Chapter 689 — So That's How It Is
The Beast-Taming Craftsman · Page 5 of 6
The white-robed Lily, the black-robed Empress, Chaoneng Zhao, the rabbit, the crisis of the Cosmic Sea, the contract, the push toward cosmic level...
A flood of forgotten memories—Shi Jin suddenly remembered them all, drenched in sweat, his head splitting with pain.
"Ah—" A low growl, and Shi Jin gasped, frozen in place.
He looked at the startled rabbit spirit... no, he was the one who had been startled.
"I remember."
"I remember everything."
"Not long ago, I should have been forming a contract with the Empress, trying to break through to cosmic level."
"So—did I succeed or fail? Why did I end up in a place like this?"
"And also..."
At this moment, Shi Jin felt extremely vexed—vexed as he stared at the little white rabbit.
"You wouldn't happen to be..."
"Gu gu?"
Looking at the blank little white rabbit, Shi Jin felt nervous now—very nervous.
Damn it, this white rabbit—could it be Chaoneng Zhao?
In his previous life, had he contracted it too?
Was Chaoneng Zhao his pet beast all along?
And most importantly—when they had just met, he had actually tried to eat Chaoneng Zhao??
Now that he remembered everything, Shi Jin linked the fragments of memory that had surfaced when he first contracted Chaoneng Zhao with his full memories now, and deduced a fact that made him ache with vexation.
Whether or not his past self had contracted the Empress as he had now, one thing was certain: in the Empress's lost memories, she definitely knew him.
"I contracted the bunny and successfully recovered my memories with the Empress—which means she's most likely the Empress. But now I've even completed the contract in the memory world, so why can't I go back?" Shi Jin puzzled.
"Gu gu? (Where's the cartoon?)" asked the rabbit suspected to be Chaoneng Zhao's cub.
Shi Jin suppressed his irritation. Ancestor, please stop talking.
I'm already annoyed enough.
If I learn any more of your embarrassing childhood history, even if the contract is complete and I make it back, you'll kill me.
In any case, if Chaoneng Zhao really was his contracted beast from a past life, Shi Jin felt certain he must have squeezed and hoodwinked it plenty.
What a sin.
"I'll look at it on the way. I need to go somewhere now." Shi Jin took a deep breath.
Bunny: ??
"I have to go." Because just now, he had remembered everything.
Besides the memories about Chaoneng Zhao, there were also the parts of his past-life memories that he had forgotten after transmigrating.
Not the memories after the mountain collapse, of course.
But the memories after he had adopted the white rabbit.
After adopting the white rabbit, Shi Jin had suddenly become very interested in rabbits as a species.
So he had consulted ancient texts and discovered a ruin that might be connected to the Jade Rabbit of myth and legend, and wanted to explore it.
In the end, the mountain collapsed and crushed him outright.
On top of that, he now remembered what Teacher Shangqiu had said—that the ruin he had gone to explore was indeed related to the Jade Rabbit—which made Shi Jin all the more certain.
This ruin might be the next key point.
For no other reason than that Chaoneng Zhao's abilities were so similar to the Jade Rabbit's, and he had even joked with the Empress, guessing that she might be the Jade Rabbit.
But now it seemed she was clearly just a not-very-clever little white rabbit.
Then why were Chaoneng Zhao's abilities so like the Jade Rabbit's—and why did she have a talent for pounding medicine?
Perhaps this ruin could yield some clues. Since contracting the little white rabbit had brought about certain changes in him, then perhaps finding the mystery of the Empress's power next could push things forward a bit more.
"Interesting." Shi Jin was suddenly full of vigor.
But beside him, the juvenile Empress's face fell; she had grievances she could not voice.
She wanted to watch cartoons!!
…………
Two days later.