<h4>Chapter 127: Chapter 127: Please Have Some Boundaries, Host</h4><h4></h4>


    Lou Yan Zhi: What do you mean by "behave yourself"?


    Lou Yan Zhi: I just want to resolve some karma. What’s the problem with that?


    Caicai: Stop pretending, you damn sword cultivator!


    Lou Yan Zhi: Whatever, I’m done talking to you. We’ve got nothing to discuss.


    Watching Lou Yan Zhi abruptly severmunication, Caicai ground its teeth in frustration.


    If it had the choice, it absolutely wouldn’t bind itself to this damned sword cultivator as its host.


    Sure, it previously mistook Xiao Jinsheng for its host.


    But if given a choice, Caicai would rather follow Xiao Jinsheng toplete missions, than team up with Lou Yan Zhi.


    Lou Yan Zhi’s pensation gift" was a space ring. More specifically, it contained some protective magic artifacts stored inside the ring’s space.


    Caicai didn’t want to let Lou Yan Zhi off too easily and chased after Xiao Jinsheng with the space ring in hand: "Just ept it. No point in saying no to free stuff from him."


    "If you don’t want to keep what he gave you, you can take it first and then trade his stuff for mine."


    This level of persistence piqued Xiao Jinsheng’s curiosity about what treasures might actually be inside Lou Yan Zhi’s space ring.


    "Do you want his stuff?" Xiao Jinsheng asked.


    Caicai chuckled slyly: "When weplete missions, the rewards for me and my host are split into two and distributed via a raffle system."


    "My host has better luck than me. Every time, he snags all the good stuff."


    Hearing this, Xiao Jinsheng fell silent for a moment before reluctantly muttering, "The way you and your host interact is... quite peculiar."


    Usually, when a system pairs with a host, the hostpletes the missions, and the system grants fixed rewards.


    But with Caicai, it seemed that host and systempleted missions together, and rewards had to be divided via a lottery draw.


    "My host mentioned a valid point: if I hadn’t gone to bind with him, I wouldn’t have mistakenly bound with you and caused you to transmigrate."


    Caicai continued tempting her: "So, karmically speaking, my host really does owe you somepensation."


    The more Caicai spoke, the more tempted Xiao Jinsheng became.


    Setting aside the fact that Lou Yan Zhi’spensation gift was stored in a ring, she couldn’t help but wonder what was inside.


    Besides, Lou Yan Zhi was now in the interster world, true, but he had originally been transported there from the cultivation world when a system bound him.


    So, when it came to itemsbining cultivation and interster elements, Xiao Jinsheng was curious enough to take a look even if she didn’t keep them.


    Seeing Xiao Jinsheng finally nod and agree to ept it, Caicai became so excited that it immediately helped her open the space ring.


    The first thing to leap out of the space ring was a cannibal flower, which opened its maw and lunged at the nearest target—Caicai.


    Caicai pped its wings and scrambled to escape, but not before losing a few feathers to the cannibal flower’s bite.


    "Damn you, Lou Yan Zhi!"


    Caicai cursed furiously, transforming into a shovel and rushing at the cannibal flower, now rooted in the floor.


    The flower swayed its head, dodging deftly.


    Eventually, Huaiqing’s superpower restrained it in ce. The flower mped its mouth shut and became surprisingly docile.


    "What is this thing?" Yu Yunxiao asked incredulously, staring at the cannibal flower.


    "Is your host offeringpensation orunching an attack?" Li interrogated Caicai.


    Caicai fell into a stunned silence.


    It knew Lou Yan Zhi wasn’t reliable.


    But it hadn’t expected him to be this unreliable.


    Who sends a girl a cannibal flower as a pensation gift"?


    Luckily, the space ring didn’t only contain the cannibal flower; it also included two sets ofvish dresses that magically adjusted to suit the wearer’s gender, height, and body size.


    When Caicai took out the clothing, its tiny parrot hands trembled, especially as it faced the scrutinizing gaze of Xiao Jinsheng’s seven beast husbands.


    "Your host seriously has no sense of boundaries," Su Ye said gravely.


    "Heh heh," Caicaiughed awkwardly, unsure how to respond.


    Until it took out a jade token and excitedly announced, "This one’s good! It’s a protective magic artifact. If you’re attacked or hurt, it can absorb and offset the damage."


    Before Caicai could finish its moment of triumph, Shi Xie spoke up in a low tone: "Why does the jade token carry the aura of an unfamiliar male?"


    "Well... because... crafting the jade token required the creator’s heart blood..." Caicai grew increasingly sheepish as it exined.


    "My female master and I have contractual totems capable of providing the same protection as your jade token," Shi Xie said coldly. "Do you honestly believe we’d allow an item infused with a stranger’s essence to be near our female master?"


    Xiao Jinsheng video-chatted with Lou Yan Zhi, yet these beast husbands had never even seen him face-to-face.


    Let’s not forget, the erratic Caicai had once mistaken Xiao Jinsheng for its host and ced her in a world functioning as a "terminal space" where food was kept and cultivated—already a ring testament to its unreliability.


    Lou Yan Zhi was Caicai’s host, residing in a different world under an interster setting.


    None of the seven beast husbands trusted Lou Yan Zhi’s gifts.


    Not to mention, the items Lou Yan Zhi delivered were unquestionably valuable.


    Yet they exuded an air of ulterior motives.


    "Maybe... you should just send all this stuff back," Xiao Jinsheng hesitated, unwilling to ept them.


    Of the three things revealed so far, none had proven reassuring. Holding the space ring, Caicai didn’t dare take out anything else.


    Under the wary gazes of Xiao Jinsheng’s seven beast husbands, Caicai hastily returned the luxurious dresses and the jade token to the space ring.


    It looked at the cannibal flower and hesitated: "This flower can’t be returned. It seems to have been brought over from the cultivation world by my host. It has sentience, so you can try talking to it."


    "Why not... keep it as a guard flower?" Caicai suggested.


    "You talk to it," Mo Jiao sneered.


    The cannibal flower, still bound by Huaiqing’s verdant vines, stayed quiet for a moment before beginning to sway its head, seemingly preparing to roam the house.


    "I really can’t retrieve it," Caicai insisted, fiddling with the space ring for ages to no avail as the flower remained firmly rooted in ce.


    "It truly has sentience. It’smunicating with me," Huaiqing finally spoke, his voice like music to Caicai’s ears.


    "If you had a wood element superpower, you could also talk to the cannibal flower," Caicai quickly added.


    "What’s it saying?" Xiao Jinsheng asked curiously.


    "It’s mumbling to itself, saying the air in this world smells better than thest one and that there’s the presence of many simr entities here," Huaiqing tranted.


    "Oh, right. Most flora in the interster world has gone extinct. My host is in a metal-polluted world where even a de of grass is considered rare. Since this flower draws upon wood elements, it struggled in the interster environment," Caicai eagerly exined.


    Xiao Jinsheng looked skeptical as she probed: "Your host wouldn’t happen to be dumping this flower on me because he couldn’t afford to take care of it, would he?"


    "Uh? Is that even possible?" Caicai faltered.


    But deep down, it already had its answer.


    Of course!


    Lou Yan Zhi—a sword cultivator—broke as hell.


    How else could he suddenly be so "generous," offeringpensation gifts in a space ring to Xiao Jinsheng, someone he hadn’t even met?


    Never mind that Lou Yan Zhi was following a ssic Long Aotian script.


    As a sword cultivator, he’d undoubtedly be the *poorest* Long Aotian to exist!


    Grinding its teeth, Caicai prepared to hunt down Lou Yan Zhi for a confrontation.