My Wife Is The Final Boss-Chapter 842 - 470: Li Zhibai’s Reasons for Getting Angry (Double-length)

Chapter 842: Chapter 470: Li Zhibai’s Reasons for Getting Angry (Double-length)

Li Zhibai: "..."

Her expression slightly froze on her face.

Ah...

Seeing Li Zhibai in a daze, Zhu Pingniang showed a smile of triumph.

She knew these master and disciple were a pair of paupers.

Li Zhibai looked like she had high cultivation, but her meager salary was hardly enough to buy some spirit tea and three meals a day of spiritual food.

As for Xu Chang’an, he couldn’t even scrape together a penny.

"No, that’s not right." Li Zhibai gradually calmed down, and after honestly accepting the fact that she was a pauper, she shook her head: "According to the rules, if the mission’s target was wrong, then... the maid who compiled the information should be punished, how can the error be attributed to Chang’an, the executor?"

"Who do you think compiled the mission target?" Zhu Pingniang countered.

"Who?"

"Look." Zhu Pingniang motioned towards Wen Li in the Illusion Realm Inner Realm: "And by the way, Chang’an hasn’t opened source yet, the mission reward... is a Three-Stripe Opening Source Pill... Ah Bai, now who do you think should pay for the miserable Cyan-eyed Tiger?"

"Never mind." Li Zhibai had nothing to say, she thought about her remaining spirit stones, gathering them together... wasn’t impossible.

"I’ll pay." She said this.

No one could have imagined, these two high-ranking members of the Chaoyun Sect, with serious faces, discussing the matter of dozens of low-grade spirit stones.

"Well... Just kidding." Zhu Pingniang waved her hand: "I wouldn’t really take your pitiful salary just for a few spirit stones, Ah Bai."

That would be too heartless.

"Rules are rules." Li Zhibai wasn’t thinking much of it.

"You really take yourself as Chang’an’s mother?" Zhu Pingniang spat: "Do you have to pay for everything, what’s the point of having him then."

Mother...

Li Zhibai blinked.

Is that how she thought?

Does she take Xu Chang’an as her ’child’?

It sounded reasonable, because after hearing Xu Chang’an made a mistake, the first thing she thought was to remedy it herself.

Impossible.

She never had even a fellow cultivator, let alone any children.

"Just a teacher." Li Zhibai corrected.

"No more teacher." Zhu Pingniang extended one finger: "You paid for the Golden Body incident, now adding a Mountain Tiger... Can I ask, Ah Bai, how do you plan to compensate me?"

"Golden Body..."

Li Zhibai frowned.

This was indeed a hassle.

She had witnessed how painstaking Tong Jun’s journey to cultivate that Glazed Golden Body had been, and truly didn’t know how to compensate.

She couldn’t afford the exorbitant spirit stones, and Tong Jun had suffered enough.

"If you’re unsure what to do, perhaps listening to my suggestion wouldn’t hurt." Zhu Pingniang suddenly said.

"Hmm?" Li Zhibai thought for a moment and nodded: "Alright, what do you have in mind."

Zhu Pingniang’s eyes lit up, she chuckled, slightly raised her half-reclined body, and patted the mattress beside her, lifting a corner.

"How about this, Ah Bai... accompany me for a nap, and I’ll no longer mind about the Golden Body... Today’s not possible, but it could be postponed."

Zhu Pingniang laughed lightly, but the humor in her eyes concealed rare courage and shyness.

She had tried hard to adopt the guise of a bad woman, using this joking tone to say such a thing.

But this courage dissipated quickly, cold wind swept over Zhu Pingniang’s brow, bringing a sting of chill, akin to Li Zhibai’s stern and cold countenance.

"Look me in the eyes and say it again." Li Zhibai coldly stared at her.

"I... I was just joking." Zhu Pingniang quickly averted her gaze, her smile had congealed.

"Give me your hand." Li Zhibai said.

Zhu Pingniang didn’t expect that a joke would truly anger Li Zhibai, obediently she extended her hand, simultaneously... feeling perplexed.

It’s not like she said anything too excessive.

Even if Li Zhibai knew she harbored improper thoughts now, it’s said that conduct matters, not intentions; intentions alone render no person perfect... she just thought about it, it’s not wrong.

Letting Li Zhibai accompany her to sleep was merely about sleeping, not about tenderness.

Haven’t the two of them slept together less in the past?

What’s there to be angry about.

Even Zhu Pingniang felt somewhat aggrieved.

"Hmm..." Li Zhibai slowly released Zhu Pingniang’s hand, calmly conveying: "The root of the Glazed Technique hasn’t been damaged, but the source was broken; the converted True Qi has withered, if that’s the case... spending some time replenishing it would suffice."

Li Zhibai slightly exhaled a bit of relief.

As long as the foundation wasn’t destroyed, though repairs would still require diligent effort and time, overall it wasn’t a significant issue.

After contemplating for a while, she said: "Here, I’ll prepare a Seven-Stripe Taiqing Pill and a bottle of Life-Overturning Water for you..."

As Li Zhibai intermittently named numerous items considered Supreme Treasures in the Cultivation Realm... Zhu Pingniang’s eyes twitched.

"... About like that, should recover in less than a few years." Li Zhibai conveyed.

"Ah Bai." Zhu Pingniang couldn’t help but speak.

"Hmm?"

Li Zhibai raised her head, then recalled something: "Ah, that’s still not enough."

These elixirs were merely to restore Zhu Pingniang’s Glazed Golden Body, but a real compensation hadn’t been given yet.

"Have you thought about any elixirs you want recently? The residual fire of my Cyan Cauldron is still enough to produce a furnace of Nine-Striped Pill." Li Zhibai asked: "This, would it satisfy you?"

"..." Zhu Pingniang.

At a loss for words.

"Ah Bai, isn’t the point of your anger... a bit strange." she queried.

All she said was if Ah Bai slept with her she’d no longer care, the Glazed Golden Body... would recover gradually.

Yet Li Zhibai insisted otherwise, even sparking true ire.

Comparatively, she’d rather Li Zhibai spend a great deal at compensation.

This girl’s anger point is truly peculiar.

"Don’t make it complicated, I was previously... genuinely joking." Zhu Pingniang seriously stated: "I, too, am Chang’an’s elder, and I chose to spar with her of my own accord; you need not compensate for anything, Ah Bai."

Besides, she knows her own body, and even without costly elixirs, resting for a few years would see her soul restored more or less.

Considering her current status, unless the Qing Province falls into chaos, or there’s a major righteous versus wicked battle... there’s not a place that particularly requires her involvement.

Therefore, there’s genuinely no need to mind it.

Yet, unexpectedly, Li Zhibai shook her head: "It’s best to restore it sooner."

"I said..." Zhu Pingniang was just about to speak firmly when she met Li Zhibai’s gaze, instantly softening: "... Alright."

"Listen to me." Li Zhibai’s words were simple and forceful, indisputable.

"Oh." Zhu Pingniang sighed softly.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly congealed, the air seeming to fill with a viscous liquid unpleasant for Zhu Pingniang, as though clogging her breath.

She felt some regret.

Perhaps she shouldn’t have joked with Ah Bai in any way.

The previously good atmosphere became strained and escapism-inducing due to her single joke.

In the room, inexplicable awkwardness surfaced, Li Zhibai quietly documented Wen Li’s status within the Inner Realm, while Zhu Pingniang lay on the bed, her expression darkened.

After quite some time, Zhu Pingniang replenished her spent courage a bit.

"Ah Bai, are you mad?"

"A little." Li Zhibai replied truthfully.

"Because... I wanted to sleep with you?" Zhu Pingniang queried.

She wasn’t worried Li Zhibai would feel reproach or she’d perceive her as a sister; nor feared her intentions surfacing.

Yet she feared Li Zhibai becoming angry.

This is inevitable.

Though wholeheartedly enthralled with the girl before her, Zhu Pingniang felt that if closeness with her triggered such fury in Ah Bai, then she’d... never express it again.

"Sleep? What are you talking about?" Li Zhibai inquisitively turned back to glance at Zhu Pingniang.

How could she be angry over Tong Jun wanting to be close to her?

This Ni Zi... misunderstood something.

Yet, Zhu Pingniang was taken aback.

Angry, but not due to her saying she wanted to sleep with her?

What was Ah Bai saying, even Zhu Pingniang couldn’t comprehend.

Li Zhibai could sense Zhu Pingniang’s cautiousness, felt rather helpless, she set the book aside.

"Your cultivation of the Glazed Technique wasn’t easy, don’t joke about these matters."

Tong Jun spoke of how sharing a bed with her was more important than years of hard cultivation; she disliked it.

Isn’t it saying their sharing a bed outweighs years of laborious cultivation?

On what basis.

No one knows better than her, how Toung Jun had suffered for cultivating the Glazed Technique then.

This kind of joke makes her feel towards then Tong Jun’s effort... it’s disrespectful.

Simply put, she felt heartache.

Thus, she became angry.