My Master Is a Great Dragon, Clinging to Me Every Day! - Chapter 8

On the way to the main hall where her master lived, Xu Zhiyi heard people greeting her the entire way. Most of them were people dressed in plain, dark robes. They were probably the nominal disciples under her master’s name in the sect.

Generally speaking, disciples like this only lived at the foot or halfway up Shuanghan Peak. Most of the time, when they went up the peak, it was to carry out their tasks.

For example, planting various spiritual plants, watering flowers, and weeding.

However, they only greeted her.

They did not even dare look at her for too long.

Touching her own face, Xu Zhiyi sighed. Before the female lead arrived, what kind of life had the original owner been living? Wasn’t this way too carefree?

It was simply a case of the monkey calling itself king when there were no tigers in the mountain.

Stepping along the corridor, Xu Zhiyi continued forward. The flowers, plants, and trees around the main hall were all very well tended and looked full of life.

There were even colorful little birds hopping around on the treetops, chirping clearly.

Xu Zhiyi stretched lazily. The air here was really nice, fresh and pleasant.

The main hall was grand and imposing. Xu Zhiyi turned inside and looked at the wooden door. It was probably made of precious wood, and it even carried a faint, elegant fragrance.

“What are you doing, clinging to the doorframe and looking around?”

A cold, distant female voice sounded from behind her. Xu Zhiyi was startled in her heart, but her expression remained fairly calm.

Aside from her master, there should not be anyone else in this great hall.

…Mm. For the time being, this form could probably count as human, right?

“This time, you are quite diligent. However, I already told Sect Leader Senior Brother that you would be confined, so for these next few days, you are not allowed to go anywhere except Shuanghan Peak.”

“You are not allowed to go down the peak either.”

Xu Zhiyi had no expression on her face, but inwardly she started complaining. What kind of confinement was this? Even just the summit of Shuanghan Peak was terrifyingly huge, all right?

“Yes… this disciple understands.”

Pretending to be slightly unwilling, Xu Zhiyi walked into the side hall. This was where she attended morning and evening lessons.

Originally, the female lead had also attended with her, but right now, she was probably traveling somewhere for a side mission, so Xu Zhiyi would not run into her.

That was a good thing.

If she ran into the female lead, there would probably be a new round of trouble starting again, and she would have to think of a way to deal with it in advance.

Sigh. Who told her to end up as a minor supporting character who could meet disaster at any time?

If she did not think of a way out for herself, then there really would be no way out.

And she also had to act, making sure her disguise did not fall apart.

It was honestly exhausting, okay?

Xu Zhiyi secretly cheered herself on in her heart. That was right. From now on, she would start working hard. She absolutely had to become a genius disciple who brought glory to her master.

She would become the female lead’s role model.

She would become the sect’s outstanding chief disciple.

Although it was called morning class, most of the time, Master simply sat in her seat, writing something unknown. Her back was perfectly straight, and her gaze never wandered.

Xu Zhiyi felt as though there were thorns under her butt. She picked up a book from the table, Strange Explanations of the Sect: The Way of Beast Taming.

Opening the pages directly, Xu Zhiyi began reading with great interest. It turned out that in this world, forming a contract with a spirit pet mainly had two methods.

The first method was to buy a young beast or a spirit pet egg from childhood and hatch it yourself.

The second method was to establish a contract yourself, or use a contract formation to summon a spirit beast.

However, very few cultivators chose to use contract formations to summon spirit beasts. First, you would not know what kind of spirit beast you might summon.

If it was a spirit beast with extremely powerful strength, it might eat you in one bite after being summoned over. The second possibility was summoning the kind of spirit beast that had just gained intelligence and only wanted to find a long-term meal ticket.

It would freeload food and drink.

And when its master encountered danger, it would run faster than anyone else.

Xu Zhiyi thought for a while. The original owner’s Qiankun pouch had everything inside—messy little trinkets, messy picture books.

The only thing it had not left for her was spirit stones.

How was she supposed to buy a spirit pet like this?

Forget it. She should save some money first. Otherwise, she could also try messing around with a summoning contract. This was no different from drawing cards in a game in real life.

If her luck was good, she could pull an SSR.

If her luck was bad, it would be pure fodder.

After writing a page, An Chengxi did not know what had been wrong with her since what happened yesterday. She kept feeling as though she could not calm down. As for what had happened after she got drunk, she had completely forgotten it.

But judging from Xu Zhiyi’s behavior, she probably had not revealed anything that had frightened her too badly.

However, when An Chengxi raised her eyes, she saw Xu Zhiyi sitting in her seat. Although her sitting posture was improper and not at all upright, she was seriously reading the book in her hands.

“Before, Master told you that the spirit deer was not bad. Unfortunately… your junior sister wanted it too.”

And so, An Chengxi had let the two of them compete fairly. Whoever won would get it. That spirit deer had originally lived at the summit of Shuanghan Peak.

Naturally, it had been close to the female lead since childhood. It was obviously some childhood opportunity prepared for the protagonist.

Xu Zhiyi understood this clearly. Although in the original novel, the protagonist had said that this spirit deer had been gifted to her by her master, Xu Zhiyi had not expected there to be this kind of incident behind it.

The original owner really had lived up to her role as a vicious supporting character from beginning to end!

Upholding the spirit of fairness and justice, An Chengxi had not helped either of them. Instead, she let the two of them fight and compete for it themselves.

In the end, Fengyue won.

As for Xu Zhiyi, she had been stabbed in the butt by the spirit deer’s antlers, fallen flat on her face, gotten mud all over herself, and scraped her knees.

An Chengxi had originally wanted to comfort Xu Zhiyi, but in the end, her senior brothers and sisters stopped her.

If she was unwilling to suffer even this small hardship, how could she subdue a hundred-year spirit beast or even a thousand-year spirit beast in the future?

An Chengxi was also being a master for the first time. She felt that she had done too many foolish things back then. In addition, every time a dragon underwent growth, she had to spend a great deal of time concealing the pain of her body developing.

As a result, she had been unable to divide her attention.

“Since… you are now reading these things again, then after your confinement is over, Master will personally take you to the Ten Thousand Beasts Pavilion to choose one.”

“How does that sound?”

There was a hint of probing in her eyes. Could it be that she had seen An Chengxi’s true form that day, and so… had begun to take an interest in spirit beasts?

Her master had once told her:

Never reveal to anyone that she was of the dragon race. Not even to her senior brothers and sisters. In this world, one could never use one’s own magnanimity to measure the evil in human nature.

The dragon race were treasures among all treasures, the foremost of auspicious beings.

Even a tiny dragon scale could be forged into a divine weapon that would make all mortal iron in the world lose its brilliance.

Meeting Master’s gaze, Xu Zhiyi somehow felt a little uneasy, but she still pretended to be stubborn and awkward. She crossed her arms over her chest and deliberately ignored Master.

She was so angry that she even blew at a strand of hair hanging beside her temple.

Oh my god, acting was really hard.

Every second, she was hovering on the edge of breaking character.

“But I only want Junior Sister’s deer.”

Just saying this made her want to throw up, but Xu Zhiyi still endured it with great determination.