The flower wilted before their eyes, as if it encountered demonic Qi.