Chapter 15 Laughter "seems to be something one is born with."

Hua Xun felt her vision blurring and her back throbbed with pain from the fall.

She coughed heavily a few times, finally calming down, but she couldn't hear what the boy in front of her was saying. She could only see his lips opening and closing.

"What did you say?" Hua Xun asked in a hoarse voice, brushing the petals off her face, sitting up, and just as she was about to stand up, everything suddenly went dark.

Xiao Yunxi bent down and approached her, her high ponytail falling to her left shoulder: "This immortal lord asks, is the person taken in by the divine lord you?"

Hua Xun was taken aback, then nodded subconsciously: "Yes."

Xiao Yunxi squinted at her, then sneered and straightened up.

Hua Xun seized the opportunity to stand up, petals fluttering down from her body, and many peach branches fell out of her purse, scattering haphazardly to the side.

She frowned, looking at the boy reproachfully: "Who are you? Why did you suddenly appear?"

"Who am I?" Xiao Yunxi scoffed, and in the next instant, she suddenly made a move, casually throwing out a ball of fiery red spiritual energy.

Hua Xun was shocked and quickly dodged, but then several clusters of fiery red spiritual energy attacked at the same time. After dodging several clusters, Hua Xun was finally hit hard in the chest by one of them, and fell backward to the ground in a sorry state.

A dull, persistent pain surrounded me from both front and back.

Hua Xun looked up at the boy in fear: "What are you going to do?"

“This immortal lord didn’t even need to use immortal techniques,” Xiao Yunxi’s expression darkened. Thinking back to his experience in the mortal realm, he had heard that the divine lord had brought back a female cultivator, which he found absurd. Now that he had seen it with his own eyes, he was even more furious. “You were powerless to resist even when I used mortal techniques.”

"You mediocre mortal cultivator, who can't even master the Wind Control Technique, dare to remain in the Jade Kun Divine Palace? To stay by the side of the Divine Lord?"

Hua Xun was slightly taken aback, and then belatedly realized that the young man in front of her, just like the other immortals in the immortal sect, regarded the Divine Lord as a god and would not allow anyone to desecrate him.

"What methods did you use?" Xiao Yunxi stared at her scrutinizingly. "The Divine Lord cares for all living beings. You must have used coercion to force him to move into the Jade Kun Divine Palace."

Having been repeatedly slandered, Hua Xun was also a little angry, and pursed her lips: "I didn't use any tricks."

Xiao Yunxi clearly didn't believe her and approached her step by step.

Hua Xun was filled with panic and kept retreating.

Until her back was pressed against a peach tree, with nowhere left to retreat, Xiao Yunxi suddenly reached out and pressed her fingertips against her forehead: "Whether it exists or not, a quick search will tell you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hua Xun felt his whole body stiffen, as if his soul had been ripped out. A powerful, fiery immortal force surged through his body, rampaging and crashing.

A hot and painful sensation swept through his body, but fortunately it didn't last long before the immortal power was withdrawn.

Xiao Yunxi frowned as she looked at the female cultivator in front of her.

Even the Soul Searching Technique couldn't detect it.

Everything seemed to be shrouded in a vast and invisible force.

Hua Xun was already furious, her cheeks flushed red as she forcefully pushed the boy in front of her away: "The God Lord has his reasons for keeping me here, and it has nothing to do with you. If the God Lord knew what you did..."

Xiao Yunxi scoffed: "What? Are you planning to complain to the God-King and have him take charge for you?"

"I didn't!" Hua Xun denied, but when she saw the sarcastic smile on the boy's lips, she frowned and said with a tense face, "Has anyone told you that you are really awful?"

Just like those children who used to throw stones at her.

After saying that, Hua Xun didn't look at him again. She quietly squatted down and picked up the fallen peach branches one by one.

Xiao Yunxi was taken aback, then sneered.

He thought that the mortal woman, whose face was flushed and who looked furious, would utter some vile curse at this moment, but he didn't expect her to only utter the two innocuous words "bad".

Within her sea of ​​consciousness, the immortal voice of the Immortal Venerable echoed. Thinking that she had returned to the Immortal Sect to seek an audience with the Divine Lord, but had not yet met the Immortal Venerable, Xiao Yunxi did not linger any longer. She simply left behind the words, "If you know what's good for you, leave the Jade Kun Divine Palace as soon as possible," and then vanished in a flash.

Hua Xun remained squatting on the ground, silently picking up peach branches.

Unfortunately, in just a short time, some of the peach branches that had just retained some vitality had already withered.

Hua Xun pursed her lips, put all the peach branches into her purse, calmed her turbulent mind, and silently recited the incantation while riding the wind, slowly flying towards the direction of White Mist Cliff.

The time that was originally calculated was delayed due to the dull pain in my lungs.

Passing through the clouds and mist surrounding White Mist Cliff, the bright daylight immediately dimmed, and night had fallen inside the cliff.

Hua Xun lowered her head listlessly, about to quietly return to her palace.

"What happened?" A gentle voice drifted from afar, bringing a sense of peace and tranquility.

Hua Xun froze, following the sound of the divine voice.

At the edge of the cliff, in front of that small patch of flowers, the deity stood there quietly as always, gazing at her with a loving smile on his lips.

In that instant, whether it was the love potion at work or something else, Hua Xun felt a lump in her throat, her eyes welled up, and her words were thick with emotion: "My Lord..."

The deity raised his jade-white hand, gently beckoned to her, and said softly, "Come here."

Hua Xun walked over without thinking.

The deity looked at the child before him. His outer robe was torn, and his cheeks were covered in dust and dirt, the very soil of the peach grove.

"You went to the peach grove?" the deity asked slowly.

Hua Xun nodded: "I..."

Before she could finish speaking, she remembered the boy's mocking expression when she "tattled" not long ago, and looking at the God's flawless figure, she didn't want to cause him any more trouble.

She lowered her head and whispered, "I accidentally fell from the tree while picking peach branches."

The deity noticed the injuries within her spiritual veins, but seeing that she was unwilling to say more, he did not ask any further questions.

He gently raised his hand and lightly tapped her forehead.

Hua Xun was stunned by the warmth between her brows. The next moment, she felt a beam of golden light ripple in her sea of ​​consciousness, and then slowly travel throughout her body.

The disordered breathing and bleeding wounds healed at a visible speed, and even the torn clothes on his body gradually became intact.

Hua Xun looked up in surprise, only to be met with the God's smile.

She paused slightly, stared blankly for a moment, and then quickly lowered her head.

Despite the cool mist, she felt her ears burning slightly.

"Go and rest," the deity said.

Hua Xun didn't dare to look up, hurriedly said "Good night" and left.

The deity watched her departing figure and sighed silently.

The child must be terrified.

*

Hua Xun lay on the soft, luminous silk, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

I used to fall into a deep sleep in no time, but today, for some reason, I'm wide awake.

Close your eyes, and the smiling face of the deity will appear before you.

How come I didn't realize before that the Spirit Rhinoceros Gu had such a big impact?

Hua Xun opened her eyes in despair, staring blankly at the jade stone above her head.

"You can't even master the art of controlling the wind, yet you're worthy of staying by the side of a divine lord?"

The boy's sarcastic words from earlier in the day crept in again.

Hua Xun pursed her lips tightly, and after a long while, she suddenly got up from the couch and quietly walked towards the cliff behind her.

Inside White Mist Cliff, it was pitch black, but outside, the sun shone brightly.

Hua Xun looked at the clouds and mist floating below the cliff and took a deep breath.

She can do it.

She had already memorized the key points of the Wind Control Technique and the meridians through which the spell passed, but she had taken the wrong path in the past, which was why she was not proficient in it.

"I can do it," Hua Xun silently encouraged herself.

But when she saw the bottomless clouds below, she immediately pulled her leg back.

This isn't a life-threatening fall from a tree; if you actually fell, you'd likely be smashed to pieces.

"How would you know if you haven't tried?" Hua Xun murmured to herself.

"Chirp chirp." A soft bird song sounded behind me.

Hua Xun was startled and turned around, only to see Liu Huo staring at her with wide eyes.

Hua Xun patted his chest: "Liu Huo, you scared me to death! Why did you come out?"

Liu Huo blinked, looked at her, then at the bottom of the cliff.

Hua Xun was certain that she saw mockery in Liu Huo's eyes.

Hua Xun: "..."

She turned and stood on the edge of the cliff again, ready to jump...

A moment later.

A dejected figure returned to the palace, lay back on the jade couch, and covered his head with a silk veil.

She was still afraid of dying.

*

The next day.

"Cultivating magic?" Behind the desk, the Divine Lord looked at Hua Xun, who had come to see him early in the morning, and asked gently.

Hua Xun nodded earnestly and said sincerely, "I beg the Divine Lord to teach me the method of cultivation. I will never slack off or be lazy. I will work diligently every day without rest."

"There's no need for such diligence," the deity said with a smile. "Why do you suddenly want to learn magic?"

Hua Xun gazed into the God's deep, all-encompassing eyes, her eyelashes trembled, and she looked away: "I just feel that I am too weak..."

Remembering something, she cautiously asked, "Who was the young immortal who came to see the deity yesterday?"

The deity was not displeased by her abrupt question. He simply lowered his eyes, pondered for a few moments, and replied with a smile, "That child."

Have you ever heard of the Fairy Miaoyi?

Fairy Miaoyi?

Hua Xun frowned in confusion, feeling that the name sounded very familiar.

The next moment, she suddenly remembered that Fairy Miaoyi had fallen in love with a human cultivator from the Qingxu Sect, and had asked to shed her immortal roots and fall into the mortal world, but later gave birth to a celestial child in the human realm.

It's a pity that Fairy Miaoyi died because of procreation. The human cultivator was heartbroken and abandoned his magic and severed his meridians, falling into a deep sleep.

This story was once widely circulated in the human world and became a popular tale.

Later, Bai Yujing, appreciating the talent, brought that celestial child into the immortal sect.

"That young immortal lord is the child of Fairy Miaoyi?" Hua Xun asked in surprise.

The deity nodded: "Before her death, her mother offered all her wealth and all her magical arts as sacrifices, praying that I would take care of that child."

"Afterwards, he was raised and nurtured by the Immortal Venerable Zhixing, and he will probably be his successor from now on."

Hua Xun was taken aback.

She naturally knew that the Immortal Venerable Zhixing was the Venerable Master of Baiyujing and the leader of the Immortal Sect.

That young man might be the future ruler of Baiyujing...

Hua Xun couldn't help but feel fortunate that she hadn't complained yesterday; otherwise, she would have certainly put the God in a dilemma.

"Why ask about him?" the deity asked calmly.

Hua Xun came back to her senses and lowered her head, saying, "I was just thinking that the immortal lord seemed to have profound magical power. I wish I could be like him."

Yeah, right.

Hua Xun thought to herself, she would never want to become such a rude and disrespectful person.

The divine lord said calmly, "Everything has its strengths; there is no need to be too harsh on yourself."

Hua Xun paused for a moment: "...But I still want to learn magic."

The deity listened to her request and replied with a smile, "In that case, I will teach you the secrets of magic and the path to the circulation of spiritual energy, but whether you can master it depends on your own destiny."

Hua Xun nodded in surprise: "Okay."

The deity raised his hand, and several scrolls of scriptures reappeared on the table: "Every day before noon, practice the method of purifying the mind and calming the breath, and then practice the cultivation method."

Hua Xun readily agreed, picked up the scrolls and carefully flipped through several volumes. Then, as if remembering something, she asked curiously, "How did the Divine Lord learn magic back then?"

Although she cannot reach the talent of a god, she can still benefit from learning from him.

Seeing her eager expression, the deity paused for a moment before smiling and saying, "I do not know."

"Ah?" Hua Xun was surprised, but quickly found the reason. "But it's been so long, the Divine Lord can't remember?"

The deity said, "It seems like he was born with this skill."

Hua Xun's expectant expression froze, and her smile hardened into a fixed arc as she silently watched him.

Jiuqing looked at her expression and smiled.

Unlike the aloof deities of the past, her smile was sacred and unapproachable.

Instead, he chuckled softly.

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