Who changed my key bindings?

Xun Xue’s peripheral vision caught the little creature’s instantly lifeless ears.

She couldn’t help but chuckle and rubbed the droopy little head.
“Alright, alright~ Later… I’ll just have the palace staff send another one over.”

“Mm-hm.”

Lu Qiancha perked up instantly, her little tail couldn’t help but wag quietly.
‘One price for one and a half sugar sculptures.’

‘Happy.’

“Heh.”

Xun Xue couldn’t help but laugh at this little creature’s instant change from gloomy to sunny.
She dotingly pinched that warm, fluffy little paw.

‘I won’t be able to pinch it in a few days.
I’ll pinch it while I can.’

Lu Qiancha didn’t pay too much attention.
She finished the sugar sculpture with effort, then patted her paws and deftly took off the ruqun that was stained with a bit of sugar.
She nimbly changed into a small woolen jacket.

Then, Lu Qiancha’s gaze was firmly locked on the stack of pastry boxes on the low table, which were stacked like a small tower.

“Ahm!” A small piece of honey-preserved snow lotus cake.

“Awoo!” A mouthful of glutinous rice ball filled with red bean paste.

In a flash.

The entire pastry tower was visibly shorter by more than half.

‘Full.’

“Hic…”

Lu Qiancha rubbed her slightly bulging little tummy in satisfaction.

‘Abundant harvest, abundant harvest.’

After eating her fill, Lu Qiancha planned to go out for a walk and practice the Moon Shadow Evasion Art she had obtained earlier.

Xun Xue didn’t stop her.
She just got up, hung a green jade palace pendant around her neck, tidied up her daughter’s messy hair at her forehead, and reminded her softly, “Don’t get too carried away when you’re out.
Come back early, and don’t stay up late.”

“I know!”

Lu Qiancha’s voice was drawn out in response, and her figure had already “whooshed” and merged into the cold, vast moonlit night outside the hall.

Leaving the boundary of the royal palace, she stepped onto the edge of the vast, snow-covered training ground.

Lu Qiancha concentrated her mind, and the spiritual energy in her body surged.

“Om…”

A clear, cold power of moonlight, like a cold spring, descended from the nine heavens and silently enveloped her.

Her footsteps began, and it was the starting posture of the “Moon Shadow Evasion Art.”

An incredibly wonderful feeling of “body and mind as one, spiritual light intermingling” arose spontaneously!

She felt as if she had transformed into a flowing wisp of moonlight, her consciousness light and ready to fly.

With every step she took, she created a subtle resonance and pull with the giant Taiyin star in the firmament.

Where the heart points! The light and shadow arrive!

Lu Qiancha’s figure became faster and more blurry on the snow.

The moonlight flowed around her body, as if draping her in a hazy veil of light.

Spiritual energy flowed, and she merged with the moon.

She completely let go of her restraints, and her mind moved slightly.

“Whoosh!”

“Whoosh!”

“Whoosh—!!!”

After several ghost-like displacements that were like teleportation, Lu Qiancha felt that her understanding of this footwork was becoming more and more proficient.

‘The Taiyin as the foundation, the divine sense as the boat; the body like a fleeting shadow of a swan, disappearing in the moonlight.’

She was completely immersed in this profound state!

But the last full-force execution, the spiritual energy condensed a bit too fiercely.

When her figure re-solidified, the sensation from under her feet was no longer the soft crunch of the vast, snowy ground.

But a smooth, hard, black stone.

‘Where is this?’

“…”

Lu Qiancha looked up and around in a daze.
A majestic, ancient, and huge wolf god temple, exuding an aura of wildness and divinity, stood before her.

The temple gate was high and wide, and a huge black plaque with gold lacquer hung high above—”Su Ming Heavenly Wolf Great Spirit Venerable Temple.”

In front of the gate were two ice-soul giant wolf stone statues, several zhang high and carved with a ferocious and sacred look.
They held huge stone beads like the sun and moon, their gazes seeming to penetrate the void, coldly looking down at this uninvited guest who had rashly broken into the sacred forbidden land.

“?!”

Lu Qiancha’s little mouth was slightly open.

‘Oh… oh no!’

‘It seems I’ve flashed too far.’

She subconsciously shrank her neck and was about to sneak away when—

“Om…!!”

A low, grand, and strange buzzing sound, as if from the depths of the ancient earth, came from behind her without any warning.

“…Come over.”

A strange voice sounded directly in Lu Qiancha’s ear.
The little wolf cub’s eyes instantly went blank, and she fell into a trance.

Her short little legs uncontrollably took step after step towards the deep and silent ancient temple gate.

The moment she stepped into the temple.

“Poof!”

As if passing through an invisible barrier.

A stream of light flashed, and Lu Qiancha’s hazy consciousness instantly cleared.

“Hm?” The next second after she regained her senses.

Lu Qiancha suddenly felt her center of gravity sink strangely.
The seemingly smooth surface of the black stone bricks of the altar under her feet was as slippery as if it had been greased.

Her four limbs couldn’t coordinate at all.

“Splat!” With a loud thud, Lu Qiancha landed squarely in a standard “four paws to the sky” pose—

She fell flat on the cold, hard ground.

“Ngh…”

Lu Qiancha was so dizzy from the fall that she saw stars.

‘What’s going on?’

She shook her still slightly dazed little head, trying to get up.

But… just as she lifted her upper body, her hind paws suddenly slipped.

“Thwack!” She slammed back onto the ground again.

‘Wait, who changed my key bindings?’

She finally realized something was wrong and abruptly looked down at her own body—

“???”

The body that was originally wrapped in a small woolen jacket was gone.

In its place was a little milk wolf, covered in thick, deep blue soft fur, with even smaller, shorter, and rounder paws, who had just been weaned.

“Who?! Who turned… me… into a dog?!”

Lu Qiancha’s voice, filled with terror and disbelief, echoed in the empty hall.

“Not a dog, a wolf.”

A cold, ethereal female voice, like an ice spring dripping into a cold pool, came from above.

Next to the giant heavenly wolf statue above, stood a wolf clan loli who looked only a head taller than Lu Qiancha.

Then, a slender foot, wrapped in a frost-colored long boot, stepped on the cold smoke and silently landed on the ground not far from Lu Qiancha.

“Was it you who turned me into this?!”

Lu Qiancha abruptly looked up and, at the gray-haired little loli who was looking down at her with her arms crossed, bared her sharp little teeth, “Change me back!”

“Not my doing.”

The loli still had a blank expression.
She just slowly shook her head, her voice flat and emotionless.

She looked up at the giant heavenly wolf statue with its disdainful gaze: “This is the will of the ‘Great Spirit Venerable’.
How can a human body be worthy of setting foot in the holy land?”

Her indifferent gaze fell back on the bristling little milk wolf on the ground: “To meet the Great Spirit Venerable, one must show their original form.
This is an ancient, iron-clad rule.”

Lu Qiancha followed her gaze and saw a wolf god statue with a disdainful look.

“Ha~”

“Hey! You big oaf up there! Did you hear me?! Hurry up and change me back…”

Lu Qiancha bared her teeth at the statue.

“Thwack!”

A hand chop, without any warning and with a sound of breaking through the air, unceremoniously struck Lu Qiancha’s fluffy little head.

“Awoo…”

Lu Qiancha instantly retracted her paws and held her head in pain, her eyes welling up with tears.
She felt indignant.
‘The local gods are so rude.’

“Do not be disrespectful to the great god.”

The little loli slowly withdrew her hand, her tone still without any fluctuation.

“Who are you? To be so meddlesome?”

Lu Qiancha clutched her head, her blue eyes staring at the other person.