Not having spoken so much in such a long time, Yuan Jue’s voice was horribly deep and harse. The warm glow reflected off of the red pearl dangling from his neck hanging by the red string shattered the coldness in the room. “Were you forced into a contract with some fiends?”

Ruan Qiuqiu, “……”

It was the first time she heard him said so many words. She was taken aback a little then she looked at Mr. Gray Wolf, whose long lashes were fluttering and his eyes looking watery, in surprise.

When she finally processed what he had said, Ruan Qiuqiu could feel a softness in her heart. “Yes, it is with Grandma Ruyi.

The move?

Mr. Gray Wolf, whose ears had turned pink from being shy just a moment ago felt that a bucket of cold water had been dumped on him. His handsome face looking paler than before.

Almost losing control of himself, he bit down on his thin lips. The water droplets resting on top of his eyelashes shuddered.

His heart ached uncontrollably. Along with that came anxiety and possessiveness that were both growing. He couldn't help but grabbed tightly onto the animal skin beneath him.

She was married to him.

She was his now.

“In here are six herb plants and a few mini ginsengs. That ought to last you for a while.” Looking at the large eagle in front of her, she explained to him, “The one that is leavy is anti-inflammatory; the one that has a hint of bluish hue is to stop bleeding and pain-relief. The mini ginsengs have some spiritual energy properties. Save those for the fiends that are on their last legs.”

The eagle made mental notes of everything that she told him and carefully put away the herbs and the hot water. He was still a little curious. With his wings lifted, he asked, “Wah ~ guwah~ (Thank you, Mrs. Yuan. You know so much.)”

Ruan Qiuqiu, “… … … … … …” What was that with the Mrs. Yuan? She was very baffled by the sound of that.

The wolf, inside their newly-wed bedroom, snickered when he heard that and, with the corners of his lips curved upward, expressed that this eagle wasn’t half bad.

Mr. Gray Wolf’s body leaned forward slowly and Ruan Qiuqiu felt her shoulder and waist being weighted down. She fell backward uncontrollably and landed softly on top of the animal skin.

Mr. Gray Wolf’s lips brushed past her ears softly. He didn’t even dare to have any weight on her. Here merely fell next to her with his handsome face blushing slightly.

Ruan Qiuqiu, who was oblivious to all those, “… …”

What was going on?

She struggled back onto her feet, straightened out her clothes and, pondered with her chin rested on her palm while looking at Yuan Jue, who had his eyes closed.

But, did they really run into each other inadvertently?

Many ideas crossed Mr. Gray Wolf’s mind but his handsome face was cold as normal.

His lowered his slender and long phoenix eyes and his ears drooped. He looked very wronged.

Ruan Qiuqiu eyes mellowed up helplessly. She let go of the crude “wheel chair” in her hand, took a couple of steps forward, and tried to tug at Yuan Jue’s sleeve.

“Are you tired? Do you need some help?”

From her past experience, a fiend as strong as Mr. Gray Wolf would never accept any help. He would most like put on a cool and strong look and brush her hands away gently.

Ruan Qiuqiu took a few steps forward with the “wheelchair”. She was a bit surprised that Mr. Gray Wolf was waiting for her outside. If he had awoken, why didn’t he contact her with the telepathic pearls?

Ruan Qiuqiu wasn’t entirely sure whether Yuan Jue was entire coherent or still somewhat groggy.

She had only taken a few steps forward and, before she reached the entrance of the cave, the wolf moved.

His was as agile as he was a few nights ago. There was nothing under his left knee but he was somehow able to come up next to her quickly.

“Why are you waiting out here?” Ruan Qiuqiu couldn't help but asked.

Now that Mr. Gray Wolf’s life was no longer in danger and, from what Ruan Qiuqiu could tell, those normal herbs without much spiritual energy was not helpful for Mr. Gray Wolf at all. As such, she could let Grandma Ruyi take remaining 5 or 6 plants with them.

The eagle was taken aback a little, “… … That isn’t right.”

Who would dare touch the properties of Yuan Jue, the head of the Fire Wolf Tribe, in the past? Not unless they were tired of living.

By night time, Grandma Ruyi brought with her Xiao Bohe and Grandpa Mo along with the healing water that Ruan Qiuqiu had been collected for the last few days and returned to the Winter Bear Trible, leaving behind Tianxiu to go with Ruan Qiuqiu to pick up the herbs from her cave.

Even under such situation, Yuan Jue’s capability to fight was still well over Level 4.

Over time, with sufficient spiritual energy, she wasn’t entirely sure that she could take him.

And, if she couldn’t, then capturing Yuan Jue live would be entirely out of the question.

Qing Ruyi even wondered whether Yuan Jue was a child from some demon king, being so strong and everything.

One way or another, she knew that she would not be able to capture Yuan Jue live by herself.

She would rather hatch her bet on Ruan Qiuqiu and Yuan Jue rather than her master who had placed the demonic spell on her, slaughtered many, and been lying to her for years.

Grandma Ruyi had told her with a smile that she had discovered some treasure in the mountain behind the Winter Bear Tribe. Ruan Qiuqiu asked tentatively, “Is it a spiritual mountain range?”

Qing Ruyi couldn't help but smiled, “In your dreams, child.”

Ruan Qiuqiu, “… …”

Qing Ruyi didn’t keep Ruan Qiuqiu waiting for long. “No, it isn’t a spiritual mountain range but the spiritual energy within the barrier is definitely much more concentrated than the outside. You see how your Grandpa Mo is looking younger than he was? That was partly because of the barrier.”

As soon as Grandma Ruyi had finished talking, Ruan Qiuqiu looked over at Mo Bugui, who was standing next to the eagle –

She took a look at the eagle who was dragging the cart in a frenzy and said regretfully, “Okay, get some rest then, Wolf. I will probably be back late today.”

Having said that, Ruan Qiuqiu withdrew her spiritual energy and they were disconnected from each other.

Mr. Gray Wolf, “… …”

With the now unresponsive pearl in his hand, it took him a few seconds to figure out what was going on and he finally realized that the noises in the background that he had omitted purposefully was the eagle’s voice.

The wolf’s face darkened way after the fact. He squeezed out two words from between his teeth, “… … Tian! Xiu!”

After she was done with converting the fur into threads, she looked at the pile of fur sitting behind Xiao Bohe and wondered if she could ask Grandpa Ruyi to make her a simple manual weaver.

That being said, a simple hand knitted sweater wasn’t half bad either… …

It would be great if there was cotton. Perhaps there were plants similar to cotton in this ancient fantasy world that she just hasn’t discovered yet? Animal skin was okay in the winter time, but it would be stuff in the summer time.

She sincerely hoped that Mr. Gray Wolf would recover soon and the two of them could go and explore this world.

Ruan Qiuqiu felt that her mind had wandered too far away. She hasn’t even resolved all of her current problems yet and she was already planning about her future?

Ruan Qiuqiu was just thinking about that when the animal skin was lifted up from the inside and Xiao Bohe poked her little head out. It pulled back a little bit when it felt the cold wind. “Sister Qiuqiu, c’mon in. Quickly.”

“Okay,” said Ruan Qiuqiu. After walking inside of Grandpa Mo’s cave, Ruan Qiuqiu noticed that what used to be a very crowded cave had become much more spacious and there only bed remained was the one that Xiao Bohe had her sat down with him on.

Neither Grandpa Mo, Xiao Yu, nor Mo Mao was there.

Ruan Qiuqiu found that even stranger. She turned to talk to Xiao Bohe when Xiao Bohe shoved a ball of fur into her hands. “Sister Qiuqiu, let’s make some strings. Grandma had a lot to tell you.”

Ruan Qiuqiu, “… …” Ruan Qiuqiu had no choice but to stop herself and started working on the strings.

By the time Ruan Qiuqiu had finished taking care of both herself and the wolf and walked out of the cave, she noticed that the blizzard had already stopped.

She had spent a very long time in Yuan Jue’s memory and it was already the afternoon of the second day.

She figured that Grandma Ruyi had checked on them once and, noticing the unusual circumstances with them, did not wake them up. Ruan Qiuqiu planned to go take a look over at Grandpa Mo’s.

Before she left, she had, once again, made sure that Mr. Gray Wolf was alright.

He seemed to have plunged into a very peculiar cultivation state and did not regain consciousness completely.

Ruan Qiuqiu discovered that the spiritual stones that they found inside of the fat pigeon were gone and thought she would take a detour over by the cliff to see if she would have any luck.

With all the gloomy thoughts going through his head, big Mr. Gray Wolf slowly pinched his lips shut.

The night before, as he had recovered a little bit of his fiend energy, he visited previous dwelling place and beat up the few white-eyed wolves who had bullied Ruan Qiuqiu in the past.

For the sake of covering his identity, he used the fiend energy so the wolves would not know that it was him.

Nevertheless, most of the things that he had stored had already been emptied out. There were only two level 4 Telepathy and Spirit Gathering Pearls.

He has yet to reach level 5 himself nor did he wish to control Qiuqiu. He definitely would not want to force her into a contract with him. These two pearls that could be used for communication and other effects would work for now.

She touched his forehead. He was no longer running a fever.

Ruan Qiuqiu checked on big Mr. Grey Wolf’s condition again and noticed that his internal injuries had healed a lot and, after the fiend energy was connected to the spiritual energy, his pain had been much alleviated and would not cough and vomit blood and hanging in by a thread all the time.

Ruan Qiuqiu let out a deep sigh of relief. It was only when she removed her hand from his forehead that she finally noticed – –

Did she sleep next to big Mr. Gray Wolf the night before?

She had pinned on the stone bed by that wolf with his forehead touching hers. It stood to reason that she and big Mr. Grey Wolf should be sleeping in separate beds.

But now, her hand was held by Yuan Jue’s and she was so close to him that she could almost feel his hot breath.

Ruan Qiuqiu only wished that she could turn the two bats in her hands into two swords so she could chop the two pig demons into halves.

Tried as she might she was only able to toss the bat gently out of the cave. She, too, had collapsed onto the ground and, gradually, she was about to turn completely transparent.

“Ahem….” Young Mr. Grey Wolf coughed a couple of times and he struggled to open his eyes. He wanted to reach his hand out and touched Ruan Qiuqiu, who was gradually becoming transparent.

Nevertheless, time and again, let it be his hand or the herb that he had gone through great difficult to obtain, would go right through her.

Warm tears poured out of young Mr. Grey Wolf’s eyes and one drop after another, they fell onto the ground. He looked to be very heart broken.

The weather was surprisingly good today. The sun was out and shined on the walls of the mountain, giving them a light and warm golden look.

A little bit of light shone inside the cave and casted onto young Mr. Grey Wolf’s cheeks. It made him looked like he was bathed in light.

In warm weather like this, there would be an abundance of food and it was also much saver to hunt.

Ruan Qiuqiu still didn’t want him to go. She could sense that she didn’t have much time left to keep him company.

This time, however, young Mr. Grey Wolf was very determinant.

He insisted on going no matter what Ruan Qiuqiu said.

Young Mr. Grey Wolf could no longer touch her right foot that was transparent by now.

The parts that were transparent continued to grow. That was perhaps the amount of time that she had left in this memory world. As the transparent area continued to expand. She figured she had perhaps two more days’ time to spend here with him.

Ruan Qiuqiu looked at the piece of giant leave that young Mr. Grey Wolf got from somewhere with sparkling water inside of it and her heart ached. She didn’t know what to say.

young Mr. Grey Wolf, who had keen observation, noticed that she was a bit blue and seemingly unhappy.

Pursing his lips, he hesitated for a little while before he shook off the water droplets that was stuck to his long eyelashes from his earlier trip and removed the two pinches of wolf hair that were stick to Ruan Qiuqiu’s mask.

Truth was he was very good at reading other humans and demons. He had an idea from how she had started and stopped talking for a few times earlier today.

Young Mr. Gray Wolf touched the fur on her mask softly with the tips of his fingers. His voice sounded like the warm breeze in a summer night. It was stuttering human language mixed in with wolf language.

Piecing together all of it, Ruan Qiuqiu was able to figure out what he was trying to say.

“Is the future wolf very awful?” So awful that she didn’t even want to tell him about it.

Ruan Qiuqiu’s eyelashes fluttered a little. She could tell that young Mr. Grey Wolf was gritting his teeth and trying hard not to sound like he was choking back tears. “No, no…”

Ruan Qiuqiu looked up and noticed that her young Mr.Gray Wolf’s eyes, for some odd reasons, were reddened and his hand returned to its normal cool way quickly. He apologized to her cautiously, “Aowu… (I’m sorry…)”

Ruan Qiuqiu had an idea what he was apologizing for. The more she thought about it, the more her heart ached– –

This time was probably similar to the previous time with the herbs.

He had probably wanted to raise his own temperature in order to keep her warm. But, she was not a real physical body. It didn’t matter that she was a little cold.

Should she say that he was truly a snail grey wolf? He had never been good with words since his early age and always carried out everything quietly.