After Transmigrating as a Blade of Grass (GL) - Chapter 2

However, at a time like this, everyone tacitly avoided mentioning that matter.

Elder Nanshan was familiar with Zhai Wangyou, so his eldest disciple, Guanlan, encouraged by the curiosity of the other disciples, boldly asked, “Eldest Senior Sister, how did your cultivation recover?”

As soon as Guanlan finished speaking, everyone’s eyes turned toward Zhai Wangyou. They had never heard of someone recovering after their cultivation had been completely destroyed. Just how had Eldest Senior Sister done it?

Zhai Wangyou’s gaze paused.

How had it recovered?

She thought of last night’s dream, and an almost imperceptible flicker passed through her eyes. She said calmly, “I do not know what happened either. When I woke up this morning, it had recovered.”

Although everyone was very curious, they did not continue asking. This was someone else’s life-saving ability. Whether she said anything or not was entirely up to her. The disciples tactfully changed the topic.

By the time the sun sank toward the western mountains, the last few people who had come after hearing the news finally left, and the courtyard quieted down.

Zhai Wangyou turned and went back into the room, walking straight toward the inner chamber. When she reached the bed, her steps stopped, and a complicated look appeared in her eyes.

But what had to be faced had to be faced eventually.

She stepped forward. When she lifted the brocade quilt, her fingers still trembled uncontrollably.

Beneath the quilt, several dried dark-red stains had marked the clean white bedsheet… as if announcing everything that had happened last night.

It was real. It was not a dream!

No, it was a dream. A dream that had truly happened…

Zhai Wangyou staggered back a few steps, and an unreadable emotion flashed across her frost-cold face.

With a wave of her hand, she changed the bedsheets, then closed her eyes to check if there was anything unusual with her cultivation.

A moment later, Zhai Wangyou slowly opened her eyes.

There was nothing unusual. In fact, her cultivation had even improved quite a bit. Her early Golden Core cultivation faintly showed signs of breaking through to the later stage.

Was it because of last night’s… dream?

She pondered for a long while, then got up and walked to the small medicinal field in the courtyard. She released her divine sense and carefully covered the area inch by inch, but she did not discover anything strange.

Zhai Wangyou withdrew her divine sense.

They were all merely ordinary medicinal herbs. Could it be that she was overthinking things?

She glanced around, and her gaze landed on the small patch of Dream-Entering Grass.

Among that patch of Dream-Entering Grass, Xi Zhou nervously held her breath.

She had dreamed last night. Who would have thought that before she had even been refined into a Dream-Entering Pill, she would enter Zhai Wangyou’s dream?

Heavens knew what had bewitched her in the dream. She had actually lost control and done that with Zhai Wangyou… and so many times!!

# Dear heavens, no one knew how shocked she had been when she woke up.

She had actually seemed as though her soul had left her body, lying on an unfamiliar bed. Beside her pillow was Zhai Wangyou, the same woman who had been entangled with her all night in the dream.

So it was not a dream?

Or did the dream and reality connect with each other?

What was most unacceptable was that before she could even figure out how her soul had left her body, she returned to this blade of grass again.

And the grass that had originally been full of vitality had actually wilted.

Xi Zhou wanted to cry but had no tears. She had become a wilted Dream-Entering Grass. No matter what, her leaves could not perk up. She looked as though she had been thoroughly ravaged. It was simply unbearable to look at.

Seeing that Zhai Wangyou had discovered nothing and turned away from the medicinal field, the stone in Xi Zhou’s heart finally dropped.

She shook her wilted leaves, secretly rejoicing. Fortunately, she had not been discovered.

Otherwise, Eldest Senior Sister might very well have pulled her up by the roots.

Still, Eldest Senior Sister’s cultivation seemed to have recovered. This woman was way too powerful. Yesterday, she had looked like she was not long for this world, and in the dream, she had done this and that with her…

How could she seem completely fine today, without the slightest hint of weakness?

But it seemed like she had already recovered in the dream last night. At first, there had not been the slightest response, but later, the corners of her eyes had grown damp, her red lips had parted slightly, and those restrained, soft gasps…

Xi Zhou abruptly shook her leaves.

She could not keep thinking about it. Ah—this was too sinful…

But… Eldest Senior Sister seemed to have been experiencing it for the first time. Should she take responsibility?

No, that was not right. She was just a blade of grass now. She could not even speak. How was she supposed to take responsibility? She should stop thinking too much.

Just then, the door suddenly opened again.

Zhai Wangyou swiftly returned to the medicinal field. Her gaze accurately locked onto a Dream-Entering Grass that looked rather malnourished.

Xi Zhou immediately held her breath.

Unfortunately, this time, she failed to hide.

In the next second, she was pulled up by the roots.

Her originally drooping leaves instantly trembled wildly.

It’s over, it’s over! I’ve been discovered!

# Dear heavens, she was going to lose her grass life…

Zhai Wangyou raised her hand and caught the grass in midair. Her voice was icy. “It was you.”

The moment she reached out and touched this Dream-Entering Grass, her inner core had actually felt a trace of unusual movement.

Could it be that this grass had gained spiritual awareness and had even cultivated a human form?

Thinking of the unfamiliar woman in the dream, as well as the dream that had lasted the entire night…

Zhai Wangyou pressed her lips tightly together, the look in her eyes dark and unreadable.

This grass had helped her, repairing her inner core and restoring her cultivation, but it had also done that to her…

The grass in her hand was still trembling its leaves, as though struggling to deny it.

Zhai Wangyou’s expression turned colder. She turned and went back into the room, planting the Dream-Entering Grass in her hand into a flowerpot.

She looked at the wilted Dream-Entering Grass in the flowerpot and parted her lips lightly. “You can enter dreams and transform into human form? Come see me now, and I can consider letting bygones be bygones.”

She had to figure out what exactly had happened last night. And this grass—what kind of spirit or demon was it? If it was an unrighteous creature…

A trace of hesitation flashed through Zhai Wangyou’s eyes, but it soon turned completely firm.

If it was an unrighteous creature, she would eliminate it.

Xi Zhou shook her leaves from side to side.

She really did not know how!

Heavens knew what had happened last night. Since when did she know how to enter dreams and transform?

Zhai Wangyou reached out and pinched the leaf that kept shaking. There was a hint of danger in her tone. “You are unwilling?”

Xi Zhou immediately stopped moving.

Dear heavens, it was not that she was unwilling. It was that she did not know how.

At this moment, she hated it so much. Why could she not speak?

But then again, if a blade of grass could speak, where would its mouth be…

After imagining that scene in her mind, Xi Zhou shook her leaves.

Forget it. That was too strange.

Seeing her shake her leaves again, Zhai Wangyou seemed to guess something and asked coldly, “You cannot speak human language?”

Xi Zhou unwillingly drooped her leaves up and down, indicating that she agreed with Zhai Wangyou’s words. In her heart, however, she rolled her eyes dramatically.

What did she mean by “cannot speak human language”? She was originally human, okay?

Seeing the leaves of the Dream-Entering Grass droop downward, as though nodding in response, Zhai Wangyou’s gaze showed a trace of inquiry. “Then enter a dream now. I will ask you questions then, and you only need to nod or shake your head.”

Unexpectedly, after hearing her words, the Dream-Entering Grass in the flowerpot shook its leaves left and right.

Seeing that Zhai Wangyou’s attitude was still relatively gentle, Xi Zhou grew a little bolder and shook her leaves frantically.

Eldest Senior Sister, it’s not that I don’t want to. I really can’t do it!

Zhai Wangyou stared at the shaking leaves, her tone turning colder. “You do not want to enter a dream?”

The Dream-Entering Grass’s leaves paused, then continued shaking from side to side.

Zhai Wangyou’s gaze stilled slightly. “You want to enter a dream?”

The shaking leaves stopped and became motionless.

Xi Zhou froze, not daring to move.

No, don’t talk nonsense. I don’t want to.

“You cannot enter dreams?” Zhai Wangyou thought of a possibility and asked uncertainly.

The leaves of the Dream-Entering Grass trembled, then indeed began drooping up and down again.

Xi Zhou shouted inwardly, Eldest Senior Sister is wise! She really could not do it.

“Then how did you enter my dream last night?”

Zhai Wangyou stared at the Dream-Entering Grass’s leaves, her tone neither cold nor warm. Was this grass playing tricks on her? Otherwise, what was that absurd dream last night supposed to be?

Xi Zhou instantly went still.

She wanted to know too. If she could figure it out, perhaps she would still have a chance to turn back into a human in this lifetime.

Being a blade of grass that could be pulled up and refined into medicine at any moment was truly too frustrating.

Zhai Wangyou pressed her lips together without speaking.

Should she believe this grass?

She got up and brought over half a bowl of water. Her gaze paused, then she poured some spiritual energy into it.

This grass looked wilted. It seemed she should properly nurture it.

Her slender, fair fingers dipped into the bowl of water, and droplets sprinkled evenly into the flowerpot.

Xi Zhou was just about to shake her leaves to show that she was not thirsty when she felt a wave of comfort spread from the inside out.

She immediately changed her movement and began drooping her leaves up and down.

Zhai Wangyou’s fingers paused. “Very thirsty?”

Xi Zhou hesitated for a moment, then drooped her leaves downward.

Probably.

Seeing this, Zhai Wangyou directly picked up the bowl and prepared to pour the rest of the water into the flowerpot. But when she saw the wilted leaves, she steadied the bowl again and continued dipping water with her other hand, sprinkling it down carefully.

It seemed she would need to find a watering can.

After half a bowl of water had been poured, the Dream-Entering Grass in the flowerpot visibly recovered. It became lush and green, completely losing its previous wilted appearance.

Xi Zhou was astonished to discover that her leaves could perk up again.

She immediately began drooping them up and down again, indicating:

More. Still thirsty.