Chapter 42: Washing the Rabbit

Fat rabbit was originally annoyed by the ink staining his body, but when he saw Mo Shulin’s eyes bright with excitement, the frustration turned into nervousness.

Fearing Mo Shulin would get involved with the protagonist’s group, Bai Yuming didn’t care about the ink stain and said in a hurry, “No, I won’t take her order.”

After he spoke, the fat rabbit couldn’t wait to lift his stained rabbit feet.

Rabbit fur is particularly susceptible to water. When the rabbit lifted his hind leg, the ink dripped down and the rabbit’s feet subconsciously moved, flicking away the dripping ink.

But it’s not easy to lift his feet with a round body, along with his swaying feet, he soon loses his center of gravity and began to fall forward. Unable to stop the fall, he support himself up using his front paws, leaving the stained feet raised in the air while the ink kept dripping.

Mo Shulin saw the ink trickle drop by drop, couldn’t help but to feel that rabbit’s fur was so absorbent.

“Why won’t master pick it up? Is it because Duanmu Jinyan and I are natural nemesis?” Mo Shulin asked, taking the opportunity to step forward, brought up the sentence, “Master, I’ll help you clean it up.”

“Um.” Bai Yuming nodded, “That’s why. Since you know it clearly in your heart, you should know that this order cannot be accepted.”

Mo Shulin pretended to think that his master’s nod was allowing him to help organize and stack the paper on the table. After getting up, he took out a wooden washbasin, poured some water, activated fire talisman, and heated the water with a small fire dragon.

Seeing the clear water, the fat rabbit wanted to put his rabbit’s feet in. Although the ink doesn’t drip anymore, stepping on the table will make the table dirty, and he can’t directly crawl over the table with his three paws.

The fat rabbit, who had forgotten that he could fly, said to Mo Shulin: “Help me go over there to wash.”

Mo Shulin knew the fat rabbit’s weight so he used wind talisman to help. Now he could finally hold the rabbit with both hands, sending the rabbit to wash.

In order to prevent his master from discovering his sinister intentions, Mo Shulin deliberately pick up a topic: “But this order has already been accepted. Gong Shuo, the person who helped us to sold those talismans, picked it up for us. If Yan Qianqian’s master, Nie Yifeng, the master of Qiaogong Hall, can’t control her, then we also cannot decline this order.”

After Bai Yuming heard Mo Shulin’s words, he felt things were going worse than he expected.

“What’s so terrible. Even if we have spirit stones, if Qiaogong Hall won’t help us, there must be other people who would.” The fat rabbit is full of thoughts about how to not get involved with the protagonist’s group, not noticing that Mo Shulin had already placed him inside the washbasin.

Seeing that the fat rabbit has entered the basin stupidly, Mo Shulin seemed to feel that his heart was beating fast, knowing his dream is about to become reality.

Before Mo Shulin could start, Bai Yuming suddenly stood up from the basin.

“Don’t wait, go back now. I’ll meet her personally.” Bai Yuming wanted to take action right now, preparing to get out of the basin.

Seeing the rabbit in the basin is about to slip away, Mo Shulin’s eyes widened in surprise, but still maintained his respectful disciple appearance, “This has already been negotiated last night. Yan Qianqian has already went home today, and she’s probably still on the way.”

“This…this…” The fat rabbit felt that he wanted to disappear at this moment.

He can’t go to someone else’s house just to withdraw the order. If he really catch up to the other person’s door, their temperament will change. No matter how high his cultivation base is, he can’t hold back Yan Qianqian’s family suspicion.

The fat rabbit is a good rabbit with a face.

“Master, don’t worry. This disciple has always kept master’s words in mind. This matter has already been taken to consideration.” Mo Shulin hurriedly sat down with the fat rabbit.

When Bai Yuming heard Mo Shulin’s words, he relaxed slightly, looking forward to Mo Shulin’s solution.

Mo Shulin’s hand had already touched the fat rabbit’s back, squeezing his master’s shoulders like those juniors trying to please their elders. In fact, he took this opportunity to touch the still dry rabbit fur.

The soft touch made Mo Shulin wanted to melt.

The fat rabbit’s back is also smooth. Although it wasn’t as soft as the rabbit waist that he touched before, Mo Shulin was already pleased touching the dry rabbit hair this time.

The excitement made his voice trembled a little, “Master, if you don’t take this matter, I’m afraid that Duanmu Jinyan will defeat my fortune and make me unlucky. But the competition hasn’t begun yet, Yan Qianqian and Duanmu Jinyan haven’t met. Even if we accept the order, we won’t have any contact with Duanmu Jinyan.”

Mo Shulin said, his fingers had moved towards the rabbit’s waist in the water.

The place that fascinates him is still easy to touch as always. Suddenly, he can’t differentiate whether the waist was softer or the water was softer.

Mo Shulin didn’t dare to caress it for too long, he touched the paws on the rabbit’s waist and continued to go downwards, seriously washing the dirty rabbit feet.

The clean water got blackened by ink, but the dirty water started to fade when it touched the basin walls. After a longer period of time, the dirty water turned clean again.

There’s a simple cleaning formation spell in this basin. Although the cleaning ability is very weak, but Mo Shulin can’t produce better things, so he can only use this spell.

Rabbit feets are different from the paws. Rabbit feet have to run and jump, so it’s more powerful unlike the soft and small rabbit paws. But when washing the rabbit’s feet, the fat rabbit needs to sit in the basin and raise his hind legs, allowing Mo Shulin to see all the fat rabbit’s parts.

But furry animals are protected by fur, Mo Shulin can only see the outline of the rabbit’s part.

His master is indeed a male rabbit.

The fat rabbit heard the tremble in Mo Shulin’s voice, thought that Mo Shulin was worried he’ll be angry, so Ba Yuming said something comforting, “Un, this matter needs to be considered. Then I’ll take this order. But next time you need to get my consent before agreeing.”

“Yes, Master.” Mo Shulin carefully touched the rabbit’s belly, became even more nervous.

He lowered his head, afraid his master would see the strange emotion in his eyes.

Mo Shulin’s soul trembled the moment he touched the rabbit’s belly.

The meat is soft and tender, softer than tofu flowers, like a milk cake that would melt when someone pressed it. His heart soften once he felt this fairy-like touch.

How could there be such a comfortable place in the three realms.

Mo Shulin was so comfortable that he needed to take a breath to maintain his calmness.

Bai Yuming originally wanted to take the opportunity to scold Mo Shulin. As soon as his three-lobed mouth opened, he heard Mo Shulin’s small gasp. Thinking that Mo Shulin was still a ten-years-old child, it was normal to make mistakes, so he held back those words in his heart.

“Master, don’t worry. Yan Qianqian has already gone home. After Master finished the orders, I’ll send it to Gong Shuo. Then let Gong Shuo hand it over to Yan Qianqian. We won’t need to meet each other face to face. There will be no entanglement with each other.” Mo Shulin said as he took the last chance to wash the fat rabbit’s paws, rubbed his back, touched his waist, pinched his feet, and carefully touched the magical belly. Striving the shortest time to touch the whole body again.

After he finished, Mo Shulin let out the water in the basin, used wind and fire symbols to dry the fat rabbit.

“Yes. That’s okay.” The fat rabbit nodded.

The boulder in his heart was lifted, only later the fat rabbit realized that everything part on his body are wet except for his head.

Bai Yuming stared around for a while, didn’t know when he sat in the washbasin, “When did you wash me?”

“Master, I already asked your permission to help you wash, you nodded.” Mo Shulin controlled the little wind dragon and little fire dragon wisely so it won’t touch the fat rabbit, not wanting to cause discomfort to the other party.

“I’m already… washed.” Bai Yuming wanted to say that he nodded his head not for taking a bath, but now that he has been thoroughly washed, no matter how entangled he currently is, he can’t go back in time.

He decided to just nod and agree that he has been washed, so the little disciple wouldn’t think that he was doing a bad job and worried about making him angry.

Mo Shulin gave a shy smile, with obvious flattery. But his shoulders relaxed, glad that he didn’t do anything wrong and doesn’t need to be punished by the master.

The fat rabbit perceived Mo Shulin’s movements into his eyes, sighed slightly.

His disciple is really good at everything. The only drawback he has is that he’s too good. He always want to make their lives better, again and again wronged himself to cater them both.

Bai Yuming’s mind was full of his own disciple, but Mo Shulin was very uncomfortable by his master’s gaze.

Mo Shulin had confidence in himself, thinking that his obsession wouldn’t be seen through by his master. But taking advantage would always brought some guilty conscience, Mo Shulin deliberately averted his eyes towards the paper on the table stamped rabbit paw prints, with some thoughtfulness.

“Master, I suddenly have some ideas, maybe I can help master.” Mo Shulin’s words were a little hesitant, it held his anxiety and expectations.

“Really? Then tell me quickly.” Hearing that the little disciple had an idea, fat rabbit became serious.

“Master, have you ever wondered why you can use a brush to instill spiritual energy on ordinary paper but other people can’t?” After Mo Shulin finished speaking, Bai Yuming immediately followed Mo Shulin’s thoughts and began to think.

Mo Shulin didn’t let the fat rabbit guess, and immediately gave out the answer.

He wanted to divert his master’s focus immediately, so that he can forget the matter of taking a bath.

“I heard those half immortals can write words in the air, without any carrier. Master, you are just a step away from becoming half immortal. Maybe master already understood what it takes to become a half immortal.” The half immortal in Mo Shulin’s words is a cultivator who has entered the tribulation period.

In the Cultivator Continent, the tribulation period is a very peculiar stage.

Although the physical body is still in the Cultivator Continent, it gradually deviated from the cultivator’s law.

Some people say that the tribulation period has twice the life span of the Mahayana period, and some people say that the tribulation period has no life limit, this is what a cultivator told him after they got drunk.

But there’s no case to know the exact life span in the tribulation period. Those who can successfully breakthrough and entered the immortal world are all geniuses who can release the shackles at a young age. Cultivators who haven’t passed the tribulation period have died due to their life span, and are more likely to die in various accidents, such as illness, poisoning, and exhaustion of spiritual energy to save themself. Therefore, no one knows the specific life span.

“It seems that it makes sense.” Bai Yuming nodded seriously.

Material determines the artifacts’s value is an universally accepted truth in the Cultivator Continent.

But sometimes there can be a someone who broke the limitations of materials, listing out these obviously unreasonable spiritual phenomenon, maybe they’re about to comprehend the ability of a cultivator to cross the tribulation period and got a breakthrough.

“I think master doesn’t need to be successful on the first try, but like writing the heart-cleansing talismans at first, wrote something on the talisman to succeed, then change to another materials, similar to the Spring Festival couplets.”

The fat rabbit used Mo Shulin’s suggestion and entered a new round of research.

Mo Shulin left the cave thoughtfully, leaving plenty of private space for the fat rabbit.

Leaving the cave, fresh air blew towards his face.

The energized Mo Shulin couldn’t help but recall the feeling of caressing the rabbit just now, also having inappropriate thoughts on whether his master could show his feet.

Suddenly remembering something, Mo Shulin’s back was cold.

Yan Qianqian and Duanmu Jinyan still doesn’t know each other, they may not even meet each other.

Mo Shulin was reborn, he knew that Duanmu Jinyan had turned over once by a strange woman like Yan Qianqian. He knew Yan Qianqian and Duanmu Jinyan would know each other.

But how could Bai Yuming found out in advance and prevent him from having an intersection with Yan Qianqian?

What Bai Yuming said at the time about Duanmu Jinyan being his natural nemesis didn’t include Yan Qianqian.

Doesn’t this indirectly prove that Bai Yuming already knows the future?

But…

Since Bai Yuming knew that he would be a demon cultivator in the future, why did Bai Yuming accept him?

Could it be…

Because foreseeing that he’ll be framed by the Demon Smiling Whiteface…

This is even more irrational.

As long as Bai Yuming can be smarter to defend himself with a few more words, the Demon Smiling Whiteface can’t harm him.

And he’s a Demon Lord, Bai Yuming can never be so stupid that he wanted to count on him, a Demon Lord, to prove himself innocent as the Yuede Elder, right?

Even if he dared to stand in front of the Liangji sect’s head, who would believe a demon? The people in Liangji sect won’t listen to him, instead they’ll take out their weapons and artifacts, discussing on how to divide the rewards.

Mo Shulin immediately rejected this possibility.

Little did he know that he had denied the truth.

At that time, Bai Yuming was really stupid, forgetting that Liangji sect hated the Demon Lord, and even forgetting that he alone could prevent his fated future from happening.

Sometimes, destiny could be changed from the wrong situation.