"Stay outside and guard."
"Next time, don't rush in so rashly. Xiaoning'er just woke up. You'll scare her."
Hundun nodded.
Turning around, it was about to leave.
At this moment, Zhao Shuning's legs seemed to regain their senses. She propped her hands on the bed and then moved her body.
She coughed a few times to clear her throat.
Just as Hundun was about to step out of the door, her calm voice rang out behind it.
"Stop right there."
Hundun halted in its tracks.
Zhao Huai also looked at Zhao Shuning.
But Hundun seemed not to care about Zhao Shuning at all except for Zhao Huai's words. Under Zhao Shuning's gaze, two of its four feet had already stepped out.
Zhao Shuning flew into a rage.
She could only shout at Zhao Huai, "Brother, tell it to stay!"
Zhao Huai pointed at Hundun.
Zhao Shuning nodded.
Zhao Huai shook his head indulgently and then said to Hundun, "Stay first. Xiaoning'er probably has something to ask you."
Although Hundun was reluctant, it still turned around.
It asked extremely uncomfortably, "I wonder if the young lady has anything to say to me?"
Zhao Shuning changed her position, put on her shoes, and then simply tied up her hair behind her. She said, "I thought you couldn't understand me."
Hundun didn't respond to Zhao Shuning but just repeated what it had said before.
"I wonder what the young lady wants to say to me."
As an ancient divine beast, although Hundun's abilities were not as powerful as those of a divine beast like Baize and it was sometimes mistaken for a monster, its status in the beast world was extremely noble.
Zhao Huai was a big shot in the beast world, the supreme being in the beast world. Naturally, he could receive the respect of all the spiritual beasts, monsters, and divine beasts in the beast world.
But this little girl in front of him was different.
At most, she was just the elder brother's sister in the human world.
As a divine beast, Hundun often looked down on such humans.
Zhao Shuning was an alchemist, so she could naturally sense Hundun's disdain.
As a divine beast, Hundun had its innate arrogance.
Even Zhao Huai couldn't control the pride deep in their bones.
"Explain to me what that look in your eyes meant just now when you looked at me."
Hundun replied, "The young lady may have misunderstood. I just took a casual look. I have no intention of being disrespectful to the young lady."
"Really?"
Hundun grunted from its nostrils.
Zhao Shuning immediately roared, "Hundun, do you really think I'm a fool?"
She could tell at a glance whether it looked down on her or not.
Many years ago, it used to call her "mistress" affectionately. But now it was using an extremely cold tone to say the most perfunctory words.
This was no longer the Hundun that used to follow her.
The current Hundun was clearly a blind person who told lies with its eyes wide open.
"Xiaoning'er, you?"
Zhao Huai also looked confused.
Logically speaking.
Xiaoning'er was not such a petty woman. Even if Hundun really had some dissatisfaction with her, as long as it didn't say it clearly, she wouldn't be so aggressive and force it to stay just to argue about right and wrong over a look.
Moreover, even if Hundun admitted it.
So what?
Could Xiaoning'er beat Hundun up?
"Brother, don't worry. I won't make things difficult for it. Have you been taking care of my brother all these years?"
"Since the venerable one stayed in the Nether Valley, I've naturally taken good care of him whole - heartedly."
Moreover, Hundun had been punished by Yan Ruyu. Without the venerable one coming here to remove the chains that trapped it and allowing it to move freely in the Nether Valley, its limbs might have seriously degenerated by now.
Zhao Shuning walked up to Hundun.
She leaned her face close to it and said, "Take a good look. Don't you really recognize me?"
Hundun took another extremely casual and perfunctory look at Zhao Shuning.
Then it said, "The young lady is really beautiful."
At the same time, Hundun murmured in its heart, "Ordinary beauty."
Such a face might be considered a beauty in this era, but compared to Mistress Qiu, it was far inferior.
"Speak more quietly in your heart. I can hear you."
Hundun shuddered.
Then it looked at Zhao Shuning in surprise.
How did she know what it was thinking? Could she also be an alchemist?
"I'm not talented. Here, I should be considered a seventh - rank alchemist and an eight - phase spiritual medicine master."
"You?"
Hundun blurted out the mocking words before it could stop itself.
It didn't believe that such a little girl could practice both spiritual power and mental power.
Such talent was rare, except for its Mistress Qiu.
"Yes, it's me. So you'd better speak more quietly, especially those complaints in your heart."
Hundun turned its head.
Then it said, "As an alchemist, you can't peek into our minds without our permission."
But it was really strange.
Even if Hundun had been trapped in the Nether Valley for hundreds of years, it was still a divine beast. How could it be so easily seen through by such a little girl?
Zhao Huai folded his arms and watched the confrontation between the two.
Over the decades, thanks to Hundun protecting his soul, he was able to cultivate his original human form.
So towards Hundun.
Zhao Huai was not only grateful but also respectful.
"Then should I apologize to you here?"
Zhao Shuning did as she said.
She bowed to Hundun.
Hundun sneered and said, "I thought contemporary alchemists had no real skills but big tempers. I didn't expect you to know how to humble yourself."
"Of course."
Hundun added, "But let me tell you first. Although you're an alchemist and I'm a divine beast, it's impossible for me to form a contract with you. My only master is—"
"Mistress Qiu. I know," Zhao Shuning interrupted.
Then she continued, "But your master is already dead. Why won't you recognize a new master?"
"What's it to you?"
Zhao Shuning said, "I'm just curious. When did you form a contract with your master?"
Anyway, when she was alive, she should not have formed a contract with Hundun.
It should have happened not long after her death.
Hundun said, "What does it matter to you?"
Zhao Shuning said again, "By the way, was your master beautiful?"
"Of course. In any case, much more beautiful than you."
Zhao Shuning laughed.
"Luo Qiu is well - known in the historical records. How could I not have heard of her? I'd like to hear what other interesting things happened four hundred years ago."
Because Zhao Shuning died more than five hundred years ago, she knew all the things that happened at that time.
She just didn't know if there had been any earth - shattering events after her death.
After all, most of the records about Luo Qiu were from five hundred years ago.