Chapter 163 Giving Away the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra (Happy New Year's Eve)

In Li Ming's room, after a while.

Wu Xiao bit her cherry lips, twisting her slender fingers, and said, "Li Ming, you're hurting me."

Just now, after Green Ivy locked the door and left, Li Ming came behind her, used wind-based magic to dry her hair, and then tried to comb it, intending to give her a nice hairstyle.

He didn't manage to do it well; instead, he tied her hair into knots.

Li Ming was a little nervous, pulling and tugging, while Wu Xiao rolled her eyes because of the pain.

"I'll do it myself,"

Wu Xiao said, not wanting Li Ming to mess with her hair; she was afraid he would make her bald.

She quickly tied it up, stood up, poked Li Ming's face, and said, "You're so clumsy."

It was the first time someone had called him clumsy. What clumsy? It was Li Ming's first time helping a girl tie her hair; he was a little nervous, okay?

"I'll teach you. It's very simple. There are over thirty kinds of hairstyles: the cross bun, the earlobe bun, the drooping bun, the hanging bun, the startled swan bun, the lily bun, the snake bun, the flying fairy bun, the drooping cloud bun, the single spiral, the double spiral..."

She started to create various hairstyles in front of the mirror.

Li Ming was stunned.

Hair had been styled in so many ways, it was so complicated.

He felt that he had gained even more useless knowledge.

Half an hour later, Wu Xiao looked at Li Ming and asked, "Have you learned it?"

"I've learned it all."

Li Ming learned things very quickly. No matter what it was, he wouldn't forget it after seeing it once. He said, "Whatever hairstyle you like, I can tie it for you."

"I don't like any of them. I like to tie it randomly."

She only had her maids and servants do her hair and makeup properly when she went to court. Otherwise, she would just use a single spiral because it was simple. She would

just casually curl her hair, stick a jade hairpin in her hair, and let her hair fall loosely over her shoulders.

"This woman is so mischievous," Li Ming thought to himself, speechless. He reached out and touched her hair, saying, "Let me give you a single curl."

Li Ming remembered that she usually had a single curl hairstyle, with her hair down, her long, slender legs swinging as she lazily leaned against the throne reading and reviewing memorials.

Wu Xiao nodded, "Okay."

Li Ming had just seen her teach him the techniques, and he easily styled her hair.

Wu Xiao was very satisfied; he learned things incredibly quickly, mastering them after just one look—it was terrifying.

She herself had spent half a month learning these things on and off.

"Come on, I'll take you somewhere,"

Li Ming said, pulling her along.

Wu Xiao paused, noticing how

quickly Li Ming was getting used to holding her hand.

"What's wrong? Let's go," Li Ming asked, puzzled.

"Oh,"

Wu Xiao replied, letting him lead her, following his steps through the corridor, across the wooden bridge, and towards the orchard.

It was approaching dusk, and Li Ming naturally wanted to take Wu Xiao to watch the sunset.

Li Ming led her to a flowerbed.

Butterflies fluttered among the flowers, and a faint fragrance wafted through the air.

The two sat on the ground, saying nothing, simply watching quietly as a fiery red sun slowly descended from the horizon, and darkness fell.

Wu Xiao leaned back, lying on the ground, and said, "A day has passed so quickly."

She felt like she hadn't done anything, yet the day had gone by; time flew by so fast.

Li Ming lay down beside her, and with a wave of his hand, fireflies formed from immortal spiritual energy instantly filled the flowerbed, making the night sky exceptionally beautiful.

"This is immortal spiritual energy."

Wu Xiao reached out and poked at the fireflies; this immortal spiritual energy was many times stronger than her own, completely on a different level.

"It seems I need to properly comprehend this power when I get back. Perhaps I can break through the shackles of the Heaven and Earth Intolerable Realm in one fell swoop. Li Ming, release a few more, I want to feel it properly."

Li Ming waved his hand, and instantly the Yunmeng Sect was filled with fireflies.

Wu Xiao reached out and gently poked at it, trying to feel the power. As she poked, suddenly, a bright shooting star streaked across the sky.

"My mother-in-law says that wishes made upon seeing a shooting star are very effective, Li Ming, quickly make a wish!" Wu Xiao said.

Li Ming flicked her forehead: "Don't you think the shooting star is strange?"

Wu Xiao's lips twitched. Okay, she could see it too; the shooting star was heading straight for her. The ominous effect of the Heaven and Earth Incompatible Realm was kicking in again—this unlucky realm!

She sat up, ready to intervene.

"I'll do it instead. I'll set off fireworks for you."

Li Ming tossed out a blade of grass, which, like a powerful weapon, slowly sliced ​​through the air.

Boom!The shooting star shattered, bursting into a dazzling display of fireworks high in the sky, making the dark starry sky even more beautiful.

After watching the fireworks,

lightning flashed and thunder roared in the sky, instantly forming a vast sea of ​​lightning.

Wu Xiao was helpless; the heavenly tribulation was about to strike her again.

Li Ming slapped out, and a hand shot out, crushing the Heavenly Tribulation with a single blow. He said, "Alright, it's gone."

Wu Xiao stared at Li Ming in astonishment and said, "Your current realm is truly strong. Reaching this level in Qi Refining is amazing."

"If I'm not mistaken, I only need two more layers of Qi Refining to reach the Great Perfection. Once I reach perfection, I'm quite looking forward to seeing how strong I'll become."

Wu Xiao asked curiously, "What level are you equivalent to?"

"Since Ma Lang fell in, I've roughly figured it out. I should be a Celestial King, roughly infinitely close to the Dao level." He deduced his realm based on Ma Lang's words.

"Celestial King!"

Wu Xiao said, "So the realms of immortals are roughly divided into True Immortal, Great Power, Supreme, Heaven and Earth Intolerable, and Celestial King, and above that is the Dao realm."

"That's what I think too," Li Ming said.

"If one cultivates to the level of the Dao, does that mean cultivation has reached its peak?"

Li Ming shook his head and said, "You're overthinking it. The Dao has nine realms."

"Who said that?"

"Ma Lang of Shengluohai said it."

"Shengluohai? I don't think there's a place called that in Dongsheng." Wu Xiao also remembered something. She seemed to have seen this person before, carrying a magic brush and drawing everywhere. He looked a bit like the scholar in the village.Li Ming said, "Of course not, Sheng Luohai wasn't in Dongsheng."

Wu Xiao asked again, "The Dao has nine domains, what exactly are they?"

"When I break through, I'll tell you. I only have two more layers left, and I'll be able to figure out what level of power the Dao truly represents." He felt that day wasn't far off.

Wu Xiao had a question: "Why is there no description of anything above the Immortal King level in Dongsheng?"

Li Ming shook his head, not knowing, but he remembered something Ma Lang had casually mentioned: Dongsheng had been stolen away by someone.

Perhaps it was related to that person.

Li Ming and Wu Xiao lay chatting among the flowers, talking about this and that, not sleepy at all. Before they knew it, it was dawn.

The two stopped talking and sat cross-legged to cultivate.

An hour later, they stopped cultivating and returned to the Yunmeng Sect.

The black dog looked at Li Ming and Wu Xiao, seeing that they still had garden petals on them, and knew they hadn't returned last night. "

You guys are something else, opening up a battlefield on the very first day.

" He suddenly remembered a classic saying and casually said it.

"A toad looking for a frog—ugly but clever."

Then came the intermittent barking of a dog, as Li Ming beat the dog.

Wu Xiao, standing nearby, covered her mouth and laughed.

Finally finding it amusing, and at Li Ming's urging, Wu Xiao also started beating the dog.

It has to be said, this black dog's skin was incredibly thick; it hurt her hands from hitting it.

If Li Ming hadn't been holding it back, Wu Xiao felt she couldn't have beaten the dog; this dog was actually at the Immortal King realm, truly outrageous. After

beating the dog,

Li Ming took her into the Beiming aquarium, where they surfed on the surface, collected seashells on the shore, caught crabs, and fished.

They did a variety of things, playing all day.

That evening, Li Ming caught the black dog and made it breathe fire to roast crabs and seashells.

Wu Xiao was stunned; the black dog actually had this ability.

The black dog, utterly despondent, cursed Li Ming and Wu Xiao in its heart, wishing them a terrible death.

On the third day, Green Ivy and Wu Xiao concocted a bizarre dish, haphazardly mixing fruit, bananas, herbs, and milk, and had Li Ming and Black Dog test it for poison.

Black Dog ate a little and pretended to be dead.

Li Ming bought Black Dog and buried him on the back mountain, wishing him a peaceful journey.

That night, Black Dog ran back, only to find Green Ivy and Wu Xiao already waiting for it. Unable to escape, Black Dog tearfully ate the extremely unpalatable bizarre dish and vomited all night.

On the fourth day, Li Ming went out, clutching his back.

According to Li Ming's own excuse, he accidentally fell off the bed while sleeping the night before and twisted his back.

But Black Dog didn't believe him.

He guessed that Li Ming had injured his back from eating the bizarre dish the day before.

On the fifth day, Li Ming went out, clutching his back.

According to Li Ming's own excuse, he had encountered a problem in his cultivation, suffering a qi deviation, which caused his back pain.

Black Dog thought Li Ming was talking nonsense. What a load of rubbish about qi deviation! He clearly saw Wu Xiao carrying a sharp dagger, not using the door, but climbing into Li Ming's room through the window.

Soon after, he heard a soul-stirring scream.

That morning, Black Dog saw Li Ming leaving, clutching his back.

He guessed that Li Ming might have made some strange noises at Wu Xiao, and then she stabbed him, injuring his back.

Of course, these were just his guesses.

If he was wrong, he could pretend he hadn't said anything.

...

At Yunmeng Sect, on the grass not far away.

Li Ming and Wu Xiao stood together, both dressed in white, the wind blowing their hair.

Li Ming stood straight and said, "Xiao Xiao, you don't have much time left here. I have a book I want to give you."

"What book? Is it proper? If it's not proper, hehe..."

Wu Xiao looked at him. In her spare time these past few days, she had been reading at Yunmeng Sect and had seen many erotic books.

The illustrations were particularly explicit.

They made her blush and her heart race.

After reading them, she felt that such books shouldn't exist in the world, so she confiscated them.

Unexpectedly, Li Ming still asked her for them back, and she accidentally kicked him, resulting in Li Ming's miserable state of clutching his back as he left on the fourth day.

Unexpectedly, on the fifth day, Li Ming secretly sneaked into her room and, while she was asleep, stole the erotic book from his ring.

Wu Xiao had no choice but to climb in through the window and threaten Li Ming, demanding he hand over the erotic book.

No normal person would imagine that both times she left the house needing to hold her back, it was because of an erotic book.

What would a girl do reading such a book?Li Ming was speechless.

Wu Xiao said she would take it out for criticism and destruction.

"Serious, absolutely serious, I'm a serious person, I only give serious books." Li Ming handed her a book.

Wu Xiao took it, and just as she was about to open it, Li Ming stopped her, saying, "Read it when you get back."

Wu Xiao put the book away, stepped forward, stood on tiptoe, and leaned close to Li Ming's ear, intending to say something.

But she didn't know how to begin.

She simply remained silent, leaned forward, and lightly kissed Li Ming's cheek like a dragonfly skimming the water.

The next moment,

she was back in her palace in the Great Martial God Dynasty.

She touched her cheek, feeling it was so hot, hot enough to boil an egg.

After a while,

she recovered and took out the thing Li Ming had given her, only to see a few words written on it.

"The Jade Maiden Heart Sutra!"

(End of Chapter)