Don't mess with that Miao boy, he's sickly and perverted.

To express his gratitude, the Snow King specially hosted a banquet for his benefactors in the Snow Ice Cave.

This ice cave is the nighttime gathering place for all the snowballs in the town.

Tonight, each snowball beast has an additional talisman on its body, emitting a faint blue light that is invisible to mortals; only cultivators and the beasts themselves can see it.

So in Chai Xiaomi and Song Yueyao's eyes, they were no different from usual, but the snowball beasts looked each other over and started chattering amongst themselves:

"The talisman on your body was drawn by that cat-themed hero, wasn't it? It looks really good! But why does mine look a bit ugly?"

"The difference is obvious! Yours gets uglier the more I look at it, hahaha!"

"It doesn't feel like they put much effort into it. The guy is quite good-looking, but his face doesn't match the drawing skills."

"This drawing skill is like scribbles."

"..."

The murmurs rose and fell, and Wu Li's face visibly darkened.

All the amulets were drawn in advance and then imprinted into the snowman's body through hand seals. Chai Xiaomi had seen all the amulets drawn by the three of them, so she naturally knew whose handiwork the "ugliest amulet" was.

Even if you've never seen it, you can guess about 80-90% of it just by looking at the abstract self-portrait that someone hung outside their treehouse when they were a child.

Chai Xiaomi sighed silently.

Please understand. Her daughter, Lili, has never been taught any refined arts like music, chess, calligraphy, or painting since she was little. It's already quite remarkable that she can learn to read and write on her own.

Wu Liqing's beautiful eyes gleamed coldly as she stared at the chattering snowball beasts. Her thin lips parted slightly, her voice neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for them to hear, "You're all round like spirits, and you still have the nerve to complain about someone else's talisman?"

"Don't you even look in the mirror?" The boy's eyes darted around, his tone growing increasingly indifferent. "Your eyes are as small as mung beans, your noses are just two holes, and you can't even tell your arms and legs apart. You look like a bunch of white radishes in the snow. I'm already being very lenient by not labeling you 'ugly.'"

The snowball beasts instantly fell silent.

Wu Li withdrew his gaze expressionlessly and said indifferently, "Ugly thing, yet you're still being picky."

Chai Xiaomi pretended not to hear, silently scooped up a glutinous rice ball from the bowl, put one in her mouth, chewed quietly, and did not say anything to stop her.

Jiang Zhiyu glanced at her with a puzzled look. Usually, Xiao Mi would give Wu Li a lot of advice, always teaching him how to conduct himself in society and how to treat others. But at this moment, Wu Li's words seemed a bit too harsh.

As expected, the snowball beasts had probably never heard such harsh words before, and they all ran away crying.

Only the Snow King remained, standing trembling in place, secretly observing Wu Li, daring to be angry but not daring to speak out.

"Xiaomi, do you want to take control of the situation...?" Jiang Zhiyu leaned forward slightly and whispered a reminder.

Chai Xiaomi slowly swallowed the glutinous rice ball, then looked up and said, "Let him scold me."

"It was the Snowball Beasts who were rude first. They received a favor, and instead of saying thank you, they complained and grumbled behind my back. I can pretend I didn't hear them, but who told them to provoke the person in the first place?"

Those talismans were drawn by Wu Li himself, stroke by stroke, as she watched him do it. Others might not know, but she knew best that he was serious about everything he did, to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. He even had to align the strokes of his brush, and even if they were crooked, he would keep them neatly crooked. In short, he did his best.

She looked at the boy's cold profile, her gaze softening: "He did the right thing. If he was wronged, of course he had to yell back."

Jiang Zhiyu thought for a moment and then fell silent.

Seeing that Snow King was about to be driven away by Wu Li's scolding, White Cat quickly stepped in to smooth things over: "Alright, you little brat, good manners are good too. Every little bit helps, it'll benefit you."

"whispering sound."

Wu Li didn't take it seriously, scoffed, and was about to say a few more sarcastic remarks to the white cat when he heard it turn to the Snow King and ask, "I recently took some time to explore the spring in town, and I found that there isn't even a single Three Lives Flower near the Three Lives Stone at the bottom of the spring. Do you know why?"

Wu Li was stunned for a moment.

I didn't expect the old man to still remember this. I told him everything, but it was no use; he still wouldn't believe me.

That's incredibly stupid.

Upon hearing this, Chai Xiaomi put down her spoon and looked at Xue Wang.

"You want the Three Lives of the Other Shore Flower?" The Snow King was worried that he didn't have anything to thank them for, and upon hearing this, he hurriedly plucked the purple flower that was glowing with an eerie light from the side of his crown. "You should have said so earlier, I already have one."

Holding the flowers, it began to ramble on: "A long time ago, a man came to Youquan Town. He wore a black python-patterned cloak and several silver necklaces around his neck. The aura he exuded was enough to scare people away. No one dared to approach him."

At this point, Snow King glanced at Wu Li.

The terrifying aura and attire did bear some resemblance to the young man before them.

"That person destroyed all the spider lilies growing beside the Three Lives Stone, not even leaving a single one."

"Luckily, I thought it looked pretty, so I picked one early on and kept it frozen on my head until now."

As it spoke, it held the three-life spider lily in its two round hands and presented it to the white cat like a treasure.

Beside the stamens and stamens, five petals grow neatly and squarely.

Snow King suddenly remembered something and slapped his forehead: "Oh~ I know, you want to use it to cure the poison? Besides being beautiful, the only use of this Three Lives Other Shore Flower is that it can cure all kinds of poisons in the world."

It paused, then added, "I heard that if you eat this flower, you won't be cursed again. Consider it my way of thanking you. This flower has exactly five petals; you can each swallow one petal."

Wu Li lifted his eyelids, glanced at the flower, a barely perceptible dark glint flashed in his eyes, his expression changed slightly, but he quickly returned to normal.

He slowly curved his lips into a smile, took the flower that shimmered with a faint light from the Snow King's hand, and examined the petals with his slender fingers for a while.

Then, one by one, the leaves were picked and placed in front of everyone.

"That's right, this is indeed good stuff, then we won't stand on ceremony."

He lowered his eyes, picked up the last petal from the flower's stamen, and twirled it playfully between his fingers. Then, he parted his thin lips and bit the petal into his mouth.

Chai Xiaomi looked at the smallest petal she had been given, then glanced up at Wu Li.

Without asking anything, she silently put the petal into her mouth.

Song Yueyao and Jiang Zhiyu also swallowed it readily.

Only the white cat stared intently at the petal in front of it, remaining motionless for a long time.

"What's wrong, old man?" Wu Li had already swallowed the flower petal, propped his chin up, and tapped his fingertips twice on the ice sculpture table. "Are you too old to even eat properly? Do you expect me to feed you myself?"

"You little brat, you can't stand not insulting people every day. Your teacher will eat by himself."

The white cat snorted and cursed, then used its paw to scoop up a petal and smacked it.

A moment later, Cat Eyes rolled its eyes, lay flat on the table, and fell into a deep sleep.

Jiang Zhiyu was about to reach out to help her when he found his body going limp. He turned to look at Song Yueyao, his eyes becoming unfocused: "Yaoyao, how come... there are so many of you in front of me?"

"Me too....."

Before the words were even finished, the two of them collapsed onto the table.

Only Chai Xiaomi, her body went limp, was gently pulled into someone's arms.

The boy lowered his head, carefully pulled up the brim of her fur hat, then gathered her sleeves, wrapped her hands inside, and finally gently placed her on the table.