“What is it?”
She raised her hand and saw a deep gash on her index finger, blood dripping profusely.
Before Bai Shengyi could understand, she heard the Reincarnation Brush screaming frantically in her mind.
“Ahhh! Bai Shengyi, you ungrateful master, don't you want me anymore, sob sob, you dare to contract other spiritual items! I was so devoted to you, you scum of a master, this is too much!”
“What?”
Bai Shengyi felt utterly wronged. She hadn’t done anything!
“What are you making a fuss about?” Bai Shengyi couldn’t help but frown.
The Reincarnation Brush became even angrier. “Wuwu, you’re still playing dumb, you’re really too inhuman. I’m breaking up with you! Breaking up!”
This was a serious issue, and Bai Shengyi quickly tried to pacify it.
“No, little Reincarnation, calm down first. Let’s talk this out properly. I haven’t done anything, how could I be ungrateful? Besides, you are my most beloved brush, and I would never let you suffer any grievances…”
After Bai Shengyi’s gentle persuasion, the Reincarnation Brush finally believed that Bai Shengyi was “innocent.”
“Fine, the great Reincarnation Brush is magnanimous and forgives you this once.”
Bai Shengyi thought that the matter would end there and the Reincarnation Brush would quiet down. However, the reality proved that she had thought too simply.
“Damn it! Which shameless spiritual item forcibly contracted my brush’s host? Get out here! Don’t force me to kill you!”
The Reincarnation Brush was spinning wildly in Bai Shengyi’s spiritual sea. If it hadn’t already fused with Bai Shengyi’s soul, becoming one with her spirit, Bai Shengyi’s entire body would have exploded by now.
However, Bai Shengyi had finally realized what was happening.
“Little Reincarnation, you mean I’ve been forcibly contracted?”
This was impossible!
Generally, spiritual items could not forcibly contract a host against their will, unless it was a divine artifact like the Reincarnation Brush.
That’s right, although the Reincarnation Brush had previously claimed to be just a slightly useful spiritual artifact, Bai Shengyi always felt that its initial statement was the truth. The Reincarnation Brush was originally a divine artifact, but for some unknown reason, it was now far from its former glory.
Bai Shengyi did not expect that her question would only make the Reincarnation Brush more furious!
“Yes!”
It was bad enough to have something it detested in its dantian. Now, the spiritual sea it had finally occupied was about to be divided. The more it thought about it, the angrier and more enraged it became. When had its Reincarnation Brush ever suffered such humiliation?
“Trash spiritual item, if you don’t get out now, I, Reincarnation Brush…”
“Boss, I know I was wrong, please don’t hit me.”
A timid voice suddenly echoed in Bai Shengyi’s mind.
At this moment, when Bai Shengyi looked at her spiritual sea again, she noticed something different.
Far, far away at the edge of the spiritual sea, beyond the Reincarnation Brush, a tiny sprout the size of a mung bean was trembling incessantly.
It was clearly scared by the Reincarnation Brush just now.
“I… I just like Master, it wasn’t intentional.” The green sprout said to Bai Shengyi aggrievedly, “Master, I won’t take up much of Boss’s space, just a little bit is fine.”
Bai Shengyi fell silent.
Why did this little sprout seem so… manipulative?
The words sounded innocent and well-behaved, but she felt something was off.
So, before the Reincarnation Brush could explode, Bai Shengyi said coldly, “Are you a green tea?”
“No, I’m the Dream-Catching Vine, Master. I’m very useful.” The Dream-Catching Vine seemed to not grasp the meaning of Bai Shengyi’s words, appearing to like Bai Shengyi very much. It happily waved its two small green leaves in greeting.
Then, as if it suddenly remembered something, its expression changed visibly. It cowered its leaves and said cautiously to the Reincarnation Brush, “Boss, I didn’t deliberately attract Master’s attention. Please don’t be angry with me, okay?”
The Reincarnation Brush, which always spoke its mind and confronted its anger directly: …
You’ve said it all, what else can I, Reincarnation Brush, say?
I, Reincarnation Brush, am so angry!
For the first time, the Reincarnation Brush experienced such a feeling of being stifled.
It was, after all, just a brush. It didn’t know that there were people in this world called “green tea,” nor that such green tea appeared harmless on the surface but was cunning and insidious, making them difficult to guard against.
“Boss, just treat me as your little subordinate, okay? I won’t compete for your position in Master’s heart. I’m just like you, wanting to follow Master. Besides, I’ll definitely be useful to Master and will be Master’s fighting force in the future.”
The Dream-Catching Vine continued to play weak, appearing timid, innocent, and small.
However, the Reincarnation Brush was already on the verge of going mad. What did it mean by “not competing for Master’s position”? If it wasn’t competing, why would it mention its usefulness!
Seeing that the Reincarnation Brush was no match for the Dream-Catching Vine, Bai Shengyi frowned deeply and stated her position.
“Dream-Catching Vine, is it?”
“Do you know that I dislike people who act without my permission the most? Well, spiritual plants are no exception.”
Sensing the coldness in Bai Shengyi’s voice, the Dream-Catching Vine suddenly had a bad premonition.
As expected, in the next moment, it found itself kicked out of the spiritual sea by Bai Shengyi! Immediately after, it heard Bai Shengyi’s icy voice.
“Now, immediately, dissolve the contract!”
The Dream-Catching Vine was stunned, bewildered.
Were Third-Tier spiritual plants this unpopular?
Why did no one want to contract it?
That pervert was like this, and this beautiful young lady is also like this. Isn’t there any small space where a little vine leaf can be accommodated?
“I won’t!” The Dream-Catching Vine, changing its previous meek demeanor, loudly refused Bai Shengyi’s request.
Bai Shengyi’s face instantly turned cold. Without further ado, she directly mobilized her spiritual power and spiritual energy, intending to sever all connections between the Dream-Catching Vine and herself…
“I…” Bai Shengyi suppressed the curse that was about to escape her lips. “Little Reincarnation, do you know how to dissolve a contract?”
She couldn’t dissolve the contract that this Dream-Catching Vine had made!
After all, in the Divine Revelation Continent, the contracts between cultivators and spiritual items were defaulted into three types: an unequal master-servant contract, an equal contract, and a temporary trading contract.
Bai Shengyi’s memory contained the methods for signing and dissolving these three types of contracts, but now, none of them worked.
How strange!
“Um, Master, this contract, perhaps… perhaps you can’t dissolve it.”
The Reincarnation Brush’s hesitant voice came from Bai Shengyi’s mind.
If the little Reincarnation had a face, it would surely be wearing a very complicated expression right now.
It hadn’t expected that on such a small, insignificant continent, there would be spiritual plants that understood this type of contract.
Before Bai Shengyi could ask why, the Reincarnation Brush decisively changed the subject.
Reluctantly, it suggested to Bai Shengyi, “Reincarnation Brush just thought about it. Your current strength is still too weak. It’s quite good to have this little thing helping you. Why don’t you keep it?”
Bai Shengyi naturally wanted to keep the Dream-Catching Vine. After all, it was a cultivation resource. However, she was more concerned about the Reincarnation Brush’s feelings. If the Reincarnation Brush truly objected, she would definitely abandon the contract with the Dream-Catching Vine.
“Are you sure?” Bai Shengyi frowned deeply. “Didn’t you dislike it?”
“I think having a little subordinate is also good now, alright?” The Reincarnation Brush grumbled irritably. “I’m doing this for your own good.”
Fine, since the Reincarnation Brush had said so, Bai Shengyi agreed.
However, she still added, “You can stay, but you can’t stay in my spiritual sea.”
As she said this, she kicked the Dream-Catching Vine directly into her dantian.