CBGC - ch128.2

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Su Tingyun's consciousness gets a little hazy. She feels a sense of joy, although she doesn’t quite understand why. She senses a consciousness stealthily entering her Dantian and Sea of Consciousness. Feeling nervous, the Heavenly Fire and Springwater Sword inside her Sea of Consciousness begin to rage. The Heavenly Fire surges, reaching a height of one chi, and the Springwater Sword trembles slightly, emitting a crisp humming sound, like the pleasant chime of a drawn blade. The red radiance on the sword directly detaches from the sword body and slashes towards the cautiously infiltrating translucent entity. At this critical moment, Big Bai lets out a distressed chirp.

It is Big Bai.

Although Su Tingyun is muddleheaded, she knows that she must not harm Big Bai. With this thought, the Springwater Sword retreats, and the flame of the Heavenly Fire weakens significantly.

Big Bai joyfully calls out and slowly moves into Su Tingyun's Sea of Consciousness, then immerses itself in it and her Dantian, showing no intention of coming out.

After an unknown period of time, Su Tingyun hears a gentle voice of a young woman, "Granny, Granny. It's me, I'm Big Bai."

Su Tingyun abruptly comes to herself, then she lowers her head to look at the pink, translucent entity in her arms. She even pinches it a few times.

"Granny, stop pinching, it tickles." The voice is soft and delicate, like that of a gentle and kind-hearted lady. Although Su Tingyun always felt that Big Bai should be a girl, considering how obsessed it is with beauty, always wearing flower wreaths and floral clothes, she thought that Big Bai's voice would be a tender voice of a young girl. So what’s up with this voice?

One must know that although Big Bai has lost its memories of the past, has been trapped in the Sealed Heaven with limited knowledge, she’s actually quite old. Even after shedding her skin multiple times, her speaking voice naturally wouldn't be that of a little girl.

"Big Bai?"

"Granny, it's me! Granny never lets me into the Sea of Consciousness, so we couldn't talk. This time, Little Bai is also supporting me." After saying this, in the Sea of Consciousness, Big Bai lets out another chirp outside. Then she jumps out of Su Tingyun's hand and bounces over to Little Bai, then she 'Chirp chirp chirps' for quite a while.

After establishing the bond, Su Tingyun can now understand the meaning behind the chirps.

But she wipes away a handful of sweat.

"You don't like me, you don't play with me. Now Granny is mine. If you don't like me, you can never talk to Granny again. Hmph."

Little Bai‘s leaves tremble, weakly fanning a gentle breeze. Not long after that, it lets out a faint chirp.

Then Big Bai chirps several times in reply.

Big Bai: "You have to beg me!"

In a blink of an eye, Big Bai has completely changed her tune. She's gone from being utterly rejected by Little Bai a moment ago, to arrogantly pulling out all the twos, fives, and eights*. As Su Tingyun considers this, she hears Big Bai actually singing a song, the same nursery rhymes she sang to comfort Big Bai before. Reaching others' ears however, it turns into "Chirp chirp, chirp chirp, chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp..."

(T/N: I'm just guessing that this is a term from mahjong, where tiles 2,5, and 8 are used as a jiang; more jiang = more points.)

Su Tingyun: "..."

Every day, she’s driven to speechlessness by her little companions, she’s quite something herself. However, now that she has established a bond, Su Tingyun feels a bit uneasy in her heart. But before she could think much about it, she hears Bai Chengyu say, "Granny, has Big Bai recognized you as its master? Oh no, M’Lord has been searching for Big Bai for so many years..."

Indeed, Su Tingyun cares for Big Bai, and Big Bai is important to her. However, Big Bai is the guardian spirit of the Bai family, so she hasn’t considered having Big Bai acknowledge her as its master before. Besides, didn’t they say that Big Bai has to bond with an orchid tongue grass before it can recognize a master? So she hasn’t thought about this issue, but she didn't expect that Big Bai would actually recognize Su Tingyun as her master now.

If she was wondering whether the Bai family would treat Big Bai well before, having some reservations in handing her over if they wouldn’t, once she saw what was inside that Cave in the Sealed Heaven, Su Tingyun believes that Bai Su must have a warm heart deep down. Despite his usually cold demeanor. He’s just not good at expressing it.

But he, as a grown man, made so many flower wreaths, crafted so many toys, decorated the cave so beautifully, and even made a swing for Big Bai. As she does mention Bai Su every now and then, Su Tingyun understands that Big Bai's impression of him is actually quite good. Under the Sealed Heaven Border, Big Bai was the fiercest. Back then, even she was often bullied by Big Bai. It must’ve been worse for Bai Su. He must have treated her sincerely to earn even a tiny bit of Big Bai's friendliness.

Now, even if the disciples of the Obliteration Sword Tower were poking Big Bai, she didn't throw a tantrum. But if Su Tingyun isn’t around, who knows, Big Bai might end up overturning the entire Tower.

Most importantly, Bai Su had even shielded her from an arrow. It’s as if she could still feel the heat of the fresh blood that sprayed onto her back at that time.

And the last words he left behind— "Big Bai is waiting for you." 

He’s the one who’s truly been waiting for Big Bai for a long time. And now, Big Bai has recognized her as her master. It's over, how is she going to explain this to Bai Su?

Just then, she hears Bai Chengyu continue, "Then Granny, from now on, you can only follow our Lord. Wherever M’Lord is, you and Big Bai have to be there..."

Before he could finish what he’s saying, Bai Chengyu sees Big Bai turn her head and glare at him angrily. He immediately changes his tone, "Our Lord will definitely follow Granny, serve you tea and water. Wherever Granny goes, Big Bai will follow, and M’Lord will follow, right, yes…" This appeasing tone is not directed at Su Tingyun, but at Big Bai.

Only then does Big Bai let out a satisfied chirp.

Su Tingyun sighs. Acknowledged means acknowledged. For now, she can only go along with it. Perhaps in the future, she will come up with another solution. At worst, if Bai Su needs help, she will bring Big Bai along to save the day, not refusing to go through water and tread through fire. However, if she wants to participate in the conflicts of the Upper Realm, she will need to reshape her physical body using these celestial bones.

So she follows up to ask, "Little Bai, where is the Eternal Snow Peak?"

The result: she listens to Big Bai complain, "He won't tell me. He’s threatening me, saying he will tell you himself. I don't care about him. Hmph."

Little Bai: "Chirp."

Who asked you to have a loose tongue? You were the one who started by saying Big Bai looks ugly. What now, huh?