Chapter Eighty-Two: Peaceful Years

Then Han Wei failed.

I got too comfortable, my thoughts became too cluttered, and I couldn't get into the flow at all. Because I couldn't get into the flow, I became anxious, which made it even harder to get into the flow.

After trying for several days without success, I was instead asked for countless times.

The black-haired, snow-skinned girl collapsed into the man's arms, panting heavily. If the man holding her hadn't been a corpse puppet, she would have thought he was doing it on purpose, deliberately tormenting her.

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A crescent moon hangs in the sky.

On the bed, a man with black hair and golden eyes was looking at a girl who was fast asleep.

Han Wei is really exhausted.

The Heavenly Emperor gazed at her beautiful sleeping face, his expression growing increasingly tender, but remembering the knife wound in the Jade Palace, he gritted his teeth once more.

He wondered what her expression would be if she knew Gu Qi was not dead.

Will she be scared to death?

After thinking about it, I found that scene quite interesting.

The sleeping girl murmured in her sleep, then rubbed against the man like a cat. Han Wei slept very soundly.

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The next morning.

A young girl dressed in a pale yellow gauze dress and draped in a white shawl sat before a dressing mirror. A man in white stood behind her, combing her hair with a jade comb. The man, who initially only knew how to comb hair but not how to style it, had now been trained to a skillful degree.

Han Wei smiled and picked up the hairpin from the dressing table, handing it to the man behind her. His slender hand took it and then inserted it into her hair.

Han Wei then picked out a pair of jade earrings: "I want to wear these."

The man behind her helped her put it on.

After she finished dressing, she took Gu Qi's hand and walked out with him.

The entire cave was shrouded in a barrier, and outside the barrier floated beams of light—these were jade slips. Han Wei waved her hand, and the barrier flashed with green light, opening a gap that allowed all the jade slips to fly in. Then, the gap in the barrier automatically closed.

Han Wei scanned the jade slips with her divine sense, and most of them were there to recruit her.

No, they've come to recruit Ding Qi.

In the Star Luo Realm, each city is like a kingdom. Naturally, each city cannot be home to only one power. The Star Luo Realm also has many sects and aristocratic families. However, unlike the Cloud Mist Realm, these powers are all located within their respective cities.

Take Tianxiu City as an example. All cultivators in Tianxiu City are registered, but at the same time, these cultivators can also join aristocratic families or sects. Joining an aristocratic family or sect allows them to band together for mutual support and obtain more resources. However, once they join an aristocratic family or sect, they will have to accept tasks from the aristocratic family or sect in addition to the tasks assigned by Tianxiu City.

There aren't many missions in Tianxiu City, so cultivators are mostly free. Sometimes, a mission might only be assigned once every few hundred years. However, joining a family or sect reduces this freedom, so many choose to become independent cultivators.

Ding Qi was just a rogue cultivator.

After news of Han Wei killing Sheng Peng spread, many sects and families became very interested in Ding Qi and extended offers to him.

Han Wei read the recruitment jade slips and then threw them all aside.

She has no interest in joining any sect or aristocratic family.

Han Wei gazed into the distance, where rolling mountains and palaces were nestled among the green trees and mist. Her cave dwelling was planted with many flowers and trees; a gentle breeze blew, scattering many petals. Holding Gu Qi's hand, Han Wei leisurely enjoyed the flowers and wine in the cave.

Han Wei sat down under the tree covered with petals, and asked Gu Qi to sit next to her. She smiled and said to Gu Qi, "Would you play a tune for me?"

Gu Qi looked at her, and Han Wei smiled radiantly.

Gu Qi raised his hand and produced a jade flute, which he placed to his lips and began to play. Han Wei listened quietly beside him, silently gazing at the man's face. The more she looked at his face, the more she felt that it possessed an ethereal and otherworldly elegance.

The melodious sound of a flute drifted between heaven and earth. Under the flowering tree, a beautiful young girl silently gazed at the handsome man playing the flute, a scene of serene beauty.

After the music ended, Han Wei was moved. She embraced the man in front of her and pulled him to cultivate together under the peach tree.

As her clothes were removed one by one, the girl sat in the man's arms. Floral and plant patterns appeared on her snow-white skin, the patterns appearing and disappearing. Rich spiritual energy of wood and yang permeated the air, making the petals of the entire peach blossom forest even more vibrant, and countless flowers blooming on the ground like brocade.

The dual cultivation will fail if one party is uncooperative or unwilling to cooperate but not in the right state. The Heavenly Emperor deliberately tormented Han Wei before, but he also understands Han Wei's personality. If this fails again, she will probably not want to cultivate with him again for a long time.

So, it's best not to do anything malicious.

Thus, they successfully completed their dual cultivation.

The plants throughout the cave were growing wildly, due to the influence of the "Myriad Manifestations of the Myriad Forms" technique.

Fortunately, the restrictions on this cave were personally set up by Han Wei. These restrictions concealed everything inside and prevented the rich wood spiritual energy from leaking out. Otherwise, outsiders would have been shocked to sense what was happening inside.

After Han Wei and Gu Qi cultivated together for several days, the entire cave had completely changed.

The pavilions and towers were covered in flowers and plants, even the walls were covered with vines blooming with colorful flowers; various plants also twined around the pillars, and the lotus flowers in the pond grew so tall that they almost reached the roof of the adjacent waterside pavilion. Flowers bloomed all over the ground, even sprouting small yellow flowers from the cracks in the stones. A pretty little cat darted in and out of the flowers, then jumped onto the lotus leaves in the water to play.

In the peach blossom grove, the peach trees that were originally only a few feet tall have now grown to over a hundred feet tall, their pink blossoms covering the entire tree. Deep within the grove lies a giant flower sphere, formed from countless petals, from which emanate ambiguous sounds:

"Whoosh—whoosh—"

More than a month later, the flower ball slowly fell from mid-air to the ground, and then the petals scattered, revealing the couple embracing inside.

The bright moon hung high in the sky, and the peach blossom grove was dimly lit. The peach blossoms were so abundant that only a few rays of moonlight peeked onto the ground.

The petals on the ground formed a thick carpet, and the branches under the tree were also very dense. The intertwined branches formed a natural enclosed space like a wall. In this space, a naked girl lay on a man's chest, breathing slightly. Her dark eyes turned emerald green, and her snow-white body glowed faintly in the darkness.

The man's body was also glowing, and the blood-red totem on his body became even more conspicuous. He lingered his hand on the girl's fair back for a while before pressing her down beneath him.

"No... I need to rest for a bit, I'm not coming anymore." The girl smiled and pushed the man away.

The two of them lay on the ground, which was covered with a carpet of flower petals, gazing at the peach blossoms overhead and all around them. Han Wei's divine sense enveloped the entire cave, and seeing that it was now filled with flowers and plants growing wildly, she laughed and said to Gu Qi, "My goodness, they've grown so wildly, how long have we been cultivating together?"