“Letty… I know you and Miss Bai have a good relationship, but I still find it a bit shocking that you managed to create a child in such a short amount of time.”
Linglong looked at Leticia, who was holding the hand of a golden-haired girl, with a complex expression, her face clearly asking, “What exactly have you been doing these past few days?”
“It’s not my child with her. She’s blond, and I’m black. Although there’s no reproductive barrier between demons and humans, the child wouldn’t be golden-haired, would it?” Leticia was surprised by Linglong’s wild imagination. How could she think of something like that?
Do I, Leticia, look like someone so casual?
Even if I’m unrestrained, I wouldn’t create a child with Bai Ling at this time!
…Creating a body for Yuan is not creating a child, it’s called handicraft!
“Her name is Yuan. She’s a junior of mine. She’s a bit slow-witted, and her parents asked me to discipline her and take her to see the world.” Leticia lied with her eyes wide open.
Speaking of Yuan’s parents, the most fitting identity would probably be Huang herself, but Leticia and Huang were in a relationship of mortal enemies, to the point where they wished to grind each other into dust.
Moreover, Yuan was clearly a poor girl whom Leticia had forcibly tied to her side and prematurely ripened. And she was taking her around to discipline her properly, how shameless!
“Leticia’s junior? Is she also a deity?!” Linglong’s eyes were filled with surprise.
She sized up the golden-haired girl standing obediently beside Leticia. Although she was indeed very cute, with her intelligent eyes and frail aura, was she really a deity?
In a sense, Yuan was indeed a deity. Leticia had a troubled expression. “Not exactly. She’s probably only a part of a deity. You’ve noticed that this girl is a bit slow-witted.”
“Indeed,” Linglong bent down and pinched Yuan’s face.
It was soft, but it lacked the warmth of a living being; instead, it was cold like a corpse. If one smelled closely, they could even detect a faint odor emanating from the girl.
“She’s not a normal life form?”
“Oh, you can tell? Not bad, Linglong.” Leticia nodded with a smile. She let go of Yuan’s hand, allowing the little girl, who had just learned to walk, to go play nearby.
Yuan, who had been curious about the world, immediately ran towards the nearby jungle like a runaway horse as soon as Leticia let go.
However, after just a few steps, her leg bent at a strange angle for some reason, and with a chilling sound of bone cracking, Yuan tumbled to the ground.
Linglong’s pupils contracted, and she immediately wanted to rush over to heal Yuan.
But Leticia stopped Linglong. “Don’t worry.”
“Her leg is broken like that, and you’re telling me not to worry?”
“Do you see any reaction from her?” Leticia nudged Yuan.
Yes, an ordinary girl would have cried out in pain in such a situation, but this girl named Yuan was completely different. Linglong looked at the girl who looked quite cute.
Under the shocked gazes of the three dragons, Yuan reached out, grabbed her bent leg, and with a click, snapped her dislocated leg back into its original position.
Then, the girl stood up from the ground and happily continued running towards the jungle.
The young dragon who witnessed the entire process shivered. He couldn’t help but want to scream just by imagining himself in that situation.
His companion sitting beside him had the same reaction. They had just developed a slight liking for the golden-haired girl suddenly brought by the deity. Now, that liking had completely turned into fear.
A girl who could do such a thing without changing her expression was terrifying.
“That child… hiss…” Linglong could barely speak clearly. What she had just seen was truly shocking, leaving even her, a well-traveled dragon, somewhat speechless.
“The body she’s using now doesn’t have pain feedback, so she can do things like that.” Seeing Linglong’s reaction, Leticia couldn’t help but laugh. “You can think of her as a puppet, except that the material used to make this puppet is living flesh and blood.”
“Leticia, you went out hunting beasts a few days ago for this?”
“Yes. Unfortunately, the materials were a bit scarce. Otherwise, the body I created wouldn’t be such a defective product.” Leticia nodded. After talking about Yuan, she got down to business. “We should be in the central part of the Northern Territory by now, right?”
It had been about half a month since they entered the Northern Territory. During this time, Linglong had followed Leticia’s guidance northward, destroying five abandoned temples of Huang along the way, which could be considered a fruitful endeavor.
In about another day, Linglong and her group would leave the densely forested area and enter the more desolate true Northern Territory.
There, they would not be able to hide themselves as perfectly as they could in the jungle, and the probability of being discovered would greatly increase.
Therefore, Leticia had specially created several magical amulets for these dragons to use as disguises.
“When you encounter enemies, touch this amulet. It’s inscribed with a mental interference spell that can make beastmen with low mental strength recognize you as allies. As long as you don’t do anything too outrageous, you won’t be suspected.” Leticia took out several small amulets from her pocket and carefully explained their usage to Linglong.
“If you encounter an enemy you can’t defeat, press here on the amulet, and then throw the amulet at the enemy, like this.”
Leticia touched the amulet and then threw it into the sky.
*Whoosh… Boom!*
A beautiful yet dangerous firework exploded in the sky.
If she were hit by this explosion without any preparation, Linglong felt she would likely be seriously injured.
This power was quite terrifying!
“Under normal circumstances, you can rest assured that Bai Ling and I will protect your safety, but if we are temporarily held back by Huang’s subordinates, you will have to rely on yourselves then.”
The further north they went, the stronger Leticia’s sense of danger became. She could already feel that the ancient adversary was waiting for her further north, waiting for her new opponent’s arrival.
This feud that had lasted for countless years would indeed come to a close in their hands.
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“You can’t put this in your mouth! My little ancestor, can you stop trying to taste everything you see?” Linglong grabbed Yuan’s small hand, her face filled with无奈.
Looking at the tree bark in Yuan’s hand, the dragon girl felt like a nanny taking care of a young lady who knew nothing of the world.
Oh, this young lady indeed knew nothing of the world, to the point where she could do things that made everyone around her shudder.
For example, breaking her own limbs without batting an eye and then resetting them herself, or grabbing a wriggling caterpillar and stuffing it into her mouth.
The bright colors on the caterpillar had completely become decorations. It probably suspected that its venom gland had evolved in vain, how could it have encountered such a stubborn opponent?
In fact… its poison had indeed evolved in vain. For Yuan, its venom had no effect whatsoever.
Poison targeting the nervous system encountered a blood-and-flesh puppet that didn’t even have a nervous system. It would be ghosts if it had any effect.
“Hmm?” Yuan looked at Linglong, puzzled as to why the pretty older sister was stopping her.
However, the black-haired older sister had told her not to leave and to listen to the blonde older sister. Although Yuan couldn’t fully understand why she had to do this, she knew that listening to the black-haired older sister would not be wrong.
That older sister gave her delicious food, gave her a body, and now brought her to such an interesting place. She definitely wasn’t a bad person!
At least she was more pleasing to the eye than that old woman who kept nagging in her head!
“You can’t eat this. If you want to eat, I have something more delicious here.” Linglong took out a piece of jerky from her pocket and exchanged it for the tree bark in Yuan’s hand.
Eating some meat is better than gnawing on tree bark. If someone saw Yuan enthusiastically eating tree bark, Linglong estimated that even with ten mouths, she couldn’t explain that she wasn’t abusing a child.
“Roar!” Yuan didn’t show any dissatisfaction when the tree bark was replaced with jerky. She couldn’t feel the deliciousness of food right now. Jerky, tree bark, or even insects, were just differences in hardness and softness in her mouth.
And she didn’t eat to fill her stomach; she simply wanted to use this method to understand these things she had never seen before.
After all, this body had no digestive function.
“Yo, Linglong, you look a bit tired. Did Yuan cause trouble?” At this moment, Leticia emerged from the divine artifact space, holding a plastic food container.
It was almost evening. Leticia came out to give the diligent Linglong a little compensation and to take Yuan back to the divine artifact space.
“She didn’t exactly cause trouble, she’s just very, uh, peculiar.” Linglong told Leticia about Yuan’s activities throughout the day.
Halfway through, Leticia’s face turned a little pale. “Hiss, it seems I need to instill some common sense into her.”
“Oh, right, this is a bonus for you. A dessert made from the essence of both demons and humans.”
Linglong took the food container handed to her by Leticia and opened it. Inside were two exquisite-looking small cakes. The little dragon girl, who had always lived among the beastmen, had never seen such a thing, but her intuition told her that these things should be very delicious.
Taking out a small cake, Linglong took a small bite.
“Delicious!” Linglong’s golden dragon eyes brightened intensely. She felt almost ecstatic. The taste of this cake was simply too amazing; she couldn’t describe the deliciousness of this little thing!
In her not-so-short dragon life, this cake was the most delicious thing she had ever eaten!
She devoured the two cakes greedily, her eyes filled with tears. She grabbed Leticia’s hand and said righteously, “Taking care of Miss Yuan is my duty. You can leave Yuan to me for the next few days too!”
For the delicious cake, Linglong felt that being bothered by this super-natural troublemaker all day was nothing.
“Then I’ll trouble you.” Leticia chuckled. She knew Linglong would be won over by the two small cakes, as dragons were all foodies and lazybones.
Bribing dragons with delicious food was the most successful method!
After bribing Linglong, Leticia turned her attention to Yuan, who was still pitifully gnawing on jerky.
Since they were out, Yuan naturally wasn’t just wrapped in a large bedsheet. She had been well-dressed by Infino today, with a large black lace dress, white stockings, and small leather shoes. If she stood still, she would definitely be a perfect loli-type character.
Unfortunately, Yuan couldn’t be as quiet as a well-behaved loli yet. After a day of making a mess, the large black skirt was already stained with dirt. The white stockings were also pitiful, with earthy yellow stains and several large and small holes.
As for the small leather shoes… it was good enough that they were still on Yuan’s feet.
As for the mud on them, it was best to pretend not to see it. A purification spell would be enough, so it wasn’t a big problem.
“If you look closely, Yuan actually looks quite cute like this.” Although she was covered in dirt, this little girl gave off a very energetic feeling, which was much better than her previous appearance of being cute but lifeless.
“Indeed, it feels like a puppet has gained a touch of vitality.” Linglong also agreed with Leticia’s opinion. When she first saw Yuan, she truly had the thought, ‘This probably isn’t a living person, is it?’
However, after taking care of this little fellow for a whole day, Yuan’s image had successfully transformed into a ‘humanoid beast.’
…At least she was a living being.
“By the way, I can understand those small holes on the stockings, but how did such large holes get made?” Leticia’s fingers swept across Yuan’s calf, pausing at a large gap. This was not damage that could be caused by scraping, right?
“I accidentally fell while climbing a tree, and my leg landed on a rock.” Recalling the scene, Linglong gasped. For an ordinary girl, that leg would likely be difficult to save.
But Yuan just sat there, adjusted her leg twice, and immediately resumed her ability to move, leaving Linglong speechless.
As expected of Leticia’s junior, she could only sigh.
“…I’ll try to make her a bit more normal if I have the chance. I’ll do my best.” Leticia covered her face, her tone a little崩溃.
This little guy’s style was really a bit weird right now.
