Chapter 151 Even God Favors You (The End)

Xie Rong hummed a little tune as he walked down the mountain.

Gu Xingjin chased him all the way to this place, silently following behind him for a long time. In a daze, she couldn't tell if it was a dream or reality. Her eyes involuntarily reddened. She stepped forward to call out to him, but unexpectedly, a familiar yet hateful figure suddenly emerged from the woods beside the path.

Xie Rong actually stopped in her tracks upon seeing this man.

Lu Anlan called out the name he wanted to call, "Xie Rong."

"Come here, squat down."

Lu Anlan walked down the next stone step and squatted down.

Xie Rong jumped onto his back, but luckily the man had a stable stance and didn't fall headfirst.

Lu Anlan supported Xie Rong's legs with both hands and carried him down the stairs.

"I was so powerful today! I slaughtered those bastards to my heart's content," Xie Rong said, his fingers deliberately tracing the skin on the man's neck. "Especially when I was peeling them, I started from their necks!"

Lu Anlan responded indifferently, "I thought your most enjoyable moment would be when Meng Yiran kissed the tip of your shoe."

“Master used to be very busy. The first sword move and the first spell I learned were taught to me by my senior brother,” Xie Rong said softly, leaning his head against his back. “At that time, I thought I would definitely become the most powerful sword cultivator in Canglan Mountain.”

“You caused a huge disturbance at Canglan Mountain today, yet no one has pursued the matter,” Lu Anlan said, having remained hidden in the shadows all day, observing everything that happened on the mountain. “Actually, many of them miss you, but they are still too busy to process it right now.”

Xie Rong's face turned cold. "Then let's turn back and I'll take turns sucking their breath."

“Not good,” Lu Anlan said, his thin lips pursed slightly.

"Then what should I do?" Xie Rong asked.

Lu Anlan replied softly, "It would be best if you only inhaled my scent."

Xie Rong laughed so hard her whole body trembled, and pinched his ear hard, "You're the one who loves to be a jerk the most."

"Bad dog!" Xie Rong pinched his ears.

Gu Xingjin stopped behind them and finally couldn't help but call out, "Junior Brother!"

Lu Anlan stopped in his tracks, and Xie Rong, who was on his back, turned his head and said, "Second Senior Brother."

Gu Xingjin calmly stepped forward, his hands trembling inside his sleeves.

Xie Rong pinched his nose and said with disgust, "Second Senior Brother, you've drunk so much again."

Gu Xingjin stopped in his tracks, forced a smile, and pointed at him with his finger, "You little ingrate."

"Second Senior Brother, you should go back," Xie Rong said calmly.

"I just wanted to come...to see you," Gu Xingjin said with a hoarse laugh, "You won't even let me?"

“I have long since severed all ties with Canglan Mountain,” Xie Rong said, looking at him.

“Nonsense, who would dare to bully you?” Gu Xingjin retorted.

Xie Rong coldly replied, "I am an evil cultivator."

Gu Xingjin looked at the silent man, "Then he—"

“He never belonged to Canglan Mountain. I picked him up back then, and now that I’m leaving, I have no choice but to pick him up again.”

After saying that, Xie Rong turned around and tugged at Lu Anlan's hair. "Let's go."

“Junior Brother!” Gu Xingjin’s chest heaved. “When I learned you were injured, I went to the snow mountain too. I was willing to risk my life. I’m no less capable than him… But I couldn’t find the immortal herb… I couldn’t find it… I couldn’t save you…”

"I..." Gu Xingjin opened his mouth, then belatedly realized how embarrassing this was.

Lu Anlan had already carried the person away and walked far away. Xie Rong did not jump down to listen to him talk or stop to wait for him as she used to.

...

Xie Rong built a small house on the snow-capped mountain.

At first, this kind of work should have been done by Lu Anlan, but Lu Anlan is such a good-for-nothing that he can't even build a house properly! The roof that he finally manages to seal is always blown away by the wind and snow.

Xie Rong kicked a snowdrift beside him and cursed loudly at the swirling snow, climbing up the house to repair the roof as he did so.

Then the roof was built, and the wind and snow went around the roof.

"Look, isn't this simple?" Xie Rong grabbed Lu Anlan by the ear, pointed at the roof and yelled at him, "You can't even do something this simple right? I think you're just trying to slack off!"

Lu Anlan remained silent.

Within the snow-capped mountains, all living beings must crawl forward, except for Xie Rong.

“When your master passed away four hundred years ago, he saw me for the last time. He told me,” Lu Anlan said, “that he found you in the snow mountain. You were clearly very young then, but there was not a trace of redness from being frozen all over your body. Even the snow on your cheeks was very soft, just like you were a child of the snow mountain.”

“Ever since you left, he has regretted bringing you back. If you had grown up in the snow mountain, things would be a million times better now.”

That's why Lu Anlan chose to place Xie Rong's ice coffin on the summit of the snow mountain, where it remained unnoticed for five hundred years. Perhaps even the snowy nights were protecting Xie Rong in the dark.

"If I had grown up in the snow-capped mountains, wouldn't you have become a pitiful dog that nobody wanted?" Xie Rong retorted sarcastically.

Lu Anlan stepped forward, hugged him, and whispered, "Then why did you pick me out of so many people?"

That year, a famine struck the mortal realm. Seeing the plight of the fleeing mortals, the Canglan Sect took them in at the foot of Canglan Mountain. As long as they swept the fallen leaves off the stone steps each day, they could receive two steamed buns to eat.

Lu Anlan was taciturn and unlike his companions who fawned over the cultivators on the mountain, he only swept the floor every day, making him the one who was bullied.

Whenever it's his turn to sweep, the fallen leaves on the stone steps are never completely swept away.

Lu Anlan simply assumed it was bad luck, as he would often spend the entire day sweeping the food, until one day he completely fainted from hunger.

When he woke up again, he was in a fragrant and elegant room. An innocent and carefree boy was lying on the edge of the bed, propping his chin up and smiling at him: "Are you stupid? Someone has put a spell on those stone steps, so the fallen leaves can't be swept clean!"

Lu Anlan nervously clutched her worn-out, faded linen clothes, abruptly got off the bed, but accidentally bumped into the person beside the bed.

"oops!"

He wanted to run away, but then he heard the boy mutter aggrievedly, "You big guy, how can you be so rude?! You hurt me, and the consequences of my anger are very serious!"

Lu Anlan helped the person sit back on the edge of the couch, and for the first time felt that her voice was so hoarse, unpleasant, and vulgar. "I'm sorry."

The boy stared at him, and he lowered his head even further.

The boy chuckled, raised his hand and patted his head. His palm was soft and carried a fragrance that made him feel unattainable. "You look like a... dirty little dog. Shall I take you to get a bath?"

“There are many more down the mountain…” Lu Anlan said.

"A lot of what? A lot of puppies?" The boy's eyes lit up. "Then bring them all up, and I'll wash them one by one."

“I’m mistaken, there aren’t any,” Lu Anlan said, looking at him. “There are no more puppies down the mountain.”

The boy was naive; upon hearing this, he nodded, seemingly a little disappointed, "Alright."

As his memories returned, Lu Anlan remembered.

It turns out that Xie Rong didn't pick him out of a group of people; he was lying.

The person in his arms had long forgotten, their eyes darting around, and they lied to him, saying, "Of course it's because you're the most obedient."

Xie Rong said he was obedient, so of course he was the most obedient.

He was so obedient that he would be there whenever Xie Rong called his name.

(End of article)